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Mr. and Mrs. Glasgow have five children, as follows: Irene, Ster- ling P., Jr., Annabel, John and Robert Mckinley. The eldest is six- teen years of age and the youngest three-a most interesting family.
Like his father before him, Mr. Glasgow has ever been an ardent supporter of the Republican party. While at Peru, he was appointed postmaster, under President Harrison's administration, and served a term of four years in that office. Also while at Peru he served two terms as sheriff. He was made postmaster of Auburn in May, 1888, and served efficiently as such for many years. That same year, 1888, Mr. Glasgow built his pleasant home in Auburn, on Maxwell street, where he has five and a half lots.
Fraternally, Mr. Glasgow is identified with numerous organiza- tions. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Highlanders, the Knights of Pythias, and the Masonic order. In Masonry he has learned the mysteries of
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blue lodge chapter and commandery, and he is past master of the lodge at Peru. Also he is a member of the Mystic Shrine.
AMOS T. D. HUGHES.
Amos T. D. Hughes, a retired merchant and farmer of Howe, Nemaha county, Nebraska, is one of the oldest of the living settlers of this county. He came to the site of Brownville on May 2, 1857, ten years before Nebraska became a state, and he has witnessed all the development of the community from pioneer stages to one of the centers of civilization and business and social advancement. Besides the honor and esteem which are the just reward of the old and useful settler, he also enjoys, in the years of his age, the comforts of life which he did not look to have when Nebraska life was more primitive and farther from the center of population. As a citizen, father of a family and individual worker. he has done well, and his career is honorable from every point at which it may be viewed.
Mr. Hughes is a grandson of Levi Hughes, who was born in Philadelphia in 1763. and was a boy when the battle of Brandywine was fought not far away. He was a ship carpenter, a master workman and foreman in Philadelphia. By his two wives he had sixteen child- ren, of whom six sons and four daughters were married and had families. George Hughes, the father of our Nemaha county pioneer, was born in Delaware in 1805, and died in Howe, Nebraska, at the age of seventy-six. He had the following children : William, born in 1826, died in Howe in 1891, and had a large family; Richard, born in 1828, died in Brownville in 1888, leaving five children living; John died in Oregon in 1896; Amos T. D. is the next; Levi, born in 1833,
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died at Howe in 1895, leaving four children; Hannah, Mrs. Edward Smith, died at Washington, D. C., in 1873, leaving three children ; Mary, wife of Tom Scott, a printer in the government printing office at Washington, died_at Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1868, aged about thirty-five, leaving five children: Amariah, who died in this county about the close of the Civil war, was the wife of James Drewell, who was a soldier four years and was killed by the Indians at Plum Creek, Nebraska, in 1864, and they left three children; Mary, wife of Herbert Howe, in Auburn, has three sons; and George died in Bainbridge, Indiana, in 1888, leaving one son.
Amos T. D. Hughes was born in Clinton county, Ohio, April 7, 1832, and was reared at Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he had only a meager schooling. In 1857 he came to Nebraska from Pike county, Indi- ana, and settled on one hundred and sixty acres near the present town of Howe. The railroad and the townsite have taken part of this land, and he now owns one hundred and eighteen acres, on which he has placed all the improvements and made it a productive place out of a stretch of raw prairie. His first residence was a board shanty twelve by four- teen, of one room, but that has long since been replaced by a six-roon frame house. He built a fine new barn in 1902, and everything about his farm looks fresh and well kept. The old orchard which he planted years ago and which has borne fruit for many years, is now decaying and is being replaced by the new orchard of one hundred trees, which is just beginning to bear. He has an osage hedge of two miles which is four years old. He keeps a mixed herd of from twelve to fifty head of cattle. In the past he has made much money in pork and other enterprises, but is now in the main retired and only following active pursuits to the extent that his rest may not be rust. During the Civil war, in October, 1862, Mr. Hughes enlisted in Company C,
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Second Nebraska Cavalry, and saw eleven months' service at Fort Kearney and Cottonwood, Nebraska.
Mr. Hughes was married in January, 1857, to Miss Caroline P. Smith, who was born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1839, and was a daugh- ter of Stephen J. Smith, a farmer and tavern-keeper and father of ten children. Mrs. Hughes died in March, 1864, while her husband was in the army, leaving three children: Margaret, the wife of James Cowell, died in Auburn, Nebraska, leaving four children; Mary Jane, present wife of James Cowell, lives in Montana and has four children; Caroline, wife of Samuel Stitzel, lives in Idaho and has nine children. Mr. Hughes was married in June, 1865, to Mrs. Martha Robins, nee Gray, who was born in Preble county, Ohio, a daughter of Dr. William B. Gray, deceased. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hughes : Levi, at home and single; William, agent for a harvester company in Omaha, has three sons and one daughter; Thomas, a railroad brakeman in Indian Territory, has one son; Mrs. Susan Davel, a widow, has two children; Miss Catherine, in Howe; Miss Anna Belle, at home; the daughter Grace died at the age of seven years, and Martha aged ten months.
Mr. Hughes is a Jeffersonian Democrat, and has taken an active part in politics and public matters. He was justice of the peace for eight years, and altogether has been postmaster of Howe for eight years. He is such a citizen as honors any community, and his long career of honorable endeavor in this county of southeastern Nebraska is an orna- mment to himself and the public.
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MRS. EMERETTA ROOT.
Mrs. Emeretta Root, residing in Crete, Nebraska, is the widow of Alonzo D. Root, who died at his home here on the 8th of February, 1903. He was born April 3, 1836, in Portage county, Ohio, and was graduated from the Cleveland Medical College, in which he won his degree. His life thereafter was devoted to the practice of medicine. He located first in Hartford, Wisconsin, where he went as a young man and read medicine with Dr. E. Conant, a physician of skill and prominence. After his first year in college he practiced in Hartford and later returned to continue his studies. Not long after his grad- uation he settled in Kekoskee, Wisconsin, where he practiced for five years, and in the fall of 1872 he came to Crete.
Dr. Root was married to Miss Emeretta Root in Hartford, Wis- consin. Though of the same name they were not related, but they had been acquainted from childhood, and a long standing friendship had existd between their respective families. Their marriage was cele- brated November 29, 1857. Alonzo Root, the father of Dr. Root, was born in New York and became an early settler upon government land in Ohio, where he spent his remaining days. He had four children : Gad, who is residing in Hartford, Wisconsin, and has two daughters and one son; Wallace, who owns the old homestead left by his father and also other farms and who has one son and also some grandchildren ; Mrs. Augusta Wing, a widow living in Crete, and Mr. Root, of this review.
Dr. Root was a very conscientious and able member of the medi- cal profession. He was devoted to his business duties, was a close stu- dent of everything that tended to promote his knowledge and increase his efficiency in the line of his chosen calling, and in his practice he won creditable success. He was also a man of strong domestic tastes,
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devoted to his family, and his greatest happiness was enjoyed when with his wife and children at his own fireside. He held membership in the Congregational church, to which his family also belonged. To Dr. and Mrs. Root were born eight children. Frank, whose birth occurred in Hartford, Wisconsin, was graduated in medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and afterward engaged in practice in Crete with his father. During the past thirteen years he has been a regular practitioner of medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he lives with his wife and three child- ren, a daughter and two sons. Susan is the wife of Captain T. B. Rhodes, who is in the government employ at Washington, D. C. She has a daughter by her first husband, who was Dr. Benjamin Root, a distant relative, and by her second marriage has one son, Thomas Brown Rhodes. Wallace W. Root died in the Philippines, February 15, 1904, while serving there as veterinary surgeon in the employ of the government. He was a young man of scholarly attainments and high character worth, and at his death the government forwarded his remains and effects to his mother. Clara T. Root, who is a graduate of the Crete high school and of Doane College, has engaged in teaching in both Salt Lake City and in Crete and is now living with her mother. Mrs. Addie Root Farr, who was formerly a successful teacher, is now living in Oklahoma Territory and has one son and one daughter. Gad B. Root, a commercial traveler, also living in Oklahoma, is married, but has no children. Mrs. Root also lost two daughters, both dying at the age of four months. She resides in a pleasant home which was erected by Dr. Root in 1873. In manner she is modest, unassuming, but she possesses strong intellectual force and many admirable traits of character, having displayed a spirit of heroism in meeting the trials and adversities of life. She was obliged to go to Washington and see the government officials there in order to secure the return of her
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son's remains and effects from the Philippines. In Crete she has won many friends by her true worth of character, and she is held in high esteem, as was her husband, Dr. Root, whose life was one of usefulness.
HARRY A. DAY.
Harry A. Day, resident manager of the Fairbury branch of the Fairmount Creamery Company, has been connected with the great but- ter-making industry since he was a boy. The operations of the cream- ery business over large areas of territory form what is perhaps the most interesting phase of modern agricultural development, and a won- derful problem and wonderfully solved is the collection of milk from innumerable individual producers on each day, and the subsequent manu- facture and disposal of its products at points far distant from the orig- inal source of the supply. Of all the large creamery companies operat- ing in the United States, the Fairmount Creamery Company is prob- ably the largest single concern. Its business reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and its factories are located in Omaha, Seward, Crete, Aurora, Fairbury, York, in Nebraska, and at Denison and Manning, in Iowa, but each of these places is but the center of a vast collection district, covering a large part of each state. Iowa and Nebraska now rank among the foremost milk-producing states of the Union, and any- one connected with this industry is an integral part of one of the most important and valuable enterprises of the world. The Fairmount Cream- ery Company was organized in 1884, and on June 14, 1887, was in- corporated with an authorized capital stock of three hundred thousand dollars, with a paid-up capital of one hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars. The present officers are J. H. Rushton, president, E. T. Rec-
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tor, vice-president, E. F. Howe, secretary, and Charles E. Walters, treasurer, with general offices at Fairmount, Nebraska.
Mr. Day was born at Aledo, Mercer county, Illinois, June 8, 1865, a son of William B. and Mary ( Brouchtel) Day, both natives of Ohio. His father was a descendant of the New York Days who came to America before the Revolution. The grandfathers on both sides were in the great war for independence. His mother was of Holland Dutch ancestry established in this country many generations.
The family on both sides has been noted as a long-lived and prolific race, and Mr. Day was the fifth of twelve children in his par- ents' family. In 1879 he moved with his parents to Fremont, Dodge county, Nebraska, and he lived there and continued his schooling and engaged in farming until he was eighteen years old. He then went to Beatrice and got his start in the creamery business, and later was in the same lime at Omaha. He came the Fairbury in 1901 and took the management of the factory here, in the conduct of whose affairs he has displayed excellent ability, and his management has pleased the officials of the company and been entirely satisfactory to the many patrons.
Mr. Day was married at Fremont, Nebraska, to Miss Mary Sutliff, a native of Michigan, and they have one son, Clifford E. Mr. Day is a stanch Republican, standing by the old-established principles of that party. He affiliates with the Modern Woodmen of the World and the Royal League at Omaha, and with the Independent Order of Red Men and the Order of Eagles in Fairbury.
JOEL T. JONES AND FAMILY
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JOEL T. JONES.
Joel T. Jones, a retired farmer of Humboldt. Richardson county, is one of the old-timers of this part of the state, and has been identified more or less intimately with the prairies of Nebraska since the 31st of March, 1855, when he arrived in Richardson county from Missouri. He has been a very successful man during his long career of seventy- five years, and has been called into various spheres of activity and experienced an eventful course of years. In such a life he has of course found many uneventful places and more or less losses and hardships, but the outcome has been happy and resulted in a secure place in the esteem and regard of his fellow citizens, and he has sufficient of the world's goods to be free from care and able to take life easily during his last years.
Mr. Jones was born in Warren county, Kentucky, below Bowling Green, February 7, 1829, and belongs to one of the old and patriotic families of America. He is of Scotch and English descent, and the first American ancestor was his great-great-grandfather, who settled in Virginia in the colonial epoch. His grandfather, John Jones, was a soldier in the Revolution, serving from Virginia, his native state. Thomas Jones, the father of J. T. Jones, was born in Orange county, Virginia, in 1788, and died in Kentucky in 1883, at the extreme old age of ninety-five. He was well preserved to the last, barring his be- ing blind for two years. He was a farmer in both Virginia and Ken- tucky, and was in moderate circumstances. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He married Eleanor Martin, a widow with one daugh- ter, and she was born in Virginia in 1783. They had eight children : Rebecca Howard, who left two sons, at Edgar, Nebraska; Elizabeth Cook, who died in Kentucky at the age of thirty, leaving two chil- dren; John, who died unmarried in eastern Oregon, at the age of fifty;
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Margaret Benton, who died young, leaving one daughter; Mary Cook, who left one son; Joel T .; Jeremiah, who lives on the old farm in Kentucky; and Jesse A., who died in eastern Oregon, leaving five child- ren.
Mr. Joel T. Jones was reared to farm life and labor, and learned to read, write and cipher. At the age of twenty he left home and went to Independence, Missouri, and then began the life of adventure which has left him so many interesting reminiscences of the years that have flown. At Independence he engaged to drive a stage coach and fol- lowed that hazardous occupation for four years, and for three years of that time drove between Independence and Salt Lake City. The schedule time was thirty days each way, and his wages were at first seventy-five dollars a month and later one hundred and fifty. The first year he lost nearly all his wages, having trusted his employer, Bill McGraw, who, however, failed, and Mr. Jones suffered with the other creditors. After this first year Mr. Jones drove the stage and carried the mail for Colonel S. B. Miles, who had received the government contract to the amount of one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars a year. The distance between Independence and Salt Lake City was twelve hundred and fifty miles by stage road, and Mr. Jones usually drove either six horses or six mules to the stage. The Indians were often rather pestiferous, and he drove through the Indian country when first the Sioux and later the Cheyennes were on the warpath. Two of his brothers, Jesse A. and John J., were also stage drivers, and were on the same route or other roads of the far west. Mr. Jones earned and saved some money at this occupation, and he afterward engaged in mining at various points in the west for fifteen years. He has seen Brigham Young many times, and once heard that famous Mormon preach in the temple. In 1861 he and his brother Jesse and three others fitted
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out an expedition in Richardson county, consisting of three wagons with two teams to each wagon, and started for Idaho. They went up the Snake river to Powder river, where they spent the year in mining and prospecting, and in the course of the winter they made a trip for provisions to Fort Walla Walla. From Idaho Mr. Jones went to Oregon. and in and about Baker City he spent some years in the various phases of mining. During his western experiences he has paid as high as fifty dollars for a hundred-weight of flour, twenty-five cents a pound for potatoes, fifty to seventy cents per pound for bacon, two dollars for a single chicken, a dollar and a half for a dozen eggs. He once paid ten dollars for a hen and her brood of ten small chicks, and by good fortune raised these and found them very valuable later on. In 1868 he returned to Kentucky for a visit to his parents, making the journey by stage, and he once more went back in 1878.
Mr. Jones has been interested in the farming areas of southeastern Nebraska since 1855, and for twelve years lived in Edgar, this state. He moved into Humboldt in 1896 and bought an acre plot on which he has erected a good home in which to pass his last years. He owns two farms in Richardson county, consisting of one hundred and eighty acres, and has eighty acres in Clay county.
Mr. Jones married, April 8, 1884, Miss Euphemia Garrison, who was born in Hartford, Ohio county, Kentucky, November 13, 1850, a daughter of Samuel A. and Sarah Owen (Barret) Garrison, both of Virginia. Her father was a farmer and also operated a tannery. There were the following children in the Garrison family : Samuel, who lives in Nebraska and is single; Mary Jane Barnett, who died at the age of thirty-six, leaving five children; James W., at Shickley, Nebraska; Mrs. Jones; and Owen J., who is living in Nebraska, and is unmarried. The father of these children died in Kentucky at
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the age of sixty, and the mother in 1891 at the age of eighty. Mrs. Jones was well educated. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two children : Alberta May, at home and in her eighteenth year, is taking piano lessons and has musical tastes: Thomas Miles was born January 26, 1895, and is in school. Mr. Jones affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics is a Democrat. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian church.
ALBION GRAVES.
Front pioneer times down to the present Albion Graves has been a resident of Saline county, Nebraska, having arrived here in 1870, when pioneer conditions were to be faced, the work of improvement and progress having been scarcely begun. As the years have advanced he has improved his opportunities for business advancement, and is to-day one of the extensive land owners of the county, having a valu- able property of nine hundred and twenty acres, which is the visible evidence of his life of thrift and industry.
Mr. Graves is a native of Kennebec county, Maine, his birth hav- ing occurred near Augusta in 1849. The ancestral history of the family states that five brothers of the name came from England to America at a very early day in the colonization of the new world. They estab- lished homes at various places in the Atlantic states, and their descend- ants are now very numerous in this country. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Graves, was born in New Hampshire, where the family had long been represented. He was the father of Gerry Graves, who was born in Maine and was reared to manhood in the Pine Tree state. He mar- ried Miss Mary Moore, who was also born in Maine, to which state
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her parents removed from New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Graves became the parents of six children, two sons and four daugh- ters, and four of the number are now living. The father was a wagon- maker by trade, and his early political support was given to the Whig party, while later he joined the ranks of the new Republican party and continued to give it his support until his death, which occurred when he was seventy-eight years of age. His religious faith was that of the Baptist denomination and his wife belonged to the same church. She was a member of a family noted for longevity and her death oc- curred at the very advanced age of ninety-two years.
Albion Graves was reared in Kennebec county, Maine, and pur- sued his education in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he crossed the continent, going to California, where he remained for three years, working in a sawmill. Then returning eastward he stopped in Saline county. Nebraska, and secured his homestead claim, on which he made a home, which was partly a dug-out and partly a sod shanty. Herds of Buffalo were frequently seen along the Salmon river, as were deer and antelopes, and much smaller game was to be had in abundance. All was wild and unimproved and there were many hardships and difficulties to be borne in the establishment of a home upon the prairies of the west, but Mr. Graves persevered and success has at length crowned his efforts. He is now the owner of a valuable property of nine hundred and twenty acres lying in Saline and Jef- ferson counties, returning to him an excellent income. His home place comprises four hundred and eighty acres. In 1895 he erected a fine hone at a cost of two thousand dollars, and it is furnished in a man- ner which indicates the refined and cultured taste of the family. There is good shade upon the place, a windmill, the latest improved machin- ery, a good barn and other necessary outbuildings, and good grades
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of stock are found in the pastures. In all of his work he is practical and progressive, and well merits the prosperity which has come to him as the years have gone by.
In 1874 Mr. Graves was united in marriage to Mrs. Angeline Wood, the widow of H. Wood, who by her first marriage had one son, Charles Wood. Her parents were William and Catherine (Shet- ler) Munich, the former a native of Pennsylvania. Both died in Iowa, and it was in Guthrie county, that state, that Mrs. Graves was reared, although she is a native of Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Graves were born four children who are yet living : Elsie, Viola, Myrtle and Ches- ter. They also lost four sons, of whom two died in infancy, while Fred died at the age of seventeen years and Calvin at the age of thir- teen years. Mr. Graves exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party and has frequently been a delegate to its conventions, but while he keeps well informed on the issues of the day and is deeply interested in the success of his party, he has never been an aspirant for public office. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and he has many friends both within and without the lodge, for the strong traits of his char- acter are such as command respect and confidence in every land and clime. The Graves home is noted for its gracious, cordial and pleas- ing hospitality, and both Mr. and Mrs. Graves are popular people of this community.
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H. L. WARD.
H. L. Ward, senior member of the large mercantile firm of Ward Brothers, at Pawnee city, Nebraska, is a leading citizen who is held in high esteem in this community. He was born October 20, 1841, in Harlan county, Kentucky, and comes of a family which has been conspicuous in the military life of the country. His great-grandfather fought for freedom in the Revolutionary war, his grandsire protected his country's interests in the war of 1812, his father bravely served his country in the Mexican war, and he himself has an honorable record as a soldier in the Civil war.
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