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The following notes detail the Turney genealogy :-
Asa Turney, born at Fairfield, Connecticut, October 15, 1759, died April 5, 1833, and Polly Downs Turney, December 2, 1768, October 9, 1835,-grandparents of E. D. Gage. They formerly lived in Connecti- cut, but moved to Ohio in 1809, to Madison, Lake county, and are buried in the cemetery at Madison. Children : Daniel Turney, born May 21, 1788, died March 9, 1841, in Lake county, Ohio, whither he had come on foot from Connecticut, and where he was a farmer. Phebe Turney, born March 9, 1791, died March 4, 1852, in Lake county ; was married to Erial Cook. David Turney, born December 25, 1794, died March 5, 1826, in Lake county, Ohio. George Washington Turney, born March 13. 1797, died February 19, 1830, in Lake county. Charlana Turney (mother of E. D. Gage) born August 20, 1799, married James Gage,
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and died July 10, 1827, in Lake county. Asa Squire Turney, born March 20, 1804, died February 16, 1886, in Lake county ; was a farmer and minister of the Disciples church. Marvin Turney, born in Connecticut, August 11. 1807, died April 28, 1893, in Dearborn township, Wayne county, Michigan, where he had resided since 1834. Eli A. Turney, born March 23, 1815, died -.
Phebe Turney (aunt of E. D. Gage), born March 9, 1791, died March 4, 1852; married Erial Cook, born-, died --; had a son, George Cook (cousin of E. D. Gage), born 1820, died -; lived at Madison, Ohio. George Cook married Louisa Genung, born 1819, and had children, Albert J., 1850; Wilber, 1853; Harry, 1851 ; Flora, 1863 (died 1899). Albert J. Cook married Gracie Bidnell, born in 1853; lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Wilber Cook married Genevieve Bidnell, born 1855; lives at Madison, Ohio. Harry Cook married Gennie Nettleton, born 1853; live at Madison, Ohio. Flora Cook married - - Strock ; had three sons.
Asa Squire Turney (uncle of E. D. Gage), March 20, 1804, Feb- ruary 16, 1866; lived at Madison, Ohio; married Laura -. Children : Almira Turney, born -, died -. Nancy C. M., born February 24, 1826. Polly A., July 19, 1829, died -. Amanda, born-, died -, unmarried. Laura, born 1838. Carlos. Louisa.
Almira Turney married Henry Norton, and lived at Perry, Ohio. Children : Kate Norton, married B. A. Durfee, a minister of the Christian church, and had one daughter. A son, married ----
Nancy C. M. Turney, born February 24, 1826, Married, first, Frank Wyman, March 2, 1823, August 9, 1876, lived at Madison, Ohio. Married, second,- Wadsworth, and live in California. Children (all by first marriage) : Francis Wyman, died young. Ida Wyman, born September 1, 1852, married - Griswold, had daughter Pearl
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Griswold, July 9, 1873. Eva Wyman, born August 6, 1853, married David Palmer, and live in Seward, Nebraska ; have children, Gay Palmer, January 27, 1872, Franc Palmer, October 19, 1877.
Polly A. Turney, born July 19, 1829, died-, married Frank F. Fellows, born February 9, 1828; lived in Madison township, Ohio. Children : Ima L. Fellows, born February 8, 1852, married Albert F. Cooper, born-, died November 24. 1879, and had children, Altha L. Cooper, September 24, 1876, and Albert F. Cooper, September 24, 1879. Arl Turney Fellows, born December 12, 1854, married Elva Gaines, born December 3. 1860, and had a child, Asa D. Fellows, April 22, 1883. Eda P. Fellows; born December 15, 1868.
Laura Turney, born 1838, married Willard Martin. Children : Ellen Martin, born 1860, died -. Will Martin, born December 22, 1861, married Jessie Carter, and had a son, Charles, June 6, 1887. Es- telle, born 1863, died ---. Bertha Ellen Martin, born September 14, 1876, married -- , has one son and one daughter. All the Martins live in Cleveland, Ohio.
Carlos A. Turney married Carrie W. Winchester, born in 1842, and they live on his father's place at Madison, Ohio. Children : Omer A., born in 1866, lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Cora Maud, born in 1876, lives at Madison, Ohio. John Hubert, born in 1879, lives at Madison.
Louisa Turney married -. Children : Roy and Arthur, deceased, and Florence. They live in California.
Marvin Turney (uncle of E. D. Gage), August 11, 1807, April 28, 1893; married, first, Abigal Fairchild, and, second, Maria Rossiter. Children (all by first marriage ) : Martha C. Turney. James M. Turney, 1837. John B. Turney. 1839. Orris A. Turney, 1841. Amy Rosilla Antoinette Turney. David Wilson Turney, 1853.
Martha C. Turney married Robert Hollingworth, and lived at Nel-
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son, Nebraska. One daughter: Emma Yates Hollingworth, born in 1878, married, June, 1899, Nathaniel Moore, and had children, Robert, 1900, a daughter, July 7, 1901, and a son, September 20, 1903.
James M. Turney, born 1837, married Mary E. Eastman, born 1845. Son : William Turney, born 1862, lives at Detroit, Michigan.
Orris A. Turney, born 1841, married Clara M. Mapes, born 1847, and live at Detroit, Michigan. Children : Theo Belle, 1878. Charles M. Turney, 1880.
A. R. Antoinette Turney married Isaiah Burrows. Children: Es- ther, Alonzo, Alsina, Benjamin Lewis.
David Wilson Turney, born 1853, married Mary Emmeline Lantz, born 1859, and they live at Detroit, Michigan. Son : Frederick Marvin Turney, 1883.
Eli Turney (uncle of E. D. Gage), born March 23, 1815, died --. Married. first Minerva Seely, September 15, 1815, May 29, 1868, and, second, September 1I, 1869, Mrs. Arvilla (Crocker) Branch. He lived in Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio. Children (of the first marriage) : Albert A. Turney, 1834. Cyrena R. Turney, born-, died 1860. La- fayette M. Turney, 1838. David M. Turney, born March 20, 1848, a railroad man living in Kansas. Mary Turney, July 10, 1853. Henry Turney, born-, died October 21, 1858, in Lorain county. Charles Wesley Turney, October 1, 1841, died December, 1842.
Albert A. Turney, born 1834, married Hannah Harris, born 1835; live at Bowling Green, Ohio. Children : Sophia Turney, born 1857. married Josialı Winton, born 1854. Cora Turney, born 1863, married George Bradshaw, born 1855.
Cyrena R. Turney, born-, died 1860, married Perry Belden ; lived at Amherst, Ohio.
Lafayette Turney married A. V. Gage. (See Gage genealogy).
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Mary Turney, born June 10, 1853, married Frank Bissell, and live at Columbus, Ohio.
The Morse family connections are as follows :
Ives Morse, March 9, 1767, August 9, 1846, and Elizabeth Lord Morse, April 24, 1768, April 6, 1859, were the grandparents of Saman- tha M. Morse (the wife of Edward D. Gage). Ives Morse was one of the earliest settlers at Kingsville, Ohio. Children : Huldah, August 1, 1790, August 19, 1828. Susan, August 10, 1792, April 3, 1833. Phi- neas, March 3, 1795, July 2, 1878. Amos, October 29, 1799, May 26, 1852. Charlotte, May 6, 1803, July 30, 1861. Hannah, August 14, 1808, May 26, 1856.
Susan Morse (aunt of S. M. Morse), August 10, 1792, April 3, 1833, married Erastus Todd, 1786, February 5, 1863. Children : Asen- ath Todd, August 1, 1810, October, 1872. Martha Gier Todd, Novem- ber 5, 1811, October 12, 1872. Mary Haynes Todd, April 11, 1816, April 12, 1891. William Todd, July 1, 1817, 1900. Julius Todd, March 3, 1819. John Todd, July 26, 1821, May 15, 1864.
William Todd (son of Susan Morse), July 1, 1817. 1900, married, May 14, 1842, Huldah Morse (daughter of Phineas Morse), born Sep- tember 17, 1819 (both cousins of S. M. Morse). They lived in Ashta- bula county, Ohio. Children : Susan Adel Todd, April 14, 1845, July 4, 1846. Adaline M. Todd, born May 2, 1847, unmarried. Almond M. Todd, June 24, 1849, married, April 4, 1883. Ella Fassett, no children. Melzo I .. , May 28, 1854, married, February 2, 1873, Mary Santer, and has two sons. Bertha M. married, May 31, 1878, Delos Vanslyke, and has three children.
Phineas Morse (uncle of S. M. Morse), March 3, 1795, July 2, 1878, married Abagail -, born August 12, 1798, died January 17, 1891. They lived at Kingsville, Ohio, half a mile from his brother Amos,
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who was the father of S. M. Morse. Children : Huldah, born September 17, 1819, still living. Hiram, September 27, 1820, still living. Mary, September 7, 1822, died January 5, 1892, was twice married. Almira, September 10, 1826, still living. Angeline, February 14, 1828, still living, and married but no children. Almon, August 28, 1829, married and had children, and died September 1, 1890. Laura, August 10, 1832, living. Alden, September 28, 1835, married and had children, and is still living. George W., April 8, 1837, is living, unmarried.
Huldah Morse (daughter of Phineas) married William Todd, as previously given.
Hiram Morse (son of Phineas and cousin of S. M. Morse), born September 27, 1820, married Louisa Colgrove, born October 27, 1824, and lives in Ashtabula county, Ohio. Children : Charles H. Morse, born July 5, 1850, married Marcia Bushnel, born August 7, 1851 ; no child- ren ; live in Ashtabula county. Albert W. Morse, born March 17, 1853, married Jennie Gee, born June 19, 1855, and had A. Lida Morse, March 19, 1875.
Mary E. Morse (daughter of Phineas), September 7, 1822, January 5, 1892, married, first,- Hammond, and, second, B. F. Butler. Child- ren, first marriage : Isadore Hammond, born April 3. 1850, married Sey- mour Gier, and had daughter, Mary Gier, 1880. Children, second mar- riage: Sarah Butler, born April 26, 1861, married S. B. Shaylor, born 1857, and had children, Bessie Shaylor, 1879, and Kittie Shaylor, 1881. Albert N. Butler, born November 4, 1862, married and had children, and lives at North Kingsville, Ohio. Will H. Butler, born October 18, 1865, married and had children, and lives at North Kingsville.
Almira J. Morse (daughter of Phineas), born September 10, 1826, married Samuel Hough, born December 19, 1819, died 1900. He was a foundryman, and she lives at Kingsville. Children : Herbert B. Hough,
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born May 21, 1851, lives near Ashtabula ; married Libbie W. Smith, born February 15, 1850, and had children, Harry Hough, December 15, 1877, and Millie Hough, February 9, 1880. Hattie M. Hough, born August 13, 1852, married -
- Blakeslee, no children, and lives at Ashtabula, Ohio, Sara Hough, born July 7, 1856, unmarried. Mary Hough, August 2, 1859, December 29, 1859. Carey Hough, born May 20, 1866, married Hattie C. Newell; three children, and live at Ashtabula.
Laura Morse ( daughter of Phineas), born August 10, 1832, married Levi Brainard, born February 4, 1829, died- -. She lives in Ashtabula county. Children : Charles Brainard, December 21, 1854, married Alice Mills, born 1859. Jennie Lind Brainard, born March 15, 1867, died married -. Fred Brainard, May 28, 1869, married Adelle Lillie, born September 22, 1864.
Amos Morse, October 29, 1799. May 26, 1852, and Anna Abbott Morse born July 26, 1809, were the parents of Samantha M. Morse. They were married June 7, 1821, and they lived at Kingsville, Ohio. Children : Lu- man Morse, born July 9, 1822, died in the west July 15, 1848. Luther Morse, born March 12, 1824, died in North Kingsville, Ohio, April 7, 1879. Samantha Maria Morse, born October 11, 1826, died at Fairbury, Nebraska, March 1I, 1901, (the wife of E. D. Gage). Sarah A. Morse, born February 8, 1829, died in Madison, Ohio, August 20, 1874. Jud- son Morse, born January 23, 1832, married Diantha - by whom there were no children, and he died at Zumbro Falls, Minnesota, in 1887. Simon Morse, born September 14, 1833, died at Kingsville, Ohio, No- vember 1, 1864. Eliza Ann Morse, born May 15, 1837, died at Kings- ville, Ohio, March 4, 1882. Amos Orlando Morse, born March II, 1840, died at Kingsville, March 12, 1840. Marshall Morse, born July 13. 1841, died at Kingsville, July 3, 1889 Susan Adell Morse, born
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in 1846, is the only one living in 1904; she resides at Madison, Ohio; she married Charles Bates.
Luther Morse (brother of S. M. Morse), March 12, 1824, April 7, 1879, married Samantha Shaw, born January 3, 1829, died Children : Edwin A. Morse, born 1856, died February 19, 1891. Louise Morse, born September 7, 1857, died September 26, 1896; married Ralplı Hood, and had Nellie Edna Hood, August 17, 1887, and also a younger daughter.
Sarah Agnes Morse (sister of S. M. Morse), February 20, 1821, August 20, 1874, married Samuel K. Holbrook, born February 20, 1821, died --. Children : Ella Holbrook, born February 10, 1851, and living at Lima, Ohio, married Judson M. Waugh, born June 30, 1852, died - -, and had children, Lillian Emma, January 23, 1880, and Ernest Judson, January 11, 1882. Emma Holbrook, born February 10, 1851, and living at Centralia, Washington, married Homer L. Mead, and had children, Florence (married), Edith, and a son. Agnes G. Holbrook, born April 23, 1854, lives at Madison, Ohio, unmarried. Sarah Hol- brook, born June 15, 1859, and died January 25, 1904, at Lima, Ohio; married, first, A. D. Chapman, who died three years later, and mar- ried, second, in June, 1903, Albert Deming; no children. S. Arthur Holbrook lives at Lima, Ohio, is married and has two children.
Eliza Ann Morse (sister of S. M. Morse), May 15, 1837, March 4, 1882, married Edwin S. Preston. Children : Stiles Preston, born July 20, 1859, died August 1, 1861. Eva, went to Connecticut in childhood.
Charlotte Morse (aunt of S. M. Morse), born May 6, 1803, died July 30, 1861, married - Benton. One daughter: Susan Benton, born April 27, 1833, and living in Geneva township, Ohio, married H. W. Boree, born February 21, 1832, and had children, Edward C. Boree, July 2, 1869, George A. Boree, September 28, 1872, Curtis M.
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Boree, June 12, 1874. -- George A. Boree, born September 28, 1872, married Ethel Bates, an adopted daughter of Charles and S. Adell Morse Bates, and had two daughters.
There follows the Abbott genealogy, as the history of the maternal line of Samantha M. Morse Gage :
Squire Abbott, born June 19, 1770, died December, 1853, and Anna Spafford Abbott, born March 27, 1770, died January 27, 1845, were the grandparents of Samantha M. Morse. They lived in Massachusetts until past the age of twenty, and then moved to Ohio. Children : Jus- tin, born March 23, 1801, died in Minnesota. Anna, born July 26, 1802, married, June 7, 1821, Amos Morse, and died in 1888 in Fair- bury, Nebraska. Susan, born December 14, 1803, married Ferris Web- ster, and died at Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio. Orlin, born January 17, 1806, moved to Kansas. Alanson, born August 24, 1807, died June 26, 1816. Thirza, born April 30, 1809, married Orlando Holcomb. Wealthy, born September 22, 1811, married Almeron Stedman. Mary, born March 29, 1813, married William Hawkins, and died at Kipton, Ohio. Lucy, born April 18, 1814, died May 2, 1814. Eli, born March 27, 1815, moved to Iowa and then to California, dying in the latter state.
The descendants of Anna Abbott, the mother of Samantha M. Morse, are given above.
Susan Abbott (aunt of S. M. Morse), born December 14, 1803, married Ferris Webster. Her daughter, Diantha W., born July 13, 1834, lives at Norwalk, Ohio. She married Obadiah Prentiss, a physician, born November 4, 1818, died -, and had children, Chalmer Pren- tiss, May 29, 1858, Corrinne Prentiss, August 25, 1861 and three daughters deceased. Chalmer Prentiss married Belle Stone, born 1859. Corrinne Prentiss married Louis Lindsly, born March 20, 1860.
Wealthy Abbott (aunt of S. M. Morse), born September 22, 1811,
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married Almeron Stedman and lived in Henrietta township, Lorain county, Ohio. Children : - Stedman, a daughter ; Thankful ; Wealthy, born 1836, unmarried; George; Emma; Will; Edna, born 1850.
The eldest daughter of Wealthy Abbott Stedman married Van Dusen. Children : Charles Van Dusen. Minnie Van Dusen, born 1860, married Frederick H. Kropf, born 1861, and lives in Elyria, Ohio.
Thankful Stedman married Charles Rice and lives at Long Beach, California. Children : Almer Rice, of Riverside, California, married and has two children; Gertrude Rice married Alfred E. Slater, and lives in California, have children, Earl Slater, Alfred Slater, and two sons and a daughter.
Will Stedman married -, and had a daughter, Edith, deceased.
Edna Stedman, born 1850, married John McCullom, born 1846. A son, Roy McCullom, born 1879. Emma Stedman married Ansel Hales, and lives in Englewood, Illinois. Children : Lillian Hales, Earl Hales, Vernon Hales, Corra Hales.
Mary Abbott (aunt of S. M. Morse), born March 29, 1813, mar- ried, April 22, 1835, Willianı Hawkins, born July 2, 1804, died Septem- ber 6, 1888. Children: Eliza Hawkins, born March 3, 1836, died Feb- ruary 23, 1886. Hannah Hawkins, born September 27, 1837. Maria Hawkins, born April 15, 1840 unmarried. Vesta Hawkins born July 19, 1842. Mary Hawkins, born October 19, 1844. Anna Hawkins, born December 6, 1846. Charles Hawkins, April 22, 1849. Naomi Hawkins, born August 1, 1851, unmarried. Alice Hawkins, born August 5, 1854.
Eliza Hawkins, March 3, 1836, February 23, 1886, married, Janu- ary, 1864, Egbert Ingersoll.
Hannah Hawkins, born September 27, 1837, died -, married, October 6, 1860, J. B. Cook, born 1831, died -; lived at Elyria, Ohio. Children : Clara Cook, born 1861, married R. D. Williams, born 1851,
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and they live at Elyria, Ohio, and have a daughter, Stella Williams, born 1881. Mary Cook, married - Sterns, and lives at Elyria, Ohio. Elsie Cook, married - Ely, and live at Lorain, Ohio.
Vesta Hawkins, July 19, 1842, May 23, 1863, married Oscar Tan- ner, on September 12, 1861, and they lived at Ruggles, Ashland county, Ohio.
Mary Hawkins born October 19, 1844, married, October 17, 1872, Luman A. Andrews, born 1840, and they live in Toledo, Ohio. Chil- dren : Willie Andrews, born 1874. Lola Andrews, 1878. One daughter, born 1883.
Anna Hawkins, born December 6, 1846, married, December 12, 1876, Simeon Hales, born 1843; live in Henrietta, Ohio. Children : Jessie Hales, born 1878. Iva Hales, born 1880.
Naomi Hawkins, born August 1, 1851, married, October 5, 1873, Elber H. Wing, born 1848; live in Barrington, Illinois.
Alice Hawkins, born August 5, 1854. married, March 11, 1882, Henry Hales, born 1849; live at Kipton, Ohio.
Eli Abbott (uncle of S. M. Morse), born March 27, 1815, married -; lived in southern California in later years and until death. Chil- dren; Dell and Ella, living in southern California.
ROBERT THOMPSON MCADAMS.
Robert Thompson McAdams, a retired farmer and vice president of the Peru Bank, has been a resident of Nemaha county for forty years. He has been a prosperous farmer, and from the small tract of land on which he began life developed an estate of considerable magnitude, most of which he has since distributed to his children. He has always
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displayed excellent business ability, and this combined with his in- dustry has given him a substantial place in material affairs. He has likewise been as successful in other relations of life, both in the per- formance of his duties as a citizen and as the head of his family, to which he has always been devoted, making his home his first thought and the mainspring of his best efforts.
Mr. McAdams was born in Washington county, Tennessee, March 3, 1834. His father, William S. McAdams, was a cabinet-maker and owner of the farm on which he lived in Tennessee. He was born in 1809 and died in Tennessee in 1841, leaving but a small estate. In 1831 he married Eleanor McNeal, of the same part of Tennessee. She was born in 1810 and died in Peru, Nebraska, in 1865, in the religious faith of the Cumberland Presbyterians. She was the mother of five children : John, who died in Fremont county, Iowa, in 1862, at the age of thirty years, leaving a wife; Robert T .; James Madison, who was born in Tennessee, went to Colorado in 1859, to Montana in 1866, engaged in gold mining, and in failing health returned to die in the Ainsworth Hospital at St. Joseph, Missouri; William Montgomery, a farmer in Atchison county, Missouri, and his seven sons are all teachers in different parts of the country ; Anna Elmira, the deceased wife of Hugh Lockard, left three children.
Mr. McAdams received a meagre schooling in a log schoolhouse, and has made his own way from an early age. In 1853 the family all came to northwestern Missouri, and entered a quarter section of land just across the river from Nebraska. Mr. McAdams entered forty acres of land in Missouri in 1854, built a small frame house and improved and cultivated this land for several years, finally adding another forty to it. He fenced it in with rails which he had made on Snow island. In 1864 he traded his eighty acres for one hundred and seventy-seven
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acres near Peru, Nebraska. He settled on this for a time, but then sold and bought one hundred and twenty acres, to which he gradually added land until he owned four hundred and eight acres, one hundred and sixty of which was in Johnson county. He has given his children all but eighty acres of timber land adjoining Peru. He bought his present home in Peru in 1889.
In 1856 William S. Horn and family moved from Missouri, where they had taken up their residence in 1850, coming from Bureau county, Illinois, and located in Nebraska. His daughter, Nancy E. Horn, had been born in Illinois in 1842, and after she moved to Nebraska Mr. Mc- Adams frequently crossed the river for the purpose of enjoying her pleasant companionship. On August 7, 1859, they were married on the Horn farm near Peru, and they traveled life's journey together for over forty years, until her death on March 19, 1900. She was a noble Christian woman, and a wife, mother and friend who could be ill spared by her bereaved family. They had four children: An infant daughter that was born and died in Missouri; James W., a farmer in Nemaha county, and unmarried; Otis F., in Peru, and owning a farm in John- son county, Kansas, has one son; Sadie, who has been keeping house for her father since the death of her mother. Mr. McAdams is a gold Democrat, and has served twelve terms in the village council. He is one of the original stockholders and is now vice president of the Peru Bank, and is otherwise prominent in the financial and social life of the com- munity.
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JOSEPH JELINEK, JR.
Joseph Jelinek, Jr., of Crete, Nebraska, is a wholesale and retail dealer in wines and liquors, conducting the Old Homestead saloon in Crete. He was born in Brown county, Wisconsin, November 2, 1861. His grandfather recently died in Saline county in 1902, at the age of ninety years, and his wife, who was born in 1814, passed away in 1900. Both were well preserved and displayed strong intellectual as well as physical powers in their later years.
Joseph Jelinek, Sr., the father of our subject, was one of the early settlers of Saline county and was extensively engaged in farming. His birth occurred in Bohemia in March, 1837, and he came to America with his parents in 1854, the family numbering three sons. The voyage was made in a sailing vessel, and they were nine weeks upon the water. The grandfather was a freeholder of Bohemia and came to America with small capital. He started for Iowa, but on the trip westward was induced to go to Wisconsin and establish his home between Manitowoc and Green Bay. There he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land from the government, and the family still has two hundred acres there. The three sons, Francis, Joseph and Vit, took contracts in the lumber woods and delivered sawed logs, and in the winter they made and shaved shin- gles, and many years later when Joseph Jelinek landed on a visit in Wisconsin he found there a large barn, sixty feet long, which he had built of sawed pine timber and roofed with these heavy shaved shingles, as sound as ever. Joseph Jelinek, Sr., married Miss Anna Kozlousky, who was born in Bohemia, in 1839, the marriage taking place in Wis- consin in 1858. They became the parents of twelve children, of whom ten are now living : Frank, who resides in Crete and has one son ; Joseph, of this review ; Mary, who died at the age of a year and a half; Adolph, who is engaged in business; Anna, the wife of Frank Jananouch;
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Louisa, the wife of William Warneke, of Lincoln, Nebraska, by whom she has two children; Vesta, who is the wife of A. E. Warneke and has two children, and whose twin sister died at the age of eight weeks; Edward, of DeWitt, who is married and has two sons and one daughter ; Fred and Emma, at home; and Henry, who is in the First National Bank at Crete.
The old home farm comprises three hundred and twenty acres of land and is situated two and a half miles south of Crete, including the pre-emption claim, which was secured in 1865.
Joseph Jelinek was educated in the common schools and in Doane College, where he spent two years. He afterward engaged in teaching school for two winters and was upon the home farm until twenty-five years of age, when he began dealing in horses, buying, selling and breed- ing. For the latter purpose he had three imported English shire stal- lions worth five thousand dollars. In 1890 his uncle, Vit Jelinek, died, and Joseph Jelinek, Jr., purchased his saloon business in 1891. He began attending bar and in 1893 he opened his present saloon. Since 1895 the firm of Jelinek & Dredla has conducted the leading saloon in Crete. Mr. Jelinek owns the frame store in which the Old Home- stead saloon is located. This building was erected in 1871 for a hotel, and was afterwards used as a lodging house, being one of the first buildings put up in Crete. He deals in wines and liquors, and import: Annheuser-Busch beer on a very extensive scale.
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