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Mr. Helvey has always voted the Republican ticket and takes an active interest in political affairs. June 8, 1874, he was married at Fair- bury, Nebraska, to Miss Alice Kelley, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Samuel P. Kelley, a prominent pioneer of the state. They have three children : Samuel R .; Ira L .; and Maud, the wife of A. Chamberlain,
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of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr. Helvey has never become connected with fraternal orders, but is popular in all social circles.
JULIUS TRAMBLIE.
Julius Tramblie, who is owner of a fine farm about two miles from Cortland, in Gage county, has resided here since 1879, and is well known and esteemed for his excellent qualities of citizenship and manhood and his enterprise and ability as an agriculturist. He is an old soldier of the Civil war, where he gave loyal service and made a good record, and as a business man and farmer since the war he has taken rank with the best in his community. He is sincere, frank and popular, and his industry and good management have not failed to gain a fair share of worldly prosperity.
Mr. Tramblie was born in Canada, August 15, 1843. His grand- father was a general in the French army under Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo. Jonas Tramblie, the father of Mr. Tramblie, was also French born, and came to Canada after arriving at manhood. He mar- ried Sophia Janey, who was born in France of an old family of that country. When Julius was three years old the family moved to Janes- ville, Wisconsin, and Jonas Tramblie, who was familiar with the shoe business, continued that occupation in that city. He afterward moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he died at the age of seventy-four years. He was a Republican in politics. His wife died in young womanhood, after becoming the mother of seven children, of whom six sons were soldiers in the Union army, namely : David, in the Second Wisconsin Infantry; Joseph, in Company D, of the same regiment, and he was killed on the battlefield of Antietam; Lewis, of the Forty-ninth Wis-
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consin; Philip, of the Eighth Wisconsin; Julius, of the Eighth Wis- consin; and Jonas, Jr., of the Eighth Wisconsin. This is one of the unique family war records of the country, and should be a matter of pride to all future generations of these patriots.
Mr. Tramblie was reared and educated in Janesville, Wisconsin, and on August 15, 1861, enlisted in Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry, under Captain Charles Brither and Colonel Murphy, the latter afterward succeeded by Colonel Robins. This was one of the crack regiments of the Union army, and it had a national reputation because of the old eagle "Abe" which perched on its banners and went screaming in triumph and belligerent fervor through every battle and after the war was retired as an honored guest of the government at Wash- ington, where it spent its last days. After the regiment was equipped at Madison, it was sent to St. Louis, and thence to southern Missouri, where it took part in some battles and skirmishes. It then took part in the operations about Grand Gulf in Louisiana and the siege of Jackson, and after the fall of Vicksburg was sent into Tennessee. In the operations back and forth until the west was completedy subdued, in the Red River expedition, and from then on till the end it was employed in the campaigns in Louisiana and the Gulf states. Mr. Tramblie received his honorable discharge in September, 1864, with an honorable record in all departments of his service. He returned home to learn the carpenter's trade and the shoe business. He afterwards went to Sandwich, Dekalb county, Illinois, and remained there until 1879. when he came to Gage county, and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, and this land is now worth fifty dollars an acre, and has good improvements, a nice home, and is an ideal country place. He engages in farming and stock-raising and has done well in his ventures.
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Mr. Tramblie was married in Sandwich, Illinois, in 1874, to Miss Nettie Blagg, who was born in the south but was reared and educated in Illinois. Her father, Henry Blagg, was a native of Vermont and died before the war, having followed the occupations of teaching and farming; he was a Republican in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist church. Her mother, Mary (Nix) Blagg, died in 1900 at the age of seventy-two, having been the mother of eight children, of whom two sons and four daughters grew up, and one of the sons was a soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Tramblie have a most delightful and hospitable home, and have hosts of friends throughout the com- munity in which they have lived for twenty-five years. He is a prom- inent Grand Army man, and has always voted the Republican ticket.
STEPHEN F. HOLBROOK.
Stephen F. Holbrook, one of the successful business men and a vet- eran of Filley, Gage county, Nebraska, has resided in this state for thirty- three years, and materially assisted in its development. He enlisted at Lamoille, Bureau county, Illinois, September 17, 1861, in Company B, Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Colonel John S Wilcox com- manding. The regiment participated in a number of battles including those of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Corinth. He veteranized December 25, 1863, at Pulaski, Tennessee, and was honorably discharged from the service, at the end of the war, July 6, 1865. Mr. Holbrook entered the service as a private and left it as a sergeant, having been pro- moted for gallantry.
Mr. Holbrook was born at Lamoille, Bureau county, Illinois, April 14, 1838. He is a son of Enos Holbrook, one of the early settlers of the
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county, who went there in 1833 from New Hampshire, where he was born, a son of Enos, Sr., the latter of whom was also born in New England, and the family traces back to the historic Mayflower like many other old families. The Holbrook family was founded by three brothers who came from England. Enos, Jr., married Jerusha Barrows. She came of Scotch ancestry. Enos, Jr., died at the age of seventy-eight years, having been a farmer by occupation, and a Whig and abolitionist in politics. The mother died in Vesta, Nebraska, at the age of seventy- seven years. The children born to these parents are as follows : Joseph D., deceased ; Hiram, deceased; Eliza, deceased; Henry, deceased ; George W. was a soldier under General Fremont and was killed in the battle of Springfield, Missouri; and Stephen F., our subject.
The latter was reared in Illinois. He learned the trade of black- smith, which he followed for a number of years. Mr. Holbrook, in 1870, removed to Gage county, Nebraska, from thence he went to Rockport, Atchison county, Missouri, where for twelve years he worked at his trade , and then returned to Nebraska, settling in Johnson county. His next place of residence was in Keyapaha county, and helped to or- ganize that county. He finally settled at Filley, Gage county, where he is now extensively engaged in the buying and selling of stock and has become very successful.
He was first married in Bureau county, Illinois, to Malvina Per- kins, a daughter of Stephen Perkins. She bore him one child, Joseph L. Holbrook, of Lamoille, Illinois. Mrs. Holbrook died about eighteen years ago in Illinois. Our subject was married at Filley, Nebraska, in 1895, to Miss Jennie Smith, the daughter of William Smith, who served during the Civil war in the Thirty-third Missouri Volunteer In- fantry. Of this marriage one son has been born, Arthur D., a bright little fellow of six years. Our subject is a very active and intelligent
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Republican, and a member of the G. A. R. post. While living at La- moille, Illinois, he joined the post there, but after settling in Filley he transferred his membership to the local post. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, Temple Lodge No. 175, of Filley.
GEORGE M. PLACE.
George M. Place, of Pleasant precinct, Gage county, Nebraska, is one of the prominent old settlers of the state and a noted veteran of the Civil war. His career as a soldier started when as a boy of thirteen years he ran away from home and participated in the battle of Missionary Ridge, but he was returned to his home, and there remained until in February, 1864, when he enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and bore the name of "Kid" of the regiment, then under the command of Colonel Wallis, Captain Gibson having charge of the company. This regiment saw service in Texas, and did good service for the Union, serving until the close of the war and was retained until 1866. when it was disbanded, and our subject, one of the youngest soldiers, received his honorable discharge, returning home.
The birth of Mr. Place occurred in Delaware county, Ohio, in 1849, July 4th. This was the year of the great gold exodus to Cali- fornia. He is a son of Lewis Place, a soldier of the war of 1812, who came of Irish extraction. The mother bore the maiden name of Christine Foust, and she was born in Ohio, and she is a daughter of Jacob Foust, of German ancestry. The father died in Ohio at the age of fifty years.
George M. Place was reared on the farm of his father and secured a somewhat limited education in the schools of his neighborhood, his
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head being filled with the stirring events of the times. In 1878 he moved to his present home where he owns and operates a fine farm of two hundred acres, on which he has built a comfortable house, barn and other buildings, and his property is valued at ten thousand dollars.
Twenty years ago, he was married in Jefferson county, Nebraska, to Emma D. Mills, who was born in Kentucky and is a daughter of G. P. Mills, of Diller. Five children have blessed this union, namely : Perry L .; Ira L .; Riley R .; Hazel M .; and Ethel. Mr. Place is a Re- publican, and has always taken an active interest in local affairs and lent his influence toward forwarding all improvements calculated to prove beneficial to the township and county. He is a member of Nickajack Post, G. A. R., of Diller, and is one of the leading men of his locality.
DANIEL A. SHADE.
Daniel A. Shade is one of the well known agriculturists, pioneer settlers and veterans of the Civil war, now living in Jefferson county, where he has made his home continuously since 1870. He is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in Perry county, that state, on the 20th of February, 1844. He has an ancestry back of him noted for integrity, industry and upright purpose, and it is said that the word of any member of the Shade family was as good as a bond solemnized by sig- nature or seal. His father was George Shade, his grandfather, John Shade. The latter was a native of Hessen, Germany, and was a mem- ber of the Hessian army that was hired by the British government to come to America to aid in what was considered the rebellion of the colonists. He was, however, taken prisoner at the battle of Brandywine by the forces under General Washington, and later he joined the Amer-
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ican troops and fought for the cause of liberty, becoming one of the patriots of the colonial army. George Shade was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Bauer, who was born in Pennsylvania and belonged to an old family of that state. In the year 1851 they removed from the east to Peoria county, Illinois, where the father followed carpentering and also engaged in farming. His political support was given to the Democracy, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and lived consistent Christian lives. He died at the age of seventy-eight years, while her death occurred when she was seventy-five years of age. The father was twice married, and by the first union had five children, all of whom are now deceased. By his second marriage to the mother of our subject he had sixteen children, five sons and eleven daughters, and with one exception all reached years of maturity. One son, William, is now living in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Daniel A. Shade was reared in Peoria county, Illinois, and in early life learned the cooper's trade, which he followed for many years. He was twenty years of age when he became a Union soldier, enlisting in February, 1864, at Peoria for one year's service. He became a member of Company B, Seventh Illinois Mounted Infantry, under Captain Cos- grove, and as the regiment was already in the south he was sent to that section of the country to join this command. He took part in all the battles and skirmishes up to the time of the close of the war and was present at Raleigh when General Joe Johnston surrendered his army. He received an honorable discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, July 9, 1865, and then returned to his home.
When twenty-three years of age Mr. Shade was united in mar- riage to Miss Sadie Lightbody, a representative of a good family, and to him she has been a devoted wife and helpmate. She was born at Plainfield in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the 30th of June, 1843, and is
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a daughter of Isaac Lightbody who was born in Ireland and was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was reared on the Emerald Isle, but resided for many years at Manchester, England. By trade he was a weaver, following that pursuit for a long period in order to provide for his family. He married Miss Ann Jane Jenkinson, who died in Ohio leaving a family of five children. His second wife was Elizabeth J. Watson, who was born in Ohio, while her father was a native of the highlands of Scotland. Mr. Lightbody, the father of Mrs. Shade, came to Jeffer- son county, Nebraska, where he died at the very advanced age of ninety-seven years. His wife passed away in Nebraska, when fifty-three years of age. By his second marriage there were four children: Mrs. Sadie Shade, Jane, Minerva, and Mollie. Mr. Lightbody was a Demo- crat in his political views and was of Protestant faith, holding mem- bership in the Methodist Episcopal church.
In the year 1870 Mr. Shade and his wife came to Nebraska and established their home in Eureka township, Jefferson county. They lived in a dugout and sod house, twelve by twenty-four feet, until 1876, but as the years have advanced they have been able to add to their farm all the modern improvements, Mrs. Shade being an able assistant to her husband in all of his work. The farm now comprises two hundred acres of valuable land a mile and a quarter from Daykin, and is supplied with all modern equipments. Mr. Shade gives his political support to the Republican party, and socially is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the work of which they take a very active part, and he is now serving as church steward. They are pleasant, genial people, having gained many warm friends in Nebraska during the years of their resi- dence here, and he is a man whose integrity is above question and whose
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upright, honorable life commends him to the confidence and good will of all.
J. A. BEELER.
J. A. Beeler, of Liberty township, Gage county, Nebraska, has been a resident of the state since 1870, and he is also one of the veterans of the Civil war. His enlistment took place at Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, in April, 1862, when he entered the Eighth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Company C, and served two years and six months. In his first skirmish he was taken prisoner and confined at New Prospect, Tennessee, but later was transferred to Richmond, whence he made his escape. Owing to his terrible hardships, he was very ill after he managed to escape, but as soon as able he rejoined his regiment, which was then stationed at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Later he was at Raleigh, that state, and finally honorably discharged June 30, 1865.
Mr. Beeler was born in Claiborne county, Tennessee, November 28, 1844, and is a son of Daniel Beeler, of Tennessee, who was a son of Peter Beeler. Daniel married Rachel Rogers, and she was a daughter of David Rogers. One of her brothers was one of the early settlers of Pawnee county, Nebraska. The parents of our subject died in Union county, Tennessee, the father at the age of fifty and the mother at seventy-three years of age. Two sons were soldiers: Daniel, of the Eighth Tennessee Regiment ; and J. A.
While residing in Tennessee, J. A. Beeler married Elizabeth Honey- cut, of the same state, who died in Gage county, leaving four children, namely : Sally, Matilda, Rebecca and Daniel. The second wife of Mr.
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Beeler was Esther Lynch, also born in Tennessee, and she is a daughter of J. B. and Anna Lynch. By his second marriage our subject has these children, namely : John, Eli, Bertha, Anna, Archie, Frank, and one child deceased. Mr. Beeler is a prominent member of the G. A. R., W. F. Barry Post.
The farm of Mr. Beeler consists of forty acres of good land which he devotes to general farming, he making a specialty of raising good horses. Both he and his estimable wife are very hospitable and they are very highly spoken of by their neighbors and friends. The services rendered by Mr. Beeler to the country are such as should never be forgotten, and those who know and appreciate him, admire his many excellent traits of character, and kindly, genial manner.
PRESTON W. CARR.
Preston W. Carr, principal of the Shubert public schools, is a young and rapidly rising educator of Richardson county and southeastern Ne- braska, with talent and fitness for the work, and has obtained excellent results in both places where his profession has called him.
Mr. Carr was born in Otoe county, Nebraska, near Julian, on February 12, 1876, a son of John and Millie (Windyard) Carr. His father was a native of Illinois, and died in Richardson county in 1878, at the age of twenty-six, leaving his widow and two small children with little means. Mrs. Millie Carr was born in Otoe county in 1856, a daughter of John and Ann (Michel) Windyard, both of whom were of Broome county, New York, whence they came to Illinois and then to Otoe county, Nebraska, where their four daughters were born. They
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were farmers. Mr. Windyard died in the prime of life, and his widow had one daughter by a second marriage. Mrs. Millie Carr is now the wife of John Meek, a fruit farmer near Unadilla, Nebraska. Mr. P. W. Carr's brother, O. F. Carr, is a student in Kansas City.
Preston W. Carr was educated in the State Normal at Peru, and taught his first school in Nemaha county. He has just finished his third year in Shubert, and this is his second school. The school has nine grades, and he has two lady assistants.
He was married, July 16, 1902, to Miss Donna King, who was educated in Lincoln, where her parents lived for the purpose of edu- cating their children. Her father is John P. King, the well known citizen of Shubert whose life history is given on other pages of this work. Mrs. Carr is an accomplished pianist, and she and her husband have a delightful home. He is a Republican, and was reared in the Presbyterian faith.
HENRY W. SHUBERT.
Henry W. Shubert, farmer, horticulturist, large land owner and a leading citizen of Nemaha county, helped found the town that bears his name and at which his present beautiful homestead is located, and is one of the oldest settlers in this portion of southeastern Nebraska. He has lived a long and useful life of more than threescore and ten years, in the early part of which he became acquainted with both hard- ships and strenuous toil; he has remained true to the best purposes and ideals of his young manhood, and for nearly forty years has remained an honored and esteemed resident of this part of Nebraska.
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He was born in Bath county, Kentucky, June 2, 1834. His grand- father, Nicholas Shubert, was born in one of the eastern states in 1780, and came west to Kentucky during the early history of that state. He was a charcoal burner, in humble circumstances, but retained the re- spect of his fellow men throughout his long life. His death occurred in Illinois when he was ninety years of age. He was married in Ken- tucky to Elizabeth Meyers, who was born in that state in 1785 and who died in Mason county, Illinois, in 1860. They reared a large family of children.
Mr. Shubert's father was John Shubert, who was born in Kentucky in 1806, and he also attained a good old age, passing away in Nebras- ka, in 1879. His early occupation was that of iron molder in the Licking furnaces; but in 1835 he built a flatboat at the headwaters of the Licking river and with his family floated down into the Ohio, and, landing at Madison, Indiana, advanced eighteen miles into the wilder- ness and hewed out a home and farm in the forest, and he also kept a country store at that place. In 1843 the family moved to Mason county, Illinois, making the journey in covered wagons, and on that occasion the son Henry W. went afoot and drove a bunch of cows to their future home. John Shubert moved from Illinois to Nebraska in 1873, and spent the few remaining years of his life in this state. His wife was Re- becca Shrout, who was born in Kentucky in 1810 and died in Nebraska in 1883. They were married in 1828, and eleven children were born to their union : Rachel, the widow of T. Harmon is a resident of Rich- ardson county; Elizabeth is the wife of George Vanlansingham, of Nemaha county; Henry W. is the third in order of age; Mary A. married O. Vanlansingham and died in Johnson county, Nebraska, leaving a large family of children; Eliza Jane died at the age of eigh-
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teen; one died in infancy; J. M. met death by accident in Nemaha county in 1880, being thrown from a wagon by a runaway team; John W. is a resident of Spokane, Washington; the next child also died in infancy ; William M. is a retired farmer of Shubert; and Rebecca is the wife of Charles Pond, an ex-soldier of the Civil war and now a farmer near Shubert. Two of these children were born in Kentucky, four in Indiana and the rest in Illinois. John W., the first of those born in Illinois, was born in 1844, for twenty-five years was employed as a school teacher in Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska and California, and after his marriage located on a farm near Stella, this state, and subsequently moved to Lincoln to educate his children, being now a resident of Spokane, Washington.
Henry W. Shubert was one year old when the flatboat voyage to Indiana was undertaken, and up to the age of nine he lived at the Indiana home. When eight years old he was privileged to attend for a few weeks a log schoolhouse, and then in Illinois he enjoyed some attendance during the winters at a subscription school. When he was sixteen years old he wielded the axe in preparing the timbers for the first log schoolhouse in Mason county, Illinois. A desire for knowl- edge was one of the actuating principles of his life, and, like some other successful men who have passed their youths in primitive sur- roundings, he employed every spare moment in reading and studying. He even went to the extent of carrying for years a pocket dictionary. and whenever a moment of leisure chanced, out would come the book, from which custom came his title of "walking dictionary"; and which and like efforts made him a well informed man, able to appreciate the beauties of literature and to use effectively the language of his countrymen. From early youth he had a special liking for the forests,
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became skilled in hunting and all manner of woodcraft, was a splendid shot with the rifle, and his love for nature has remained a source of joy and solace throughout life.
In his occupation and pursuits Mr. Shubert has remained close to mother earth, and has made his success by farming and fruit-grow- ing, principally. From 1856 to 1860 he operated a grain separator and corn-sheller in Illinois, and at the same time carried on farming. In 1865 left his interests in Illinois and set out for Nebraska, which was then a territory. He located in the extreme southeastern corner of the commonwealth, on what was known as the Half-breed reservation, in Richardson county. The country was just being developed then, and he paid less than five dollars an acre for his first lot of land, although it would now sell for at least ten times that price. After he had made his decision as to a permanent location he returned to Illinois, and the family made the entire journey by wagon to their Nebraska home. For twenty-five years Mr. Shubert was engaged in farming and the raising and feeding of cattle, hogs and sheep, carrying on the business on a large scale and also very successfully.
In 1884 he became associated with the Lincoln Land Company and the B. & M. R. railroad in establishing the town which now bears the name of Shubert, which was located on his land and is now a pros- perous village of four hundred inhabitants. Mr. Shubert has at various times owned large tracts of land in southeastern Nebraska, and much of it still remains in the hands of himself or his children. From farming and stock-raising he turned his attention, in his latter years, to horti- culture, which he has made an enterprise of considerable magnitude and a source of profit. This part of the state has been proved, through the efforts of such men as Mr. Shubert, to be a fruit-growing belt par
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