Biographical and historical memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton counties, Nebraska, comprising a condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the same, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties mentioned, and numerous biographical sketches of the citizens of such counties, Part 27

Author: Goodspeed Brothers
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 820

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In January, 1873, W. Il. Stock opened a meat market; in March or April J. H. Ballard established

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his lumber yard, following A. W. Cox & Brother, who came prior to this time and established a large lumber business. Abbott, Batty & Dow opened their law office June 2, Miss Blodgett her mlllinery rooms, and W. L. Smith his book store. J. P. Crowley's, G. W. Mowery's, John Douglass' and Dr. Buckworth's residences were completed, and the Denver House opened. Miles Humphrey built the first carpenter shop, and R. Chandler moved his wagon shop from Juniata. A. W. Cox built a dry- house in their lumber yard; E. Steinau's new store was completed; Dr. Buckworth's new building on First Street and Hastings Avenue was sold to Charles Cameron, of Lincoln, who soon after estab- lished their dry goods house here in May, 1873. In the summer of 1873 H. A. Forcht's stove store, P. F. Burruss' and Peter Hessell's harness shops, J. Millett's bakery, Hill & Luniac's restaurant, Gor- don's tailor shop, T. B. Pratt's barber shop, Twidale's meat market and Secor's boot and shoe shop were in existence. In June, 1873, McIntire & Reed, who purchased Wheeler's store, took posses- sion: Wiggins, the agent of the Burlington & Mis- souri River Railroad, opened the new depot; C. H. Paul his boot and shoe store; J. M. Smith opened a grocery in the Town Company's old office; M. K. Lewis erected his residence, and Gould his imple- ment warehouse. Jules Lemoine established his jewelry store in July; Mackay & Co. owned the nur- series; Shockey & Hutchinson opened their hard- ware store, and Dr. C. M. Wright was in the An- drus store. In July, 1873, the block north of Third Street and east of Hastings Avenue. was donated by the county for the purposes of a publie square, and a liberty pole raised thereon. The first Fourth of July celebration was held at Hast- ings in 1873, S. W. Martin, of Madison, Wis., be- ing the orator of the day. There were 1,500 people reported present. Iu addition to the buildings named, the Burlington & Missouri round-house, the Oliver block, Samuel Chaney's residence, A. B. Ideson's residence, George Haguewood's, Dr. Yea- zel's and the Cline brothers' residences, together with various smaller buildings, were commenced in October. In September, 1874, Buswell's dwelling, Razee's two dwellings, Cameron's two-story business

block, Prof. Ballinger's residence, an addition to the Burlington House, an addition to McIntire & Morledge's store house, Eidel's dwelling, and the Taylor and Ash dwellings were commenced. The Journal was established in May, 1873. Hastings Lodge of Masons and the Presbyterian Society were organized in 1873. The town was incorporated April 2, 1874, and the Baptist Society organized, and Lodge No. 50, I. O. O. F., founded. In 1876 I. W. Cramer established a broom corn market here, and the ranks of the business circle were generally recruited. Hastings was chosen the seat of justice in 1877. The Exchange Bank and A. L. Clarke & Co.'s Bank were established; the Central Nebraskan was issued in 1878; the German Evangelical Society was organized in 1878; the Evangelical Association in 1879; the Catholic congregation was founded the same year; Strickland Post, G. A. R., was chartered in 1878, and reorganized in 1880, in which year the Protestant Episcopal Society was organized. Hast- ings Chapter and Nebo Commandery were chartered in 1881; the same year the Y. M. C. A. was or- ganized; the City Bank and the First National Bank were founded, and Heartwell & Co.'s real estate and loan office established.

During the year 1874 there were thirty-three business houses and twenty-five dwellings erected, together with additions to former buildings. From January 1 to July 1, 1878, there were 130 houses erected in the town. Such a record of substantial growth needs no word of comment. Local real estate owners and agents sold 75,000 acres during this year. Additions were made to the city, and a large number of building lots disposed of. . In the beginning of 1879 there was not a brick building at Hastings. Ideson built the brick block on Hastings Avenue, north of Morledge & McWade's store. He was followed by the Adams Conuty Banking Com- pany, who erected their large building that year. Then came the fire, and after it the building era of the city was introduced-the brick store buildings occupied in August, 1880, by Henry & Frahm, Hursch, Shean, Barnes, Walbach and Edwards, the saloou buildings of Kelley & Hahn and Plamnaidon & Co., and the Commercial Hotel-all coming in immediately after the fire. In the spring of 1880

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Ideson's two stores on Second Street were com- menced, and in the fall the Buekeye House, the Alexander Phillipps block ($10,000), the South Side school-house, the Farrell block ($15,000), and the Mowery block, on the site of the old Denver House, were started, together with the Davis building and the Methodist Episcopal and Protestant Episcopal churches. During the building season of 1884 there were 3,251,000 brick used in buildings, and 287 new residences were erected. In the fall of 1885 H. A. Fyler arrived en route to Kansas City, where he intended to establish a large dry goods house. Stopping off at Hastings, he was impressed with the appearance and prospects of the town, and signified his intention of remaining should he be able to buy or rent a store building. Unsuccessful, he was about to carry out his original intention, when Messrs. Kerr, Heartwell, MeElHinney and others proposed to erect a building rather than lose such a concern and such a citizen. The Central Building Association was organized in October, with Dr. Naulteus, president; D. M. MeElHinney, vice-presi- dent; William Kerr, treasurer; E. C. Webster, sec- retary, and they with O. Oliver, directors. The two lots adjoining the Kerr Opera House were pur- chased at once, and a building, after plans by Ritten- house, erected.

The fire of October 7, 1878, destroyed Maston & Mitchell's livery, six of their horses and eleven tran- sient horses. The fire of September, 1879, originated in the basement of Allison's drug store, when an oil lamp or lantern exploded. The destruction of thirty- three buildings followed, ereating damage estimated at from $90,000 to $100,000. The losses are set forth as follows: J. S. Allison's stock, $5,000; J. W. Davis, building stock, $6,000; H. Lepin's hotel and fixtures, $8,000; C. Cameron's stock and his fine buildings, $13,000; Thomas Seales' building, $800; A. W. Cox's stock and two buildings, $2,300; J. Weingart & Bros', elevator and 800 bushels of wheat, $2,200; Kelley & Hahn's building and con- tents, 82,300; Dr. Naulteus' dwelling, office and stock, $3,000; Walbach Bros'. building and stock, $15,000; N. F. Damron's hotel and furniture, $6,000; D. H. Ballard's building and stock, 84,000; G. F. Work's office, $125; Exchange Bank, furni-

ture, $200; James Walling's hotel furniture, $1,000; O. Oliver's lumber, $100; Wigton Bros.' office and type, $600; C. Borin's press, $75; Millett & Mulford's stone works, $1,000; A. L. Clarke & Co's. brick building, $400; C. II. Manker's carpen- ter shop, $200; Prindle & Burke's shop, 850; Mrs. Mow's two buildings, $450; Mrs. Higgins' building, 8300; Langevin & Plamondon's two buildings, $1.500; J. B. Sevage's building, $800; W. A. Smith's stock, $900; George Volland's two livery stables, $1,200; J. Kohl's building and fixtures, $1,500; E. Stout's building and stoek, $800; A. J. Nolan's stock, $300; damage to Foreht & Co's. building, $100; Lowman & Fisher's office furniture, $150; Charles Carmichael's personal effects, $300, and a few smaller losers.

Immediately after the fire of September, 1879, subsided, the work of rebuilding commenced, and nine brick buildings were under construction, with several frame houses, among them the Lepin House.

The Burlington & Missouri River Railroad depot was destroyed by fire November 25, 1879, under circumstances described in the chapter devoted to the courts.

The burning of Lee's barn, February 24, 1880, threatened the destruction of that section of the city which was not destroyed in September, 1879. The firemen averted the danger and saved the town, an action which won for them fame. The fire of July 16, 1881, originated in Davis' drug store, destroying that building, with Altschul's, Binderup's, Jorgen- sen's, Dietrich's (occupied by Nowlan) buildings and much valuable property. The insurance carried amounted to $19,750. This disastrous fire destroyed the block between Second and Third Streets and Hastings and Denver Avenues. Cole's circus was here; the thermometer registered 103 degrees in the shade, and the town was full of visitors. The cirens men aided the fire department, but the natural and artificial heat made the atmosphere so oppressive that numbers of the workers fell insensible, leaving the flames to devour everything save the Forgy build- ing on Second Street and Denver Avenue.

The fire of October 19, 1885, destroyed Bristol's agricultural implement warehouse and Yetter's paint shop. The fire apparatus proved almost useless in

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face of the strong wind. The fire of February 2, 1886, originated in Winsor's restaurant, and resulted in the destruction of Fisher's building adjoining, and the grocery stock of Knight & Green. Hattie Hig- gins' building was damaged, also Mrs. D. B. Farry's house and the M. Stern building. Alfred Curtis proclaimed an offer of $100 to the department, should it be saved, and the firemen won the reward. Dilley's slaughter-house was burned May 31, 1886. The burning of the brewery and small buildings is of recent date. In January, 1889, the New York Five Cent Store was burned out and the New Eng- land Hotel damaged. The fire which destroyed E. Cole's barn in February almost led to the burning of the La Belle Hotel and the steam laundry.

The rain and wind storm of May 22-23, 1873, blew down Moore & Donahey's office, carried out the front of Veith's furniture store; Gordon's new build- ing was leveled; Capt. Wells' stable was blown away; Pratt & Lawson's house, on their claim, was torn to pieces, while southwest of the town a school-house was blown down. At Juniata only one house was blown over.

The storm of July 4, 1880, carried away part of the roof of the Lepin House, entailing a loss of $1,500; Bacon's new house, north of the depot, was carried bodily off the foundation, also Schermer- horn's house; Ideson's unfinished house, on the north side of the square, was moved twelve inches; Mount's new house was moved over twenty-four in- ches, but the sleeping owners did not know of it until morning; barns and other buildings in the northwestern quarter of Hastings were carried away or damaged; Steinau's warehouse was torn to pieces; the front of Crane & Hayzlett's store was blown out, and fifty per cent of the wind-mills were taken away or broken by the wind.

In the summer of 1887 a wind storm demolished the large building then being erected by the Hast- ings Building Association, for Moriarty, Trimble & Co.

The old fire department re-organized November 26, 1878, with J. D. Crans, C. E .; H. M. Hicks, A. M .; J. S. Allison, secretary; A. Yeazel, treas- urer; H. H. Cherry, foreman; Peter Wood and L. McBride, assistant foremen. The hook and ladder

company was presided over by N. R. McBride, with Louis Kline and A. Pool, assistants. The hose company claimed E. D. Kennard as foreman, while the department trustees were J. N. Lyman, E. Hayzlett, C. Cameron, F. J. Benedict and George E. Brown. The special election of January, 1879, resulted in 308 votes being recorded on the question of issuing bonds for $6,000 to meet the expenditures of the reorganized fire department. The proposition was carried by a majority of seventy-three votes. The roster of firemen, in good standing, December 19, 1883, shows the names of J. C. Williams (chief of department), O. Oliver, J. N. Lyman, D. M. McElHinney, James McWade, F. J. Benedict, C. Hammott, C. K. Lawson (treasurer), Ed. Quinn, J. M. Strickland, J. J. Wemple, J. C. Craig, Ed. Havens, Frank Coy, H. H. Cherry and S. M. Wright-all of engine company No. 1; C. Fisher, Ed. Kennard, H. Ellison, George W. Houck (assist- ant engineer of department), W. G. Snyder, John Dugan, O. H. McNeil, William Cutler, J. L. Finley and N. P. Eckles-all of hose company; G. J. Evans, H. C. Haverly, M. Stern, Charles C. Cline, J. B. Dallas, F. Browning, Fred Stine, Charles Wahlquist and Alex. Meyer-all of hook and ladder company. The officers for 1890 are J. C. Williams, chief; H. C. Haverly, assistant chief; C. C. Cline, secretary, and Mike Reed, treasurer.

The ordinance empowering the city to borrow $85,000 for the construction of a system of water- works was adopted in March, 1886. The people confirmed this ordinance by vote, and in November the entire bond issue was purchased by Edward M. Needles, of the Penn Mutual Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, who came here to see the city.

The works were completed in 1886. The system consists of eight bored wells, each supplied with a separate steam pump which pumps the water into a large receiving reservoir. Two large stcam pumps take the water from the reservoir and force it into the stand pipe. The stand pipe rests upon a solid stone foundation, and is 125 feet in height and 20 feet in diameter. There are 18₺ miles of mains. The total cost of the works and mains is $100,000. For the eleven months ending November 30, there had been pumped 63,451,613 gallons of water. The

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water rent for 1889 was about $8,650. During the year 140 permits were issued, making total number of water permits 725. The best of maintenance, including coal, wages, etc., is less than $6,000. As an investment, Hastings water works stock, were it owned by private individuals, would be above par. There is not another city in Nebraska with a better system of water works, better management, or fur- nishing better water than the Hastings system. The water is as pure as that from a mountain spring or brook, and the supply is inexhanstible.

The transactions of the council of the town are interesting: The commissioners declared Hastings an incorporated town April 2, 1874, and M. K. Lewis, A. D. Bnekworth, J. G. B. Smith, A. W. Cox and A. H. Forcht were chosen trustees. The board of trustees of the town of Hastings organized May 4, 1874, with M. K. Lewis, president; W. F. J. Comby, clerk; W. A. Smith, treasurer; Thomas E. Farrell, collector; G. W. Mowery, marshal; G. D. Pierce, attorney; L. C. Gould, poliee justice; C. H. Paul, assessor; C. K. Lawson and R. V. Shockey, flue inspectors. On May 18 the first business meet- ing was held. M. K. Lewis, A. D. Buckworth, H. A. Forcht and A. W. Cox were present. A petition from residents on the north side of Second Street. asking for the construction of a sidewalk, was pre- sented, and an ordinance for a walk six feet in width was adopted. The ordinance for elosing saloons between the hours of 10 P. M. and 5 A. M. and all day on Sundays was adopted. A. Berg was ap- pointed street commissioner vice Dungan, resigned. Trustee J. G. B. Smith was present on May 30. Petitions for sidewalks on Hastings Avenue and First Street and for street erossings were pre- sented. The ordinances of Lincoln City were adopted for use here. On June 8 a $1 dog tax was authorized, and a town tax of ten mills ordered. This tax was reduced to five mills on July 15.

The meeting of July 28, 1874, is noticeable for the organization of Hastings as a city of the second class. On August 8 the election of officers took place, and the vote eanvassed on the 10th. A pro- test from W. L. Smith, of the First ward, on the grounds of illegality was received. The poll book of the Third ward was objected to by A. D. Buck-

worth, owing to some informality, and the returns ignored; while the returns of the Second ward were reported irregular. On August 11 the last named returns proved correet, were canvassed, and the following named officers elected: HI. A. Foreht, mayor; G. D. Pierce, elerk; J. G. B. Smith, treasurer; L. C. Gould, police justice; Alfred Berg, marshal; J. G. B. Smith and John E. Wood, coun- cilmen. For some reason, unexplained on the record book, the whole batch of officials resigned. Buck- worth's motion to hold a new election on the 27th was lost, and on the 17th Trustee Cox moved that the clerk notify the officers-elect to qualify. On September 7 the offices were deelared vacant, and on September 22, the election under the order rais- ing Hastings to a city of the second class was held. John E. Wood was chosen mayor; G. D. Pierce, clerk; A. L. Wigton, police judge; A. Berg, marshal; Samuel Alexander, treasurer; Thomas E. Farrell, engineer; A. W. Cox and J. L. Parrott, councilmen for First ward; J. G. B. Smith and H. A. Forcht, for Second, and J. E. Smith and Thomas E. Farrell for Third ward. The new council attempted to modernize the primitive water system of the village, and had galvanized tubing inserted in the old well. Thomas E. Farrell was appointed a committee to secure from the Town Company, for the eity, a deed to the lot on which the city well was located, while J. Smith and A. W. Cox were appointed " to see that the city is in good shape to receive a wind-mill." (). Oliver was declared representative of the First ward on October 26 in the ease of Parrott vs. Oliver, by reason of the former's absence and failure to qualify. T. J. Pardoe was elected in the Second ward in January, 1875.

On January 18, 1875, the modest councilmen moved to circulate a petition to be presented to the Legislature for the annexation to Adams County of all that portion of Hall County south of the Platte River. A. W. Cox was appointed, W. L. Smith was also appointed, to procure a copy of the petition for the removal of the county seat. A city prison was anthorized to be built at this time, and a petition by A. D. Buckworth and eight others asking that a committee of the council proceed to Lincoln to urge before the Legislature the illegality of the organiza-

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tion of Adams Connty, and $300 was at once ap- propriated to meet the expenses of such committee. Mr. Buckworth was empowered to select this com- mittee. In March $500 was appropriated to be ex- pended in canvassing the county in re re-location of seat of justice, and on April 12 a number of bills were paid on this account.

The elections of April, 1875, resulted in the choice of Charles H. Paul, for mayor; G. D. Pierce, clerk; S. Alexander, treasurer; John E. Wood, police judge; C. E. Forgy, marshal; A. Berg, engineer; George T. Work, J. L. Parrott, Robert Morledge, Fred Forcht, J. M. Smith and Thomas E. Farrell, councilmen. Mr. Paul would not qualify, and M. K. Lewis was elected mayor. The ordi- nance adopting a grade for First and Second Streets and Hastings and Denver Avennes was adopted in May, and in Angust the councilmen adopted their scale of pay at 150 cents for each meeting. The city immigration committee was working earnestly at this time in connection with the council, and meetings were held at short intervals.

In September, 1875, a committee was appointed to superintend the burning of grass within the city limits, and G. T. Work was instructed to plat the cemetery grounds, and an election of councilman vice Parrott was ordered. On January 3, 1876, the question of issning city bonds for $2,750 to fund indebtedness, was ordered to be submitted to a vote and carried, in April, by 91 for, 4 contra. A. D. Yocum was chosen mayor; John E. Wood, clerk; S. Alexander, treasurer; J. H. Darnell, police judge; William Hubbell, marshal; S. D. Stoddard, engineer; J. Countryman, Fred Forcht and J. Stab- ler, councilmen. This council introduced a new era in valnation of real estate, and examined every lot and tract within the city jurisdiction, and levied five mills for general and five mills for improvement fund. On August 14, 1876, appears the account of M. V. Mondy ($162.50) and A. H. Connor, for legal services in securing an injunction against the erec- tion of a court house. In November the proposition of W. W. Holmes to pay eighty-three cents for city bonds was accepted. In April, 1877, J. S. McIn- tyre was chosen mayor; G. D. Pierce, clerk; Isaac Le Doiyt, J. Stabler, T. D. Scofield, F. J. Benedict,

F. Forcht and J. Countrymen were councilmen. Paine & Co. had partially completed their contract on old water works. In April, 1878, R. A. Batty was chosen mayor by 228 votes against 17 cast for J. S. McIntyre. Messrs. Pierce, Alexander and Work (judge) were re-elected to their positions; W. W. Brown, marshal; T. E. Farrell, engineer; J. G. B. Smith, J. Wemple, W. W. Dungan, Samuel Sad- ler, and A. D. Yocum, councilmen. This council adopted a resolution to submit to the voters of the city in November, 1878, the proposition to issue bonds for $6,000, to be expended in procuring fire apparatus and other protection against fire.

The vacancy cansed by the death of J. G. B. Smith was filled by the election of William Breed, in January. The vote on the hond proposition was 49 in the First, 54 in the Second and 86 in the Third ward for, and 30, 41 and 45, in the respective wards, contra, or a majority of 73. In April, 1879, * Fred Forcht was elected mayor; J. H. Fleming, city clerk; J. A. Vanatta, police judge; E. Steinau, treasurer; W. W. Brown, marshal, and T. E. Far- rell, engineer. The councilmen elected were D. M. McElHinney, William Breed, C. H. Paul and A. H. Sowers. The records of the council for the balance of this year were destroyed in the fire. The second record book was opened in 1881. On April 12, 1881, D. M. McElHinney qualified as mayor; I. W. Cramer, C. L. Stone and W. A. Camp, as council- men; James B. Heartwell, as treasurer, and J. H. Fleming, as clerk. The councilmen holding over were C. K. Lawson, William Breed and O. Oliver. The overseer of streets was W. W. Browu, and police judge, J. A. Vanatta. In June a tax levy of ten mills per dollar of valnation was ordered to meet estimated expenditures of $3,462.09. Au eight mill school tax to meet $2,769.67, and a four mill sink- ing fund tax to meet $1,384.84, were also levied. On July 16, 1881, the council tendered thanks to

*The taxes collected and warrants paid in 1875 amounted to $954.52; in 1876, to $1,010.30, and in 1877, to $1,575.88. During these years the levies and warrants issued amounted, respect- ively, to $1,081.04, $1,600.02, and $2,928.31; and in 1878 to $3,357.92, or a total of $8,968.09; but there was paid out from proceeds of sale of bonds $2,200, thus leaving the balance, 83,227.39, to repre- sent the city's debt in February, 1879, plus the $2,200 outstand- ing in certificates of indebtedness or bonds, showing a total debt of $5,427.39.

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the managers and employes of the circus company, in consideration of their services during the fire of that day, and further ordered the forty dollar license paid in to be refunded. A vote of thanks to the firemen was also carried. J. M. Abbott was ap- pointed city attorney, and in January, 1882, John F. Ballinger was appointed police judge, vice Van- atta, resigned.

In April, 1882, W. H. Lanning received 319 votes and Patrick Nowlan 150 votes, for mayor; E. J. Evans was elected elerk; J. S. Allison, treas- urer; J. F. Ballinger, judge; Thomas E. Farrell, engineer; D. C. Brown, L. H. Tower and F. J. Benedict, couneilmen. W. R. McCully, E. Hayz- lett and A. H. Cramer were elected members of the first board of education. In March, 1883, J. C. Williams was appointed marshal, viee S. L. Martin. The annual election held in April, resulted in the return of Mayor Lanning, Clerk Evans, Treasurer Allison, J. F. Ballinger, Thomas E. Farrell; while I. W. Cramer, C. L. Stone and J. E. Gant were ehosen councilmen, and the council organized with C. L. Stone, president. The board of education chosen comprised J. Wooster, H. Shedd and A. H. Sowers. In August twenty street lamps were intro- duced; exclusive permission given to the Telephone Exchange " to ereet and maintain a system of tele- phonic communication," and matters relating to the fire department considered.

The elections of April, 1884, resulted in the choice of J. E. Gant, mayor; G. . J. Evans, treas- urer; E. A. Boelich, clerk; T. E. Farrell, engineer; J. Wooster, E. C. Webster, C. K. Lawson, council- men from First, Second and Third wards, and Wil- liam Breed, to fill vacancy in Third ward. W. H. Stock was elected marshal and Joe Landeraft sexton of the city cemetery. In June a tax levy for gen- eral purposes of ten mills on the assessed valne, $570,423, was ordered, also two mills for sinking fund, three mills for special water tax, ten mills for use of city schools, and one mill for interest on school bonds. On July 28 certain exclusive rights were granted to the Hastings Electric Light Com- pany to ereet its plant, and a contract made with the company to supply ten lights to the city at a cost of $10 each per month.

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Author: Goodspeed Brothers Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago, The Goodspeed publishing co. Number of Pages: 820

Author: Goodspeed Brothers
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 820