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 69

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

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twenty-nine members. H. C. Hart is recorder, succeeding H. G. Lyon, the recorder of 1888.

The Farmers' Alliance, in the neighborhood, is a strong organization. In December. 1889, the local alliance formed a corporation, and bought the Neill elevator for the purpose of shipping grain. L. R. Chapman, president; J. N. Johnson, vice- president; John Hodges, treasurer; H. Dalton, secretary; Frank Johnson, manager.

The County W. C. T. U. elected the following named officers in September, 1889: Mrs. Gill, of Edgar, president; Mrs. Pomeroy, corresponding secretary; Mrs. H. O. Tartar, recorder, and Mrs. Starr, of Glenville, treasurer.

The Young Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in the fall of 1888.

The W. C. T. U. was organized in June, 1885, with Mrs. Flora Cassell, president; Allie Carr, vice- president; Rebecca Dare, secretary; Mrs. J. M. Cobb, treasurer; Mrs. Pomeroy, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Frank Young and Mrs. E. Klingerman, rep- resentatives of the Protestant churches. This union, in August, 1888, elected Mrs. Gill, presi- dent; Mrs. Saxton, Mrs Reynolds, Mrs. L. Hodges, Mrs. Cottle and Mrs. Scott, vice-presidents; Mrs. Cobb, recorder; Mrs. Donohue, correspondent, and Miss Warren, treasurer.

The Loyal Temperance Legion and Band of Mercy, 100 strong, marched through the streets of Edgar in April, 1889.

Hazel Dell Camp No. 700, Modern Woodmen of America; first initiatory steps taken by M. M. *Noble, a deputy head consul of the order, and W. F. Beckett, and the camp was instituted August 27, 1888. The original members were M. S. Edg- ington, E. C. DelaPlain, Jeff. Murphy, W. B. Mahan, F. D. Sherwin, J. W. Boden, J. V. Stay- ner, M. P. Dawson, W. Deffibaugh, J. C. Story, J. A. Howard, J. J. Rodgers, G. A. Byer, F. L. Young, J. W. Brown, D. W. Vanhorn, R. E. Haw- ley, J. P. Nelson, J. A. Gee, E. C. Blowers and J. F. Edgar. The past consuls are J. W. Brown and M. S. Edgington; present venerable consul is D. W. Vanhorn. F. D. Sherwin was elected clerk when the camp was instituted, and served until the close of the year, when J. V. Stayner

was elected, served one year, was re-elected at last election, and was installed at last meeting in Jan- uary, 1890. M. S. Edgington is representative. The present number of members is forty-three, with two candidates ready for adoption, six whose application are in the hands of the Head Camp, and three who have not yet applied for preliminary examination. The camp meets in Odd Fellows Hall.

Edgar Post, G. A. R., was organized in 1880. Among its members are many of the ex-soldiers and sailors, whose names are given in the general chapter. Among the commanders of this post were Cyrus Stayner, who presided in 1884; T. E. Casterline, in 1886; C. H. Treat, in 1887, and J. W. Cottle, in 1888-89. J. J. Walley, who was adjutant in 1884, was succeeded by A. B. Chan- dler, who in turn gave place to Walley, who held the position in 1889.

The Sons of Veterans claimed the following named officers in 1884: W. N. McCalla, captain; L. W. Stayner and G. C. James, lieutenants, and J. E. Baker, orderly sergeant, in 1884.

The Edgar Cornet Band was incorporated in September, 1885, with W. H. Duhling president, and J. V. Stayner secretary.

The Edgar Board of Trade was organized in April, 1887, with H. F. Grant, president; E. E. Howard, vice-president; M. J. Hull, secretary, and H. W. Stout, treasurer.

Glennville is located on the contiguous corners of the original pre-emption claims of R. S. Winters, Daniel Fitch and Robert Thompson. In July, 1872, the railroad was completed to this point and the depot and section house erected, the sod houses of the claimants being the only signs of habitation here prior to that date, although some distance away I. D. Newell settled in 1872. Early in 1873 a store-house was constructed by J. W. Sturgis, who offered a stock of goods for sale. In July he was joined by Charles Clutz. The village was sur- veyed in the fall; Bennett Cox erected a store and dwelling house, the same which became the prop- erty of David Stein and P. H. Cone. Edward Da- vis opened a blacksmith shop in 1878; Luke Gold- enstein built a house for mercantile purposes; H.

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M. Oliver a grain elevator, and established the coal and lumber yards. The Keystone Hotel was built in 1879 by G. Z. Fink, who sold to Warwick in 1880. He rented the building to Richard Har- ris and moved away. Dr. Mark A. Perkins settled here in May, 1881. The first death in the place was that of Elizabeth Carroll, the wife of George Carroll, a section boss on the railroad, and the first child born was Thomas, the son of these people.

The Baptist Church building was the first house of worship erected. Work on this building was commenced late in 1881 and completed April 23, 1882, at a cost of $1,000. Ten years before this, in the winter of 1871-72, the school district was organized, with R. Thompson, D. Fitch and R. S. Winters, trustees. The school-house was built in 1872, and by the close of 1873 the village laid some claims to the name of town. In 1882 there were twenty-five houses, one general store, one drug store, one hardware store, an elevator and a lumber and coal yard.

A contract to build the school-house was given to W. D. Young, at that time a partner of Thomp- son, one of the board, for which he was to receive the bonds of the district to the amount of $3,350, at ten per cent interest. The contract was then sub-let by Young to Ramsey, who was to complete the house and furnish all the material for $1,200. The bonds turned over to Young were sold to New York parties, and have since been nearly all paid off, amounting, with the interest, to something like $5,000, making that virtually the cost of the house.

A post-office was established at Glenville in Jnne, 1873, and was kept by Joseph Kentner in Sturgis' store. Kentner held the position only a few months, and in the winter following his ap- pointment Bennett Cox received the commission and the office was taken to his store. Cox continued post-master up to the end of 1880, and was suc- ceeded by Luke Goldenstein, whose office was kept in his store-room.

The earliest religious services were held at Glen- ville in July, 1873, when a number of the young men of the town held a sort of Sunday-school in the railroad depot. But a few persons were pres- ent on this first day, and it was announced that a

similar meeting would be held on the next Sundny. When the day came wagon load after wagon load might be seen gathering in from all parts of the country to this rude teaching of the gospel. On this day the house was filled and numbers turned away for want of room. A regular union Sunday- school was organized and J. W. Small was elected superintendent. The first sermon preached in the town was by Rev. Charles Clutz, in the depot. Sev eral congregations were organized in the surround- ing district prior to 1882, who held services in the school house and Baptist church in the village. These denominations were the Presbyterian, Rev. R. J. Smith, pastor; the American Baptists, Rev. M. Wilson, pastor; German Baptists, Rev. Mr. Crane, pastor; Methodist, Rev. F. Campbell, pas- tor; the Evangelical Association, Dr. Oyler, of Har- vard, pastor, and the Catholics, who were attended by the priest in charge of Hastings parish.

Collin's Post, G. A. R., was one of the first or- ganizations of veterans in the county. In 1883 W. W. Lyons was commander, and Ed Davis, adjutant. In Jannary, 1884, Joseph Meyer was elected com- mander. S. M. Elder was commander and L. A. Lathrop, adjutant, 1886-87. In the latter year the charter was surrendered.

As has been stated, the Baptist house of wor- ship was the first erected in the village, but the new organizations which sprung into existence from 1878 to 1882 sought denominational lodg- ings. Mr. Tanner took Mr. Smith's place as Pre+- byterian preacher in November, 1883, and other changes in the pastorate of the churches were ef- fected.

In later years the village claimed a population of 300, and the business interests were represented by B. Johnson and L. Goldenstein, general mer- chants; Evans and Jordan, druggists; G. Z. Fink, justice of the peace; E. D. Davis, blacksmith; J. W. Sturgis, wagon-maker and E. Uden, agricultural implement dealer. Dr. Perkins was the physician of the district for a number of years.

Spring Ranche, the early history of which is related in the chapter on pioneers, was settled by James Bainter, Robert Cargill, Lewis Thayer and D. W. Evans. The post-office was established in

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1870 with Lewis Thayer, master. A son of the first named, called Sheridan Bainter (in honor of the hero of Winchester), was the first child born here, the date being May 11, 1871. Edward Har- per died here in August, 1864, being the first death among the settlers, and E. J. Jackson and Mary N. Cargill were married here in 1874, being the first marriage. The first school was opened in April, 1872, within James Bainter's dwelling, by Annie Foster, and the first school-house was erected in July of that year. Elder Warwick, referred to in the history of Adams county, held the first re- ligions services in 1871, and in 1881 the Presby- terians and Congregationalists erected churches. The mills were built in 1874 by Peck & Meston.

In August, 1873, an election was held at Cyrus Griffith's house, in Little Blue Precinct, to vote on the question of aiding Peck and Meston in building a mill near Spring Ranche. The vote was in favor of aid to the proposers in ten per cent bonds for $7,000. There were fifty-nine votes for the propo- sition and fifty-four against.

The Congregational Church at Spring Ranche was dedicated January 10, 1884, by Rev. C. W. Merrill, of Lincoln. The cost of the building was $1,200, all of which was paid.

In modern times T. J. Kemp was post-master and merchant; D. Burnett also carried on a gen- eral store; Mrs. C. A. Brown, a millinery store; J. Hutchinson, a wagon-shop; A. Meston, the flour- ing-mills, and D. D. Condon a blacksmith shop.

Inland, a name transferred from the old town in Adams county, dates back to 1878. In June and July, 1879, N. L. Thatcher's elevator was erected. He sold his interests to J. D. Bain and W. J. Turner, of Harvard, in 1880, and they em- ployed J. R. McIntosh as their agent. In later years the business circle comprised G. McPeak, post-master and merchant; James Hansen, hard- ware dealer and blacksmith; P. Egan, grain mer- chant and owner of elevator; Cortnance & Co., lumber and coal dealers; P. B. McFadden, black- smith, and Dr. Blair, physician. S. R. Dillinger built the N. W. elevator in 1889. The Egan ele- vator is now operated by L. Butterfield & Co., with S. W. Stephenson agent. The German Church, two

miles south of Inland, was dedicated in February, 1882. The first railroad agent at Inland was G. W. Van Horn; Frank Thompson succeeded him; then came Charles Smith, who remained for two years, until succeeded by Joseph Neary, who was ap- pointed in 1888. The depots of the St. Joseph & Grand Island and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis- souri Valley Railroads are at this point.

Davis post-office was established in 1878 with N. Nagel, master. This office was the result of a petition from the settlers between Edgar and Clay Centre.

Deweese is celebrated for the fatal railroad ac- cident referred to in former pages and for its short- lived newspaper, The Recorder. The land in the neighborhood is very productive.

Trumbull is the post-office name given to a point on the prairie in the northwest corner of Clay County. Ludlow, across the line in Adams County, near the H. B. Tolbert farm, was formerly the post-office. On its removal to this place S. M. Walker was appointed master.

Ong is the name given to a depot on the exten- sion of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad at a point twenty miles southeast of Clay Centre. The name is as euphonious as it is indefinable, but the land in the vicinity is as choice as any in Clay County. The place was surveyed for the Lincoln Town Site Company and J. E. Ong on a tract of sixty-five acres in 1886, and two lumber yards were at once established.

Sweden is the name given to a village four and one-half miles northwest of the center. It also bears the more classical name-Verona. Here is a depot of the K. C. & O. R. R., a grain ware- house and a general store.

Eldon, on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad, east of Harvard, dates back to 1888. In March, 1889, William Stockham opened a general store there.

Saronville, on the main line of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, west of Sutton, holds a commanding position on the prairie. The church building at this point is visible for a long distance in each direction. Here were established the stores of J. Florine, O. Felix. the Israckon Brothers, the

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agricultural warehouse of Lindberg & Olson, the drug store of L. Logerwell, the wagon shop of O. Thoren and the blacksmith shop of F. Wahlengren. The little village is abont ten miles distant from the connty seat.

Joseph Hamilton Albright. There is probably no man within the limits of Clay County who is de- serving of more credit for the interest he has taken in its behalf than Mr. Albright, and the brief facts here given indicate the part he has borne in the county's development. He was born on January 2. 1838, at Windham, Bradford County, Penn., the second of ten children. His father, Peter Al- bright, was born in New Jersey in 1798 to Adam and Margaret (maiden name unknown) Albright, who were both born in Holland, came to America abont 1774 and settled in New Jersey, where Adam was one of those who fought for liberty in the Revolu- tionary war. Peter Albright was educated in both English and German, and when still a young man went to Pennsylvania and engaged in farming. While here he was married to Louisa Parks, the youngest child of Nathaniel and Maria Parks, who were both born in Connecticut. Louisa was born in April, 1816, in Pennsylvania. Her mother was a danghter of Gideon Green. Peter Albright passed from this life on November 2, 1881, at the age of eighty three years in Summit City, Mich., his wife dying in Sherman County, Kas., June 20, 1888. Joseph H. Albright remained with his parents, working summers and attending school during the winter seasons, thus obtaining a common- school education, until about the age of eighteen years, when he went to Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y., where he began working in a saw-mill and there remained until Angust 3, 1861, at which time he enlisted as a private recruit in Company H, Third New York Infantry, under Capt. Catlin, and was immediately removed with his company to Fort McHenry, where he joined the regiment under Col. Alfred, and from there was sent to Fortress Monroe, where he re- mained nearly a year, his regiment then being called into action in the feint upon Richmond dur- ing the battle of Gettysburg. After this the regi-

ment was transported to Charleston, S. C., and there entered on the siege of Charleston and the reduc- tion of Fort Sumter in 1863. Hore Mr. Albright was discharged with the remainder of his company September 16, 1863, and from there returned home via New York City, but after a very short time he entered the construction corps.

This corps was with Sherman in his famous Atlanta Campaign. At this city he was discharged and returned home, but only for a short time. Becoming restless he went to Chattanooga, Tenn., where he again entered the construction corps, this being in the fall of 1864, and from this time nntil the close of the war he remained in the southwest and received his final discharge at Chattanooga in May, 1865, and returned home in June of the same year. Immediately after returning home from the war he purchased a farm near Owego and thereon remained until the spring of 1867. While on this farm he was married February 6, 1866, to Miss Percy M. Lane, the youngest daughter of Henry Isaac and Sarah Maria (Crandall) Lane, her birth occurring on February 6, 1842. Henry Isaac Lane was the youngest son of Peter Lane, and was born in Shandaken, N. Y., August 9, 1816. and died in Owego, N. Y., September 17, 1880. His wife was born in Schenectady, N. Y., May 11, 1811, and died at Harvard, Neb., Sep- tember 28, 1885, being a danghter of Jerry and Maria Crandall, the former a native of Connecticut. He was one of the 1812 stalwarts to protect America and Americans, and was mar- ried to Miss Maria Knowls. To Joseph H. and Percy M. Albright was born a son, Fred Lane Al- bright, April 14, 1867, and shortly after the birth of his son Mr. Albright sold bis farm and removed to Owego, entering the employ of the New York & Lake Erie Railroad, as a bridge builder, but at the end of two years he entered the employ of the Southern Central Railroad in the same capac- ity. After another two years he left the employ of the railroad, and in October. 1872, he removed to Wahoo, Saunders County, Neb., and from there, in March, 1873, came to Clay County, where he homesteaded the southeast quarter of Section 24. Township 7, Range 7 west, of the sixth principal

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meridian, and settled thereon on the 4th of April of the same year. While a pioneer homesteader he experienced many hardships and adversities, being in the renowned April storm of April 13, 14, 15, 1873. Through this Mr. Albright had nothing to shelter his family or his stock but a board shanty 12x14 feet, and into this all were quartered; yolk of oxen, cow, calf, chickens, himself and family seeking shelter of their bed to keep from freezing. The season of 1873 brought a partial crop of sod corn, but in 1874 all was destroyed by the grasshoppers. In 1875 but a partial crop was raised on account of drouth, and in 1876 the country was again devastated by the pest-grasshoppers-and all was laid waste. In 1877 Mr. Albright was blessed with a fair crop and continued to prosper until 1880, when, on account of a severe drouth hardly anything was raised. In 1881 a fair crop, and then another year of adversity, a hailstorm, in July, 1882, sweeping all before it. In 1883 a good crop was the result of that season's labor, but in February, 1884, Mr. Albright sold his homestead and purchased the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 16, Township 7, Range 7 west, of the sixth principal meridian, where he resumed agricultural operations and still resides. He has taken a deep interest in the political affairs of Clay County, and has been a stanch Republican ever since he attained his ma- jority, and comes of Republican stock. This, in brief, is a sketch of the career of a man whose present substantial position in life has been reached entirely through his own perseverance; and the facts connected with his operations and their results only show what a person, with courage and enlightened views, can accomplish. His reputation for honesty and integrity has been tried and not found wanting, and his social qualities are well known and appre- ciated. His only child, Fred Lane Albright, un- like the majority of boys, early appreciated the advantages of an education, and eagerly sought for such knowledge as would enable him to enter a profession. While his parents were strug- gling to recover from the shocks of adversity, and while yet but a boy, he had determined to secure an education, and with this end in view he attended

the district school during the winter, and aided his father on the farm during the summer months. This he continued until September, 1883, when he entered the Harvard High School, pursuing his studies faithfully until the spring of 1884, when sickness caused him to give up school until the fall. During the summer of 1884 he aided his father in farming, and in September again entered school, riding horseback to and from his home mornings and evenings, a distance of four miles, during the fall and winter, and in the spring walked the same distance. The following summer he again worked on his father's farm, and in the fall worked for different parties in order to obtain the necessary funds to pay his board nearer the school, and he then renewed his studies with double vigor. From this school he graduated on June 25, 1886, and during the summer of that year worked out. The same year he entered the law office of Dilworth, Smith & Dilworth, of Hastings, Neb., and began his legal studies, where he continued to remain for several months, his means then becoming exhausted. This year he tried a new plan and engaged in farm- ing for himself, and by the aid of his father he was enabled to purchase an outfit, consisting of a team and wagon, and with the use of his father's farming implements began tilling the soil in earnest. He pursued his legal studies during the evenings and mornings throughout the summer, working hard during the day, and a fine crop was the result of his summer's toil. With the products of this new enterprise he was again enabled to enter school, and in September, 1887, entered the law depart- ment of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., and there remained throughout the scholastic year. In June, 1888, he returned home and resumed farming, and in December of that year, with what he had earned and with the assist- ance of his father, he returned to school and be- came a member of the class that graduated June 20, 1889. During the summer of 1889 he tilled the soil, but in the fall entered into partnership with a brother lawyer, J. C. Hartigan, of Hastings, and they at once opened an office in Harvard under the firm name of Hartigan & Albright. Mr. Al- bright was admitted to the Hastings bar October

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18, 1889, and although but twenty two years of age, the firm with whom he first began the prac- tice of law, as a member, and with whom he is still connected. has by his untiring efforts and dili- gence, obtained an excellent legal practice in all the State and Federal courts. Mr. Albright's heart is in his profession, and he has a most exalted respect for its conscientious and honorable follow- ers. He is upright, honorable and just in all mat- ters concerning his profession, and is winning golden opinions for himself as a young man of more than ordinary legal acumen.

John H. Allbee. Being a man of determina- tion and energy Mr. Allbee has bent the force of circumstances to his will, and in his farming and stock-raising operations he has met with well- deserved success. His birth occurred in Somerset County, Me., April 13, 1845, but he was reared to manhood in La Salle County, Ill., whither his parents, Henry P. and Louisa (Hutchins) Allbee, natives of Maine, removed when he was young. His knowledge of the world, and one might almost say his knowledge of books, was received on his father's farms, for he was actively engaged in as- sisting him until January 14, 1864, when he left the farm to enlist in the First Illinois Light Artil- lery, Company M, under Capt. G. W. Spencer. He served in the Atlanta campaign, but later was placed on garrison duty. During his term of serv- ice he took part in the engagements at Buzzard Roost, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and the first strug- gle at Jonesboro. Mr. Allbee's company was un- der fire forty two times in the Atlanta campaign, taking different positions in each battle engaged, but he was very fortunate and escaped without in- jury. After the surrender of Gen. Lee and the capitulation of the Southern army Mr. Allbee re- ceived his discharge and returned to his home in Illinois, re-engaging in his former occupation of farming. Here he remained until 1874, then moved west and settled in Clay County, Neb., where he has an excellent farm and is quite exten- sively engaged in raising blooded horses. A short time since he purchased a four-year-old Percheron Norman stallion named "Shiloh," which was im-

ported from France by W. L. Elwood, of DeKalb, Ill. This horse is a beautiful black, sixteen and one-half hands high, and is of perfect action. Farmers contemplating raising a fine breed of horses will do well to look at this tine animal. On March 6, 1869, Mr. Allbee was married to Miss Celia A. Thatcher, a daughter of E. and Charlotte (Long) Thatcher, natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Allbee was born near Ottawa, Ill., August 1, 1847, and she and Mr. Allbee are the parents of five children: George Ray, Marcia May, Alice L. (de- ceased), Ruth E. and Lena Gertrude. Although formerly a Republican Mr. Allbee is now a Prohi- bitionist, and has held a number of local offices in his township. He and wife and two eldest children are members of the Christian Church and he be- longs to the Farmers' Alliance and is a member of George A. Oliver Post of the G. A. R. at Fair- field.

George A. Allen, farmer and stockman, Inland, Neb. This successful agriculturist owes his na- tivity to Toledo, Ohio, where his birth ocenrred in 1846, and is the son of Thomas C. and Eliza (Woolfinger) Allen and the grandson of Shadrich and Mary Allen. Thomas C. Allen was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1819, and there passed his early life. He was a graduate of the military school, and ranked as a major. He settled in Toledo, Ohio, in 1826, and engaged as civil engineer, architect and buikler. He was married in 1842 to Miss Woolfinger, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., born in 1818, and the result of this union was the birth of four children: Albert S. (living at Fort Wayne, Ind.), George A., Margaret (now Mrs. Bev. erly, of Toledo) and Thomas J. (living at Sylvania, Ohio). The mother of these children died in 1863. Thomas C. Allen was married previous to his union with our subject's mother, to Miss Catherine Dabber, and one child was born to this union, Charles L. (who now resides at La Grange, Ind.) The father died in Toledo in 1854. Both he and his last wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. George A. Allen remained in Toledo, Ohio, until about fourteen years of age, and then im- migrated to St. Louis, Mo .. where he engaged in the nursery business and attended school until sixteen

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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