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Mr. Bauer resided in or near Geneva, Fillmore county, Nebraska, for twelve years, and moved to Pierce county in 1906, where he now resides, his land being situated in section twenty-one, town- ship twenty-five, range two. He owns one hun- dred and sixty acres of fine land, on which he re- modeled the dwelling and built barns, granary, corn cribs and lesser buildings, making a good piece of farm property.
February 1, 1880, Mr. Bauer was married to Miss Kate Wagner, a native of Russia, whose parents, Conrad and Barbara (Bauer) Wagner, became residents of Pierce county in 1891. To Mr. and Mrs. Bauer six children have been born: Mary, married Conrad Sell, of Council Bluffs, Iowa; John, married Barbara Lesser and farms near his father; George, Carl, Adam and Esther. Mr. Bauer and his family are members of the German Lutheran church, and Mr. Bauer votes the republican ticket. Mr. Bauer is a good neigh- bor and a worthy citizen.
WILLIAM ABEL, SR.
Should the reader of this volume ask for the name of a representative old citizen and settler of Howard county, a man who came in mature life to breast the storms of the wilderness and be- yond the dreams of youth to hammer a home and fortune out of adversity, let him have that of the man who introduces this article.
William Abel was born in Germany, Angust 6, 1832, and grew up there, spending his young manhood as a farmer. He came to America in the fall of 1859, alone, landing in New Orleans. Louisiana. He went first to Cincinnati, Ohio. remaining for a few months, then went to Frank- lin county, Indiana, making that vicinity his home for about twenty years. In 1880 he came into Howard county and homesteaded eighty acres in the St. Libory distriet, on section twelve. township thirteen, range nine. Later he pur- chased railroad land on section eleven, township thirteen, range nine, and owned at that time about
four hundred acres, which he improved in good shape, having fine buildings and well equipped farm. He made that locality his home up to the spring of 1902, then sold his farm and settled in St. Paul. In the following year he purchased two hundred and twenty acres in section twenty- six, and moved out on this place in the spring of 1903. He intends devoting this to stock raising, and has the place equipped with every improve- ment for conducting the business.
Mr. Abel was married in Indiana, August 17, 1865, to Lizzie Swinkman, and to them were born two sons, one of whom died in infancy, while the other, William, junior, now occupies a part of our subject's original homestead in St. Libory distriet. He is married and has three children. Our subject's wife died in Howard county in 1882, leaving a large circle of sorrowing friends, for she was a most charming and esti- mable woman. Mr. Abel was married again at St. Libory, November 27, 1883, to Francis Kar- boskie, and they have a family of eight children, who are named as follows: Maggie, Joseph, Mary and Katie, all married and having comfortable homes in different sections of the country, while Annie, John, Frank and Francis are living at home. The entire Abel family is well known and highly esteemed throughout their county, and while Mr. Abel has never held office he has done much to promote the general welfare of his town- ship and county.
ALEXANDER L. BAILLIE.
Prominent among the early pioneers of Ne- braska is the gentleman who has been a resident of that state since 1870. Mr. Baillie is also one of the most prosperous farmers of the region, and is the proprietor of a fine ranch of about seven hun- dred and thirty acres of fine farming land, all in Sherman county.
Alexander L. Baillie was born in Scotland, on March 5, 1842, and was the third in a family of seven children born to William and Jeanette (Lawson) Baillie. Of this family, five are living : Alexander and his brother, James, in Sherman county ; one sister in Boston, Massachusetts, one in Riverside, California, and another in Oregon. The father died in 1886, and the mother in 1900, both in Sherman county, Nebraska.
When a very young man, Mr. Baillie learned the baker's trade and when only seventeen years of age, took the position of pastry cook on one of the vessels of the Cunard line, and he held this position for three years. He then joined his parents, who in the meantime had moved to Canada.
. The family made several moves from Canada to Michigan, thence to Illinois, and finally in 1870, they came to Cass county, Nebraska. Five years later, in 1875, they came west to Sherman county, where the father took up a homestead, and the
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son, Alexander, the subject of this sketch, also pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres joining his father's homestead in section twenty-eight, township sixteen, range fifteen. Through all the years since that time, this has been his home.
In August of 1876, Mr. Baillie was married to Miss Effie Quinton, a native of Nebraska. She died in 1888, survived by her husband and two children, Lawson and Alfred. Later, in 1892, he was again married, to Miss Anna Anderson, who was born on Prince Edward's Isle.
Mr. Baillie now owns one of the finest farms in the county, and he has put many valuable im- provements on the place lately. In 1907 he built a beautiful new modern home, the old house hav- ing been struck by lightning and burned.
Mr. Baillie has always manifested a commend- able interest in local public affairs and has sev- eral times been called upon to serve his commun- ity in various ways. For nine years he was di- rector of his school district number twenty-three, which his father was instrumental in organizing. He is regarded by all as a man of unusual ability and unquestioned integrity.
Mr. and Mrs. Baillie have passed through many hardships and discouragements during their residence here in the pioneer years of the history of the state, and are now enjoying their well-earned ease.
FRED EYL.
Fred Eyl, one of the old settlers of the region where he chose his home in the early days, occu- pies a good home and valuable property in sec- tion fourteen, township twenty-three, range three. He has done his share in the upbuilding of his locality, and is well and favorably known throughout this part of the state.
Mr. Eyl is a native of Maryland, born October 1, 1854, a son of August and Augusta Eyl, both of Hanover province, Germany. The parents left Germany in 1854, embarking at Bremen on a sail- boat and were six weeks on the sea, their desti- nation being America, of which country they had heard such flattering reports. After landing in New York, they went direct to Maryland, where they remained until 1863; then with their family they moved to the state of Indiana, living there three years, then going to Missouri, residing there for the same length of time.
In 1869, when our subject was a young lad of about seventeen, the family emigrated from Missouri to Nebraska, where they took up a home- stead in section eleven, township twenty-three, range three, Madison county. They first put up a dugout on this land, and later a log house in which the family lived eight years, when this was replaced by a good frame house.
In 1885 our subject was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Wyner, a native of Germany, and a daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth Wyner. Mr. and Mrs. Eyl had four children, whose names
are as follows: Mary, Lizzie and Carl, and Fred. deceased. Mrs. Eyl died in 1898.
In the early years of residence on the western frontier, many hardships and discouragements overtook the family, as they did all the sturdy sons who came to this locality and faced unknown dangers and privations. For the first four years they suffered greatly through the grasshopper pests that devastated this region at that time, destroying all those season's crops, leaving nothing but bare ground in their track where once were growing the hardy crops that meant so much to the early settler. The fam- ily fought prairie fires many times to save their homes and possessions, and had to be ever on the alert, as the fires would come so quickly that they rushed upon the settler before he was scarcely warned of their approach. As late as 1894 there was an entire loss of crops through the hot winds that prevailed on account of the severe drouth of that season, every vestige of green being burned almost to a black crisp. Deer and antelope were plentiful in pioneer days, and could often be seen in herds grazing in the open.
Mr. Eyl was again united in marriage, July 18, 1899, the bride being Miss Anna Price, a na- tive of Germany, and a daughter of Charles and Heneretta Price. Mr. and Mrs. Eyl have been blessed with five children, whose names are as follows: Harry, Nelda, Nora, Loretta and Loella.
Mr. Eyl is a prosperous and successful cit- izen, and now owns seven hundred acres of choice land, on which are fifteen acres of fine orchard and forest trees.
JOHN O. WILSON.
John O. Wilson, an early settler of Custer county, where he is one of the largest landholders, was born in Lucas county, Iowa, March 13, 1856. He is the fifth born of the twelve children of Joshua and Fanny (Templeman) Wilson, the father a native of Indiana and the mother of Ohio. The former died in Lucas county, Iowa, (where he had seenred a homestead in an early day), in December, 1895, and the latter died in Custer county, Nebraska. One danghter, Mrs. Frank Smith, lives in Custer county ; three sons and two daughters live at Alliance, Nebraska ; two dauglı- ters and a son live in California : one son lives at Lost Beach, Washington; one daughter lives in Omaha, and Jolın O., lives in Custer county.
In childhood Mr. Wilson attended the public schools of Iowa and worked on his father's farm. Upon reaching manhood he began farming on his own account, and was married in his native county, May 27, 1877, to Nanny E. Kennedy, who was born in Iowa. In the spring of 1887, Mr. Wil- son and wife came to Custer county and pre- empted one hundred and sixty acres of land on West Tahle, where he developed a fine farm and became successful in grain and stock farming. Mrs. Wilson died while on a visit to Alliance,
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Nebraska, being survived by three children : William J., married and living in Broken Bow, has three children; Bertha L., wife of John Mc- Mahon, living on West Table, has eight chil- dren; John F., living nine miles west of Broken Bow, has three children.
Throughout the years of his residence in Cus- ter county Mr. Wilson has been actively identified with the best interests of the county and state and has done his share to advance their develop- ment and upbuilding. He has held various town- ship offices and served several terms on the school board. Being an early settler, he passed through the early days of drouth and other trials of the pioneer there, and has won his present success by his ambition and determination to overcome all obstacles in the path of progress and pros- perity. His home place of four hundred and eighty acres of splendidly improved land contains a fine modern residence which he erected in 1908, and he also has other suitable buildings. He owns some twelve hundred and eighty acres altogether, in Custer county, and is known as a good busi- ness manager.
On March 10, 1904, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage with Mrs. Hannah Hircock, whose maiden name was Maxwell, a native of Iowa. She came to Nebraska in 1892, and by her first mar- riage had five children: Flora A., wife of John Kennedy, of Merna, has nine children; Charles W., is married and lives in Arizona ; Fred J., liv- ing on West Table, has three children; William, living on West Table, has two children, and Dora Whitney, deceased.
JOHN C. STARR. (Deceased.)
One of the first five families to settle at Plain- view, Nebraska, was that of John C. Starr, who with Messrs. Dean and Rose migrated across country with oxen from Wisconsin to Pierce county, Nebraska, in the spring of 1871, reaching their destination and pitching camp for the last time June 20, after a journey lasting six weeks. Their claims were situated on the south side of Dry Creek, across from the locations of the Dealow brothers, who had preceded them by a week or ten days and were still living in their wagons. While camping near Norfolk they were referred to Mr. Chilons, then working in Pierce, who advised them to settle at Plainview, where he had recently filed on three quarter sections; the old surveyor, C. H. Fradey, located them on the land they selected. Knowing wood to be scarce they tied a bundle of small willows to the back of the wagons to serve as fuel until the men could go twenty miles to Bazile Creek for a load of wood.
Mr. Starr's family lived in tents through the summer and in the fall he erected a sod house ; he broke up a piece of the raw prairie the first season, the beginning of his farm home.
But he was not to attain success until after severe trials that were to test his endurance to the limit. Year after year they saw a fair pros- pect of an abundant crop destroyed, sometimes in an hour, by the hordes of grasshoppers which settled down on their fields, darkening the sun. Starvation stared the early settlers in the face, and the grim wolf, want, drove many of them to abandon their holdings and move back east to begin anew where they had begun years before. But those who had the fortitude to remain have reaped a rich reward for their faith in Nebraska soil.
During those early years, the energetic settler left wife and little ones to seek labor in a dis- tant field that they might have a crust of bread. Mr. Starr for several years labored in the har- vest fields around Norfolk, where all the crops had not been devoured, and after a turn at threshing, would return with fifty or sixty dollars in cash, together with a small supply of meat and flour to tide the family over until another crop would be raised.
After proving up on his homestead claim, Mr. Starr moved to his tree claim in section five, one mile southwest of Plainview, where he built a frame house which now forms a part of the present family residence, the lumber for the original house being hauled from Yankton, fifty miles distant. Here in a grove of twelve acres, it is sheltered from the fierce winds that at times sweep the western plains.
During their sod house days life was full of many strange experiences. One winter when snow drifted entirely over the house, a snow porch was constructed at one end of the house that, for months, served as a storage place for their provisions. The wash line was stretched above the roof on poles thrust down into the snow. A sudden wind storm one night carried the line with its contents across the field and they were not found until the snow melted in the spring. So rapid was the thaw with no channels for the water to run away that for six weeks the house was flooded to the depth of several inches, necessitating living on a platform built above the floor; when the water receded they lived for a week or so on a floor of sand spread over the dirt floor to absorb the moisture. Coffee was almost unknown for a year or two, a substitute being sometimes parched corn meal and sometimes roasted corn, the cob being steeped together with the parched grains. Twisted wisps of hay was their only fuel for a year, with corn and corn- stalks for a change at other times; their only supply of wood in the canyons of the Verdigris and Bazile Creeks was cut off, as that region was settled and the land came into the hands of pri- vate owners.
Provisions were at first purchased at Norfolk, thirty miles away, the trip requiring three days with their ox teams. On these trips their only food for the three days was "Johnny cake,"
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which, in winter, they had to thaw out before it could be eaten. For three years the grasshoppers took everything they raised. An effort was made to save some early cabbage by tying cloth over them, but the pests ate their way through; the only thing to do was to cut and use it. Their corn was eaten down to the ground, and small trees were bent over by the weight of the grasshoppers when they would alight. Deer and antelope were plentiful and provided an abundance of fresh meat. At one time Mr. Starr, with the help of a hired boy, eaught and killed a deer with dogs.
The family witnessed three blizzards, those of 1871, 1880 and 1888. In the earliest of these, openings had to he shovelled out to the open air, the houses being snowed under; every prudent settler kept a large shovel in the house. And yet, after listening to these tales of awful hardships. one so often hears the expression, "Those were the happiest days of my life," such was the cheer- ful disposition of the pioneers.
John C. Starr was born in the village of Up- wells, Cambridgeshire, England, August 7, 1827. His parents, John and Sarah (Cawthorn) Starr, both died in their native land, having been en- gaged in farming all their lives. After marriage Mr. Starr continued at farm labor for two years before setting ont for the new world, where he hoped to prosper as he had no opportunity of doing in the mother country.
Sailing from Liverpool October 6, 1854, after a voyage of thirty days in an old sailing vessel they landed in New York, went up the river, and in time bought a tract of farming land com- prising eighteen acres, fifteen miles from Sara- toga. Here they lived for some ten or twelve years, expecting the summer of 1864, which he spent in Illinois, returning in the late fall to Saratoga county. In 1866 he moved to Buffalo county, Wisconsin, where he farmed five years and then moved to Nebraska, as recounted above.
His first residence in the new country was a sod house, as was the usual thing in the early days, and this was his residence until moving to his timber claim some six years later.
Mr. Starr was married at Outwell, Norfolk county, England, November 18, 1852, to Miss Agnes Townley, daughter of John and Hannah (Ruff) Townley, all of the county, where the parents spent their entire lives.
Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Starr, three remain: Jennie, a teacher of note; Mary, married O. J. Frost, attorney-at-law, of Plainview; and Emma, who resides under the parental roof.
Mr. Starr passed to his reward November 8, 1896, after a long and useful life. In polities he was a stanneh demoerat, and for a number of years served his community as justiee of the peace. 19 1/2
WILLARD L. JENKS.
Willard L. Jenks, long and prominently known in Nance county, Nebraska, as a leading old settler of that locality, is now a resident of Ster- ling, Colorado. During his residence in Nance county he manifested true public spirit and gained the esteem of his associates by his honesty and integrity. In 1909 Mr. Jenks retired from active farm life, removing to Fullerton, where with his family he enjoyed all the comforts of a fine home and the acquaintance of most of the residents of that thriving little city. In March, 1910, he re- moved to Sterling, Colorado, where he now lives.
Mr. Jenks is a son of Martin and Roena Jenks, and was born November 27, 1862, in Whiteside county, Illinois. He was reared on a farm, and on January 4, 1882, was married there to Sarah France, a native of the same state. They spent the first four years of their married life in Illinois, then came to Nebraska and engaged in farming, in 1893 Mr. Jenks purchasing one hundred and sixty acres on section twenty-two, township sixteen, range seven, which was their home place until February, 1909, when they set- tled in Fullerton. The family passed through the early Nebraska times in developing their home, and while at various times meeting dis- couragement and failure, were in the main suc- cessful, and built up a nice property.
While in Nebraska Mr. Jenks took an active part in the affairs of his county and state. He held the office of road supervisor for a period of three years, and for nearly all the time of his residence there he was director of school districts number eighteen and fifty.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenks have a family of four children living, having lost an infant daughter. The eldest daughter, Lelah, married L. E. Coak- ley, and they with their son have moved to Ster- ling, Colorado; Elsie, who is a stenographer with a well-known firm in Omaha; Edna, married Jesse Jones and lives in Fullerton and Viola, the latter having the misfortune to lose her hearing in in- fancy through a childish ailment, and who for ten years was a student at the Omaha school for the deaf, is now in sehool at Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Our subject was the second member in a family of seven children, three boys and four girls, two sisters now living in Illinois, two brothers de- ceased, one sister in Iowa, one sister in Alabama. Mr. Jenks' father died in June, 1910, the mother having died in 1905. Mrs. Jenks was one of a family of five, one sister died in March, 1881 ; and the balance of the family are living at the present time in Nance county.
F. A. LARSON.
We wish to make partieular mention of another old settler who has done so much toward pro- moting the growth and development of the ag-
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ricultural section of Knox county. F. A. Larson is the gentleman in question, and he is the owner of a fine farm on section two, township twenty- nine, range two, west, where he has a substan- tial home, and is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of that region.
Mr. Larson was born in Sweden March 6, 1861, and was reared on his father's farm in that country until about the age of five years, when the family left their native land and took pas- sage for America on a steamboat. After a long and tedious voyage, they landed in New York, and went at once to Illinois. There the father worked at his trade of carpenter and later rented a farm in Henry county, Illinois, remaining there for about fifteen years. From there they came to Nebraska, locating in Burt county, where the father bought one hundred and sixty acres of land.
When Mr. F. A. Larson reached the age of twenty-five years he started ont for himself, renting land for several years. He came to Knox county in 1891, and bought a quarter section of fair land on section two, township twenty-nine, range two, west, and this he intends to make his permanent home.
When Mr. Larson bought his place in Knox county, not an improvement had been made on it The land was in a wild state and was purchased for twelve dollars and fifty cents per acre. Our subject has built a house, erected good barns, and fenced the farm. In 1910 Mr. Larson refused one hundred dollars per acre for his farm. He is engaged in general farming, raising cattle, hogs, grain and hay.
Mr. Larson is unmarried ; his sister, Josephine, is his housekeeper. He is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church, and in politics is a republican.
ROBERT T. ROBINSON.
Robert T. Robinson, retired farmer, son of Henry and Sarah (Farmer) Robinson, was born in Indiana, February 13, 1838, and was fifth in a family of eleven children, who are all deceased excepting three: our subject, one brother, who resides in California, and a sister living in Utah. The father died May 16, 1872, in Fremont, Ne- braska, and the mother in 1877, in Cedar Rapids. Nebraska.
At the age of sixteen Mr. Robinson went with his parents to Wisconsin engaging in farming, and on September 13, 1861, he was married to Rachel McClintick, also of Indiana, daughter of Hugh and Nancy (Steen) McClintick. Mrs. Robinson's mother died many years ago, and the father came to Nebraska to live with his daugh- ter in 1890, where he died in 1893. She has a sister residing in Cedar Rapids, Nebraska.
In September, 1861, Mr. Robinson, enlisted in Company D, Eleventh Wisconsin Infantry,
serving eighteen months, during which time he participated in the battle of Cotton Plant, Arkan- sas, and many minor engagements and skirmishes; and in February, 1863, he received his honorable discharge, after which he returned to Wisconsin and went to farming.
In 1871, Mr. Robinson came to Nebraska, lo- cating in Fremont county for a few months, and in the spring of 1872 came to Boone county, home- steading one hundred and sixty acres of land in section eight, township eighteen, range seven, which is now a part of the city of Cedar Rapids. He lived on this homestead twenty-five years and then sold out, going to Oregon in 1897, expect- ing to make his home in that state, but returned to Boone county, Nebraska, within four months and purchased ten acres adjoining Cedar Rapids to the northwest where they lived until October, 1909, when they moved into Cedar Rapids and purchased a good home which is their present resi- dence. Mr. Rohinson was instrumental in organiz- ing school district number six in the early days.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had seven chil- dren born to them, whose names are as follows: Pryer B., who is married, has three children and lives in Cedar Rapids; Henry L., is married and has one son, and also lives in Cedar Rapids: Schuyler C., married, has six children and lives in Boone county ; James A., is married, has two children and lives in Cedar Rapids; Clara, mar- ried S. S. Rohrer, died in 1899, and left one son; Euretta B., lives at home ; and an infant deceased.
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