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FRED ZIMMERMAN.
The present condition of prosperity of Ne- braska as an agricultural and commercial region is due to the earnest efforts and perseverance of the early settlers and pioneers, who came to the state while it was in an undeveloped condition. Among the citizens of Cedar county who have long been identified with the best interests of that county may be mentioned Fred Zimmerman, who has lived there the past eighteen years. He has brought his farm to a high state of cultivation and productiveness, and has won the respect and good will of all who have come into contact with him. He purchased his present farm on section twenty-four, township twenty-nine, range one, east, in 1893, and has made the improvements himself. He devotes it to general farming and has reaped a fair measure of success in his opera- tions.
Mr. Zimmerman is a native of Switzerland, born in 1858, son of John and Elizabeth Zimmer- man, both also natives of that country. He re- ceived his education in his native country and
there reached maturity. He came to America in 1881 and spent the next six years in Iowa. In 1887 he removed to Kansas and in 1893 to Cedar county, his home since that time. He has proven himself an ambitious and able farmer and the farm which he has purchased bears witness to his thrift and industry. His place is pleasantly lo- cated in a desirable section of the state.
Mr. Zimmerman was married April 4, 1887, to Dora Ardesen, a native of Switzerland, and daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth (Miller) Ardesen. Four children have blessed this union, namely: John, deceased; Fred, George and Christian J., who died in 1911.
The family is identified with the Reformed Lutheran church, and Mr. Zimmerman is an inde- pendent republican.
DAVID H. BURKE.
David H. Burke was born in Potsdam, Saint Lawrence county, New York, June 28, 1861, and was eldest of eight children in the family of Wil- liam and Mary (Carten) Burke, who had five sons and three daughters.
Mr. Burke came into Merrick county, Ne- braska, with his father in May, 1877. He was married to Miss Mary J. Farrell in the Catholic church at Central City, Nebraska, October 24, 1884. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Burke, three of whom are living: Edmund Vic- tor, married, has one child and resides at Chap- man, Nebraska; Mary, deceased; John, and Aline, who reside at home.
Mr. Burke was a conductor in the employ of the Union Pacific railroad from 1880 to 1885, in- clusive, with headquarters at Rawlins, Wyoming. He now resides on the northwest quarter of sec- tion seventeen, township thirteen, range six, where he has a fine farm of one hundred and sixty-one acres, and deals in cattle, making a specialty of short horn cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs.
Mr. Burke has served as district supervisor in past years; on the school board at different times; and has always been active and doing in the best interests of his community.
WILL A. NEEDHAM.
Will A. Needham, postmaster of Bloomfield, and at one time member of the firm of Needham Brothers, journalists, is a native of Nebraska, his birth occurring March 19, 1869, in a sod house on the family homestead within one and one-half miles of the present site of the state house at Lincoln. His parents, H. E. and Lucina (Bagley) Needham, natives of Monkton, Vermont, and Independence, Ohio, respectively, migrated from Cleveland to Fremont county, lowa. in 1859, set- tling near Tabor, and in March, 1867, becoming residents of Lancaster county, Nebraska, cross-
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ing the Missouri river at Wabanse Mills the first day of the month. The father took up a home- stead at Lancaster Center, now Lincoln, and made this his home until 1876, when he moved to Dav- iess county, Missouri, settling near Kidder.
Here Will A. Needham spent his youth, at- tending the Cameron schools until 1886, when he came to Colridge to join his brother, W. H. Need- ham. He taught school for several years, receiving the first year twenty-five dollars a month and later forty dollars, a generous salary for those days. During vacations he learned printing, and in 1887 entered into a partnership with his brother Whitfield H., and purchased the "Colridge Senti- nel." This same firm established the "Bloom- field Monitor" in 1890, and when his brother took over the "Niobrara Tribune," in the fall of 1895, Will A. became the sole proprietor of the "Moni- tor," of which he was the editor and publisher until his appointment as postmaster of Bloomfield in December, 1897, taking possession of the office the first of January, 1898.
ยท Mr. Needham was married in Niobrara Janu- ary 25, 1895, to Miss Mattie J. Kamrar, who was born in Clinton county, Iowa. Her parents, David J. and Susan J. (Muntz) Kamrar, are natives of Pennsylvania. The father served several terms as deputy county treasurer, and is now residing in the south part of Cherry county, where he owns a large ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Needham are the parents of four children, Fern G., Vernon W., Mildred H. and Paul I.
Mr. Needham has always been a republican in political beliefs, and his journals have al- ways been hearty supporters of the candidates of his party when standing for election. He is high up in Masonic circles, holding membership in the blue lodge, chapter, council, and commandery, and has been the presiding officer of each. He has been an officer of the Grand Commandery five years, and is now grand senior warden of the lat- ter body, with reasonable certainty of filling the presiding chair, should he live a few years more. He also affiliates with the Modern Woodmen of America, holding membership in the Bloomfield lodge.
Mr. Needham recalls the time when Lincoln was a small village, and when deer and antelope were to be seen near the city. At one time, a party of six hundred Indians camped near his father's house. He has been a resident of Bloom- field since its organization, and served as first vil- lage clerk, and he was president of the village board when the town organized as a city of the second class. He was, during his incumbency, in- strumental in building the excellent water system of the town. He has always taken a great interest in the schools, and has served for many years on the board of education, and the new school house was planned and built during his membership of that body.
Mr. Needham has traveled extensively over the west, having made several trips to the Pacific
coast ; he is thoroughly in touch with the western spirit and western ideas in politics. He has great faith in the achievements of the west, and full confidence in its future prosperity and influence.
AMIL SCHULTZE.
Mr. Schultze belongs to that goodly number of hardy Tentons who have contributed of their brawn and muscle to the reclamation of the Ne- braska prairies, and put their character and stam- ina into the making of a great state.
The subscriber is a native of Brandenburg, Germany, and was born in 1859 to Carl and Wil- helmina Schultze. His father was a wagonmaker. He (the father) being the youngest of seven boys, the other six having all served in war, was ex- empt from service. His father (grandfather of our subscriber), however, served in several of the continental wars.
Mr. Schultze spent his childhood years in his native land, but in 1869, with his parents, came to New York from Bremen. They came to Nebraska at once, and the father took up a homestead in Stanton county. He first put up a dugout which served the family as a home for nine years. This was in time replaced by a log house.
The first few years on the new farm were not entirely sunshine, for the family suffered the usual hardships which assailed the pioneer. Prairie fires were frequent in summer and were a constant menace to the settlers. Many times they were compelled to fight fires for hours in order to save their homes from destruction. They had one consolation, however, in knowing that they came too late to suffer the three or four years destruction of crops which the older settlers had to contend with. -
In 1884, our subscriber was united in marriage to Miss Frederick Lenser, of West Prussia. They are the parents of seven children, all of whom are living. They are named as follows: Paul, Amil, Carl, Arthur. Christ, Adelheid and Regina.
Mr. Schultze is a man of wide experience and well merits his success as a farmer.
J. W. RICKERT.
J. W. Rickert, an early settler and highly re- spected citizen of Antelope county, Nebraska, has fought his way through many difficulties and discouragements to a very substantial success. He is a man of keen perception and executive ability, and has proven his good citizenship in many ways. He is the owner of a good farm in section thirty, township twenty-seven, range six, owning two hundred acres of good land and seven acres of fine trees. Mr. Rickert is a native of Illinois, born May 15, 1854, and is the son of William and Anna Kieler Rickert, the father dying at the age of twenty-three years when our subject was but one year old; the mother was born in Illinois, her father being a merchant.
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Mr. Rickert, with his mother, eame to Saun- ders county, Nebraska, in the early days, 1866, settling seven miles south of Fremont. They drove from Illinois to the claim they took up in Saunders county, and while residing here, and when our subject was fourteen years of age, he went to Omaha and drove an ox team freighting from Omaha to Fort Kearney for fifteen dollars per month to help his mother. They then took up a timber claim in Saunders eounty also, build- ing a frame house and put out ten aeres of trees. Antelope and deer were plentiful in those early days in Nebraska, and during those pioneer times our subject and his mother saw a great many hardships and privations. In the years of 1873 and 1874 the grasshoppers destroyed all their crops, and in the blizzard of 1873 they lost their cattle, which was a very serious blow to them at that time.
Mr. Rickert and his mother moved to Ante- lope county in 1883, after becoming discouraged in their Saunders county home, and upon their arrival here took up a homestead claim, and built a shanty eight by ten feet, and here in their first days of residence on this homestead they had many discouraging experiences. Wood was scarce and hard to get in those days, and our subject and his mother burned hay and corn for fuel.
Mr. Rickert was united in marriage in 1880, to Miss Maggie Fox, who died May 25, 1885. To this union three children were born, all of whom are deceased. On July 19, 1896, he was married to Miss Nora Rickman and they have had four children, as follows: J. Earl, L. Rosie, Flossie, deceased. and Gladys. Mr. and Mrs. Rickert and family are highly esteemed and respected in the community and have a host of friends. Mr. Rickert is a republican in political affiliations.
JOHN MORDECAI AMOS. (Deceased.)
The late John Mordecai Amos was one of the best known and highly respected eitizens of Cus- ter county. He was a publie-spirited citizen, interested in all pertaining to the general welfare, and ready to do his share to promote the same. He was born in Pennsylvania, of English extrac- tion, in March, 1831, third of the five children of John and Metsy Amos. He has two brothers living in Ohio, the only survivors of the family. When but a child Mr. Amos went with his brother, William, to Carroll county, Ohio, living on a farm and attending the district schools. He was there married. March 25, 1849, at the home of her parents, to Miss Catherine Thompson, daughter of Zachariah and Priscilla (Albangh) Thompson, and a native of Ohio. Mr. Thompson was born in Maryland and was an early settler of Iowa, where he died. His wife was born in
Ohio and died in Illinois. Mrs. Amos has three brothers in Iowa.
In the late seventies Mr. and Mrs. Amos went to Fayette county, Iowa, where they carried on farming until the spring of 1883, when they came to Custer county and took a homestead of one hundred and sixty aeres on section twenty- one, township eighteen, range eighteen, and a tree claim of like size adjoining. This was the home place for a number of years, but in 1905, Mr. Amos retired from active life and purchased teu acres in Wescott, where he lived until the time of his death, July 13, 1907. He is survived by his wife and seven ehildren: Alfred, of Cus- ter county ; Lycurgus, Zachariah and William, all married and living in Custer county ; Mrs. N. E. Armsyrong, of Broken Bow; Mrs. Emma McCuen, of Custer county ; Mrs. Laura Wester- ville, of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.
Mr. Amos was always interested in the up- building of his locality and his wife likewise has identified herself with various measures for the public good. She is active and vigorous and still has the old home, although she spends con- siderable time visiting among her children. She enjoys the regard of a wide circle of friends and is well known in the community.
Zachariah D. Amos, third son of John M. and Catherine (Thompson) Amos, was born in Ohio, and when sixteen years of age accompanied his parents to Iowa. He came to Custer county in the spring of 1883 and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres on section twenty- eight, township eighteen, range eighteen. He was married in Valley county, June 7, 1891, to Miss Arabella Love. who was born in Wisconsin, and for some time before her marriage had been a teacher in Nebraska sehools. She had also homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land on section twenty-two, township eighteen, range eighteen, where she and her husband now reside. He has served for a number of years as moderator of the school board of district number two hun- dred and forty-two. Mr. and Mrs. Amos have three children living : Ailsa Bell, Maud L. and Frieda B., all at home. They also have in their household circle, Aliee Emerson, whom they have reared since her infancy.
JAMES LINDLY.
James Lindly has made a notable success of farming and stock raising in Custer county and is a self-made man, having come to Nebraska with- out eapital. He has had an eventful life, from the time he enlisted in the army for service in the civil war, through his experience as a freighter, stockman and farmer. He is one of the pioneers who have been closely identified with the growth and development of eentral Nebraska and has always been interested in worthy projects for advaneing the interests of all. Mr. Lindly
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was born in Jones county, Iowa, April 2, 1846, next to the oldest of four children in the family of Amasa and Mary J. (Garrison) Lindly, who had three sons and one daughter. Both parents were natives of Ohio and they were married in Indiana. The family moved from Indiana to Iowa about 1845, and were pioneers of that state, ar- riving before the railroad had reached there. The mother died in Jones county, Iowa, in 1853, and the father died in Morley, that county, in 1908, in his eighty-fourth year. The parents of the father were married in Pennsylvania, of which state it is believed they were natives, and they were early settlers of Ohio. The only children of Amasa and Mary Lindly who now survive are James and his brother, Albert, the latter of whom lives at Columbia, Marion county, Iowa.
Mr. Lindly was reared on an Iowa farm, where he lived until his enlistment in the army. His brother, Albert, enlisted in the fall of 1863, in Company G, Thirty-first Iowa Volunteer In- fantry, and James enlisted March 6, 1865, run- ning away from home to do so, and becoming a member of Company G, Seventeenth Iowa In- fantry, near the close of the war. He was mus- tered out at Louisville, Kentucky, and received his final discharge papers at Rock Island, Illi- nois. After the war he returned to Cedar county, Iowa, and resumed farm work, and in the spring of 1866 crossed the Missouri river and went to Omaha, then went on to Grand Island and for several months worked for the Union Pacific railroad company. Returning to Omaha he be- came driver of ox teams, "deck hand on a bull train," as it was jokingly expressed, freighting across the plains to Denver, Colorado, where he remained from August, 1866, to December 15, 1867, when he went to Cheyenne, Wyoming, then a mushroom town of shacks, the terminus of the Union Pacifie. He returned to Cedar county and again engaged in farming.
Mr. Lindly there married Charlotte Wood, daughter of George A. and Martha (Loughery) Wood, pioneers of Iowa. Her Grandfather Loughery was one of the earliest settlers of his part of Iowa and a prominent citizen. Their marriage oceurred in the fall of 1868, and the following spring they moved to Marion county, Iowa. In February, 1874, he and his wife, with their one child, came to Lancaster county, Nebraska, Mr. Lindly driving through with a wagon and team and his wife and child coming by train as far as Plattsmouth. He traded for land in Lancaster county, but in the fall of 1874, after the crops were taken by grass- hoppers, he returned to Iowa and remained there until the spring of 1878, when he returned to Lincoln and remained there until August, 1880. His wife died in Lincoln in the fall of 1879, leav- ing three children, namely: Charles E., and Rosella May, both deceased; and Albert, living on section twenty-five. township nineteen, range
twenty-two, Custer county, married Georgiana Karnes, and they have eight children.
Mr. Lindly came to Custer county in the lat- ter part of August, 1880, and on September 1, went on to New Helena and took a pre-emption on the northwest quarter of section twenty-seven, township nineteen, range twenty-two, and also filed an entry on a tree claim on the southwest quarter of section twenty-two in the same town- ship. In 1883 he took up a homestead on section thirty-four, and is one of the very few (if there be any others) who proved up and received pat- ents ou a pre-emption, timber claim and home- stead.
In the fall of 1880, Mr. Lindly returned to Marion county and married Mrs. Mary. J. Busby, who had three children by a former marriage. Their union took place February 3, 1881, and March 17, with their for children, they left Iowa with a wagon and team for their Nebraska home, a strenuous trip, through deep snow and bad roads, and they landed at the pre-emption claim April 22, 1881. They were unable to cross the Missouri river by the ferry, owing to the over- flow, so had to cross by the transfer train over the Union Pacific bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Lindly have had five children : Graee, wife of Garland E. Lewis, of Broken Bow ; Mabel, wife of Fred H. Anderson, of Custer county, has three children; Maud, wife of Ernest E. Bell, of Custer county, has three children ; Fred G., married and living on a farm adjoining his father, has one child; Leonard V., at home. By her first marriage Mrs. Lindly had children as follows: Alice, wife of Louis A. Karnes, of California, has two children; Luella, wife of Harry G. Karnes, of Idaho, has two chil- dren ; John Busby, married and living in Merid- ian, Idaho, has three children.
Mr. Lindly and family are pioneers and have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He has twenty-two hundred acres of land, and makes a success of farming and stock raising, being active in the management of his affairs. He first carried on the farm of Charles Mathews, of New Helena, having landed at that place penniless, as he had spent his last dime at Westerville for tobacco. He now has a pleasantly located farm home, with a splendid grove of trees, and his place is well equipped and improved. It is known as "Pilgrim's Rest," from its having been the stopping place for early settlers traveling from the cattle country along Dismal river and beyond to Kearney and Grand Island. We show a full page view of the Lindly home on another page of our work. Mr. Lindly's first residence in Ne- hraska was a "soddy," and later, while building a "soddy" on his present place, the family lived temporarily in a dugout and a corn crib, the latter being their sleeping quarters. A snow storm in November, 1884, almost cut them off from passage from one to the other, the drifts between the two buildings being three to four
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feet. Mr. Lindly and three friends were caught away from home and weathered a blizzard that must have been forty degrees below zero. On January 12, 1888, Mr. Lindly was out in his yard, and observed the windmill, against which a warm south wind was blowing, whirl suddenly in the opposite direction. He knew at once a severe storm was on, and looking to the north saw the wall of frozen mist bearing down on them. Tak- ing a supply of wraps, he started to the school house, a mile and a half away, to get the children. Finding them safely housed at a neighbor's he followed others until they reached home and then made his way back to his own house, facing the suffocating blasts for more than a mile and a half. Few men were out so long in that storm and sur- vived; during that winter the family burned corn for fuel. In 1894, the dry year, Mr. Lindly planted five bushels of potatoes and gathered three pecks.
In politics Mr. Lindly is a republican. He is member of the Masonic fraternity, and with his wife, of the Order of the Eastern Star.
GEORGE LINDWURM.
George Lindwurm, a prosperous tenant of large farms in northeastern Nebraska, has been a resident of the state for over a quarter of a century, and has proved himself to be a man of sterling character and worth.
Mr. Lindwurm was born in the village of Abdachwind, Bavaria, July 5, 1858, and here re- ceived a common school education. On attaining military age, he served his native country in the army from 1879 to 1881. A brother, Adam Lind- wurm, still resides in Germany.
Mr. Lindwurm came to America in 1884, sail- ing from Bremen and landing at Baltimore after a voyage of thirteen days. He came to Fremont, Nebraska, and engaged in farm labor for a few years, and in 1887 came to Knox county, renting 1893 he land for six years. In came to Pierce county, and cultivated a half- section of fertile farm land in section seventeen, township twenty-eight, range three. He has met with comparatively little mis- fortune, the two hailstorms of June and August, 1900, causing his most serious loss, ruining all his crops.
Mr. Lindwurm was married in Germany in 1883, to Miss Rosa Stellweg, a native of the village of Alten Schembach, Bavaria. Mr. Lind- wurm preceded her to America, saved his earn- ings, and sent for her in 1887. Four children have been born to them, named as follows: William, born in the old country ; Jennie. John, who died in 1889; and George. Jennie is married to Mr. Kumm, and lives near her parents.
Politically, Mr. Lindwurm is a republican, al- ways voting that tieket. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and is affiliated with the All- cient Order of United Workmen.
As before stated, he cultivates a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres, and is a pros- perous man. He has gained the esteem of all in his community. He owns a quarter section of good land in Phillips county, Colorado, which is as yet in its wild state but is growing more valuable each year.
HENRY H. BOESEN.
In the person of the gentleman named above we have another of those sturdy spirits who came from a foreign country and through thrift and perseverance succeeded in accumulating a com- petence and building up for himself a good home, besides acquiring many friends. Mr. Boesen is one of the best known pioneers of Howard county, and stands very high as a worthy citizen in the estimation of the public.
Henry H. Boesen was born in Denmark, No- vember 27, 1832, grew up there, and received the education common to the middle classes in that country. At the age of twenty-three years he was married to Hannah Sorensen, also born and reared in his home province, and they re- mained in Denmark during the first five years of their married life. In 1860 the young couple came to America, their first location after land- ing being in Wisconsin, where Mr. Boesen se- cured work on a farm. Mr. Boesen followed farming in that state up to June, 1873, then ac- companied by his wife and three children, emi- grated to Nebraska, settling on a homestead of eighty acres, situated on section fourteen, town- ship thirteen, range twelve, and here all worked together to build up a home. They improved the land in good shape, remaining on the original farm until 1901, then our subject sold it and built a home in Boelus, where he now lives. While occupying the farm Mr. Boesen was active in developing the country, and was also one of the leading spirits in establishing schools, etc. For five years he served as director of his district, and for the same length of time held the office of road supervisor.
Since locating in Boelus Mr. Boesen has been active in public affairs, being a member of the city council from 1903 to 1907, inclusive. In 1909, he was again made a member of the coun- cil, and is still serving in that capacity. Mr. Boesen is rated as one of the well-to-do men of his community, owning some town property be- sides the residence which he occupies.
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