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On March 2, 1889, Mr. Mithofer was married to Miss Augusta Holtz in Menard county, Illinois. Miss Holtz was also a native of Germany, com- ing to America with her parents in 1881. Mr. and Mithofer have had five children born to them, whose names are as follows: Adeline, wife of
Charles Tuttle, lives at Palmer, Nebraska; and Emma, Frederick, Minnie and John, all of whom reside at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Mithofer came to Merrick county in March, 1889, and now reside on their farin two miles north of Archer where they have a pleasant home and a finely equipped place.
Mr. Mithofer's parents and brother, Williamn, came to Indiana from Germany in 1881, coming to Merrick county in 1893, where the parents lived until the time of their death, the father's death occurring in 1907, and the mother passing away in 1908 at advanced ages. Our subject's brother, William, resides south of Archer in Mer- riek county.
Mr. Mithofer has always taken an active in- terest in local affairs, and for years was a men- ber of his school board in district number forty- three. He also served on the county board from his twonship, from 1902 to 1906. He is a highly respected member of his community, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him.
CHARLES E. KELLOGG.
Of the prominent and leading citizens of Knox county, Nebraska, none are held in higher es- teem by their fellow citizens than Charles E. Kellogg, proprietor of one of the most valuable estates in the county, and who resides in section eight, township thirty-two, range seven, where he and his family enjoy the respect and good will of a host of friends and acquaintances. He is proml- inently known throughout Knox county as one of the foremost farmers and stockmen. He and his father before him, have been potent fac- tors in the development and growth of eastern Ne- braska. Mr. Kellogg is a man of untiring energy and sterling characteristics and bids fair to emui- late his father's excellent example of perseverance and success.
Mr. Kellogg is a native born Nebraskan his birth occurring in Saunders county in the year 1875. He is a son of Henry and Zella (Koon) Kellogg. The father is a native of New York, and the mother of Michigan, being of Irish descent. The father came to Saunders county, Nebraska, in 1874, remaining there until 1881, when he re- moved to Wayne county, our suhjeet at this time being seven years of age. In Wayne county lie grew to his manhood years, and in 1898 was mar- ried.
Mr. Kellogg came to Knox county, Nebraska, m 1902, and bought the farm which is known as the Borton homestead. He now owns two hundred and eighty acres of fine improved land, and has two acres of trees.
Mr. Kellogg was united in marriage in 1898 to Miss Sadie Whaley, and Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are the parents of four children, named as follows: IIenry, Marvin, Blanche and Letha.
Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg and family live in the pleasant home in the locality above named sur,-
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rounded by a host of loving friends and a wide cirele of acquaintances, and are highly respected and esteemed by all who know them.
JACOB R. McCARTNEY.
Jacob R. McCartney, now a venerable resi- dent of Loretto, Nebraska, is classed among the leading pioneer settlers and business men of Boone county, having come to that region during its earliest invasion by white men, and is practi- eally one among the chief founders of the city of Loretto.
Our subject is a son of John and Mary E. McCartney, both of whom are now deceased. They were the parents of nine children, Jacob being second youngest, and he is now the only one of this large family living. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1833. He spent his boyhood in that vicinity, and at the age of twenty-one, went with his fam- ily to Ohio, where the father took a farm and worked as a canal boatman for a number of years, our subjeet assisting in this work also. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, One Hundredth Ohio Volunteers, under Colonel Slevan, and saw hard service during his army career. The prin- cipal battles he was engaged in were the Siege of Knoxville, Reseca, the Atlanta Campaign, and other minor engagements, remaining with his company up to August 6, 1864, at which time he was seriously wounded and obliged to take a furlough until the following February, then re- turned to his regiment and remained up to June, 1865, receiving his honorable discharge in North Carolina.
Mr. McCartney was married in Ohio on Janu- ary 13, 1854, to Miss Eliza Kniss, and to them were born two children: Sarah E., who married Edwin Holland, and they, with their five children, now live in Madison county, Nebraska, while Royal MeCartney, the son, resides in Hastings, Nebraska. Mrs. Jacob MeCartney died while her husband was in the army, her death occurring on March 23, 1863.
On leaving the army, Mr. MeCartney returned to Ohio, and after a short time there, went to In- diana, locating in Winamack, where he was mar- ried again, to Mary A. Trueax, of Ohio, and two children were born of this union: Lucy T., who married and became the mother of five children, she dying in 1898, and William S., who resides at the present time in Boone county, Nebraska. Mrs. McCartney died in 1871.
In the spring of 1872. Mr. McCartney came to Nebraska, locating in Burt county, remaining there for about six years, and while there was married to Elsie Christopher, who came from In- diana. Two daughters were born of this union, Rebecca and Rose Ella, hoth married and living in Nebraska. Mr. McCartney had more than his share of sorrow and misfortune, in that his wife was taken away by death in October, 1877. He
afterwards moved to Madison county, where he followed farming up to 1889, at that time coming to Boone county for permanent residence. Shortly after arriving in this locality he opened a general merchandise store in Loretto, and was one of the pioneer merchants of that place, being the first man to purchase lots in the town. He was also the first settler to erect a house in the place, and his was the first well which was put down.
Mr. McCartney was appointed justice of the peace of the new village, and also served as post- master. He was one of the organizers, as well as director of the school district, number seventy- two, and became leader in every movement for the best interests of the locality.
In 1893 he sold out his business interests, and removed to Oakdale, Nebraska, retiring from all active labor. He had previously purchased a good home, and lived there until 1904, when he returned to Loretto, and was again appointed postmaster of the town, engaging also in the gen- eral merchandise business. He carried on the 'same for one year, then disposed of it, since then taking no part in business life outside of caring for his own property interests.
On July 21, 1903, Mr. McCartney married Mrs. Catherine Kennedy, of Oakdale.
For the past fifty-three years Mr. McCartney has been an active christian worker, and during a good part of his earlier years, he did pioneer missionary work in various portions of Nebraska. He is a man of true worth, prosperous and suc- cessful, and has gained the high esteem of his fellow men.
WILLIAM H. STRAIN.
A veteran of the early settlers of northern Nebraska, one who has witnessed more than three decades of its wonderful development, is William H. Strain, of Niobrara, who has been a residence of the state since the spring of 1879, and who settled south of the Niobrara river, near the postoffice of Knoxville, which was later moved to his ranch, his father-in-law serving as postmaster and his wife as the deputy official for about three years.
He first filed on a pre-emption claim, on which he proved up, and later on a timber claim near Pishelville. to which he also perfected title. He remained with his family on the farm until May of 1885, when he came to Niobrara, and resided for a year. moving to his timber claim in the spring of 1886. In May, 1887, he returned to Niobrara. which has been his residence since.
Mr. Strain engaged in the livery business for about three years after coming to town, during which time he carried the first mail from here to Butte, at a time when there was but one bridge on the entire route between the two towns-a primitive bridge across the Niobrara that his since been removed. Fording the Ponca was fraught
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with danger, and at times proved to be almost fatal. At one time he made the crossing by at- taching a rope to the tongue of his buggy, throw- ing the end to a friend on the bank, thereby keep- ing his team from being swept down stream, he standing on the seat the while, holding the mail above his head. But pioneers are accustomed to hardships, and to devising ways and means to overcome obstacles that would appall a less hardy race of men.
Mr. Strain is an expert veterinary surgeon, and has practiced that art since coming to town. For years he was employed as auctioneer in the region surrounding Niobrara, but of late cries no sales, except occasionally for some of his old-time friends and patrons. He deals somewhat in real estate, and writes fire and lightning insurance in the town and vicinity for several good compan- ies.
Mr. Strain is a son of Andrew and Ann (Win- ingar) Strain, and was born in Highland county, Ohio, August 25, 1846. About 1850, he moved with his family to Knox county, Illinois, and for some six years lived near Abbingdon before mi- grating further west to Marion county, Iowa, and later to Polk and Jasper counties, successively. The elder Strain was a great hunter and pioneer, finding the west a fine place to indulge his love for the chase. His rifle supplied the family with fresh meat much of the time they lived in the west, bringing down as many as twenty-three deer in one season in Jasper county during their residence there.
William H. Strain', when but sixteen years of age, enlisted at Des Moines, Iowa, in March, 1864, in Company B, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, serving until the close of the war. His first engagement was at Fort Pillow, followed by the battles of Kenesaw Mountain; Marietta, Georgia; the Siege of Atlanta, lasting three months, and the world- famous march to the sea. His regiment was in the region of Goldsboro, Georgia, when the news of Lee's surrender reached them, and on the road to Raleigh when they heard the sad tidings of Lincoln 's assassination.
After the war, Mr. Strain returned to Iowa, and began farming. For a time he lived in Noda- way county, Missouri, and later farmed in John- son county, Kansas, three years. Returning to Iowa, he farmed several years, and then kept a meat market at Prairie City from 1876 to 1878, just prior to his moving to Nebraska to make his permanent home.
Mr. Strain was married near Monroe, Jasper county, Iowa, September 24, 1867, to Miss Re- becca J. Winingar, a native of Ohio, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Johnson) Winingar. Of their eight children, survives A. D. Strain, a graduate of the deaf institute at Omaha, Nebras- ka, and now in the shoe-repairing business at Niobrara.
Mr. Strain has witnessed two of the memora- ble events of this part of Nebraska-the great 23 1/2
flood of March, 1881, and the blizzard of 1888. At the time of the former, he had come to town for supplies, and, owing to threatening weather, had decided to remain over for the night. After supper the moon came out, and, being forehanded, he thought it best to push on home. That night the flood came, and where he had stabled his horses the raging waters were deep enough to drown them. At the time the blizzard of 1888 struck their locality, Mr. Strain was at the post- office. Facing the blinding frozen mist, he made his way across the open commons intervening be- tween there and his home, at the west edge of town, and made his stock secure for the night. Few men could have made the trip across so wide an open space without getting lost.
During that winter, as in other seasons, snow had to be shoveled out of the stables, that the stock might have head room; otherwise the snow would pack under their feet until their backs were pressed against the roof. As it was, often the stable would be found mornings filled with snow up to the horses' sides. The three days' blizzard of the middle of October, 1880, was disas- trous to Mr. Strain, one-fourth of his cattle, con- sisting of one hundred head of thoroughbred Durham heifers, which he had shipped in from Ohio, perishing in the storm. This was the winter of the deep snow. Drifts in the deeper canyons lasted until May and June, the main body of it making the great flood, of which mention has been made. Tunnels of forty to fifty feet had to be dug through the snow to the cattle sheds to get feed, air and water to the stock. Flour in the vicinity grew scarce, and several of the neighbors asked Mr. Strain to go to mill for them, he having a better team, promising to do his chores for him until his return. The trip that ordinarily took but half a day, kept him thirty-six hours on the roads, so deeply were they drifted, and in cross- ing Verdigris creek he found it completely cov- ered over with twenty to thirty feet of snow, and drove over through the tree tops.
At the time of the Indian scare, Mr. Strain, along with other neighbors, secured a sixteen- shot repeating Winchester, to be ready for an attack, but fortunately it was a false alarm. The rifle was kept in his possession until a few years ago. Living near the river, fuel was plentiful, though at times corn and stalks were burned. and occasionally "chips." The Indians claimed the timber on the island where settlers got most of their wood, and had to be bought off. One year Mr. Strain got all his winter's fuel for one chicken he gave an Indian. The gift so won his favor that nothing further was asked.
The pioneer days had their hardships and trials, but all declare them the happiest of their lives,
JOHN GOVIER.
John Govier and family are widely known and highly respected in their part of Custer county.
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and have a large and well-improved farm. Mr. Govier is a native of England born in 1853, the oldest child of James and Ann Govier, who had five sons and two daughters. The father came to America in 1867, and the following year the moth- er followed with four sons and one daughter, join- ing him in Grant county, Wisconsin. Mr. Govier grew to young manhood on his father's farm in Grant county, and as a youth went to Illinois.
Mr. Govier was married in Illinois in 1877 to Miss Rebecca M. Beamer, and in the spring of 1885 he shipped an emigrant car of household goods and a span of horses and two cows, to North Loup, Valley county, Nebraska, whence he come overland with a wagon to his homestead on the southeast quarter of section twenty, township eighteen, range nineteen, being one of the origin- al homesteaders of that part of Custer county. He had come into the county the previous fall, and taken up his homestead, and in April, 1886, his wife and four children joined him there. They are among the early eomers of the neighborhood, where they have a wide circle of friends. They have a fine farm of five hundred acres, which is well improved and equipped, and Mr. Govier makes a specialty of feeding and shipping stock.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Govier, of whom six now survive: Harry, married, and living two miles east of his father, has three children; Clarenec, married, and living in Custer eounty, has two children; Mabel, wife of Milter Peterson, lives near Wisertt postoffice, and they have eight children; Pearl, wife of Alfred Larson, of Custer county, has seven children; Willard, married, and living near the home farm; Blanche, at home.
Daniel Govier, popularly known as "Uncle Dan," makes his residence with Mr. and Mrs. Govier. ITis eighty-one years rests lightly with him, and much special farm work is the result of his endeavors.
ALBERT C. DOMON.
Among the younger settlers of the farming com- munity of Valley county, a prominent place is ac- eorded Albert C. Domon, the owner of a valuable farm in seetion thirty-four, township seventeen, range thirteen. Although still in the prime of life, he is also one of the old settlers, having been a con- tinuous resident of the county since 1878, when he first came here.
Mr. Domon was born in Greenfield, Indiana, April 28, 1862. Ilis father, Oliver Domon, of Freneh parentage, was born in Soulee, Switzer- land, and came to this country in 1853, sailing from Havre, France, to New York, the voyage lasting five or six weeks. Ile found work in In- diana, and when the great eivil war began, enlisted as sergeant of Company A, of the Eighth Indiana Infantry, receiving an honorable discharge, August
6, 1861. In 1878, he came to Nebraska, first filing on a pre-emption claim in Boone county, under a soldier's right. Coming to Valley county, he bought a traet, and filed on a homestead on Davis creek, two hundred and thirty acres in all, where he lived at the time of his death, on January 30, 1902. The venerable mother, who was Antoinette Domon in maidenhood, although of no kin to her husband, continues to make this her home.
Mr. Domon received his education in the schools of Indianapolis, and later worked in a fur- niture factory for three and one half years. So efficient was he, even as a youth, that the owner offered to send him return fare any time he might be willing to resume his old place. When he was sixteen years of age, he came with the family to Valley county, but, owing to hard times, sought work elsewhere for a number of years. He was employed for over two years in the coach depart- ment of the Burlington and Missouri at Platts- mouth, and one year at the Omaha Smelter Com- pany. While here he kept a friend from perishing in the blizzard of January 12, 1888. For three years he was employed as a painter and glazier for the Union Pacific railroad at Denver, and then re- turned to the farm. As none of the family had ever lived on a farm before coming to Nebraska, they encountered more than the usual amount of misfortune and discouragements, with which all the pioneers had to contend. However, they learned much by experienee, and never lost faith in the possibilities of Nebraska, and their faith has been rewarded, for they have lived to see their hopes realized, and the mother is still living in the com- fortable home, which was built long years ago.
On Christmas day of 1904, Mr. Domon married MASS Rose Honeycutt, who was born in Valley county. She is a daughter of William and Eliza- beth ( Silence) Honeycutt, who settled near the east line of Valley county in 1879. The mother died, September 22, 1906, and the father makes his home most of the time with Mrs. Domon. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Domon, all of whom are at home. They are named as follows: Pansy Marie, Henry William, Mary Louise, and Alberta May. The latter came near meeting death in a horrible way when the dwelling burned, June 21, 1911. But for the mother's heroism in break- ing through a window, and entering the flame and smoke filled room just in time to rescue the little one, her life would have been cut short in early infancy. There is no danger too great to be braved by mother love.
Six years after his marriage, Mr. Domon pur- chased seventy acres, which has at one time be- longed to his father, and later a forty-acre tract ad- joining. This he sold in August, 1911, and moved to Ord, where he took possession of a meat market he had purchased. IIere his genial na- ture brought a large increase of business over that enjoyed by his predecessor. He has always been in the lead, no matter what movement was
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organized, when the end sought was the develop- ment of the locality. He has several times held offiees connected with the local schools, and for three years was road commissioner. He is a demoerat in national polities, but loeally votes for the man whom he considers the best. He is a member of the Aneient Order of United Work- men.
BENJAMIN KNIGHT.
The Knights are among the earlier settlers of eentral Nebraska, and Benjamin Knight is well known as a man of upright character and pro- gressive ideas and is a substantial citizen. He was born at Sun Prairie Dane county, Wiseonsin, January 18, 1853, eldest of the three sons of Ed- ward and Arabella (Thompson) Knight, his brothers being Abram T. and Josiah L. H. The father was a native of Vermont, and the mother of Queens county, Ireland. She came to the United States about 1850, and she and Mr. Knight were married at Sun Prairie in 1852. Their three sons were born and reared in a Wiseonsin farm house and there received their education.
In Mareh, 1878, Benjamin Knight left his na- tive state, and came to Custer eounty, Nebraska, filing on the east half of the east half of seetion thirty-five, township seventeen, range seventeen, and in April of the same year, he returned to Wisconsin, and there inarried Rachel Jane Buoy, daughter of James and Mary (Griffith) Buoy, their union being celebrated at Sun Prairie, April 15, 1878. In the latter part of that month, they located on the new home- stead in Custer eounty. In February, 1879, Mr. Knight's mother and father eame to Custer county, and took a homestead on seetion two, township six- teen, range seventeen.
In December, 1879, Abram T. Knight came to the state, and made a timber elaim, but did not make a permanent home there. The other brother, Josiah L. H. Knight, came to Custer eounty in May, 1884, with his wife. He had been to visit the rest of his family in the summer of 1882, and went baek to Michigan to be married. Upon his return, he and his wife went to live on his fath- er's homestead farm, which he purchased. He had also seeured a timber elaim in Custer county in 1880, on seetion two, township sixteen, range seventeen. His wife was Mary MeKee of Miehi- gan. The father, Edward Knight, died on the homestead farm of his son, Benjamin, May 11, 1887, and the mother died there, Mareh 27, 1902. Ahram T. Knight died at Beloit, Wisconsin, No- vember 23, 1882. The other brother, Josiah L. H. Knight, died at his home in Lee Park, Custer county, September 13, 1896, and his widow, Mrs. Mary Knight, now owns the home farm of fonr hundred aeres of land, part of which is the original homestead.
Benjamin Knight is the only survivor of his father's family, and he and his wife have made
their home on the original homestead continuous- ly sinee 1878, exeept for ten years (1885 to 1895) spent n Box Butte Nebraska, nine miles west of where Allianee is now situated. He has had an important part in the development and upbuild- ing of this part of the state, and is one of the few of the original homesteaders who still remain on their first farm. He has a vine-covered sod house, surrounded by shade and ornamental trees, set out by himself and wife, which makes one of the most pieturesque views in our illustrated pages. He has one of the most productive orchards of this part of the state, with both old and new setting of trees and bushes. He has surely learned the seeret of horticulture. The writer in his travels throughout half the states of the union never saw trees so loaded down with fruit as was this orehard in the fall of 1911. It includes forty varieties of apples, besides cherries, peaches and pears, also mulberries. There are more than ten varieties of forest trees on the place.
Mr. Knight has served his township as assess- or, road overseer, and on the school board, al- though he has never sought politieal preferment. In polities he votes independently of party lines. In religious faith he was reared a Congregation- alist, while Mrs. Knight was brought up in the Baptist faith, but both have at times allied them- selves with the United Brethren and the Wesley- an Methodists when there was no congregation of their own faith in the neighborhood.
CARL ZIBELL.
Carl Zibell who retired from his farm on section six, township twenty-five, range one, Pierce county, in 1910, and is now a resident of the county seat, is one of the leading old settlers in northeast Nebraska who has always done his share in the betterment of conditions throngout the community in which he lives.
Mr. Zibell was born, May 22, 1842, in the vil- lage of Ritzenhalen, provinee of Pomerania, Ger- many, where he received his education and learn- ed the blacksmith's trade. He served his native country as a soldier in the army, and participated in the strife between Germany and Anstria in 1866.
When our subjeet came to America, he sailed from Hamburg, Germany, on a sailboat, and was on the water eight weeks. Landing at Quebec, he came west to Wiseonsin, and became a resident of IIerman, Dodge county, where he lived elev- en years, working at his trade. He then came to Norfolk, Nebraska, where he bought a hlaek- smith shop and continued in that business there for ten years. Ile then bought three hundred and forty aeres of land, in section six, and resided there until retiring in 1910. Ile erected a good frame house, planted an orchard and forest trees, now having a beautiful grove.
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