Compendium of history, reminiscence, and biography of Nebraska : containing a history of the state of Nebraska also a compendium of reminiscence and biography containing biographical sketches of hundreds of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of Nebraska, Part 154

Author: Alden Publishing Company
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago : Alden Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1402


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Mr. and Mrs. Widhalm are the parents of twelve children, whose names are as follows: Anna, Mary, wife of John Hoffmann; John, Frank, Louis, Leo, Joseph, Rosa, Flora, Fred, Agnes and Vincent.


Mr. and Mrs. Widhalm and family are of the Catholic faith. The family is held in high es- teem by all who know them, and they have a happy and pleasant home.


JOHN WILSON.


John Wilson, who is a prominent old settler of Merrick county, Nebraska, resides in Clarks. Mr. Wilson was born in Randolph county, Illi- nois, December 10, 1840, and was fourth of five sons and two daughters in the family of Henry and Nancy Wilson. Ile grew up to his young manhood on his father's farm, the father being a pioneer of Illinois, and our subject remembers the old block-house with its portholes in it, as a reminder of the early settler days of Illinois.


On August 20, 1861, Mr. Wilson enlisted in Company C, Thirtieth Illinois Volunteer In- fantry. IIe has an honorable war record and was in many battles and skirmishes. Mr. Wilson's first engagement was in the battle of Belmont, Missouri, and was with Sherman at Atlanta. He was mustered out at Atlanta, and discharged in


September, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and then returned to his home in Illinois.


December 21, 1865, Mr. Wilson was married to Sarah McDonald, who was also a native of Illinois. In September, 1872, Mr. Wilson, wife and two children moved from Illinois to Merrick county, Nebraska, going by boat to Kansas City and then by wagon and team to Nebraska, where they homesteaded on section eight, township fourteen, range five, five miles west of Clarks, Merrick county, Nebraska. Here they lived until 1899, when Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and family moved to Clarks, where they now reside. He still owns the original homestead.


Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have had six children. three born in Illinois and three in Nebraska, three of whom are living: Nancy, wife of Robert Mor- rison, has four children and lives in North Da- kota; Mary Ella, wife of James Gray, has one child and resides in Merrick county; and Samuel, married, has seven children, and lives on the old homestead farm. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson also have a granddaughter, child of Sadie, who is deceased.


F. A. JOHNSON.


Among the men who came here in the early days is the subject of this sketch, residing on section twenty-four, of Columbia township, Knox county. He is known throughout that part of Nebraska as a leading citizen and a worthy representative of its agricultural region.


Mr. Johnson is a native of Sweden, born April 15, 1858, in Myrlanda, Jenspening prov- ince. His parents were J. P. and Anna Johnson, who brought their family of nine children to America in 1876, when our subject was a mere boy. After a tedious journey across the sea, on landing in New York, they immediately set out for the west, their first location being in Page county, Iowa. The parents continued to live in Page county, Iowa, until /their death. Seven years were spent in that vicinity, F. A. Johnson then coming on to Wakefield, Nebraska, securing a farm of eighty acres, which he operated for nine years and then sold it. In 1892 he moved to Knox county, Nebraska, purchased a tract of land and started farming. He went through some hard times in getting things in good shape, but eventually succeeded in building np one of the finest farms in the county, and is known through- out the region as a progressive and practical farmer and stockman.


In 1884, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Selma Falk, in Page county, Iowa, and to them have been born the following children: Edgar, Victor, Joseph, Reuben, Mabel, Effie, Paul, Niame, Lawrence, Bernice and Carl. Mrs. Johnson died October 17, 1908.


The family has a comfortable home, and takes an active part in neighborhood affairs, both so- cial and political, looking to the betterment of conditions.


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Mr. Johnson now owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, but farms a half section, as he rents one quarter seetion.


Mr. Johnson and his family belong to the Swedish Mission church at Wansa. In politics Mr. Johnson is independent.


JOHN T. COYLE.


The gentleman above named has resided in Boone county since the days of its earliest settle- ment, during which time he has become familiar to all who reside there, and takes a foremost place among them as an energetic agriculturalist and earnest public-spirited citizen. He owns a valuable farm and makes his home on section thirty-three.


John T. Coyle was born in Cook county, Illi- nois, on April 16, 1863, and was the youngest of three children in the family of Patrick and Mar- garet Coyle, the former a native of Ireland, born in 1827, and coming to America when about nine years of age. He was married in Utica, New York, to Margaret Ely, in 1846, and had two daughters and one son, our subject; Catherine, who became the wife of George E. Williard, residing in Columbus, Nebraska; and Margaret, wife of David Spencer, they living in St. Ed- ward, Nebraska. Patrick Coyle and his wife set- tled in Illinois after having spent several years in different states, and made that state his home up to 1871, when he came to Nebraska, home- steading in Boone county, on sections thirty-three and thirty-four, township nineteen, range five, building a dwelling house on section thirty-three. the lumber for the same being hanled from Columbus. From the very first Mr. Coyle took an active interest in the building up of his adopted county, and became known throughout his part of the state as one of the prominent pub- lic-spirited citizens. He died on the home farm on the eighteenth of June, 1904, and had sur- vived his wife for twelve years.


John T. Coyle practically grew up in Boone county, coming here with his parents in his ninth year, and he still occupies his father's original homestead, which has been cultivated and im- proved until it is now one of the most productive and best equipped places in the section.


On November 13, 1888, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Fodey, the ceremony taking place in St. Edward, where both were well known and had many friends. Miss Fodey was a native of Cook county, Illinois, and her family still reside in that state. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Coyle, William Pat- rick, now in his twentieth year. The family have a pleasant home, and are greatly respected in their community.


W. II. SNIDER.


The prosperity enjoyed within the borders of eastern Nebraska is dne largely to the enterprise


and thrift of the agriculturalists of that region. Their well improved and tilled farms show good management and painstaking care, and in no lo- cality is this more apparent than in Antelope county, where Mr. Snider resides. He is a sub- stantial farmer and ranchman, who has acquired a good home by persistent industry and honest dealings, and is highly esteemed as a worthy citizen and progressive agriculturalist.


W. H. Snider is a native of Andrew county, Missouri, born January 12, 1851. His father, Samuel Snider, was in the civil war, enlisting in Company G, Missouri Infantry, under Captain Scott. He enlisted in 1862 and remained in the army until 1865. Our subject's father died in the year of 1909 at the advanced age of eighty- four years, honored and respected by all.


From Missouri onr subject went to Iowa and then to Oregon and worked in a logging camp for a few years, going from there to Butler county, Nebraska, where he farmed until 1902. He then came to Antelope county in 1903, buying three hundred and twenty acres of good land in section eight, township twenty-six, range seven, where he has built a good home and has one of the finest groves in the country, the grove contain- ing twelve acres of trees. This year Mr. Snider raised twenty acres of oats and one hundred and fifty acres of corn.


Mr. Snider was united in marriage January 1, 1883, to Miss Jennie Drumond. Mr. and Mrs. Snider have had five children born to them, whose names are the following: Edward, Wil- liam, Walter, Charles and Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Snider enjoy the high regard and esteem of all. EDWARD C. HOUSE.


Edward C. House has long been identified with the business life of Custer and adjoining counties, and is in touch with various real estate firms in other states. He was born on a farm near Portage, Wisconsin, June 28, 1858, ninth of the eleven children of James D. and Francis Honse, natives of England. He is the only one of the family living in Nebraska, although he has three brothers and four sisters now surviving. The parents came to the United States in 1848, bringing with them fonr sons and one daughter, six sons and four daughters being born to them in the United States. Two of the sons served in the civil war and one of them, John, was confined in Libby and Andersonville prisons.


In his seventeenth year, Mr. Honse left his Wisconsin home and went to Minnesota, going on to Dakota in 1881, and coming to Custer county, September 29, 1886. He had lost his father when he was six years of age and when twelve years old went out on a farm to work, at a wage of ten dollars a month, which he divided with his mother to help keep the family together, continuing this until he began learning the trade of saddler, in his seventeenth year. When twenty years old he engaged in the harness and saddlery business for himself in Herman, Grant county, Minnesota. During the winter of 1880-1,


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he went to Dakota, where he began soliciting fire insurance, with Sioux Falls as his head- quarters. In 1886 he came to Broken Bow, Cus- ter county, Nebraska, and engaged in the in- surance and real estate business. He is the oldest active real estate dealer in Broken Bow, in point of years engaged in the business, and is widely known in that field. He has been active along all lines of progress and has served on the city eouneil and in other public offices. He is a self- made man, having small opportunities in his youth to advance himself, as he could attend school only during the winter terms. He helped to care for his mother until her death, in 1884. Mr. House was married in Broken Bow, July 2, 1890, to Susie I., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Cole. Her parents came from Illinois to Nebraska in 1888, and in 1899 moved to Boise, Idaho, where both died. Mr. and Mrs. House have two children, both born in Broken Bow : Della and Nathaniel J.


WILLIAM HENRY HUWALDT.


The gentleman whose name heads this review has been familiar with Nebraska since 1866, when, before his marriage, he sojourned a few months in the state in the construction of the Union Pacific railroad, being employed driving an ox team between Omaha and Columbus. Pre- viously he had been employed in a like capacity on the Mississippi & Missouri railroad, (which is now known as the Rock Island), between Grin- nell and Council Bluffs, Iowa. After completing his work at Columbus, he wished to return to the west, and in so doing was obliged to walk three hundred miles on the roadbed to a point some seventeen miles west of Des Moines, the farther- est point west to which the tracks had been laid. His next job was on the gravel train surfacing the line, and when work in that department was ended, he returned to Davenport, Iowa, where he had first obtained work on railroad construction.


Mr. Hnwaldt was born July 4, 1842, his birth- place being about six miles from Keil, Holstein, then a province of Denmark, in sight of the ocean. His parents were John and Magdelena (Gracher) Huwaldt, who came to America in 187I, reaching Chicago at the time of the great fire, when they were driven from the place they had stopped on two different occasions. They went to Davenport, Iowa, after a short stay in Chicago, where the former secured employment as nightwatchman in a factory. holding that sit- nation for abont seven years. In 1880 the family removed to Nebraska and resided there perma- nently, the father dying when eighty-five years of age, and the mother at eighty-six.


Our subject was a brick maker by trade. learning the work in Germany. Trouble between Germany and Denmark had been brewing for some years, and it so happened that there had heen a elash between the two nations along the


border. Mr. Huwaldt, who had been sent to de- liver to the army some straw, was pressed into service to bring some wounded men into Kiel. This set him to thinking that he was liable to be drafted and might soon be in a hospital or under ground, so with several companions he started out-no passports being necessary, owing to the disordered state of the country-and embarked at Hamburg, on February 17, 1864, for America, landing in Castle Garden after a voyage lasting seventeen days. With some friends, Mr. Huwaldt came west, stopping at Davenport, Iowa, where for the first year he worked on a farm near that place; the following year he found employment on a steamboat plying the river between St. Louis and St. Paul, and here learned his first English, which, as usual, was profanity of the picturesque variety common to the vocabulary of the second mate. Several years were spent following differ- ent lines of work, latterly doing teaming in Davenport.


In 1878 he traded his home in that city for two hundred and forty acres of land in Pierce county, Nebraska, receiving besides three hun- dred dollars in cash. He immediately moved on the place, section eighteen, township twenty- seven, range two, built a small shack, for which the lumber was hauled from Yankton and Wis- ner, the distance to both places being over fifty miles. The building was a rude affair, and to make it more comfortable he fastened willow branches between the studding, plastered the space back of them full of mud, serving to keep out the cold and make it steadier during the high winds which swept the plains. He later erected a comfortable house and latterly a fine dwelling in keeping with the size of the estate, which from time to time he increased, finally acquiring more than seven hundred acres of good farm and ranch land. He has, however, disposed of a part of this and retired from active labor, purchasing a pleasant home in Osmond, where he is prepared to enjoy his declining years.


A view of the old home place, known as Pleasant Hill Farm, with its five or six acres of trees and two aeres of orchard, is to be found on another page of this work.


Mr. Huwaldt was married at Davenport, Iowa, January 9, 1870, to Miss Mary Mehrens, a na- tive of the village of Klein-Volsted, Holstein, who in 1886 came to America with her parents, Joachim and Margarita (Siems) Mehrens, na- tives of Scheurp and Sigeberg, respectively, vil- lages of Holstein, then a province of Denmark.


Mr. and Mrs. Huwaldt have had ten children, eight of whom are now living. namely: Henry. married Maggie Koppelmann : Annie is the wife of Fred Dau; Emma, is Mrs. Henry Kaehler; Her- man, married Lena Wecker; Alvina, is the wife of John Rohrberg; Ida, is the wife of William Beckman; Sophia, is Mrs. Henry Bronkherst : and Minnie, now Mrs. John Lorenz, all of whom are well settled in life.


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Mr. Huwaldt was reared in the Lutheran church and is a thorough christian gentleman. He is a member of the Sons of Herman and is active in the work of that lodge. During his residence in Osmond, Mr. Huwaldt has held local office, at the present time serving in the city council.


KENDRICK WILLARD KIMBALL.


Kendrick Willard Kimball is one of the most successful farmers and stock dealers of Custer county, is a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, born February 5, 1851, fourth child of Kendrick and Mary (McDonald) Kimball, who were parents of two sons and four daughters. When he was about two years old the family moved to a farm seven miles north of Oshkosh, in Winnebago county, and there he was reared to manhood, receiving rather a meager education in the district schools. At that time Oshkosh was a settlement of slab shanties in the lumber district of the state and the people in the neighborhood had but few com- forts and conveniences. When in his nineteenth- year, Mr. Kimball started in life on his own account, making his home in Winnebago county, with the exception of two years in Calumet county, until the spring of 1882. He followed railroad work in his native state and then re- turned to farming. He was married at Stock- bridge, Wisconsin, October 19, 1875, at the home of the bride's parents, to Miss Myra Bourne, daughter of Captain Franklin and Mary (Smith) Bourne. Captain Bourne followed the sea for twenty-five years, much of the time in command of a vessel sailing from New Bedford, Massa- chusetts.


In the spring of 1882, with his wife and three children, Mr. Kimball came to Grand Island by train, thence by wagon to Custer county, and located on his homestead on the northeast quar- ter of section seven, township sixteen, range seventeen, landing at this place May 10, 1882. This remained his home until his retirement and removal to Ansley in 1911, at which time he had two hundred and eighty acres of land in the home place, one hundred and sixty acres in the home- stead, and one hundred and twenty acres in a timber claim. He has passed through the years of drouth, the years of panic, and the years when people with the money to pay for food supplies found them scarce and hard to buy. The first trading point was at Grand Island, seventy-five miles distant, and it took five days to make the round trip. For the past thirty years Mr. Kim- ball has been identified with the progress and development of central Nebraska and he has al- ways given his assistance to the promotion of educational measures and advancement along all lines. His brother, Frank, came to York county, Nebraska. in 1877, and in the fall of 1879 came to Custer county, heing a pioneer homesteader, but he is now a resident of Cloud Chief, Okla- homa. IIe and Kendrick were the only members


of the family who came to Nebraska and none of Mrs. Kimball's family came.


Seven children were born to Mr. Kimball and wife, as follows: Harry, an undertaker of Broken Bow, was born in Wisconsin, married Miss Emma Ward, and they have one child; Mamie, who was born in Wisconsin, married Arthur J. Anderson, a farmer of township six- teen, range seventeen, and they have four sons; Jessie, also born in Wisconsin, is the wife of John Hall, who lives in Ansley precinct; Bert, born in Custer county, now living near Berwin, married Mabel House, and they have two sons; Kendrick C., an electrical engineer, lives at Tri- dent, Montana; Ruth, is the wife of Uriah S. Louden, and they live on the home farm; Theo., is at home. Mr. Kimball makes a specialty of feeding stock and shipping hogs and also deals in other stock. He improved and developed a fine grain and stock farm, and is successful as the result of industry and energy. In political views he sides with the republican party, as do all his sons and sons-in-law. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, to which two sons and as many sons-in-law also belong.


Like most of the neighbors of the vicinity, Mr. Kimball attended the sale nearby on January 12, 1888, and was caught away from home in the bliz- zard. He remained up all night, taking care of his cattle. In 1894, the dry year, he raised but seventeen bushels of wheat on thirty-five acres of ground, and on forty-five acres not an ear of corn, though it gave promise of a fine yield until a day of hot.winds, when it was baked dry in the sun. Hail had destroyed nearly every growing thing the year before, making a period of great hardships. A "soddy" sheltered the family from 1883 until 1904, when the present residence, a neat cottage, was erected. We give a view of it on another page, together with the immense barn and other excellent outbuildings. The place is known as White Clover Farm. In the fall of 1911. Mr. Kimball purchased a neat cottage home in Ansley, and retired from active farming.


PETER E. PETERSEN.


Another well-known and highly esteemed old settler of Pierce county, Nebraska, is found in the person above named. He has made this region his home for upwards of thirty years, coming here as a boy of thirteen, and during that time has experienced the hardships encountered in the early days, and later has accumulated land, which is located in section twenty-three, town- ship twenty-eight, range three, Pierce county, Nebraska, where he is considered a prominent and respected member of the community.


Mr. Petersen was born September 19, 1867, in Scott county, Iowa, ten miles north of Davenport. He was tenth in the family of eleven children born to Hans J. Petersen, who was a shepherd in his native province, Holstein, in the old country,


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"PLEASANT HILL FARM," PROPERTY OF WILLIAM H. HUWALDT.


SODDY BUILT 1882


"WHITE CLOVER FARM," PROPERTY OF K. W. KIMBALL.


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and who was married in 1849 or 1850 to Miss Anna Helena Geest, a native of the same prov- ince. He died in 1891, at the age of sixty-seven years.


Mr. Petersen's father brought his family to Ameriea about 1865, sailing from Hamburg, Germany. After landing in New York, he came to Davenport, Iowa, near where they resided until 1881, the father keeping the family in town while he sought work in the country, and later rented a farm, on which they lived until removing to Ne- braska. They came to Pierce county in 1881 and after renting three years south of Pierce, our subject's father bought eighty acres, on part of which Osmond now stands. On April 17, 1881, while living near the river bank south of Pierce, they experieneed a flood, the water standing three feet deep in the house, and did not recede for three days; during this time the family lived up- stairs, having to live on cold lunches, as the stove was under water. At this time they lost what grain they had in the granary, purchased to keep their stock going until they could raise a supply.


At the time of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, Mr. Petersen was at school, and made his way home, half a mile, through the blinding, suffocating storm. He was in the country early enough to see antelope grazing where Osmond is now located, and saw many prairie fires, although the family never suffered loss through them.


Mr. Petersen was married January 29, 1896, to Miss Anna Goetsch, a native of Davenport, Iowa. Her father, Henry Goetsch, was a native of Germany, but came to America when he was but twelve years of age. He was a member of the police force of Davenport for eighteen years. Here he married Cecelia Meinert, and in 1904 came to Nebraska, settling in Antelope county.


Mr. and Mrs. Petersen are the parents of five children, whose names are as follows: Selma, Hans, Henry, Ella and Elmer.


Mr. Petersen is a member of the Presbyterian church of his loeality, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen lodges. He votes the republican ticket.


In 1890, Mr. Petersen bought the land he now occupies. and in 1895 ereeted the present resi- dence, at that time one of the largest and finest in this part of the county.


WILLIAM JAMES CROW.


William James Crow, whose fine farm in Warsaw precinet, is a eredit to the agricultural section of Howard county, is a man of untiring energy, and classed among the wealthy and sue- cessful pioneers of that part of Nebraska, hav- ing passed through all the carly Nebraska times.


Mr. Crow was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, on February 12, 1862, and came into Iloward county with his parents, Christopher and Susanne (McCracken) Crow, in the spring of


1872. He was the eldest in a family of ten children, seven born in Howard county. His mother died here in 1880, and after some time his father was married again to Margaret Crow, who, although of the same name, was no relation. They had eight children. The family settled on what is known as "Canada Hill," near St. Paul, and there William remained until he was twenty- one years of age, helping his father to develop a good farm, and in the meantime receiving a com- mon school education. He was married there March 1, 1882, to Lottie Alice Hill, who was also a native of Canada and eame to Nebraska with her parents, Edward J. and Alice (Horner) Hill, in 1881. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Crow moved on a farm near Warsaw, which Mr. Crow had previously purchased, and they lived on this place two and a half years, then sold out and moved to Aricaree, Colorado. They farmed there for two and a half years, but did not meet with much success, so decided to return to Ne- braska.


After coming back to Howard eounty Mr. Crow purchased a farm on section twenty-five, township fifteen, range eleven, which has re- mained his home place up to the present time. He has built up a productive farm, carrying on grain and stock raising, and has a finely equipped place, supplied with good buildings, including a nice modern residence, and small orchard. It is situated on Canada Hill, and is a very desirable tract. Besides this farm, Mr. Crow owns half a seetion of land in Custer county, also some land in Lincoln county and a town residence in St. Paul. He is prominent and successful in every way, well known and highly esteemed by all, and both his wife and himself have many family eon- nections and a large number of friends in every walk of life.




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