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Mr. Hutchinson is a native of Lafayette county, Wisconsin, born March 27, 1859. His father, William Hutchinson, is a native of Eng-
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land, born in Keswick village, Cumberland county ; and our subject's mother, who was Miss Alderson, is also a native of England, being born ยท in Newcastle. From his native state, out sub- ject in 1868 went to Iowa where he remained eleven years; and in February, 1879 came to Ne- braska, driving the entire distance in a covered wagon. He had heard the glowing acounts of this new country, of the land being so cheap and of such good soil, and decided this was the best place for a poor man without a competence to get a strat. He located in Antelope county where he brought one hnudred and sixty acres of railroad land. On this land he built a frame house fourteen by sixteen, and two years later built an addition of twelve by fourteen to this. He now has a beautiful home, well improved farm and a fine orchard and grove. In those first days of our subject's settlement in this part of the state, many disappointments and failures were experienced. In 1894 Mr. Hutchinson lost all his crops by the drouth. He got one hundred and fifty bushels of wheat off of forty acres of land : he suffered another loss in the memorable hail- storm of 1883, losing all small grain and the greater part of his corn erop.
On September 15, 1886 Mr. Hutchinson was united in marriage to Miss Julia Harmon, and Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are the parents of three children, whose names are as follows: Georgie, Clyde, and Iva, the last named died when a small child.
Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are surrounded in their beautiful home by a host of warm friends and enjoy the high esteem and respect of all who know them.
CHARLES R. MATHEWS.
Charles R. Mathews, a leading citizen of his part of Custer county, Nebraska, is one of the oldest settlers in central Nebraska. He was born in Virginia, March 11, 1843, next to the eldest child of Samuel G. and Naomi (Hudson) Mathews, who were parents of three sons and two daugh- ters. The parents were natives of Virginia and the history of the Mathews family goes back to colonial times in Virginia, Samuel Mathews who died in 1660, being one of the three elected gov- ernors of Viriginia, and he was one of the direct ancestors of the subject of this sketch. The father of Charles R. Mathews died in 1865 and the mother in 1868. One son, Jacob, lives in West Virginia and Mrs. Caroline Daniels also lives in that state.
Mr. Mathews lived in his native state until the spring of 1874, and while attending a horti- cultural and pomological fair at Richmond saw a fine display of Nebraska products, which gave him an impetus to visit that state. He organized a party of eleven persons to come 'west, which arrived in Omaha, April 4, 1874. The only ones
of this number who now live in Custer county are Mr. Mathews and H. B. Andrews. The party came to Kearney, thence to Loup City, Sherman county, and there hired an outfit to explore the unorganized territory in the Middle Loup river valley, being caught during this trip in a severe blizzard. They proceeded up the valley, through drifts of snow, to the mouth of Victora creek and there met some hunters and trappers who expatiated on the beauties of Victoria valley, with its pure cold springs gushing from the banks of the creek and the dense forest of large cedar trees, the place afterward being known as Big Cedar common. After spending several days looking this country over the party returned to Loup City, then a town of one hundred inhabi- tants, and sixty miles distant from the place where Mr. Mathews made his homestead location. Among the first settlers on Victoria creek were H. B. Andrews, Edward Nelson and Charle's Mathews, and when Mr. Mathews was in Loup City for supplies in May, 1874, he met Oscar A. Smith and George E. Carr and induced them to locate adjoining homesteads along the creek. The next settler in the immediate neighborhood was Ezra A. Casewell, and Thomas Loughran took a homestead several miles further down the creek. In June Jacob Ross, with a family of grown daughters, made a welcome addition to the little community, and in the spring of 1875 Na- thaniel H. Dryden and his family, J. R. Forsyth and J. P. Bell, came there.
Victoria mineral springs, of pure cold water, are numerous in the vicinity of New Helena. Custer county, and are about the only mineral springs shown on the government map of the state. Some of the cedar log cabins erected there in 1874 and 1875 are still standing, and Mr. Mathews still occupies his, which was built in 1874. The country around his home is abundant with groves of beautiful trees and is a beautiful grain and stock region.' Some of the trees which were set out by the early settlers are now three fect in diameter, but none of the original cedar trees are left. The fine grove on the Mathews place was set out by Mr. Mathews and is used for picnics and outings. The water from the mineral spring on his place has been at times bottled and placed on the market.
During the winter of 1874 and 1875 Mr. Mathews circulated a petition to the government asking that a mail route be established from Kearney, via Loup City, Arcadia and Douglas Grove, to New Helena, and the first mail was brought over this route April 15, 1875. Febru- ary 9, of that year Mr. Mathews received a com- mission as postmaster of New Helena. In 1876 a general uprising took place among the Sioux Indians, causing much uneasiness, and many families went to Loup City for protection, but no serions trouble resulted. In early days the region was known as Kountz county, in honor of the
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Kountz brothers, of Omaha, but was not then regularly organized. Among the settlers of 1875 and 1876 were Isaac Merchant, W. O. Boley and Samuel Wagner. In 1878 the little settlement on Victoria creek had good crops and the following summer gave promise of an abundant harvest, over which prospects the settlers were exceedingly happy and held a fourth of July celebration at New Helena, but at that time one of the most severe and destructive hail storms ever experi- enced in the region came up and completely wiped out the crops. As late as 1880 the settlers hanled their seed grain from Central City and Grand Island, a distance of one hundred and twenty and one hundred and thirty miles.
Mr. Mathews served as county judge in 1881 and 1883, and still has in his possession the manuscript of the records of his first courts. Ile has assisted in a variety of ways in the progress and development of Custer county and is one of the most widely known men in central Nebraska. His original homestead, located on the bank of Victoria creek and containing a log cabin sur- rounded by a fine grove of trees, is one of the landmarks of the region, being one of the pioneer estates that have changed but little in many years. There are fine springs in the neighbor- hood of the house and it is in a fine location. This is one of the best farms in the coutry and has a fine orchard, which adds greatly to its charm and value. In early years Mr. Mathews helped locate many of the pioneers and was one of the most prominent men in the valley. He is a demo- crat in polites and is well posted on the leading questions and issues. of the day. Although of a modest and quiet disposition, he has been actively identified with every measure of reform and pro- gress which has come to his notice and is highly esteemed for his many fine qualities of mind and heart.
GREGOR MCGREGOR.
The blood of the highlands flows in the veins of Gregor MeGregor, the veteran blacksmith of Hartington, and his tongue has not forgotten all the gaelic his boyhood's ear heard around the family fireside. His portrait is presented on another page. His father, John McGregor, was born in the state of New York, and the grand- father in the highlands of Scotland, a "hiela- man," a the gaels are called on their native hills. The mother, Agnes Lowrie, was born in the low- lands of Scotland and came to Canada with her parents.
Mr. McGregor was born in Ridgetown, Ontario, August 14, 1849, and ten years later the family moved to Blenheim where later Gregor learned the blacksmiths' trade; in 1869 he came west and for a year found work in the shops at Omaha. In March, 1870, he started for Cedar county, Ne- braska, coming by rail to Sioux City, and from
Covington, (now South Sioux City), rode as far as Ponca on a freight wagon. From Ponca he started to walk to St. James and covered twenty- two miles the first day, reaching the home of Mr .. Me Querry at Lynne creek some time after night fall, where, foot-ore and weary, he spent the night. Continuing the journey next morning, he reached St. James, his destination, an hour or two past noon, March 20, 1870. He at once set up his forge and soon had a thriving business, being the first and for a time the only blacksmith in that part of Nebraska. Work was brought to him for miles around, settlers from far away at Niobrara coming to Hoese's mill with their grist brought the inending needed at the smithy along with them, having that done while waiting their turns at the mill, which sometimes took several days.
The first of January following, Mr. McGre- gor opened a shop at Jones Mill and remained in that location until in August, when he returned to St. James, bought the shop and for ten years made the sparks fly and the anvil ring in that location. Moving to St. Helena in the fall of 1881 he opened a shop there and served the com- munity with smith work until the establishment of Hartington in September of 1883. He bought lots in town, built a shop, and for two years ran the first smithy in town; in 1885 he sold his shop and, in partnership with J. M. Lemmon, opened a livery establishment which they ran for ten years. After selling his interest in this business in the fall of 1895, he returned to his boyhood home in Blenheim, remaining nine months work- ing at his trade. July 1 he went to Colorado and sojourned there four months, returning to Ne- braska and settling in Wayne the latter part of October, where he found work in a shop there.
In February of 1897 Mr. McGregor returned to Hartington, opened his present shop and has been at work at his forge here ever since. He is an expert farrier and his shop is crowded at all times with horses waiting to be shod. There are few, if any, in the region to equal him in this difficult branch of the trade. He knows how to handle nervous and fractions horses and put them more at their ease.
Mr. McGregor was married in Hartington, December 25, 1873, to Miss Alice Cole, daughter of Gideon and Ann Cole, who came to the state in the spring of 1870. Four children have bene born to Mr. and Mrs. McGregor, namely : Maud, wife of Robert 'Turner, now residing in Spokane, Washington; Mabel; Roy, a junior partner in a prosperous grocery store in Hartington, and Agnes.
Mr. MeGregor has passed safely through the many storms that have swept the western plains during the last forty years, and remembers well the few most notable blizzards that have taken toll of so many lives, both human and brute. He was living in St. Helena at the time of the three
GREGOR MCGREGOR.
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days' blizzard of April, 1873; was living in St. James at the time of the third blizzard of Octo- ber, 1880; and when the flood came in the spring following the winter of the deep snow, he helped rescue thirty people who were flooded out on the flats across the river in South Dakota. On Janu ary 12, 1888, the most destructive short time blizzard ever known, came rolling down on them from the north. Mr. MeGregor was carrying the mail to Yankton at that time and started on his trip; though severe he was able to make his way against the storm while the road lay within the timber, but on emerging into open country be- yond the horses refused to go, nor could they be forced to face the blast. He was forced to re- turn to the starting point and wait until the next day when, despite the low temperature-some twenty degrees below zero, he made his usual trip and returned. Few had the courage to face such a frosty blast. Mr. McGregor has seen the prair- ies covered with deer and antelope, and has killed deer on the present site of Coleridge.
Mr. McGregor, living in villages, has never dwelt in sod houses or dugouts, but he has at- tended "frolies" and danced in them. And those were jolly beyond a doubt; after recounting all their hardships and trials any of the old-timers will tell you that those days were the happiest of their lives.
Mr. McGregor is a democrat in poltics, and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America lodge.
GEORGE W. HARPER.
This gentleman was at the time of his death one of the oldest men of the state of Nebraska, who spent the greater part of their lives west of the Mississippi, and he had been a resident of Ne- braska since 1881. When he first came to Ne- braska white settlers were very widely scattered, there being but four houses between Creighton and Plainview, and three from the later place to Pierce.
Mr. Harper was born in Huron county, Ohio, October 29, 1833, and was six years old when his years old when his father removed to DeKalb county, Illinois. He grew to manhood in the later vicinity, and in 1885 went to Delaware county, Iowa, where he had purchased a small farm the previous year, which, together with rented land he cultivated for nine years, then moved to Earlville, lowa. Here he entered in the lumber business, also dealt in machinery, re- maining in this place until coming to Nebraska, in 1881.
On arriving in Nebraska he located at Bazille Mills, Knox county, and was landlord of the hotel there for four years then served as post- master for four years under Cleveland's first ad- ministration. After living on, and improving his tree claim, located five miles west of Creighton, for 33
one summer, he moved back to lowa, locating at Greeley, Deleware county, where he took the management of the Greely House for two years.
Returning to Nebraska Mr. Harper took up his residence at Plainview, Pierce county, in 1891, engaging successfully in the windmill business. Ile purchased some land, situated in the College addition to the town, helping to survey the site himself, and building in October of 1892, his resi- dence being the first on the new addition.
Surrounding this house is one of the finest groves in northeastern Nebraska, making of it during the summer, a beautiful shade bower, and one of the prettiest spots imaginable. Ilere Mr. Ilarper lived the remainder of his days, his death occuring January 26, 1910. Age seventy-six years and three months.
Mr. Harper was a son of Joseph and Susan IIarper, natives of New York and Vermont res- pectively, both passing from this life in Illinois a number of years ago. Our subject was married at Earlville, Iowa in September, 1866, to Amelia Jane Box, daughter of Henry Box and Mary Bates Box, both natives of England and married there. They now live at Grecley, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Harper had five children, all living named as follows : Nettie A., wife of Gearge W. Lane, living at Independence, Iowa; Harry Leroy, druggist and ex-member of the Nebraska State Board of Pharmacy Examiners, Beatrice, Nebraska; George Leslie, deputy sheriff at Dead- wood, South Dakota; Joseph Earle, druggist and member of the Nebraska State Board of Phar- macy Examiners, Clearwater, Nebraska, and Ralph Dyer, employed by the Homestake Mining Company at Deadwood, South Dakota.
Mr. Harper was always a democrat. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, Modern Woodmen of America and I. O. G. T. lodges, and himself and wife were members of the Rebeckah degree.
DAVID ROE.
For the past thirty years or more David Doe, a resident of Howard county, Nebraska, has iden- tified himself with the farming interests of War- saw precinct, and by building up a fine farm and lending his influence for good citizenship, he has become one of the most successful and prominent men of that locality.
Mr. Roe is a native of Canada, born Decem- ber 17, 1860, and is the second child in a family of three. The other two died while mere babes, leaving our subject the only child of his parents, and he was left 'motherless at the age of three years. His father married again, and with his family came to Howard county in 1872, arriv- ing here in March. Ile filed on a homestead, and David grew to manhood on the farm, at the age of twenty-one taking a claim on his own account, situated on section twenty-six, township four-
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tene, range eleven. Here he worked faithfully to build up a good home, and has succeeded in im- proving the place in first-class shape, now having a commodious residence and all good buildings, fine groves, orchards, etc. His farms comprise in all five hundred and sixty acres, which he devotes to mixed farming and stock raising.
In the fall of 1909, Mr. Roe rented his farms and bought a fine modern residence and grounds at Dannesborg, to which place he moved in Feb- ruary, 1910, and intends making this his future home although he devotes a part of his time to looking after his farming interests.
During his residence on his farm Mr. Roe was active in the affairs of his locality, serving as precinct assessor, road overseer, and other of- fices in the gift of his precinct, and was also moderator of school district number thirteen.
Mr. Roe's wife's maiden name was Eliza Dodd, and to them have been born thirteen children, ten of whom are now living: Mary Elizabeth, wife of Willard Morley, they living in Greeley county, Nebraska; James H., who lives near Al- liance, Nebraska; William D., married and living at New Raymer, Colorado; Frank A., who died April 20, 1910, survived by a widow; Ernest L., of Superior, Wyoming; Archie L., Arthur R., Lily Ruth, Albert W., Edward S., and Eliza Pearl, the last six living at home. John A. and Myrtle E. died in infancy. The family enjoys a large circle of acquaintances, and are among the popular members of the social set of their eom- munity.
FRANK S. HAYS.
Frank S. Hays owns a well equipped and splendidly improved stock and grain farm in Custer county, which has been his home for nearly twenty-five years. He is a successful and progres- sive farmer, actively interested in the general welfare of his county and state, and highly res- pected as a citizen. He is a native of McLean county, Illinois, and the youngest child of Henry Almarine (Rayborn) Hays. He has a brother, Marion G., in Custer county. The father was born in Virginia, of Irish descent, and the mother was a native of Kentucky. Both died in MeLean county, the former in 1860, and the later in No- vember, 1906.
Mr. Hays reached manhood in Illinois and was educated in the public schols, after which he engaged in farming on his own account. In i.75 he went to California and worked at farm- ing near San Jose, until 1879, when he returned to Illinois. He again secured work in San Jose, California, in the winter of 1880 and spent two years there, after which he spent several years traveling through many of the western states and engaging in various projects. He was married in Mclean county, Illinois, at the Dawson home, August 7, 1884, to Miss Minie A. Dawson, a native -
of Illinois and daughter of J. Marion and Melinda F. (Props) Dawson, the former a native of Illi- nois and the latter born in Virginia. The father lives in Nevada, Iowa, the mother died in that state in July, 1896. Mrs. Hayes has three brothers and one sister in Iowa; two sisters and one brother in Illinois, and one sister, Mrs. Orrin Campbell in Dawson county, Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. Hays made their home in Illi- nois for two years and in February, 1888, came with their only child, a daughter, to Custer county, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres on section twenty-eight, township seventeen, range eighteen, which has since been the home place. He now has a well improved and equipped stock and grain farm and is an energetic and suc- cessful farmer. He has served as treasurer of school district number four the past fifteen years, and for the past five years has been treasurer of the Odd Fellows lodge at Westerville.
Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mr. Hays, viz: Lida Constance, at home: Jes- sie A., a student in a commercial college at Broken Bow; Byron G., a student at Broken Bow ; Marion F., Loren H., Hazel M., W. Harold and Marie F., at home.
Mr. Hays is one of Custer county's early set- tlers and owns several valuable pieces of prop- erty. He and his wife have passed through the years of trials and privations incident to pioneer life and are well and favorably known in the region. They have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances and are rearing a fine family to do them honor.
Mrs. Hays and a neighbor, Mrs. Baker, were at the sale at Mr. Hickenbottom's the day of the well known blizzard of January 12, 1888, and, facing the storm, drove home through the blind- ing frozen mist, a feat few men accomplished for even half that distance. To Mrs. Hays fell the task of driving, and she reached home thoroughly chilled but uninjured.
In politics Mr. Hays is a democrat and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
PAUL FISCHER.
Paul Fischer, who resides on section thirteen, township twenty-one, range two, Madison county, Nebraska, is regarded as one of the leading citi- zens of his locality. He has always been one of the important factors in the upbuilding of his region, aiding materially in its development and growth from the time of its earliest settlement, he having been a resident of Madison county for over forty years.
Mr. Fischer is a native of Austria, where his birth occurred December 25, 1859; he is a son of John and Anna ( Karl) Fischer, hoth natives of German Austria ; the father was a coal miner by occupation in his native land. In 1868, our sub-
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ject, with his father, left their native home and came to America; they set sail from Bremen, Germany, and were on the sea eighteen days, then landing in New York. After arriving in the new world, they came to Kankakee county, Illinois, where they remained two years, the father working at whatever his hands found to do to support his family.
In 1870 the family, including our subject, came to Madison county, Nebraska, where they took up a homestead, the one our subject now resides on, he being one of the few to still hold to the old, original homestead farm. On this homestead the father built a sod house, in which the family lived for sixteen years, and later a frame house twelve by sixteen feet was put up. Mr. Fischer has improved this place until he has a beautiful home and well improved farm of three hundred and twenty acres of choice land.
Mr. Fischer and his parents came to Ne- braska when it was an almost unbroken prairie and scarcely knew the step or voice of a white man; in those days of frontier life, many hard- ships and privations were endured through plagues, fires, and drouths. The grasshoppers took all the crops the first few years of their residence in the new country, which was a very discouraging start ; many times the family fought prairie fires to save their lives and property, at one time losing considerable grain in the flames; and as late as 1894, our subject lost his entire crops by the hot winds that prevailed during the drouth of that season. In the early days, they burned corn stalks, weeds, and anything that conld be gotten hold of to use as fuel, as that commodity was scarce and high in price.
Mr. Fischer was united in marriage in 1873 to Miss Louise Jacobs, a native of Holstein, and Mr. and Mrs. Fischer are the parents of three children, whose names are as follows: John, Anna and Hattie. They are a fine family, and enjoy the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends.
CHARLES ELMER CANNON.
Charles Elmer Cannon belongs to one of the old and prominent families of the older families of Nebraska, of which state he is a native. He is a prosperous and successful farmer and well regarded as a progressive and public-spirited citizen. He has passed through the most import- ant period of Nebraska's history and has passed his entire life within the limits of the state. He was born in Lincoln, February 4, 1875, son of Samuel L. and Lottie (Young) Cannon, given extensive mention eleswhere in this work. The parents now reside in Broken Bow. Mr. ('annon is second of a family of five children and came with his parents to Custer county in 1884, re- ceiving his education there and growing to man- hood on his father's farm. When he was old enough he engaged in farming on his own ac-
count, and on February 4, 1902, was married, at the home of the bride's parents in Custer county to Floyd Leech, a native of Nemaha county, Nebraska, who was a teacher in the public schools before her marriage. She is a daughter of Corydon T. and Anna (Risley) Leech, of whom a more extended account is to be found elsewhere in this work. Four chil- dren have been born of this union: Helen Fay, Phylis Irene, Leonard C. and Winnefred Lottie, all of whom survive.
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