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of timber along the Missouri river, and opened a
woodyard, supplying fuel to the steamboats that plied the stream, and continued in this busi- ness until the fall of 1879, at which time he returned to his farm, and resided there up to 1885. In the fall of 1875, he was elected county commissioner, his nomination being made a few weeks prior to his coming of age. He served in this capacity for six years, and later as county clerk for a like period.
In 1890 he bought a third interest in the Niobrara Valley Bank, and was elected vice president of the institution, and six years later obtained a larger interest, being made president. Since that time he has been widening his opera- tions along the line of the Northwestern rail- road, purchasing banks at Cross, Bristow, Ver- del, Lynch and Monowi. The first two he has since sold, but retains the management of the others, which comprise a perfect chain of strong financial institutions tributary to the parent bank.
Mr. Nelson married Martha B. Lee in 1879. She is a native of Knox county, a daughter of Alfred Lee, who was one of the earliest settlers in Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have four children, as follows: Marion C., associated with his father in the banking business at Niobrara; Harry L., in charge of the bank at Verdel; Winnifred B., a graduate of the Niobrara High School, also of the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Omaha, class of 1907; and Howard, who is a student of St. John's Academy near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mr. Nelson is a republican, and one of his party's "wheel horses" in this part of the state. He was a member of the national convention that nominated our strenuous president in 1904. Mr. Nelson has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1887, and has attained to the thir- ty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, cross- ing the hot sands of the desert in Tangier Temple of the Mystic Shrine in 1887. With Mrs. Nelson, he is also a member of the Niobrara Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.
SIMILIEN L. PERIN.
Similien L. Perin, postmaster of Sargent, Nebraska, is one of the very early settlers of Custer county, and is one of the best known men of central Nebraska. He has, throughout the years of his residence there, supported the best interests of his community, and during the hard- est years never lost faith in the future of the county and state. Mr. Perin was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13, 1852, eldest of the eleven children of Samuel and Sophia (Rueblo) Perin, ten of whom now survive, namely : Similien ; S. W., of Lincoln, Nebraska; A. Z. and G. F., of Sargent; two sons in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; John L., of the Philippine Islands, in charge of the United States government stations
SIMILIEN L. PERIN.
MRS. SIMILIEN L. PERIN.
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at Balabac; Mrs. James D. Courtney, of Omaha ; Mrs. William Crinklaw; Mrs. Granville Ivers, of South Dakota. The father of these children was a native of Ohio, born near Cincinnati, and of German descent, and the mother was born in New Orleans, where they were married, and was of French parentage. He was a civil engineer by profession; settled in Custer county about 1884-5, and died on his homestead in January, 1888. His widow died in Lincoln, May 13, 1911.
In infancy Similien L. Perin accompanied his parents to Davenport, Iowa, and soon after- wards to Council Bluffs. At this time the father surveyed a large part of eastern Nebraska. While the boy lived in various parts of Iowa and Nebras- ka, he received most of his education in the form- er state, where most of his early life was spent.In the spring of 1879 he came to Custer county, look- ing for a place to locate and homesteaded one hun- dred and sixty acres of land and a tree claim of like size adjoining, on sections ten and eleven, township nineteen, range eighteen.He began plow- ing the virgin soil on his land that summer, and also broke land where the town of Sargent was afterward located. In the fall of the year, he returned to Iowa to spend the winter season, and the following spring brought his two brothers, S. W. and A. Z., with him, making the trip with covered wagons, and bringing with them horses and cattle.
In June, 1882, at Ord, Nebraska, Mr. Perin was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Tobias, a native of El Paso, Illinois, and the first teacher in the school at West Union, Custer county. They established their first home on the Custer county homestead, their nearest trading point then being Grand Island, one hundred miles dis- tant. Later, when the country began to be more settled, Mr. Perin moved to the south side of the river in order that he might have the benefit of better feeding privileges for his stock. He was obliged to meet many inconveniences and hard- ships in those days, and when going for supplies found it hard to cross the river, as there was no bridge constructed until he had lived in the locality four years. He was instrumental in or- ganizing school district number eighty-eight, and served many years as a member of its board.
In the fall of 1900, when the railroad was constructed through Sargent, Mr. Perin moved to that town and opened a hotel, later conducting a station of the Beatrice Creamery Company there. In 1905 he was appointed postmaster, and still holds that office. He and his wife have had four children : Harold I., married, and liv- ing in Sargent; Louis E., assistant manager of Dierk's lumber yard in Sargent; Willis W., at home, and Vida, who died at the age of three years. Mr. Perin, always public-spirited, lent his aid in the support of the progress and devel- opment of the central part of the state. He and the other members of the family have taken an active part in social and religious circles. He
is a prosperous and successful business man, and owns two hundred and fifty acres of land ad- joining the town of Sargent, besides good city properties. Mrs. Perin is a daughter of Israel C. Tobias and wife, early settlers of Custer coun- ty. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Perin appear on another page of this volume.
HON. AUGUSTUS F. KLIESE.
Augustus F. Kliese, who holds the office of county judge of Nance county, Nebraska, is a gentleman of brilliant, intellectual attainments and exceptional business ability, and who, during his career as leader of affairs, has proven himself highly worthy of the confidence imposed in him by his fellow men.
Judge Kliese is a native of Prussia, born March 14, 1839. He was the eldest of six chil- dren in the family of Frederick and Fredericka Kliese. When Augustus was a lad of four years, the entire family came to America, their first settlement being made in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the father and mother remained for five years, and then moved to Watertown, Wisconsin, where the mother died about 1852, after which the father moved to Washington county, Wis- consin, where his death occurred in 1901. Our subject remained in Wisconsin up to 1858, at that time enlisting in company F, First United States infantry of the regular army, going with his company to Texas on frontier service. After two years spent in that part of the country, he returned to Wisconsin, and in 1862 enlisted in company A, Twenty-second Wisconsin volunteer infantry, seeing active service for over a year, then was discharged, and received the appoint- ment of second lieutenant of company B, Sev- enteenth United States volunteers, colored troops. On February 6, 1864 he was promoted to first lieu- tenant company E, of the same regiment, serving as such up to October 26 of the following year, then received his commission as captain of com- pany F, of his regiment, filling this office up to April 25, 1866, when he received his honorable discharge from the army at Nashville, Tennes- see. He was on continuous duty for over four years, gaining the reputation of being a most faithful and conscientious man in the service, taking part in numerous battles, during which he never received a severe wound.
In the month of October, 1864, Mr. Kliese ob- tained a twenty-day leave of absence, made a trip to Janesville, Wisconsin, and was there married to Charlotte M. Weber, at the home of her parents. After leaving the army, they made Wisconsin their home up to the winter of 1868. Then Mr. Kliese went to Evanston, Illinois, where he was soon afterward joined by his wife and babe, and for eleven years they made that city their home. From there they moved to Wheaton, Illinois, settled on a farm, and re- mained on the place up to March, 1885, at that
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time coming to Nance county, Nebraska, where they have resided ever since. Our subject has been engaged in different lines of work since locating here. He carried on an implement and furniture business in Belgrade for ten years. He has been a leader in public life during his residence in the region, and in the fall of 1907 was elected to his present office.
Judge and Mrs. Kliese have had nine children, six of whom are now living, all married, and fill- ing honorable positions in life. They are named as follows : Edward A., Lottie A., Alice A., Mary E., John L. and Hattie B.
HON. HUGH A. ALLEN.
Hon. Hugh A. Allen of Atkinson, twice the representative of his district in the Nebraska legislature, came to the state in February, 1884, and settled on a quarter section of good land, seven miles northwest of Atkinson. The follow- ing year he sold that tract, and moved into town, engaging in the real estate business, and since that time he has bought, sold and traded thous- ands upon thousands of acres of Holt county land, and has prospered in this enterprise to a gratify- ing extent.
Mr. Allen was born near Danville, Vermillion county, Illinois, October 5, 1849, was reared on a farm southeast of Rossville. About the time he reached his majority, he went to Hoopeston, where for about fifteen years he was employed at various kinds of labor. However, seeing small prospects for acquiring a competency in his na- tive state, and learning of the opportunities offered in the west, through the reports of his father, who had moved to Nebraska in 1882, he followed his parents to Holt county, and settled on the farm above mentioned. He is a son of William I. and Emily (Newell) Allen, who is included in the circle of relationship to Ethan Allen of revolutionary fame. The father is a native of Burlington, Vermont, and the mother of Kentucky. The parents came to Illinois in the forties, and lived in that state until their coming to Nebraska in 1882. Upon coming to the latter state, they settled in Cherry county, where they lived until 1891.
Mr. Allen was married (first) in Holt county, in 1887, to Mary E. Logan. His second marriage took place in Lancaster county in 1905, when he was united with Mrs. Adelaide Spencer, who, by her former marriage to Simeon K. Spencer, had a daughter, Natalie, now a pupil in the Atkinson high school.
In politics Mr. Allen is a republican, and in 1908 and again 1910 was elected to represent his district in the state legislature. He has been suc- cessful in a business way since coming to Ne- braska, and has been able to acquire a compe- tency that will keep him in comfort when old age shall overtake him.He enjoys the full confidence of his neighbors and fellow men, and his course of
action in his public life during the year 1909 was such as to commend him for a second term, which he began in the session of 1911. He is always to be found supporting measures for the benefit of the common people, of whom he considers him- self one, and he understands them and their needs, as they in turn understand him, which accounts for their endorsement of him, and their support for a second term of office.
Mr. Allen is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, and, fraternally, belongs to the Masons and the A. O. U. W.
When he first came to Nebraska, deer were still to be seen on the prairie, though the buffalo had been driven farther west. Many of the set- tlers in those days used hay for fuel, but he never did so. Prairie fires were of frequent occurrence in the early days, and among the worst he ever assisted to fight was one that threatened a neigh- bor's buildings. With two other men, Mr. Allen worked to save this property, and at the time of doing it they were in imminent danger them- selves, having to wrap their heads in wet blankets in order to enable them to get close enough to the fire to work effectually to extinguish it. He has witnessed a remarkable change in conditions and surroundings since coming west, and has borne his share in promoting the general wel- fare and advancement of his community.
DANIEL J. POYNTER.
Daniel J. Poynter, editor and publisher of the Argus at Albion, Nebraska, is one of the best known professional and business men of his county and state.
Our subject was born in Woodford county, Illinois, on June 4, 1857, and was the youngest of three children in the family of William C. and Hulda Poynter. Daniel J. Poynter is the only member of the family now living. His father was always active along religious lines, a member of the ministry, and an elder in the Church of Christ for fifty years in Illinois, coming to Nebraska in 1888 in order to be near his sons, W. A. and our subject, who had settled here. He died in Albion on Christmas day, 1899, and his wife's death occurred in Albion in 1908.
Our subject left his native county when he was nineteen years of age, settling in Iroquois county, Illinois. He was married to Florence A. Gray, at the home of her parents near Butler, Illinois, on October 3, 1876, and they located on Mr. Poynter's farm in Iroquois county, remaining there until they came to Nebraska in 1881.
His first location here was on Plum creek, a few miles southwest of Albion, purchasing an original homestead and timber claim relinquish- ment on section eighteen, township nineteen, range six. He worked the farm for twelve years, engaged in grain and stock raising, and was reas- onably successful in both. In the fall of 1893 he was elected county treasurer on the fusion, later
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called populist, ticket, and two years later re- elected to the same office by a handsome major- ity. He is one of the original Farmers' Alliance men of Boone county, and up to the present time has been a wide-gauge man with populistic ten- dencies. He is an active worker along educa- tional and moral lines, enjoys a statewide ac- quaintance with well-known men, and has the esteem of all.
Mr. Poynter was really the organizer of the Church of Christ and Sunday school in his com- munity while still living on the farm. He started a class, with the help of his brother, W. A., at the Rozelma school house shortly after locating in the county, and from this, the movement grew to a well-established church with a wide attendance, and this portion of his life has been his greatest pride.
Mr. Poynter came into control of the Argus plant in April, 1898, and this paper has always been an advocate of the best interests of Boone county. It enjoys a large circulation as a week- ly, is housed in a fine brick block, and has a splendid modern equipment for the prompt and proper execution of all orders received.
Mr. and Mrs. Poynter have two children, Irene and John F., both married and living in Boone county.
HALSEY H. MOSES.
Although a resident of the state for a briefer period than the earliest settlers of Nebraska, Halsey H. Moses has been represented here in the person of a son since the days when Wayne county was an open prairie wilderness. He first came to Wayne county in the spring of 1869,to view a tract of five hundred and twenty acres, southwest of where Wayne is now located, which he had pur- chased in the previous fall without even seeing it. This he held for nearly a decade, in its wild state, when his eldest son came in the spring of 1877 and began farming the tract, and he has been an occupant of the land ever since. Mr. Moses bought and sold land from time to time, as a choice piece came into the market, or he found a favorable opportunity to sell to advantage. At present he owns some eight hundred acres of fine land southwest of the county seat, on which his first-born, and his two sons, reside, engaged in stock raising and stock dealing.
Mr. Moses was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, July 12, 1830, was a son of Jonathan Moses, whose immigrant ancestor, John Moses, came to the colonies in 1632, and from him sprang the branch of the family to which Halsey H. Moses belongs.
The father was born in Norfolk, Litchfield county, Connecticut, as was the mother, Abigail Plumleigh. The father died in 1841, at the age of sixty-one years, and the mother died in 1856, at the age of sixty-six years. They came to Ashta- bula county, Ohio, in June, 1814, settled on a 5
farm, and there lived out their days. The prop- erty has never since gone out of the family, nor has it passed into the hands of even the third gen- eration. An elder brother, Harlow Moses, owned it until he was ninety-two years old, when Mr. Moses purchased the old homestead, and his younger son now occupies the farm. His first dwelling was a log house, but he soon built a commodious frame dwelling, which is still in a good state of preservation.
Mr. Moses was reared in Ashtabula county, eight miles from the home of the famous Joshua R. Giddings, who, by the way, was one of the committee to examine Mr. Moses for admission to the bar. He had read law in the office of A. L. Tinker of Paynesville, and in August, 1851, a few weeks after attaining his majority, Mr. Moses was admitted to the bar, after an examination as to his proficiency by a commitee composed of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin F. Wade, Judge Horace Wilder, Judge Laban Sherman and Judge Darius Caldwell, all prominent men in their time, of the Ohio bar.
Opening an office in Astabula, he was an active member of the bar until 1862. The next ten years he was located in Warren, Trumbull county, and from that time until the spring of 1888, when he retired from practice and came west, he was a leading member of the bar in Youngstown, Ma- honing county, where he attained no little emi- nence as a man of wide learning in his profession. One of the standard text books of the profession is "Moses on Mandamus," which has been a rec- ognized authority on the subject since its publi- cation in 1866. An anecdote is related of Inger- soll, who was making liberal use of the volume in a case before Judge Blodgett of Chicago. His reply, not overly pions, assured the judge that the Moses who wrote of mandamus was not the Moses to whom he referred in one of his famous lectures. It was while living in his native county that Mr. Moses had office thrust upon him. His neighbors secured his appointment under Presi- dent James Buchanan as postmaster of Rock Creek, the arrival of the commission being the first notice he had of the honor. He qualified, appointed a deputy who attended to the mails, and continued to give his attention to the legal profession.
Mr. Moses was married in Ashtabula county, in 1852, to Miss Jane Murdock, a native of Mesopo- tamia, Ohio. She died in November, 1906, at the age of seventy-eight. Of their four children, two sons survive. Franz E., occupies part of the farın near Wayne. He graduated from the college at Hiram, Ohio, and then took the engineering course at Raines' Seminary, Youngstown, Ohio. Since coming to Wayne county he has served a term or two as county surveyor.
Franzi Moses was united in marriage to Miss Martha Johnson, to whom two sons and two daughters have been born. Halsey S., is engaged in stock dealing and breeding on part of Mr.
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Moses' big ranch; Edith, is the wife of Chester Chubb, of Michigan City, Indiana; Martha, an expert stenographer and china decorator, is em- ployed at Crete, Nebraska; Irving, is in partner- ship with his brother on the ranch.
Mr. Halsey H. Moses' younger son, Hosmer, is married, and occupies the old homestead in Ashtabula county, Ohio, that has been in the fam- ily nearly a hundred years.
Mr. Moses has been a life-long democrat although not a narrow-minded one-he will not support an unworthy candidate on his own party ticket if a better one opposes him. He has been a Mason since early life, having been raised to the Master's degree in the lodge at Warren.
Since 1903, Mr. Moses has spent the winters in Pasadena, California, leaving for the sunny flower-land about the middle of November, and returning · when the weather is settled in the spring. A man of four-score years, he is as active in mind and body as one of three-score or less, and gives promise to rounding out an even cen- tury.
L. FRED GOTTSCHALK.
The gentleman whose name heads this review comes from a family of the oldest and best-known settlers of Platte county, Nebraska, who have always served their county and state to the utmost.
L. Fred Gottschalk, son of Frederick and Margetha (Loy) Gottschalk, was born in Colum- bus, Nebraska, April 30, 1864, and was the second of three children, and is the only one now living. His parents are both deceased, the death of his mother occurring May 31, 1901, and that of his father August 18, 1905, at Columbus, Nebraska.
Mr. Gottschalk received his elementary educa- tion in the home schools, and in the years of 1885-86-87-88 was a student at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, studying along the lines of civil engineering. The five years following student life, he was engaged with Ann Arbor city engineer, and after- wards he was engaged in construction work for various railroads, his last employment being heavy rock work on the Union Pacific railroad through Wyoming. In the early nineties he spent nearly two years in the mountains of Kentucky, surveying for a land syndicate, during which time much trouble was experienced with moonshiners and mountain natives, who are a lawless people, being wholly without moral consciousness. They many times threatened the lives of the surveying party, several of whom were killed. These moun- taineers strenuously objected to all progress and civilizing influences.
On January 27, 1892, our subject, Mr. L. F. Gottschalk, was married to Miss Sophia M. Grayer of Ann Arbor, Michigan, one child being the re- sult of this union, which died in infancy. Mrs. Gottschalk died April 29, 1893.
On March 13, 1894, Mr. Gottschalk was mar-
ried to Helena Hoehen of Columbus, Nebraska, and they are the parents of six children, who are named as follows : Louise, Irma, Margaret, Frederick O., Constance and Helen, all residing under the parental roof.
Mr. Gottschalk is one of the few native-born pioneers of Platte county, Nebraska.
L. Fred Gottschalk, our subject has been very prosperous and successful, and in 1908 built one of the finest houses in the city, on the homestead site of his father's original claim. In 1901, Mr. Gottschalk retired from railroad survey work,and is now engaged in local work and land deals. In his engineer work, Mr. Gottschalk has covered twenty-five states.
Frederick Gottschalk, the father of our sub- ject, was born in Germany, January 27, 1827, and came to America in 1853, locating in Pennsylvania for over two years, and came to Platte county, Nebraska, in 1856, where he purchased one hun- dred and twenty acres of land from the govern- ment, paying $1.25 per acre, which land is now incorporated in the city limits of Columbus. Mr. Gottschalk lived on this farm until the time of his death, August 18, 1905. He was a member of the very first group of settles in Platte county, and was closely identified with all pertaining to the interest and welfare of his county.
On August 25, 1861, Mr. Gottschalk was mar- ried to Margetha Loy, in Columbus, Nebraska, Miss Loy being of German birth. Three children were born to them, two of whom are deceased, the surviving son being L. Fred.
GEORGE MCLAIN.
In reviewing the history of Antelope county, Nebraska, the citizens who have contributed to her welfare must be given special mention, and a prominent place must be accorded the gentle- man above named. Mr. McLain is a pioneer set- tler, coming here in 1883, and is one of the best known and most highly respected men in his region. He is a well-known farmer and stock man, and resides on section three, township twenty-seven, range seven.
Mr. McLain is a native of Winnesheik county, Iowa, where he was born January 30, 1862. He grew to manhood in his native state, helping his father on the farm and attending the district school. In 1883, our subject started out for him- self, coming to Nebraska, where he thought there were better chances for a young man to gain a competence, locating in Antelope county, on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. Here he engaged in mixed farming and stock raising, and has met with success. He first built a sod house, and lived in that three years, when he erected a frame house, which is a comfortable residence.
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