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 28

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


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To all of these enterprises "Father Mack" has given freely of his time, his thought, his energy and his money. His heart and soul have been in this work, and it is little wonder he stands high in the affection of his flock, and in that of his neighbors and fellow townsmen. A man who can in ten short years come into a small and im- poverished parish and add so many sightly edi- fices to the public buildings of a town, is truly a public benefactor.


HERBERT HODGES.


Herbert Hodges, an early settler of Nance county, is now owner of extensive farm lands in


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that locality, and enjoys a comfortable compe- tence and enviable name by his efforts in helping build up the best interests of his section. He enjoys a nice home in Fullerton township, where he has spent many years.


Mr. Hodges was born in Kent county, Michi- gan, October 8, 1869. He is the eldest of three children in the family of Frank and Jane Hodges, two born in Michigan and a daughter after coming to Merrick county, where the family settled when Herbert was four years old. They moved into Nance county in the fall of 1877, the father pur- chasing three hundred and twenty acres of farm land on sections thirty-one and thirty-two, town- ship seventeen, range six, and erecting a dwelling on the first-named section. Here our subject grew to manhood, receiving his early education in the public schools, and later attending the Commercial College at Omaha. In 1891 he began working rented land for his father, and also got together a bunch of stock, and was successful in building up his farm, gradually putting improvements on it, planting trees and groves, and got it in first class condition, then changed his residence to where he owned one hundred and sixty acres, which has been his home farm ever since. He is now the owner of four hundred and fifty-four acres of land, three hundred and fifty-four acres being situated in section thirty-one, Fullerton township, and one hundred acres in section twen- ty-six, Timber Creek township, Nance county.


Mr. Hodges was married January 1, 1893, to Miss Lillie Vosburgh, daughter of Willis and Minerva Vosburgh, who made Nance county their home for a number of years. Her father is now dead, while Mrs. Vosburgh makes her home in California. Mr. and Mrs. Hodges have four children, namely: Nellie, Stella, Herbert F. and Pearl, all now living at home. Both of Mr. Hodges' parents are deceased.


Mr. Hodges is a man of sterling character, energetic and capable, a good business man, and has been very successful during his career. He has taken an active interest in local affairs dur- ing his residence in Nance county, helping to es- tablish the schools, etc., and for the past seven- teen years has been a member of the school board of district number fifty-three.


THEODORE WHEELER.


Theodore Wheeler, one of Atkinson's first business men, and now living retired from active work, first came to Nebraska in 1880. October 10 of that year he filed on a homestead and timber claim, fifteen miles northwest of town. He and a son, Willard A. Wheeler, opened a store at Atkin- son, January 1, 1881, as soon as a building could be erected, and they continued in business until 1885, when the store was sold. During this time, they were also interested in a ranch, the son man- aging the store and the father the ranch. In 1887 the ranch was rented, and the father has since


been a resident of Atkinson. The two men con- tinued business in the line of raising cattle and sheep until 1904, when they sold out.


Theodore Wheeler was born in Mendonville, New York, September 27, 1830, and lived in his native place until 1860, when he removed to the state of Illinois. He resided near the county seat of Kankakee county two years, then moved to Iroquois county, and lived on the "Hurricane Farm," which was the property of Lemuel Milk. until he came to Nebraska in 1880. His contract with Mr. Milk provided for a partnership, which was very satisfactory to both parties during its life. Upon making the trip to Nebraska, Mr. Wheeler traveled as far as Wahoo by rail, and as there was then no railroad reaching to Holt county, he made the rest of the journey by wagon.


Mr. Wheeler is a son of George W. Wheeler, who ws born in Mohawk Valley, New York, December 19, 1799, a few days after the death of the first president of the United States, after whom he was named, and his christening occurred on the day of Washington's funeral, although the news of the death of the illustrious man was not received until three weeks after his demise- so slow was the dissemination of news in those days.


Mr. Wheeler's marriage occurred in Mont- gomery county, New York, June 26, 1859, when he was united with Miss Elizabeth Andrews, who was born in Oppenheim, New York, daughter of Sabina and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Andrews. Two children blessed their union, Willard A. and Elma. The latter died in 1881, at the age of nineteen years, and was the first person interred in the cemetery at Atkinson.


Willard A. Wheeler was born in Montgomery county, New York, February 19, 1860, and was but a few months old when his parents removed to Illinois. He was reared in the latter state, and there became a valuable assistant to his father in carrying on the farm. Since attaining man- hood, he has been his father's business partner in all ventures in which the latter has been inter- ested. He managed their store five years, and after its sale was appointed postmaster at At- kinson under Cleveland during his first admin- istration, his commission being dated in the fall of 1885, and his term ending four years later. In 1890 he went to Hot Springs. South Dakota, and there opened a real estate and abstract office. in which he continued six years. In 1897 he began active management of the Wheeler ranch. remaining there until 1903, and soon after his return to Atkinson, established a cement block factory that has since then been furnishing ex- cellent building material in many varied forms, to customers over a wide area of territory. He has built up an excellent trade in the plainer styles of artificial stone, and also keeps a stock of many varieties for special use, and he is also able to manufacture on short notice any form of


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concrete product for either plain or ornamental use.


The first marriage of Willard A. Wheeler took place June 6, 1886, his bride being Miss Laura Graham, daughter of Samuel L. and Belle (Taylor) Graham, who died eighteen months after their marriage, leaving one daughter, who died in infancy.


Mr. Wheeler was married again at Hot Springs, South Dakota, to Miss Carrie Olsen, a native of Norway, who died February 19, 1904.


Father and son are life-long democrats, and have always given their hearty support to the candidates of their party who have been worthy of their allegiance. The elder Mr. Wheeler be- came a member of the Masonic order in the lodge of Chebanse, while living in Iroquois county, Illinois, and is now the only charter member left of the lodge at Atkinson, in which his son has received three degrees. While a resident of Hot Springs, the latter joined the Chapter, and served as high priest in that branch of the order. He was also a member of the Commandery there.


One of the early experiences which the Wheelers remember of their early life in Nebras- ka, is the blizzard of October 15 to 17, 1880, which overtook them while they were excavating the cellar for their new store building, and this had to be shoveled out later, as it was entirely filled. The building preceding the one they then erected was a mere shack, and theirs was the first pretentious store building in the town, the lum- ber for it being hauled from Niobrara, seventy miles across the open country, six days being required for the round trip necessary to bring each load. Mr. Wheeler also erected the first barn that was made of lumber, the previous ones used there being of sod with hay roofs.


At the time of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, Willard Wheeler, then serving as post- master, happened to be at home eating dinner when the storm arose, and so severe was it that he could not return to the office, where his depu- ty kept lone watch until the closing hour, with no work to attend to, as none ventured out in so severe a storm for their mail.


One of the sad events which occurred during their early years in Nebraska was the tragic death of the Biglow brothers, who were caught by the caving in of a well they were digging. They had come to the state with Mr. Wheeler, and he was one of the many neighbors who came from miles around and dug desperately to accomplish their rescue. However, on account of the caving in of the sandy soil, this work was fraught with great danger. Although one of them lived four days, it was five days before their bodies conld be reached, on account of the conditions above described. This untoward event cast a gloom over the entire settlement, which was then small, and could ill afford to spare any of its citizens.


The elder Mr. Wheeler freighted all the mer- chandise for their general store from Neligh,


and frequently was in the wagon train with Mr. Peacock, a prominent and well-known settler of Rock county. Deer, antelope and elk were plen- tiful in the earliest days, and venison was at times their only meat during the first few years. Freighters from the west frequently killed cattle on the ranges as they came eastward, and sold meat to the settlers, who did not ask whose cattle had been killed-necessity knowing no law. "Doc" Middleton, Ardmore, "Kid" Wade and other noted "rustlers" were well-known figures on the frontier, and were frequently to be seen in the Atkinson stores. Fuel was hard to get in the first years, and coal was to be had only at the railroad terminus, and at one time cedar posts, standard mediums of exchange, were the only fuel available at the stores.


Billie Reed, who had shot the sheriff at O'Neill, was caught in Atkinson, five men in the posse suspecting that he was in Mr. Wheeler's house, which they surrounded, much to the fright of Mrs. Wheeler. It transpired, however, that he was hiding in a store across the road, from which he was finally dislodged. At his trial, where he was supported by all the cattlemen of that region, he was cleared. Those wild days are now but a memory, and stand in strange contrast to the present staid, well-settled condi- tion of the country, exciting wonder that so great a change could take place in the space of time that has marked comparatively a few short years.


JOHN HALLIGAN.


John Halligan, a prosperous and progressive farmer of Boone county, is the owner of a valua- ble estate in Manchester precinct. By his thrift and energy, aided by a natural business ability, he has gathered about him an ample sufficiency of this world's goods to guarantee immunity from want in his old age.


Mr. Halligan was born in Kings county, Ire land, on March 18, 1848, being the fourth of six children in the family of John and Ann Halligan. When John was two years of age, the father, mother and four children came to America, their first settlement being in Montgomery county, New York state. They remained there for several years, then removed to Racine county, Wiscon- sin, and later to Juneau county, that state, where our subject received his early education. The father was a farmer, he dying in Juneau county about 1855, and his wife died at the home of our subject in 1879, in Boone county, Nebraska.


Our subject came into Boone county in 1874, homesteading on section ten, township twenty, range five, and later removed to section twelve, which is his present location. He had a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres, situated in Jennings valley, improved in splendid shape, with good buildings and every equipment for carrying on a model stock and grain farm.


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Since coming to Nebraska, Mr. Halligan has experienced the real old-time hardships and difficulties familiar to the pioneers of the west. He has been intimately identified with the growth and development of the county in which he chose his home, and through it all has become success- ful in a marked degree, gaining the friendship and esteem of all with whom he has had to do. He is prominent along educational lines, a man who is recognized by all as a clear thinker, fluent speaker, and, although not an office holder, is ever active in political matters.


Mr. Halligan was married in Platte county, Nebraska, October 30, 1877, to Miss Ellen Tierney, her family having settled in Boone county in the same years as our subject. To Mr. and Mrs. Halligan have been born six children, the follow- ing of whom are now living: Dr. Raymond S. who is married, and the father of two children; he is a graduate of the medical department of the Northwestern University, Chicago, and is now living in Flint, Michigan; Gerald P., Anna and John Emmett. Mr. Halligan has one brother living in Albion.


For the past twenty years Mr. Halligan has been a director of school district number sixty- one.


W. S. BROWN.


Mr. W. S. Brown, known throughout this section as an able and progressive farmer, resides in his pleasant home on section one, township twenty-five, range three, and is one of the respec- ted citizens of the county. Since coming to this locality, many years ago, he has always taken a foremost place in the development of this region. He has succeeded in building up a good farm, and may be classed among the self-made men of the locality, and has gained the respect and esteem of his fellow men.


Mr. Brown is a native of the state of Ohio. and was born October 30, 1842, the son of W. B. and Myra Brown, both from Pennsylvania. Both parents were of German descent. In 1850, when our subscriber was only eight years old, the family removed to Livingston county, Illinois. It was here that he grew up and received his education, and it was in this state, also, that he was married.


In 1880, Mr. Brown came to Pottawottomie county, lowa, but remained there only five years, when he again moved, this time coming to Wayne county, Nebraska, where, the year before, he had bought a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, which has since been his home. He has made many improvements on the place since it came into his possession, and it is now one of the best-equipped in the county, with buildings, grove and orchard and well-tilled fields.


In 1861, Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Almyra Zigler, of Illinois, who died in 1867.


In 1871, he was united in marriage to Miss Martha Hart, of Ohio, who died in 1896. He is the father of eight children, all by the second wife. Their names are Cora Bell, Lawrence, Mary, Chester, deceased, Leroy, Lucy, Bertha and Wayne.


He was again married in 1900, this time to Miss Laura Frederick, of Ohio.


Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Brown is a republican.


FRED FEYERHERM.


One of the most successful early settlers of Staunton county is the genial Fred Feyerherm, now retired, living in the county seat. He has been successful, not only as a landed proprietor, but as a merchant and honored county official as well.


Mr. Feyerherm was born in the town of Bar- walde, province of Brandenburg, Prussia, Febru- ary 26, 1852. Here he spent the years of his childhood and youth, as his parents, Frederick W. and Eleanor (Rindfleisch) Feyerherm, did not leave Germany until 1868. They sailed from Hamburg on the steamer "Utonia," and arrived in New York city after a voyage of fourteen days. The father settled with his family in Cuming county, where a brother had preceded him, and lived out his days on the farm.


Fred remained at home with his parents, working the farm for his father, until he was twenty-four years old. He was then married at Rock Creek to Miss Bertha Schultz, daughter of John M. and Sophie (Dewitz) Schultz, natives of Altruednitz am Oder, in the province of Bran- denburg, who came to this country in 1867. After his marriage, Mr. Feyerherm took charge of his father's farm in his own right, living there some seven years or more.


In 1883, he removed to Staunton county, and bought a farm about five miles from the county seat, to which the family moved after a year's residence on the farm. Mrs. Feyerherm was a delicate woman, and her strenght did not prove equal to the demands made upon it by the work on the farm in those early days, and it was hoped that a few years of the greater ease in town would fully restore her to health. Mrs. Feyerherm once had the nnusual experience of reading her own obituary. A neighbor died when Mrs. Fey- erherm was critically ill, and the report went out that she had passed away.


Coming to town, Mr. Feyerherm engaged in the implement business, continuing in that line for twenty-one years, until his election as county treasurer in the fall of 1905. He served the public in this capacity so acceptably that he was called upon to fill the position a second term, carrying every precinct in the county. This is an endorse- ment of his administration of which any official might be proud, when it is considered that he is


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a republican, while the county is strongly demo- cratic.


Mr. Feyerherm passed through the vicissitudes of a pioneer's life in Nebraska, and has seen the country develop from the time when it was almost entirely wild, with flocks of antelope ranging over the prairies, to its present state. Indians gave them but little trouble, although when the men were away working, their incessant begging for bread or flour used to make the feminine por- tion of the household nervous.


Of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Feyerherm, seven are living. Their names are as follows: Ella (Mrs. Alfred Claus), of Lewiston, Minnesota ; Fred ; Clara (Mrs. Henry Schwartz), of Menominee, Wisconsin ; Erie, Edith, Irene and Freda.


Mr. Feyerherm and his family are members of the St. John's Lutheran church of Staunton. This family is well known socially, their musical talents alone being sufficient to bring them into notice. All of the children have fine voices, and they are also pianists of no ordinary ability. The young ladies are members of an excellent female quartet, which has attracted more than local attention, being recognized as splendid talent in western Nebraska.


ISAAC F. BILLINGS.


Isaac F. Billings, who resides in section twenty- six, township twenty-seven, range eight, Antelope county, Nebraska, is one of the progressive farm- ers of that locality. He is a gentleman of firm characteristics, whose high standing as a worthy citizen is well merited. Mr. Billings is a typical pioneer of northeastern Nebraska, has lived many years in this section of the country, and has taken an active interest in the growth and development of this region, building up for himself a substan- tial home and fortune.


Mr. Billings was born March 25, 1843, in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and was the eldest of five children in the family of Charles and Lucinda (Fields) Billings. Our subject's father was born in 1816, in the state of New York, and was a descendant from Ireland. He died in 1901. The mother of our subject was a native of Ver- mont, born in 1828, and died in 1895. Our sub- ject, with his parents, moved from Pennsylvania to Michigan, where he lived seven years, and from thence to Illinois, where they lived one year, then moving to Minnesota, where they took up a home- stead. on which they built a log house, sixteen by sixteen feet, where the father and mother and five children lived for twenty years. In 1877, the family came overland, in a covered wagon, to Nebraska, where Mr. Billings took up a home- stead and timber claim in Holt county, near what is known as "Gunter bridge," near Ewing. Here the family experienced many hardships in those pioneer days, and, like so many other brave pioneer farmers, they lost their crops by the


grasshopper raids. The winters of 1880 and 1881 were very hard for a family just starting in this section of the country. Antelope and deer were plentiful in those days, which proved to be very fortunate for our subject and family, as the snow was very deep, and they could not get to market at Norfolk, that being the nearest market, and they could occasionally go out and bring down a deer, keeping themselves supplied with meat.


On November 14, 1884, Mr. Billings was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Ball, and Mr. and Mrs. Billings are the parents of the follow- ing children: Arthur, Charles, Earl and Mabel. Arthur is married to Miss Bertha Rankin. Mrs. Billings' parents were early settlers in Nebraska. They drove from Jo Daviess county, Illinois, to Blaine township, Nebraska, in the early days, taking up a homestead. Her father was born in the state of New York, and was a descendant from England.


Mr. Billings took up a homestead in section two, township twenty-six, range nine, in Holt county, Nebraska, and built a log house, as he was close to the Elkhorn river, and could get logs easily. In 1902, he came to Antelope county, and bought three hundred and twenty acres of land from Mr. Comstock, and is now owner of one of the finest farms in Antelope county, which is known as the "Prairie Belle Farm.'


Mr. Billings relates many interesting remin- iscences of early days in Nebraska. In Septem- ber, 1879, a severe prairie fire burned its way across the prairie, and to save the hay, Mr. Bil- lings plowed a fire guard around his stacks, and then started a back fire. His fire burned back about two rods, when a tumbling weed, which was ignited, blew back, and set fire to the stack. and the fire then swept on. Mr. Billings had to run for shelter to a cornfield, which was near. The fire jumped Elkhorn river, and swept on toward O'Neill, but Mr. Billings' house and buildings escaped.


NORTON WRIGHT.


Norton Wright, owner of the Walnut Grove Farm, through his long residence in Pierce coun- ty, Nebraska, and his wide experience in farming, has become thoroughly versed in the growth and development of that region. He is one of the leading citizens of his community, and has ac- quired valuable possessions by his industry and good management, supplemented by honesty and integrity.


Mr. Wright was born in Ocean county, Michi- gan, August 9, 1869, and is the son of Amos and Josephine (Crawford) Wright, the father being a native of Canada, and the mother of the south- east part of Michigan. The Wright family moved from Michigan to Butler county, Nebraska, in 1874, driving across country, the trip occupying thirty-six days, camping by the wayside. They settled in Butler county, living the first six years


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"WALNUT GROVE FARM," RESIDENCE OF NORTON WRIGHT.


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in a sod house. The first year they failed to get a crop planted, and the two following years the grasshoppers took every blade of wheat and corn. In 1880, the father filed on a homestead in Ante- lope county, eight miles west of Plainview.


During the following winter, snow drifted over the barn to such a depth that a tunnel was necessary, and during this winter they burned hay'for fuel most of the time, and cornstalks were hauled half a mile for the same purpose. A son riding out from O'Neill was from early morning until midnight making eighteen miles, on account of the snow, having to borrow a mule to complete the journey, his horse becoming exhausted on the way. Flour, at times, could not be procured, and johnny cake was their only food. But they lived to attain comfort and competence before leaving Nebraska.


The elder Wright returned to Michigan in 1889, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their days. One half-section he sold for six hundred dollars-it could not be bought now for sixteen thousand dollars.


Norton Wright was united in holy matrimony, April 10, 1889, to Miss Emma Davis, a native of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, born July 22, 1869. Her parents, Oathniel and Maggie (Riegel) Davis, were also natives of that state. They came west in February, 1870, and settled in Madison county, remaining thirteen years, when they bought a settler's timber claim in the southeast quarter of section seven, township twenty-seven, range four, and later sold to Mr. Wright, and which he has since extensively improved. In the blizzard of 1888, he made his way some forty rods to the school house, and safely returned with a nephew. He escaped the three-day blizzard, beginning October 15, 1881, by fortunately re- turning home from the range the evening before.


To Mr. and Mrs. Wright, five children have been born, named as follows: Charles L., Mag- gie M., Henry O., Loretta (died in 1907) and Winetta. Ava, an adopted daughter, has been with them almost since infancy. They are a fine family, and enjoy the esteem and respect of all who know them.




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