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 29

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


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Mr. Wright has two hundred and forty acres of land, on which is a ten-acre grove. The grove to the west of the house is of fine growing wal- nuts, which gives the farm its name. An orchard of about one hundred trees, some of which have been bearing a number of years furnishes an abundance of fruit-apples, cherries and plums being the principal varieties. The farm supports from fifteen to twenty horses, thirty to forty cat- tle, and a hundred and fifty cows.


All this is the result of the personal effort of Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Few in the west began with as little, few suffered greater privation, and not many have attained from such a small begin- ning such great success. At the time of their mar- riage, this worthy couple lacked the price of a license fee, and had to borrow the amount from


a friend. Hand in hand and side by side they have struggled along, adding dollar to dollar and acre to acre, until they have now attained a com- petency. They built, in the summer of 1910, a handsome ten-room house that is not excelled in appearance and surroundings by any in the coun- ty. Surely, Walnut Grove Farm is a comfort to the owner, and a credit to the community. We are pleased to call your attention to a large view of Walnut Grove Farm on another page of this work.


Mr. Wright is a staunch republican.


DR. HIRAM H. HOAGLAND.


What persistence in an idea, what persever- ance in a course laid out will do is illustrated in the life of Doctor Hiram H. Hoagland, of Plain- view, Nebraska, who, by the exercise of those traits, accomplished his purpose of becoming a physician against conditions and discouragements that would have appalled a less resolute man.


Born in Fox township, Sullivan county, Penn- sylvania, October 19, 1832, the first twenty-two years of his life were spent there. While still a youth, he began the study of medicine in the office of Doctor Webster, of Hill's Grove, Pennsylvania, and was making good progress in his profession. His marriage in his twentieth year delayed ma- terially his progress in his profession, as the sup- port of an ever-increasing family drove him to the earning of daily bread at a time when he should have been prosecuting his studies. For sustenance he found work at the blacksmiths' trade in various towns throughout Pennsylvania, reading in the office of some local physician in each town where he happened to reside.


He was still busily pursuing his studies when the war broke out, and during the latter year of the war enlisted in company C, First New York veteran cavalry, in September, 1864, and served until the close of hostilities, seeing service in West Virginia, near Charleston, guarding the salt works.


Having attained the desired proficiency in his chosen profession, Doctor Hoagland returned to Bradford county after the war, and began prac- tice, continuing in the profession there and in Susquehanna county until 1871, when he came west. Locating in Carroll county, Iowa, he prac- ticed there four years, then removed to Denison, Crawford county, Iowa, where he was engaged in practice until his removal to Nebraska, in 1880.


In the spring of that year, he came to Ante- lope county, and filed on a homestead claim, eight miles west of Plainview, and began the life of a pioneer. His desire was to abandon the practice of medicine, but a colony from Denison would have no other physician, and his fame as a healer soon spread throughout the countryside. About ten years after settlement in Nebraska, he bought a tree claim, the seventh claimant on the same land, planted his trees, and made good his title.


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In 1898, he removed to Plainview, and has, since 1908, served as justice of the peace, having filled the same office for twelve years in Antelope county.


Doctor Hoagland was first married in Brad- ford county, Pennsylvania, in 1852, to Miss Fannie Harrington, who died at Elmyra, New York. Of six children born to them, but two survive, Gertrude, wife of Frank Crandall, of Chicago, and George, living at Elmyra, New York.


Of his second marriage, in Carroll county. Iowa, to Miss Lodema Colclo, two children were born, both of whom have followed the mother to the grave.


The Doctor was married in Antelope county, Nebraska, to his present wife, who was Miss Ella Passmore, a native of Jo Daviess county, Illinois. Their four children are: Vera, a teacher of South Dakota; Erma, who was for a time teaching in Nebraska and South Dakota; Ora Delos, the only son, is a student of the Plainview schools, class of 1912, as is Lida Mary, the youngest.


The Doctor has had a varied life, extending from the old established customs and institutions of the east to the wild and open country of the western frontier. He has passed through the scenes of peace and war, and knows what it means to earn his daily bread by the brawn of his sinewy arm, as well as by the brain and skill of the pro- fessional man. He bears up well the weight of his many years, and has won, by his sterling char- acter and worth, the respect and good will of all his fellow townsmen.


HENRY SMITH.


A leading old-timer of eastern Nebraska is found in the gentleman above mentioned, having come to Howard county in the year of 1879, when that region was just beginning to be settled by many who had come to this new country to build up a home and fortune through industry and perseverance, and who by dint of good manage- ment and oft times much privation, have accum- ulated a competence, and helped to make the his- tory of the west.


Mr. Smith was born in Elk county, Pennsyl- vania, near St. Mary's, February 28, 1861. When our subject was nine years of age, the family of father, mother, brother and three sisters moved into Benton county, Indiana, where the father fol- lowed farming, and here they remained nine years.


In February of 1879, the family, excepting two sisters who had married, moved into Howard county, Nebraska. One of the sisters was married to Vincent Horak, and one to Lewis Anstett, and both families later became residents of Howard county. Vincent Horak died on his home farm in St. Libory district, in June, 1901, survived by his widow and eight children.


Upon first coming to Howard county, our subject's father homesteaded on section eighteen,


township thirteen, range nine, which remained the home farm until his death, which occurred March 25, 1905. The mother had passed away in June of 1903.


Mr. Smith had, upon coming to Howard county, remained on the homestead farm several years, assisting his father to break up the land. On becoming of age, he took up a timber claim on the southeast quarter of section twelve, town- ship thirteen, range ten, which has always re- mained his home farm. This is well equipped with good buildings, and is known as Sunny-Side Farm.


Mr. Smith .was married to Miss Flora Rice, on the Rice homestead farm in Howard county, July 15, 1886. Miss Rice was a native of Illinois, and came into Howard county in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have nine children-a charming fam- ily: Viola and Laura, who are teachers in the public schools; Leo, Margaret, Carl, Catherine, Elizabeth, Paul and Bertha, all of whom reside under the parental roof.


Mr. Smith is active in all matters of import- ance to his home, county or state. He has passed through much of the early hardships of pioneer life, and is a self-made man. He has been treas- urer of his school district, number forty-six, for fifteen years.


PETER CHRISTIAN. 1


Peter Christian and wife are to be classed with the honored pioneers who came to Nebraska at a time when they had to endure many adverse conditions, and win their way to success by un- tiring energy and industry. They have been identified with the upbuilding and progress of central Nebraska, and were among the number who began their life there in sod shanties.


Mr. Christian was born in the town of Faa- borg, isle of Fyen, Denmark, the second child of Jens Christian and wife. He first saw the light of day May 18, 1848, and had one brother and one sister. He was the only one of his family to come to America, which he did after receiving a common school education in his native land. He came in 1866, sailing from Copenhagen in the "Prairie Queen," making a landing at Chris- tiana, where three hundred more emigrants were taken aboard. They landed in New York city, May 1.


Mr. Christian first followed lumbering, river driving and farming in Wisconsin, locating first in Winnebago county. He was married at Berlin, Wisconsin, March 8, 1873, to Hannah E. Clausen, daughter of Jacob and Karen Clausen, who came from Denmark in 1866, and now reside at Den- mark, Brown county, Wisconsin. Mrs. Christian was the eldest of their children-two sons and three daughters-all of whom live in Wisconsin, except Mrs. Christian. Mr. Christian's parents died in Denmark, both about 1876, and his brother and sister still live in their native country.


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In the fall of 1877, Mr. Christian and wife moved to Brownsburg, Hendricks county, Indiana, where he was superintendent of a big farm owned by a wealthy citizen of Indianapolis. In the spring of 1881, he drove with a prairie schooner to Valley county, traveling over the trail taken by others, who were going in the same general direction. The journey lasted seven weeks, de- lays being caused by having to ford streams or ferry, all bridges having been washed away by the unprecedented floods of the spring. Even the bridge across the Missouri river at Platts- month was swept away. They had but about fif- teen dollars cash capital, and had many hard years before them. They located on the home- stead on the northeast quarter of section twelve, township seventeen, range sixteen, and this re- mained their home for many years. He became interested in selling windmills, pumps, etc., and erected the first implement store in the then new town of Arcadia, in 1884, remaining in that busi- ness until 1895. Prior to engaging in that line, he had paid considerable attention to the stock business, and for the past fifteen years has been extensively interested in buying and selling, feed- ing and shipping cattle and hogs. He has been a pioneer business man along various lines, and has always had the best interests of the region at heart. He sold the original homestead tract, but still owns his first purchased farm near Arcadia. He and his wife now reside in one of the finest modern homes in Arcadia, and have a large num- ber of friends there. They have an adopted son, Jesse W. Christian, who is a carpenter, builder and contractor by occupation. He lives in Arcad- ia, is married, and he and his wife, who was Miss Emma Stone, are parents of three sons and three daughters. Mr. Christian and wife have. also taken into their home at various times other children who were in need of tender care and attention, and are possessed of kind hearts and generous natures.


Mr. Christian has assisted in no small way in the upbuilding and welfare of Arcadia, not only as a business man, but as a citizen who is always ready to help in any measure of progress. Mrs. Christian well remembers their early days in the dirt-roofed sod house, which offered such poor protection from the storm and rain. In those times she often remained at home to care for the cattle and hogs, while her husband worked away for a time to help with their finances, during her full share to help make a start in the new home. Mr. Christian has been a life-long republican, casting his first American vote for Grant at the time of his first campaign. He has weathered many of the storms and blizzards that swept the west, and one hailstorm that he encountered was especially severe, having torn the top of his buggy to a shapeless wreck.


ALEX. E. CUNNINGHAM.


Alex. E. Cunningham, an agriculturist of prominence in Madison county, Nebraska, resides in Battle Creek precinct, on section twenty-seven, township twenty-three, range two, and is one of those substantial citizens whose integrity and industry, thrift and economy have added so much to the material wealth and growth of Nebraska.


Mr. Cunningham is a native-born Nebraskan, his birth occurring on his father's homestead farm in Madison county, April 13, 1873. He is a son of Augustus M. and Mary E. (Ellis) Cunningham, who were both natives of Pennsylvania. The father came to Madison county, Nebraska, in 1871, and this has remained his home ever since. He served in the civil war, enlisting in Company A, First Pennsylvania infantry, in 1861, and received his honorable discharge in 1864. During his service, he was wounded at the battle of Gettys- burg.


Our subject's father moved to Nebraska in 1871, as before stated, coming from Pennsylvania, his native state. After his arrival here, he took up a homestead claim on section twenty-seven, township twenty-three, range two, which remains the old homestead farm to this day, and where our subject now resides. On this land was built a shanty, ten by twelve feet, where three families lived a part of one winter.


During the first years of residence on the fron- tier of the far west, our subject's parents and family, like so many of the brave sons who came to this new, unsettled region, endured many hard- ships and privations, as well as frequent dangers. The first few years, the grasshoppers came in hordes, and cleaned up crops and pasture, leaving barren wastes of ground, where but a short time before their arrival, plentiful and promising crops had been growing almost ready for harvest. This was about the greatest source of losses the early settlers had to endure. Many times the family were compelled to burn hay and cornstalks to keep warm in the winter, as wood and coal were hard to get, and the price too high to permit of using for fuel in this region. As late as 1894, the family again lost the season's crops by the hot winds, which came as a result of the great drouth of that year, all vegetation being burned to a crisp. But those are days which have passed to history, and our subject now enjoys the com- fort and prosperity which time and improvement have brought to this section of the country. He now owns three hundred and twenty acres of fine land and a good home.


Mr. Cunningham was united in marriage in 1906 to Mrs. Effie Cunningham, a native of Illi- nois. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have had two children to bless their union, Arthur and Leona. Mrs. Cunningham had one son by her former marriage, Newell Cunningham, who resides with his step father.


Mr. Cunningham is a republican.


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HENRY JENNER.


It is probable that among the early settlers of Nebraska there is not a one who is more widely know than the above, who is now a resident of Loup City. He came to this county in 1883, and since that time has made it his home. For more than a quarter of a century he has lived in Loup City, and during this long period of time he has accomplished many things for the city. It is indebted to him for Jenner's Park, one of the well-known resorts of the locality, and much of its progress in other ways can be traced to his enterprise and public spirit.


Henry Jenner was born in London, England, on the 14th of March, 1861, and was the second of eight children born to Henry and Jemima Garches (Bond) Jenner. But of this large fam- ily, five of the children are still living-three sisters in England and one brother, Robert, in Loup City. Both parents died in the old country.


Mr. Jenner received his elementary education under private instructors, and after spending seven years in the famous school at Eaton, en- tered King's College in London, where he re- mained four years. After leaving this college, he engaged in the business of brewing for three years.


In 1882, he came to America, sailing from Liverpool to New York in the "City of Chester," and located in Sherman county, Nebraska. The next year, in company with his brother, Robert Bond Jenner, he bought three hundred and twenty acres of land, about seven miles south of Loup City, where they lived for five years, then sold and moved to town, where Mr. Jenner engaged in the creamery business in partnership with H. M. Mathew.


In September, 1892, Mr. Jenner married Miss Laura Lee Smith, a native of Tennessee. Her father, Andrew Jackson Smith, came to Sherman county, Nebraska, in 1879. His wife, who was Loania V. V. Norton before marriage, followed with the children the next spring. Three chil- dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jenner- Constance, Henry and Robert.


Mr. Jenner is one of the younger men among the early settlers, but his liberal education and natural progressiveness have tended to make him remarkable among the sturdy pioneers. He has always been interested in all measures tending to the betterment of the conditions in his adopted home, and has not hesitated to give freely of both time and means in order to accomplish the end sought. For fourteen years he served as water commissioner, superintending the munici- pal water works.


About 1898, he purchased some land adjoin- ing the city limits, seven acres of which he has devoted to a private amusement and zoological park, known as Jenner's Park. He now has about two hundred animals of various kinds here, and many interesting curios from many parts


of the world. Besides these, there are all kinds of devices for amusing both young and old, a splendid dancing and refreshment pavilion, etc. The grounds are beautified by the many and rare flowers, which are kept in the finest possible order, as well as the many tiny ponds filled with hundreds of darting, flashing gold fish. It is a park which would do credit to a much larger city than Loup City.


Mr. Jenner's long residence in this city, to- gether with his remarkable personality, have made it possible for him to come in contact with many hundreds of people, and he is respected by every one with whom he has an acquaintance. Mr. Jenner was reared in the Episcopal church. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias order and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In polities he is a republican.


FRANK A. THOENE, SR.


One of the oldest of Nebraska's citizens, one who has for nearly forty years been a resident of Cedar county, is Frank A. Thoene, now living retired from active farming, in Hartington.


Mr. Thoene was born in the village of Arpe, province of Westphalia, Germany, December 24, 1833, a son of Fred and Elizabeth (Jutte) Thoene. He lived in his native land, engaging in farm labor, until his emigration to America in 1861. Sailing from Bremen in a full-rigged ship, after a voyage of six weeks he landed in New York, July 15, 1861, and proceeded at once to Detroit, Michigan, where friends from his native village had preceded him. Here he found work in a fac- tory for a time, but quit work to enlist in the army, going to the front in October of 1861.


The company in which he was enrolled went to St. Louis, Missouri, to join Sigel's Brigade, and was mustered in as Company G, Fifth Mis- souri Volunteer Infantry, and was quartered for a time at Benton Barracks. His company was the only only one of the regiment that was not engaged in a mutiny on the Arkansas border, but was for a time under arrest with the others. They saw service in the Ozark region, between St. Louis and southwest Missouri, and were marched through the south part of the state to Cape Girardeau, and were transported thence to St. Louis by boat, serving in all thirteen months.


After his discharge, Mr. Thoene returned to Detroit. Here he worked for six months, and then journeyed to the northern peninsula, and worked in the copper mines for two and a half years. From that time until 1872, he was em- ployed in Detroit in a wholesale store, resigning his position to remove to Nebraska. On reaching Cedar county, he settled in Bow valley, on a homestead, to which he has continually added until he now owns thirteen hundred and sixty acres of as fine land as is to be found in Nebras- ka. Foreseeing the future development of the state, he early began buying at a time when he


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secured titles at from four to nine dollars an aere. One farm of two hundred and eighty acres lies within a mile of Hartington to the west, and is a very valuable traet of land. In March, 1907. Mr. Thoene resigned the reigns of management to his sons, and, purchasing a cottage in Hart- ington, retired to a life of greater ease.


Mr. Thoene was married at Detroit, Michigan, in the fall of 1866, to Miss Otilda Arens, born in Westphalia in 1838. Her death occurred in March, 1911. Of their eleven children, eight are living, two having died in infancy and one in maturity. The ones attaining maturity are Frank A., junior, farming in Cedar county; Ma- tilda, deceased, who was the wife of Theodore Peitz; Joseph occupies part of the old home farm; Toney cultivates one of his father's farms at Fordyce; Mary is the wife of Peter Lauer, living two miles west of Hartington; Henry is farming in Texas; Lizzie, who is the wife of John Stappert, lives on their farm in Bow valley ; Fred is farming near St. Helena, and John, the young- est, shares the old home farm with Joseph.


Mr. Thoene, being a soldier at the time, was allowed to east his first vote in 1861, although he had been in America but a short time. He supported the democratic party until 1880, but has since been a republican. He was reared a Catholic, and is now a member of the church in Hartington. He is a comrade of Post No. 179, Grand Army of the Republic, at Hartington. He was one of the first assessors of his precinct, and held that office for several years.


Mr. Thoene, like other settlers, endured many hardships during the early days. The first year he raised a good crop on the small acreage he had broken, but the second year the grasshoppers took everything he had sown. His first year he had twelve acres of corn, twelve of wheat and twelve of oats. He raised six hogs, hauled five dressed ones to Yankton, and got only $31.00 for the lot, all the cash they had to live on for two years, until the crop of 1874 was raised. For- tunately the grasshoppers passed over his land in later years, when others were suffering severe losses. The family suffered from blizzards, too, that of October, 1880, taking toll of him to the extent of eight or ten head of stock, while a neighbor lost all he owned.


But, withal, life in Nebraska has been a suc- cessful one for Mr. Thoene. He suffered many bitter trials and endured many hardships, but he endured to the end, and in the evening of life Mr. Thoene can take life easy without a thought or care of the morrow.


HON. THOMAS F. FARRELL.


Among the early settlers in eastern Nebraska, who labored for the upbuilding of that region and has met with marked success and gained a high station as a citizen, none commands higher respect and esteem than the subject of this


review. Mr. Farrell is a gentleman of active publie spirit, and has been prominent in local, county and state affairs for many years past, and is universally esteemed as a worthy citizen.


Thomas F. Farrell, son of John and Catherine (O'Conner) Farrell, was born in Canada, December 25, 1858, and was the eldest in a family of nine children, of whom one brother resides in Oregon, one in North Dakota, and another in Idaho, and three sisters live in Merrick county, Nebraska. The mother died in 1899, as did also the father, both on the old homestead in Ne- braska.


In April, 1871, when twelve years of age, Mr. Farrell came with his parents to Merriek county, Nebraska, where the father homesteaded one hundred and sixty aeres in section thirty-four, township thirteen, range seven, in Chapman township. He received his education in the schools of Canada and Nebraska, and later en- gaged in farming.


About 1882, Mr. Farrell, our subject, pur- chased eighty acres, which was his home place twenty-five years, but he is now living on his father's homestead. He has been prosperous and successful, and owns something over two hun- dred acres of fine farming land, all under culti- vation. In politics, Mr. Farrell is a populist, and was a member of the Nebraska state senate, rep- resenting the eighteenth district two terms, from 1897 to 1901 inclusive. He also served nine years on the school board of his district.


Mr. Farrell was married June 10, 1884, to Miss Sarah Gallagher of Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl- vania. Mr. and Mrs. Farrell have had ten chil- dren born to them, seven of whom are living: Veronica, wife of John Malloy, has one child and lives in Saunders county, Nebraska; Teressa, Paul, Gertrude, Thomas, Vivian and Ragina, all of whom reside under the parental roof; Ed- ward, deceased; Agnes and Harry, deceased in infancy.


Mrs. Farrell's father, Barney Gallagher, died in 1907, and her mother still lives in Palmer, Nebraska. A sister lives in Canada, one in Los Angeles, another in the state of Washington, and still another in Chicago. She has a brother residing in South Dakota, one brother and two sisters in Merrick county.




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