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 37

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


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Waucapana was on the old Indian trail be- tween Santee and Ponca, and at times from five hundred to a thousand of them camped near Mr. Sullivan's home. They were in the main good neighbors; true, they were careless with fire, and one season allowed the flames to get into a corn- field of Mr. Sullivan's, and burnt it off, but he found them less vicious than many of the early settlers pronounced them to be. He came home one day to find his house full of them, and his wife and child frightened nearly to death. He pre- tended to be very angry, and drove them from the house. His team, which in his haste he left untied, were frightened at their red blankets. and ran away ; but, fortunately, circled around, and got back nearly to the house, where he caught them uninjured, with no damage done.


Like most of the pioneers, Mr. Sullivan lived for a time in a log house which was later replaced with a frame structure. He made farming a suc- cess, accumulated a competency, and is now en- joying the fruits of a well-spent life. Reared a Catholic, he has with his family ever remained faithful to the church. In politics he was a dem- ocrat, and gives his support to all worthy can- didates which his party honors as its leaders.


He is a good citizen, a good parent, neighbor, friend; such men are a loss to the mother country in their emigration and a distinct gain to the newer country of their adoption.


OLIVER S. WOLCOTT.


Oliver S. Wolcott, who for many years has been a resident of Merrick county, Nebraska, is well known all over the county as a prominent and worthy citizen. Mr. Wolcott is a Canadian by birth, born April 14, 1830, and was the young- est of three children in the family of Asa and Elizabeth Wolcott who were natives of Canada. The Wolcott family-father, mother, daughter Mary, and sons, Rodger and Oliver, moved from Canada to Kane county, Illinois, in the fall of 1840; the father died January 9, 1852. The fam- ily remained in Illinois for some years and finally became separated; Roger married and moved to Wisconsin.


Oliver Wolcott, the subject of this sketch, was married to Miss Calista Harris February 4, 1852. in Kane county, Illinois, and about the fall of 1857, he, with his wife and one young son, Walter, moved to Lafayette county, Wisconsin, where Roger Wolcott lived. Mother Wolcott remained in Illinois with her daughter Mary, but in a few months' time she also moved to Wisconsin, where she joined the boys. Mary married and moved to Galesburg, Illinois, where in later years she died. In the fall of 1861 Oliver Wolcott with his wife and four sons moved to Harrison county, Iowa; Mother Wolcott coming to make her home with them later on. Mr. Wolcott followed farming and stock raising and was a pioneer of Harrison county, Iowa.


In March, 1878, Mr. Wolcott and his son Wal- ter made a trip overland by team from Harrison county, Iowa, to Merrick county, Nebraska, with a view of obtaining land there, and returned to Iowa in the same way they had come. Later, Walter and his family moved to Central City.


In June, 1880, Mr. Wolcott and family moved to Merrick county, Nebraska, going to their home- stead farm fifteen miles northwest of Central City on the Loup river. Mr. Wolcott became an active factor in the building up of his home county, and is known for his integrity and straight forward dealings. He is a quiet, forceful man who has made a success of life, and added to his land hold- ings until at one time he owned about one thous- and four hundred acres of choice land.


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In April, 1907, Mr. Wolcott retired from the farm to make his home in Central City where he has a pleasant home where he and his wife resided until Mrs. Wolcott's death which occurred August 31, 1911. Since that time Mr. Wolcott has made his home with his son-in-law, O. D. Burke. Mr. Wolcott is still an active man and takes a keen interest in his home town where he also has con- siderable valuable business property. His son, Reuben, has the home farm of nine hundred and twenty acres. Mr. Wolcott is a pioneer of three states, and in the early days of this portion of Nebraska, with their hardships and discourage- ments, are well known to him. Mrs. Elizabeth Wolcott lived with him until her death in April, 1889, in her eighty-fifth year. She also had seen much of the early settler's life.


Mr. and Mrs. Wolcott have had seven children, five of whom are living : Walter W., born in Il- inois, married and living in Central City ; George J., born in Wisconsin, married, and living in Central City; Reuben, born in Wisconsin, mar- ried, and living on the old farm; Oliver, born in Wisconsin, deceased; Henry, born in Iowa, de- ceased; Lily, now Mrs. Benjamin . Colburn, was born in Iowa, and now resides near Palmer, and Donzella, wife of O. D. Burke, born in Iowa, who lives in Central City.


The Wolcott family are well known and enjoy the confidence and esteem of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Oliver Wolcott is a descendant of the English family of Wolcott that came to America and settled in the New England states about 1621. Oliver Wolcott of this family being a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence, and Secretary of the Treasury in Washing- ton's cabinet. One branch of the family went into Canada in after years and the subject of this sketch was of this family.


The Wolcott descendants bold an annual re- union. The 1910 reunion is to be held in Con- necticut : at the 1908 reunion held at Warren. Ohio, about three hundred descendants were pres- ent. among them being the Oliver Wolcott of our sketch.


WILLIAM P. JEWELL.


A typical pioneer of western life is repre- sented by the above gentleman. He is an agricul- turalist of prominence in Knox county, Nebraska. and one of those substantial citizens whose in- tegrity, industry, thrift and economy have ad- ded so much to the material wealth and growth of that state.


Mr. Jewell was born in England, August 20. 1848. his birthplace being Liverpool. He grew to the age of seven years in that city, and then with his parents took passage in a sailing boat for America. The trip was made in six weeks. the small ship heing buffeted by the storms which swept the sea, and by the time it reached its des- tination the passengers were exceedingly glad to


once more behold land. The family remained in New York for bout a year and then went to New Jersey, where the father spent eleven months working as a carpenter, which trade he had learned as a boy in England. The next location was in Ford county, Illinois, where the father followed his trade, and later purchased two hun- dred and forty acres of land, which he worked. He bought this land at $17.00 per acre and sold it for $37.00 per acre. In 1866, they left that country and started west in a wagon, arriving in Otoe county, Nebraska, after a long and tire- some journey. Mr. Jewell's father had made money on the increase in value of his Illinois land, and on reaching his destination looked around for a suitable location, purchasing two hundred acres of land in Nemaha county, and paying seven dollars per acre for the entire tract. Their first dwelling was a dugout, which they occupied during the winter. For a couple of years things went fairly well, then they were struck by the grasshopper raids, which destroyed about all their erops and put them back considerably in the work of building up the farm. During 1870, 1871 and 1872 they escaped the pests, but the fol- lowing three years were visited with them con- tinuously, and suffered a great amount of dam- age. The nearest trading point from the Jewell farm was Nebraska City, which was also their postoffice. They went through the usual hardships familiar to the pioneers of those days, but kept up a brave spirit, and as years went on and the country became more thickly settled, their trials grew less and they prospered in a large degree.


William P. Jewell worked on his father's place until he was twenty-two years old, and then started for himself. He had learned the carpen- ters' trade from his father, and worked at that around Nebraska City principally. In 1892 he bought ninety-seven and one-half acres in Nemaha county, Nebraska, and lived there until coming to Knox county. In 1900 Mr. Jewell came into Knox county for settlement, purchasing one hun- dred and sixty acres of land from George Utley, an old settler in the locality. This was improved in good shape, and since Mr. Jewell has owned it he has added much to it in the way of build- ings, groves, etc., making it one of the finest places in that part of the county. Since coming to Knox county, Mr. Jewell has purchased another quarter section, the northwest quarter of section ten, situated one and one-half miles from his home place.


Mr. Jewell was united in marriage to Miss Anna Huptman in November, 1885, and to them have been born six children: Lyde, Arly, Nettie, Bessie, Maggie and Lawrence.


DELANE A. WILLARD.


DeLane A. Willard, a substantial business man of Genoa, Nebraska, is also one of the prominent pioneers of that section, having settled here about


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1866, and has made it his permanent home since that time. He is now engaged in the real estate business, enjoying a large patronage, and build- ing up a nice fortune. He is also owner of large tracts of land in different locations in Nance and adjoining counties. Mr. Willard has the distinc- tion of being the oldest settler in his locality, and is known throughout the country as "the father of Nance county."


Mr. Willard was born in Winchester, New Hampshire, on August 10, 1840, and is a son of Paul and Nancy Willard, the former dying in 1850, and the later in 1895. Our subject has one broth- er in Oklahoma, and three sisters living in the east, the family consisting in all of eight children. He grew to manhood in his native state, and when about nineteen went to Twin Rivers, Wisconsin, where he became overseer in a wood and wire fac- tory, spending one year in that work. His next move was to Michigan, there also taking charge of a wood and wire business for his brothers, George and William Willard, remaining for about eighteen months, and going to Detroit, where he was a factory overseer for three years. In 1861, he returned to his old home in the east, and spent two years, employed in the government gun fac- tory at Middletown, then went back to Michigan, afterwards to the south, visiting Vicksburg and various other places of note, finally landing in Chicago. There he attended business college. and after completing a course of study went to Oma- ha, where, with two others, they started a queens- ware establishment in 1866. Mr. Willard later sold his interest, and, in partnership with Wm. B. Dale, opened a general merchandise store at Columbus, Nebraska, carrying a fifty thousand dollars stock of goods.


In 1867, he established a trading post just east of the Pawnee Indian reservation, in Nance coun- ty, continuing the same for two years, at which time the reservation was put on the market, and he purchased three sections of this land, on part of which he laid out the town of Genoa. He had previously owned twelve hundred acres in Platte county, and had considerable in real estate during all of the time he had been here. During the set- tlement of Genoa, Mr. Willard was the prime mov- er in all matters relating to its formation. He has held various offices in his township, and dif- ferent positions of trust, at one time serving as president of the Genoa National Bank, and still carries stock in the same, and being one of the board of directors. For two years he acted as supervisor in Nance county, and was chairman of the town board for a number of years. In ed- ucational matters he has taken an active interest, being a member of, also director of the school board for several years.


Mr. Willard was married in Genoa, December 25th, Christmas Day, 1880, to Miss Lottie Ander- son, who is a native of Sweden and came to America with her parents when a young girl. They have had eight children, seven of whom are


still living, named as follows: Grace, Blanche, Hazel, Earl, Paul, Karl and Ellen, all 'living at home with the exception of Grace and Blanche, who are married. The family have a beautiful home and are popular members of the social life of their city.


C. A. YOULL.


C. Arthur Youll, of Butte, has been a resident of Nebraska since early in the year 1889, when he sojourned for some nine months at Coleridge, in Cedar county, prior to making permanent set- tlement in Boyd county, awaiting the opening of the reservation to settlement.


Mr. Youll is a native of Illinois, born in DeKalb county on October 10, 1861, and is a son of James and Sarah Youll. The former was one of the first men employed in the original factory of the Marsh Harvester Company, when the first of those ma- chines were made. In 1865, the family migrated to Delaware county, Iowa, settling along the Maquoketa river. After they had been there five years, the mother's death occurred, and our sub- ject was sent to Steuben county, New York, to make his home with his grandfather, remaining for four years. He started out for himself when but twelve years of age, coming alone to Indiana and securing work in Steuben county, remaining in the vicinity four years. He then pushed on to Iowa, and was employed by the Sioux City and Pacific Railway Company, working between Mis- souri Valley and Sioux City, and later in the yards at Blair, Nebraska. He spent some time in Ida county working around a livery barn at Bat- tle Creek, and about January of 1889, came into Nebraska. From the date of his filing on a homestead some four miles east of Butte, Mr. Youll resided on his farm for nineteen years, ad- ding a half section to the original tract of 160 acres which he developed into a well tilled stock and grain farm. This he sold on 1908, and the following summer he spent in Wyoming visiting a brother-in-law, returning to Butte in the fall, and since that time has been running a feed barn located near the center of the business district. In June, 1910, he purchased the livery stable and hack business of a competing establishment, se- curing at the same time the mail carrying contract between Butte and its railway connection at Anoka. Mr. Youll is a man of untiring energy, industrious and diligent, and by fair and honest methods in conducting his business, secures his full share of the trade for his house.


At the time of coming west, Mr. Youll drove through from Iowa to Cedar county in a covered wagon containing his goods, camping along the road way. He followed this same mode of trans- portation coming to Boyd county, and while on the way the party was overtaken by a severe rain storm which caused them considerable incon- venience and several days delay.


Mr. Youll was married in Battle Creek, Iowa,


FREDERICK WEBER.


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on January 1, 1886, to Miss Anna Belle, and to them have been born six children, four of whom survive, as follows: Bernice Isa, Thelma and Al- bert. They have a very pleasant home, and have a large circle of warm friends and acquaintances.


In politics Mr. Youll is a republican, and has always taken an active interest in local affairs, although he has never sought office.


CHARLES H. NICHOLS.


Charles H. Nichols, retired farmer, son of Nath- an and Martha (Hall) Nichols, was born in Lewis county, New York, May 17, 1846, the sixth in a family of eight children, four of whom are still living. He has a brother and a sister in the state of Wisconsin, and a sister residing in New York state. The parents are deceased, the father dying about 1888, and the mother in 1892.


About 1854, Mr. Nichols, with his parents, went to Dane county, Wisconsin, where they followed farming, and lived until 1876, when our subject came to Boone county, Nebraska, and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land in section twenty-four, township twenty, range six, which remained the home farm until 1906, when Mr. Nichols retired from active farming, and moved to Albion, where he built one of the finest homes in the place.


On April 25, 1863, Mr. Nichols was married to Miss Elizabeth Melum, a native of Norway, who came to America in 1862, and she is a daugh- ter of Alec and Elizabeth Melum, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Nichols has one brother resid- ing in the state of Wisconsin, one sister in Madi- son, Wisconsin, and another sister in the state of Minnesota.


Mr. Nichols, in the early days, served on the school board of district number twenty-three for several years. He has been prosperous and suc- cessful, and owns a section of land in Boone coun- ty, which is mostly under cultivation.


Mr. and Mrs. Nichols have had two children : Morgan H., who is married, and has two sons, and lives in Chadron, Nebraska ; and Charles A., who is married, and has six children, and lives on the original homestead.


Mr. and Mrs. Nichols have passed through much of Nebraska history, and have been factors in the forwarding of all interests in the direction of progression, and hold the esteem and friend- ship of all who know them.


February 1, 1865, Mr. Nichols enlisted in Com- pany E, Fiftieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and went from Madison, Wisconsin, to St. Louis, Missouri. Later he did patrol duty in Missouri, and was then sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where they did guard duty. In September, 1865, Company . E was sent by steamboat to Fort Sully, Dakota, for the purpose of guarding Indians, which duty they performed until March, 1866, when they began a march of six hundred and eighty miles to Boone, Iowa, by way of Sioux City,


from Boone, Iowa, going by rail to Madison, Wis- consin, where the company was mustered out and discharged, April 20, 1866, the balance of the regiment being discharged some time later.


OLE GRANQUIST. (Deceased).


The prosperity enjoyed within the borders of Wayne county is due in large measure to the en- terprise and thrift of the farmers in that region. Their well-improved and well-tilled farms are evidence of good management and painstaking care, and speak eloquently of the industry and thrift of their owners. Among the most sucessful of this region was the gentleman above named. He was a substantial farmer, who acquired a good home by persistent industry and honest dealings, and was highly esteemed as a citizen ..


Mr. Granquist was a native of Sweden, where he was born December 7, 1857. He remained at home, going to school, and helping his parents, Nels and Martha (Anderson) Granquist, who were farmers, until 1881. The parents were born, lived and died in Sweden.


In 1881, Mr. Granquist determined to come to the land of opportunity, as America was regarded. He accordingly sailed from Christiana to New York City by steamship, and at once started for the west. He first came to Sioux City, Iowa, but remained here only a short time, going next to Omaha, where he spent the winter. In the spring of the following year, he went on to Washington county, Nebraska, where he worked for the rail- road. From there he proceeded to Bancroft, where he remained for about three years. Final- ly, in 1890 he came to Wayne county, and bought the farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which was his home until his death. He made many im- provements on the place, and it is now among the best in the county. He added eighty acres to the first purchase, and at the time of his death owned two hundred and forty acres.


In 1888, Mr. Granquist was united in marriage to Miss Enger Paulson, of Wayne county. They were the parents of ten children, named as fol- lows: Carl, Anton, Nelse, Julia, Anna (deceased), Anna (two Annas), Edward, Edith, Minnie (de- ceased), and Harry.


Mr. Granquist died December 15, 1910, after an illness of only six days. He was a member of the English Lutheran church, and a republi- can.


THE LYNCH FAMILY.


Thomas Lynch, senior, was born in Kerry county, Ireland, in 1828, and grew up to young manhood in his native land, and in about 1846, came to America to seek his fortune, first locating in Dayton, Ohio, and some few years later, or about 1851, was married to Johanah Foley.


In abont 1856, Mr. Lynch, with his wife and young son, came to Omaha, Nebraska, and to Platte county, Nebraska, in 1858, where they


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squatted on land near what is now Platte Cen- ter, and as soon as surveys were made, Mr. Lynch took up his homestead, and this original home- stead farm is still in the Lynch family, and is located four miles southeast of Platte Center.


Mr. Lynch was a pioneer frontier settler, com- ing to Platte county in the Indian days, when it took courage and endurance to make a home, and secure the needed supplies for the home and farm. He was a quiet, industrious man, always working for the betterment of conditions for his family, and ready at all times to give assistance to his fellow men.


Mr. Lynch made a success of life, and at the time of his death had a fine farm of five hundred and twenty acres of choice land. He was a man of known integrity, having the esteem and con- fidence of his neighbors and many friends in Platte county. Mr. Lynch died on the homestead farm October 14, 1901, and on May 24, 1907, Mrs. Lynch passed away.


Mrs. Thomas Lynch also was born in Kerry county, Ireland, her birth occurring in the year of 1832, coming to America when about fifteen years of age. She was a woman greatly beloved, and was prominent in church and social life, and a christian woman known for her many good and charitable deeds. She came of a pioneer family of Platte county.


Mr. and Mrs. Lynch are survived by three sons and four daughters, named as follows: James Lynch, who is married, and lives in the state of Idaho; Katherine, who is now Mrs. Michael Mor- ris; Daniel, married, and living in the state of Wyoming; Nellie, who was Mrs. Clarence Ger- rard, of Columbus, Nebraska, died February 27, 1911; and Margaret, Thomas and Mary.


James and Daniel Lynch are successful men, that have made other states their homes.


Thomas Lynch and sisters, Margaret and Mary, live in their fine, modern, new home, one-half mile northwest of Platte Center. The children were all born on the old farm, Thomas and his sisters, Margaret and Mary, being the last to leave the old home, in March, 1909.


The Lynch family is one of the old families that experienced all the hardships of the first set- tlers' life, from the sod-shanty-log-cabin days to the days of a finely-equipped farm, elegant new home, and easy financial standing. The children are worthy representatives of Platte county, en- joying the friendship of the many, and giving of their hospitality along social and church lines. In the new home place, joining the corporation limits of Platte Center, Thomas Lynch engages in the breeding of registered stock, making a specialty of Duroc Jersey hogs and fine cattle, having forty acres of land in the tract.


ANTHONY SHRADER.


A history of the norteastern part of Nebraska would not be complete without including a sketch


of the life of Anthony Shrader, who is one of the most prominent old settlers of this region. He has been a resident of this section of Nebraska for the past twenty-eight years, and at present is residing in section twenty-nine, township twenty-seven, range eight, where he has developed a good farm, and enjoys a comfortable home, and the confidence and esteem of all.


Mr. Shrader was born August 29, 1823, in Amherst county, Virginia, and his father, John Shrader, was also born in Virginia, but of Ger- man descent, and our subject's mother, Phoebe (Walton) Shrader, was also born in Virginia. From Virginia our subject moved to Livingston county, Illinois, where he resided for thirty years, and while living there, in December, 1863, enlisted in the civil war in Company I, Second Illinois Ar- tillery, under Captain Barnett, and also was under General Sherman through the south from 1863 to 1865. He participated in some of the most memorable battles of the war, including the bat- tles of Jonesboro, Chicamauga and Kenesaw Mountain. After an active and creditable war service, he was mustered out in June, 1865.


Mr. Shrader came to Nebraska in 1883, and homesteaded land in section twenty-two, township twenty-seven, range eight, Antelope county, and on this land built a good frame house. Later Mr. Shrader bought one hundred and sixty acres more land, with ten acres of fine grove, in section twen- ty-nine, and this is the home place at the present time.


On June 13, 1878, Mr. Shrader was married to Miss Mary Lake, and Mr. and Mrs. Shrader have had the following named children born to them: William, who is at home; George, de- ceased; Albert, who is married to Miss Mary Cush- man, they having three children; and Charles, who is married to Miss Susan Harvey, who have two children.


Mr. Shrader, during his residence on his home place, improved the property with a good set of farm buildings, fences, etc. He often had hard times in the early days, and, among other draw- backs, he lost his entire crops during the drouth and hot winds of 1894. Mr. Shrader has now sold all his land to his son William, having retired, and now lives with his son.




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