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 70

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


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In September, 1873, Mr. Stratmann was mar- ried to Miss Elizabeth Seim, in Hall county, Ne- braska, and they resided in Grand Island until 1884, when they moved to Merrick county, pur- chasing two hundred and forty acres of land on section thirty-three, township thirteen, range eight, their present home.


Mr. Stratmann preceded his father, three brothers, and one sister to America, his father eoming to Hall county, Nebraska, in 1872, where


he remained for a short period, moving into Mer- rick county in 1873, where he took up a home- stead near Lockwood station. He passed away in 1899. His wife died in Germany. Our subject has two brothers residing in Nebraska; his brother Henry lives in Grand Island, and brother Wil- liam is located on the father's old homestead.


Mr. and Mrs. Stratmann have had twelve chil- dren born to them, all of whom are living, a fine family of eight daughters and four sons: Alma, who is married to John Garbers, lives in Chap- man, Nebraska; Anna, married to Henry Giese, has three children and lives in Merrick county ; Alfred, is married and has two children, and lives in Merrick county; Bertha, married to Henry Harre, has one child and lives in Hamilton coun- ty ; Olga,who is now Mrs. E. Breininger, lives in Hamilton county and has one child; and Marie, Louis, Louise, Henry, Dorothy, Amelia, and Fred- erick, all of whom are living under the parental roof.


Mr. and Mrs. Stratmann and family have a fine home, and are well and favorably known, and enjoy the esteem and respect of a large circle of friends.


Mr. Stratmann is a quiet, forceful man, al- ways using his energies in the direction of bene- ficial efforts to the welfare of his family, county and state.


LOUIS EGGERT.


To the men of perseverance and strong deter- mination who went to Nebraska when it was un- developed as an agricultural and commercial re- gion, the present prosperity enjoyed there is due. Among the early settlers of Knox county who have been intimately identified with its develop- ment, and have gained enviable reputations as citizens, may be mentioned Louis Eggert, a pros- perous farmer and stock raiser.


Mr. Eggert is a native of Wisconsin, his birth occurring in the year 1854, and he is the son of Joseph and Henrietta Eggert, both natives of Germany. They came to America in 1852, em- barking on a sailboat and spending eight weeks on the sea before reaching the end of their voyage.


Mr. Eggert was raised on a farm, and received his education in his native state. When he reached the age of twenty-four years, in 1878, he came to Dodge county, Nebraska, where he worked out for two years. In 1880, Mr. Eggert, with his family, eame to Knox county, where he took up a homestead in the northwest quarter of section eight, township thirty, range four and on this land built a sod house, in which he lived for seven years. He later took up a tree claim in section five, township thirty, range four.


Mr. Eggert has experienced all the hardships and failures incident to a farmer's life, but has which erowns the faithful, no matter what line never lost his faith in the natural resources of the state of Nebraska, and the ultimate success


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they may pursue. Among the losses suffered by our subject may be mentioned the memorable blizzard of 1888, when he lost about all his stock in that destructive storm of ice and sleet ; in 1894 the drouth and hot winds burned all the crops so, that they were an utter failure. These are only instances of the discouragements and hardships the western farmer has had to endure before suc- cess came his way.


Mr. Eggert was united in marriage in 1880 to Miss Lizzie Ihk, and they are the parents of five children, namely: Holdina, Paul, Minnie, Aman- da and Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Eggert and family are very highly respected and esteemed in their community, and live in their pleasant home, sur- rounded by a host of loving friends and acquaint- ances.


JAMES F. DOWNING.


James F. Downing, who for the past twenty- eight years has been successfully pursuing agri- culture in Nance county, Nebraska, is a gentle- man of energetic spirit and of capable mind. He has a pleasant home in section two, in Fullerton township, and there with his family, enjoys the comforts of a good home and the satisfaction that comes from a well spent career.


Mr. Downing was born November 12, 1845, near Winchester, Virginia, and is a splendid rep- resentative of that grand old state. He was the third member in a family of seven children born to James and Eliza Ann Downing, and when but one year old, moved with his parents to Guernsey county, Ohio, and there was reared and educated. The family went to Rock Island county, Illinois, in 1866, spent ten years there, then settled in Whiteside county, Illinois, remaining for seven years. James was married in Rock Island county, on April 7, 1875, to Martha A. Dean, who was born in New Jersey, September 11, 1853, a daugh- ter of Isaac and Elizabeth Dean. The young peo- ple followed farming and stock raising in Illinois for about eight years, after their marriage. Our subject came west in 1879, to Nance county, Ne- braska, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres in section two, township sixteen, range six. He then returned to Illinois, where he re- mained until March, 1883, and then came to Nance county with his family, which has been their home since that time.


They started to build up a good home on the frontier, where by dint of industry and economy, supplemented by perseverance and strict atten- tion to duty, they have been richly rewarded in the possession of a competence. They are known as leading pioneers in their section, and enjoy the friendship of all with whom they have come in contact.


Mr. and Mrs. Downing have had five children, but three now living, Howard N., married, father of three children, and living in Fullerton, where he is engaged in the coal and implement business ;


William F., who remains on the home farm, as al- so does James E., the youngest son ; George W., died in Illinois when about five months old, and Lloyd L., died in Nance county, when seventeen years old. The parents of both our subject and his wife are deceased. Mr. Downing's mother died in Whiteside county, Illinois, about 1881, and his father died at his son James F.'s home in Nance county, Nebraska, about 1890. Mrs. Down- ing's parents both died in Nance county, Nebras- ka.


JOHN A. ERSKINE.


Many years before the United States gave up so many of her citizens in the exodus to Canada, the Old Dominion gave to the United States many of her sturdy sons, who now fill honorably many walks in life in our cities, towns and country. Of these, none is more worthy of mention than Mr. John A. Erskine, now retired from active farming and occupying a comfortable home in Lynch.


Mr. Erskine was born on March 27, 1843, in the province of Ontario, near Montreal. His birth- place was not far distant from the point where an engagement took place at the time of a mis- guided invasion of the Dominion by irresponsible Americans, in 1838. His father, Robert Erskine, a native of Ireland, was reared at Glasgow, by an uncle after the death of his parents, which oc- curred when he was a very small lad. He was early apprenticed to a rope-maker, thoroughly learning the trade, which he followed during his residence in the old country. He attained the good old age of eighty-three years, passing away in Ontario, as did his good wife, who lived to be sixty-five years of age.


Our subject farmed in Canada until his migra- tion to the States in 1868, at which time he went to California, remaining there two and one-half years. In 1871, he came to Nebraska. Here he pre-empted a claim near Neligh, Antelope county, remaining through several years of the grasshop- per raids, etc. He returned to Canada in 1876, for a short stay ; then came back to Nebraska, and went to work as a teamster in Omaha, hanling logs from the river up a chute to a saw mill. The following several years were spent in different sections of the country, finally making his way back to Nebraska in 1885, at which time he bought an eighty-acre tract of railroad land in Madison county, near the town of Tilden, later adding one hundred and sixty acres to his orig- inal farm. There he lived for nine years, seeing hard times, as there were some seasons when the oat crop realized but ten cents per bushel, and corn thirteen cents. Having an opportunity to dispose of his land he did not hesitate to do so, and moved to Boyd county, purchasing the relin- quishment to the first claim filed in the county, six miles south of Lynch. He later added one hundred and fifty acres to the same, which made it one of the finest ranches in this part of the


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Niobrara valley. After the death of his son, who just reached his majority, the burden of such a large farm was too great for Mr. Erskine, so he rented the land and moved to town. The tenant not proving satisfactory, he sold the place in the spring of 1910 and invested the proceeds in other holdings.


Mr. Erskine was married in 1874 to Susan Gallinger, and she died July 8, 1876, at Omaha, leaving a child, John Wesley, one day old, which died at nine months of age. In 1877 Mr. Erskine married Kate Cameron, a cousin of his first wife, and she died in April, 1881, leaving one son, Allen Cameron, and he died in 1889, aged ten years.


Mr. Erskine was united in marriage in Canada, July 24, 1882, to Miss Mary Jane Stitt, a native of Spencerville, Edwardsburg town- ship, and the united counties of Leeds and Gran- ville, whose father was an old resident of that vicinity and was in the government service for many years. He fought at the battle of the Windmill during the raid of 1838, which was mentioned above. Mr. and Mrs. Erskine had three children : William Stitt, who died in Mad- ison county, Nebraska, June 28, 1889; John Will- iam, born May 17, 1887, and died November 22, 1907. The daughter, Pansy Blanche, married A. W. Wiley, they now living on a Kinkaid home- stead sixteen miles south of Ainsworth, in Brown county.


Mr. Erskine has had his share of hardships on the frontier, going through the blizzards of 1873, 1880, and 1888, and suffering much from those storms.


There is a chapter in a little booklet of the early history of Iowa, entitled "A Sixty-mile Race for a Farm." Mr. Erskine can relate a personal experience which exceeds this incident by twenty miles. During his residence in Ante- lope county, he engaged in well digging for a livelihood, and on one occasion when eighty miles away from home, having been off his claim longer than the regulation time, word came to him through the land office at West Point that some- one intended to jump his claim and contest it. The officials of the land office asked him if he could be on the land by nine o'clock the next morn- ing with a man at work-which procedure would save his rights. He replied that he could, and taking a young man with him, drove a young team sixteen miles to where an old team was at work. These he took, and drove all night, arriving at his destination by seven o'clock, and in this man- ner preserved his title to the land.


Mr. and Mrs. Erskine are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Erskine was the first superintendent of a Sunday school held - in Antelope county. Both Mr. and Mrs. Erskine have always been actively engaged in church work.


Mr. Erskine was formerly a republican, but since Harrison's administration has voted the populist ticket principally.


R. CLAUDE MARICLE.


R. Claude Maricle, a well-to-do farmer and stockman of Boone county, Nebraska, has for the past many years been closely identified with the upbuilding of that locality, and is widely known for his many good qualities as a worthy, public-spirited citizen.


Mr. Miracle was born in Grayville, White county, Illinois, on February 4, 1860, and was the second child in the family of Harvey and Sarah Mariele, who were the parents of four children. In his eleventh year, our subject came west in company with his parents and two brothers, making settlement in Boone county, Nebraska. The father pre-empted on the southwest quarter of section seven, township nineteen, range five, and our subject now has a fine residence on the north part of this pre-emption. This dwelling was built recently, and is one of the handsomest modern structures in the locality. He is engaged in mixed farming and stock raising quite ex- tensively, and has every facility in the way of modern machinery, buildings, etc., for the prop- er carrying on of both lines.


Mr. Mariele was married on December 12, 1889, to Mona B. Dyar, who is a native of Iowa, but came to Boone county with her parents when a small child. The marriage occurred at the home of the bride's parents in Boone precinct, and the young couple started out with the heart- iest good wishes of a large number of friends for their success and happiness. To them have been born three children, Marshall Earl, Clifford Clyde, and Olive Merel, all living at home and forming a most happy family circle.


The Maricle family are the third original family coming to Boone county, and Mr. R. C. Mariele has naturally been closely identified with the different phases of pioneer life in Nebraska. He is known throughout the region as a foremost public-spirited citizen and has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of his county and state, although he has never held official po- sition.


J. P. LARSEN.


The Danes have always proved to be a thrifty, prosperous, law-abiding class of immigrants in the United States, and Mr. J. P. Larsen is one who has kept up the good reputation of his race.


He was born in the village of Karsar, Den- mark, on August 22, 1844. His parents. Nels and Dorothea (Jensen) Larsen, spent their whole life in their native land, the father dying at the age of eighty-four, while the mother was nearly ninety when she died.


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When only thirteen, being the eldest of eight sons, Mr. Larsen began to earn his own living, and contribute towards the support of the younger children. His first work was on a farm, and he next assisted the owner of a boarding house, caring for and driving his horses and helping generally around the house for three years. He then secured a place with a merchant, where he worked so faithfully and well that his tips were often greater than his salary. As he approached his majority, his three years of army serviee rose up like a specter before him. The pay was so small that one was compelled to live up all savings in order to keep up appear- ances in the army, and he decided to emigrate in order to eseape military service.


Mr. Larsen eame to America in the spring of 1865, arriving in Chicago about the last of March. With two friends he secured work in a market garden near the city, and by his faithful atten- tion to duty, soon was earning wages equal to the foreman. His friends, however, were dissat- isfied, and finally all three went to Ludington, Michigan, and found work in a saw mill. After a short time in the mill, Mr. Larsen worked in the woods, making shingle bolts until the following spring, and then went to Pentwater, Michigan, and worked in a shingle mill, where he was soon placed in charge of one of the machines, a posi- tion which had previously been given to two men, and he was paid almost the wages of the two.


In 1870, while in Pentwater, Michigan, Mr. Larsen was married to Miss Hancena Thorina Olsen, a native of Fredericksdal, Norway, a small town near Christiana, who had come to this country in 1867. About this time, a number of his countrymen decided to come to the west, and Mr. Larsen was appointed by them to locate the land. Through this year, he visited various parts of Kansas, and the next year came to Nebraska. After a long seareh, he decided that he had found the Eden for which he had been looking, and bought a quarter section for himself, for his brothers, and for some of his friends. He then returned to Ludington, where he, with his two brothers, continued to labor for four years.


The first year after eoming to Nebraska, Mr. Larsen lived in the house of a neighbor, and then built a dwelling on his own land. From time to time, he added various improvements, barns, groves, orchards, etc., until he had developed one of the best farms in the county. In 1904, six- teen thousand feet of lumber was cut on his place, from trees which he had planted, to build a large barn.


There were many discouragements to contend with, of course, as the grasshoppers did not neg- lect visiting him. At first, most of his produce had to be taken to Sioux City, the round trip taking between three and four days. The time for traveling depended much upon the roads. Sometimes, his load would get stuek in a sand slough and he would have to get help to pull out.


If no help was near, he avoided trouble by divid- ing his load and carrying it through the muck in two or three trips. Fuel was scarce at times, and they burned cornstalks, hay, corn, and sun- flowers. It is hardly possible, in these days, to realize what sueh privations meant, but in the winning of the wilderness to civilization, it took men and women of courage and fortitude to en- dure the hardships which were necessary before the present comfortable homes could be a pos- sibility.


Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Larsen, six of whom are still living. Their names are as follows: Nils F., deceased; Jennie, Amelia, Nora, Cena, Frank N. and Ida.


Mr. Larsen is a populist as regards political affiliations, and he and his wife and family are members of the Lutheran church and he is also a member of the Loyal Mystic Legion.


CHRISTIAN KOHLHOF.


Among the men who have been prominently identified with the agricultural progress and ad- vancement of Stanton county, is Christian Kohl- hof, whose pleasant home is located on section seventeen, township twenty-three, range one.


His birth occurred in 1866, at Detmold, Ger- many, and he is a son of Fred and Katie Kohlhof, who spent their entire lives in Germany. He was educated in the public schools of his native country, and there reached the age of eighteen years, at which time he left home to seek his fortune in the new world. In 1884, he landed in New York, having sailed from Bremen, and im- mediately set out for the west, where he had rea- son to believe he would find large opportunities awaiting a young man of energy and ambition, with little capital to start with. He located first in Madison county, and later, about the time of his marriage, came to Stanton county, Nebraska, where he has since lived.


Mr. Kohlhof was married (first)in 1891, to Miss Wilhelmina Low.


He was again married in 1893 to Miss Lena Breidenpela, and they are parents of four chil- dren, as follows: Paul, Annie, William, and Clara.


Mrs. Kohlhof was born in Lieme, and is a daughter of Frederick and Henrietta Breiden- pela who resided and died in Germany.


Mr. Kohlhof is a representative German-Amer- ican citizen, interested in the betterment of his community and supporting all publie measures that he considers for the benefit of all. He is a self-made man, and his present prosperity is the result of hard work and good judgment in the management of his affairs. He has the respeet and esteem of all who know him, as being a man of sterling worth and upright honesty, and has a wide circle of friends. His farm is devoted largely to grain raising and he also has consider- able stock of various kinds. His land is well


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tilled and the buildings he has erected are sub- stantial and well cared for.


He is the treasurer of the school district in which he resides, and always responds when call- ed to the public service.


W. H. RUGGLESS.


Among the leading old settlers and public- spirited citizens of Antelope county, Nebraska, the gentleman above mentioned deserves a fore- most place. Mr. Ruggless has aided in no slight degree in the development of the commercial re- sources of this region, and has done his full share in building up the schools, doing all in his power for the betterment of conditions.


Mr. Ruggless is a native of Daviess county, Indiana, born September 15, 1853, on his father's farm. His father, James Ruggless, was also born in the state of Indiana on the same farm. Our subject was reared in Iowa, and when he reached maturity left home and started out to make his own way in the world. He lived in Iowa for twenty-five years intermittently. From there he moved to Butler county, Nebraska, in 1882, re- maining there nine years. In 1891, he came to Antelope county, Nebraska, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in section twelve, township twenty-six, range eight, remaining here but a short time, trading his farm for a livery barn in Clearwater, and here he remained in business for three years. A farmer's life had a strong attraction for Mr. Ruggless, and having a longing for the tilling of the fertile and pro- ductive soil, he sold his livery business and hought one hundred and sixty acres of land in section twenty-one, township twenty-six, range eight, which as 'before stated is his present home.


Mr. Ruggless was united in marriage Decem- ber 17, 1875, at Knoxville, Iowa, to Miss E. J. Mark, and Mr. and Mrs. Ruggless are the parents of six children, named as follows: Lena, George, Rex, Arthur, Kittie, and Wilda. Mrs. Ruggless died January 21, 1910, survived by her husband and children, who as well as relatives and a host of kind friends and neighbors deeply mourned her death.


Mr. Ruggless and family are very highly es- teemed and respected by all in their community, and Mr. Ruggless is known as an upright and honorable citizen.


JAMES W. TUCKER.


Among the representative citizens of Pierce county, Nebraska, is James W. Tucker, who re- sides in the village of McLean, Pierce county. He is a gentleman of energetic character and well merits his high standing.


Mr. Tucker was born in Green county, Iowa, December 25, 1864, the son of Jacob Tucker, a native of Pennsylvania, who was born in 1834,


and died in 1909; he was a carpenter by trade. Mr. Tucker's mother was Miss Pauline Mayr, a native of Kentucky, who was born in 1848 and died in 1908. The grandfather, Isaac Tucker, was a native of Pennsylvania, and served his country in the civil war from 1860 to 1864, in- elusive.


In 1892 Mr. Tucker was joined in wedlock to Miss Minnie Tipery, whose father was an early settler of Nebraska. To this union one child has been born, a son, Willis.


Mr. Tucker came to Burt county, Nebraska, in 1884, where he resided until 1905, when he came to Pierce county, and is still a resident here. He is an efficient commissioner of highways in the district around McLean and keeps the roads in his district in good condition at all times.


Mr. Tucker is affiliated with Royal Highlander lodge, and in politics casts his vote for the re- publican party. He always lends his influence for the upbuilding of the better interests of his community, and is highly respected and esteemed by all who know him.


CHRIS APPEL.


Chris Appel, one of the substantial business men of Dannebrog, Nebraska, is widely known as a successful and progressive citizen of Howard county. He is engaged in the banking business and has a wide patronage throughout the sec- tion.


Mr. Appel was born in Denmark on May 24, 1858, and came to America in the spring of 1878. For two years after coming to this country he made his home at Galesburg, Illinois, following farm work, then emigrated west, locating at Fre- mont, Nebraska. There he was united in mar- riage to Margarethe Petersen, also a native of Denmark, who came to America with her parents in the fall of 1882, one year previous to her mar- riage. They lived in Fremont for about four years, then removed to Dunbar, there engaging in farming and stock raising, occupying their farm for two years. They next located in Howard county, where Mr. Appel purchased one hun- dred and sixty acres on section thirty-four, town- ship thirteen, range eleven, situated two and one- half miles west of the then small town of Danne- brog. Since that time he has gradually added to his acreage until he now owns four hundred and sixty acres of well improved land, besides one of the finest residence properties in Dannebrog, and all of his success is due to his energy and in- dustry.


Mr. Appel is a staunch supporter of the peo- ples independent party, and in the fall of 1897 was elected county treasurer, taking charge of the office the following year and serving for four years. He also served as precinet assessor for two terms during the early days of his residence here, and for many years has been a member of the Dannebrog school board. In 1907 in company


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with several other gentlemen, he incorporated what is known as the First State Bank of Danne- brog, being appointed acting cashier of the bank, and still holds that position. Mr. Appel was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Nysted academy, which is a well-known Danish school, also is a member of the present Danne- brog school board. He is secretary and treasurer of the Loup Valley Co-operative Creamery Asso- ciation, which concern is doing a flourishing bus- iness through that section of the county.




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