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 73

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


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sometimes having even the entire floor covered with sleepers, and one time stored the last one on a table, there being no more'room on the floor.


March 4, 1888, Mr. Jenkins was married to Helen Meeker, daughter of Rev. Phillip and Alma (Wing) Meeker, one of their six children, all of whom now survive save one, although Mrs. Jen- kins is the only one of the family residing in Ne- braska. Her parents were pioneers of Nebraska, and both are now deceased. The mother died on the Meeker homestead in Valley county in 1885, and the father removed in 1893 to Oregon, where his death occurred in 1901.


Mr. Jenkins has looked out for himself since he reached the age of eighteen years. In 1894 he attended college in Lincoln, and in 1895 became manager of College View Lumber yard. He worked for a year as wholesale agent for the M. L. Tres- tor Coal yard at Lincoln, after which for five years he was engaged in the same business on his own account in Lincoln. He and his wife then re- turned to their former home and located on a farm on section twenty-eight, township seventeen, range sixteen, two miles southwest of Arcadia, where he is engaged in farming, stock-raising and dairying. They have three children: Mildred, wife of Al- bert Dyrea, of Arcadia, has one child; Angeline and Ruth at home.


Mr. Jenkins has a vivid recollection of the blizzard of January 12, 1888; seeing it coming he ran from school home, reaching it in safety. The rest of the scholars, remained with the teacher at a near neighbor's through the night. He re- members the three days' storm in October, 1888, that began the winter of the deep snow, and the flood of the following spring, when the heavy snow blanket began to melt.


In politics Mr. Jenkins is a republican.


MELVIN C. GARRETT.


Perseverance and diligence are the stepping stones to success, and these characteristics, supple- mented by honesty and good citizenship, are the leading attributes possessed by the gentleman herein named. Mr. Garrett has been a resident of Madison county, Nebraska, some twenty-three years, and his name is closely identified with the upbuilding of his locality, where he is a well- known banker and business man, and is highly respected.


Melvin C. Garrett was born in Morgan county, Tennessee, June 15, 1859, and was fourth of five ons in the family of Squire and Melinda Garrett, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Garrett resided in Morgan county, until ten years of age. when he went to Nodaway, Missouri, to live; his par- cnts both being deceased at that time. He lived in Missouri until twenty years of age, and then went to Montana on a surveying expedition for the Northern Pacific railroad for three years. H. then went to Burlington, Iowa, taking a two-year


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commercial course in college; and then spent one and a half years in South Dakota, coming to Madison, Madison county, Nebraska, in October of 1887, and since his residence here has become one of the most prominent and active business men of his locality. He has served his county well in the office of deputy county clerk, which he held one and a half years, 1888-1889 and Janu- ary, 1890, after which he held the position of book- keeper in the First National bank of Madison one year; and then became cashier of the same bank, ocenpying this position until January 1, 1909, on which date he became president of the above named bank.


Mr. Garrett was married to Miss Lizzie C. Miller, at West Point, Nebraska, September 18, 1890, who is the daughter of Samuel and Cather- ine Miller, an old Nebraska family of thirty years back. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett have five children : Ralph W., Melvin M., Emma, Martha, and Cath- erine, all of whom reside at home, the eldest son, Ralph W., attending the state university.


Mr. Garrett is practically a self-made man who has'niade a success of life along financial and oth- er lines, and is widely known. He is identified with the best interests of his town and county along educational and social lines. The First Na- tional bank which came into existence in August, 1887, taking over the Madison County Savings bank, is one of the solid financial institutions of Nebraska, with the following officials: Melvin C. Garrett, president; James L. Grant, vice presi- dent ; Ed Fricke, cashier.


ISAAC W. SANDBERG.


Isaac W. Sandberg, a leading merchant and en- terprising citizen of Ashton, Nebraska, is an ex- ample of the success that has been attained by many self-made men of his county and state with- in the past half century. He was one of the earlier settlers of Sherman county, being brought there by his parents at the age of fifteen years. He was born in Sweden, April 8, 1866, a son of Samuel and Anna C. (Anderson) Sandberg, whose eight children were all born in that country. The father was born in 1824, and was married in 1852, bringing his wife and six children to America in 188I. They landed in New York, August 20th, and six days later arrived at Grand Island, Ne- braska. In September of the same year they se- cured a homestead on the northeast quarter of section eight, township fifteen, range thirteen, and the father's death occurred on this home- stead Angust 6, 1891. Mrs. Sandberg now lives in Ashton with her son Isaac W. Two of their children joined them in Sherman county in 1889.


Of the eight children born to Samuel Sand- berg, all are now living, namely: Alexander, of Howard county ; Mary, Mrs. August A. Johnson, lives in Burt county, Nebraska ; Anna, lives with her mother and brother in Ashton; John S., lives


in Minnesota; Amelia, Mrs. Fred Hanson, and Andretta, Mrs. Fred Anderson, live at Dietz, Wyo- ming; Hannah, Mrs. John Johnson, lives at Bell- ingham, Washington.


Isaac W. Sandberg lived on the homestead un- til 1905, being engaged in farming and stock raising until August of that year, when he came to Ashton and engaged in the lumber and hard- ware business, the firm name now being the Ash- ton Lumber Company, one of the most extensive establishments of the kind in central Nebraska, and its members being well known as business men of unquestioned integrity and reliability. Mr. Sandberg is one of the hustling, wide-awake merchants of Ashton and is closely identified with the progress and npbuilding of his community. He still owns the old homestead, being one of the few men of the present generation who own the orig- inal land secured by them or their families from the government. He has added two hundred acres of land to this tract by purchase, and thus has a large and well equipped grain and stock farm. He also owns eighty acres of land within the vil- lage limits of Ashton. He has taken an active interest in local affairs and is now serving as treasurer of the township and village of Ashton and is a member of the town board.


Mr. Sandberg was married, September 22, 1904, to Miss Emelen Bostrom, in Laramie, Wyo- ming, and they have one child living, Darr Gor- don.


FRANZ HIRSCHMAN. (Deceased.)


Among Cedar connty's most honored and sub- stantial citizens we must not forget to mention the venerable Franz Hirschman, now deceased. For years he was recognized as one of the high- est types of sturdy pioneers who gave up the com- forts and conveniences of the more thickly set- tled communities of the east to help populate and develop the virgin prairies of the boundless west.


Mr. Hirschman was born at Reichenberg, Aus- tria, February 25, 1818; he grew to manhood in his native state, receiving the usual education, and in 1838 was united in marriage to Miss Thek- la Dawat, whose birth occurred May 19, 1829. In 1853, Mr. and Mrs. Hirschman emigrated to America, embarking at Bremen in a sailing vessel. After six weeks on the water they landed at Cas- the Garden, New York, where their older son, three years of age, died from the effects of sea sickness ; it had been the mother's prayer that the little one might be spared until they reached the shore, that its little body might not be consigned to the sea, as others had been done. The younger one died from the same canse soon after reaching Milwaukee, their destination, leaving them child- less.


For nine years they lived in Milwaukee, where the father was employed at his trade, a carpenter, and then in 1862, moved to Juneau county, Wis-


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consin. Here Mr. Hirschman became a farmer and lived on his land near Mauston, until 1872, when he followed the exodus of thrifty German citizens who left that state and populated the eastern end of Nebraska. They drove across the prairies of Iowa, some with oxen, some with horse teams, camping in the open country for five weeks before reaching Cedar county, their destination, October 22, 1872.


Mr. Hirschman had been in the county in 1871 and filed on a homestead and later a timber claim in the valley of the East Bow creek; this he pro- ceeded to subdue and put into cultivation; later he added by purchase, owning in all some four hundred acres of land. Discouragements followed him, and for several years the myriad swarms of grasshoppers devoured his crops, leaving him lit- tle or nothing on which to support his family. Provisions were scarce and hard to procure. St. James, St. Helena, and Yankton were their near- est market towns where little was paid for the small amount of produce they had to sell, and high prices charged for what they, of necessity, must buy.


In 1893 Mr. Hirschman relinquished active farm management and retired to Hartington, where the remainder of his life was spent, he died December 11, 1896, at the age of seventy-eight years; the wife survived until January 6, 1900, attaining the age of seventy years. Mr.


Hirschman was a life-long democrat, and with his wife and family, was a worthy member of the Catholic church. Eleven sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hirschman, of whom three died in in- fancy. The others are: Henry, farming in East Bow valley; August J., who died in 1896 at the age of thirty-eight; Julius, also a farmer in the valley of the East Bow ; the remaining sons reside in Hartington, and are employed as follows : John, engaged in the sand and gravel business; An- thony, a leading merchant; Edward B., county treasurer; Albert, retired farmer; and Hugo H., retired merchant.


Few sires have had the satisfaction of rearing so many worthy and substantial sons. All are a credit to him, to the state and the nation.


JOHN M. COLBORN.


In presenting to the public a history of Ne- braska, the list would not be complete withont having mentioned the name of this gentleman. Mr. Colborn is one of the leading old settlers and prominent ranchmen of Merrick county, Ne- braska, having spent the past thirty-seven years and more on his present homestead.


John M. Colborn was born in Canada, Octo- ber 28, 1853, and was third of eleven children in the family of Abram and Mary (Comfort) Col- born. In 1854, the Colborn family of father, mother, and sons, George and John, moved to Sank county, Wisconsin. John grew up on the 12


farm in Sauk county, and in the spring of 1874 came to Merrick county, Nebraska, taking up a homestead on section eighteen, township fourteen, range eight, and this has remained his home farm until this date, which makes Mr. Colborn one of the few original pioneer homesteaders that still reside on the old homestead. Mr. Colborn is one of three brothers that live in this immediate neighborhood. He has a fine farm of two hun- dred acres, and is a successful farmer and stock- man.


Mr. Colborn was married February 19, 1880, to Miss Belle Jolls, on the Jolls farm in Merrick county. The Jolls family is one of the pioneer families of this section of Nebraska, having come to Merrick county in August, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Colborn have six children: Jessie, wife of William Green, lives in Nance county, Nebraska ; Lena, a teacher in public schools; Edith, wife of H. E. Trout, lives in McPherson county; Lee Jolls, Mark S., and Susie. They are a family who are prominent in social and educational circles.


Mr. Colborn takes a deep interest in local affairs, and was a member of the county board in 1908 and 1909.


J. H. MENKENS.


Mr. J. H. Menkins, a prominent farmer and stockman, living on section five, township twenty- eight, range eight, is well known throughout Knox county. He has made this vicinity his home for the past eleven years, and during that time has done much to aid in the development of the re- gion.


Mr. Menkens is a native of Oldenburg Village province of Oldenburg, Germany, and was born in 1857. He grew up in his native land, procuring a limited education, and worked at farming until leaving home in 1875, bound for the new world. . He embarked at Bremen on the steamship "Ohio," and landed in Baltimore after a rather tedious voyage, coming directly across the states to Nebraska, and locating in Cumings county, where he remained up to 1892. He farmed during that time, and passed through the usual discour- agements that came to the early settlers in the section, but made it his home for about fifteen years. He then removed to Madison county and was engaged in farming for eight years.


In March, 1900, he came to Knox county, and purchased the place which he now occupies, known as the John Hamm claim. This he has put in the finest possible shape, and it is proving one of the best producing farms in the county. Mr. Menkens is devoting his entire time to its manage- ment, and is raising considerable livestock, as well as grain, etc. He had been here in 1882, and filed on a tree claim, but later gave it up.


Mr. Menkens was married in Cumings coun- ty to Miss Dora Wenck, July 8, 1891. Mrs. Menkens is a native of Germany. They have one child, Anna, now living at home.


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CHARLES E. CLEAVLAND.


The gentleman above mentioned, who was an old-time resident of Nance county, Nebraska, . owned and occupied a comfortable home in Bel- grade, and was a substantial and worthy citizen of his community.


Charles E. Cleavland is a native of Michigan, born in Branch county, September 16, 1845, and was the youngest of three children born to Solo- mon and Mary Cleavland, the former dying when Charles was a babe two weeks old. The mother moved to Ionia county with her little family, and then to Cass county, Michigan, in 1851, where our subject grew up and was educated. He was mar- ried in Jackson county, on April 11, 1866, to Vic- toria J. Smith, and the young couple followed farming in Michigan for a number of years. Three children were born of the marriage: Anna Jane, now the widow of Frank Hodges; Milton, of Liverpool, Texas, and Ellen M., who died in California when seven months old.


On May 14, 1883, Mr. Cleavland landed in Nance county, Nebraska, settled on a pre-emption claim, and started in the farming and stock rais- ing business, being joined by his children several years later. He later engaged in the poultry busi- ness, making a success of it.


Mr. Cleavland is a veteran of the civil war, enlisting in Company A, Twelfth Michigan In- fantry, on January 25, 1862, and was discharged from service three years later to the exact date, at Duval's Bluff. Arkansas. During his career as a soldier he took active part in the battle of Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, was at the Siege of Vicks- burg and fall of that city, also in numerous minor battles and skirmishes.


On September 7, 1885, Mr. Cleavland was mar- ried the second time, to Miss Rachel Gibson, the ceremony taking place in Nance county. Dur- ing the early years Mr. Cleavland served as jus- tice of the peace in Nance county, and had the dis- tinction of being the first to hold that office in Branch township. In the fall of 1909, Mr. Cleav- land sold his property in Belgrade and moved to Liverpool, Texas, where he remained until Febru- ary, 1911, then going to Stephens, Arkansas, where he had previously purchased a farm, and on which he now lives.


ARCHIBALD WALRATH.


Among the prominent old settlers who early settled in Nebraska may be mentioned Archibald Walrath, now of Atkinson, who first located in Holt county. He has been a continuous resident of Atkinson since 1885, first coming there in search of a climate that would benefit his wife, who was an invalid. He rented a house the first year and both he and his wife spent much of their time in the open, hunting or fishing, and. it was found that the climate and ontdoor life was work- ing wonders for Mrs. Walrath, who recuperated


her strength rapidly, gaining twenty-five pounds in three months. He then purchased four and two-thirds acres of land in the eastern part of he town. He sold an acre and a third, and on the remainder began gardening on a large scale and planted berries and fruits. One year he and his son, who was a partner in the business, shipped sixteen thousand eight hundred and fifty quarts of strawberries from a two-acre patch, fifty pickers helping them to prepare the fruits for market. They at one time picked four bushels of cherries from a single tree, and have had black raspberries, currants, Siberian crab-apples and other good things in like proportion. Mr. Wal- rath erected an elaborate irrigating plant, there- by assuring himself a supply of water, while oth- ers lost their crop or a large part of it through depending on the natural moisture of the season, which is smetimes deficient.


During the winter months Mr. Walrath was always in demand to help in the various meat markets of the town, securing larger wages than ordinarily given for this kind of service, and one prospective buyer of a market made the deal on condition that Mr. Walrath would take charge. August 1, 1906, he opened a market with his own capital, and with his son has conducted a very successful business enterprise since that time. Be- sides keeping a supply of all kinds of meats, they have the largest variety of excellent fruits of any store in Atkinson, together with celery and other relishes. It is regarded as one of the best stocked and equipped markets in that part of the state.


Mr. Walrath was born at Ingham's Mills, Herkimer county, New York, December 4, 1840. His father, Archibald Walrath, senior, attained the age of ninety-two years. The house in which he was born is still in the possession of the family, being owned by one of the sons, who also owns the farm of one hundred acres of land, and has lived there upwards of eighty years. The moth- er, who was Lucinda Hose, born May 22, 1803, lived over a century and read without glasses. At the age of one hundred years she wrote a letter to her son at Atkinson, a truly remarkable achievement. Her death occurred February 22, 1911. Her father, Henry Hose, attamed the age of seventy-five years, and her mother ninety-eight years. Mr. Walrath's paternal grandfather also reached the age of ninety-eight years and the grandmother eighty-eight years. Considering the present rugged health of Mr. Walrath he may well be expected to rival his ancestors in the age he reaches.


Upon nearing his majority Mr. Walrath learn- ed the trade of blacksmith at Little Falls, near his home, and was at work there when war broke out. He enlisted August 23, 1860, in Company A, one Hundred and Twenty-first New York Volun- teers under Colonel Upton, who later became fa- mous as the formulator of the military tactics that bear his name. Mr. Walrath received his bap- tism of fire at the second battle of Bull Run and


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in the following December returned home, having been discharged from a hospital. August 21, 1863, he re-enlisted in Company I, Sixty-eighth New York, participating in the battles of Tunnel Hill, Buzzards Roost, Dalton, Kenesaw Moun- tain, Duck River, Franklin and Nashville. He participated in seventeen engagements and was wounded seven times. He lost an eye in a hand- to-hand encounter with a "Johnnie" at Deerhead Cove, Georgia, February 15, 1865, and although he was unconscious most of the time from Feb- ruary 15 until June 22, until an operation could be performed to remove the shattered bone, he had the satisfaction of knowing that he had got his man-a guerilla who had been bushwhacking to the annoyance of the neighborhood. His regi- ment was sent to Fort Pulaski, on Tybee Island, Georgia, and remained there until November 30, 1865, then was sent to New York by water, and discharged in that city the eighteenth of De- cember.


On the evening of Mr. Walrath's return home he attended a party in the neighborhood, where none. of his old companions knew him, and the young lady to whom he was engaged refused to dance or take any part in the merrymaking, as he had been reported killed and a funeral service had even been held for him. She had gone upstairs, where he found her, and asking her to honor him with her hand for a dance, was recognized, and she descended with him to the dancing floor, where she made merry as she had never done be- fore. In time she became his wife, as she had promised before he went to war.


After marriage Mr. Walrath again took up his trade at Ingham's Mills and later built a shop of his own, but owing to the severe strain on his remaining eye, in 1868 had to give up his trade. Procuring a light wagon, for several years he retailed meat around the country, and in 1874 opened a meat market at Little Falls, remaining there until he sold out and went west, as mention- ed above.


Mr. Walrath's marriage occurred Jannary 6, 1866, to Miss Lena Kretser, who had waited three long years for his return from the army. She was born at Fulton, New York, a daughter of John Kretser, of French-Canadian parentage. Mrs. Walrath died at Atkinson, July 19, 1900, sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends. Four children were born of this union, of whom but one survives, Martin H.


Martin H. Walrath was born at Ingham's Mills, January 15, 1873, and has been associated in business with his father since attaining his majority. May 20, 1900, he married Miss Coila Uttley, of O'Neill, who has borne him four dangh- ters : Lola, Helen, Mande and Thelma.


Archibald Walrath is a republican in politics, since 1889 a member of the Ancient Order United Workmen, and a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic since its organization, hav- ing filled all the offices in the local post. Hav-


ing a fine gift of oratory, he has often delivered an oration on Decoration Day in local celebra- tions, including the years 1888, 1892 and 1910.


During the blizzard of Jannary 12, 1888, he was getting ready to go to school for his boy, when the latter walked in, white as a marble statute, his clothing pastered with the icy dust. He had walked south from the school house to the railroad track, followed that to the fence which led to his father's gate, and thence felt his way along a row of trees until he reached the house. In early days when times were hard and fuel scarce, the family burned corn stalks and corn, the latter commodity being cheaper than coal. Deer and antelope were to be seen on the prairie when they first came and for several years after- ward, and until the land had been broken prairie fires were frequent and they had to fight them, as did the other settlers. He has had a long and busy life, but notwithstanding his weight of years is as light of step and full of vim as most men one-fourth his age, and gives promise of attaining at least the long span of years which were granted to many of his ancestors. He is well known in his community as a public-spirited cit- izen and an able and reliable business man.


ARTHUR BROWDER.


Arthur Browder, a native-born Nebraskan, being born in Boone county, is the only son of Albert B. and Albina E. Browder. A sketch of the former appears in this volume, while the lat- ter departed this life October 6, 1905. The fam- ily is among the prominent pioneers of Boone county.


Mr. Browder was born on the homestead farm in Boone county, on April 27, 1874, and has the distinction of being one of the first white chil- dren born in the county, his parents having set- tled here in 1872, and his birthplace was one of the first frame houses erected on a farm in Boone county. He grew up on the home place, and in his fifteenth year came to Albion with his pa- rents, receiving his education in the common schools, finishing with a business course in a com- mercial college in Omaha in 1892.


Upon returning home from school, he asso- ciated himself with his father in the hardware business, continuing the work up to 1899, then disposed of his interests and moved to Council Bluffs, lowa, where he carried on the same line of work for two years. He returned to Albion about 1901 and again embarked in the hardware business, which he has operated successfully since that time. He has met with success, and is now classed among the prominent younger business men of his town, enjoying an extensive patron- age, and having one of the best equipped stores in that part of the state, carrying a large and com- plete up-to-date stock of goods.




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