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 80

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


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Mr. Nielsen was born in Denmark, January 3, 1845 .. He was the second member in a family of five children, four of whom eventually came to America, one sister having died in Denmark. Both parents passed away in Howard county, also a sister of Niels. Two brothers are residents of Howard county at the present time. Our sub- ject came alone to the United States, arriving here in 1867, his first location being Waukesha county, Wisconsin, where he spent about two years. From there he went to Chicago and re- mained about two months; and then to Keokuk, Iowa, later to Burlington, Iowa. He secured em- ployment with the B. & M. Railroad and followed that work for six weeks, then left the road and worked in the harvest fields at Davenport, Iowa, for a couple of months, returning to the B. & M. and following railroading for several months. He afterwards did different kinds of work in the southern states, spent some time at Burlington again, then went to Dubuque and remained through the summer of 1870. His next move was back to Waukesha county, Wisconsin, there he joined a Danish colony that was coming over- land to Nebraska, and the party landed in How- ard county after a tiresome trip. Those in this colony were among the very first settlers in the locality. Mr. Nielsen located on a homestead sit- uated on section twenty, township fourteen, range eleven, and after putting up a dugout, started to establish a home. He went through every form of pioneer life, meeting with discouragements, hardship and privation, but never gave up hope, and through thrift and perseverance succeeded in developing a good farm and accumulating a valuable property, at the present time being owner of six hundred acres of choice farming land, occupying the original homestead as his home place. He is quite extensively engaged in the stock business, running a fine bunch of horses, cattle and hogs every year.


Mr. Nielsen was married at Grand Island, on August 16, 1872, to Miss Marie Lausten, who was born in Germany and came to America in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen have had ten children, the following named of whom are living, one dangh- ter and two sons married and settled on Howard county farms, while the others are living at home. They are named as follows: Christian, who lives in Boelus; Valentine, in St. Panl; Will- iam, Alfred, Clarey, Henry and Helen, at home, the two youngest boys now teaching school in Nebraska. The two who died in infancy were Clara and Columbus. The entire family is well known throughout Howard connty, and are pop- ular members of the social life of their respective neighborhoods.


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all affairs of his county and state, and is classed among the wealthy and successful men of his locality.


HENRY HANSEN.


In presenting to the public a history of Ne- braska, the list would not be complete without having mentioned the name of the gentleman above. Mr. Hansen is a native son of the state of Nebraska, his birth occurring in Fremont, September 28, 1875; he is a son of Christian and Christiana Hansen, who are natives of Denmark.


In 1882 Mr. Hansen came with his parents to Valley county, Nebraska, where he received the greater part of his education and grew to man- hood. In 1897 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in section four, township twenty, range fourteen, which is still his home place.


Mr. Hansen is a man of good attainments, and enjoys the highest esteem and respect of a wide acquaintance. He always devotes his best efforts to aiding in the development of the natural re- sources of Valley county, and has helped to build up the community in which he has chosen his home.


Mr. Hansen's parents live in Valley county, and are a well known pioneer family, having re- sided here some twenty-eight years. They, as well as our subject, have experienced nearly all phases of Nebraska farm life, and have all been potent factors in the growth and advancement of all the best interests of their home state and county.


AUGUSTUS M. CUNNINGHAM.


Augustus M. Cunningham, now retired and living in Madison, Nebraska, is one of the oldest farmers of Madison county, and also a prominent pioneer of that region, widely known as a cit- izen of true worth. He has always taken a great interest in the development of the locality in which he has chosen to reside, and is counted among the prosperous and successful citizens of his county.


Our subject is a son of David and Agnes N. Cunningham, both of whom are deceased. He was born in Juanita county, Pennsylvania, on August 31, 1842, and was the youngest of their eight children, of whom but himself and a brother, David Cunningham, of Wayne, Nebras- ka, are now living. Mr. Cunningham received his education in his home state, and in Septem- ber,- 1862, enlisted in Company F, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Regiment of Cavalry, serving until the close of the war, receiving honorable dis- charge on June 17, 1865, at Lynchburg, Virginia, and participating in the grand review of the army held at Washington. He was with his regiment during the battle of Kelley's Ford, Gettysburg, Travillion Station, and Mine Run, during the last mentioned engagement receiving a serious


wound which disabled him for four months. Be- sides the above he also took part in many minor encounters with the enemy, and saw all the suf- fering and hardship incidental to a soldier's career. After leaving the army he returned to his home state and engaged in farming.


Mr. Cunningham was married on January 5, 1871, to Mary Elizabeth Ellis, also a native of Pennsylvania, who had been a public school teacher for some years there. In the spring of the same year the young pair came together to Madi- son county, Nebraska, where our subject home- steaded on section twenty-seven, township twen- ty-three, range two, which remained the home place up to 1906, at which time Mr. Cunning- ham retired and settled in a good home in Mad- ison, where they now live surrounded by many good friends.


Mr. Cunningham was always a leader in every movement to build up his county and state, help- ing organize the first schools here, and for over thirty years was a member of the board in dis- trict number twenty-two.


Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have had four chil- dren, namely: Arthur K., who died in 1903, sur- vived by a wife and one son; Alexander E., mar- ried and occupying his father's homestead with his wife and two children ; Martha A., wife of Dr. W. E. Reed, mother of one child, they living in Valley, Nebraska, and Alma M., wife of O. F. Peterson, they the parents of one child, and re- siding in Madison county.


Mrs. Cunningham's parents are both dead. She has four brothers and three sisters, all living in Pennsylvania.


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JAMES D. FINLEY.


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James D. Finley, an early settler of Custer county, has passed through the many trying ex- periences of pioneer life and has always taken his part in promoting the general progress and development of the region. He is well and fa- vorably known as an enterprising and useful cit- izen and has a large circle of friends. He is a native of Monroe county, Indiana, born June 24, 1838, youngest of the sixteen children of George and Frances (Hancock) Finley, and the only member of the family now surviving. The father was born in Kentucky and the mother in South Carolina, she being a niece of John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. Both died in Indiana, he November 3, 1851, and she in 1875. They were married in Tennessee March 1, 1812.


Mr. Finley reached manhood on an Indiana farm and received his education in local sub- scription schools, later engaging in farming. He was married in Indiana in 1858 to Miss Mattie Nichols, who died ten months later. On July 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving until the ! close of the war and receiving his final discharge


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J. T. PROUTY.


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in Indianapolis August 15, 1865. He participated in many decisive battles, among them : Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 7 and 8, 1862; Perryville, Kentucky, where he was color bearer; Stone River, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Rome, Dallas, Siege of Atlanta and Jonesboro. He also took part in many minor battles and in the grand review in the city of Washington in May, 1865.


At the close of the war Mr. Finley returned to his Indiana home and on December 5, 1866, married Miss Lucy A. Mathers, a native of In- diana, who died in February, 1878, being sur- vived by her husband and six children: Edgar, married and living in western Nebraska, has two children : Mattie, died at the age of fourteen years ; Mary J., married B. F. Morse, and they live in Iowa and have seven children; George, of Cus- ter county, is married and has five children ; Fred, married and living in Custer county, has three children ; James, of Fairbury, is married and has one child.


In the fall of 1879 Mr. Finley came to Cus- ter county and took up a one hundred and sixty acre homestead three and one-half miles east of Sargent, which was his home for a number of years. He was instrumental in organizing school district number thirty-six, and served as the first director of the same. He has also held various township offices and has served as justice of the peace.


On March 15, 1882, at Grand Island, Nebras- ka, Mr. Finley was united in marriage with Mrs. Julia (Dillman) Butcher, who was born in Mon- roe county, Indiana. In 1893 they left the farm and moved to Sargent, which has since been their home, with the exception of one year spent in Lucus county, lowa. They have traveled exten- sively through the United States and in 1910 spent seven months in Florida and other states along the Atlantic coast. They are well known in social circles and have a pleasant home in Sar- gent.


PETER DREESEN.


Peter Dreesen, proprietor of one of the most valuable estates in Cedar county, Nebraska, has been a resident of that locality for many years. He is prominently known as one of the most pro- gressive and successful farmers in the western part of the state.


Mr. Dreesen's parents, Theodore and Agnus Dreesen, were both Germans who came to this country in 1852, and our subject was born in Wisconsin in 1858. His childhood was spent in this state and it was here that he obtained his education.


On November 2, 1873, the subscriber with his parents, started for the west in a wagon, where they could get land cheaply. They journeyed on 13


until they came to Cedar county, and there filed on a homestead in section six, township thirty. They also took up a timber claim adjacent and planted thirty-five acres of fine trees.


The first years on the homestead were very hard, but as the years passed by and the country became more thickly settled and more resources were developed, times became much better. The first building on the homestead was a cottonwood shanty, but that has long since given place to a fine modern house. Other buildings have been added from time to time, as occasion demanded and means permitted, and one improvement after another has been made upon the farm until it is now one of the finest in the county.


In 1873 Mr. Dreesen was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Suing, of Cedar county. They are the parents of five children, named as fol- lows: George B., Madeline, Euphrosena, Stephen and Roman.


For more than thirty-five years, Mr. Dreesen has been closely identified with the best interests of the community, and is regarded as one of those citizens whose integrity and industry, thrift and economy have added so much to the material wealth and growth of the state. He is a director of school district number fourteen.


JOHN T. PROUTY.


One of the most interesting personalities to be found within the borders of the state of Ne- braska is the venerable John T. Prouty, a portrait of whom is presented on another page, now liv- ing, retired from active life, in the town of Spencer. He is the first settler of the city of O'Neill, and was, at the time of filing on his home- stead claim there, one of the first white settlers in the upper Elkhorn valley. He was the first merchant of the place, the first notary public of the county, and holds several other premier honors of the early day. His claim was, at the time of his locating on it, five miles west of that of William H. Inman's, one of his old school chums, the next nearest neighbor to civilization. Mr. Prouty moved on to his homestead quarter July 14, 1873, and with his timber and pre-emp- tion claims had a fine body of land in the beauti- ful valley. In strange contrast with actual de- velopments, he amusingly relates that he and a neighbor agreed that a man might extract a living from the soil of the immediate valley of the Elkhorn, but that to attempt to do so from the broad tract of prairie to the north would be utter folly, because of the lack of rain and the yearly prairie fires. This entire region is now a thickly settled, highly productive part of a fertile commonwealth.


Mr. Prouty was born in Morrow county. Ohio, July 21, 1837, a son of Barnabas and Rebecca (Trumbo) Prouty. In 1854 the father moved with his family to Sauk county, Wisconsin, where the


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son began life for himself in 1859, farming a ninety acre tract of land, though continuing under the parental roof until 1867. This was heavily wooded land and had to be cleared of the timber before it could be brought under the plow. Thousands of feet of fine timber, that today would be worth a fortune, were felled, rolled into heaps, and burned as a cumbrance to the ground. Log houses with puncheon floors, open fireplaces, and stick chimneys were the rule, and a house with a brick or stone chimney was an unusual sight. Bunches of hickory, splits bound together, were used at night as torches to light the way from one house to another, though travel by night was an unusual occurrence.


Mr. Pronty learned the trade of cabinet maker and wood turner, carrying this on in con- nection with farming, and found employment at this vocation up to the time of his coming west. Craftsmanship is a trait of the family, a brother of Mr Prouty's in Chicago being an inventor of many useful railroad and other appliances.


Mr. Prouty first settled in Holt county, then known as Elkhorn county, in July, 1873, reach- ing his claim on the fourteenth day of the month. They drove through from Wisconsin, camping by the wayside, and were forty-three and a half days on the road before reaching their journey's end. For a time they lived in the wagon, Mrs. Prouty sleeping in it while Mr. Prouty was under on the ground ; and their first shack of a dwelling was covered partly with lumber and partly with the canvas wagon cover. The town of O'Neill, to be, was first known as Rockford, and Mr. Prouty was its first postmaster. He planted the first grove there, and the fine old trees in the end of town, where the round house stands, were planted by his own hands on his pre-emption claim. Nor- folk, ninety miles distant, was their trading point, and it often required five or six days to make the round trip with even a light load. The scourge of grasshoppers swept the country in 1874, devouring their only crop-seventeen acres of corn-and the two years following wheat and oats were their principal bill of fare, only a scant supply of the erops being left for the settlers.


When the colony of which General John O'Neill was the head, came to the county, Mr. and Mrs. Prouty fed them at barely the cost of provisions, and helped them to get established in the new country. After the railroad eame through in 1881, and four years later, Mr. Prouty removed to the north border of Holt county and secured a fine tract of land near where the postoffice of Paddock was established, of which he was post- master after moving to this point. IIe lived, and prospered, at Paddock for twenty-five years, re- tired to Atkinson in 1902, and came to Speneer six years later. Here he keeps a successful apiary, for, being still a man of vigorous vital- ity, he finds something to keep his hands and mind busy that he may not rust out.


Mr. Prouty owns two fine ranches, three miles


apart, of three hundred and forty-five acres and one hundred and forty-three acres respectively, in each of which are numerous fine springs of excel- lent water with an unlimited supply in the Nio- brara river near by. When the first wagon trains made their way up the Elkhorn valley to the Black Hills, they made Mr. Prouty's house a stop- ping place, getting there the last meals at table in a civilized way.


The first lyceum was held in this part of the west at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Prouty, Decem- ber 2, 1873; the first Sunday school on the four- teenth of the same month; and the first prayer meeting one week later. No sermon was preached here until April 20, 1875, when a minister of the Methodist denomination held services at the home of Elijah Thompson.


Mr. Prouty was first chairman of the repub- lican county committee, being elected at the con- vention held in Norfork in May, 1875, and, as stated before, was the first postmaster of Rock- ford, his commission bearing date of June 18, 1874. His first commission as notary public was dated June 20, 1874, and this was renewed re- peatedly until he had filled the office for twenty- four years. In the fall of 1876, during the Hayes and Wheeler campaign, a republican rally was held at Mr. Pronty's place. The ladies of the neighborhood bought the material for a flag, which was made at the Prouty home and raised for the first time on the day of the rally, and for many years after nsed at any celebration or spe- cial occasion in Holt county. On the organization of Holt county, Mr. Prouty served as first county clerk.


While living at, Paddock, Indians were plenti- ful on the reservation across the Niobrara, and as many as seven thousand of them were seen in camp there at one time; they were eager traders and would swap even their clothes for a chicken or a piece of pork, of which they were very fond.


Mr. Prouty was married in Sauk county, Wisconsin, March 3, 1867, to Miss Marietta Shultz, who was born in Conneant, Ohio. Her parents were Adam and Lucy (Quatermass) Shultz, the former born in Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania, and the latter in Essex county, New York.


The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Pronty are : Angela, wife of Eugene Sehring, of Quincy, Michigan ; and Harry S., who has a ranch of seven hundred and twenty acres near the old home place in Holt county ; and leases, in addition, the three hundred and forty acre ranch his father owns.


Mr. Prouty is a republican in politics and was for years "wheel horse" in the political team. Mrs. Prouty is a member of the Methodist Epis- eopal church. Few men can claim to be as tem- perate as Mr. Prouty, he having been a total ah- stainer all his life from liquor and tobacco in all forms. Ile is very careful of his language, never indulging in profanity or vulgarity.


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PAUL FRAUEN.


Paul Franen, who holds a foremost place among the pioneer settlers of Merrick county, Nebraska, has built up a fine estate in Merrick county on section thirty-two, township twelve, range eight. He has since his residence in this region done his full share in the upbuilding of his locality, and has become one of the lead- ing and substantial citizens of his community and enjoys the esteem and respect of all with whom he has had to do.


Panl Frauen, son of Paul and Cecelia (Janss) Frauen, was born in Germany, September 22, 1847, and was the eldest of five children. The parents died in Germany. Mr. Frauen received his edneation in the schools of his home country and in 1866 came to America locating in Scott county, Iowa, where he followed the occupation of farming.


In 1868, Mr. Frauen came to Merrick county, Nebraska, where he homesteaded eighty acres of land on section thirty-two, township twelve, range eight, in Vieregg precinct, which has remained the home all through the years. In 1869 Mr. Frauen was joined by his brother, Claus Frauen, the two going into partnership in farming.


On March 10, 1876, Mr. Frauen was joined in marriage to Catherine Paustin, who also was born in Germany and came to America in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Frauen have had five children born to them: Cecelia, deceased in 1907, survived by her husband, Max Cornelius, and one child; Otto, who is married, has two children and lives in Merrick county; Henry, married, has one child living and lives in Hall county, Nebraska; John J. is married, has one son and resides in Merrick county; and Anna, wife of Chris Sass, has two children and lives in Merrick county. Mrs. Frauen died March 23, 1897, at the home farm.


Mr. Franen has been prosperous and success- ful and owns two thousand three hundred and twenty-three acres of stock and grain land. He has served as supervisor of his county, and has also officiated as precinct assessor. He helped to organize his school district number one and served as director of same twenty-five years. Mr. Frauen is now one of the dircetors of the First National Bank in Grand Island, Nebraska, and is a successful man of affairs interested in all per- taining to the welfare of his state and county. He has passed through all the discouragements and trying experiences of frontier life and is one of the best known men of his county, enjoying the respect of all who know him. He first built a sod house, a few years later a frame house, and in 1900 erected a beautiful home, where he now lives, on the old homestead.


G. E. VAN KLEEK.


A typical pioneer of northeastern Nebraska is represented by the gentleman above mentioned.


He has spent many years in this section of the country, and has been a material part of the growth and progress of this region, building up for himself a substantial home and fortune by his perseverance and thrift, and through his integrity and honesty becoming one of the fore- most citizens of Knox county.


G. E. Van Kleek was born near Madison, Wis- consin, December 17, 1871. He is a son of Adison and Helen Van Kleek, both natives of New York state, who came from Wisconsin to Nebraska with their family in 1883. Here the father was a home- steader. G. E. Van Kleek's farm is now what is familiarly called "The Henry Grim Homestead," which Mr. Van Kleek purchased in July, 1899. This was a partly improved property when he acquired the place, and he has since added much to its appearance, erecting good buildings, plant- ing trees, and fitting it up with good fences, etc. He engages in stock and grain raising, and is fast gaining the reputation of one of the most progressive and prosperous residents of his section.


Mr. Van Kleek was married December 5, 1895, in Walnut Grove township, Knox county, Nebras- ka, to Millie Grim, who was born in Buchanan county, Iowa, and came with her parents to Knox county, Nebraska, in 1873. One child has blessed their union, Dollie, born in 1896. Mrs. Van Kleek's father, Henry Grim, was one of the very oldest settlers of Knox county, and died in De- cember, 1895.


WILLIAM F. KREMER.


William F. Kremer, retired farmer, residing in Fullerton, Nebraska, is one of the early settlers of Nance county. He followed active farming in Newman precinct up to 1907, when with his fam- ily he settled in town, where they enjoy all the comforts of a modern residence and a large circle of friends.


The subject of this sketch is a son of Perry and Nancy Kremer, and is a native of Mckees Half Falls, Snyder county, Pennsylvania, born in 1847. His boyhood was spent in his native county, where he also received his early education, and as a young man he was in the mercantile business for about ten years, later following farming. Abont 1882 he went to Iowa, remaining for two years, then came on to Nance county, Nebraska, landing here in July, 1884, having made the trip overland in a covered wagon, the journey taking two weeks, and accompanied by his family, all suffering some little hardship from exposure and rough weather. Mr. Kremer purchased one hun- dred and sixty acres on section twenty-five, town- ship sixteen, range six. He begun with an entirely unimproved tract of land, without buildings or any sort of facilities for farming, and by indns- trious labor and perseverance, made of it a thor- oughly productive farm and valuable property,


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selling it in 1907 at a good round sum.


In the latter year he purchased a fine home in Fullerton, also has acquired a section of land in North Dakota, and is possessed of a good income as a reward for his many years of labor. He is considered one of the substantial and represent- ative citizens of his county, and an active man of affairs, with his family enjoying a large circle of friends and the esteem of everyone with whom he comes in contact.




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