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 96

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


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Mr. Fisher and family are enjoying the re- spect and esteem of all who know them, both in a social and business way, and Mr. Fisher is known to his associates as a good citizen and a progres- sive farmer. Mr. Fisher was moderator on the school board in district number fifty, 1902-1907 : and he was moderator on the same board, 1900- 1901. The family are German Catholies in re- ligious affiliations.


JOHN PATON.


John Paton. now deceased, was formerly one of the well known business men of Nanee county. Nebraska, where he had resided for many years. Mr. Paton was prominent in public affairs of that section, advocating by precept and personal example a high ideal of citizenship character- ized by simplicity, frankness and directness, and in the pursuit of his career was an important factor in the upbuilding of his vicinity. We take pleasure in presenting a portrait of Mr. Paton on another page.


The "Paton Crest" is a bible and a sword surrounded by the words "Virtute Viget." John Paton, our subject, was the son of John Paton and Isabella Hendry, who were married in 1840, making their home in Ayreshire, Scotland. To this union were born ten children : Dewar, John, Hugh, Mary, William, Isabella, Jean, Janet, Mar- garet and Alexander. In her devotion to the fam- ily motto or principle, one Paton lady, about the 15 1/2


year 1600, was burned at the stake-she would not recant. She was a protestant persecuted by the Roman Catholics.


John Paton was born in Ayreshire, Scotland. on November 20, 1847, and made that country his home until he was thirty-three years of age, at that time coming to America. His first location was at Fullerton, Nebraska, where in company with his brother, Dewar Paton, and a sister's hus- band, John Caldwell, they purchased twenty thousand acres of land in Nance county, owning and controlling several large ranches. These they sold within a few years. After a time Mr. Paton engaged in the grain and lumber business in partnership with Fred Fuller, Sr., and con- tinned with the concern for a number of years, then dissolved the partnership, Mr. Fuller taking over the lumber business and our subject keeping the grain interests and two elevators. He was comparatively successful in his business ventures and would have amassed a comfortable fortune by his efforts but for his benevolent nature. At the time of his death, which occurred on July 28, 1901, John Paton was classed among the philan- thropic men of the state who had shared many dollars earned with those about him less for- tunate than himself.


Mr. Paton was married in 1888, to Miss Eliza Caldwell, of Chicago Heights, Ill., she being a woman of education and accomplishments, a graduate of Bloomington Normal College in Illi- nois. Her parents were Scotch-Irish. One child resulted from their union, Anne, now a student at the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Mrs. Paton departed this life on March 14, 1895, her death occurring in California, and she was deeply mourned by her family and a large circle of friends by whom she was dearly beloved for her fine christian character and charming personal- ity. She was buried in Chicago Heights, Illinois.


On September 1, 1898, Mr. Paton was married again, to Miss Ella E. J. Stillman, also of Illinois. being born near Peoria. Her parents were from New York. Miss Stillman had been a student at Lombard College, Galesburg, and at the Lincoln Normal College, also attended the Nebraska Wes- leyan University at Lincoln, Nebraska. She was a teacher in the Nance county public schools for six years, and in November, 1897, had the honor to be elected county superintendent of public in- struction of Nance county, filling that office with credit and gaining the commendation of all by her ability and tact. Mrs. Paton attended many county. district and state teachers' associations. She is a woman of considerable literary talent. an elocutionist, amateur journalist and editor, also an artist of more than ordinary ability. In 1907 Mrs. Paton disposed of their pleasant resi- dence with its splendid grounds, known all over the region as "Paton Heights," and has designed and built a beautiful home in Fullerton, known as "Ash Cottage." Mrs. Paton has been a delegate


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to several state and national conventions of var- ious women's organizations and she is thoroughly progressive. Mrs. Paton is at the present time making her home with her two daughters, Anne, mentioned above, and Gladys, now in school at Fullerton. Gladys Paton is thoroughly a Paton, devoted to her home, school and church, and very much resembles her father and Anne in her looks, likes and inclinations.


For over twenty years prior to his demise, Mr. Paton had been an elder in the Presbyterian church, and was an active worker for the tem- perance cause in his state. He was county super- intendent of Sunday schools for many years, and had given a number of very successful lectures on temperance and biblical subjects and on "Christian Citizenship." Mr. Paton traveled extensively, both in the United States and Euro- pean countries.


Mr. Paton's eldest daughter, Anne, was born in Fullerton, and received her elementary educa- tion in the public schools of Chicago Heights, Illinois, and Fullerton. She is now taking a course in the classics at the Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, also studying music, for which she exhibits a marked talent, at the Ne- braska Wesleyan Conservatory of Music. She is a young woman of fine mind and high christian ideals, and with her gifted step-mother, is a popu- lar member of the social life of their community. Anne Paton inherited a comfortable legacy from her mother. The Paton home has a reputation for lavish hospitality and the guests have included many of the most worthy, capable, influential and scholarly people who have visited the community. The Patons have built four of the best homes or residences in Fullerton and indelibly stamped upon the town their love of refinement, good breeding and general culture. The Patons have been one of the families identified with the build- ing of good schools, good churches and good homes in Nance county, Nebraska.


ISAAC CHAMBERLAIN.


Among the men who came to the state of Ne- braska in the early seventies is the subject of this sketch, Isaac Chamberlain. He is promi- nently known throughout the northeastern part of the state as one of the foremost farmers, and after many years' hard labor in building up his business, is now prepared to enjoy the remaining years of his life in peace and comfort, surrounded by a host of good friends and acquaintances.


Mr. Chamberlain was born in 1833 in the state of Maine, where in his early manhood he was en- gaged in farming. On February 27, 1862, Mr. Chamberlain was mustered into the United States army, in Company M, First Maine Cavalry, un- der Captain Brown. He was in the battles of Bull Run and Antietam; then did detached duty


to quartermaster's department. He was dis- charged February 27, 1865, and went to New- burgh, Maine. In the fall of 1871 he went to Zumbro, Minnesota, where he resided until the spring of 1874. In 1874, Mr. Chamberlain started for the west with an ox team and was seven weeks on the way to Pierce county, Nebraska, where he put a soldier's filing on section five, township twenty-seven, range four. His nearest market place was Yankton, South Dakota, fifty miles dis- tant. He built a sod house and lived there but one year, as the drouth and grasshoppers took all his crops, which he had depended on for sus- tenance for himself and family. He was forced to abandon his claim and worked on a steamboat which plied on the Missouri river; and later when he had accumulated enough money, bought a lot and built a house and secured eight head of cat- tle. Again fate seemed to pursue him, this time the high waters took his house and stock. He was a poor man and it seemed that everything was against him, as he had nothing left. House, stock, and everything was gone.


In 1881 Mr. Chamberlain came back to Plain- view, Nebraska, where he suffered the usual hard- ships prevalent in the west in those days, burning hay and sunflowers for fuel. Deer and antelope and wild game were plentiful in those days.


Mr. Chamberlain was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Colsen in 1853, Miss Colsen being born in Hermon, Maine. They were the parents of eight children, whose names are as follows: George, born 1855, and died 1863; Edward, born 1857, and died 1863; Delson, born 1860, is mar- ried and has four children ; Eva, born 1862, mar- ried to Mr. Sturgis and they are the parents of two children, whose. names are George and Lila, the latter being married to Clyde Miller, who went to Africa as a missionary; Charles, born 1866, married Olive Moser, and they have five children ; Ada, who married Sanford Packard, has five children; Franklin, who married Eva Headington, has two children; and Katie, born 1875, and died the same year.


Our subject was united in marriage to Mrs. Kirk, on September 23, 1903. Mrs. Kirk was one of the early settlers of Antelope county, to where she came from Crawford county, lowa, in 1878. She was born in the state of Michigan in 1839, and was married to Mr. Kirk, her former hus- band, in 1855, they having two children : Charies R., who is married and has eight children, and Olive A., who is married to Martin Christenson and has six children.


Mr. and Mrs. Kirk experienced all the incon- veniences and hardships which the earlier set- tlers were subjected to. The dry hot year of 1885 was so severe they had to keep wet towels around the room and on the doors to keep the house cool enough so that Mr. Kirk could live. as he was a great sufferer with asthma. In 1890 they lost all their crops by hail.


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Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain enjoy the respect and esteem of all who know them.


LOUIS H. SORENSEN.


Louis H. Sorensen, residing on section five, township thirteen, range eleven, is one of the rep- resentative farmers of Howard county, Ne- braska, who have aided materially in its develop- ment and advancement. He is a gentleman of energetic character, and well merits his success and high standing.


Mr. Sorensen was born in Pewaukee, Wauke- sha county, Wisconsin, December 18, 1871, and is a son of Christian and Annie Sorensen, the fifth in a family of seven children, of whom one brother and a sister, also the father, are deceased. The entire family are now residents of Howard county, excepting three brothers, one of whom lives in Osceola, Nebraska, and the other two in the state of Washington. They settled in Ne- braska in 1872, homesteading a tract of land which was their home continuously during all these years, and enjoy the distinction of being one of the original families to settle in Howard county. They have built up a good home and farm.


Louis received his early education in the coun- try schools, later attending the normal college at Fremont, Nebraska, for one term. After leaving school he assisted his father in the farm work until he reached the age of twenty-one years, when he started for himself, purchasing one hun- dred and twenty acres on section five, township thirteen, range eleven. This he has improved with good buildings of all kinds, including a handsome and comfortable residence, having nice lawns, trees, etc., surrounding the house, making it one of the pleasantest homes in the vi- cinity. He engages in stock raising extensively, also farms considerable land, and has been very successful in his various undertakings.


Mr. Sorensen was married to Ellen M. Jen- sen on October 18, 1893, the event taking place at Nysted. Mrs. Sorensen comes of an old Howard county family, and is a most estimable and charming lady. Both our subject and his wife are among the popular younger members of society in their community, and enjoy a large circle of friends. They have four children, as follows: Harley L., Richard C., Ferdinand and Ester.


STILLWELL CONNER.


To be called a "leading old settler" is much praise to accord a citizen of any community, and this term when applied to the gentleman herein named, means more than is ordinarily meant when applying the term. Mr. Conner has been a resident of the eastern part of Nebraska for the past forty-five years, and has built up a


valuable estate, and, incidentally, gained an en- viable reputation as a worthy citizen.


Stillwell Conner, retired farmer, son of Henry and Mary (Truax) Conner, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, December 19, 1843, and is third in a family of five children; he has one brother, John, residing in Kansas, Nebraska, a sister, Rachel, is the widow of Isaac Thomas, and re- sides in Valley county ; and two sisters are dead, as are also the parents, the father having died in 1867, and the mother in 1859, hoth in Ohio.


When nineteen years of age, Mr. Conner joined his brother in Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm. In 1866 he came on west to Ne- braska, locating in Dodge county, where he homesteaded eighty acres eight miles east of Fremont.


In 1869, Mr. Conner was married to Miss Caroline Close, of Wisconsin, and to Mr. and Mrs. Conner five children have been born, namely : Clarence, who died in childhood; Ora, deceased in infancy ; John, who is married, has one child, and lives on the home farm in Valley county ; Stella, wife of Frank Adams, has two children, and resides in Colorado; and an unnamed infant who is deceased.


In 1872, Mr. Conner moved with his family to Saunders county, Nebraska, where he lived about seven years. Mrs. Conner died in the fall of 1879 at the home in Saunders county, deeply mourned by many friends and her surviving hus- band and family.


In 1887, Mr. Conner came to Valley county, purchasing one hundred and sixty acres eight. miles west of Ord, which he sold in 1892, and pur- chased a three hundred and twenty acre grain farm in sections thirty-one and thirty-two, town- ship nineteen, range fourteen, moving on to same, a fine farm just south of Ord.


On September 19, 1888, Mr. Conner was mar- ried to Mrs. Mary Moore, who was born in New York state, and came to Valley county with her brother, C. H. Snow, in 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Conner have one adopted daughter, Olive, who resides at home.


In 1901, Mr. Conner retired from active farm- ing and moved to Ord, where he built a good home where they now live. He has served as treasurer of school district number seventeen for some years; also has served in other districts where he has lived. Mr. Conner has passed through much of Nebraska's history, experienc- ing all the ups and downs of pioneer life. He is an active man of affairs with varied interests, enjoying the highest esteem of a large circle of friends.


FREDERICK W. RICHARDSON.


Frederick W. Richardson, now a resident of Cherry county, Nebraska, was born in Winne- bago, county, Illinois, July 31, 1844, and one of eight children in the family of Charles W. and


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Edna Richardson, who had five sons and three daughters. The father was a native of Ver- mont, and the mother a native of New York; they were married in New York state in 1830, and migrated to Michigan, locating near Romeo. About 1842 they removed to Winnebago county, Illinois, locating in the Rock River valley, and were pioneer settlers in that section of the state of Illinois. In 1849 the family moved to Clayton county, Iowa, where the father bought govern- ment land, making a home farm. Mrs. Charles Richardson died in Clayton county in 1853, and Mr. Richardson died in Madison county, Ne- braska, in December, 1887.


Mr. Richardson was a veteran of the civil war, being a member of Company D, Twenty- first Iowa Infantry. . His sons, Henry, Edward, George E., and Frederick W., all served in the civil war. Henry and Edward were both in Company H, Twelfth Iowa Infantry, and both were taken prisoners at the battle of Shiloh and both died in the Macon, Georgia, prison from neglect and starvation. George F., saw three years' service, being in the Fourteenth lowa In- fantry, and after the war became a resident of Nebraska.


Frederick W. Richardson, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the district schools of Clayton county, lowa, and is practically a self- made man. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany G, Twenty-first Iowa Infantry, and was mustered into service at Dubuque, lowa. In September he went to the front and spent the winter in Missouri; he was in the engagement at Fort Gibson, Mississippi; and was at the Siege and capture of Vicksburg, and was also at Jackson, Mississippi; later on going to the gulf where he spent the winter in Texas; then going to Mobile, taking part in the capture of Spanish Fort and Blakely. He was mustered out at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 15, 1865, re- turning to Clayton county, Iowa.


In 1867, Mr. Richardson was married to Miss Emily Bartlett, daughter of Lewis Bartlett, a native of Virginia. In 1869 they came to Madi- son county, Nebraska, taking up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, where they built a log house and began the pioneer work of making a home and cultivating his land; Columbus, Ne- braska, fifty miles away, being their nearest mar- ket place.


Mr. Richardson is a man widely and favor- ably known and has held various offices of trust and responsibility. In polities he is a republi- can, casting his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. In 1881 he was elected to the office of connty treasurer of Madison county, but was held out of office for one year pending a contest, the office being given him by decision of the supreme court of Nebraska. In 1883 he was re-elected to the same position and in 1889 elected to the office of county clerk and re-elected in 1891. At the expiration of his term of office in January, 1893,


he returned to his home at Battle Creek to reside, and in the fall of 1904 was elected to the state legislature, serving one term. He was appointed postmaster of Battle Creek in 1908, resigning in January, 1910. Mr. Richardson has sold his interests in Madison county and has gone to Cherry county to reside. He has taken a Kin- caid homestead, where his sons, Fred, Ben., and Richard also reside.


CARL KRIEWALD.


Carl Kriewald was born in the village of Far- bezin, Pommerania, Germany, August 28, 1865, and is the second of six children born to August and Augusta (Rate) Kriewald. The mother died when Carl was only a small boy, but the father lived until 1894. None of the family, except Carl, ever came to America.


Mr. Kriewald came to America in 1884, sail- ing from Antwerp for New York on a Red Star liner, landing after a voyage of twelve and one- half days, joining his uncle, John Kriewald, who was one of the early settlers of Valley county, at Scotia, Nebraska. He worked for him one year and for other farmers until 1888, when he took up a homestead in Valley county, near Bur- well. He proved up this land and later on sold it. In 1893, Mr. Kriewald bought the old William Brown homestead near the east line of Valley county, a farm of about one hundred and fifty- seven acres. He resided on this farm until 1908, improving the farm in many ways. He also bought another farm of one hundred and sixty aeres in section one, township thirteen, range eighteen.


In the spring of 1908, Mr. Kriewald and family moved to the old Benson homestead in Greeley county, on section nineteen, township twelve, range eighteen, which was one of the first farms to be worked in the whole North Loup River Valley. Many improvements in the shape of fine buildings have been placed upon this farm since Mr. Kriewald became its owner. There is a fine grove on this farm, part of the trees being the original timber which was there when the settlements were first made.


Mr. Kriewald is regarded as one of the most prosperous and progressive farmers and stock men in this part of the community. He was mar- ried on the twenty-fourth of February, 1889, to Miss Mary Suhr, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, at her home in Hitchcock county. Nebraska, the marriage being performed by her father, Rev- erend Carl Suhr, a minister of the German Evan- gelical church. Her parents, who were natives of Mechlenberg-Sterlitz, came to America in 1870 and moved to Nebraska eleven years later. Her father died in 1905, and the mother, who was Johanna Bluedorn before marriage, is now in Kansas.


Mr. and Mrs. Kriewald have five children, all of whom are living: John, Silas, Samuel, Earl,


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and Mary Alvina. Mr. Kriewald lived in a sod house for a time and in it their first son was born. In politics he is independent of party lines. The family worship in the Evangelical church.


JEFFERSON D. VAN PELT.


Jefferson D. Van Pelt is a man who since pioneer days has watched the development and growth of the locality in which he makes his home, and where he has resided for many years past. Mr. Van Pelt is a son of Jacob and Sophia (Chapin) Van Pelt, and was born in Meigs county, Ohio, January 19, 1845, and is the younger of two children, the sister residing in Ohio. Mr. Van Pelt's parents are deceased, the father died in 1851, in the state of Ohio, and the mother in 1899, the same state.


Mr. Van Pelt received his education in his na- tive state, and later engaged in farming. On January 6, 1866, he married Miss Mary M. Bur- leigh, also of Ohio, and who was a teacher in Ohio schools. In September of 1879, Mr. Van Pelt came with his wife and five children to Merrick county, Nebraska, where he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land on section six, township fourteen, range seven, west, and has since purchased two hundred and forty acres adjoining, making a fine stock and grain farm, where he has lived all through the years since his arrival. He has served as director and treasurer of his school district number forty- four for many years.


Mr. and Mrs. Van Pelt have had six children born to them, whose names are as follows: Mayo, who is married and has five children, lives in Merrick county; Milo, is married, has two chil- dren, and also lives in Merrick county ; Sophia, married to Mr. A. Nitzel, has three children and lives in Merrick county ; John B., married, lives in Merrick county, and has one child; lona, is married to William Trebilcock, has three chil- dren and lives in Omaha, Nebraska; and Jesse D., who is married, has one child and lives in Nebraska.


Mr. Van Pelt is one of the earlier settlers of his county, and is a successful man of affairs. He owns two hundred and forty acres of fine farming lands well improved. He has passed through many of the discouragements and try- ing experiences incidental to pioneer life, and is widely and favorably known.


FRANK MCCLINTOCK.


The thrift and energy of the "canny Scot," are proverbial, and the proverb loses nothing in the telling while recounting the career of Mr. Frank MeClintock, the prosperous hardware merchant of Verdel.


Mr. MeClintock is a native of Clinton county, Iowa, and was born on his father's farm near


Lyons, on December 26, 1855. He lived there until coming to Knox county, Nebraska, in 1885, with the exception of two years which he spent in the mountains, during 1882 and 1883, engaged in erecting telegraph lines along the Northern Pacific from Sprague, Washington, to Missoula, Montana. On March 24th of the latter year, he arrived in Creighton, and at once found work in the livery barn of Bill March, for whom he did all kinds of work for several months. He selected a quarter section of land in the open prairie near where Bloomfield now stands, for which he paid the sum of six dollars per acre, and immediately started in the stock business. At the same time he had an opportunity to buy any amount of land in that vicinity for four dol- lars per acre, but like everyone else, had not the prescience to see that it would, in less than a quarter of a century, be worth twenty-five times that amount, and increase one hundred per cent per year. He remained on this place for about ten years, passing through the years of drouth and other hardships. He then moved to Crofton and built a livery barn, in anticipation of the coming of the railroad through the locality, a hope that failed of fruition, causing a heavy loss to himself as well as others who had settled in the town on account of the railroad being brought there. After a time Mr. MeClintock sold out and moved to Hartington, following the oil busi- ness there for a year. He then moved to Bloom- field, where he secured a clerkship in a hotel, and continued in that work until he removed to Nio- brara, in 1899. Here he bought stock for two years, and in 1903 located in Verdel and estab- lished a hardware store, and also handled ma- chinery and agricultural implements to which he has since added each year, and now has a fine line of wares and is rapidly increasing his pat- ronage throughout the surrounding country. His stock includes machinery of all kinds, also re- pairs for the same, and with Mr. McClintock's unfailing courtesy and genial manner to all with whom he comes in contact, he is meeting the suc- cess which he so richly deserves.




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