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William H. Turner was born in Massachusetts January 27, 1843, and died when he was a little past seventy-seven years of age. His father, John Turner, and his mother, Margaret Slee Turner, were both natives of England, and from that country they came to the United States in the early '30s. The father brought with him an outfit with which he established the first knitting factory at Needham, Massachu- setts, and subsequently developed a large and important factory for the manufacture of stockings and underwear. Here he continued to live and operate his factory until his death. Of sixteen children born to him and his wife the last two were William H. and Mrs. Carrie Rice, widow of John Rice and a resident of Omaha.
Growing up in his native state William H. Turner attended the pub- lic schools, and lived there until 1856, when he went out to Dubuque, Iowa, and a year later, in 1857, arrived on the Nebraska frontier at Fremont. A youth willing to participate in all the arduous and hazardous under- takings of that time, he spent some five years engaged in freighting between Fremont and Denver. He also opened and conducted the old Valley House, a historic place of entertainment known to the travelers of the region for years. In conjunction he conducted a stage station.
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All of this was in the pre-railroad era. With the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad he took contracts for grading and supplying ties. With the development that ensued following the building of the first railroad, Mr. Turner engaged in the grocery business at Fremont in partnership with Andy Brugh and E. N. Morse, and continued active in that line for nearly a quarter of a century. For the last fifteen years of his life Mr. Turner had lived retired. He was a man highly esteemed for his business ability and integrity, and not less for the public spirit that made him a working factor in all community movements and kept him in the ranks of progressive citizenship to the close of his life. He was deeply interested in the cause of public education and served for many years on the school board. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and in politics a democrat.
October 12, 1869, Mr. Turner married Miss Lucinda Gilley. A few months before his death they had quietly observed their golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. Turner, whose parents were Elisha and Hannah (Stanley) Gilley, resides at 405 East Fifth Street in Fremont. She is the mother of two daughters, and with them belongs to the Episcopal Church. The daughter Maud is the wife of Thad Quinn, a Fremont merchant, while Nona is unmarried and lives at home.
JOHN HENDRICKSEN. The little Kingdom of Denmark, small in size and in population, but great in history, has sent to the New World some of its best citizens, men of sturdy purpose and high aims, ot resolute principles and sound integrity, who have invaded the newer sections and have contributed in marked degree to the work of develop- ment that has changed the face of Nature and brought forth prosperity where only waste was known before. Denmark was the birthplace of John Hendricksen, one of the substantial farmers of Maple Township, Dodge County.
Mr. Hendricksen was born April 6, 1858, a son of Henry and Ger- trude Johnson, and one of seven children. He grew up in an agricul- tural atmosphere, his father being a small land owner, and was educated in the public schools, also seeing nine months of military training in the Danish infantry. Mr. Hendrickson was twenty-seven years of age when he immigrated to the United States, and when he arrived in Dodge County, Nebraska, in 1885, was without means. He secured employment as a farm hand from Lars Olsen and continued to be thus engaged for several years, but for a time thereafter turned his attention to railroad- ing, and in this connection worked in the states of Idaho and Washington. Returning to Dodge County with his small savings, he invested them in a tract of 160 acres of land, and for the next few years worked unceas- ingly until he had fulfilled his obligations. Since that time he has acquired, through purchase, eighty additional acres, in Maple Township, so that he is now the owner of 240 acres of valuable and productive land, on which he carries on successful operations as a general farmer and a raiser of a good grade of live stock. Mr. Hendricksen has splendid improvements on his land, including a modern. commodious home, erected in 1918. He is accounted one of the progressive agriculturists of his community and his reputation is one that has been built substan- tially through long years of honorable dealing and fair transactions. Mr. Hendricksen is a democrat, but has shown no inclination to partici- pate actively in political affairs, although as a good citizen he manifests an intelligent interest in the movements which affect the welfare of his community and state.
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In 1907 Mr. Hendricksen was united in marriage with Miss Florence Peterson, who was born in Henry County, Iowa, and they are the parents of one child, Glen Peterson, who is attending school in Dodge County. Mrs. Hendricksen is a member of the Fleihlars Fraternal National Union.
EDWIN L. HUSTEAD, M. D. Speaking in the language of the day, how poorly equipped would any modern community seem without its comple- ment of able professional men, all of whom have their place, with particu- lar stress perhaps laid on its medical men. Notwithstanding the perpet- uation of feuds and the continuation of wars, the preservation of human life is still acknowledged the most important earthly factor of existence, and it is to the trained medical scientist that the world turns in its times of deep physical distress. To the growing City of Scribner, Nebraska, have come young men of professional ability who have found here recognition of their talent, and one of these is Dr. Edwin L. Hustead, a skilled physician and surgeon.
Doctor Hustead was born in 1885, at Omaha, Nebraska, where his mother still resides. He is the eldest of three children born to Charles M. and Caroline (Zimmerman) Hustead, of German ancestry but natives of Fort Madison, Iowa. For many years the father was a grocery mer- chant in Omaha, in which city he died in 1917. As a business man he was held in high regard, and as a republican was frequently tendered political honors which he would not accept. Doctor Hustead has one sister, Elvera, and one brother, Charles M., Jr., both of whom reside at home.
After completing his public school training in the Central High School at Omaha Edwin L. Hustead went into the offices of the Cudahy Pack- ing Company, where he remained for five years, during all this time cherishing the intention of becoming a medical practitioner, and in a quiet way did considerable medical reading before he entered Creighton Medical College in 1912. After completing his studies there he was associated with Dr. L. T. Petersen of Omaha and in 1914 came to Scribner, where he has built up a large and satisfying practice. He has handled many cases with rare skill and has made an excellent impression wherever his services have been requested. He belongs to the Dodge County, the Nebraska State and the American Medical societies.
In 1914 Doctor Hustead was united in marriage to Miss Ida S. Procter, who was born, reared and educated in Nebraska. They have one daughter, Dorothy L., and one son, Arthur Procter, who contribute greatly to the sunshine prevailing in the home. Doctor Hustead belongs to the Masonic fraternity and to the Royal Highlanders. He has never found time, even if he had the inclination, to be active in a political way, not, however, being a negligent citizen, but preferably casting an inde- pendent vote. As a citizen of Scribner he takes keen interest in her schools and moral agencies, in outdoor sports from a physician's stand- point, and in public improvements along sanitary lines.
N. M. BOGGESS. A gifted and accomplished musician, Prof. N. M. Boggess, of Fremont, formerly an instructor in the Fremont College, was endowed by nature with musical talent of a high order, and as a teacher won an enviable reputation. Since resigning his professional position in the college he has been actively and prosperously engaged in business as proprietor of a finely equipped music store. A son of Henry Boggess, he was born, December 29, 1878, in Carrollton, Illinois, and in the Prairie State was reared and educated.
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Born, reared and educated in Illinois, Henry Boggess served for four years as a soldier during the Civil war, being a member of Company I, Ninety-First Illinois Infantry. He took an active part in several import- ant engagements, being wounded at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and was there captured by Morgan's raiders, and taken to prison, but was soon exchanged. Returning to Illinois, he settled as a farmer in White Hall where he is now living retired from active pursuits, although he has been connected to some extent with the postoffice the past few years. He is a republican in politics, and a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic. He married Ellen Ragan, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and of their five sons, three are living, as follows: John, a well known horse and stock man of White Hall, Illinois; N. M., of this sketch; and Ernest, engaged in farming near White Hall, Illinois. Both parents are con- sistent members of the Christian Church.
Educated in the public schools of his native county, and at Shurtleff College, in Alton, Illinois, N. M. Boggess studied music in Chicago, under the instruction of W. S. B. Matthews, a teacher of note. Coming to Fremont, Nebraska, in 1906, he entered Fremont College in a professional capacity, and taught music there for seven years, being dean of his depart- ment. In 1912, a year before leaving the college, Mr. Boggess estab- lished his music store, to the management of which he has devoted his entire attention since 1913, the business being carried on under the name of the Boggess Music Company. He has built up a large and constantly increasing business, handling sheet music and musical instruments of all kinds, his stock being verv complete. Until recently he had branch stores in both Scribner and North Bend, this state, but has closed them. He sells music and musical instruments in all parts of Nebraska and Illinois, having especially large sales in Greene County, Illinois, where his parents live.
Mr. Boggess married, in 1907, Kathryn Holland, who was born in Pennsylvania, and as a child came to Nebraska with her parents. Her father died in this state, and her mother resides in Fremont. Mr. and Mrs. Boggess have one child, Harold, a schoolboy. Mr. Boggess is a republican in politics, and while a resident of White Hall, Illinois, served as a member of the City Council, and as city clerk. Both Mr. and Mrs. Boggess are active members of the Christian Church.
AUGUST L. REBBE. The younger generation of the intelligent and progressive agricultural element in Dodge County is capably and worthily represented by August L. Rebbe, who is carrying on successful operations in farming and stock raising in section 1, Maple Township, where he is the owner of 360 acres of valuable and highly productive land. Mr. Rebbe has acquired his success in his home community, for he is a native son of Dodge County, born February 28, 1880, in Maple Township, his father being Henry Rebbe, Sr., a sketch of whose career will be found . elsewhere in this work in the review of Henry Rebbe, Jr.
Mr. Rebbe is indebted to the district schools of Maple Township for his educational training, and to his father's instruction for his training along agricultural lines. He was reared to habits of industry, integrity and probity, and remained under the guidance of his parents until the time of his marriage. Following that event, he embarked upon a career of his own, in the same county and township, where he has since been successful in his operations as a general farmer and a breeder of pure- bred Herefords. His farm consists of 360 acres, upon which there are improvements and equipment of the latest kind. Aside from his agri-
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cultural interests, Mr. Rebbe is a stockholder in the Dodge County Bank of Hooper and the First National Bank, also of that place. He is a Mason and belongs to the Mystic Shrine and the Knights of Pythias. In politics he votes independently.
January 29, 1897, Mr. Rebbe was united in marriage with Miss Ida Carstens, who was born November 2, 1884, in Dodge County, Nebraska, daughter of Henry Carstens, an early settler of Dodge County, and to this union there have been born three children-Emma, Lloyd and Car- son-all of whom reside with their parents and are attending school.
JOHN B. CARTER. At present a retired citizen of Blair, John B. Carter has been one of the industrious men of Washington County, linking his name with all that is admirable in farming and wise and progressive in individual life. While general farming occupied his chief interest during the active years of his career, he was also widely known as a breeder of cattle, and in the field of fruit raising gained a reputation that extended far beyond the boundaries of his own state.
Mr. Carter was born in Adams County, Ohio, May 20, 1856, a son of Jacob and Frances L. (Harris) Carter, who were married in Ohio, the former being a native of Ohio and the latter of Virginia. Coming to Nebraska in 1856, with their three children, Charles, Mary and John B., they secured a pre-emption claim in Washington County, on which they proved up, and obtained land at $1.25 per acre. Here they spent the rest of their lives in farming, gaining well-merited success and the esteem and respect of their neighbors, and reaching advanced years; the father dying when seventy-five years of age and the mother when she had attained the remarkable age of ninety-two years. They were faithful members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Carter, a democrat in politics, was one of the early supervisors of Washington County, and in his public life as in his private affairs gave evidence of the possession of the sturdy traits of character inherited from his English ancestry. There were ten children in the family, of whom five are living: Charles, who is engaged in farming in Washington County ; Mary, the wife of Z. T. Brunton, of Blair ; John B .; Dora, who is unmarried and resides at Blair ; and Julia, the wife of William J. Lippincott, a farmer of Webster County, Nebraska.
John B. Carter was an infant when brought by his parents to Wash- ington County and here his education was acquired in the public schools. As a youth he took up farming and was his father's assistant until he was thirty-six years of age, at which time he began independent activities on his own account. During the long period that he followed active farm- ing, Mr. Carter made many improvements on his property, which is still known as one of the most modern as to equipment to be found in the county. It includes a windmill, running water in the residence and other modern advantages, and during his occupancy its general air of pros- perity attracted much favorable comment. While he sold his farm stuff in 1914 and located in a pleasant home at Blair, Mr. Carter retains the ownership of 440 acres of valuable land. For a number of years Mr. Car- ter raised Polled Angus cattle, having a large herd of these registered animals and being considered an authority upon the subject of their breeding. He also had two acres of orchards on his farm, where he raised all kinds of fruit, and was a frequent exhibitor thereof at state fairs, etc. Of such a high grade was his product that during one year it took seven first prizes at the Nebraska State Fair, while in another year his apples took three first and four second prizes at the Iowa State Fair.
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Mr. Carter was married November 24, 1892, to Miss Margaret Nettie Stilts, who was born in Washington County, Nebraska, daughter of Ela and Margaret (McClelland) Stilts, natives of Ohio, who came to Wash- ington County in 1856 and settled on a pre-emption claim near Fort Cal- houn and later near Blair, upon which both died, he at the age of sixty- four and his wife at seventy years. They had eleven children, of whom five are living : Ernest, a farmer of the community of Elbert, Colorado; Philip, a fruit farmer of Corning, California : Mrs. John B. Carter ; Eliza, who is single and a resident of Corning, California ; and Harry, a fruit farmer and stock raiser of that locality.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter are members of the Baptist Church. They belong to the Order of the Eastern Star, in which Mrs. Carter has held all the chairs and is past matron, and Mr. Carter is likewise a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner. In politics he is a democrat in national affairs, although inclined to independent views. In 1920 they built a modern home at the corner of West Front and Second Streets, the first tile-brick house in Blair, and it stands on the land that Mr. Carter's father pre-empted from the Government in 1857.
T. A. F. Nusz. Recognizing the fact that in the field of journalism there exists plenty of room for men of brains and vim, T. A. F. Nusz early chose for his calling the newspaper profession, with what degree of success is shown in his present well-equipped establishment at Snyder, where he publishes the Banner and carries on a prosperous business in job printing. He was born at Frederick City, Maryland, in 1851, a son of George M. and Susan M. Nusz.
George M. Nusz was a brick and stone mason by trade, and brought his family to the West in 1856, locating at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he met an accidental death, his widow surviving him for some years. They were the parents of ten children: Mary, the widow of H. F. Fitch, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; F. T., a harnessmaker of Bay City, Michigan; George D., deceased; Henry, who died in infancy; T. A. F .; Lucretia, the wife of C. C. Bushnell, a carriagemaker of Marion, Iowa; Ida, who is deceased ; Myra and Harry, who died in infancy ; and Ida, the wife of George Elkle, a merchant tailor of Cedar Rapids. The parents were members of the English Lutheran Church, and in politics Mr. Nusz, the elder, was a republican. In his youth he received his education in the schools of Baltimore, Maryland, and received a congressional appointment to West Point, but never took advantage of this opportunity.
T. A. F. Nusz was five years of age when he accompanied his parents to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and his education was acquired in the public schools of that city. When he was eighteen years of age, in 1869, he entered the job printing office of the Weekly Times, at Cedar Rapids, and during the next fifteen years followed printing as a trade, visiting various points in Montreal, Canada, Vermont and New York. Return- ing to Cedar Rapids, he accepted the foremanship of the Daily Republi- can, with which he remained for some years, after which he went to Des Moines to become superintendent of the state printing office, a position which he retained eight years. In 1900 he came to Fremont, Nebraska, as superintendent of the Hammond Printing Company, remaining eleven years, after which he came to Snyder, and in 1913 leased the office of the Snyder Banner. Here he has since been engaged in publishing a reliable and interesting weekly newspaper, the circulation of which has increased steadily and the value of which as an advertising medium is generally conceded. A well-equipped job printing office is operated, where all
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kinds of high-class work is done, and Mr. Nusz has found his journalistic and business duties sufficient to demand his entire attention to the exclu- sion of outside interests.
In 1886 Mr. Nusz married Miss Alice Goodell, who was born in Illi- nois, and who bore her husband two children: George, who died in infancy ; and Stoddard, now a resident of Fremont, who spent twenty- three months in the medical corps of the United States Army and saw service on the Mexican border. Mr. Nusz was again married, at Des Moines, Iowa, to Jessie Davis, a native of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Nusz are members of the Christian Church, the movements of which they have supported liberally, while he maintains an independent stand as to political matters.
J. H. C. MEYER. A thorough-going, enterprising farmer of Dodge County, J. H. C. Meyer is proprietor of a well-kept and well-appointed farm in Cuming Township, where he has been profitably engaged in his independent calling for a number of years. He was born December 27, 1879, in Germany, a son of J. H. G. Meyer.
Born, reared and educated in Germany, J. H. G. Meyer immigrated to this country in 1879, bringing with him his wife and family, which then consisted of five children. Coming directly to Dodge County, this state, he bought land that was still in its primitive wildness, and having cleared and improved a good farm was actively and successfully engaged in tilling the soil until 1910, when he moved to Scribner, Dodge County, where he has since lived retired from active labor. He has never been active in local affairs, but is independent in his political relations, and is a worthy member of the Lutheran Church, to which his good wife, who died in 1917, aged three score and ten years, also belonged. He married Anna Lewis, and they became the parents of six children, as follows : Anna, wife of Chris Sass, who is engaged in farming in Dodge County ; Mary, wife of Frank Hartung, a Colorado farmer ; Sophia, wife of John Hargens; Gesina, wife of Fred Kitzrow, proprietor of a bakery at Beemer; J. H. C., of this sketch; and George, a prosperous farmer of Dodge County.
Educated in the district schools of Dodge County, J. H. C. Meyer was well drilled in the various branches of agriculture when young, and find- ing the occupation not only pleasant, but profitable, began life for himself as a farmer at the age of twenty-six years, and having met with desired results in his operations as a farmer and stock raiser, realizes that he made no mistake in selecting his future occupation.
Mr. Meyer married, in 1910, Amelia Klusendorf, who was born in Wisconsin and came to Nebraska when an infant and was educated in the Lutheran schools. They have two children, Florence and Mildred, both attending the Lutheran schools. Mr. Meyer invariably cast his vote for the best men and measures, regardless of party prejudices. Both Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are Lutherans in religion, belonging to St. John's Church.
ERIC G. ERICKSON. A well-known and highly esteemed farmer of Dodge County. Eric G. Erickson, of Logan Township, materially assists in maintaining the reputation of this section of Nebraska as a good agri- cultural region, and thoroughly identifies himself with whatever will promote the highest interests of his community. A son of the late Ambrose Erickson, he was born, in 1864, in Buffalo, New York.
Born in Sweden, Ambrose Erickson grew to manhood in his native country, residing there until after his marriage with Carrie Chapman.
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Coming to America in 1863, he stopped a short time in Montreal, Canada, after which he lived in Buffalo, New York, for a while. Having some means of his own, he decided to take advantage of the opportunity for buying cheaper lands in the West, and moved to Omaha, Nebraska, from whence he freighted out to Dodge County, Nebraska Homesteading 160 acres of land in Logan Township he began the pioneer labor of redeem- ing a farm from its primitive wildness, and in addition to carrying on general farming worked for a few years in the Union Pacific car shops at Omaha. He was exceedingly prosperous as an agriculturist, continu- ing as such until his death, when but three score years of age. He first lived in a dugout, and that was replaced by a substantial log structure, which in time gave way to a good frame house, each advancing step taken in improving the estate betokening the owner's prosperity.
Brought up on the parental homestead, Eric G. Erickson gleaned his early knowledge of books in the rural schools, and as a youth clerked for a short time in a mercantile establishment. Turning his attention to agri- culture, Mr. Erickson took up a homestead claim in Box Butte County, Nebraska, where he tilled the soil for a few seasons. Returning to Dodge County, he was employed as clerk in a general store at Hooper for seven years. Subsequently, responding to the lure of the land, he took charge of his present farm in Logan Township, and in its care has shown marked ability and excellent judgment.
Mr. Erickson married in 1883, Christina Dahl, a daughter of Peter and Justina Dahl, neither of whom are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Erick- son are worthy and active members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Erickson is a decided democrat in his political views, and socially he is a member of the Farmers' Union, at Hooper. Mr. and Mrs. Erickson have no children.
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