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this county and feed for market. Enterprising and progressive, he takes advantage of every opportunity for adding to his agricultural knowledge and efficiency, and is an active and interested member of the Farmers Union. He is well acquainted with the western section of our country, in the management of his business interests having made several over- land trips to the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Sutton married Birdie Pollock, and they have two children, namely: James A., born twenty-one years ago; and Rona, nine years younger. Politically Mr. Sutton is a sound republican ; fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously he and his family are affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
GEORGE C. CAMPEN. To a great extent the prosperity of our great country is due to the honest industry, the sturdy perseverance and the wise economy which so prominently characterizes the foreign element that has entered largely into our population. By comparison with their old country surroundings, these people have readily recognized the fact that in America lie the greatest opportunities for the man of ambition and energy. And because of this many have broken the ties of home and native land and have earnestly entered upon the task of gaining in the new world a name and a competence. Among this class may be men- tioned George C. Campen, of Fremont, who, by indefatigable and honest effort, has not only acquired a well-merited material prosperity, but also richly earned the highest esteem of all with whom he has been associated.
George C. Campen was born in Denmark on July 11, 1868, and is the son of Hans and Wilhelmina (Lefeedt) Campen. The father was born on October 14, 1837, and died in August, 1870, and the mother, who was born on December 21, 1841, died in Copenhagen in March, 1918. They spent their entire lives in their native land, where the father fol- lowed the vocation of a farmer, becoming quite well-to-do. On the paternal side, George C. Campen traces his ancestry back to Thyge Hansen, of the sixteenth century. The paternal grandfather was George C. Campen, who owned a large farm and over one hundred and fifty pure bred cattle, the family occupying a position of prominence and influence in the community. To Hans and Wilhelmina Campen were born five children, of whom three are living, namely: Caroline became the wife of P. B. Christenen and they remain in Denmark ; Anna became the wife of H. Nelson, a railroad engineer at Copenhagen ; and George C.
George C. Campen was reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the schools of his home community. At the age of twenty years he entered the Danish army, with which he served for nine months, and in 1890 he immigrated to the United States. He first located in New York, where he followed the painting and decorating trade for a year. He then located in Omaha, Nebraska, and in 1892 came to Fremont, where he has remained ever since. Here he established him- self in the painting and decorating business and, being a good workman in that line, he met with success from the start, gaining a good reputa- tion because of the high quality of his work. In 1905 Mr. Campen established a store on Fifth Street, and has occupied three different locations on that street and is now occupying a fine two-story building erected by him for his business needs. He received a large and repre- sentative patronage and keeps from seven to twenty-five men constantly busy on his work. As a painter and decorator he has perhaps no supe- riors and few equals in this community and is considered a man of
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original and artistic ideas. When it is remembered that Mr. Campen's sole cash capital when he landed in New York was but $5, it can be appreciated what he has accomplished through his energy, ability and economy.
Mr. Campen was married on December 26, 1892, to Sina Jensen, who was born in Denmark, but who, when a child, was brought by her mother to this country, locating in Lancaster County, Nebraska, where she was reared and educated. She has borne her husband three children, namely: Agnes, the wife of Harold Eling, a painter and decorator in Fremont; Thorvald, who occupies a homestead at Opton, Wyoming ; Edith, deceased.
Mr. Campen is a republican in his political views and he and his wife are members of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security. Among those who know him best he bears the reputation of a man who uses sound judg- ment in all his business affairs and who always exercises the duties of citizenship in a conscientious manner. Because of his success and his character, he occupies an enviable standing throughout the community.
L. H. ROGERS. In the death of the late L. H. Rogers, Dodge County, Nebraska, lost one of its representative citizens. As the day, with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of activity, its evening of complete and successful efforts, ending in the grateful rest and quiet of the night, so was the life of this honored man. His career was a busy and useful one, and although he devoted his attention primarily to his individual affairs, he never allowed the pursuits of wealth to warp his kindly nature, but preserved his faculties and the warmth of his heart for the broadening and helpful influences of human life, being to the end a kindly, genial friend and gentleman with whom it was a pleasure to meet and converse. Through the years of his residence in this locality he was ever true to all trusts reposed in him, whether of a public or private nature, and his reputation in a business way was unassailable. He commanded the respect of all by his upright life and engraved his name indelibly on the pages of Dodge County's history.
L. H. Rogers was born in Fayetteville, New York, March 20, 1834, and his death occurred in Fremont in 1903, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was educated in the public schools of his native state, having lived in various places owing to the fact that his father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was located at several points in ยท the central part of that state. At about the time he attained his majority, L. H. Rogers left his native state and early in 1857 he arrived in Fre- mont, being among the earliest settlers in this locality, the town having been established in August of the previous year. Here he engaged in farming, which occupied his attention until 1861, when he and his brother established the banking house of E. H. & L. H. Rogers. This was one of the early banks of this section of the state and became the First National Bank of Fremont, one of the most important and influen- tial financial institutions of the newly settled community. Mr. Rogers maintained his active connection with the banking business until 1884, when his health failed and he was compelled to relinquish his active participation in business affairs. He and his wife did considerable traveling during the years following, but he maintained his residence here continually up to the time of his death. Having become identified with the business interests of this locality in its first stages of develop- ment, he was for many years a potent influence in commercial and busi-
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ness circles. He was a citizen of high civic ideals and as a citizen he was well worthy of the unqualified confidence and esteem in which he was universally held.
In 1864 Mr. Rogers was married to Lottie Elizabeth Heaton, who was born September 13, 1844, in the State of Wisconsin, the daughter of Rev. Isaac E. Heaton, whose name is linked with the earliest history of this immediate locality. His was the first family to move to Fremont in 1856, he preached the first sermon in Fremont, and organized the first Congregational Church here, the seven charter members of this society having been Reverend and Mrs. Heaton, Nathan Heaton (paternal grandfather of Mrs. Rogers), E. H. Barnard, Mrs. Seth Marvin, Richard Davis and one other. The Reverend Heaton was widely known throughout this section of the state as a Congregational minister of ability and energy, who exerted a powerful influence on the moral standing of the pioneer communities of that day. He was a prohibition republican in his political views. To him and his wife were born two children, Mrs. Rogers, who is now the oldest living pioneer settler of Fremont, and Mary E., who was the wife of J. J. Hawthorne, formerly of Fremont, both being now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Rogers two children have been born, namely: C. I., who is now retired from busi- ness and is living in Fremont, and Belle H., who remains with her mother. Mrs. Rogers is a member of the Congregational Church and her children are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Rogers took an active part in advancing the early religious life of Fremont and he was a charter member of the Methodist Episcopal Church here, the others being E. H. Rogers and his wife, Mrs. Wealthy Beebe and Mrs. Mary Flor. Politically, L. H. Rogers gave his support to the republican party and was deeply interested in the public affairs of the community in which he lived. Mrs. Rogers has lived on the same lot continuously since 1888, though in 1896 her present commodious and attractive home was built. It is also worthy of note that Mrs. Rogers still owns some of the land that her husband originally purchased here in 1856. There are but few of the pioneer settlers of the '50s still remaining to tell the interesting stories of the development of this locality and to them all honor is due for the part they played in the development of this favored community.
FRED F. SCOTT has been a resident of Dodge County from the time of his birth, has here proved a successful representative of farm industry, and here his secure place in popular confidence and esteem is indicated by the fact that he is now serving as a member of the county board of supervisors.
Mr. Scott was born in Union Township, Dodge County, on the 20th of March, 1870, and is a son of David and Isabelle (Johnson) Scott, who were born and reared in Ireland. Upon coming to the United States David Scott found employment in a bottling establishment in the City of Philadelphia, though he had learned in his native land the trade of cooper. He came with his wife to Dodge County, Nebraska, in the early '60s and purchased land in Union Township, at the rate of one dollar and a quarter an acre. He improved this farm, which he later sold, and thereafter he gave his attention to the management of the fine farm which he owned in section 22, that township, until he finally retired and established his home at North Bend, where his death occurred in 1914 and where his widow still resides.
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Fred F. Scott gained in his boyhood and youth a goodly experience in connection with the work and management of the home farm, and his educational discipline was secured in the public schools of his native county, and by one year of attendance in the Nebraska State Normal School at Fremont. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority and then instituted independent opera- tions as a farmer. He utilized for this enterprise a tract of land owned by his father, and finally he purchased also about 120 acres of addi- tional land. He continued as one of the active and successful exponents of agricultural and live stock industry in Union Township until 1914, when he retired and established his home at North Bend, though he still retains ownership of his well improved farm property, which comprises 360 acres. Mr. Scott is a vigorous advocate and supporter of the cause of the republican party and is serving his first term as a member of the county board of supervisors. He is a stockholder in and stanch supporter of the Farmers' Union in his native county, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen of America.
The year 1895 recorded the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Mina Hatcher, who was born in West Virginia and who was a child at the time of the family removal to Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have two children : Irma A., a skilled stenographer who now holds a position in an insurance office in the City of Omaha, and Marvin F., who is still a student in the public schools of North Bend.
JACOB R. BADER, president of the J. R. Bader Furniture Company, of Fremont, has one of the most beautiful stores in Nebraska, and during the years he has been connected with this city he has always proven himself a man of probity, excellent business endowments and a factor in the moral uplift of his community. Mr. Bader was born in Hugsweier, Baden, Germany, on July 24, 1864, a son of Carl and Caro- line (Lieb) Bader. Carl Bader was district treasurer for forty-five years, and both he and his wife were very pious, their main concern in life being the spiritual welfare of their children. Their efforts in this direction met with very gratifying results for three of their sons are successful preachers, one of them now being at the head of the house publishing all of the religious literature of his denomination. Another son served as a missionary to India, and a daughter married a mis- sionary to India.
After attending the public schools of Germany, Jacob R. Bader came to the United States, and took a commercial course in the business college at Nebraska City, Nebraska. He has no degrees. After two years' work on a Nebraska farm, Mr. Bader secured employment as a bookkeeper in a brewery of Nebraska City, and later went into a furni- ture store of that same place as a clerk, holding that position from 1886 until 1890, and learning the business in all of its details.
In 1890 Mr. Bader came to Fremont and, after working for M. H. Hinman, bought the business in October, 1890, taking Ernest Elsner as a partner. Later the firm saw several changes, becoming in turn Bader & Anderson, Bader & Rogers Furniture Co., Bader Bros. Company, and finally the J. R. Bader Furniture Company, of which Mr. Bader is president and owner of sixty per cent of the stock. He is a member of the Fred Bader & Company, undertakers. His furniture business has increased its annual sales from $11,000 to $160,000.
On May 25, 1886, Mr. Bader was married on the farm of his father-in-law, E. Elsner, at Arlington, Nebraska, to Emma E. Elsner,
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whose father is one of the successful farmers of Nebraska. The follow- ing children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bader: Carl G., who is a minister of the gospel, married Edna McAfee of Worcester, Massa- chusetts; Ernest F., who is advertising manager of the United Phono- graph Corporation, married Nellie Baldwin; Eleanore O., who married Clarence King, a lumberman of Sterling, Colorado; Alma E., who is a music teacher, resides at home; Clara B., who is a student of the Art Institute, of Chicago, Illinois; and Jean R., who is attending the Fre- mont High School.
Mr. Bader is an active republican and has never failed to vote. He is a Methodist, and has been licensed to preach since 1886. While he has been very successful in his enterprises there is no doubt but that Mr. Bader takes more satisfaction in the work he has been able to accomplish in raising the standard of morality, and bringing addi- tional souls into the fold. A man of unblemished private life, he sets an example for others to follow, and certainly in every act practices the religion he so fervently preaches.
CHARLES C. POLLARD is a leading representative of the real estate and insurance business in the City of Fremont, and his operations in the handling of real estate extend far beyond the immediate confines of Dodge County, though his attention is given principally to the handling of city property and to his substantial general insurance business.
Mr. Pollard is a scion of the stanchest of colonial New England stock and claims the old Green Mountain State as the place of his nativity. He was born at Wilmington, Vermont, July 4, 1854, and it may consistently be said that his patriotism and civic loyalty have ever been in consonance with the spirit of the great national holiday which figured as the day of his nativity. He is a son of Jonas S. and Louisa D. (Cunningham) Pollard, both natives of the State of Massachusetts, where the former was born November 10, 1810, and the latter March 20, 1818, their marriage having been solemnized May 16, 1844. The parents were residents of their native state at the time of their death, though they had lived for several years in Vermont. Mrs. Pollard passed away in 1873, and her husband survived her by nearly a score of years, his death having occurred in 1890. Of the five children Charles C. is the elder of the two now living, and Joshua H. is a machinist at Worcester, Massachusetts. Jonas S. Pollard was a man of energy and industry, but in the cultivation of his small and none too prolific farm in Massachusetts he was able to gain only modest pros- perity, his original dwelling on his farm having been constructed of logs which were hewed by him. He was a stanch republican and he and his wife were zealous members of the Congregational Church. His father, Jonas Pollard, was born at Bolton, Massachusetts, July 12, 1778, and was a son of William Pollard, born at Billerica, Massachusetts, August 3, 1698. Thomas, father of the last mentioned, William Pollard, was born in Coventry, England, as was also his father, William Pollard, who came with his family to America and settled at Billerica, Massa- chusetts, in 1692. John Cunningham, maternal grandfather of Charles C. Pollard, was born at Phillipston, Massachusetts, and he likewise was a representative of one of the sterling colonial families of the old Bay State.
Charles C. Pollard acquired his early education in the public schools at Clinton, Massachusetts, and supplemented this by continuing his studies two winters under the direction of a private tutor. His initial
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business experience was gained as an employe in a carpet factory, and thereafter he was employed for a time in a shoe shop and grocery store at Spencer, Massachusetts. In 1882, when twenty-eight years of age, he came to the West, and in September of that year he established his residence at Cherokee, Iowa, where he was employed as clerk in a store until the spring of the following year, when he removed to what is now the State of South Dakota. For four years he was engaged in the lumber business at Howard, that state, which was then still a part of Dakota Territory, and on the 1st of April, 1887, he arrived at Fremont, Nebraska. For the ensuing eight years he had the management of a lumber business at his place, and he then turned his attention to inde- pendent enterprise in the real estate and insurance business, with which he has since continued his effective alliance and with marked success. He is now one of the veteran exponents of these lines of business in Dodge County, and his reputation, won through years of honest and effective service, is one of the most valuable assets of his business. Mr. Pollard has had no ambition for political activity or official prefer- ment, but is a stanch advocate of the principles of the republican party. He is actively affiliated with the local Blue Lodge, Chapter, and Com- mandery of Knights Templar of the Masonic fraternity, and has served as high priest of his chapter, besides having held official chairs in the lodge. He has been actively identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for thirty-five years, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Congregational Church in their home city.
October 19, 1886, recorded the marriage of Mr. Pollard to Miss Sarah J. Harrison, who was born in the City of London, England.
JOHN H. HOEBENER. An intelligent and enterprising agriculturist of Dodge County, John H. Hoebener has a well appointed farm in Platte Township, on which he has erected a conveniently arranged residence, modern in every respect, a substantial barn, and all other necessary buildings for carrying on farming, cattle and sheep raising after the most approved methods, everything about the premises indi- cating the thrift, industry and keen judgment of the proprietor. He was born, July 22, 1853, in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, a son of J. H. and Elizabeth Hoebener, life long residents of the Keystone State.
Brought up and educated in his native county, John H. Hoebener spent the earlier years of his life in that vicinity. Migrating to Nebraska in 1881, he located in Dodge County, and having opened a meat shop in Fremont continued in business nine years. Changing his occupation, Mr. Hoebener began dealing in sheep, driving flocks of them from Oregon, and feeding them in Fremont, where later, for a period of nine years, he was engaged in the hide and wool business. Giving that up, Mr. Hoebener lived retired for a while, and then bought his present farm of 248 acres in Platte Township, two miles from town, an advantageous location. In addition to carrying on mixed husbandry successfully he makes a specialty of feeding cattle, hogs and sheep. In 1916 Mr. Hoebener erected his fine residence, one of the most attractive in the township and is constantly adding to the improvements already inaugurated.
Mr. Hoebener married, in Illinois, Anna H. Hoefer, a native of that state, and into their household six children have made their advent, namely: Dorothy, Bertha, Frieda, Iona, Henrietta, and John. In his political affiliations Mr. Hoebener is independent, voting for the best men and measures. He has never aspired to public office, and belongs to no fraternal or social organizations. Religiously he and his family worship at the Presbyterian Church.
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PETER PARKERT, JR. Possessing superior business ability, enterprise and judgment, Peter Parkert, Jr., of Everett Township, has gained a position of prominence and influence in the financial, industrial and agricultural interests of Dodge County, and well merits representation in a work of this character. A son of Peter Parkert, Sr., he was born, August 30, 1887, in Dodge County, Nebraska, which he has always proudly claimed as home.
Born in Germany seventy-one years ago, Peter Parkert, Sr., came to this country in early life, locating first in Michigan. Being assured that better opportunities for advancing his interests awaited him in the then far West, he came to Nebraska in 1869, and for a short time worked in Fremont. Subsequently taking up a homestead claim in Dodge County, he was prosperously engaged in farming and stock raising until 1904, when he retired from agricultural pursuits, and took up his residence in Hooper. He is now serving as vice president of the First National Bank of Hooper, and is a stockholder in the Hooper Land & Investment Company, and in the Hooper mills. He is a demo- crat in politics, and for about twenty years served as county supervisor of Dodge County. In religion he is a Catholic.
Peter Parkert, Sr., married Mary Tillman, a daughter of Frank M. and Anna (Enderley) Tillman, natives, respectively, of Germany and Switzerland. After coming to this country to live, Mr. Tillman lived first in Detroit, Michigan, where his marriage was solemnized, and later was hotelkeeper in Holton, Michigan, for a number of years. In 1868 he settled in Dodge County, this state, and carried on farming in Ridgeley Township until 1881, when he removed to Hooper, where his death occurred at the age of ninety-one years, in 1915, seven years after that of his wife, who died in 1908, aged eighty-two years. Their children were as follows: Joseph, deceased; Mary, now Mrs. Parkert ; Margaret, wife of Charles S. Basler, of Hooper; Lizzie, wife of W. F. Basler, of Hooper; Frank A., of Hooper; Catherine, wife of Edward Wickhorst, of Santa Ana, California ; and A. M., a prominent business man of Hooper.
Of the union of Peter Parkert, Sr., and Mary Tillman, six children were born, as follows: George, a farmer in Dodge County; Peter, Jr., of this sketch; Anna, wife of Harry Heine, a farmer, living near Madi- son, Nebraska ; Ella, wife of William Schuler, a Dodge County farmer ; Isabelle, wife of H. R. Katz, who is engaged in farming in Dodge County ; and Julia.
After leaving the Fremont Normal School, where he completed his early studies, Peter Parkert, Jr., was bookkeeper for a year for the Farmers Grain & Stock Company, at Hooper. Beginning to farm on his own account in 1906, he made a specialty of dealing in Shorthorn cattle for a period of six years, holding annual sales, and is still inter- ested to some extent in that industry, keeping a good grade of stock, and feeding for the markets. He is prominent in business circles, having served as secretary of the Farmers Grain & Stock Company until it was sold to the Farmers Union, in which he is a stockholder; and having been secretary of the Hooper Mill & Grain Company since its organ- ization. Mr. Parkert is also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Hooper; a stockholder and director of the Stock Show Company of Hooper; and one of the stockholders of the Hooper Land & Invest- ment Company. He is a democrat in politics, but is not active in public affairs. Religiously he is a member of the Catholic Church; and fra- ternally belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
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