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Educated in Fremont, where his parents brought him when he was an infant, Frank W. Fuhlrodt attended the public and normal schools, and at the age of seventeen years began life as a wage earner, working on the railroad. In September, 1903, Mr. Fuhlrodt entered the postoffice at Fremont in a minor capacity, and through deserved promotions has been an active worker in all of its departments, in 1915 having been made assistant postmaster, and on May 11, 1920, having received his appoint-
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ment as postmaster, a position he is filling with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned, having been acting postmaster since March, 1919.
Mr. Fuhlrodt married June 15, 1904, Lucinda Mallette, who was born in Burt County, Nebraska, a daughter of Thomas Mallette, a pros- perous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Fuhlrodt have no children. Both attend the Methodist Episcopal Church and contribute liberally towards its sup- port. Politically Mr. Fuhlrodt is a republican and fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
ANDREW JENSEN. Self-acquired prosperity, liberal ideas, ambitions expressed in promoting agriculture, education, religion and simplicity of living, as well as unquestioned public and private integrity, constitute the fundamentals upon which rest the enviable standing of Andrew Jensen, a pioneer of Platte Township, Dodge County, of 1866, and at present a retired resident of the suburbs of Fremont.
Mr. Jensen was born in the Kingdom of Denmark, July 26, 1840, and there received his education in the public schools. He was reared to agri- cultural pursuits, and when he immigrated to the United States, in 1865, it was with the intention of settling in a community where he could work his way to the ownership of a farming property. Upon his arrival, he was possessed of but six dollars, but his ambition and willingness to work were assets that discounted his lack of financial resources, and he made his way to Wisconsin where he began his career in this country. In 1866 he came on to Nebraska, where he purchased the homestead of his brother, in Platte Township, Dodge County, and here the entire period of his active career was passed. Through industry and good man- agement he became the owner of 148 acres of valuable farming land, which he brought to a high state of cultivation and upon which he made modern improvements. In 1906 he retired from active farming and moved to a home in the suburbs of Fremont, where he now has ten acres of land, having disposed of his other property. His position in the con- munity is that of a man who has lived according to the best that he knew, whose abilities have been trained upon the things that are worth while, and whose general character is such as to win him those most splendid and satisfying of rewards, the consciousness of welldoing and the esteem of his fellow-townsmen. Mr. Jensen is a member of the Lutheran Church, to which his family likewise belongs. Since his location in the county he has exerted a controlling interest upon many phases of its growth. Few happenings of moment but have profited directly or indi- rectly by his judgment or pecuniary assistance. Various township offices, including those of road overseer for seven years, constable for one year and member of the School Board for a long period, have been invested with dignity and non-partisan largeness through his occupancy. He is an independent voter.
Mr. Jensen was first married in 1868 to Miss Dorothy Peterson, and they became the parents of four children: Mrs. Katie Davis, a resident of Missoula, Montana: Mrs. Bertha Patterson, who died at the age of thirty-two years; Mrs. Sennie Scutter of Lincoln County, Nebraska ; and Hans, who died at the age of two years. The mother of these chil- dren died in 1878, and in 1880 Mr. Jensen married Miss Anna Jeppisen, six children being born to this union: Dorothy and Mary, who died as small children : Andrea, who died in infancy ; Hans, Minnie and Andrew, Jr., who reside with their parents.
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CARL KROEGER. One of the substantial and best known citizens of the flourishing Town of Hooper Nebraska, is Carl Kroeger, who, while having large interests in several other sections of the state, has main- tained his home here for forty years. He has also been one of the vigor- ous citizens, active in business affairs and practical in furthering the interests of the town. Although now retired from active life, he is still influential in the town's general affairs, concerning which his sound judg- ment is frequently consulted, the fruits of his ripened experience being recognized as most beneficial.
Carl Kroeger was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1850. His grand- father was a lieutenant in the Danish army. His parents, Gustaf and Amelia (Hansen) Kroeger, were born in Germany, and the mother died there. The father, who was a tanner by trade, came to the United States in 1881, joined his son Carl in Dodge County, Nebraska, and died here in 1897. Of his eight children, Carl was the eldest, the others being as follows: Amelia, who lives in Idaho: Johanna, who is the wife of Peter Eggers; Theodore, who is a dentist, lives in Idaho; Hermoine, who is the widow of Hans Harlow; Herman, who is deceased; Helen, who is the wife of William Moshage, a rancher near Wood Lake, Nebraska, and Gustaf, who is an attorney in active practice at Boise, in Ada County, Idaho. He and wife were members of the German Lutheran Church and were people held in high regard in Germany.
Carl Kroeger had school privileges in his native land and then learned the trade of a tanner. He was twenty-three years old when he came to the United States and for one year afterward worked in a tannery at Fremont, Ohio. In 1874 he came to Omaha, Nebraska, and for the next six years engaged in farming near that city. In 1880 he located at what was then the Village of Hooper, but he had the fore- sight to recognize that it offered business opportunity, and he started a meat market, in partnership with his brother Theodore, which they con- tinued as the Hooper Market for thirteen years. When he retired from the market business he still kept his home at Hooper, although for the next nine years he was connected with the Heine Brothers in a cattle ranch in Cherry County and in buying and selling as well as raising livestock.
After disposing of his ranch interests in this connection, he entered into another ranch enterprise, in partnership with William G. J. Dau, in Brown and Cherry counties, Mr. Kroeger subsequently buying his partner's interest and operating alone until he saw a favorable oppor- tunity to sell. Once more he bought a ranch in Cherry County and carried on a large and successful business until 1918, when he sold out and retired from active business.
In 1880 Mr. Kroeger was united in marriage to Miss Emma Winkle- man, then of Hooper but a native of Holstein, Germany, like himself, and the following children were born to them: Minnie, who is the wife of William R. Hoabak, who is a banker at Dodge, Nebraska : Gustaf and Theodore, both of whom died in infancy; Anna, who died at the age of four years; and Mary, who is the wife of W. H. Rogers, manager of the Hooper Electric Light and Power Company.
Mr. Kroeger is prominent in local politics, a strong republican, and has served faithfully and efficiently in many offices of trust and respon- sibility. For nine years he was precinct assessor, was treasurer for twenty years of the School Board of Hooper, has served several terms on the Town Board and in other ways and offices has proved his excel-
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lent citizenship. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity at Hooper. He was reared in the German Lutheran Church but has been liberal in his support to other religious bodies and to worthy enterprises of all kinds.
FREDERICK E. BRAUCHT, M. D., D. D. S. As a specialist in the treat- ment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, Dr. Frederick E. Braucht has developed a large and representative practice in the City of Fremont, Dodge County, and is essentially one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the state, besides which he was graduated also from the Northwestern Dental College at Chicago.
Doctor Braucht was born in Mercer County, Illinois, February 2, 1868, and is the only child of George W. and Frances (Douglass) Braucht, the former of whom was born in Ohio and the latter in Mercer County, Illinois, where their marriage was solemnized, and where the latter died in 1869, within a few months after the birth of her only child. In 1872 George W. Braucht came to Nebraska, and with head- quarters at Fremont, engaged in the buying and shipping of horses. Later he was for a few years engaged in farming west of Fremont, and within this period he contracted a second marriage, Miss Kate Burner becoming his wife. They thereafter resided at Fremont about twelve years, and then Mr. Braucht removed to Idaho. From that state he finally removed to the State of Washington, where he resided until July, 1919, when he returned to Fremont, where he passed the closing days of his life in the home of his son, Doctor Braucht, of this review, his death having occurred October 14, 1919. Of the four children of the second marriage, three are living: Jesse, in the employ of a wholesale millinery house in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Myrtle is the wife of Arthur Callan of Portland, Oregon; and Roy L. is manager of a large ranch near Artois, California.
Doctor Braucht received excellent educational advantages in his youth, including those of Battle Creek College, at Battle Creek, Michi- gan, and also those of the great University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. In preparation for the profession in which he has achieved unequivocal success, he entered the celebrated Rush Medical College, in the City of Chicago, and from this great institution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1894, the following year having marked his graduation in the college of dentistry. A very exceptional experience marked the prac- tical novitiate of Doctor Braucht in the work of his profession, for he went to the Samoan or Navigators Islands, in the Southern Pacific Ocean, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and where he remained somewhat more than eight years. He there built up a substantial and profitable practice, but in 1903 he returned to the United States and engaged in practice in the City of Omaha. One year later, however, he went to Honduras, Central America, where he remained nine months, and after his return he was engaged in practice at Licking Valley, Pennsyl- vania, for six months. In 1906 he became superintendent of the Kansas Sanitarium, at Wichita, and in this position he continued the incumbent until 1909, when he became interested in gold mining in the Nome district of Alaska, where he passed two seasons. He thereafter passed one year at Wichita, Kansas, and he then engaged in active general practice in Cedar County, Nebraska, where he remained until, in January, 1918, he further diversified his somewhat remarkable experience, by entering the medical corps of the United States army. He was assigned to service with the signal corps of the aviation section, and in this capacity remained at Omaha six months. He was then sent to the Government Aeronautic
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School at Arcadia, California, and three months later he was transferred to the surgical division and ordered to Letterman Hospital, at San Fran- cisco. After there continuing in service two months he was ordered to Camp Crain, Allentown, Pennsylvania, and he was the commanding medi- cal officer of the One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Base Hospital when the war closed. He arrived at his home January 7, 1919, and on the first of the following May he established his residence at Fremont, where he has since continued in active practice, as a specialist in treatment of dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He had previously taken special post-graduate courses in these special lines, at the Chicago Post-Graduate School of Medicine and Surgery, his first work of this order having been in 1895, and a further post-graduate course in that institution having been completed in 1904, a four months' course. Doctor Braucht is a close student of the best standard and periodical literature of his profes- sion, is at all times in touch with advances made in medical and surgical science and practice, and is admirably equipped for the special line of service to which he is devoting his attention. He is associated in prac- tice with Dr. D. G. Golding, is a member of the Nebraska State Medical Society, and also holds membership in the American Medical Association. The doctor is independent in politics and while a resident of Samoan Islands he served as a member of the Municipal Council of the city in which he maintained his home. He was a member of the Board of Health while engaged in practice in Cedar County, Nebraska. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with both the York and the Scottish Rite bodies, in which latter he has received the thirty-second degree, and also with the Mystic Shrine. At Fremont he and his wife attend and support the Methodist Episcopal Church, and they are popular in the representative social life of the community.
The year 1893 recorded the marriage of Doctor Braucht to Miss Mina A. Owen, who was born at Hastings, Michigan, and they have two children : Frederick A. is now associated with the Taylor-Jenkins Opti- cal Company in the City of Omaha, and Dorothy Frances is attending the public schools of Fremont.
ERNEST DAU. One of the chief industries of the thriving little City of Scribner is that pertaining to the handling of lumber, grain, coal and live stock, and it is in this field of endeavor that Ernest Dau, manager of the Crowell Lumber and Grain Company, has won recognition of his business ability. He has been identified with this concern for fifteen years, during which time he has materially developed its interests, while at the same time advancing himself in the estimation of his associates.
Mr. Dau is a Nebraskan by nativity, born January 27, 1880, and a .history of his parents will be found in the review of his brother, William G. J. Dau, elsewhere in this work. His education was acquired in the public schools of Dodge County, and as a young man he began his career as a farmer, a vocation to which he applied himself until twenty- three years old. In 1903 Mr. Dau disposed of his agricultural interests and located at Scribner, where he entered the employ of the Crowell Lumber and Grain Company, an old established and responsible con- cern which had been founded as early as 1869. A demonstration of ability and fidelity won him promotion from the start, and eventually he was placed in the position of manager of the business, an office of which he is the incumbent at this time. In 1908 he resigned and engaged in farming in this county for five years, when on account of his wife's health he again disposed of his farming interests and again took his old
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position with the Crowell Lumber and Grain Company. This company does a large business in the handling of all kinds of lumber, grain, coal and live stock, and Mr. Dau allows no other interests to distract his attention from the management of the concern's affairs. In political affairs he acts independently, giving his vote to the candidate whom he deems best fitted for the office, irrespective of party lines. He is a Blue Lodge Mason and has numerous friends in that order, as he has also in business circles.
On November 6, 1907, Mr. Dau was united in marriage with Miss Mary Soll of Blair, Nebraska, and to this union there were born three children : Mildred, born in 1906; Catherine, in 1911 ; and Lucille, in 1915.
P. G. JOHNSON. Of the residents of Dodge County who have retired from active pursuits after spending long years in agricultural operations is P. G. Johnson. Like many of those who have won success and posi- tion in this locality, Mr. Johnson is a native of Sweden, and, also like others, has been the architect in the rearing of his own fortune's struc- ture. At present he is the owner of a pleasant home in Fremont, where he is surrounded by the comforts that form the awards for a life of industry directed by a policy of integrity.
Mr. Johnson was born in Sweden, April 11, 1852, a son of Johannus Johnson. His father joined the Swedish army in his younger years, but later turned from a military career and took up farming, being engaged in the pursuits of the soil until his death at the age of eighty- five years. Of his children, Helen is deceased; Johanna accompanied her brother to the United States and is now a resident of Ainsworth, Nebraska: and P. G. is a resident of Fremont. P. G. Johnson was educated in the public schools of his native land, and was twenty-nine years of age when he immigrated to the United States in 1881. At that time he came to Fremont, where he resided for three years, then going to Burt County, where he spent eight years in farming. While there, he was married, in 1884, to Augusta Christina Carlson, who was born in 1860, in Sweden, and who came to the United States in 1881, her par- ents having passed their entire lives in their native land, where they died. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: Mrs. Phoebe Sweet of Dodge County; Mrs. Helma Sight of Dodge County; Gilbert, a farmer of this county; Mrs. Grace Johnson and Mrs. Ruby Harris, also residents of Dodge County; Carl, who is engaged in agricultural opera- tions here; Mrs. Helen Kenyon, a resident of Saunders County ; Emil, who farms in Dodge County; and a child who died in infancy.
After spending eight years in Burt County, Mr. Johnson returned to Dodge County, where, eleven years after his arrival in the United States, he purchased a farming property. He accumulated a valuable tract of land, upon which he made numerous improvements, and for many years carried on farming and stock raising and became known as one of the practical, substantial and successful agriculturists of his com- munity. With advancing years came the feeling that he had earned a rest from his labors, and he accordingly turned his responsibilities over to younger shoulders and removed to his present pleasant home at 1120 East First Street, Fremont. While Mr. Johnson is retired from agricul- tural pursuits, he still maintains an interest therein and is the owner of forty acres of good Dodge County land.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are consistent members of the Swedish Lutheran Church and are contributors to worthy religious and educa- tional movements. Politically he gives his support to the candidates of
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the republican party. He is a great lover of his home, and that is per- haps the reason that he is not affiliated with any fraternal or secret order.
FREDERICK BADER. The Bader family is one of the best-known ones of Dodge County, and has as its representatives some of the sound and dependable men of this region, one of them being Frederick Bader of Fremont, who, with his brother, Jacob R. Bader, is engaged in the under- taking business under the name of Fred Bader & Company, and he is also engaged in the jobbing of caskets under the name of the Fremont Casket Company.
Frederick Bader was born in Hugsweier, Baden, Germany, .on November 13, 1870, a son of Carl and Caroline (Lieb) Bader, most estimable parents who brought up their children in an atmosphere of piety, and so turned their attention to spiritual matters that all of them have been upright Christians, two have gone into the ministry, and two have gone to India, one as a missionary and the other as the wife of a missionary.
Up to the time he was eighteen years of age Fred Bader remained at home and attended the public schools of his native place, but then came to the United States, and coming west, settled in Nebraska, his arrival at Nebraska City being in 1888. For two seasons he was employed dur- ing the winter months as shipping clerk in the sausage department of the Chicago Packing Company, and for one summer he was on a farm in Washington County. Mr. Bader then came to Fremont and for three months worked in the tub factory. An opening occurring for him in the furniture business, he went into it and remained in it through the various changes in name and partners until he and his brother, Jacob R. Bader, became the owners of the undertaking part of the business, in 1900, and operated it under the name of the Bader Brothers Company. Later Fred Bader bought an interest in the furniture business and subsequently he and his brother purchased the stock of Mr. Rogers, conducting both the furniture and undertaking branches under their firm name of Bader Brothers Company. The volume of business increased to such an extent that in 1916 the brothers decided to divide it, and Fred Bader took over the undertaking branch, leaving his brother in charge of the furniture, since then operating as Fred Bader & Company. As an adjunct to his business, Mr. Bader is engaged in the jobbing of caskets under the name of the Fremont Casket Company, and does a jobbing trade in them in Nebraska, South Dakota and Colorado. Two men represent the latter company on the road. Mr. Bader is a highly trained undertaker, whose license bears the date of June 20, 1900. He is noted for his reliability in sympathetic service and moderation in charges incurred in the hour of bereavement.
On November 26, 1895, Mr. Bader was united in marriage with Laura Cochran, born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and they have had two children born to them, namely: Ruth, who is connected with M. A. Disbrow & Company of Omaha, Nebraska, was graduated from the Fremont High School, the Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois, and the Van Sant Business College of Omaha, Nebraska ; and Marian, who was grad- uated from the Fremont High School, is now taking a post-graduate course at the Midland College. Mr. Bader is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Well known in Masonry, he is a Knight Templar, thirty-second degree and Shriner Mason, and he also belongs to the Odd Fellows in both of its branches, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern
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Woodmen. For a number of years he has been a director of the Com- mercial Club, and is serving the church as treasurer. In politics he is a republican, but has not cared to compete for public honors. In addition to the business enterprises already mentioned, Mr. Bader is a director of the First National Bank of Fremont. His time and attention have been fully occupied with his business affairs, but he and his family have pleasant recollections of a recreation period, when for three months they visited Europe in 1907, long before the terrible devastating war had plunged the world into conflict and destroyed so many of the former pleasure grounds. Both Mr. Bader and his brother are men of the highest standing in the community in which they have worked for so long and faithfully, and none are held in greater esteem because of personal characteristics than these two.
EUGENE L. MAHLIN is another of the native sons of Nebraska who is here making an excellent record in the practice of law, and he is one of the representative younger members of his profession in Dodge County, with residence at Fremont, the county seat. Mr. Mahlin was born in Butler County, this state, August 14, 1890, and is a son of George S. and Sadie E. (Garman) Mahlin, who were born in Pennsylva- nia and whose marriage was solemnized in the State of Illinois. Two years later they came to Nebraska and established their residence in Butler County, in 1884, the father having become one of the prosperous farmers of that county, where he continued to reside until his death, in October, 1916, his widow being now a resident of Fremont. Of the four children, the eldest is Harvey, who is a farmer near Rising City, Butler County ; Edgar F., likewise is a progressive agriculturist in that locality ; Jay C. is engaged in the banking business at Smithfield, Gosper County; and Eugene L., of this review, is the youngest of the four sons. George S. Mahlin was a man of strong mentality and well fortified opinions, his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party, he having been affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and his religious faith having been that of the Christian Church, of which his widow likewise is a devoted member. He was influential in community affairs in Butler County, where he served in various township offices, and through his well ordered farm enterprise he achieves substantial pros- perity after coming to Nebraska.
The public schools of his native county afforded to Eugene L. Mahlin his early educational discipline, which was supplemented by the com- pletion of the scientific course in the Fremont College at Fremont, in which he was graduated in 1910. In consonance with his ambition and well matured plans, he then went to the City of Omaha and completed the curriculum of the Creighton College of Law, in which he was grad- uated as a member of the class of 1915, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been attended also by his admission to the bar of his native state. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession at Fremont, and here his ability and close application have enabled him to develop a substantial and representative law business. His valiant spirit was shown by his attending the night classes of the law school and defraying his incidental expenses by working during the daytime. It is needless to say that the same dauntless spirit attended his initial efforts in establishing himself in practice, and he has made a record of success worthily achieved. In 1916 he was elected police judge of Fremont, and of this office he continued in tenure until he subordi- nated all personal interests to tender his services to the Government
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