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Mr. Cook married Amy Krajick, of a family whose history is given on other pages. To their marriage were born four children, three still at home, named William, Lawrence, Mabel and Raymond. Raymond Cook passed away on the 25th of October, 1920.
JOHN BLACO is another of the representative men who have gained substantial prosperity through association with agricultural and live- stock enterprise in Washington County, where he has maintained his residence since the spring of 1883 and where he is now living virtually retired in the Village of Kennard.
Mr. Blaco was born in Lancashire, England, on the 28th of January, 1869, and is a son of John and Jane (Burkett) Blaco, who there passed their entire lives, the father having been a farmer by vocation, and both of whom were devoted communicants of the Church of England. Two of their sons came to America, and both are residents of Wash- ington, County, Nebraska, Richard being one of the representative farmers in the vicinity of Kennard.
John Blaco was reared and educated in his native land and was about twenty-three years of age when he severed the home ties and came to America. On the 21st of April, 1883, he arrived at Blair, the judicial center of Washington County, Nebraska, and for the ensuing four years was employed at farm work in this county. He then initiated his independent activities as a farmer, and with the passing years he accumulated and improved a valuable farm property of 240 acres, which he still owns and to the active management of which he gave his effective attention until 1914, when he removed to the Village of Kennard, where he has since maintained his home and where he has one of the modern and attractive residences of the community. In his farm enterprise Mr. Blaco made a specialty of feeding cattle for the market, and at all times he kept a good grade of livestock. He was one of the organizers of and is a substantial stockholder in the Home State Bank at Kennard, is also a stockholder in the Farmers Grain & Lumber Company of this place and has been from the time of its organization a stockholder of the Blair Telephone Company at the county seat, of which corporation he is a director.
A staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party, Mr. Blaco has been somewhat active in political affairs of local order and served four years as a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Washington County. He has always given effective co-operation in the support of enterprises and measures advanced for the general good of the community, and is deeply appreciative of the advantages that have enabled him to win independence and prosperity within the period of his residence in Nebraska, to which state he came as a young man of most limited financial resources but with a full endowment of energy, ambition and integrity of purpose. He is serving his third term as master of the Masonic Lodge at Kennard, and is affiliated also with the local camp of the Modern Woodmen of America. Reared in the
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faith of the established Church of England, he has retained the faith in America as a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, his wife being a member of the Christian Church.
On January 13, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Blaco to Miss Mattie Robertson, at that time a resident of Blair, Washington County, though she claims Kentucky as the state of her birth. She came with her parents to Nebraska when she was six years old. Mr. and Mrs. Blaco have but one child, Blanche, who is the wife of Leonard E. Peterson, of Sidney, Cheyenne County, Nebraska, where he is associated with a leading mercantile establishment.
BUCK ROSENBAUM is a native son of Washington County, Nebraska, and has here proved his ability and enterprise in connection with suc- cessful farm industry. Mr. Rosenbaum and his wife are the owners of a well improved farm estate of eighty acres, as well as of a modern and attractive residence and twelve acres in the Village of Kennard, where he established his home on removing from his farm in 1917. He is one of the popular and progressive young men of his native county.
Mr. Rosenbaum was born on his father's farm in Washington County, August 9, 1881, and is a son of H. J. and Sarah (Garrett) Rosenbaum, both of whom were born in Washington County, Virginia, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. In 1871 the parents came to Washington County, Nebraska, where the father bought land near Fort Calhoun and developed one of the excellent pioneer farms of the county. He was one of the well known and highly respected pioneer citizens of this county at the time of his death, which occurred February 8, 1915, the date of his birth having been September 10, 1848. His widow still remains on the old homestead farm. Mr. Rosenbaum was a democrat in political adherency and was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World. Of the children the eldest is John, who is now a resident of the City of Spokane, Washington; Carrie is the wife of G. R. French, a farmer in Washington County ; Martha is the widow of James Hotele and resides in this county ; Minnie is the wife of Charles Robinson, and they reside in the State of Colorado; J. D. Lives at Spokane, Washington; Joseph R. is a successful farmer in Washington County; Edward maintains his home in the City of Omaha ; Buck, of this review, was the next in order of birth; May is the wife of Chris Peterson, of Kennard; and Binkley resides at Spokane, Washington.
Buck Rosenbaum is indebted to the district schools of Washington County for his early education, and on the home farm he gained in his youth the experience that well equipped him for independent farm enter- prise when he initiated his activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower when twenty-four years of age. He made a genuine success in this important field of industrial enterprise, and made his farm a center of vigorous and progressive activities with a due combination of agriculture and the raising of good grades of live stock. He is a stockholder of the Farmers Grain & Elevator Co-operative Company at Kennard, is an independent voter in politics and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.
In 1905 Mr. Rosenbaum wedded Miss Emma Japp, who likewise was born and reared in Washington County and who is a daughter of John and Catherine (Weise) Japp, sterling pioneers of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbaum have two children: Ida and Harry.
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MARTIN T. CEDERLIND, cashier of the Home State Bank at Kennard, one of the substantial financial institutions of Washington County, is a native of Nebraska and a member of a family whose name has been identified with the history of this state for more than forty years. He was born on his father's old homestead farm near Newman Grove, Madison County, Nebraska, on the 18th of February, 1892, and is a son of Alfred and Louise (Lyon) Cederlind, who were born and reared in Sweden. They established their residence at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1875, in which city they were married. Within a short time thereafter they removed to Madison County, where the father purchased land near Newman Grove and developed a fine farm, a property which he still owns, though he has lived virtually retired since 1911. His political support is given to the republican party and he and his wife are members of the Free Mission Church. Of their seven children the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth.
Martin T. Cederlind passed his boyhood days on the old home farm and acquired his preliminary education in the district schools. Later he attended the Nebraska State Normal School at Wayne, as well as the one at Fremont, in which latter he took a course in the commercial department. For one year he was a teacher in a district school near Newman Grove, and he then took a clerical position in the general offices of the Union Pacific Railroad in the City of Omaha. Later he assumed a similar position in the general offices of the Great Northern Railroad at St. Paul, Minnesota, where he continued his services three years. For the ensuing year he was employed as bookkeeper in a lead- ing department store in the same city, and in 1917 he accepted the position of which he has since continued the efficient and popular incumbent, that of cashier of the Home State Bank at Kennard, with the upbuilding of the substantial business of which institution he has been closely and effectively identified. This bank, organized and incor- porated in 1915, bases its operations upon a capital stock of $15,000, has a surplus of $4,000, and its depostits in 1920 are somewhat in excess of $100,000.
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Mr. Cederlind takes loyal interest in all things pertaining to the welfare and advancement of his home village and county, is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Masons, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kennard.
The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Cederlind to Miss Donna Cunningham, who was born and reared in Washington County, where her father, Charles C. Cunningham, is a substantial and pros- perous citizen, his attention being given largely to the growing and feeding of cattle, in which he conducts business upon a somewhat extensive scale. Mr. and Mrs. Cederlind have three children : Eldon C., Willis J. and Irvin M.
LEWIS E. WARD, who came to Nebraska in the year 1879 and for a time was in the employ of one of the leading attorneys at Blair, judicial center of Washington County, eventually became one of the leading merchants at Kennard, this county, where he built up a large and prosperous hardware business, with which he continued his active association until the spring of 1920, when he sold the stock and business and removed to Firth, Lancaster County, where he is now associated with his son, Homer E., in the drug business. A man who achieved success and influence during the many years of his residence in Wash-
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ington County, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances, it is but due that Mr. Ward be accorded recognition in this publication.
Lewis E. Ward was born in Branch County, Michigan, on the 29th of May, 1860, a son of Robert and Sarah (Freeman) Ward, who were sterling pioneers of that beautiful county in the southern part of the Wolverine State, both having been natives of the State of New York. In the old Empire State the father learned the trade of shoemaker, and this he followed successfully in the early period of his residence in Michigan. He also owned and developed a good farm in Branch County, where he and his wife continued to reside until their death, when venerable in years. Both were consistent members of the Presby- terian Church. The father was a stanch republican in politics and served many years as a justice of the peace. Of the five children the subject of this review is now the only one living.
The public schools of his native county afforded Lewis E. Ward his early education, which was supplemented by a course in what is now Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana. He came to Nebraska in 1879, as previously noted, and in 1888 he engaged in independent farm enterprise in Washington County. After having been for eight years one of the vigorous and successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in this county Mr. Ward removed to the Village of Kennard, where in 1896 he purchased the hardware stock and busi- ness of Martin Hansen. He developed a substantial and prosperous enterprise in the handling of heavy shelf hardware, and he continued as one of the leading representatives of this line of enterprise in Wash- ington County until 1920, when he sold his business to E. O. Fair- child, his removal from the community having been greatly regretted by his many friends in both business and social circles. Mr. Ward was known as one of the liberal and progressive citizens of the county and assisted in the organization of the Grange, in the affairs of which he was active and influential. In politics he votes for men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, rather than being constrained by strict partisanship. He has passed the official chairs in the Modern Woodmen of America and his wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1881 occurred the marriage of Mr. Ward to Miss Emily Renshaw, a resident of Michigan, though she was born in England, and of this gracious union have been born six children : Merton C. and Carl H. are associated with business activities at Kennard; Homer E. is engaged in the drug business at Firth, Lancaster County ; Mildred is the wife of Ferdinand Ziegler, a farmer near St. Paul, Howard County; Leland E. holds a position in a hardware store at Kennard; and Nina A. is at the time of this writing, in 1920, a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Fort Calhoun, Washington County.
CHARLES C. CUNNINGHAM. A life long resident of Eastern Nebraska, son of a Nebraska pioneer and old soldier, Charles C. Cunningham has had a varied experience but chiefly as a farmer and stockman. He is owner of one of the fine country homes in Washington County, located in section 12 of Arlington Township, five and a half miles east of Arlington Village.
He was born in Douglas County, Nebraska, in 1868, son of William G. and Eliza (Wetz) Cunningham, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Iowa. William G. Cunningham though a native of Vir-
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ginia came West early in life, and when the Civil war came on enlisted with a regiment of Nebraska cavalry and saw much frontier and other army duty. He was once wounded. As a pioneer of the country west of the Missouri he was engaged in freighting from Omaha out to Salt Lake City. He conveyed a number of herds of cattle across the plains, and also freighted with ox teams. On returning to Omaha he frequently walked the entire distance. Later he homesteaded in Douglas County, and in 1870 traded his homestead there for a homestead in Washington County, where for many years he was an esteemed and useful citizen, engaged in farming and stock raising. He died in May, 1920, at the age of ninety-four, being at that time one of the oldest surviving western pioneers. He was a Baptist in religion and a democrat in politics. In his family were six children: Mamie, wife of Jake Stewart, an elevator man at Charleston, Nebraska; Minnie, deceased; Charles C .; Frank, a retired resident of Blair; O. A., a Washington County farmer ; and Emma, wife of Elmer Bates, a Wash- ington County farmer.
Charles C. Cunningham grew up in Washington County, attended the common schools, and for three years of his early life was associated with his brother, Frank, in operating a store at Washington. When he sold out his mercantile interests he turned to general farming, and for the past thirty years has devoted his time and energies to his business as a farmer and the general improvement of his locality.
In 1889 Mr. Cunningham married Ethel Robertson, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of William Robertson, who took his family out to Perkins County, Nebraska. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham: Ellis, a farmer in Washington County ; Donna, wife of M. T. Cederlind, the Kennard banker ; and William and Marie, the former an employe of the Home State Bank at Kennard and the latter a teacher living at home. The family are members of the Methodist Church at Kennard. Mr. Cunningham is independent in politics, and is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Modern Wood- men of America.
EDWARD F. CUSHMAN, the efficient and popular station agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at Kennard, Washington County, has been a resident of Nebraska since he was a lad of fifteen years, save for one year passed in Wyoming and Utah, and for twenty-seven years (1920) he has been in active railway service. He was born at Ironton, Wisconsin, June 19, 1873, and is a son of Charles and Almira (Warner) Cushman, the former of whom was born in Ohio, where he was reared and educated, and the latter was born in the State of New York. From Ohio the father removed to Wisconsin, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of carpenter, and became a successful con- tractor and builder. He founded the town of Lime Ridge, Wisconsin, gave to the village its name and served as its first postmaster. His political allegiance was that of the republican party, and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, though she was a birthright member of the Society of Friends. The parents were residents of Wisconsin at the time of their death. In addition to Edward F., parents are survived by six' other children : Charles, railroad agent at Hooper, Nebraska: Blanche, who is the wife of Edward Trucks, engaged in the real estate business at Meadow Grove, Nebraska; Julia, widow of Roscoe J. Sanders, of Hastings, Nebraska, who now resides in Colorado; Belle, wife of R. L. Bohn, retired business
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man, who resides in the Town of Lime Ridge, Wisconsin; Nelson Ackley, owner of the Cushman Poultry Ranch of Reedsburg, Wisconsin ; and Wellington B., ticket agent for the Missouri Pacific at Independence, Kansas.
Edward F. Cushman gained his preliminary education in the public schools of Wisconsin and after coming to Nebraska in 1888, he con- tinued his studies in the high school at Hastings and later in that at Wisner, besides having attended the Western Normal College in the City of Lincoln. For a time he was employed at farm work near Hastings, and he then learned the trade of telegraph operator at Wisner, Cuming County. He has continued for twenty-seven years in the service of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad as operator and station agent and was for one year employed as a relief telegraph operator for the Union Pacific Railroad in Utah and Wyoming. For three years he was operator in the Northwestern Railroad station at Scribner, Dodge County, and he was then assigned to duty as station agent at Snyder, that county, where he remained until he was trans- ferred to a similar position at Anoka, Boyd County, where he remained three years. For six months thereafter he was station agent at Pierce, judicial center of the Nebraska county of the same name, and for a similar period he served as station agent at Cornlea, Platte County, when in August, 1911, he came to Kennard and assumed his present position.
Mr. Cushman is a stanch republican, and while a resident of Anoka he served as a member of the village board of trustees. At the time of this writing he is a valued member of the Board of Education of Kennard. He is a past master of the Blue Lodge body of the Masonic fraternity, past senior warden of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and actively affiliated also with Blair Commandery of Knights Templar at Blair, Nebraska, besides which he holds membership in the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is also a member of the Woodmen of the World. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village and Mr. Cushman is a member of the Order of Railway Telegraphers.
In 1899 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Cushman to Miss Lulu Osborn, who was born and reared in Nebraska, and their home is brightened by the presence of their two children: Loraine and Gail.
HARRY C. BLACO. The year 1920 finds Mr. Blaco giving efficient and progressive administration as mayor of Kennard, Washington County, and he is one of the substantial and influential citizens of his native county, where he still owns and gives a general supervision to his fine farm property, besides which he controls a prosperous busi- ness at Kennard, where he is engaged in the handling of farm imple- ments and machinery.
Mr. Blaco was born on his father's old homestead farm in Washing- ton County, and the date of his nativity was August 28, 1872. He is a son of Richard and Eliza A. (McFadden) Blaco, the former a native of England and the latter of the State of Iowa. Richard Blaco came to Washington County, Nebraska, in 1870, and here purchased a relin- quishment to a claim of land, to the development and improvement of which he directed his attention with marked energy and discrimination. He eventually became the owner of one of the large and valuable landed estates of the county and was a citizen of prominence and
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influence in the county, as shown by his having been chosen to serve not only as county commissioner but also as a member of the State Legislature, his political alignment having been with the republican party. He achieved abundant success through his well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser, and was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Washington County at the time of his death, in September, 1906, his wife having passed away in 1899 and having been a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church. Of the children Harry C., of this review, is the eldest; Nellie is the wife of Harry Wardell, a farmer near Creighton, Knox County; Myrtle is the wife of Herman O. Wulff, who is engaged in the mercantile business at Benson, Douglas County ; Bessie E. is the wife of Albert L. Cook, a teacher in the public schools at Benson and former superintendent of schools of Washington County ; and Gertrude is the widow of Joseph C. Neal, of Kennard.
Harry C. Blaco is indebted to the public schools of Washington County for his early educational discipline, and from his boyhood he has been closely associated with farm industry, his entire career in this connection having been marked by connection with the operations of the fine old home farm on which he was born and reared and of which he is now the owner, he having been the only son and having acquired his sisters' interest in the property after the death of his honored father. This well improved and admirably managed farm property comprises 240 acres and constitutes one of the model farms of Washington County, the same being devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising and feeding of excellent types of live stock. Mr. Blaco continued his residence on the farm until February, 1917, when he removed to the Village of Kennard, where he has since been established in the farm implement and machinery business, in which he handles both! heavy and light implements and machinery demanded in connection with modern farm operations. He is also a director of the Farmers Grain & Lumber Company at Kennard and of the Farmers Grange & Mutual Insurance Company of Washington, Burt County, besides which he is a director and influential member of the county Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. His political allegiance is given to the repub- lican party, and his popularity in his home community needs no further voucher than his incumbency of the office of mayor of Kennard, and his being also a member of the Board of County Commissioners, in which latter office he is serving his first term at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1920. He is also a member of the republican committee of Richland Township. Mr. Blaco is affiliated with both the Lodge and Encampment bodies of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and also with the local camp of the Modern Woodmen of America, in which he has passed the various official chairs, as has he also in the Odd Fellows Lodge. His wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church.
April 26, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Blaco to Miss Merie Johnson, who was born and reared in Douglas County, and who is a leader in the social activities of her home community. They have no children.
HERMAN JUNGBLUTH. A disciple of modern farming, who does his farming with his brain as well as his brawn, Herman Jungbluth has lived his life in Washington County, and while others of the family have gone into business and acquired substantial positions he has been well satisfied in the exercise of his business capabilities as a farmer and
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stockman. His well improved and handsome home is in section 22 of Arlington Township, half a mile west of Dale.
He was born in Washington County March 14, 1881, a son of Bernard H. J. and Ida (Fisher) Jungbluth, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Toledo, Ohio. Bernard Jungbluth located in Chicago in 1871 and was employed in the McCormick Harvester Company's plant when the historic fire swept over that city in 1871. Some years later, in 1878, he came out to Washington County, Nebraska, bought land and for many years was engaged in general farming and stock raising. For eight years he also operated at Arlington what was known as the Arlington Steam Brickyard, and made great quantities of brick, part of which was used in building the residence on his home farm. He was a democrat, and he and his wife were members of the Catholic Church at Fremont. They were the parents of five children : Bertha, wife of S. R. Batson, a traveling salesman living at Lincoln ; Herman; Julian, a farmer in Washington County; Zella, wife of F. J. Emerson, who is vice president of the Union Stock Yards Bank at South Omaha; and Wilma, wife of Robert Kimball, manager of a wholesale tire company at Lincoln.
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