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In August, 1883, Mr. Keller was united in marriage to Miss Ida Magee, a daughter of Ellison Magee. To them were born six children, as follows: May, at home : Jessie, who is a teacher in the Lincoln schools; Olive, who is engaged in teaching school at Fort Smith, Arkansas; Helen, a student in the State Uni- versity ; Howard, at home ; and Ralph, who passed away in April, 1893. The wife and mother passed away in March, 1900, after a week's illness.
Mr. Keller is prominently known in Masonic circles. He has taken the Scottish Rite degrees in Masonry and he is also identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Royal Neighbors. Politically he is a democrat, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Keller is well known in Lincoln and throughout Lancaster county, his acquaintance constantly broadening through his social as well as his business connections. Ile is a man whose purposes are well defined, whose plans are carefully executed and whose indefatigable energy and capable management con- tinually lead to success.
FRED PATTRICK.
Fred Pattrick, who in the field of brick contracting was identified with the erection of many of the leading buildings of Lincoln, was born in Boroughbridge, England, March 23. 1873, and passed away in Lincoln, March 7, 1916. He was a son of William and Hannah ( Smith ) Pattrick, who were natives of England. The father was a brick mason by trade and followed that business in England until 1881, when he came to America, establishing his home in Pawnee City, Nebraska. Ile worked at his trade throughout the remainder of his life in Pawnee City and in Lincoln. After eight years spent in Pawnee City he removed to the capital, where his remaining days were passed, his death occurring March 20, 1914.
Fred Pattrick accompanied his parents to the new world. His education, begun in the schools of his native country, was continued in Pawnee City, after which he learned the brick mason's trade under the direction of his father. Ile always continued in that business and he assisted in the erection of many of the largest buildings in this city, his handiwork being seen on every side. He was a thorough, systematic and expert workman, always reliable as well as energetic, and his success was founded upon laudable ambition and enterprise.
On the Ist of May, 1905, Mr. Pattrick was united in marriage to Miss Lulu M. Bool, a daughter of George and Marie ( Engelcke) Bool, who were natives of Germany but came to America in childhood. Her father was a shoemaker by trade, learning the business in Washington, D. C., and for many years he con- ducted a shoe shop in Lincoln. He had come to the United States when but fifteen years of age and after devoting a long period to shoemaking he turned to the occupation of farming, which he followed throughout the remainder of his life. He passed away July 15, 1914, and is still survived by his widow, who is now fifty-nine years of age, while her mother is still living at the very advanced age of ninety years, heftliome being in Washington, DEC. To Mr. and Mrs.
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Pattrick was born a daughter, Annette B., whose birth occurred on the 3ist of January, 1915, and who died on the 7th of February, 1916.
Mr. Pattrick departed this life, after a short illness, March 7, 1916, his death being deeply regretted by many friends as well as by his immediate family. Ile was a member of the Royal Highlanders and also of the Bricklayers Union. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and his religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Congregational church, to the teachings of which he was ever loyal.
WILLIAM C. FRAMPTON.
The bar of Lincoln finds a worthy representative in William C. Frampton, who in his practice has demonstrated his ability to carefully analyze his cases and correctly apply the principles of jurisprudence. He has been connected with much important litigation heard in the courts of the district and the records show that he has won many verdicts favorable to his clients. He was born at Chariton, Iowa, March 21, 1864, his birth occurring in a covered wagon in which his parents were fleeing from their home at Independence, Missouri, which town had been completely sacked and made uninhabitable by Quantrell's band. The family were going to Tama county, Iowa. The father, George V. Frampton, who was born January 23, 1837, became a sawmill owner and operator. At Inde- pendence, Missouri, on the 14th of May, 1859. he married Miss Jane Ilighet, who was born at Parkersburg, West Virginia, April 12, 1843. Her father, James I lighet, was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, and came to the United States about 1840, accompanied by his wife. He removed westward to Jackson county, Missouri, long before Kansas City came into existence and located at Inde- pendence. He dreamed that a great city would spring up on the bank of the Missouri river in Jackson county and undertook to select the spot for its site, missing the present site of Kansas City only a few miles. Later he removed to Tama county, Iowa, where he built a gristmill and in that county he spent his remaining days. It was his daughter Jane who became the wife of George V. Frampton. After the birth of their son, William C., the parents continued their journey to Tama county, Iowa, where both spent their remaining days, the father dying January 22, 1870, while his wife survived until March, 1912. In their family were four children : Alice Janet, who was born November 25, 1860, and died in 1881 : William C., who was born March 21, 1864; John Vernon, who was born September 23, 1866, and is a farmer now living at Allerton, Iowa; and George Henry, who was born April 17, 1809, and is living at Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is very prominent as a successful business man, being a large breeder of cattle and also an extensive landowner.
William C. Frampton spent his boyhood days at Monticello, Iowa, whither the mother removed with her children after the death of her husband. William C. Frampton was a little lad of but six years when his father died. The expe- riences which came to him in his boyhood and youth were of a strenuous character. He had little opportunity to attend school, as most of his early boy- hood was spent in herdingCitizenyline Mickonafe Gis majority he
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decided that he needed more education. He went to a normal school one year and in 1885 he came to Nebraska, after which he engaged in teaching school, which profession he followed through two winter seasons in Redwillow county, while later he taught school for two winters in Cass county. He matriculated in the University of Nebraska in 1888 and was graduated from its law department in 1893, after having spent five years in pursuing studies in different depart- ments of the university. Since 1893 he has been a member of the Lincoln bar and has risen to prominence in that connection. He has ever recognized the necessity for thorough preparation of his cases and he has the analytical mind which enables him to correctly dissect a cause and bring out its most significant points so as to have the strongest bearing upon the trial of the case.
On the 13th of June, 1893, in Lincoln, Nebraska, Mr. Frampton was united in marriage to Miss Julia Lenhoff. of Louisville, this state, by whom he has a daughter and son, namely: Eleanor, a student in Wellesley College, of Massa- chusetts : and William Lenhoff, who is a junior in the Lincoln high school.
Politically Mr. Frampton is a republican but has never sought office save that he served for eight years in the city council from the fifth ward and during a part of that time acted as mayor pro tem of Lincoln. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and to the Lincoln Commercial Club. He assisted in organizing the Layman's Club, of which he is a promient member, and he belongs to the local and state bar associations. He enjoys the confidence and high regard of colleagnes and contemporaries and he is spoken of by them as one who is most careful to conform his practice to a high standard of profes- sional ethics.
ROBERT S. DILL.
Among the successful farmers of Panama precinct was Robert S. Dill, whose demise in 1901 was the occasion of much sincere regret. A short time before his death he had retired from active life and taken up his residence in Bethany, where his widow still lives. His birth occurred in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, on the 2d of October, 1844, and he was a son of William H. and Mary ( Kellogg) Dill, natives of Ohio. They removed to Indiana, however, at an early day in the history of that state, and the father farmed there for many years but in the 'Sos he came to Nebraska and passed the remainder of his life at Belvidere, this state, being called to his final rest on the 19th of June, 1896.
Robert S. Dill received his education in the public schools of Indiana and remained under the parental roof until 1864, when, at the age of twenty years, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He served with that regiment until the close of hostilities and then returned home and followed agricultural pursuits in Indiana until 1870. As carly as 1870 he built two houses in Lincoln, Nebraska, which he rented to others. On coming to Lancaster county, Nebraska, in that year he took up a homestead in Panama precinct. five miles south of Bennet, and at once turned his attention to the improvement and operation of his place. Later he bought an adjoining quarter section and rented his entireSfarm. Pemoving to Cheney, Ne-
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dising at Plainfield, Wisconsin, being thus occupied at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war. In 1863, however, feeling that his duty to his country was paramount to all else, he enlisted for service in the Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, with which he continued for three years, participating in a number of hotly contested engagements and proving his loyalty upon many a southern battlefield.
When the war was over Mr. Bean returned to Plainfield, Wisconsin, where he conducted a store until 1876, when he removed to Greeley county, Nebraska, and secured a homestead claim. This he successfully conducted for thirty-one years, or until 1907, when he retired and removed to Lincoln, purchasing a nice residence at No. 1347 D street. He was then sixty-five years of age. His remaining days were spent amid the comforts of life, which he had secured through his industry, determination and honorable dealing in former years.
In March, 1862, Mr. Bean was united in marriage to Miss Betsey J. Van Allen, who was born in New York city, October 14, 1842, a daughter of Peter C. and Ann (Van Buren) Van Allen, the latter a cousin of President Martin Van Buren. Mr. and Mrs. Bean became the parents of two children. Mary J. married Edward Wright, who died December 16. 1896, and she passed away August 20, 1914, leaving three children, Earle, Harle and Floyd. William J. Bean resides in Moose Jaw. Canada, where he is manager of a large flour mill.
During his residence in Greeley county, Nebraska, Mr. Bean served as county judge for three years. He had prepared for the bar and was qualified for law practice but never followed the profession in this state. Fraternally he was connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and with the Odd Fellows. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party, and his religious faith was that of the Christian Science church. His was a well spent life, characterized by devotion to every public and private duty, and at his passing he left to his family the priceless heritage of an untarnished name. Ile had many admirable traits of character, not the least of which was his capacity for strong friendships.
DAVID J. WEISS.
David J. Weiss, who has built up a large business as a manufacturer of peanut butter, was born in Lancaster, Missouri, on the 19th of October, 1873, of the marriage of John and Mary ( Fankhouser ) Weiss, natives respectively of Switzer- land and of Chariton county, Missouri. In 1867 the father emigrated to the United States and making his way into the interior of the country, located in Kentucky. He followed the shoemaker's trade there for some time but at length removed to Missouri, where he lived until 1887. In that year he became a resident of Frontier county, Nebraska, but after remaining there for five years came to College View, where he lived until called by death. He died in September. 1903, but is survived by his wife, who makes her home with our subject.
David J. Weiss was largely reared and educated in Frontier county. Nebraska, but after the family home was established in College View he attended Union College, thus supplementing his earlier. schooling. He learned the shoemaker's trade from his father and followed that occupation for about five years, after
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which he purchased a peanut butter factory here which he has since operated. He has gained a large patronage and his trade now covers the State of Nebraska. In addition to his factory he owns considerable business property in College View, including the two-story building in which the postoffice is located.
Mr. Weiss supports the democratic party at the polls and for fifteen years he has held the office of city clerk, proving very capable and public-spirited in that connection. In religious faith he is a Seventh Day Adventist and the teachings of that church guide his life. He is well known and his genuine worth has gained him the warm friendship of many.
R. J. JONES.
For fourteen years R. J. Jones has been engaged in the bakery business in Havelock and through this period has enjoyed a good trade that has brought to him substantial success. He was born in Wales in 1859 and was a young man of twenty-one years when he left that little rock-ribbed country and sailed for the new world, settling in 1880 at Utica, New York, where he worked at the baker's trade. In 1887 he became one of the pioneer settlers of Sherman county, Kansas, where he engaged in the bakery business and also became a prominent and influential factor in the public life of the community. His fellow towns- men, appreciative of his worth and ability, twice elected him to the office of county treasurer and he was likewise a member of the school board.
Mr. Jones resided in Fairfield, Nebraska, a short time before going to Kansas and was there married to Miss Anna Williams, who was born in Oneida County, New York. They had two sons: Robert G., a barber in Havelock ; and D. Earl, who assists his father in business. The wife and mother passed away about four years ago.
It was in August. 1902, that Mr. Jones came to Havelock and opened the bakery which he has since conducted with growing success, being now accorded a liberal patronage. While in Kansas, Mr. Jones joined the Masonic fraternity and is now a member of George Washington Lodge, No. 250, F. & .A. MI .. of Havelock and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. His political indorse- ment is given to the republican party and he stands for all those things which are most worth while in citizenship. He was nominated for mayor of Havelock but was not elected.
JUDGE EDWARD POWELL HOLMES.
Judge Edward Powell Holmes, lawyer and ex-judge of the district court, has lived in Lincoln continuously since 1870 save from the years 1883 to 1886, when he resided at Pierce. Nebraska. Ile was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. August 4. 1857, a son of Arba Holmes, whose birth occurred in Utica, New York, and who on removing westward became a resident of Terre Haute Indiana, where he remained for many years, becoming a warm personal friend of the eminent
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silver-tongued orator, Richard W. Thompson, of that place. Arba Ilolmes was a manufacturer and built the first woolen mill in Terre Haute, where later he erected a foundry. He was married in Pennsylvania, in early manhood, to Miss Sarah Powell. Previous to his removal to Terre Haute he had been identified with manufacturing interests in Cincinnati, Ohio, for several years. In 1867, accompanied by his family, he arrived in Nebraska City, Nebraska, and his death occurred in Lincoln about ten years ago, when he was eighty-nine years of age. He had for several years survived his wife, who died at the age of seventy. Judge Holmes was the youngest of a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. His brother, Squire W. Holmes, who served as a soldier in the Union army and later became a lawyer of Indiana, died many years ago. Persis Holmes, who married Samuel K. Hale, is now deceased. Vashti is the widow of William J. La Rue and is living in Kankakee, Illinois. Mary is the widow of Guy A. Brown, of Lincoln, Nebraska, who was the first state librarian of Nebraska and was clerk of the state supreme court for many years.
The other member of the family is Judge Edward Powell Holmes, who was reared in Terre Haute, Indiana, and in Nebraska City. He completed his educa- tion by graduation from the University of Nebraska in 1878 with the Bachelor of Literature degree and he entered upon the study of law in the office of Samuel J. Tuttle and Nathan S. Harwood, of Lincoln. For three or four years he studied law in their office. He was admitted to the bar, however, at the age of twenty-one, soon after he had left the University, for he had been pursuing his law studies while attending the University. Since that time he has been actively engaged in practice save for the period of his service upon the bench, being a member of the Lincoln bar from 1878 until the present time with the exception of the three years which he spent in Pierce, where he conducted a bank as well as engaged in the practice of his profession. While there, in 1884, he was elected a regent of the State University and while serving as such and still living at Pierce he was elected to the state legislature from Pierce and Cedar counties, remaining a member of the house during the session of 1885-6. Since 1886 he has made his home in Lincoln and for two years he served as city attorney by appointment of the mayor, Robert Graham. He was appointed district judge to succeed Judge Jesse B. Strode, who was elected to congress, and he served upon the bench for thirteen consecutive years, covering the period of his appointment and of his three subsequent elections. At the end of that time, or in 1907, he refused to again become a candidate and has since been very active in law practice. He is now the senior member of the firm of Holmes & De Lacy, his partner being George De Lacy. For many years in his earlier legal career he was the partner of the late Judge Allen W. Field under the firm style of Field & Holmes. He displays marked ability in his law practice. Along with those qualities indispensable to the lawyer-a keen, rapid, logical mind, plus the business sense and a ready capacity for hard work,-he brought to the starting point of his legal career certain rare gifts-cloquence of language and a strong personality. When he went upon the bench he gave evidence of the fact that he possessed not only a high order of legal ability but also a rare combination of talent, learning, tact, patience and industry. His decisions indicate strong mentality, careful analysis, a thorough knowledge of the law and an unbiased judgment.
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On the 24th of July, 1880, Judge Holmes was married to Mrs. Florence Farwell, of Lincoln, and they have become parents of a daughter, Ruth, now Mrs. Louis Vollentine, of Chicago. Mrs. Holmes was first the wife of William P. Farwell, formerly a banker of Lincoln, and they had two children: Florence, now the wife of Dr. Charles A. Ilull, a surgeon of Omaha ; and John Farwell, who graduated from the law department of the University of Nebraska and was sent to Mexico by President Mckinley as consular agent and later sent by Mckinley to the Philippines as an interpreter on a Philippine commission. He died of cholera in Manila. William Howard Taft was then governor of the Philippines and sent Judge Holmes a cablegram announcing the death of his stepson.
Judge and Mrs. Holmes belong to Holy Trinity Episcopal church. In politics he has been a lifelong republican and has served as delegate to many county and state conventions of his party. Ile is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar and a Mystic Shriner and is also identified with the Knights of Pythias. He is likewise a member of the Lincoln Commercial Club and the Round Table Club, while along strictly professional lines he is connected with the local and state bar associations. He is a man of strong purpose, of marked ability and of high principle and has so directed his efforts that they have been of the greatest possible value and worth, not only in upholding the political and legal status of the community but also in advancing its intellectual and moral standards.
THOMAS JOHN DOYLE.
Thomas John Doyle, one of Lincoln's leading attorneys, has been a resident of the capital city since 1897 and of the state since 1884. He was born in Greene county, Tennessee, May 5, 1858, about ten miles east of Greenville, where was the oid home of President Andrew Johnson. His father, of whom he was a namesake, was born in Path Valley, Pennsylvania, near the town of Concord, April 4, 1817, and was an inventor and manufacturer. The Doyle fanning mill, which in the decade preceding the Civil war was extensively used by the farmers of Pennsylvania, Virginia and other states, was his invention and at different times he manufactured those mills at Williamsport, Maryland, at Winchester, Staunton and Wytheville, Virginia, and at Rheatown and Loudon, Tennessee. He had factories at Wytheville. Virginia, and at Rheatown, Tennessee, at the same time. His son, Thomas John Doyle, was born at Rheatown and in 1859 the father removed to Wytheville, Virginia, where he established a factory. When the Civil war began, being a stanch Union man, he returned to east Tennessee, where the Union sentiment was strong, and there he purchased two farms, one being in Washington county and the other in Greene. lle lived on the former all during the war period and until 1872, at which time he removed to a farm in Greene county, where he passed away November 21, 1808, in his eighty-second year. Ile was married in the Catholic Cathedral of Baltimore, while living in Winchester, Virginia, to Miss Ann Virginia Bougher, who was born and reared at that place and was there living at the time of her marriage. Her natal day was October 30, 1830, and she was married in 1854, her death
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occurring at Rheatown, Tennessee, January 21, 1895, when she was sixty-four years of age.
Thomas J. Doyle was the eldest son and second child in a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters, all of whom reached adult age, namely : Mary Virginia, now the wife of Dr. Jerome J. Rankin, of Greeneville, Tennessee : Thomas John; William Jerome, who became a physician and surgeon of promi- nence in eastern Tennessee and later of Greeley, Nebraska, where he passed away December 26, 1910; Otho H., a farmer of Greene county, Tennessee ; Magdaline A., also of Greene county; Clara, living in the same county ; Phillip A., who died at Carnegie, Oklahoma, January 13, 1907, at which time he was serving as the chairman of the board of county commissioners and was being prominently mentioned for the position of the first state treasurer of Oklahoma ; George W., living in Sioux City, lowa ; May, who reached womanhood and died in Greene county, Tennessee ; and Edward Doyle, who lives on the old Doyle farm in Tennessee which the father purchased in 1861. The founder of the Doyle family in America was Felix A. Doyle, who reached the United States in 1743, having come from County Wexford, Ireland. He took up his abode near the present town of Doylesburg, named in honor of the family, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. His descendants are now numerous throughout the United States, especially in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. The family was represented in the Revolutionary war. On the maternal side Thomas J. Doyle comes of German ancestry. Various representatives of the name have attained prominence, including Judge Dayton A. Doyle, of Akron, Ohio, and William D. Doyle, one of the members of the faculty of Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Thomas J. Doyle was reared on the old Doyle farm in Greene county. Ten- nessee, and attended a country school until he reached the age of eighteen years, pursuing his studies through the winter months, while in the summer seasons he worked in the fields. When eighteen years of age he entered Mount St. Mary's College at Emmitsburg, Maryland, which he attended for three years. That is the oldest Catholic college in the United States. Ile afterward took up the study of law in the office of the late Colonel Henry II. Ingersoll at Greeneville, Ten- nessee. He was a graduate of Yale and was a first cousin of the distinguished orator and thinker, Robert G. Ingersoll. Colonel Henry H. Ingersoll won his title by service in the Union army during the Civil war and Robert Ingersoll also served with distinction during that conflict. Mr. Doyle studied law under Colonel Ingersoll until 1882, when he was admitted to the bar at Greeneville, Tennessee. lle then opened an office and continued in practice there until 1884, when he came to Nebraska, entering upon active practice at Scotia, then the county seat of Greeley county, where he remained until 1800. In that year the county seat was removed to Greeley and Mr. Doyle went with it, continuing in active prac- tice in that town until 1897. Since that date he has been a prominent member of the Lincoln bar and by reason of his ability has worked his way steadily upward, being now accorded an extensive clientage that connects him with much important litigation.
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