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Mr. Brahmstadt was a republican in his political belief and was one of the first commissioners of Cherry county, Nebraska, and also served on the school board there. His religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church and he often filled the pulpit at Kramer when the regular minister was absent. His life measured up to high standards of morality, and his genuine worth gained him a high place in the estimation of all who knew him.
LARS NIELSON.
Under the management of Lars Nielson the Nebraska Sanitarium, Inc .. at College View has been developed from a small institution to one of large pro- portions and its equipment has been increased until it is now fully prepared to treat successfully various chronic diseases. It was established as a branch of the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium, and is conducted along the lines that have made the parent institution so widely known. Mr. Nielson was born in Nor- way in February, 1858, and is a son of John and Martha ( Larson) Nielson, also natives of that country. The father followed agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1894, and the mother survived until 10oo. Lars Nielson was reared in Norway and attended the public schools there in the acquirement of his general education. In 1882 he came to America a IAMSaHAR to Minnesota,
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where he engaged in farming for a time, but in 1887 went to Battle Creek, Michi- gan, and completed his education in the Seventh Day Adventist College. He served for a time as steward of that institution and in 1892 accepted a similar position in Union College at College View. After serving in that capacity for eight years he went to Dakota, where he worked as a minister among the Scandinavians for thirteen years, at the end of which time he was asked to return to College View. He continued in the work of the ministry here for a year, after which he became manager of the Nebraska Sanitarium, which is owned by the Seventh Day Adventist church. The institution was opened in a two-story frame building, but its patronage grew rapidly and a five-story brick building, which was formerly used as a dormitory for Union College, was pur- chased and has since been occupied by the sanitarium. The building has been remodeled to meet present needs, and the equipment is complete and modern throughout. The institution was organized as a branch of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, but this connection has been severed and the Nebraska Sanitarium is a separate concern, incorporated under the laws of Nebraska. However, the same treatment is given as at Battle Creek, and the local institution is equally successful in the cure of diseases. It averages about fifty patients the year round and a nurses' training school is maintained at which young women receive a thorough professional training, it requiring three years to complete the course. The sanitarium declares no dividends, the profits being utilized in improving the property and in caring for those who are in need of tretament, but are too poor to pay for it.
In August, 1890, Mr. Nielson was married to Miss Marcia Robinson, by whom he has two children : Anna, who was born on the 24th of December, 1893; and Arthur, whose birth occurred in August, 1895.
Mr. Nielson gives his political allegiance to the republican party, but has confined his activity in public affairs to the exercise of the right of franchise. As has been indicated, his religious faith is that of the Seventh Day Adventist church. He devotes his entire time to the management of the sanitarium and is an excellent man for the place, understanding the effects of various diets upon the health, knowing the relative value of the different therapeutic systems and also possessing the requisite administrative ability.
WILLIAM G. BULLOCK.
Among the leading business men of Cheney is William G. Bullock, cashier of the Bank of Cheney. A native of Nebraska, he was born in Otoe county, on the 20th of November, 1876, of the marriage of William E. and Anna ( Lehman) Bullock, the former of whom was born in Canada and the latter in Wisconsin. After farming in Otoe county, Nebraska, for a number of years, the father removed with his family to Lancaster county and followed agricultural pursuits here throughout the remainder of his life, dying on the 14th of March, 1916, when sixty-two years old. His wife still survives.
William G. Bullock; who was reared under the parental roof, attended the public schools in Lancaster county and supplemented the education so acquired
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by a course in Weeping Water Academy at Weeping Water, Cass county. Upon leaving that institution he engaged in the banking business at Panama in partner- ship with John T. Marshall, but after five years, or in 1910, came to Cheney, where, together with Mr. Marshall and seven others, he organized the Bank of Cheney, which is capitalized for ten thousand dollars. During the six years of its existence it has gained the entire confidence of the community and its deposits have constantly increased until they now total forty thousand dollars. Mr. Bullock has served as cashier of this institution since it was established and its success is attributable largely to his business acumen, his knowledge of banking and his unquestioned integrity. The other officers are Charles Marshall, president, and John T. Marshall, vice president.
William G. Bullock was married, in September, 1909. to Miss Ella Weston, who is a daughter of Perry E. and Josephine Weston, natives of Illinois, At the beginning of the Civil war her father enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Ilinois Vohin- teer Infantry and remained at the front until the close of the war. In 1871 he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres in Lancaster county, Nebraska, to the operation of which he devoted his time and attention until 1908, when he retired from active life and is now living at Panama. The mother passed away in September, 1905.
In political belief Mr. Bullock is a republican but he has never taken an active part in polities. He holds membership in the United Brethren church, whose teachings guide his life, and his dominant characteristics are such as invariably win respect and regard. Ile has gained a high standing in local financial circles and personally is popular.
W. F. ACKERMAN.
W. F. Ackerman occupies a most important position as superintendent of the Burlington shops at Havelock. Gradually he has worked his way upward, his ambition and his energy resulting in his advancement, while his life record proves what may be accomplished when there is the will to dare and to do. Mr. Ackerman is a native son of Iowa, his birth having occurred at Mount Pleasant. July 6, 1870. His father, F. G. Ackerman, was born in Germany and at the age of fourteen years came to the United States, making his way to Oxford, Ohio, where he secured employment in a bakery and confectionery establishment. He thus worked until President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteers, when he enlisted for service in the Civil war for three months, joining the Forty- seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On the expiration of his first term, during which it was proven that the war was to be no mere holiday affair but a long drawn out contest between the north and south, he re-enlisted and served in all for four years and three months, participating in many hotly contested engage- ments, and returned to his home with a most creditable military record. It Burlington, Iowa, where he located after the war, he married Johanna Fenni- more, a native of Holland. Removing to Mount Pleasant, Iowa. the father there worked at his trade and was employed for a time in the State Hospital for the Insane at Mount Piguzed by Microsofti@ city in March.
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1885, at the age of forty years, while his last days were spent in the home of his son, W. F. Ackerman. in Havelock, where he died at the age of sixty-seven years.
W. F. Ackerman was one of a family of nine children. His boyhood was passed in Mount Pleasant, where he acquired a common school education, sup- plemented by study in the Howe Academy and principally with the Inter- national Correspondence Schools, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1888, when eighteen years of age, he went to Plattsmouth, Nebraska, where he served an apprenticeship as a machinist in the shops of the Burlington Railroad, and in 1804 he went upon the road as a fireman, making his run out of Alliance, Nebraska. From the time of his entrance into the employ of the company he has made steady progress. In 1897 he became gang foreman and later was made erecting foreman at Havelock. In 1899 he was appointed to the position of foreman of the shops at Alliance, Nebraska, and in 1900 he became general inspector for the Burlington Road in Lincoln. In 1901 he was made superin- tendent of the shops at llavelock and in 1907 he became assistant superintendent of motive power, serving for one year and eight months. On the expiration of that period, at which time new shops were opened in Havelock, he was made superintendent of the shops. He is now serving in that capacity and that he is one of the most trusted and capable employes of the Burlington is indicated by the fact that from the age of eighteen years he has been continuously in the service of the corporation. He is a practical railroad man, as his record shows. and his ability is demonstrated by his promotions. The shops at Havelock are the center of the locomotive industry of the Burlington system and he is in charge at this point. His practical experience in the various departments of the work well qualifies him to direct the labors of the large force of men who are serving under him. He is likewise well known in business circles as a director of the Havelock Building & Loan Association and is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Havelock.
In November, 1891, Mr. Ackerman was united in marriage at Plattsmouth to Miss Adelia Steimker, who died in June, 1893, since which time he has wedded Rosa Prescott, of Havelock. lle has two children: William P., who is attending the State University ; and Eleanor Josephine, at home.
The religions faith of the family is that of the Methodist church and in politics Mr. Ackerman is a republican but not an office seeker, preferring to con- centrate his time and energies upon his business interests. He is, however, inter- ested in all things pertaining to the welfare of Havelock and is co-operating in many plans and projects for her improvement and upbuilding.
ALBERT JAMES HATCHER.
Albert James Hatcher, who owns two fine farms in this county, is residing on section 23, Grant precinct, and has gained a highly gratifying measure of suc- cess as a breeder of full blooded shorthorn cattle, and is also engaged in the raising of grain. A representative of a well known English family, his birth occurred near Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire, England, on the 4th of April, 1861. His parents,
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George and Elizabeth (Carey) Hatcher, were both natives of that county and there the mother passed away. The father was employed in a brewery in Oak Hill, England, but following his wife's demise went to Australia, where it is supposed that his death occurred, although he was never heard from after leaving England. There were five children in the family, those besides the subject being : William George, who is a farmer near Kalamazoo, Michigan; John Ed., who formerly followed agricultural pursuits in Nance county, Nebraska, but is now living in Otoe county ; Lucy, who is still living in England, and Nellie, the wife of George Luff, a farmer of Otoe county, Nebraska.
Albert James Hatcher was ten years old when he crossed the Atlantic to the United States in company with an aunt and his brothers and sister Nellie. They went to Allegan county, Michigan, where they joined his mother's brother. and later the aunt who had brought the children across the Atlantic, returned to England. A. J. Hatcher lived upon his uncle's farm near Kalamazoo and received a good common school education. He remained with his uncle until he was fifteen years old when he began working as a farm hand. In 1880 he left Michigan and went to Otoe county, Nebraska, where he farmed for four years, after which he bought one hundred and sixty acres of railroad land in that county, which he broke and brought under cultivation. Three years later he sold that place and removed to Hitchcock county, Nebraska, where he followed agricultural pur- suits, at length concentrating his energies upon the stock business. He owned eleven hundred acres of land near McCook and raised large numbers of cattle and horses. In 1896 he disposed of his property there and coming to Grant precinct, Lancaster county, purchased one hundred and sixty acres on section 23. He has since resided there and has made many improvements upon his place. He also owns one hundred and sixty acres on section 25 and five acres on section 26, on which the town of Cheney is located. He does general farming, but pays particular attention to raising Poland China hogs, Percheron horses and shorthorn cattle, which he sells for breeding purposes. His thorough knowledge of stock-raising, and in fact all the phases of farm work, combined with his fine business judgment, has enabled him to gain financial independence.
Mr. Hatcher was married, on the 12th of September, 1888, to Miss Ella Wallen, who was born in Otoe county. Nebraska, and is a daughter of James and Harriet Wallen, natives of England and pioneer settlers of Otoe county. Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Hatcher have become the parents of four children : Harry James, who was born in Hitchcock county, on the 9th of March, 1890, and is now farming in Lancaster county ; Chester, who was born in Hitchcock county and is assisting his father ; Flora B., also a native of that county, and now the wife of Claude Laird, a farmer of Lancaster county ; and Burton, who was born in Lancaster county in 1900, and is now attending school.
Mr. Hatcher is a strong advocate of republican policies and loyally supports that party at the polls. For eight years he served on the school board, while living in Hitchcock county, and he has held the office of road overseer in Lancaster county for four years, keeping the roads in excellent condition during that time and making a highly ereditable record as an official. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, while his wife is a member of the United Brethren church, and fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of United Work- men, which he joined at MelbkzAngliiGKosaft Bred his mem-
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bership to the Cheney lodge. He has inherited the sturdy virtues of his English ancestors and has proved a highly valued citizen of this newer country, with whose interests he has thoroughly identified himself. He has gained prosperity, although he began his independent career empty-handed, and his success is irre- futable proof of his enterprise, his keenness of insight and his progressiveness. During the twenty years of his residence in Lancaster county he has gained a large circle of friends and is most esteemed where most intimately known.
DARWIN DAHARSH.
Darwin Daharsh, who is conducting a large and profitable general black- smithing business in Hickman and is president of the Southern Lancaster County Old Settlers Association, was born near Hingham, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, on the 8th of March, 1865, a son of William Bradley and Phoebe Louisa (Fyfe) Daharsh. His paternal grandfather, Isaac Daharsh, was born near Bolivar, New York, and worked in the lumber woods and also engaged in farming in that locality. William B. Daharsh was born in Madison county, New York, on the 30th of March, 1830, and received his education in the public schools. When still a boy he worked in the lumber woods during the winter months and in the summers drove canal boats on the Erie canal. He was so employed from the time that he was fourteen years old until he was twenty years of age, when he was made captain of a canal boat. In 1853, how- ever, he migrated westward to Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, where he bought eighty acres of land. Before it could be brought under cultivation it was neces- sary to clear it of timber which he did, and he concentrated his energies upon the improvement of his farm there until May, 1869, when he came to Lancaster county, Nebraska, homesteading eighty acres on section 12, South Pass precinct, three-quarters of a mile south of the present site of Holland. He and his wife and their five children made the journey from Wisconsin to Nebraska overland in two covered wagons and the trip required five weeks, as they left their old home on the 24th of May and reached Lancaster county on the 26th of June. Mr. Daharsh lived upon his homestead in South Pass precinct until September, 1877, when he sold that place and rented land near the town of Hickman, where he resided until his death on the 19th of January, 1898. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Phoebe Louisa Fyfe, was born in Salisbury, Vermont, on the 28th of December, 1827, a daughter of James and Electa (Sanford) Fyfe. Her father was also a native of Salisbury, and his natal day was the 10th of .August, 1704. He was a farmer by occupation. In 1834 he removed to Orleans county, New York, and in 1843 to Lockport that state, while in 1847 he took up his residence in Lima township, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, where he passed away on the 6th of May. 1863. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Daharsh was celebrated on the 16th of April, 1856, at Lima, Wisconsin, and they became the parents of five children: Emma Elizabeth, the wife of D. J. Bryan, a farmer of Askwood, Saskatchewan, Canada ; William, who is farming in Nemaha township, Lancaster county ; Albert, a farmer of Oklahoma : Darwin ; and Elmer H., who owns a garage at Hickman.
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to its public schools. At an early age he began assisting with the work of the home farm, but in 1889, when about twenty-four, learned the blacksmith's trade, which he found more congenial than agricultural pursuits and which he has since followed with gratifying success. Ile owns a well equipped shop in Hickman and is accorded a large share of the public patronage in his line, having built up an enviable reputation for reliable work and reasonable prices. He also owns the ground on which the shop is located and holds title to his commodious and modern residence.
Mr. Daharsh was married in Hickman on the 29th of November, 1893. to Miss Nettie May Shipley, daughter of Enoch M. and Nancy J. ( Swiggart ) Shipley, the former of whom was born in England, but emigrated to America in early manhood and located at Florence, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Daharsh are the parents of two children : Verna Ruth, who was born on the 30th of . August, 1895, at Hickman, received her education in the public schools of that town and in a commercial school at Lincoln. She is now employed by the Cushman Motor Works at Lincoln. Lloyd Ardeil, born on the 2d of February, 1901, who is a student in the Hickman high school.
Mr. Daharsh is an active republican and has served in a number of local offices. He was a member of the town board for two years, held the office of the justice of the peace, and from 1902 until 1914 was a member of the board of education. He takes a praiseworthy interest in all that pertains to the general welfare and is recognized as one of the leading citizens of the town. For four years he has been president of the Southern Lancaster County Okl Settlers Association, his retention in that position indicating the esteem in which he is held. His wife belongs to the Methodist church, and she also has made many warm friends.
EDMUND L. TEMPLE.
Edmund L. Temple is now living retired from active agricultural pursuits, although still residing on his farm on section o. Yankee Hill precinct. He was born in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, in 1851. His mother died when he was but three weeks old, at which time he was taken to the home of an uncle, J. 11. Fritts, of De Kalb county, Illinois, by whom he was reared to manhood there re- ceiving all the love, care and protection that a parent lavishes on a son. His father followed the 4gers to the California gokl fields, where he kept up a regu- lar correspondence with his people in the east and after "making his stake" started on the return journey but was never afterward heard from, and it is supposed that he was either killed by the Indians, as he made his way across the plains, or was murdered for his money by one of the many bands of high- waymen who then infested that section of the country.
In early manhood Edmund L. Temple was married in De Kalb county, Ilinois, to Miss Corinthia Brown, a native of La Salle county. Ilinois. They began their domestic life upon a farm in De Kalb county, where they resided until 1880, when Mir. Temple and his uncle, J. H. Fritts, removed to Salisbury. Mis- souri, where they remained itized by Microsoft Rime with their
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respective families to Lancaster county, Nebraska, and Mr. Fritts purchased the farm which Mr. Temple now owns. The former did not like this section of the country, however, and a month or two later, leaving his nephew on the farm, he returned to Illinois. Three years passed, however, and he again came to Lancaster county, where he continued to reside until his death. From the time of his arrival Edmund L. Temple concentrated his energies upon agricul- tural pursuits and was actively engaged in farming until 1909, when he rented his land, although he still maintains his residence on the old homestead.
Fraternally Mr. Temple is connected with Lancaster Lodge, No. 54, F. &. A. M., while his wife belongs to Electa Chapter, No. 8, O. E. S. He is also affili- ated with Baird Lodge, No. 54, K. P., of Rokeby, Nebraska, and he and his wife are consistent and faithful members of the Congregational church. In politics he has always been a republican but never an aspirant for office. He is one of the highly esteemed citizens of Lancaster county, his life being well spent, characterized by devotion to duty in every relation. He deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, as his success has come to him as the reward of earnest, persistent and intelligently directed effort.
LOUIS J. LODER.
Louis J. Loder, a progressive and prosperous general merchant at Waverly, is also engaged in the stock raising business, owning a valuable tract of land adjoining the town. He was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the 13th of February, 1835, of the marriage of William and Margaret ( Maston ) Loder, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. The father carried on agricultural pursuits in the Buckeye state for many years but about the close of the Civil war he came to Nebraska, which state he had previously visited, and he spent the last years of his life upon a tract of land which he owned near Ashland.
Louis J. Loder, who is the third in order of birth in a family of twelve children, attended one of the pioneer schools of Ohio, the building being con- structed of logs. During much of his boyhood and youth, however, he was engaged in farm work and thus became familiar with practical methods of agriculture. When twenty-one years of age he began his independent career and on the 15th of September, 1857. he started for Nebraska, driving a team of horses all the way from Ohio to this state. He took up a tract of government land on Salt creek in Lancaster county, and there he resided for a number of years. At length he traded part of that farm for land adjoining the town of Waverly and for three years he concentrated his energies upon the operation of that place. In 1896 he became active in the mercantile field, associating himself with his son William in the ownership and conduct of a general store. They carry a well selected stock of dry goods, shoes, groceries, etc .. and their patronage is large and representative. He still owns a four hundred-acre farm adjoining Waverly and is there engaged in farming and stock raising in connec- tion with his son, William. They hire help and derive a good profit from the sale of their grain and their high grade stock. Soft (R)
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Mr. Loder was married in June, 1866, to Miss Alice Walker, who was born in England and is a daughter of Samuel and Christina Walker, who came with their family to the United States when Mrs. Loder was a small child. About 1865 the Walker family located in Waverly, Nebraska, where both parents died. Mrs. Loder has also passed away, her demise occurring on the 2d of January, 1913. She was the mother of five children, namely: Edward, who is a resident of Portland, Oregon, and is vice president of the Gillespie Company, wholesale fruit dealers; Edith, the wife of Jeff Yates, who is engaged in the piano business in University Place; William, who is his father's partner in the store; and two who died in infancy.
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