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is now engaged in the automobile business in Austin, Texas; and Boardman, who was born in Otoe county, Nebraska, on the 4th of May, 1884, and is now farming near Moorcroft, Wyoming. On the 10th of November, 1886, Mr. Eis was again married, Miss Jennie Palmer becoming his wife. She was born in Fowlerville, Michigan, on the 5th of June, 1863, and remained there until she was ten years old when she accompanied her parents to Burlington, lowa, whence she came to Nebraska in 1886, locating in Nebraska City where her marriage occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Eis have five children: Guy Ransom, who was born in Otoe county, on the 10th of September, 1887, and is now farming near Daven- port, Nebraska : Grace May, who was born in Otoe county on the 23d of Sep- tember, 1889, and was married May 17, 1916, to Llewellyn Tate and lives in Yankee Hill; Hattie Leona, whose birth occurred on the 28th of October, 1891, and is the wife of George Damrow, a farmer of Grant precinct, Lancaster county : Elary Beryl who was born in Otoe county on the 23d of April. 1896, and is assisting his father ; and Glenn William, who was born in Otoe courity, on the 21st of May, 1898, and is also aiding his father in the operation of the home farm.
XIr. Eis is a stanch republican and does all in his power to further the success of that party at the polls. He served for twelve years as a member of the school board, while living in Otoe county, and made a highly creditable record in that capacity. He belongs to Douglas Camp, No. 735, M. W. A., at Douglas, Otoe county, and has served in all of the chairs, and is a member of Lincoln Lodge No. 138, I. O. O. F. at Lincoln, having transferred to this lodge from Panama lodge at Panama. He was a charter member of Douglas Lodge, No. 276, at Douglas, Nebraska, in which he served in all the chairs and which was later consolidated with Panama Lodge. He also affiliates with the Royal Neighbors at Rokeby, and his wife and daughter Grace are connected with that organization. Mrs. Eis was formerly a member of the camp at Douglas, in which she held the office of oracle, and is a charter member of the Rokeby lodge and has served as oracle therein. Her daughter Grace has held a number of minor offices in the camp. Mrs. Eis belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and takes a keen interest in its work. During the ten years in which the family have resided in Lancaster county they have become widely known and have gained a wide circle of friends.
WILLIAM B. MCCOY.
Dr. William B. McCoy had engaged in practice at College View for only about a year but had already gained recognition as an efficient and successful physician and surgeon, when he passed away, his demise, which occurred on the 21st of February, 1916, occasioning sincere regret. He was born in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of September, 1878, a son of John E. and Eliza- beth M. (Yeager ) McCoy. His parents were also natives of Pennsylvania and the father devoted his energies, to theatrical pursuits. He passed away in 1878 but was survived by the mother untill TPNaDY,Microsoft ®
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removed in his childhood, and obtained his general education in the public schools of that city. Later he entered the Case School of Applied Science, which he attended for a year and a half and then became a student in Cotner University at Bethany, Nebraska, where he remained for one year. Subsequently he matriculated in the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery and received the degree of M. D. from that institution in 1914. For five months he practiced at Solon, lowa, but in February, 1915, located in College View where he remained until his death on the 21st of February, 1916. It was not long before he gained a representative patronage and he held the confidence, not only of the general public, but also of his professional colleagues. . He kept in touch with the advancement that is constantly being made in medical science through reading and through his membership in the Lancaster county and Nebraska state Medical societies.
Dr. McCoy was married in March, 1912, to Miss Winifred Owen, a daughter of Daniel and Lida (Camp) Owen. Her father, who is a traveling salesman, is now making his home with his daughter. Dr. McCoy supported the democratic party at the poles, believing firmly in its principles, and at the time of his death he was filling the position of health officer. Fraternally he was connected with the Masonic order, having taken the degrees of the commandery, and he also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was identified with Phi Chi, a medical fraternity, and was honored by election to the vice presidency of the organization. His religious faith was that of the Christian church and he could be counted upon to further the moral advancement of his community in every way possible. His salient characteristics were those which invariably command respect and regard and those who were most closely associated with him were his stanchest friends.
E. D. EVANS.
E. D. Evans, of Bethany, is one of the highly esteemed residents of the town and is enjoying a period of leisure made possible by his former years of well directed labor as an agriculturist. He was born in Henry county, Indiana, on the 5th of May, 1838, and is a son of Israel and Eveline W. (Smith) Evans. the former a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and the latter of Belmont county, Ohio. The father became a resident of Henry county, Indiana, about 1833 and purchased land there. He farmed in the Hoosier state until 1855. when he went to Harrison county, Iowa. There he bought land, to the cultiva- tion of which he devoted his time until his death on the 15th of March, 1883. Something over ten years later, or on the 14th of September, 1894. his wife also passed away.
E. D. Evans was largely reared in Putnam county, Indiana, and remained under the parental roof until he was twenty years oldl. Ile then bought forty acres of land in llarrison county, Iowa, and for six years concentrated his energies upon its improvement and cultivation. In 1865 he homesteaded land in Douglas county, twenty-five miles from Omaha, and resided there until 1872, when he sold the place and bought a tract of school land which he farmed until
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1891. He then rented that place and, coming to Bethany, erected a fine residence at the corner of Butler and Ashgrove streets, where he has since lived. IIe still owns the farm and also holds title to thirty-one lots in Bethany. Although he has reached the seventy-eighth milestone on life's journey he is still active and vigorous and is greatly interested in all that is happening in the world at large.
Mr. Evans was married on the 12th of September, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth L. Peckenpaugh, a daughter of Elijah and Caroline ( Rowe) Peckenpaugh. In early life the father became a resident of Henry county, Illinois, and later removed to Warren county, where he farmed until 1855, when he went to Harrison county, Iowa, where he bought land. lle concentrated his energies upon the development and improvement of his place and followed agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred as the result of a runaway on the 25th of September, 1884. He was survived for many years by his wife, who was called to her final rest on the Ist of June, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have become the parents of nine children. Lillie C. is the wife of John Reed, a farmer of Cheyenne county, Nebraska. William C. is farming in Idaho. Mary L. is the wife of T. J. Oliver, a farmer and also a teacher living in Missouri. Martha E. has for fourteen years been principal of a ward school at Pocatello, Idaho. Anna I. wedded O. W. Portlock, who passed away on the 15th of February, 1910. Alvin E. is a graduate of Cotner University at Bethany and of the Nebraska State University and also has the l'h. D. degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He took a law course in the State University of Idaho and is now taking post-graduate work in law at Harvard. Frank L. is a lumber dealer at Hill City, Idaho. Elijah and Ethel are both deceased, the former dying on the 26th of February, 1861, and the latter on the 17th of March, 1875.
Mr. Evans is independent politically, voting for the candidates whom he deems best qualified to fill the offices in question, rather than obeying the dictates of a party leader. While living in Douglas county he served as school director and as treasurer of the board and did all in his power to further the interests of the schools. He is an influential member of the Christian church and for several years has served as deacon and elder. His life has conformed to high standards and the respect in which he is held is well deserved.
EILERT SCHNIEDER.
Eilert Schnieder is numbered among the pioncer settlers of Buda precinct, residing upon the old family homestead on section 30. He was born in the state of Oldenburg, Germany, on the 13th of January, 1851, a son of Diedrich and Catherine Schnieder, who are mentioned on another page of this work in con- nection with the sketch of his brother, Friedrich Schnieder. He began his edu- cation in the schools of the fatherland and, following his emigration to the new world, continued his studies in public schools of Clayton county, Iowa, and of Lancaster county, Nebraska. Ile came to the United States in the spring of 1868, a year prior to the arrival of his parents. He had an uncle who had pre- ceded him to this country and was they living/in /Carton count@ Iowa, whither Eilert Schnieder made his way, remaining with his uncle until the arrival of his Vol. 11-18
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father and mother. About the Ist of May, 1870, they started with ox teams for Lancaster county, Nebraska, where they arrived on the 4th of June, having been four weeks and four days on the journey. The father here secured a homestead claim, embracing the north half of the northeast quarter of section 30, and Eilert Schnieder homesteaded the south half of the same quarter. The father died about 1878, and after the children had all reached adult age, Eilert Schnieder purchased the old homestead on which his father had settled and on which he has resided for so many years. llis entire life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits, and his early training well qualified him to take up the work of this character on his own farm.
Mr. Schnieder completed his arrangements for having a home of his own through his marriage in 1882 to Miss Rebecca Prange, a native of Germany, who came to this country with her brother Dick Prange in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Schnieder have become the parents of twelve children: William, a resident of Buda precinct; Carrie, the wife of Henry Rippen, who is farming near Kramer, Nebraska; Maggie, living in Lincoln; Emma, the wife of Diedrich Mahlman of Olive Branch precinct ; Anna, Sophia, Mary and Florence, all at home ; Rudolph, living in Clayton county, lowa ; Edwin and Alfred, still at home; and George, who is yet in school.
Mr. Schnieder maintains an independent political course, voting according to the dictates of his judgment rather than a party. He has served in various local offices, including that of assessor, justice of the peace, road overseer and school director. He and his family are members of the Congregational church and are people of highest respectability. He is numbered among the pioneer settlers of the county, having for forty-six years lived within its borders, during which period he has witnessed the greater part of its growth and development as it has taken on all of the accessories and conveniences known to modern life. His efforts have been an element in the agricultural progress of the county and through his close attention to business, his intelligently directed effort and his business integrity he has won success.
HUBERT FROHN.
Hubert Frohn, who owns and is operating a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres on section 22, Centerville precinct, was born upon that place on the oth of February, 1874. a son of William Frohn, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. He was reared under the parental roof and in the acquirement of his education attended the public schools. At the time that he attained his majority he was an experienced farmer, as he assisted his father during his boyhood and youth, and he determined to devote his life to agricul- tural pursuits. For five years he and a brother, William Henry Frohn, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, operated the home farm in partnership, but Hubert Frohn now owns the place and is farming it alone. The buildings are modern and commodious and the land is in a high state of cultivation. He raises hoth grain and stock, finding such a course more profitable than specializing in either, and he derives a good income from his well directed
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labors. The farm comprises two hundred and forty acres and is one of the valuable properties of Centerville precinct.
Mr. Frohn was united in marriage in 1901 to Miss Lena Krull, a daughter of Fredrich Krull, a farmer of Centerville precinct, and to this union have been born four children, namely, Edna, Leona, Hubert, Jr., and Dorothy. Mr. Frohn votes independently and is interested in all that pertains to the public welfare but has never sought office. His wife is a member of of the Methodist church and both conform their lives to high standards of morality. Mr. Frohn has gained a competence through his energy and good judgment and he has also won a high place in the estimation of his fellow citizens as his dominant qualities are such as invariably command respect.
ALPHEUS L. EMERY, M. D.
Dr. Alpheus L. Emery, a physician and surgeon residing at Waverly, has gained a very large practice and also has important business interests. His birth occurred at Sutton, Nebraska, on the 14th of April, 1879, and he is a son of William Henry and Mary Jeanette ( Flansburg ) Emery, born respectively in Ohio, on the 25th of January, 1849, and in the vicinity of Rochester, New York, on the 10th of April, 1852. The father, who is a contractor and builder, came to Nebraska about 1876 and engaged in contracting at Sutton for several years but at length removed to Washington, Kansas, where he followed the same butsi- ness until he retired from active life. Both he and his wife are still living in that town.
Alphens L. Emery, who is the third in the order of birth in a family of eight chikiren, was graduated from the Washington high school and subsequently entered the medical department of the St. Louis University at St. Louis, Mis- souri, from which he was graduated on the ist of May, 1902, with the degree of M. D. He opened an office in Waverly, Nebraska, and here he has continuously engaged in practice. He keeps in touch with the new discoveries in medical science and as he is careful in his diagnosis and conscientious in the care which he gives his patients, he has gained an enviable reputation in his profession and has built up a practice of extensive proportions. Ile is frequently called into consultation, and his practice makes heavy demands upon his time and strength, but he never refuses to answer a call unless it is absolutely necessary to do so. He also owns and manages the drug store at Waverly and is a director in the Il. G. Lincoln Company, which operates five and ten cent stores in Moline, Illinois ; Aurora, Nebraska ; and Columbus, Nebraska. Moreover, he is a stock- holder in the M. W. Savage Factories Company at Minneapolis and holds title to a quarter section of land in Washington county, Kansas, and eighty acres in Lancaster county, near Waverly.
Dr. Emery was married on Christmas Day, 1904. to Miss Cora Mae Scott, a native of Nebraska and a daughter of Hiram and Jennie ( Ingram) Scott, early settlers of Saunders county, this state, where the father engaged in farming. He was a soldier in the Vitiontario Cubing feicirisoAndhas always been characterized by marked public spirit but does not desire office. He and his wife
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are now living retired in Waverly. Three children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Emery, namely : Angeline Lucile, Cecil Kent and Donald Louis.
Dr. Emery is an advocate of democratic principles but has never had time to take a very active part in politics. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and along professional lines is identified with the American Medical Association. He has made the interests of the community his interests and can be depended upon to cooperate with all movements seeking the general good.
ALBERT LITLE JOHNSON.
Albert Litle Johnson, prominent citizen of University Place, is well known in church educational circles as he is president of the board of trustees of the Nebraska Wesleyan University and is also a member of the board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church of the United States, which has offices in New York city. lle has been very successful in business as president of the Crete Mills, which operates a chain of elevators in Nebraska and Colorado.
Mr. Johnson was born in Albany, Wisconsin, on the 19th of June, 1864, a son of Andrew and Mary Ann ( Litle) Johnson. The father was born in Massa- chusetts and was educated in that state and in Belfast, Maine. After putting aside his textbooks he learned the cabinetmaker's and carpenter's trades. In 1865 he became a resident of Valparaiso, Saunders county, Nebraska, and worked at carpentering there for some time. Ile was employed on the erection of the first state University building and also on the capitol building and was regarded as a skilled and conscientious workman. At length he removed to Lincoln and had the distinction of making the first shingles used in that city. In 1866 he returned to the east and later brought his family to this state, the journey being made by ox team. They located upon a homestead in Saunders county, which he had entered in 1865. He erected on that place the first frame building in that section ot the state, hauling part of the lumber from Nebraska City. The house is still in good condition and is owned by our subject. Andrew Johnson was highly esteemed by his fellow citizens and served as the first postmaster of Valparaiso, Nebraska, where he passed away in 1891 at the age of seventy-five years. He was a republican in political belief, and was one of the first commissioners of Saunders county. His wife was born in New York in 1819 and reached an advanced age, dying in 1902. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and took an active interest in its work.
Albert Litle Johnson is the youngest of a family of ten children, of whom two died in childhood. When but two years of age he was brought by his par- ents to Nebraska and he grew to manhood upon the family homestead, which is now the site of Valparaiso. He attended the first district school established in the southwestern part of Saunders county, in 1872, when he was eight years of age. After leaving the public schools he attended the Nebraska Methodist Episcopal Conference Seminary at York, Nebraska, in 1880 and 1881, and in the fall of the latter vehr he became a student of the State University, where he spent a year. Subsequently he took a course in Elliott's Business College at
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Burlington, Iowa. In 1883 he became bookkeeper in the mills at Crete, Nebraska, and from 1884 until 1888 he was cashier of the bank conducted by his brother, R. K. Johnson, at Valparaiso. Later he again became bookkeeper in the Crete Mills, and he made such an excellent record there that after a year he was pro- moted to the position of assistant manager and in 1895 was made manager. Ile filled that office capably until 1901, when the company was incorporated and he became president. This corporation not only operates the mills at Crete but also the Curtis Mills and a line of elevators in Nebraska and Colorado. He is still at the head of the company and gives careful attention to the management of its affairs. lle is also the president and was one of the organizers of the First Building and Loan Association, established in University Place.
Mr. Johnson was married on the 25th of August, 1885, to Miss Hattie E. Patmore, who was born in Elora, Canada, but accompanied her parents to the United States when a child. To this union have been born four children, namely : Rodney K., who is operating a ranch in Wyoming ; Porter A., who is with the bureau of publicity of the Western Union Telegraph Company and is stationed at Denver, Colorado; Ruth, who was graduated from the Wesleyan University with the class of 1916; and Benjamin Litle, a student in the Wesleyan University.
Mr. Johnson is a republican in politics but has never taken an active part in affairs of government. He is a member of the Masonic blue lodge and is in hearty sympathy with the teachings of that organization. He is one of the prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church in Nebraska and has taken an active interest in its educational work. He is now president of the board of trustees of the Wesleyan University and is also serving on the board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church of the United States, having been appointed to that position in 1912 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Dolliver of lowa. The board administers funds which are used to assist needy students through college, and it has been the means of educating many young people who have become prominent in their respective lines of endeavor. Mr. Johnson has resided in University Place since 1904 and has thoroughly identified his interests with those of the town, cooperating with all movements to advance community welfare. He has been a member of the state committee of the Young Men's Christian Association for past fifteen years; is a trustee of Nebraska Methodist Episcopal Hospital at Omaha ; and one of the vice presidents for Nebraska of the American Sunday School Union. Ile is also a member of Territorial Pioneer Class A, and is a Son of the American Revo- lution. -
JAMES DICKSON.
Among the men who have played an important part in the business and agricultural development of Lancaster county is James Dickson of Panama, who possesses in unusual degree, the qualities of farsighted enterprise and business acumen. He was born near Colesburg, Delaware county, Iowa, on the 20th of December, 1853, a son of Thomas and Hannah / Fleming )Dickson. The father was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 2d of February, 1818, and
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after completing his common school education served an apprenticeship of seven years as stonecutter and stonemason at Hamilton. Subsequently he followed his trades in various places in Scotland until 1850 when he came to the new world, landing at New Orleans. He was accompanied by his wife and two chil- dren, Thomas and Agnes. They proceeded up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Cannelton. Indiana, where Mr. Dickson secured work at his trades in building a cotton factory. He worked there until the spring of 1851 when he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and thence up the Mississippi river to Dubuque, Iowa, where he bought a team and wagon and drove with his family to Delaware county, Iowa. This was before the homestead law had been passed but he purchased from the government three forty acre tracts of land in the northeast quarter of section 2, Colony township, paying therefor one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. He built a small log cabin which remained the family home for many years and in which all of the rest of his children were born. In 1865 the family removed to an eighty acre farm also in Colony township which he had purchased. This place' was out on the open prairie and there he built a frame house and barns. His sons broke the prairie sod and in time the place was converted into a well improved farm. In 1873 his eldest son, Thomas, came to Lancaster county, Nebraska, to investigate conditions here and was so well pleased that he pur- chased a quarter section on section 11. Panama precinct and in the fall of that year the family took up their residence upon that farm. Upon arriving in this county the father bought an additional one hundred and sixty acres on section 15, which was partly improved. The farm on section Ir, however, was railroad land and was totally unimproved when it came into possession of the family. Mr. Dickson erected substantial buildings thereon and his sons operated the place. Ile passed away on the farm on section 15, on the 21st of August, 1883, and was buried at Panama. He married Hannah Fleming, who was born in Ilamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 15th of June, 1825, and was a daughter of Edward and Agnes Fleming, also natives of that city. They passed away when she was a young girl but she continued to reside in Hamilton and there she received her education. She survived her husband for many years, dying on the 4th of June, 1913, and she too is buried in the Panama cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dickson were the parents of eleven children of whom nine survive, namely : Thomas J., Mrs. Agnes Hulbert, John H., James, Robert G., William F., Presley H., Andrew L. and Francis W.
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