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On the 6th of March, 1895, Mr. Howey was married to Miss Mary Lightfoot Green, of Beatrice, Nebraska, and their three children are: Loyal Green, born February 14, 1896 ; Margaret Lightfoot, May 26, -1901 ; and John Burtis, July 21, 1907. All were born in Beatrice.
Mr. Howey is independent in politics and never seeks or desires office. He belongs to the First Presbyterian church of Lincoln, in which he is serving as trustee, and he is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Lincoln Commercial Club. He is a stanch supporter of those interests which figure most largely in the improvement and development of the city.
EDWARD JOHN ANGLE, A. M., M. D.
Dr. Edward John Angle, physician and surgeon of Lincoln was born on his father's farm, near Cedarville, Illinois, on the Ist day of April, 1864, the sixth and youngest son of John Bouslough and Jane (Bell) Angle, the former a native of Washington county, Maryland, and the latter of East Hanover town- ship, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. They were married in Altoona, Penn- sylvania, in 1844 and immediately afterward removed to Illinois, becoming pioneers of Stephenson county, where they spent their remaining days, the father devoting his attention to the occupation of farming. His mother was a woman of exceptional character and high ideals, and possessed a very clear view of the true values of life. The name was originally spelled Engel and the family is of Swiss-French origin. Representatives of the name came to America about 1740, settling in northern Maryland. They were members of the Mennonite church and in the home country were known as Swiss Quakers. In Maryland they early affiliated with the Dunkard church. The mother's peo- ple were Scotch and of the Covenanter faith and came to the United States soon after the year 1700. They were among those who were persecuted under King James and fled to Ulster, Ireland, in the early period of the seventeenth century. On the maternal side a score or more members of the family from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, served in the Revolutionary war. Among this number were Private Robert Bell, Lieutenant William Young, Captain James Wilson, who participated in the campaigns of the Jerseys in 1776 and was at Brandywine and Germantown in 1777, and Captain Lazarus Stewart, the in- trepid scout and Indian fighter who fell at the head of his company in the Wyoming valley Indian massacre. Richard Swan, who settled in Philadelphia. was one of the signers of the Non-Importation Resolutions of 1765. On account of religious scruples- the father's family were largely non-associators. The Mennonites and Dunkards were of unquestioned loyalty and willing to contribute
DR. EDWARD J. ANGLE
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to the support and comfort of the soldiers but seriously objected to military service. Colonel Andrew Rench and Captain John Rench were members of the Committee of Observation of Elizabethtown District, Frederick county Mary- land, and were elected delegates to serve in the state convention, September 12, 1775. With them patriotism and loyalty to country were stronger bonds than church and creed. General James Bell, who recently retired from the regular army, is a full cousin of Dr. Angle.
Dr. Angle pursued his early education in the public schools of his native village and later prepared for college at the Madison, Wisconsin, high school. He entered the University of Wisconsin in 1882 and upon the completion of the course received the degree of Bachelor of Science. He specialized along biological and chemical lines and was the first student to pursue a systematic course in vertebrate embryology at the university. This was essentially the pre- medical course demanded by the best medical schools today. The University of Wisconsin was scarcely more than a college then and for this fact Dr. Angle has always been thankful, for it permitted a personal contact with and inspira- tion from teachers which is not always possible in these days of large student bodies. In the summer of 1885 he began preparation for the practice of medi- cine, entering the office of his brother-in-law, Dr. J. C. Corbus, of La Salle, Illinois. A year was spent in the medical department of the State University of Iowa and in the fall of 1886 he entered the Medical College of Ohio, now the medical department of the University of Cincinnati and graduated the following year. For a year after his graduation in 1887, Dr. Angle was a country prac- titioner, then moved to La Salle, Illinois, to take over the practice of his brother- in-law, who removed to Chicago. Dr. Angle remained for seven years at La Salle where he built up a large and successful practice. In the fall of 1804 he entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, where he was one of the first honor men of the class of 1805. He has since taken postgraduate work in New York, Chicago and St. Louis and has continually promoted his efficiency by broad reading as well as by college work. After locating in Lincoln in 1895 he continued his studies and pursued a special course in the department of zoology and embryology under Professor H. C. Ward of the State University. It was in recognition of his research work that he was awarded the degree of A. M. and a membership in the Sigma Xi, an honorary society whose standard is that of research work in science.
Following his graduation in Philadelphia, and after completing postgraduate work in New York he came in the fall of 1895 to Lincoln, where he has since been in continuous practice, possessing marked ability in his specialty, which is the treatment of skin and genito-urinary diseases. His knowledge along that line is so comprehensive as to make his opinions largely accepted as standard among his professional brethern of the city and state.
In June, 1889. in Freeport, Illinois, Dr. Angle was united in marriage to Miss Agnes L. Wolf, a daughter of Judge George and AAngeline ( Fleming ) Wolf. the former of whom was judge of the probate court. His people were from Center county, Pennsylvania, and of so-called "Dutch" descent, while the mother came from Freneh-English stock from Jefferson county, Virginia. To the Doctor and his wife havebeen born (\dehidrencromost irah Jane, who is deceased ; Florence Bell, who graduated from the Nebraska State University
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with the class of 1916, with the honor of membership in the Phi Beta Kappa society ; Edward Everett Dupuytren, a sophomore in the Nebraska State Uni- versity, who is preparing for a medical career; Barbara Josephine, who has passed away; and Agnes Evelyn, who is a student in the graded schools.
Dr. Angle is well known in Masonic circles, belonging to Lincoln Lodge, No. 19, F. & AA. M. ; to Lincoln Chapter, R. A. M .; and St. John's Commandery, K. T. Ile is also a member of Alpha Tau Omega, a college fraternity. He is a charter member of Lincoln Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and he is a member of the Lancaster County Medical Society, the Nebraska State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He is like- wise a member of the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley and the American Urological Association and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has recently been informed that his name would appear in the forthcoming edition of The Scientists of America, indicating the eminent position to which he has attained in scientific circles. He has closely applied himself to his profession and served for a period of years as professor of skin and urinary diseases in the Nebraska College of Medicine. Several attractive positions in medical colleges have been proffered him. He is now a member of the staff of St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Lincoln and such is his ability that his reputation and his practice extend far beyond the borders of Nebraska.
Dr. AAngle is a deep lover of nature, and flowers and trees possess for him almost human qualities. Nowhere is he more happy than at their country home, Interlachen, near Park Rapids, where the summers are spent among the beauti- ful lakes and forests of northern Minnesota. Fishing and hunting are his favorite sports. Many record fish have come to his hook.
By nature of a reserved disposition he has never sought publicity or position, finding the greatest pleasure in his profession, his family and groups of selected friends. He and his wife are members of the Second Presbyterian church. Dr. and Mrs. Angle are well known socially and have a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance.
SIMON P. BENADOM.
Simon P. Benadom. a Lincoln pioneer, arrived in this place in April. 1867, when there was only one small shanty where the city now stands. Ile purchased the small courthouse at Lancaster from Dora Hardenberg, a building thirty-three feet square built of hewn cottonwood timber, and two stories in height, for which he paid eight hundred dollars, using this as a residence for ten years. Mr. Benadom was born near Lancaster, in Lancaster county, Ohio, November 13, 1826. His father, George Benadom, was professor of mathematics in Mount Vernon College of Ohio and was also born in that state, being a son of John Benadom, who was of German descent. He was a Methodist preacher and was famed for his eloquences; The mother of Simon n. B.Benadom bore the maiden name of Hannah Myers and was also a native of Lancaster, Ohio. She was a very large woman and lived to be about sixty years of age. She was the mother
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of six sons and four daughters, the only survivor being the subject of this sketch.
Simon P. Benadom was reared and educated in Ohio and at the age of seventeen years began learning the blacksmith's trade, serving a three years' apprenticeship at Winchester, that state. In 1846, accompanied by his wife and one child. he drove a blind horse across the country to Rome, now Olin, in Jones county, Jowa, and cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of that state. When they crossed the Mississippi river there were fifty-two people on the ferry boat, the largest boat load that had crossed up to that time. He was one of the commissioners who located the capital at Des Moines and was otherwise con- nected with early events of importance in Iowa. For ten or fifteen years he conducted a blacksmith shop and afterward turned his attention to merchandising, which he followed for several years, being quite successful in that undertaking. He built the first house in Olin, lowa, owning a tract of land of ten acres where the depot now stands. He was postmaster at Olin for six years during the Buchanan and Lincoln administrations. He drove across the country in 1859 to Nebraska City and at the first land sale in Nebraska laid warrants covering two claims of three hundred and twenty acres near Nebraska City. Ile then returned to Olin but in 1866 sold out there and removed to Pawnee City. Nebraska, where he spent the winter, during which period he bought furs. In the spring of 1867 his wife joined him at Nebraska City and with a fine horse and buggy they drove over the country to what is now Lincoln. This was the first buggy seen in the embryonic city which is today Nebraska's beautiful capital. He also bought and hauled to Lincoln the first chairs and the first furniture brought from Nebraska City and this he disposed of to his neighbors He likewise bought and drove to Lincoln the first cows brought here and these he also sold to the early settlers. In 1869 he burned brick where the Burlington depot now stands and with many other "first things" he was prominently and actively identified. On one occasion he killed a deer where the Hargreaves store now stands and he also killed twenty-one wolves on what is now Second street. He built thirty-five mill dams in the state of Nebraska and two in Missouri. Believing that there might be established a beautiful city at Lincoln, he put forth every effort to help on the work. He hired a man to go to Plattsmouth to get cottonwood sprouts, which he gave to the people, while he himself planted a great many, including all those around the square. It was he who secured the passage of the bill to donate the square to the city and in every available way he used his aid and his influence to further Lincoln's substantial development.
He has never missed attending the Nebraska state fair since it was estab- lished, twice coming from the Pacific coast in order to attend.
In April, 1844, Mr. Benadom was married to Miss Fidelia Burous, a native of Vermont, who was reared in Lancaster county, Ohio, where she was a school- mate of Mr. Benadom and who died in the Buckeye state. She was the mother of the following children: Almina E., the wife of Charles Smith, of Lincoln : George W., now a prominent business man of Morro, California: Emma. of San Jose, California, who possesses marked literary talent and is well known for her poetic gifts : Carrie, the wife of Norman B. Wilson, of Salome Springs, Arkansas : Alice, who passed away. En Californi;@wiffi@ .. a prominent Methodist Episcopal minister of Seattle, Washington. Ile is a man of notable
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physique, being six feet four inches in height and weighing two hundred and twenty pounds. For his second wife Simon P. Benadom chose Hannah Jones, who passed away in Lancaster county, leaving a daughter, Zella, who was ad- mitted to high school when but seven years of age and died a few days after entering the high school.
During the early years of his residence in Lincoln Mr. Benadom purchased all of the furs which were sold in this market. He hired trappers for years to secure furs and did a big business in that line. There is no phase of the city's development and upbuilding with which he is not familiar and his influence has been a most potent force for progress. He called the first democratic meeting in Lincoln, has been active and influential as a supporter of the party ever since and has served as chairman of the democratic central committee for ten years.
THOMAS R. PREY.
Thomas R. Prey was one of the earliest settlers of Lancaster county, arriving here in 1856, and for over three decades he devoted his time and energy to stock raising, but in 1888 removed to Lincoln, where his death occurred. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the 13th of February, 1826, and his parents, John V. and Margaret ( Gibson) Prey, were of Scottish ancestry and emigrated from Scotland to the United States in early life. They took up their residence in Boston but later removed to New York, where the father followed the slater's trade. In 1856, however, he decided to take advantage of the unusual oppor- tunities offered by the west and came to Lancaster county, Nebraska, where he subsequently took up a homestead. When he first came west the land had not as yet been thrown open to settlement under the homestead law, but he purchased a farm. He turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, which he followed successfully throughout the remainder of his active life, passing away in Sep- tember, 1873. llis wife was called to her final rest in 1879.
Thomas R. Prey remained under the parental roof during his boyhood and youth and received his education in Boston and in the village of Eagle, New York. He accompanied the family on their removal to Wisconsin, where they farmed until 1856, when they came to Lancaster county, Nebraska, and acquired land. Subsequently Mr. Prey homesteaded a good tract and brought all of his holdings to a high state of development. He gave the greater part of his attention to raising stock and his well directed labors returned him a good income. In 1888, because of poor health, he and his wife took up their residence in Lincoln and he passed away here on the 5th of July, 1904.
Mr. Prey was married on the 23d of March, 1871, to Miss Martha J. Davis, whose birth occurred in Stockport, Ohio, on the 5th of April, 1843. Her parents, Dr. Reuben and Mary A. (Geddes ) Davis, were natives respectively of Ohio and Pennsylvania. In 1853 Dr. Davis removed to Como, Illinois, near Sterling, and there he practiced quedieine for many years. ros He gained a high standing pro- fessionally and as ho possessed good business ability he also won financial inde- pendence, realizing good profits on his investments. At his death he held title to
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fifteen hundred acres of improved land. He died on the 7th of November, 1887, at the age of sixty-eight years, but his wife passed away on the 18th of March, 1848. To Mr. and Mrs. Prey were born three children, namely . Mrs. Minnie P. Knotts, who is librarian for the Nebraska State Historical Society at Lincoln; Thomas R., a resident of Beryl, Utah ; and Harry E., who lives in San Diego, California.
Mr. Prey gave his political allegiance to the republican party but confined his activity in public affairs to the exercise of his right of franchise. Ile held mem- bership in the Christian church but did not belong to any fraternal organizations. preferring to spend his leisure time with his family. During the first year of his residence in this county, conditions were those of the frontier and there were many hardships to be endured that the present generation knows nothing of. but he had faith in the future of the county and lived to see his confidence in this section more than justified. He had a part in transforming this region of wild prairie into one of highly cultivated and well improved farms, and his memory is justly held in honor. Mrs. Prey has resided in the county for forty- six years and has watched with great interest the rapid change that has taken place. Since 1888 she has lived in Lincoln and her circle of friends is almost coextensive with that of her acquaintances. She owns property in Salt Lake City, is manager of the Brown apartments in Lincoln and several other build- ings, and displays unsual executive ability and business acumen. In religious faith she is a Presbyterian.
HOWARD HARVEY.
Howard Harvey, who is one of the youngest and also one of the leading business men of Bethany, has made an excellent record as cashier of the First State Bank. He was born at Ohiowa, Nebraska, December 21, 1892, and he is a son of Richard A. and Lillian E. ( Clemons) Harvey. The father was born in Missouri and the mother was the first white child born in Fillmore county, Nebraska. Richard A. Harvey became a resident of this state in early life and opened a bank at Chiowa, which he operated for about twenty years, after which he went to Wymore and conducted a bank there for some time. Later he returned to Ohiowa and managed a lumberyard there until 1910, when he took up his residence in Lincoln and organized the Farmers Loan & Investment Company, which he has since conducted. Ile also established the R. A. Harvey Lumber Company at College View and later admitted to partnership 11. D. Enslow, the business being conducted under the name of the Harvey-Euslow Lumber Company. His wife also survives.
Howard Harvey grew to manhood in his native town and attended its schools and the high school at Hebron, from which he was graduated in 1910. He then matriculated in the University of Nebraska and completed his course there with the class of 1914. Following his graduation he worked in the City National Bank at Lincoln as bookkeeper for nine months but in 1915 was made assistant cashier of the First State Bank of Bethany af controllifichiers biff Byse stock was purchased by R. A. Harvey, L. J. Dunn and 1 .. B. Howey in January, 1015.
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In the following July our subject was made cashier and purchased stock in the institution. Ile is also a director and the gratifying increase in the business of the bank is due in large measure to his insight into business conditions, his enterprise and sound judgment. When he became cashier the deposits amounted to fifty thousand dollars and they now total seventy-five thousand dollars. The institution is capitalized for ten thousand dollars and earns its stockholders good dividends at the same time that it carefully safeguards the interests of its patrons. It was established in 1905 by L. S. Hurst and in the eleven years of its existence has gained the full confidence of the public. Its affairs are in a very prosperous condition and plans have been made for erecting a fine modern building in the spring.
Mr. Harvey was united in marriage on the 26th of March. 1916, to Miss Juliet Proudfit, a daughter of William H. and Frances M. ( Platner ) Proudfit, who removed to Lincoln from Denver. Her father is now vice president of the R. S. Proudfit Lumber Company but does not take a very active part in the management of that concern as he is living practically retired. Her mother also survives.
Mr. Harvey fully indorses the principles of the republican party and is never remiss in any of the duties of citizenship although he has not taken an active part in civic affairs. In all of his dealings he adheres to a high standard of ethics. He is well known and his many friends predict for him a successful future.
THOMAS STINSON ALLEN.
Thomas Stinson Allen, United States district attorney for Nebraska and a prominent member of the Lincoln bar, was born at Payne's Point, Ogle county, Illinois. April 30. 1865. His father, Benjamin Franklin Allen, a retired farmer, died in Lincoln, December 20, 1915, at the age of eighty-three years after residing in this state from 1869. He was born in New Hampshire. December 10. 1832, and was descended from revolutionary stock, which included the famous Colonel Ethan Allen, who won distinction as commander of the "Green Mountain Boys." On his removal to Nebraska. Benjamin F. Allen became actively connected with its agricultural interests and carried on farming until a few years prior to his death, living near Wabash in Cass county. He was a prominent leader in the Farmers Alliance party of Nebraska, and was instru- mental in placing that organization on a firm foundation. He was actively inter- ested in all public questions. He married Harriet Maria Ely, who was born at Hartford. New York, in 1835 and died in Lincoln. January 25, 1912, at the age of seventy-seven years. In their family were six children of whom five are yet living: Esther, now the wife of John T. Feather of Waverly, Nebraska : Thomas S .: Lizzie A., the wife of Charles S. Murfin of Wabash, Nebraska: Grace, of Lincoln: and Oscar H., of Omaha. A daughter, Abbie, the first born, died in childhood.
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Cass county and at the age of seventeen years entered the preparatory depart- ment of the University of Nebraska. lle spent six years in all in that institu- tion and was graduated in 1889 as valedictorian of his class. He studied law in the office of A. R. Talbot, now a prominent member of the Lincoln bar, and the present partner of Mr. Allen, and the lon. William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska's distinguished statesman. Mr. Allen pursued his legal studies in their office for two years and at the same time pursued a law course in the old Central Law School, which became the law department of the University of Nebraska before he finished his course, so that his diploma, dated 1801, came to him from the State University. Soon afterward he became a member of the firm of Talbot, Bryan & Allen. Mr. Bryan withdrew from the firm when he was first nominated for the presidency in 1896, since which time the firm name has been Talbot & Allen. Since 1892 Mr. Allen has been in the active practice of law and is an able member of the bar. He possesses comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence and is, moreover, a hard worker, careful and systematic in preparing his cases.
Mr. Allen is one of the active members of the democratic party in the state. From 1904 until 1900 he was chairman of the democratic state central commit- tee, and prior to that time was chairman of the democratic county committee of Lancaster county. On the Ist of August, 1915, he was appointed United States district attorney for the state of Nebraska by President Woodrow Wilson and now holds that office.
On the 28th of June, 1898, Mr. Allen was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Bryan at Salem, Illinois. She is the daughter of Silas L. and Maria Elizabeth Bryan and the youngest sister of Hon. William Jennings Bryan.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Allen is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Maccabees, the Knights and Ladies of Security and the Royal Highlanders. Ile is also a director and the treasurer of the Woodman Accident Association, which has its headquarters in Lincoln. He is a member of the Lincoln Commercial Club, the Nebraska State Bar Association and the Lancaster County Bar Association. The breadth of his interests and activity is thus indicated, and the city recognizes in him one of its prominent citizens who subordinates personal interest to public welfare and partisanship to the general good.
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