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On the 25th of October, 1898, at Papillion, 'Sarpy county, Nebraska, Mr. Haver was united in marriage to Miss Martha H. Weiss, her father being Herman Weiss, who is deceased. They have eight children, namely: Richard F., Elmer W., Howard H., Mabel D., Clarence P., Alice M., Byron A. and Florence M. The religious faith of the family is that of the Lutheran church and in his politi- cal views Mr. Haver is a republican but he has always been too busy with other
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interests to seek office although he is never neglectful in the duties of citizenship and is ever ready and willing to give his aid and cooperation for the advancement of interests and movements of public moment.
LOUIS BERNARD BUSHMAN, M. A., F. A. C. S., M. D.
Dr. Louis Bernard Bushman, oculist and aurist, has already attained distinc- tion in the field of his specialty that many an older practitioner might well envy. He has studied in various centers of learning, ever embracing to the utmost his opportunities for the attainment of knowledge in his chosen field. Omaha proudly claims him as a native son. He was born in this city March 29, 1877, a son of William M. Bushman, who was born in New York in 1842, came to this city in 1871 and after remaining in active connection with the dry goods business for a time he established warehouse interests with which he is now connected.
After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools of his native city Dr. Bushman entered Creighton University and pursued an academic course, being graduated in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while later his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. He thus gained broad literary learning to serve as the foundation upon which to build the super- structure of professional knowledge. Having decided upon the practice of med- icine as a life work, he continued his studies in the medical department of Creighton University and graduated in 1903. He was appointed interne in the Douglas County Hospital and while thus engaged dealt with an immense variety of cases, gaining that broad and valuable experience which only hospital practice can bring. He has become widely known professionally in various parts of the world. In the spring of 1904 he went to Ecuador, in South America, as physician and surgeon for a mining company with extensive interests in that country. For a year he remained in the south and then returned to Omaha to enter upon practice in this city. In 1907 he went abroad for post graduate work in London and Vienna, where he largely specialized in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Following his return he became. a member of the firm of Bryant, Burrell & Bushman, specialists of Omaha, and the partnership has been maintained to the present time, although several changes have occurred in the personnel of the firm, which is now Bryant, Arnold & Bushman. He again visited Europe in 1911, spending some time in study in the Royal Ophthalmnic Hospital and the London Central Hospital of London and in the General Hospital of the University of Vienna. Since his return from his second European trip he has been busily engaged in the practice of his profession, limiting his activities to the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is now oculist and aurist to St. Joseph's Hospital and St. Catherine's Hospital.
On the 20th of October, 1915, in Omaha, Dr. Bushman was united in marriage to Miss Evangeline Homan, daughter of William R. Homan, of Omaha. In religious faith Dr. and Mrs. Bushman are members of the Catholic church. Fra- ternally Dr. Bushman is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Phi Rho Sigma, a college fraternity, and the Knights of Columbus, serving in 19II as grand knight of the Omaha council in the latter organization. He belongs to the Omaha Country Club and the University Club and he also has membership with the Ak-Sar-Ben. His political endorsement is given to the republican party, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him, as he has always preferred to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his professional duties. In addition to a large private practice he is now serving as one of the faculty of the Creighton Medical College, lecturing on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. His broad professional interests and his high standing are indicated in his extensive professional connections. He belongs to the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society, the Missouri Valley Medical Society,
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the Elkhorn Valley Medical Society, the Nebraska State Medical Association and the American Medical Association, and he is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the Northwestern Ophthalmo-Oto-Rhinological Society. He is constantly striving by study, research and investigation to broaden his knowledge and promote his efficiency and his opinions on his specialty have long since largely become accepted as standard by representatives of the profession.
HENRY A. THOMPSON.
Henry A. Thompson, well known in the business circles of Omaha and a partner in Thompson, Belden & Company, proprietors of one of the large depart- ment stores, has throughout the entire period of his business career been identified with mercantile interests and one of the elements of his success is undoubtedly the fact that he has continued always in a given' field, never dissipating his energies but concentrating upon a single line. His life history had its beginning in Keene, New Hampshire, on the 20th of July, 1848. His father, Joshua Chandler Thompson, was born in Swansea, New Hampshire, in 1821 and was a son of Jesse Thompson, also a native of that state, in which he spent his entire life. He was a carpenter by trade and the same pursuit was followed by Joshua C. Thompson. The latter was married in the old Granite state to Caroline Thompson, who, though of the same name, was not a relative. They left New Hampshire in 1856, going to Girard, Erie county, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Thompson passed away in 1900, having for about ten years survived his wife.
In the public schools of Girard, Pennsylvania, Henry A. Thompson mastered the elementary branches of learning and some of the higher courses. Through the summer months he was employed and thus from a very early age has depended upon his own resources. When a lad of thirteen he entered a general store in Girard and did everything that a boy could do from five o'clock in the morning until late at night. That he was industrious and faithful is indicated in the fact that he remained in that store for eight years. For the first year he received fifty dollars, his board and clothing. After eight years he was given a third interest in the business and continued in connection therewith for nine years longer or until 1878. He then went upon the road for a wholesale dry goods house of Cleveland, Ohio, and spent two years in that connection, during which time his present partner, Charles C. Belden, was also one of the traveling salesmen of that house. Leaving the road together, they were made junior partners in the branch store of E. M. McGillin & Company at Youngstown, Ohio, and there remained until the business was sold. In that year Mr. Thompson and Mr. Belden went to Fremont, Ohio, where they opened a dry goods and carpet store, which they con- ducted until 1886, when they disposed of their interests there and came to Omaha. Here they began business on a small scale and have since developed a large department store now conducted under the name of Thompson, Belden & Com- pany. Thirty-five years is a long period for two men to remain in active associa- tion in business, but the relation between Messrs. Thompson and Belden has always been most harmonious and gratifying. Their acquaintance has long since ripened into the strongest friendship and there is no subject which comes up for settlement upon which they find they cannot agree. From the beginning they have been most successful and from time to time have found it necessary to seek larger quarters to accommodate their increasing trade. Their methods have at all times been thoroughly reliable and they have ever recognized the fact that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement.
On the 20th of January, 1875, in Erie, Pennsylvania, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage to Miss Emma O. Fletcher, by whom he had three children, as follows: Frank Fletcher, who was born in Girard, Pennsylvania, November 2,
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1876; Harold Addis, born in Omaha in November, 1889; and Carlie Augusta, who passed away at Fremont, Ohio, in 1886, when nine years of age.
In politics Mr. Thompson is a democrat. He has membership in the Commer- cial Club, the Happy Hollow Club, the University Club and in the Universalist church-associations which indicate the nature and variety of his interests and activities and establish him as a man of high and honorable purpose, of social disposition and of genuine worth. Looking upon Mr. Thompson as one of the leading and prosperous merchants of Omaha, it is interesting to review his history and note his start. When the war broke out in 1861, many soldiers passed through the town in which he lived and the idea occurred to him-boy that he was-that he might sell them apples while the train was standing at the station. Accordingly he borrowed ten cents of his father, walked some distance out in the country and purchased a peck of apples of "Grandma Pettibone" for six cents. He carried the fruit back to town, met the next train load of soldiers and sold his apples for a cent a piece, thus realizing seventy-five cents on the transac- tion. In the course of time he cleared up one hundred and fifty dollars on this his first mercantile venture. Many times since then his profits have not been so large proportionately, but along the legitimate lines of trade he has developed his interests and today his is a most honorable and honored position in the business circles of Omaha.
SAM F. BOORD.
Sam F. Boord, under the name of the Omaha Bicycle Company, is conducting the largest exclusive bicycle and motorcycle store west of Chicago, and in this connection is controlling a most important commercial concern of Omaha. He was born in Fountain county, Indiana, July 24, 1878, a son of Newton and Sarah Ellen (Dice) Boord, who were also natives of that state. Early generations of the Boord family, however, settled in Virginia, whence a removal was made to Indiana. There Newton Boord took up the occupation of farming and in 1880 he removed to Vermilion county, Illinois, where he engaged in tilling the soil until 1896. He then retired from active farm life and removed to Covington, Indiana, where he passed away in August, 1899, at the age of sixty years. He had a most creditable military record as a soldier of the Civil war, and six of his brothers also enlisted. He became a private of the One Hundred and Fifty-First Indiana Regiment, which was commanded by Captain Dice, his father-in-law. Mrs. Boord is still living at Covington at the age of sixty-five years. In their family were eight children: Mrs. Augusta Livingood, residing at Covington ; Harry j., who makes his home in Danville, Illinois; Clarence, assistant states attorney general of Illinois with office at Springfield; Clyde E., residing in Dan- ville, Illinois ; Mrs. Pearl Myers, of Covington, Indiana; Blossom, also in Coving- ton; and Clifford M., who is in business with his brother in Omaha.
Sam F. Boord was the sixth member of the family. After attending the high school in Covington, Indiana, he pursued post graduate work in the Indiana Normal College, and then started out in life by becoming a rural mail carrier at Covington. After a year he went to Chicago and for a year and a half was shoe salesman with Marshall Field & Company. He then went upon the road as traveling salesman for the Phelps, Dodge & Palmer Shoe Company, of Chicago, to which work he devoted a year. He afterward taught school for a year and in October, 1903, he came to Omaha where he entered the employ of Stultz Brothers of the Omaha Bicycle Company. After remaining in that connection for three years he bought out the business, although he had a capital of but one hundred and twenty-five dollars. From a small start he has built up a business of exten- sive proportions, handling all makes of bicycles, also the Indian motorcycle, the Smith Motor Wheel, and all makes of accessories and supplies. His trade has
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steadily grown until he now has the largest exclusive store of the kind west of Chicago. Efficiency has ever been the watchword of the store. A local writer said: "Mr. Sam F. Boord, proprietor of the Omaha Bicycle Company, has made his shop and salesrooms at 323 North Sixteenth street, popular because he him- self is more than a merchant. Being an enthusiast who understands his business thoroughily, who can talk bicycle and motorcycle from every standpoint, he is able to advise the owner as to maintenance and care of a machine, how to get the best results, longest service, and greatest comfort and service." He also handles used machines, lets none go out of his establishment until it is put in first class condition, and to every machine he gives his personal inspection. His business methods are of a most progressive and liberal character and, added to his personality, have made him most popular with the purchasing public.
On December 29, 1906, at Veedersburg, Indiana, he married Miss Kathryn Kerr, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Kerr, the former a furniture and hard- ware dealer of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Boord have a daughter, Frances Maxine, who was born in Omaha, October 1, 1909. In politics he maintains an indepen- dent course. He belongs to the Omaha Motorcycle Club and is widely known among enthusiasts of the wheel. He manifests a keen and healthful interest in all kinds of clean sports and the bowling teams and baseball team supported by the company have won most of the pennants in their respective organizations. His religious faith is that of the Christian church and to its teachings he is ever loyal, guiding his life by its principles.
THE MOST REVEREND JEREMIAH JAMES HARTY, D. D. -
Archbishop Harty is the fourth bishop of the Catholic see of Omaha. A man in the early sixties, above medium height, well set up, of markedly affable man- ner, yet with the quiet and easy dignity befitting his place and his responsibilities, he has made himself felt, even in the short time he has been in the city, as one of the greatest personal forces in Omaha.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, November 1, 1853, and spent the greater part of his life in that city. His early education he received from the Christian Brothers, at St. John's School, and later attended the Academy and College of Arts of St. Louis University, in the old location at Ninth and Washington. He studied philosophy for two years and theology for four years at St. Vincent's Seminary, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
On April 28, 1878, in his twenty-fifth year, he was ordained priest by Bishop Ryan, at that time coadjutor of St. Louis, and later archbishop of Philadelphia. The ceremony took place in St. John's church, where he had been baptized, and where his parents had been married. For five years after his ordination he was in rather delicate health, though always able to attend to his duties as one of the as- sistant pastors at St. Bridget's church. He spent ten years at St. Bridget's, having particular charge of the schools and of the young men of the parish. Looking back over a long and active life that has carried him widely across the world's stage, Archbishop Harty has been heard to say that no part of it gives him more pleasure in the retrospect than those ten years of work with his young men. He had gath- ered over two hundred and fifty of them into a Sodality, which by its manly fidelity to the teaching and practice of the church was an inspiration to all the parish.
In the autumn of 1888 he was commissioned by Archbishop Kenrick to found a new parish, St. Leo's, just north of St. Bridget's. His work there was very successful, and when, after fifteen years of service as its pastor, he was called away to Manila, he left behind him an exceptionally well-organized, active parish.
The great opportunity for the exercise of Archbishop Harty's rare administrat- ive gifts was to be given him in Manila. On June 6, 1903, when he was in the ripe maturity of his years, and after twenty-five years of experience as priest and
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pastor in intimate guiding touch with people, he was notified by cablegram from Rome of his appointment to the see of Manila. Pope Leo XIII invited him to Rome for his episcopal consecration. When he reached Rome the great Leo was dead. The new Archbishop arrived only to be present at the coronation of Leo's successor, Pius X. Archbishop Harty was consecrated bishop August 15th, in the famous Franciscan Basilica of St. Antony.
He returned to his native city of St. Louis on his way to the far east, and there was greeted with an ovation which is still a memorable event and a striking testimony to the regard and affection with which he was cherished. An immense torchlight procession, in which thousands participated, mnet him at the railway station and escorted him to his old parish house at St. Leo's. He remained in St. Louis a short time to settle his affairs and bid farewell to his many friends, then set out for his new see by way of San Francisco. He landed in Manila on January 7, 1904, to be welcomed most eagerly and with an immense demonstration.
His task in Manila was singularly difficult. The islands, with a Catholic population of some eight millions, had lately come under American domination. As a result, affairs civil, political, and religious were in a rather chaotic condition. Under Spanish rule the Catholic religion was officially sanctioned, and its churches and ministers at least partially supported by government grants. The task before the new archbishop was to reorganize, on a new basis, the religious and educa- tional institutions of the islands, to conciliate good will and submission toward the new civil government, to remedy the internal disorders consequent upon a pro- tracted condition of war, to adjust a hundred clashing interests of race, language, customs, jealousies, suspicions, what-not. How well he accomplished the task is a matter of history, and of very grateful concern on the part of the new government in the islands; but to chronicle it would carry us beyond the limits of the present purpose. We can say but a few words about it.
He won the affection and complete confidence of the Filipinos, although he came amongst that jealous people an alien in race and speech. His tact and excel- lent judgment smoothed away many a difficulty for officials high and low. His ready affability, kindly concern, and large liberality, enlisted the sympathy and co- operation of his people and made the great work before 'him the common work of all.
A mere resume of his activity in the field of charity, of education, of social reconstruction, is quite astonishing. One wonders how any man could have done so much in thirteen years. He found but one hospital in Manila for his people, and that one much in need of more modern methods. Within a year, he had brought Sisters of Charity from France and established the new Hospital of Saint Paul. Before another year had passed he managed to extend the care of the Sisters to another new hospital, for tuberculosis patients, known as St. Joseph's Hospital; and under his suggestion and aid the old hospital of St. John of God was wonderfully improved and modernized.'
In 1906, he established the College of Saint Scholastica, for girls, under the charge of Benedictine Nuns from Bavaria. A year later he opened an orphanage, directed by some Belgian Sisters, who later conducted an academy for girls, St. Teresa's Hall, and the Free School of the Cathedral, where some three hundred children receive gratuitous instruction. In the same year he aided the Christian Brothers to establish their De La Salle College in Manila. Another work of Archbishop Harty's is a dormitory for students, St. Rita's Hall. His zeal and charity included the needs of all. He founded industrial schools, reformatories for boys and girls, creches, an asylum for the insane and a refuge for women, the last in the care of French Sisters of the Good Shepherd. In addition he estab- lished a great number of grade schools for the children of the city.
He furthered the formation of an abundant clergy for his people by assisting poor students in the various colleges, and by building a new seminary. He rebuilt sixty-three churches, destroyed during the revolution, and increased the number of priests in his archdiocese by one hundred and fifty.
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All this was in addition to a watchful care and toil in the interests of his far- reaching charge throughout the islands, and the maintenance of his manifold rela- tions with the civil government. It is a sum total of accomplishment which might well have filled scores of years and the devoted activities of a succession of admin- istrators. And in the midst of it all, Archbishop Harty somehow found time to be the personal friend of his people, the confidant of their projects, of their joys and sorrows.
He had been sent to Manila for the special work of adjustment of affairs called for by the new conditions in the islands. When that work was finished, his mission was done. He was recalled to the United States, to his present charge of the diocese of Omaha. He took formal possession of his new see December 21, 1916. No prelate was ever so cordially welcomed to Omaha as Archbishop Harty, with a loyalty on the part of his spiritual charges which goes out to the man as well as to his office, and with a warmth of welcome from the non-Catholics of the city which has provoked admiring comment. The city of Omaha has good reason to be proud in its possession of a great churchman, whose ability, force and sweetness of character, and singular unselfishness have made his name reverenced in the far east, and whose administrative accomplishments have entitled him to a place in the history of the most important island possessions of the United States.
ANGUS A. MCLAUGHLIN.
Angus A. Mclaughlin general attorney for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company in Nebraska, his headquarters being in Omaha since October I, 1912, was born near Webster City, Hamilton county, Iowa, May 13, 1868, while his parents, Angus and Katherine (Sells) Mclaughlin, were natives of Ohio. The father came to Iowa in 1856, casting in his lot with the pioneer settlers of the state, and in 1860 he went to Pike's Peak with an ox team. On leaving the gold fields, however, he returned to Iowa, where he devoted his remaining days to farming, his death occurring in 1914, when he had reached the venerable age of seventy-seven years. His wife died in 1909 at the age of seventy years. She had gone to Iowa in her girlhood and they were married in that state in 1864, becoming the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom are yet living, namely: Elisabeth, an osteopathic phy- sician of Los Angeles, California; James J., living in Blue Earth, Minnesota ; Angus A. ; Edwin M. S., an attorney of Newton, Iowa; W. M., who is practicing law in Des Moines ; and Mrs. Maude McGillivray, whose husband is an attorney at Lowden, Iowa.
Reared upon his father's farm, Angus A. Mclaughlin spent his youth as a pupil in the country schools of Hamilton county, which he attended to the age of seventeen years, and then matriculated in the state college at Ames, Iowa, where he devoted four years to study, being graduated with the class of 1889. He next entered the University of Michigan as a law student and completed his course at Ann Arbor by graduation with the class of 1892. He was admitted to practice at the Iowa bar on the 5th of October following and opened a law office in Des Moines, where he remained for twenty years. On the Ist of March, 1903, he became assistant attorney for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company and continued in that capacity until October 1, 1912, during all of which time he was engaged in general law practice. At the date mentioned he removed to Omaha to assume the duties of attorney for the Chicago & Northwestern Rail- way for the state of Nebraska and now devotes his entire time to railway service. He is thoroughly conversant with all those principles of jurisprudence which bear upon railroads and is most capable of taking care of the legal interests of the corporation which he represents.
Mr. Mclaughlin was married to Miss Sadie Bennetto, of Williams, Iowa,
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