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EDWARD CHALOUPKA, M. D.
Dr. Edward Chaloupka, physician and surgeon of Omaha, was born in Wilber, Nebraska, April 5, 1878. His father, Frank J. Chaloupka, a pioneer of this state, is a native of Bohemia, Austria, and when twelve years of age was brought to America by his parents, who settled in eastern Iowa, being among the pioneer residents of that state, where the grandfather followed agricultural pursuits. Frank J. Chaloupka was reared and educated in Iowa, being trained to farm work, and in 1873, with his wife and family, came to Nebraska, driving across the country with cattle and horses. He purchased land in Saline county, where he has since continuously resided, being now about seventy-nine years of age. On the 23d of November, 1916, he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding. He has been very successful in business and has long been prominent in social and civic matters in Saline county. He married Anna Sacora, also a native of Bohemia, who came to the United States when a maiden of ten summers with her parents, who took up their abode in Iowa, where she met and married Mr. Chaloupka. To them were born thirteen children, nine of whom are yet living.
Dr. Chaloupka completed his public school training by a course in the high school at Wilber, Nebraska, after which he entered the Highland Park College of Pharmacy and was graduated therefrom in 1900 with the Ph. G. degree. This constituted an intermediate step toward his present professional connection. His understanding of drugs and their properties awakened his interest in the practice of medicine and he entered the Creighton Medical College at Omaha, from which he was graduated in 1905, winning the M. D. degree. His early life to the
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age of sixteen years was spent upon the home farm and his time thereafter was devoted to study until he had qualified for the practice of medicine and surgery. In the year 1905-6 he was interne in St. Joseph's Hospital in Omaha and thus gained the broad practical experience which hospital service brings. He after- ward entered upon the general practice of medicine, in which he has since con- tinued, and he is now associated with his brother, Dr. Hugo R. Chaloupka. He has also become well known in educational circles as professor of gynecology in the Creighton College of Medicine. He belongs to the Douglas County, the Mis- souri Valley, the Nebraska State and the American Medical Associations and thus keeps in touch with the trend of modern thought, investigation and research concerning his profession.
At Des Moines, Iowa, May 27, 1909, Dr. Chaloupka was married to Miss Anna Krema, a native of South Omaha and a daughter of Fred Krcma, a merchant of that place for the past twenty years. Dr. and Mrs. Chaloupka have three children : Edward, born in Omaha, February 27, 1910; Grace, April 13, 1912 ; and Lucille, November 14, 1914.
Dr. Chaloupka was in active service as a private in the Spanish-American war, belonging to the Second Regiment of Nebraska Volunteers. He worked his way through college and thus early displayed the elemental strength of his character, which has enabled him to overcome obstacles and difficulties and steadily advance toward success and professional prominence.
HENRY DAVID NEELY.
Henry David Neely, who for many years has been manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York at Omaha, is a native of Platteville, Grant county, Wisconsin, and a son of Robert and Helen M. (Chase) Neely, the latter a daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Franklin Chase, while the former was a son of David Neely, a native of County Tipperary, Ireland. The Rev. Benjamin Franklin Chase was a Methodist minister and was a relative of Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the United States supreme court. Robert and Helen M. Neely became pioneer residents of southern Wisconsin, where they established their home in 1836, and they were strong adherents of the Presbyterian faith.
Henry David Neely completed his education with a full literary course in the State Normal School of Platteville, Wisconsin, from which he was graduated on the 23d of June, 1873. He then took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar at Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1876. However, he turned his attention to the insurance business and for many years has been manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at Omaha, thus becoming well known as one of the most prominent representatives of the insurance business in this city. Mr. Neely has become president of a company owning a large cattle and hog ranch near Here- ford, Texas, which is in charge of his son, Henry F. Neely, treasurer of the company.
On the 10th of September, 1881, in Winona, Minnesota, Mr. Neely was united in marriage to Miss Emma J. Johns, a daughter of Winthrop and Lydia Johns. They have two sons: Henry Fay, who wedded Nellie Herrod; and Robert Donald, who is a member of the law firm of Mclaughlin & Neely, of Omaha, and who married Miss Ann Dennis.
Mr. and Mrs. Neely are members of the Lowe Avenue Presbyterian church. His political support is given the republican party and fraternally he is a prom- inent Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, while with the Mystic Shrine he is also identified. He is well known in club circles as a member of the Happy Hollow, Omaha Athletic, University and Commercial Clubs, and something of the breadth of his interests is indicated in the varied nature of these organizations. He is likewise identified with the Sons of the
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American Revolution and in matters of citizenship he has always displayed the same spirit of loyalty that caused his ancestors to fight for American independence in the Revolutionary war.
WILLIAM N. JAMIESON.
William N. Jamieson, attorney at law practicing at South Omaha, was born October 12, 1885, in Grand Island, Nebraska. His father, David F. Jamieson, a native of Scotland, came to America during the early '7os and located at Grand Island, becoming one of its first settlers. In the early days there he followed farming very successfully and he afterward left as a landmark many noted build- ings which he erected, including the Jamieson Hotel and others at Grand Island. His well spent life was crowned by a very gratifying success, enabling him to leave his family in comfortable circumstances when in 1892 at the age of fifty-one years he passed away. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Delia Dunphy, was a native of Ireland and came to America with her parents, who settled in Al- bany, New York. Later she joined her brother, Patrick Dunphy, at Grand Island. He was a prominent banker and an influential man of that city and it was there that she met and married Mr. Jamieson, whom she survives, making her home now in Omaha. She became the mother of eight children, of whom William N. is the fourth in order of birth.
In the public schools of Grand Island William N. Jamieson pursued his early education and in 1907 was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Marys College at St. Marys, Kansas, while in 1910 he won the LL. B. degree upon graduation from Creighton College of Omaha. 'He entered upon active practice at Papillion, Nebraska, and almost immediately was there elected county attorney of Sarpy county, which position he filled for one term. Early in 1913 he removed to South Omaha and entered into a partnership with Eugene D. O'Sullivan, who was then serving as deputy county attorney of Douglas county. The firm prac- tices under the name of Jamieson & O'Sullivan and has won a very extensive clientage, handling a large number of important criminal cases. In fact its practice is the largest of the kind in Douglas county. Mr. Jamieson is notable by reason of his keen logic and his conclusive arguments. He is very thorough in cross-exam- ination and seems to lose sight of no point that bears upon his case, at the same time giving due prominence to the important point upon which the decision of the case finally turns.
In Omaha on the 19th of June, 1911, Mr. Jamieson was married to Miss May Lovely, a native of Omaha and a daughter of Michael Lovely, an old settler of this city. In politics Mr. Jamieson is a democrat, active in support of the party. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Stags and his religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church. He possesses a studious trend of mind and attended school and college for twenty years in preparation for life's practical activities and duties. His advancement at the bar is based upon broad learning and added to this is the more essential factor of ability to accurately apply legal principles to the points in litigation.
R. E. SCHINDEL, M. D.
Dr. R. E. Schindel, physician and surgeon, practicing in South Omaha, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, January 24, 1870, a son of Jacob H. and Katherine (Emmert) Schindel, both of whom were natives of Hagerstown, where they were reared, educated and married and afterward made their home until called to their final rest. The father was engaged in farming just outside the city limits for a
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number of years but later lived retired for some time. He was born in 1836 and passed away in June, 1916, while his wife, who was born in 1846, died in 1902. In their family were five children : Dr. C. M. Schindel, who for twenty-two years was engaged in active practice as a prominent physician and surgeon of Omaha but is now deceased; Elsworth, a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota; Samuel F., a leading citizen and druggist of Hagerstown, Maryland; Mrs. Ida N. Fehl, a resi- dent of York, Pennsylvania ; and Dr. R. E. Schindel.
The last named was the fourth in order of birth. He acquired his carly educa- tion in the schools of his native city and after leaving the high school took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years in Washington County, Maryland. On the expiration of that period he decided to study medicine and entered the Baltimore Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1897. Following his graduation he entered the Baltimore General Hospital as house physician and continued in that capacity until 1899, when he came to Omaha and entered into partnership relations with his brother, Dr. C. M. Schindel, with whom he practiced for five years. He later became connected with the medical depart- ment of Creighton University as teacher of pathology for three years and after- ward as lecturer on gastroenterology. He resigned that position in 1914 and resumed the private practice of medicine and surgery. In the meantime he has taken several post graduate courses, first under Dr. John C. Hemmeter of the Maryland University, specializing on gastroenterology in 1902. In 1909 he at- tended the New York Post Graduate School and 1913 took his second post grad- uate course under Dr. Hemmeter. Through constant reading and also private research and investigation he has continuously broadened his knowledge and pro- moted his efficiency. He belongs to the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society, the Nebraska State Medical Society, the Missouri Valley Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
On the Ist of October, 1903, at Atlantic, Iowa, Dr. Schindel was united in marriage to Miss Alice Childs, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. June Childs, prominent and well known people of Atlantic.
Dr. Schindel holds membership in the Lutheran church while Mrs. Schindel is a Congregationalist. He gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He is a valued representative of several fraternal organizations, being now a thirty-second degree and a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine and a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He likewise has membership in the Seymour Lake Country Club, but all these interests are subservient to his professional duties and he is recognized as one who is conscientious in practice and most careful in the diagnosis of his cases, so that remedial agencies are administered with the utmost skill. Scientific investigation finds in him a worthy exponent, for he keeps in touch with the trend of modern thought.
COLONEL SOPHUS F. NEBLE.
Colonel Sophus F. Neble, one of the most prominent Danish-Americans in the west and a man well known in the public life of Nebraska, is president of the Den Danske Pioneer at Omaha. He was born at Stubbekjöbing, Denmark, Decem- ber 15, 1859, a son of Martin and Karen (Paulsen) Neble, who were also of Danish birth. They were reared, educated and married in their native land and the father there became a tailor. He went to the front as a soldier for the crown in the war of 1864 and was killed in action when but thirty-eight years of age. Prior to that engagement he had been decorated for bravery. His widow came to America in 1889 and lived with her son Sophus in Omaha until her demise, which occurred in 1911, when she was seventy-three years of age. In their family
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were three children : Sophus F .; John, now in Colorado; and Hans, who is busi- ness manager of the Den Danske Pioneer.
In his youthful days Sophus F. Neble attended the public schools of Den- mark and after laying aside his text books decided to learn the printer's trade. He learned typesetting and other branches of the work in Stubbekjöbing, com- pleting his full term of apprenticeship there, and then went to Copenhagen, where he added to his knowledge of the business as an employe in the government printing office. He decided to master the dairy business, at which he worked for a time in Denmark. He then came to America, thinking to follow dairying in Wisconsin, where in 1883 he secured a position on a farm, but remained in that state only until the fall of that year, when he came to Omaha and secured a position as typesetter on the Den Danske Pioneer, a Danish newspaper, pub- lished in Omaha. Three months later he was made foreman, in two years became assistant editor and later chief editor. In 1887 he purchased the paper, of which he has since been the publisher. This is one of the foremost Danish papers of the country. It is housed in a modern two story brick building, erected especially for the purpose, on Twenty-fourth street, in Omaha. It is thoroughly equipped with the latest models of presses and linotype machines and has an able staff of expert newspaper men, well qualified for the conduct of the work in the various departments. When the paper was first acquired by Colonel Neble it had a circulation of eleven thousand and today there are forty-one thousand names on the subscription list and the paper is sent to all parts of the world, there being five thousand subscribers in Denmark alone, while copies are regularly mailed to China, Japan, South Africa and every part of the globe where Danish people reside.
On the 24th of April, 1884. Colonel Neble was united in marriage to Miss Christine Larsen, who was a native of Denmark and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lars Mortensen. Mrs. Neble died August 7, 1900, and is survived by only three of her fifteen children : Sophus F., Jr., who was born in Omaha in 1886 and was formerly assistant county attorney of Douglas county but is now state oil and food inspector of Nebraska; Eyvind, who was born in Omaha in 1889 and is manager of his father's large stock farm, known as the Neble Farm, near Spring- field, Nebraska ; and Frances, who was born in 1894 and is a graduate of Brownell Hall. The elder son, Sophus F., Jr., is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He is married and has one child, Dorothy. The younger son married Maria Fedderson, a daughter of Christ Fedderson, one of the pioneers of Ham- ilton county, Nebraska, and has a daughter, Vivian. Having lost his first wife, Colonel Neble wedded Miss Olivia Hansen, of Chicago, on the 6th of December, 1901. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen.
Colonel Neble is prominent in various Danish societies and organizations and he also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while he is a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second degree and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He has been called upon to fill vari- ous offices of public honor and trust. He gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and at the last three elections has been chosen presidential elector. In 1916 he received for this office one hundred and fifty-seven thou- sand, six hundred and eighty votes. Four times he has served on the governor's staff, thus earning the title of colonel, and that position he is now filling. He is also a member of the public welfare board and there is no feature of public life in city or state in which he is not interested and there is no movement for the general good to which he does not give generous and substantial support. Colonel Neble has interests aside from his extensive publication. His farm near Springfield, Nebraska, comprises three hundred and forty acres and is one of the best if not the model farm in Nebraska. Here he has expended a large sun of money in improvements for both agricultural and beautifying results. Here he maintains a summer residence and finds one form of recreation. His fondness for outdoor life is otherwise gratified in hunting and fishing. He has hunted
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extensively through the south and southwest. Colonel Neble has traveled a great deal, having visited all the principal cities and sections of the country. He has made numerous trips abroad. On one of these trips a few years ago he motored over a great portion of Denmark, visiting sections where his automobile was the first one to be seen by the residents. Colonel Neble delivered the address on Danish Day at the Panama Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915, on which occasion he spoke to an audience of more than eleven thousand. Not only is he a well known and influential newspaper man of Omaha but is a popular citizen in every respect, a most courteous and genial gentleman and one with whom asso- ciation means expansion and elevation. He came to America a poor boy without friends in this country and that as the architect of his own fortunes he has builded wisely and well is shown by his present position of influence and promi- nienice and the high regard entertained for him by all who who know aught of his character.
ARCHIE E. HOUGHTON.
Archie E. Houghton, one of the best known automobile men in the west, is . territorial representative in charge of sales for Dodge Brothers, Detroit, Mich- igan, with headquarters at Omaha.
Mr. Houghton was born in Putney, Vermont, in 1874, and comes of New England stock, his father, George A. Houghton, being a native of Marlboro, Ver- mont. His ancestors, John and Ralph Houghton, came to the United States from England in 1636. These brothers settled in Massachusetts and since that day representatives of this family have lived in New England.
Spending his youthful days in the many manufacturing towns of New England, where his father was engaged in cotton and woolen manufactories, Mr. Houghton migrated west soon after his high school days and settled in Wisconsin, interesting himself with his father in the lumber business. After the crash in 1892, he removed to Colorado and engaged in mining, meeting with the usual fate of the inexperienced miner.
In April, 1895, he entered the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company, in the motive power department, later turning his attention to the ice business in Salida, Colorado, where he remained for another two and a half years.
In November, 1907, he went to Denver, Colorado, where he engaged in the real estate business with the motor car business as a side line. In 1909 Mr. Houghton dropped the real estate business and organized the Western Motor Car Company for the sale of automobiles, becoming its secretary-treasurer. To that business he devoted his entire time and attention until June 1. 1914. He then entered the employ of Dodge Brothers, Detroit, placing agencies for their new car just out at that time, and acting as their local representative in Denver until November 1. 1915. In July, 1915, his duties were extended and took in the Omaha branch. handling both the Denver and Omaha interests for Dodge Brothers up to November 1, 1915. At that time his former assistant in Denver relieved him of the Denver territory and he has had exclusive charge of the Omaha branch, which includes all of Nebraska, the west two-thirds of Iowa, the south half of South Dakota and a few adjoining counties in Minnesota, Kansas and Wyoming.
Mr. Houghton was married to Miss Clara King Fifield, of Michigan, on the 2Ist day of January, 1909, and they have a son, Archie E., Jr.
Mr. Houghton gives his political allegiance to the republican party, while fraternally he is indentified with the Elks, the Red Men and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He is a prominent member of the Happy Hollow Club and in religious faith is an Episcopalian. He is making steady progress in his chosen
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line of business, building up a trade through his territory that is most gratifying. He has thoroughly organized the business and his systematic management and control are bringing most satisfactory results.
JOHN B. WATKINS.
John B. Watkins is one of the best known and most prominent business men of South Omaha, where he has figured as a leading factor in the upbuilding of the community for many years, doing much to further public progress and improve- ment along substantial lines. Illinois claims him as a native son, his birth having occurred in Aurora on the 8th of August, 1861, his parents being John B. and Louisa (Willis) Watkins. His father was born in New York, while his mother is a native of Wisconsin. In young manhood the former emigrated westward to the Badger state, where he formed the acquaintance of Miss Willis, whom he wooed and won, their marriage being celebrated at Winona. They afterward removed to Aurora, Illinois, and there Mr. Watkins entered the employ of the Burlington Railroad as an operator. Subsequently he removed to Clinton, Iowa, where he became superintendent for the Northwestern Railroad Company, which he represented in an official capacity until he met an accidental death in a railroad wreck on the Northwestern in 1873, when he was forty-three years of age, the accident occurring at Cedar Rapids, lowa. His widow still resides at Clinton, Iowa, and is now eighty years of age. In their family were five children : James F., a resident of Chicago; John B .; Charles B., living in Cloquet, Minnesota ; Willis W., whose home is in Menomonie, Wisconsin ; and a daughter who died in 1912.
In his youthful days John B. Watkins was a pupil in the public and high schools of Clinton, Iowa, and in 1880 he became connected with the lumber industry in the camps of Wisconsin, where he was employed until 1887. He then secured a position as traveling salesman with a lumber concern, covering the state of Nebraska in that way from 1887 until 1889. On the Ist of January of the latter year he established the firm of J. B. Watkins & Company at South Omaha, with George A. Hoagland as a partner, and of this business he has since been the resident manager. Steadily the trade of the firm has grown and gradually the scope of the business has been extended to include the sale of all building materials, including cement, stone and roofing, while coal has been added as a side line. The firm has excellent railroad facilities and in its business methods has kept in close touch with the progress and growth of the city until the trade of J. B. Watkins & Company is today the largest in that line in South Omaha. Mr. Watkins has also become a director of the Brown Park Mineral Springs Company. He is a man of sound and discriminating business judgment and his energy and close application have brought about a substantial measure of success. His plans are carefully formulated and promptly executed and while contributing to individual success he has also advanced the public welfare along the line of commercial expansion. Mr. Hoagland still remains his partner in the undertaking, their relation having long existed most harmoniously.
On the 19th of October, 1892, Mr. Watkins was united in marriage to Miss Maude Hayward, of South Omaha, a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Hay- ward, well known and prominent pioneer people of Nebraska. The mother is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins have become parents of five children. Louise, born in South Omaha in 1898, is now attending St. Katherine's School at Daven- port, Iowa. Helen, born in 1903, John Burton in 1906, Irving in 1908, and Charles 111 1910, are all attending the schools of South Omaha.
The parents are communicants of the Episcopal church and Mr. Watkins is well known in various lodges. He holds membership with the York Rite Masons, being a chapter and commandery Mason, and he is a life member of the Ancient
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