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In 1869 Mr. Shattuck was united in marriage to Miss Thankful Sanders, a native of Jefferson county, New York, and a former schoolmate. Her parents, Aaron and Julia (French) Sanders, were both born in the Empire state but there was ten years' difference in their ages. The father owned and successfully operated a large dairy farm in Jefferson county, New York. He gave his political alle- giance to the democracy but never sought nor desired office, being a quiet, unassuming citizen. His wife passed away on the 29th of March, 1870, when fifty years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Shattuck have two living children. Thomas A., who is married and has three chil- dren, is proprietor of the Queen City Stock Farm, the finest farm in Adams county, and makes a specialty of raising Poland China hogs. Perley is married and resides in California.
Mr. Shattuck greatly enjoys fishing and, having now retired from business cares, has ample opportunity to indulge his love of the sport. In politics he is a stalwart republican and has been active in politics, doing all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of the party. He was the first supervisor from Verona town-
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ship and occupied that position for three terms. He is an earnest Christian man but does not bind himself to creed or by denomina- tional lines. For several years he served as superintendent of the Sunday school before the church became a denominational organ- ization, and at all times he has endeavored to make his life an exem- plification of the golden rule, doing unto others as he would have them do unto him. His wife has been a most true and loyal help- mate to him and that her good qualities are appreciated is indicated in the fact that she has won many friends throughout the county. The career of Mr. Shattuck has been fraught with good deeds and his sterling qualities have won for him the highest regard of those among whom he has lived.
L. J. SIEKMANN.
L. J. Siekmann, who is managing the Siekmann estate, was born in Wisconsin. He is the son of Henry and Katherine Siekmann and came to Adams county with his parents in the fall of 1878.
The father, who is a minister, was the founder of the First Ger- man Lutheran Evangelical church at Hastings, and is still active in the work of the Lutheran church throughout this part of the state. He also organized churches near Glenville, South Hastings and Grand Island. His work was productive of much good. He has thoroughly identified his interests with those of his adopted state and has invested from time to time in fertile land of the county and is now a large owner of same, and also is connected with many other enterprises in the county. His wife passed away in August, 1902.
L. J. Siekmann entered the Hastings high school after complet- ing the work of the grammar school and still later graduated from Gem City Business College of Quincy, Illinois. On beginning his in- dependent career he engaged in the flour and feed business but later accepted a position with the German National Bank. He remained with that institution for twenty-two years or until he left to take charge of the Siekmann estate. He is one of the directors and is serv- ing as second vice president of that institution at present. He is connected with a number of local business enterprises, being inter- ested in the Hastings Canning Company and having held the office of treasurer of the Farm Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company since the organization of that company.
On the 26th of September, 1894, occurred the marriage of Mr.
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Siekmann and Miss Emilie Orth, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Orth, of Peru, Illinois.
Mr. Siekmann is a firm advocate of republican principles and stanchly supports that party at the polls. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church and fraternally he is connected with the Royal Highlanders, which he aided in founding and on whose board he is now serving. He is a member of the Country Club and is very fond of outdoor life. He has resided in Adams county since boy- hood, understands conditions here thoroughly and believes that the opportunities afforded energetic and prudent men are the equal of those found in any other section of the country.
HENRY SHICK.
Henry Shick, a well-to-do retired farmer residing in Kenesaw, was born on a farm in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of March, 1840, a son of John and Charlotte (Gruver) Shick, who were also natives of that county. The father served in the Union army for nine months and three of his sons also fought in defense of the Union. He passed away in Pennsylvania, and his widow subsequently removed to Topeka, Kansas, where her demise occurred.
Henry Shick received but a limited education, as it was necessary for him to provide for his own support when but a boy. For some time he worked by the month but in October, 1862, he enlisted in the Union army, becoming a member of Company D, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He took part in the siege of Suffolk, Virginia, and in the battle of Deep Creek, Virginia, and after that engagement his command was called to Gettys- burg, but on account of a railroad wreck did not get there in time to take part in the battle. He was discharged in July, 1863, but in February of the following year reenlisted, joining Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. His command was in garrison at Fortress Monroe for some time and at the close of the war was honorably discharged.
Mr. Shick returned home and for three years aided in the opera- tion of the home farm, but at the end of that time secured a position on a star mail route, which he held for four years. In 1879 he removed to Hall county, Nebraska, and for fourteen years farmed the eighty- acre tract which he entered from the government. He met with gratifying success as an agriculturist and as he managed his affairs
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well his capital increased from year to year, and after leaving the farm he removed to Kenesaw, where he is now living in honorable retirement.
On the 27th of February, 1868, Mr. Shick was united in marriage to Miss Martha Hall, by whom he has five children: Mary E., the wife of B. K. Foulk, of Ericson, Nebraska; Alice, at home; Charlotte M., who has taught for twenty-one years and for thirteen years has been a teacher in the Grand Island schools; Etta L., the wife of H. Wilcox, of Council Bluffs; and Sidney J., who is assistant superin- tendent at the Crow Creek Indian agency in Montana.
Mr. Shick supports the republican party at the polls but has never desired office as a reward for his fealty. However, he has served as school director and while living in Hall county held the office of con- stable. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and greatly enjoys associating with his comrades in blue. His religious faith is that of the Baptist church. He has always discharged all obligations resting upon him, and his sterling worth has gained him a high place in the esteem of his fellowmen.
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GEORGE B. TYLER.
George B. Tyler is well known in business circles of Hastings and Adams county. A native of Ohio, he was born in Medina county and his parents were Solomon and Eliza (Tuller) Tyler. He attended the public schools until fifteen years of age, when his ardent patriotism prompted him to enlist in the Union army and he became a member of Company B, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He re- mained with that command until mustered out in 1865 at Sioux City and his military record was highly creditable to his gallantry and loyalty. In 1866 he went to Colorado, crossing the plains to Pike's Peak, which was then the goal of many fortune seekers. He con- tinued his way westward to Idaho and prospected in that state and in Montana and Nevada until 1875, when he returned as far east as Iowa. After remaining in that state for some time he went to Colo- rado and lived there until 1884, when he took up his residence in Hastings. He has varied business interests here and it was largely through his initiative that the Clarke Hotel was erected.
Mr. Tyler was married in 1879 to Miss Margaret Pattie, a daughter of Mary Pattie, of Chicago, but in 1904 was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who was buried in Hastings. He is an
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adherent of the republican party where national issues are at stake but at local elections votes for the best man. Fraternally he belongs to Hastings Lodge, No. 159, B. P. O. E., which he was instrumental in organizing. During his early manhood he resided in various parts of the west and gained a wide experience and a spirit of tolerance which make him an unusually agreeable companion. He has made and retained the friendship of many and is also recognized as one of the most successful men of this section of the state.
HANS HANSEN.
Business enterprise in Hastings finds a worthy representative in Hans Hansen, owner of a lumberyard in that city. His activities have ever been carefully directed and his course has measured up to high standards of business enterprise and integrity. He was born in Denmark on the 11th of September, 1863, and is a son of Chris and Sina Hansen. The family came to the United States in 1881 and settlement was made upon a farm near Hampton in Hamilton county, Nebraska, where the father, with characteristic energy, began to develop and cultivate the fields. He continued the work of further improving his farm up to the time of his death, which occurred in March, 1913. For thirteen years he had survived his wife, who died in May, 1900. They were worthy pioneer people of the district in which they lived and their efforts constituted an element in public progress and improvement there.
Hans Hansen was educated in Denmark, attending school, how- ever, to only a limited extent and learning many of life's lessons in the school of experience. When still quite young he went to work as a farm hand and was thus employed for two years. He after- ward engaged in hauling coal and lumber for six years. He was a youth of eighteen when the family crossed the Atlantic and for a year he resided upon a homestead claim in Colorado, living in a dug- out. Later he embarked in business on his own account at Minden, Nebraska, where he opened a lumberyard which he successfully con- ducted for eleven years. On the expiration of that period he removed to St. Paul, Nebraska, where he remained for nine months, and in 1900 he came to Hastings, where he established a lumber business. Here he still carries on the lumber trade but his operations here by no means cover the extent of his activities in that field. He has formed a partnership with several men and they are numbered
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among the prominent lumbermen of this part of the state, having about fourteen lumberyards in this section of the country, together with five in Canada. Their operations are therefore extensive, the business having assumed profitable proportions. Mr. Hansen is also engaged in selling farm lands and is recognized as a business man of keen sagacity, promptly and wisely utilizing the opportunities that have been presented. His ramifying business interests now cover a wide territory and the extent of his activities has made him one of the foremost factors in the lumber trade of the west. The lumber- yards owned by the firm at various points are operated under differ- ent names and Mr. Hansen spends much of his time in traveling from one yard to another, overseeing the business and directing its policy. He bends his efforts to administrative direction and execu- tive control and splendid results accrue.
In November, 1887, Mr. Hansen was united in marriage to Miss Tillie Johnson, a daughter of John Johnson, and to them have been born four children, Mabel, Perley, Dorothy and Duff. The religious faith of the family is that of the Congregational church, to which the parents belong. Mr. Hansen, however, is connected with no secret societies. In politics he is a prohibitionist and takes an active part in the temperance movement. He is fond of travel and has spent considerable time in Europe and has also visited from coast to coast in America. His efforts to uplift man have been far-reaching and beneficial, for he cooperates in many movements which have direct bearing upon the lives of the individual and on the community. His course, too, proves that success and an honored name may be won simultaneously, for in the legitimate lines of trade he has won advancement, his course ever conforming to the highest standards of commercial ethics.
H. M. CARPENTER.
H. M. Carpenter is associated with the firm of J. H. Haney & Company, in which connection he is well known in the business cir- cles of Hastings. Although he has now passed the seventy- sixth milestone on life's journey, he yet remains active in business. His birth occurred in Worcester county, Massachusetts, on the 8th of December, 1839, his parents being Jason and Mercy (Merett) Carpenter. The father was a cotton manufacturer who after follow- ing that line of business in the east for a number of years removed
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westward with his family to Iowa and there passed away. His wife is also deceased.
H. M. Carpenter was the youngest in a family of six children and in the public schools of his native state pursued his education, passing through consecutive grades to the high school. He afterward learned the saddler's trade and has continued in that line of busi- ness through sixty years, starting out at the age of sixteen. All busi- ness and personal considerations, however, were put aside at the time of the Civil war, when in response to the country's call for troops he offered his services to the government, enlisting on the 4th of August, 1861, as a member of Company B, Fifteenth Massachusetts Infan- try, with which he was connected for three years. He participated in the principal engagements of the Army of the Potomac and was wounded at Ball's Bluff and also at Gettysburg. After six months spent in the hospital he was transferred to the invalid corps as a mem- ber of Company C, Twenty-second Regiment, and was mustered out at Washington, D. C., on the 4th of August, 1864, after three years' continuous connection with the army. He had come to know every feature of military life-the long hard marches, the strenuous cam- paigns, the hotly contested battles and the weary waiting in winter quarters, but he never faltered in the performance of his duties and with a most creditable military record returned to his honie.
Mr. Carpenter afterward worked at his trade in Massachusetts until 1880, when he came to the west, making his way to Marengo, Iowa, where he lived for three years. On the expiration of that period he came to Hastings and entered the employ of Marks Broth- ers, dealers in saddlery, with whom he continued until the Haney establishment was opened, since which time he has been associated with J. H. Haney & Company. He is an expert workman, having kept in close touch with the advance made in the trade and its meth- ods through all the years in which he has been active as a harness and saddlery manufacturer.
In September, 1864, Mr. Carpenter was united in marriage to Miss Sophronia A. Fuller, who was a daughter of Charles and Merril Fuller, of Massachusetts, and who died in January, 1906. To this union were born four children, namely: Nina E., who has been prin- cipal of the first ward school at Hastings for twenty-seven years; William H., living on a ranch at Aberdeen, Idaho; Janett L., who is a graduate of Hastings College and a professor in that institution; and Allen F., professor in the University of Washington at Seattle. There are also two grandchildren.
Mr. Carpenter holds membership in the Presbyterian church, to
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which Mrs. Carpenter also belonged and in whose work she was quite active. In politics Mr. Carpenter is a republican and fraternally he is connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Mystic Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of his city. There are few men of his years who remain so active in business and few who maintain such close connection with the trend of the times, but in spirit and interests he seems yet in his prime. Old age does not necessarily suggest idleness nor want of occupation. There is an old age which grows richer and stronger mentally and morally as the years go on and gives out of the rich stores of its wisdom and experience for the benefit of others, and such has been the record of Mr. Carpenter.
GEORGE W. TIBBETS.
George W. Tibbets, of Hastings, has gained a high standing in the legal profession, in which advancement depends solely upon ability and personal force. He was born in Belfast, New York, on the 25th of July, 1848, and his parents were James A. and Lucy A. (Raymond) Tibbets, both of whom were born in New York, the former on a farm in Seneca county. The grandfather of our subject, Lyman Tibbets, was born in Connecticut and served in the War of 1812.
George W. Tibbets received good educational opportunities in his youth, as after leaving the public schools he attended the Genesee Valley Seminary of Belfast, New York, in which he prepared for college. He subsequently matriculated in the Iowa State Univer- sity at Iowa City, where he remained for three years, taking an academic course. Later he taught school in Illinois during the fall and winter of 1873, after which he returned to New York and became principal of the schools of Angelica. He remained there a year, sub- sequently returned to Belfast and taught in a private school for a similar period and then went again to Angelica, accepting the posi- tion of superintendent of schools. He also resumed the reading of law, which he had begun when first connected with the Angelica schools. While serving as superintendent he was elected school com- missioner, which important office he held for three years. In 1879 hc was admitted to the bar at Rochester, New York, and engaged in practice at Belfast until he came west to Hastings, Nebraska, in 1886,
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since which time he has been a member of the local bar. In that year he formed a partnership with Charles F. Morey, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and they are still associated in the practice of law. They have admitted others to the firm, which is now known as Tibbets, Morey, Fuller & Tibbets and which holds a high position at the bar. Mr. Tibbets has always given every case the most thorough study and has never neglected the consideration of any point which might have a bearing upon the outcome of the trial. He is convincing in the presentation of his arguments and has won a large percentage of the cases in which he has appeared as counsel.
On the 2d of August, 1882, in Belfast, New York, occurred the marriage of Mr. Tibbets and Miss Mary A. Capron. They have a son, Raymond M., who was born in 1883, was graduated from the Nebraska State University in 1908 and was admitted to the bar in that year. He is now a member of the firm of Tibbets, Morey, Fuller & Tibbets. Mrs. Tibbets belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution, having ancestors who fought for independence from England.
Mr. Tibbets supports the democratic party at the polls and in 1908 and again 1910 was elected to the state senate from this district. In his first term he was honored by being elected president pro tem of that body and in his second term he was made chairman of one of the important committees-that on judiciary. He made an excellent record as a senator and it was recognized that in all that he did he was actuated by a desire to promote the public welfare. He is well known in local Masonic circles, belonging to the blue lodge, the York and Scottish Rite bodies and the Mystic Shrine, and he is also identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has a wide acquaintance and his genuine worth is indicated by the fact that those who have been longest associated with him are his stanchest friends.
JAMES A. ROSE.
James A. Rose, president and manager of the James A. Rose Manufacturing Company, is one of the most influential factors in the commercial development of Hastings and has built up a business of large proportions. In addition to his manufacturing interests he has given considerable attention to the plumbing and heating business and has had the contract for work along those lines in a number of important buildings of Hastings. A native of Ohio, he was born on
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the 24th of December, 1854, of the marriage of Peter and Lizzie (Watts) Rose. The father followed agricultural pursuits and in 1873 removed with his family to Nebraska and located on a home- stead nine miles southwest of Hastings. He continued to operate that place until a few years before his death, when he removed to Roseland, Nebraska, where he lived retired. His wife is also deceased. He was a man of strong patriotism and at the time of the Civil war enlisted in an Ohio regiment, with which he served for three years.
James A. Rose received his education in the public schools and after putting aside his textbooks concentrated his energies upon farming until he was twenty-five years of age, when he removed to Hastings. He was first connected with the windmill and plumbing business and later began taking contracts for installing heating plants in connection with his other lines and proved very successful in that field. He installed the heating and plumbing in the Carnegie library, the high school, the Exchange National Bank building, a number of business blocks and many of the best residences of the town. Since 1911 he has given much of his thought and energy to the development of the J. A. Rose Manufacturing Company, whose trade has shown a steady and rapid growth since its organization. The company man- ufactures the Rose frictionless tire pump, which is said to be the only tire pump on the market that will stand up under constant use, and it also makes the Rose automobile grease gun for individual automo- bile use, which is self-loading and is the same in principle of construc- tion as the Rose shop grease gun. The latter is of larger capacity and is especially adapted to the use of garages. Another specialty of the J. A. Rose Manufacturing Company is the Rose washer and gasket cutter, which is complete in itself, dispensing with the use of a brace, is very easily adjusted to size and cuts the washer without damaging the material. It has many other good points as it can be used to cut almost any kind of material, including asbestos and glass, has an automatic feed and is supplied with an attachment that makes the cutting of oval gaskets as simple as round washers. It is supplied in a number of sizes and is giving complete satisfaction, doing all that is claimed for it. The J. A. Rose Manufacturing Company now employs about ten men and expects soon to enlarge its plant, which is thoroughly modern in its equipment. Mr. Rose retained the own- ership of the home farm for a number of years but has now disposed of that place and is concentrating his energies upon the management of his other business interests.
Mr. Rose was married in 1879 to Miss Lizzie Martin, a daughter
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of Solomon Martin, who came with his family to Adams county in 1876. He is still living at the advanced age of ninety-four. Mr. and Mrs. Rose are the parents of eight children, namely: Ettie, Frank, Lura, Ralph, Guy, Ira, Myrtle and Earl.
In politics Mr. Rose is independent, voting for the man rather than the party. He served as a member of the city council for two years and was on the school board for six years, doing much in those capacities to promote the general welfare. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, whose work he furthers in every way possible, and fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is quick to recognize opportunity and prompt in carrying out his plans for the development of his business interests. His energy and sound judgment have been rewarded and he has gained financial independence and also aided in promoting the busi- ness growth of his town. He is much interested in everything that pertains to the progress of his community and is recognized as a public-spirited citizen.
BENEVILLE F. SCHLEGEL.
Beneville F. Schlegel, a well known resident of Kenesaw, was formerly engaged in farming in this county and later conducted a hardware and implement store in Kenesaw for nine years. His birth occurred on a farm in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, on the 3d of February, 1840, and his parents were Peter and Susanna (Bohne) Schlegel, who spent their entire lives in that county. He attended a subscription school for some time, but his educational ad- vantages were limited, as he was the oldest son and was obliged to devote much of his time to helping with the farm work. He remained at home until 1859 and for two years thereafter was employed as a hired hand.
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