Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska, Part 58

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Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman brothers
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ETER GLEE is one of the old settlers of Centerville Precinct, residing on section 32. Ile is the youngest child of a family of nine children born to his parents, the names of his brothers and sisters being John, Hans, Inea, Anna, Henry, Katie, Dedlif and Teleia. This family were all born in their parents' native coun- try of Prussia, Germany, and our subject was born on the Ist of Jannary, 1834. He was enabled to acquire a very good education in his native tongue, and the education thus gained has been of countless worth to him.

In the year 1864 our subject concluded that he would like to see the "America" of which so much had been said, and the name of which had long been ringing in his cars. It is not always pure

curiosity that prompts those worthy people of for- eign countries to visit this country, but it is oftener because she holds out inducements for the bettering of their condition, the truth of which they cannot help but believe and appreciate. Thus it is that so many industrious people have left their native homes to which they were then and still are very much at- tached, to seek in America that freedom, protection and encouragement which they did not before en- joy. Taking passage on an ocean steamer, our sub- ject left Hamburg, and after a voyage of seventeen days he landed in New York City, from which place he went to Clay County, Ill. There he resided for two years, and in the year 1866 he came to Lancas- ter County, where he settled on the land which con- stitutes his present farm.

In the year 1866 our subject was married to Eliza- beth Krull, and they became the parents of eleven children, six of whom are living. The children who have been spared to brighten their days are William, Charles, Peter, Otto, Addie and Agnes. Those who were taken from them were Oscar, Ilina and John, and two who died in infancy unnamed.

When Mr. Glee came to this county he took up a homestead of 160 acres, and by careful manage- ment and industry he has subsequently been able to purchase at different times, until now he is the owner of 520 acres of good, well-improved land. He came withont means other than a strong, vigor- ous body, a good education, and above all, a deter- mination and will to succeed, which are really worth much more to a young man starting out in life than any amount of mere dollars and cents. When par- ents can bestow upon their children a certain amount of wordly goods, it may enable them to se- cure for themselves a fortune without really great labor, but if they cannot do this, they can yet send them out into the world fully equipped to lead suc- cessful and honorable careers, if they have but en- dowed them with strong bodies, good, sound minds and educational advantages, and taught them that self-reliance will accomplish great things.

Our subject has been a worker all his life, and that, coupled with the fact that he is a good manager, has made him successful in what he has under- taken. Ile is a respected member of the German Lutheran Church, and in politics he votes with the

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Republican party. When the Lutheran Church was being built in Centerville Precinct, he served as a member of the building committee, and is other- wise interested in the promulgation of religious principles. He is in favor of all the institutions that will lead to the advancement of the people and the improvement of the country, and as far as he is able he gives them his support.

In connection with his regular farm work our subject has made a specialty of breeding fine stock and cattle, and he has a fine stallion of the Clydes- dale breed which is now fourteen months old, and promises to be a fine horse. By giving attention to the improvement of the grade of those domestic animals and very useful servants, a farmer not only secures better results from their work, but exempli- fies one of the truths of political economy which teaches that the best that can be done should be done for the general improvement of labor and the country.

It is to the live, active, industrious and go-ahead principles which characterize our subject, that this county is indebted for its rise from a state of un- cultivated, natural prairie land, dotted liere and there with log houses and perhaps a school or two, to a state of the highest improvement in the con- dition of the farms, and the many beautiful and commodious dwellings and school buildings for which this county is particularly noted. As one of the men who has done much for the advance- ment of his adopted country, Mr. Glee is entitled to the respect, admiration and remembrance of the people in his community.

ON. HIRAM D. HATHAWAY, business manager of the State Journal Company, at Lincoln, a gentleman of education and ability, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1835, and is the third son and child of Artemas D. and Rachel (Hampton) Hathaway. The Hamptons were early settlers of New England, whence they removed later to Pennsylvania. Arte- mas Hathaway was one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio, locating in Trumbull County about 1826. Iliram D. remained on the farm during his boyhood,

and acquired a district school education. Ilis father died when he was only seven years of age. When sixteen years of age he migrated to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he commenced the printer's trade, in the office of the Frontier Guard- ian, in 1852. This sheet was run off through an old-fashioned hand-press, and the first duty of young Hathaway was to act as roller-boy. Pining, how- ever, for a more active life, he the following year set out on the long and hazardous trip across the plains to California, and remained five years upon the Pacific Slope, engaged in mining, lumbering, cattle-raising and farming.

Our subject, in 1858, returned eastward as far as this State, which was then a Territory, stopping for a time at Wyoming, and resuming the printer's trade in the office of the Wyoming Telescope, of which, in due time, he became the business man- ager. From this point a year later Mr. Hathaway pitched his tent in Nebraska City, where he was employed as a "jour" on a paper called the Spirit of the West, and with which he continued until it col- lapsed. We next find him in the office of the Ne- braska City News, of which he assumed charge of the mechanical and business department, remaining with it until 1865.

In April of that year Mr. Hathaway established the Nebraska Herald, at Plattsmouth, which he con- ducted successfully for a period of seven years. Then withdrawing, he purchased a half-interest in the State Journal, at Lincoln, becoming the partner of Charles II. Gere. In December of the following year they added another member to the firm, and established a general printing, book-binding and stationery department, which from the start received an extensive patronage, and now gives employment in some seasons of the year to as many as 200 men. They carry a complete stock of job and printing material, besides fine stationery. They have added electrotyping, stereotyping and lithographing to their line of work, and have now one of the largest and cleanest establishments in the Northwest.

Mr. Hathaway, when twenty-five years of age, and while a resident of Nebraska City, was united in marriage with Miss Anna Lauer, the wedding tak- ing place at the home of the bride, Aug. 1, 1860, in Nebraska City. Mrs. II. was born in New York

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City, in March, 1838. Of this marriage there have been five children, three living and two deceased, in order of birth: Charles C. died at the age of twenty-one; Fred II. died at the age of twenty : Frank L. is connected with the stationery depart- ment of the State Journal; Lillie E., a student of the State University ; and Ralph H., attending the common school.

In politics Mr. H. is an uncompromising Repub- lican, and has done good service for his party in Nebraska. He was elected a member of the Lower House of the Legislature in 1867, and two years later was elected State Senator at the first session held at Lincoln. In whatever station he has been called to fill he has acquitted himself conscientiously and intelligently, thus earning the esteem and eon- fidence of the people at large. His comfortable and well-appointed home is located in the central part of the city, at the corner of Sixteenth and MI streets, among whose people his face and form have been familiar for many years, and who have learned to estimate him at his true worth.

ILLIAM J. FOWLIE has one of the finest located farms in Lancaster County, situated on section 18 in the beantiful precinct of Nemaha, and its carefully cultivated acres, under his skillful management, are made to yield to the ut- most the abundant harvests gleaned therefrom, fur- nishing evidence of the extreme richness and depth of the soil.

Our subject is the son of William and Jennie (Chalmers) Fowlie, natives of Scotland, the father born in Aberdeenshire. The latter was a young man when he came to this country, and the mother was but a girl of fourteen or fifteen years. Mr. Fowlie was a miller and millwright by trade, and after settling in Smith's Falls, Province of Ontario, Canada, he built and ran a mill. He was very prosperous until his premature death, while still a young man, the result of having contracted a se- vere cold when in the water repairing the water-

wheel. Ile was gifted with energy, enterprise and a sound mind, all of which attributes made him a desir- able citizen, whose death was a loss to the commu- nity in which he resided. The mother of our subject married a second time, John Scott becoming her husband, and they now reside in Ames, Story Co., Iowa. Mrs. Scott has no children by her second marriage. The four by her first union are : Gabriel C., William J., Margaret and Jennie.

William Fowlie was born Sept. 13, 1846, at Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. He was a boy of nine when his father died. When he was ten years old he met with a serious accident while at play. breaking his leg, and it being improperly set, he did not recover its use until he was twenty years of age. This, while being a great misfortune, and at the time a great disadvantage to him, depriving him of the pleasures of boyhood, darkening his youth, the pain unfitting him for study, may in a manner have helped to strengthen his mind and mold his character, making him more thoughtful and observant, and turning him to books for com- panionship when he was able to read. As soon as regaining his vigor, he took up the business of photography, and did very well at it, considering his inexperience and lack of capital.

Mr. Fowlie subsequently was offered a position as overseer or manager on a stock farm owned by a friend in Otoe County, near Nebraska City, this State, at which point he arrived in 1866. He took charge of the ranch for a year and a half, and then worked at carpentering for a year. IIe then took up the homestead where he now resides, ou section 18, and after settling on his land he commenced to team lumber from Nebraska City to defray the ex- pense of living and improving his land. The country round about was newly settled at that time, and there were no capitalists among the pio- neers, our subject having but three cents after he arrived in Nebraska City. Since the trials and privations of those early years he has been pros- pered, and may be numbered among the substan- tial citizens of Lancaster County. He owns eighty aeres of land, and operates 160 acres, having rented eighty aeres of his brother, who came to Nebraska in 1869, and pioneered with our subject on the ad- joining homestead. Ile has a thrifty orchard of

RESIDENCE OF W. J. FOWLIE, SEC. 18, NEMAHA PRECINCT.

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RESIDENCE OF ABRAHAM HERTER, SEC. 9.& 10. STOCKTON PRECIN CT.

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200 apple trees, thirty cherry trees, and a great number of plum trees.

Mr. Fowlie was married, Sept. 13, 1874, to Miss Viola, daughter of the Rev. Jerome and Melinda (Jorden) Blackman, of Illinois, in which State Mrs. F. was born Nov. 14, 1856. Her parents moved to Nebraska when she was young. Mr. Fowlie owes to her excellent management the pleasant and comfortable home that he enjoys with her and their children, four of whom complete the family circle, as follows: Ernest, Charles, Pearly and Blanche,

Mr. Fowlie is a well-informed man, with broad and liberal views concerning the practical questions that form the topics of the hour. lle does not stay to query whether life is worth living or no, but does what he can to make it so. Through his lib- erality and public-spiritedness this community has been benefited in more ways than one. Especially is this true concerning the excellent school advan- tages that the youth of the rising generation now enjoy in the district of which he is Director, as he has distinguished himself by his labors in bringing the school to its present high standard, procuring one of the best teachers to be had, and providing in every way for the convenience and advancement of the pupils. In his political views, Mr. Fowlic is a stalwart Republican, firmly advocating the policy of his party.

The view of the Fowlie homestead, which will be found on an adjoining page, sufficiently indicates the taste and industry of the proprietor.

BRAHAM HERTER. The subject of this sketch, who has a valuable farm finely lo- cated on section 10, is one of the most extensive agriculturists of Stockton Pre- cinct, and has contributed largely to its farming interests, being a man energetic, enterprising and industrious, and one who takes pride in his farm, his family, and the growth and development of his adopted country. In the view of his premises which appears in this connection, is illustrated par-

tially the results of his labors, which have been attended with prosperity.

A native of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. our subject was born Ang. 21, 1831, and for the first eleven years of his life lived among the beauti- ful scenes of his native country. Ilis parents were in moderate circumstances, and he was at an early age imbued with those habits of industry which have been the secret of his later success. When quite young he was employed in a dyeing estab- lishment, and in April, 1855, when a man grown, re- solved to seek his fortunes on another continent. Accordingly, embarking on a sailing-vessel at Havre de Grace, he arrived, after a safe voyage of seven weeks, in the city of New Orleans, whence he made his way directly to St. Clair County, Ill., taking in the city of St. Louis on his way. He was there- after variously employed, in the meantime saving what he could of his earnings, which he later invested in a farm in St. Clair County, Ill., which he oper- ated until the spring of 1876. Then, selling out, he came with his family to this county, and pur- chased 240 acres, eighty of which comprised a part of section 10, in Stockton Precinct, and the balance is on section 35, in Stevens Creek Precinct. Here he has since made his home, erecting a fine set of frame buildings, and bringing about the other im- provements which invariably arrest the attention of the passing traveler. His horses and cattle give ample evidence of the care extended them, and the shipments are chiefly made to Omaha and other cities. His land has yielded generously under care- ful and judicious cultivation the richest crops of this section of the State.

While a resident of St. Clair County, Ill., our subject was married, Dec. 1, 1861, in Mascoutah, to Miss Catherine Oberle, who was born in Ottenheim, the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, Jan. 21. 1835, and came to America alone in 1859, when twenty-four years old. Her parents were of pure German ancestry, and spent their last years in the Fatherland. Their household included eight chil- dren, four sons and four daughters. Two are in Germany, and the others in America. To Mr. and Mrs. Herter there have been born nine children, three only of whom are living, namely : Jacob W .; Katie C., the wife of Phillip Faulhaber, and Freder-

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ick C. The deceased were named respectively : Abraham, Catherina, Abraham (2d), Ida, Anna M. and Edward. Mr. Ierter on becoming a natural- ized American citizen cast his lot with the Demo- cratie party, and in religious matters the family is in sympathy with the doctrines taught by Zwingle, the bosom friend of Martin Luther.

G EORGE L. ANDERTON. The subject of this notice represents a man of excellent education, cultivated tastes and good busi- ness capacities, and who until the year 1887 fol- lowed mostly the profession of a teacher. He is now pleasantly located on a good farm of eighty acres, embracing the northwest quarter of section 15, Waverly Precinct, with good buildings and the machinery required for the prosecution of agricult- ure after modern methods. Ile also owns eighty acres on section 10.

The residence of our subject in this county dates from May, 1878. llis early home was on the other side of the Atlantic, in Lancashire, England, where his birth took place June 5. 1849. His parents, James and Hannah (Lemming) Anderton, were natives of the same shire, and George L. was but six months old when they emigrated from their native land and located on Staten Island, where they resided for a period of nine years, and the father pursued his trade of printing.

From Staten Island the Anderton family removed first to Rhode Island and next to Taunton, Mass., where the father, who had followed the trade of printer, found that block printing was superceding the old methods and his occupation was practically gone. He for a short time worked in a bleaching house. but finally resolved to take up farming in the West, and made his way to Manitowoc County, Wis., where he tilled the soil and resided until 1877. In the meantime the mother died there, about 1873. The father later returned to Massa- chusetts, but in a short time joined his son. our subject, in this county, and now makes his home with him.

The parental family included eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. Alice became the

wife of James Walker, and died in Waverly Pre- cinet about 1884; Diana, Mrs. Oswold Rogerson, lives in Massachusetts: Grace married George Chatterton, and is now a resident of Wisconsin; Mary A. is the wife of Henry Berry, of Connecticut; Jennie, Mrs. Calvin P. Green, lives in Connecticut, and John in Rhode Island,

The subject of this sketch attended school quite regularly until a youth of sixteen years, then com- menced his career as a teacher. The year following he went with the family to Wisconsin, where he supplemented his education by attendance at the Normal School in Oshkosh, and thereafter taught school and farmed alternately until coming to Ne- braska in 1878. For a period of nine years he oe- cupied himself as a grocer at Waverly, and in 1887 settled upon the farm where he now resides. He had purchased the land some time previously. He put up a fine two-story residence in the spring of 1888, which is one of the best structures of the kind in this part of the county. His land, with the ex- ception of sixty acres, is under a good state of cul- tivation, and everything about the premises is sug- gestive of comfort and plenty, the whole place presenting a most attractive picture of prosperous rural life.

The wife of our subject, to whom he was mar- ried Sept. 28, 1879, was in her girlhood Miss Norah, daughter of W. M. and Snare Reed, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume. They are now the parents of four interesting chil- dren, three sons and a daughter-Arthur, Edgar, Grace and Bennie. Mr. Anderton is a Republican, politically, and has served as Town Treasurer and School Director.

E DWARD LAUTERBACH is one of the ris- ing young men of Nebraska, the owner of a good farm of eighty acres on section 21, with a good house and every necessary and con- venient arrangement in the line of farm buildings, one who seems anxious to be. in the advance. He was born upon the 26th of May, 1862, to Adam and Frederica Lauterbach, at their home in Jefferson County, lowa. He came to this county with his

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parents in 1879, and has continued his residence here ever since. Upon his farm he is giving evi- dence of much intelligence and thorough knowledge of his chosen occupation, and it goes without say- ing that there is a future before him worthy of his enterprise.

At present our subject is filling the position of appraiser of the Olive Branch Aid Society. IIe also holds office in the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday-school, he being Superintendent of the same. He was united in marriage on the 26th of August, 1885, when he took as his wife Miss Louisa Elfeldt, daughter of Charles and Sophia El- feldt, who were among the first settlers of the pre- cinet. They are parents of one daughter, Cora, who was born Sept. 16, 1887.

DAM LAUTERBACH. The discussion concerning the naturalization laws, arising from their abuse, is always rife, and in some cases would seem to favor extreme meas- ures being devised, but whenever one meets a citizen who has so thoroughly caught the spirit of the country and Government as has our subject, one cannot but he glad for the opportunity which enables the country to derive the advantage of such intelligence and earnest manhood. Mr. Lauter- bach, whose home is on section 21, Buda Precinct, is worthy the name of representative as a man and citizen. He is a native of Germany, and was born on the 2d of April, 1838. He is the son of Henry and Catherine E. Lauterbach.

In June of 1857 our subject took passage at Bremen on a sailing-vessel, and after a most inter- esting voyage of six weeks landed at Baltimore. He came to Franklin County, Ohio, and for six months following worked as a farm hand, and then removed to Jefferson County, Iowa, working in the same capacity for about three years. At the close of that period he bought a farm of forty acres, and farmed that until he removed to Lancaster County in the spring of 1879. Here he purchased 160 acres in this precinct from the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company for 87 per acre. At the time he took the farm there were no improvements

made thereon, but fifty acres were broken; to-day it will stand favorable comparison with any of its neighbors, for by personal labor and perseverance he has brought it to a condition of development seldom surpassed. In lowa our subject worked hard every day from morning until night to obtain what is now his, and has made his own way entirely from the start.

The 3d of September, 1861, Mr. Lauterbach was united in marriage with Frederica Pfeiffer, whose parents were from Wurtemberg; she was born May 10, 1840, on the Atlantic Ocean, and their family circle included eight children, of whom five are liv- ing, whose names are here given: Edward; Julia, wife of William Miller; Eliza, wife of II. Oliver Hoffman; Mary, who is at home; Clara, wife of Christian Shafer. Three are deceased-Lydia, John H. and Martha E.

Our subject and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he has served the same in various official positions at different times. He is very active and earnest in Christian work, and as a leader of prayer and other meetings has few equals, and upon occasions he has filled the pulpit with much acceptance. He has upon two different occasions served upon the Grand Jury, and by his intelligent grasp of the situation has done good work. He is quite well educated in his native language, and by his acquirement of the English tongue is largely enabled to apply the same. Po- litically, his sympathies are with the Republican party, which claims him as one of its stanchest friends. In every department he is a success, whether upon the farm or other matters, and enjoys the entire confidence and esteem of his neighbors and fellow-citizens.

NDREW J. YOUNG, a prosperous farmer of South Pass, residing on section 28, may well be classed among the pioneers of Ne- braska, although not among the first settlers of the State, as he had to endure all the hardships and privations that befell the early comers, before he could bring the 160-acre tract of wild prairie land, that he took up under the provisions of the

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Ilomestead Act, into its present highly cultivated condition, where it ranks among the most fertile and productive farms in this locality.

Mr. Young is a son of Jackson and Louisa (Van) Young, natives of South Carolina, the father of a sturdy Scotch ancestry, and the mother of thrifty Dutch descent. When his father was a young man he went to Tennessee, and taking up a tract of uncul- tivated land in a newly settled part of Monroe County, led the life of a pioneer farmer there for many years. He is still a citizen of that county, living in the comforts supplied by his own hard-won earn- ings, and enjoying the respect of his fellowmen for the honesty and uprightness of a life that has now reached the seventieth milestone that marks man's journey from the cradle to the grave. His good wife, whose sterling qualities made her an object of esteem by all about her, passed away from the scenes of earth in 1883, at the age of sixty-six years. Eleven children were born of their union, eight boys and three girls.

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Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska, Part 58

Author: Publication date: 1888 Publisher: Chicago, Chapman brothers Number of Pages: 812

Author:
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman brothers
Number of Pages: 812