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He worked two years as an apprentice, and then followed the trade for two years.
In 1874, he immigrated to the United States and came to Columbus, Nebraska. Here be worked in the furniture business with his brother, Henry, until 1875 when he went to California, where he remained two years working at his trade in San Francisco, and also on a wine ranch, making casks and kegs.
In 1877, he returned to Columbus, and for two years operated a liquor business on Eleventh Street. From 1879-1882, he again worked with his brother Henry in the furniture business.
In 1882, he went to Switzerland on a visit. On his return to Columbus in 1883, he started a furniture store, which he operated for seven years. He disposed of his interests in 1890 and in 1892, again engaged in the retail liquor business in a building he owned on Twenty-sixth Avenue. He continued in that business until 1916, when he sold out and retired.
On October 12, 1883, Samuel Gass was married to Anna Hofer, the daughter of Henry and Barbara Hofer. Their wedding day was, also, the day of Mrs. Gass' arrival in Columbus from Switzerland. She was betrothed to Mr. Gass when he was in Switzerland the previous year. Her parents came to the United States in 1885, and both of them died in Columbus.
Samuel and Anna Hofer Gass had eleven children. Four died in infancy. The others are: Anna, Mrs. Charles Seifert; Elizabeth, Mrs. Heinrich Schmidt; Martha, Mrs. Frank Bullington; Christie was married to Emily Meays; Freida, Mrs. Lee Daniels; Walter, married to Elizabeth Riddell, lives in Seward, Nebraska; and Edward. Anna Hofer Gass died in Columbus on September 13, 1945. Elizabeth, Edward, and Christie are deceased.
Samuel Gass was a prominent member of the German Reform Church, now the Evangelical Protestant Church. He held the offices of both president and vice president of the congregation during his membership there.
Mr. Gass was a prominent member of the Sons of Herman and was active in the Swiss Verein Society, of which he was the president for ten years. He was a charter member of the Orpheus Society and a member of the Maennerchor Society.
Anna Gass Seifert attended the Columbus schools and the Fremont Normal. She was engaged as a stenographer in the State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska. Previous to moving to Lincoln she worked at the Platte County Court House.
On January 25, 1918, in Columbus, Anna Gass was married to Charles E. Seifert. Mr. and Mrs. Seifert had three children: Gretchen Ann, Samuel, and Emma Jo. Gretchen Ann is the wife of Lee Schmuck and has two children, Karen Lee and Robert Eugene. The Schmucks live in Portland, Oregon. Samuel Seifert was graduated from Engineering School of the University of Nebraska in January, 1947. Emma Jo is the wife of George "Bus" Knight. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have two children, Kathleen and George E. Charles E. Seifert is deceased.
Anna Gass Seifert owns an apartment house in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her hobby is needle work. Politically, Mrs. Seifert is affiliated with the Democratic Party. She is a member of the Westminster Church.
Martha Gass attended school in Columbus and was graduated from the Columbus High School.
On June 2, 1915, in Columbus, she was married to Frank P. Bullington, of Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Bullington had four children: Elizabeth Ann, born March 10, 1917, in Columbus, is the wife of Witt Nicholson, of Kansas City; Martha Maye, born July 26, 1919, in Kansas City, is the wife of Bruce Edge, of El Paso, Texas; Kathleen, born December 24, 1920, died April 26, 1939; and Jack Charles, born January 25, 1922, in Kansas City. They all attended the Troost and Southwest High Schools in Kansas City, Missouri. Jack Charles Bullington was a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Christie Gass, son of Samuel and Anna Hofer Gass, was born in Columbus, December 3, 1889. His parents were both natives of Basel-Land, Switzerland. His father, born in Anwiel on June 3, 1854, died June 21, 1928, in Lincoln, Nebraska. His mother, born in Sissach, on April 8, 1857, died September 13, 1945, in Columbus, Samuel Gass came to Platte County from Switzerland in 1874. Christie had two brothers and four sisters.
Christie Gass attended the Columbus High School and Business College. He first worked in the furniture store of his uncle, Henry Gass, Sr., and later was a clerk at the Keating and Schram Grocery Store.
During World War I, he served in the United States Armed Forces from June 25, 1917, to December 5, 1918. He started out as an enlisted man, at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, and later was commissioned a lieutenant, at Camp MacArthur, Texas.
After the war he returned to Columbus where he became salesman for the H. W. Abts Company, wholesale grocers. In the fall of 1919, he resigned to become a buyer for the Henry Ragatz Grocery Company, of which he was later a stockholder. He stayed in their employ for ten years. On August 1, 1929, he bought a half interest in the Gass Funeral Home and formed a partnership with Henry Gass, Jr. Until April, 1940, he was actively engaged as business manager of the firm.
On June 21, 1919, in Columbus, Christie Gass married Emily Marion Meays, daughter of Ernest J. and Nellie Lucinda Young Meays.
Christie and Emily Gass had two children: Doris Jean, born September 20, 1926, in Omaha; and Edward Christie, born May 9, 1930, in Omaha. Both attended the Columbus public schools. Jean attended Carleton College for two years, and then enrolled
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at the University of Nebraska where she majored in languages and journalism. She played the piccolo for five years in the Kramer High School Band, and was active on the high school paper. She is married to James Lonegran, and they live in California. Edward was active in Kramer High School football, basketball and track. He played the drums in the Kramer High School Band and in the Columbus City Band and in orchestra. He was graduated from Kramer High School and attended the University of Nebraska.
Christie Gass was a member of the Eagles, the Sons of Herman, the Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Library Board, the Izaak Walton League, and the Wayside Country Club. He was Commander of the American Legion in 1934 a member of the Columbus Fire Department, and a member of the Federated Church. He died April 25, 1940.
Mrs. Emily Gass is active in Federated Church work, and in the American Legion Auxiliary activities, where she held the offices of unit, county and district president, and chairman of the state committees. She was a bookkeeper at the Henry Ragatz Company for eleven years. From 1940-1948 she was treasurer of the Columbus Production Credit Association, bookkeeper-stenographer at the Consumers Credit Bureau, and was elected to the office of Platte County Registrar of Deeds in 1948.
Walter S. Gass, son of Samuel and Anna Hofer Gass, was born October 10, 1897, in Columbus, Nebraska. He attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1916. He then entered the University of Nebraska, where he was graduated in 1922, with a Bachelor of Science degree.
On June 24, 1924, in Columbia, he married Elizabeth Louise Riddell, daughter of F. A. Riddell. Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Gass have one son, Walter Frederick, and two daughters, Rosemary, Mrs. Thomas Green, of Lincoln, and Elizabeth, who attends the Seward High School.
During World War I, Walter S. Gass served in the United States Army for seven months, during which time, he was attached to the One Hundred Sixty-seventh Corps, United States Coast Guard.
From 1922 to 1923, he worked in the furniture department of Rudge and Guenzel, in Lincoln. From 1923 to 1930, he was with the Henry Gass & Company Furniture Store in Columbus. In the summer of 1928, he moved his family to Seward, Nebraska, where, on July 1, 1928, he bought the Albert B. Chain interest in the A. B. Chain Furniture and Undertaking Company. In the early 1940's, Mr. Gass disposed of this retail furniture store and went into the manufacturing business. In addition to manufacturing furniture, he opened a retail furniture store in Seward in 1948.
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the American Legion, and the Congregational Church, in Seward, and is affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Tau national fraternities.
Ira E. Gates, son of Isaac D. and Luna B. Gates, natives of New York, was born in Granville, New York, June 21, 1865, and died in Columbus, Nebraska, September 12, 1938. His family came to Nebraska in 1881, and settled in Colfax County. Ira came to Platte County that same year.
Ira Gates married Delilha Davis, who was born in Columbus on September 16, 1869. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gates established their home on Ira Gates' farm, on the Eighth Street Road.
Ira and Delilha Davis Gates had a family of five children, four sons and one daughter: Clarence; Henry and Helen Anne, twins; Charles, and Roy. Clarence, Clerk of the District Court in Platte County, married Claribel Newman; Helen is the wife of Jacob Friedli; Charles, who was married to Erna Schrieber, died August 17, 1942; Roy, married to Ruth Paxson, is an implement dealer at Hastings, Nebraska; Henry married Theresa Jahn, and lives at the home place, on the Eighth Street Road.
Mrs. Ira E. Gates lives in Columbus.
Clarence Eugene Gates, son of Ira E.. and Delilha Davis Gates, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, January 13, 1896. His father, a farmer in Columbus Township, was born in Granville, New York, June 21, 1865, came to Platte County from there in the spring of 1881, and died in Columbus, September 12, 1938. Mrs. Gates was born in Columbus, September 16, 1869. Her family were among the pioneer settlers here.
Clarence has two brothers and one sister.
He attended the county rural schools, the Columbus schools, and the Nebraska School of Business, at Lincoln. Prior to being elected Clerk of the District Court, he was engaged in farming, in Oconee Township. From 1928 until 1933, he was an executive with the Hastings Warehouse and Storage Company, at Hastings, Nebraska.
On June 1, 1917, in Columbus, Mr. Gates married Claribel Newman, daughter of Edward and Ella I. Newman. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have six children: Helen, Mrs. Leonard Weber; Dorothy, Mrs. Lloyd Freese of Chicago; Ira, a veteran of World War II, is married to Jean Hill McCarthy; Marjorie, Mrs. Dale Michael; Clarence, Jr.; and Claribel.
Mr. Gates, who is affiliated with the Republican Party, has been Clerk of the District Court since 1939. During World War II, he served as chairman of Home Service, Platte County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Mr. Gates is a member of the B.P.O.E., the F.O.E., and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Mr. and Mrs. Gates attend the Federated Church.
Henry Gates, prominent Columbus Township farmer and stock raiser, son of Ira E. and Delilha Davis Gates. was born February 22, 1898. He had three brothers and
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one sister: Clarence; Charles, deceased; Roy; and Helen, Mrs. Jacob Friedli.
Henry attended school in District 9 and the Lincoln Business College, at Lincoln, Nebraska. He was then associated with his father in farming and stock raising, at the Gates Farm, on the Eighth Street Road. After his father retired from active farm work, Henry assumed the management of the farm.
On December 22, 1924, in Columbus, Henry M. Gates married Helen Theresa Jahn, daughter of Alois and Anna Thanel Jahn. Mrs. Gates had four sisters and two brothers.
Henry and Theresa Gates have six children: Virginia Ann, born February 15, 1926, entered St. Joseph Convent at Denver, Colorado, August 12, 1944, where her religious name is Venerable Sister Mary Alice; Henry Clayton, born August 17, 1927; Edgar Charles, born April 18, 1929; Laura Mae, born March 24, 1931; Eugene Roy, born April 18, 1933; and Clinton Arthur, born July 27, 1936. All are members of St. Bonaventure's Church. They attended school in District 9, St. Bonaventure High School and Kramer High School.
William Herman Gaver, son of H. and Minnie Monks Gaver, natives of Germany, was born January 8, 1879, in Columbus, Nebraska. His mother died August 17, 1937, in Columbus. William has three brothers: Paul, a building contractor, deceased, married Anna Ewert; Gus, a barber, married Mary Kosal; and Louis is a butcher. One sister, Emma, married Fred Oeltjen.
William Herman Gaver spent his childhood in Columbus and attended the Columbus grade schools.
On February 25, 1902, in Columbus, he married Emma Ewert, daughter of Carl, Sr. and Caroline Ewert, natives of Germany. Mr. Ewert, a farmer and janitor, was born July 31, 1850, and died November 15, 1918, in Columbus. Mrs. Ewert, born November 17, 1855, died in Columbus, September 19, 1930. Emma had six brothers and six sisters: Augusta, Alvina, Carl, Otto, August, Edward, Ernest, Paul, Lena, Anna, and two girls died in infancy. Augusta, Alvina, Carl, Edward, and Lena are deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. William Herman Gaver have six children: Pauline is employed in Columbus; Julius is a carpenter in California; James is employed at Swift & Company; Louella; Lucy; and Josephine. The Gaver children attended the Columbus grade schools and Columbus High School. They are interested in sports, gardening, and flowers.
Mr. Gaver has been engaged as a farmer, trucker, and a foreman at the local Swift & Company plant. He experienced the Blizzard of 1888, and recalls that he, his brothers and sisters, were in school when the storm hit Columbus. They were going to the First Ward School, at that time. His mother came to call for them with a horse and buggy, but if it hadn't been for the horse, they would have turned the wrong way enroute home as both mother and children became snow blind.
Mr. Gaver belongs to the Trinity Lutheran Church, and the Brotherhood of that church. Politically, he is a Republican.
Francis Howard Geer was born in Rock Creek, Ohio, July 29, 1878, and came to Columbus with his parents from Chicago, in August, 1893. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Heman Geer. Doctor Geer was born in Conneautville, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1848, and Alice Melissa Howard Geer was born in Rock Creek, Ohio, on March 10, 1852.
Doctor Geer, the son of a minister, was a practicing physician in Columbus for several years. His office was located in the Evans Medical Building, 1356 Twenty-seventh Avenue, now the location of the Modern Cleaners. He was associated there with Doctors C. D. Evans Sr., D. T. Martyn Sr., and H. F. Hansen. Doctor Geer holds the distinction of being the first owner of an automobile in Columbus before the turn of the century. Doctor and Mrs. F. H. Geer left Columbus in the early 1900's. Doctor Geer died in Claremont, California, in July, 1933, and Mrs. Geer died there in September, 1909.
Howard Geer lived in Rock Creek, Ohio, Humphrey, Leigh, and Columbus, Nebraska, and Chicago, Illinois. He was graduated from the Columbus High School and the University of Nebraska, where he received his degree in electrical engineering. He is now in the heating and air-conditioning business in Chicago.
Howard Geer was married in Columbus, on June 6, 1905, to Gertrude Whitmoyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Whitmoyer. Mrs. Geer is the twin sister of Mrs. W. S. Evans, of Columbus, and is co-owner with her of the Whitmoyer Apartments.
The Geers are members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Geer is a member of the Masons,; and also belongs to a craftsman club in Chicago. Politically, he is a Republican.
Howard and Gertrude Whitmoyer Geer have two sons, Francis W. and James Marshall.
Francis W. Geer was
born May 10, 1906, in Los Angeles, California. He was graduated from the Columbus
High School in 1924, and from Doane College, at Crete, in 1928. He was active
in track at Doane, and holds the record there for high jump. After finishing
college, he entered the employ of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in
Chicago. He married Gwendolyn White in August 1932, at Fullerton, Nebraska.
Francis W. and Gwendolyn White Geer have two sons, Robert and James Geer.
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James Marshall Geer, known to his friends here as "Mickey," was born January 30, 1908, in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from the Columbus High School in 1925. He attended Doane College, at Crete, Nebraska, for two years, and was graduated from the School of Commerce at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, in 1931. He spent a year on a freighter going to India and back, and on the Pacific Coast. Later, he worked for the Federal Housing Administration, in Washington, D.C., for four years. He then entered Harvard University, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard School of Business Administration in 1939. He is now in charge of personnel in the factory department of the Sears Roebuck Company, in Chicago.
James Marshall Geer married Helen Nagelschmidt, in November, 1939, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. They have two children, Nicholas and Gretchen Geer.
Carl Henry Gehring, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gehring, was born November 13, 1905, in Grand Prairie Township. His father, a farmer, born February 14, 1876, in Hollowville, Illinois, came to Platte County from Illinois, and settled in Grand Prairie Township in 1888. He died November 26, 1933. His mother, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Schelp, of Grand Prairie Township, was born March 7, 1877, at Springfield, Illinois, and died October 27, 1913, in Grand Prairie Township.
Carl has one brother and three sisters: Otto died September 22, 1922; Ida is the wife of William Michelson; Irene is the wife of Rudolph Fittje; and Helen is the wife of Jack DeBellis.
Carl attended school in District 72, after which he enrolled at an Auto and Tractor School, in Lincoln. Following that, he engaged in farming.
On November 18, 1926, at the Zion Lutheran Church, at Platte Center, he married Laura Martensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christian L. Martensen. Mr. Martensen, a farmer, was born September 14, 1871, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Mrs. Martensen was also born there, on November 18, 1875. Laura has two brothers and four sisters: Arnold married Anna Harms; Ida is the wife of Henry Haake; Alma is the wife of Louis Siebler; Carl married Elsie Hassebrook; Pauline and Jenny, of Omaha.
Carl and Laura Martensen Gehring have six children: Kenneth, born in 1931; Claretta, born in 1933; Clinton, born in 1935; Neal, born in 1938; and Loren, born in 1941. They attended school in District 72 and Kramer High School, in Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. Gehring are members of the Zion Lutheran Church, at Platte Center.
Werner Geiser was born on November 13, 1903, in Columbus, Nebraska, the son of Fred and Albertina Weisenfiuh Geiser. Fred Geiser was born April 1, 1868, at Berne, Switzerland, arrived in America in 1874, and died in Columbus, August 5, 1934. Mrs. Geiser died February 7, 1921.
Werner has four brothers and eight sisters: Albert, of Portland, Oregon; John, Edward, and Fred, Jr., of Columbus; John married Ann Ellidge, Edward married Lulu Napier, and Fred, Jr. married Luella Gaver; Louise, Mrs. Joe Scherer; Clara, Mrs. John Glur; Lillie, Mrs. Leo Paprocki; Margaret, Mrs. Arthur Boettcher; Mable, Mrs. Walter Saalfeld; Alma, Mrs. Dart Gillam; Albertina, Mrs. Harry Goc; and Elenor, Mrs. Jack Richardson.
Werner Geiser attended the Field School and Columbus High School. Since finishing school, he has been associated in the Geiser Grain and Hay Company. He also has been employed by the Union Pacific Railroad.
On November 16, 1932, he married Beryle Durkee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Durkee, of Fremont, Nebraska. They have two children, DeLellio Jean, and Frederick, born October 1, 1934. They both attended the Columbus grade schools and high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Werner Geiser are members of the Evangelical Protestant Church in Columbus.
Stanley Gembol, born at Tarnov, Poland, November 1, 1893, is the son of John and Agnes Gembol.
He attended the schools at Cambridge, Pennsylvania, and later the Mechanical Institute, and the York Business College.
During World War I, Mr. Gembol served for two years in the United States Army, during which time he was stationed at Deming, New Mexico.
In 1922, he came to Columbus and started a garage and filling station at the corner of Eighth Street and Thirty-third Avenue. In 1929, he opened Gembol's Modern Cabin Camp. This large motor camp is one of the finest in mid-Nebraska. It has twenty cabins and a cafe.
Stanley Gembol was married twice. He married Mary Lewandwoski (sic), of Loup City, Nebraska, on July 2, 1922.
They had one son, Robert V., born January 6, 1924. Robert attended the Columbus schools,, and was graduated from Kramer High School. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. After his discharge he studied at the University of Nebraska. Mary Lewandwoski Gembol died in the early 1940's.
On May 21, 1944, Stanley Gembol married Mrs. Ferne Scofield Fitzsimmons, daughter of Fred A. and Belle Swartsley Scofield, of Columbus. Their marriage took place in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Ferne Scofield Fitzsimmons Gembol has one son, Clifford Fitzsimmons, born in Columbus, June 18, 1925.
He attended the Columbus schools, and was graduated from Kramer High School. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After his discharge from the Army he attended Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois where he was graduated.
Politically, Stanley Gembol is a Democrat. He rep-
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resented the Second Ward on the Council for six years, 1924-1930. He holds memberships in the Masonic Lodge, the B.P.O.E., the F.O.E., the American Legion, and the Wayside Country Club.
William Gentleman was born in Ireland, and married there around the year 1850. The Gentlemans had three sons and one daughter: Thomas, Robert and William were born in Ireland, and Bridget was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, January 15, 1859, after the family had come to this continent from Ireland.
The eldest son, Thomas, came to Omaha, Nebraska, in the early 1860's, and the rest of the family followed him in 1867. They lived there until the spring of 1871, when William Gentleman, Sr. came to Platte County and filed on an eighty-acre homestead and an eighty-acre preemption tract of land in Grand Prairie Township, five miles northeast of Platte Center.
At that time, Thomas, Robert and William, Jr. also acquired preemptions from Grand Prairie Township, at around two dollars fifty cents per acre. The original William Gentleman, Sr. farm was later owned by Ed Mark, of Platte Center.
Bridget Gentleman attended St. Mary's Convent School, in Omaha, and later was enrolled in St. Francis Academy, in Columbus, as a boarding pupil. After finishing school she procured a teacher's certificate and taught one year in the school of District 22, Platte County, and then worked as a saleslady at the Michael and Jacob Schram Store, on Twelfth Street, in Columbus, prior to her marriage to Daniel C. Kavanaugh, on January 7, 1878.
Frederick William Gerber, son of Frederick W., Sr. and Thresa Geis Gerber, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, July 2, 1878. His father, a merchant, was born in Switzerland, and died in 1896, at Lead City, South Dakota. His mother was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1846, and died July 30, 1926, in Columbus, Nebraska.
Besides Frederick, Jr., the other children in the family, were: Stephen, of San Francisco; Anna, who died in infancy; and Elizabeth, who died in the early 1890's, at the age of twenty-two. An aunt, a sister of Frederick, Sr., was married to Vincent Kummer, one of the founders of Columbus. After Mr. Kummer's death, she married Henry T. Spoerry. The Gerber family moved to Columbus from Omaha, in August, 1885.
Frederick, Jr. received his early education at the St. Mary Magdalen's Parochial School, in Omaha, and after coming here, attended St. Francis Academy, after which, he entered the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in Columbus, where his service in the office at the freight depot has been continuous through the years.
On February 9, 1920, at St. Bonaventure Catholic Church, in Columbus, Frederick William Gerber married Frances Genevieve Schilz, daughter of William and Elizabeth Karges Schilz. They have three children.
Frederick W., III, known as "Fritz," was born December 6, 1921. He attended St. Bonaventure School and was graduated from the St. Bonaventure High School. During World War II he served as a pilot in the United States Army Air Forces, after receiving his training and commission as a lieutenant. In 1946, he reenlisted in the Air Corps, where he is a flight instructor. In 1947, he married Virginia Warholoski, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Warholoski, of Columbus.
Gloria Gerber attended St. Bonaventure School and was graduated from the St. Bonaventure High School. She is married to Terry Messing, and lives in Columbus. Terry and Gloria Gerber Messing have two children: Diane and Douglas.
Jean Threse Gerber attended St. Bonaventure Grade School and High School.
The Gerbers are members of St. Bonaventure Catholic Church, where Fred W. Gerber, is member of the Holy Name Society, and Mrs. Gerber is a member of St. Anne's Society.
Mr. Gerber is a member of the local council of the Knights of Columbus and the Union Pacific. Old Timers' Club. Politically, he is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Frank W. Gerhold, son of William and Theresia Tschauner Gerhold, was born January 14, 1882, in Bismark Township. His parents came to Nebraska from Pennsylvania and settled on a farm in Bismark Township. Frank Gerhold had seven sisters and four brothers: Mary, deceased; Minnie, who died in 1916, married Gus Hadwiger of Duncan; Emma, a teacher; Anna, Mrs. George Blatchford; Madeline, Mrs. Edd Ruffner; Bertha, Mrs. Guy Lovell; Henry, deceased; William, a contractor, married to Helen Koslowski; Alfred, a contractor, married to Sophie Hoessel; George, a mechanic, married to Sera Britt; and Rose, a teacher, wife of George Healey of Lincoln.
Frank Gerhold attended the rural school in District 10, Platte County.
On October 11, 1922, he was married to Mrs. Jessie Weeks Flagg, daughter of Herbert and Leola A. Holten Weeks, at Columbus, Nebraska. Mrs. Gerhold's mother came to Columbus from the State of New Hampshire. She died in Columbus in December, 1948. A sister, Maude Weeks, is the wife of Walter T. Matzen of Columbus.
Mr. Gerhold has been a farmer and the owner and operator of the Gerhold Dairy in Columbus. He is also a mechanic.
Alfred N. Gerhold, the son of William and Teresa Tschauner Gerhold, was born May 13, 1896, in Platte County. His father, a farmer, was born January 8, 1834, in Pennsylvania, and died December 27, 1903, in Polk
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