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George James O'Brien, the son of John and Ellen Ryan O'Brien, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1881. His father was born in New Jersey, and his mother was born in New York. His father was a sheet metal manufacturer. George has a brother James O'Brien of Santa Monica, California.
George O'Brien received his formal education in the Chicago schools. He came to Platte County in 1905 as the Nebraska representative of Hibbard, Spencer, Barlett and Company, wholesale hardware and cutlery firm of Chicago, Illinois.
In 1919 George O'Brien and Myron L. Gray formed a partnership and established the Go-Shop, a ladies ready-to-wear shop located on Thirteenth Street. This firm continued in business until 1923.
In 1922, Mr. O'Brien moved to Los Angeles, California, where from 1922 to 1940 he was in the real estate and brokerage business. In 1940 he became the vice-president of Dayton and Bakewell, a machine and sheet metal machinery company of Los Angeles.
On May 9, 1916, in Columbus, George O'Brien was married to Martha Bucher, the daughter of William and Catherine Kumpf Bucher. Mrs. O'Brien was born in Columbus. She received her early education in the Columbus schools and was graduated from the Columbus High School. She attended the University of Nebraska where she was affiliated with the Delta Gamma Sorority.
George and Martha Bucher O'Brien had one daughter, Peggy, who attended the Columbus and Los Angeles grade schools, and was graduated from the Los Angeles High School and the University of California at Los Angeles. She was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority. Peggy O'Brien was married to Andrew A. Fogliano of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Mr. Fogliano was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is design engineer of the Lockheed Aircraft Company of Los Angeles.
Andrew and Peggy O'Brien Fogliano have a son, Andrew George, born March 11. 1948.
William O'Callaghan, the son of Phillip and Mary Leonard O'Callaghan, was born April 9, 1848, in Dublin, Ireland. William had three brothers and five sisters: Joseph. Thomas, Bessie, Margaret, Anne, and Mary remained in Ireland, where Mary became Mother Superior of an Order of Nuns. Katherine was Mrs. Bernard Clark, of Platte Center. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were the parents of Kathleen Clark, a registered nurse in government service in Washington. One brother, James H., born in Ireland, May 10, 1861, came to the United States in 1886, when he was twenty-five. He was a section foreman for the Union Pacific Railroad Company at Green River, Wyoming, and later lived at Schuyler, Nebraska. In 1890, he was married to Bridget Savage. James served as treasurer of Colfax County, and for twenty-six years, from 1911-1937, he conducted a furniture and undertaking business at Schuyler. He served as a member of the board of trustees of St. Augustine's Church at Schuyler for fifty years, and died at Schuyler on June 29, 1944. His son, James H., Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. H. J. Tully, managing editor of the Colfax County Call, live at Schuyler.
William O'Callaghan came to the United States in the summer of 1865, with two of his Dublin friends, and went from New York directly to Savannah, Georgia, where he was employed for two years as an overseer on a large plantation.
Dissatisfied with the Georgian climate, Mr. O'Callaghan came to Nebraska in 1867, and located at Fremont. During the next two years, he was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad, and in 1869, he came to Platte County, where he established his home on a homestead in Shell Creek Township.
On November 18, 1879, William O'Callaghan was married to Margaret Savage, of Columbus. Mrs. O'Callaghan was born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, on August 10, 1857. Mrs. O'Callaghan had a sister, Bridget Savage, Mrs. James O'Callaghan, of Schuyler, and a brother, Michael Savage, of Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. William O'Callaghan had three sons and four daughters: James, William, Phillip, Margaret, Katherine, Rosemary and Anne. James Cecil served with the original Company K, First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American War; and later became an engineer in the Merchant Marine, prior to 1917. During World War I, he served as an engineering officer, with the rank of captain, in the United States Navy, and during World War II, he served two years as a final engineering inspector for the Maritime Commission and as Chief Engineer of the M.S. Sea Serpent, a position he held in 1950. In 1908, in Cleveland, Ohio, James was married to Elsie Hanley. They have two children, William, a Harvard graduate, and Virginia. James O'Callaghan resides in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston.
Margaret Hester was the wife of John C. Clower, of Rapid City, South Dakota. She died on April 24, 1945.
Rosemary Claire taught school for several years in Platte County. She resides in Columbus.
William Joseph served as a sergeant in motor transport in Company K. during World War I. Following that he later operated a garage in Columbus and later at other points in Nebraska, and now resides in Humphrey. He had five children. Two sons served during World War II; one in the Army, and the other in the Navy.
Katherine, the wife of Francis W. Eller, died February 6, 1920. Mr. Eller preceded her in death, and their two children were raised by their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William O'Callaghan. The Eller children are Camillus, an attorney, and member of the Nebraska Bar Association, and Eugene, who attended Creighton University, and works as a mechanical engineer.
Anne Cecelia O'Callaghan is the wife of D. J. Rankin, of Columbus. Mrs. Rankin also taught school in Platte County. Phillip Leroy O'Callaghan died in 1906.
William O'Callaghan was engaged in farming throughout his lifetime. He died in Columbus, May 27, 1922, and Margaret Savage O'Callaghan died on October 8, 1930, at Columbus.
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Reverend Rudolph L. Ochs, pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Grand Prairie Township, was born May 3, 1906, at Menfro, Missouri. He is the son of John H. and Anna Stuebinger Ochs. His father died January 29, 1929, and his mother, July 21, 1943. Reverend Ochs had four brothers and two sisters: Leonard, Emil, Paul, and Ewald; Sophie, Mrs. M. M. Laupp; and Hattie, Mrs. August Schulz.
Reverend Ochs attended the Trinity Lutheran School at Menfro, Missouri, St. Paul's College at Concordia, Missouri, and the Concordia Seminary at St. Louis. Upon the completion of his course in the seminary, he was ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.
On April 2, 1934, he was married to Miss Irene Schulz, daughter of Reverend and Mrs. H. W. Schulz, at Scottsbluff, Nebraska. They had three daughters: Edith Ann, Nadine Ruth, and Coleen Irene. All attended St. John's Parochial School.
Reverend Ochs came to Platte County January 29, 1942, from Crookston, Nebraska, to assume the pastorate of St. John's Lutheran Church.
He is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Doctor Reynolds J. O'Donnell was born in Lansford, Pennsylvania, on August. 24, 1902. He is the son of Daniel D. and Rose Malloy O'Donnell. His father died in 1912 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where the family resided for several years. His mother died in Johnstown in 1941.
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Reynolds was graduated from the Altoona High School at Altoona, Pennsylvania, and after his graduation entered Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he completed his college and medical courses. He received the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1927, and Doctor of Medicine in 1929. There he was tapped for membership in Alpha Sigma Tau, the National Catholic Honorary Fraternity. He served interneship in the Douglas County Hospital and Saint Joseph's Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. He was surgical resident in Saint Joseph's Hospital from 1930 to 1931. Following this he served a residency in the Saint Louis Children's Hospital. He practiced in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was associated with Doctors Louis D. McGuire and Arthur C. Johnson. During this time, until 1934, he was an Instructor in Surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine. He practiced in Columbus, Nebraska, from July, 1934, to June, 1942, where he was on the staffs of Saint Mary's and the Lutheran Hospitals. He was elected Chief of Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital in 1942. Prominent in the scientific, social and civic life of Columbus, he served as President of the Platte County Medical Association, President of the Inter-civic Council, now the Community Council. He was Financial Secretary of the Knights of Columbus, advancing to the positions of Grand Knight and later the District Deputy. He was one of the organizers and, for several years, served as superintendent of the Knights of Columbus Catholic Boys' Camp located at Columbus. He was also an organizer of the C.Y.O. and promoted the Knights of Columbus Boxing Tournaments cooperating with the Golden Gloves in Omaha. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Wayside Country Club, and Nebraska State Medical Association.
His record in World War II, is particularly worthy of note. He volunteered for service early in 1942 and was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps of the Air Force. He was later promoted to the rank of major. He served at various Air Force installations in California, including, Lemoore, Santa Ana, Minter Field at Bakersfield, and March Field near Riverside. He was assigned to and graduated from the School of Aviation Medicine as a flight surgeon in 1943, from Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas. Following this he was directed to Santa Monica with three other flight surgeons to organize the Medical and Surgical Services of the Air Forces Redistribution Station created in that city. Early in 1945, he was assigned to reorganize the Military Emergency Service of the Santa Monica Bay Area, to care for all military personnel and their families, with headquarters at the Edgewater Hotel. in Santa Monica.
After his discharge from the army on January 1, 1946, he established a private practice in Santa Monica, California, and has achieved a place of exceptional importance in the medical profession in that Bay Area during the last four years. From 1946 to 1949 he was identified with the City of Santa Monica in the official capacity of police surgeon.
Doctor O'Donnell, the Vice-Chief of Staff of Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica and a member of the staff of Santa Monica Lutheran Hospital, is identified with a number of professional groups: In California the Los Angeles County, and the California Medical Associations; the American Medical Association and the International College of Surgeons; and is a charter member of the Catholic Physicians and Surgeons' Guild of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is the President-elect of Southern California's Creighton Alumni Association.
He has been active in the inauguration of graduate training for internes in the Catholic hospitals of Southern California, and has done extensive work in the promotion of the affiliation of these hospitals with medical schools. In Santa Monica, he is a past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, a member of the Elks, the Chamber of Commerce, the Del Mar Club, and the Army and Navy Club.
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On October 14, 1933, at St. Bonaventure Church in Columbus, Nebraska, Doctor O'Donnell was married to Miss Kathleen Curry, the daughter of John Michael and Nelle Fleming Curry. Mr. Curry, a member of a Columbus pioneer family, was born in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Curry was born in Illinois.
Kathleen Curry O'Donnell was graduated from St. Bonaventure's School and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. She is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Prior to her marriage she was the society editor of the Columbus Daily Telegram.
Doctor and Mrs. O'Donnell have three sons: John Reynolds O'Donnell, "Renny," was born in Columbus, Nebraska, on September 13, 1934; Roderic Don O'Donnell, "Rory," was born in Columbus, Nebraska, on March 19, 1937; and Kevin O'Donnell was born in Santa Monica, California, on July 8, 1945. "Renny" attends the Loyola Preparatory School in Los Angeles, California, and "Rory" attends Saint Monica's School in Santa Monica.
Among the early German families who left an impress of their culture on Platte County was the Oehlrichs.
Herman P. H. Oehlrich was born in Elmshorn, Holstein, Germany, May 17, 1852.
He received his early education in his native land, and at the age of fifteen embarked for America to join a group from Holstein who had preceded him to this country and settled at Grand Island, Nebraska.
Herman landed in New York on June 29, 1867, and arrived in Grand Island on July 9, that year.
He was first employed at Grand Island by a large milling, grain, lumber and mercantile company to freight their goods from Grand Island to Fort McPherson. In 1868 this business concern was sold to William Golliner and Company, and in 1869 it was resold to the Jordan Company.
During the years 1868 to 1873 Herman Oehlrich worked as a bookkeeper in the business.
In 1873 he became the travelling representative of the D. H. Ferry Seed Company. His territory then included Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska.
In 1874 at the age of twenty-two he located at Columbus where he was employed for five years as bookkeeper for the R. H. Henry and Brother Grocery and Produce Business. He resigned his position May 1, 1879 to go abroad. He returned from his European sojourn in September and formed a partnership with his brother Arnold F. H. Oehlrich, and they bought the R. H. Henry and Brother Store at Eleventh and Olive Streets.
On September 22, 1879, they opened the Oehlrich Grocery and Produce Company in the R. H. Henry Building. They later bought a ranch near Richland. This partnership continued until 1900 when Mr. Oehlrich bought his brother Arnold's interests in both the Grocery Company, and the Oehlrich Ranch.
Herman Oehlrich was one of the organizers of the Commercial Bank on May 21, 1887. In 1889 he became the Vice-President of that financial institution and twenty years later in 1909 became its president. The bank name was changed to the Commercial National Bank in 1899.
In 1881 H. P. H. Oehlrich was Chief of the Columbus Fire Department, and around that time served three years as Treasurer of the Hook and Ladder Company.
He was an early member of the Columbus Maennerchor Society and served as its treasurer for two years prior to 1882.
He was a charter member of the Grand Island Liederkranz Society and retained his membership there throughout the years.
In 1883 Herman P. H. Oehlrich and Laura W. Cornell were married in Grand Island.
Mrs. Oehlrich was born in Holstein, Germany, June 4, 1850, and came to America in 1881, and to Nebraska where she lived for two years before her marriage with her sister Mrs. John Reimers at Grand Island. She came to Columbus following her marriage in 1883 and lived in Columbus until her death on December 9, 1912.
She was interested in flowers and gardening.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman P. H. Oehlrich were members of the Grace Episcopal Church in Columbus.
Herman Oehlrich died on May 10, 1914.
Arnold F. H. Oehlrich was born at Elmshomn, Holstein, Germany, April 20, 1856.
He came to America when fifteen years old in company with his brother Hugo. They arrived in New York in December, 1871, and came west to Grand Island where they joined their older brother Herman P. H. Oehlrich.
Arnold was employed there in a grocery store until 1872 when he came to Columbus to work for R. H. Henry and Brother.
In 1879 when twenty-three years of age Arnold became the business partner of his older brother Herman. They first conducted their grocery and produce store in the Henry Building on Eleventh and Olive Streets.
Around 1888 they moved their business to Arnold Oehlrich's building on the south side of Thirteenth Street between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Avenues. Later Herman Oehlrich moved the store to the Oehlrich Building, 2401-2403 Thirteenth Street.
Arnold Oehlrich was one of the organizers of the Commercial Bank November 21, 1887, and served on its Board of Directors from 1889 to 1916. He became Vice President of the Bank in May, 1914, and served until November, 1916.
In 1888 Arnold Oehlrich made a trip to Germany where on June 7, 1888, in Grevenkop, Holstein, he was married to Rosa Piening.
Mrs. Oehlrich was born in Grevenkop on May 31, 1858. She received her education in German schools.
She was a lover of outdoor sports, an expert swimmer, skater, and horsewoman.
Arnold and Rosa Piening Oehlrich had a daughter Olga, the wife of William A. Curry of Columbus.
William and Olga Oehlrich Curry have two sons, William A. Curry Jr., and Arnold Oehlrich Curry.
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Arnold Oehlrich was a member of the Grace Episcopal Church in Columbus.
He died November 16, 1916, and Mrs. Oehlrich died October 10, 1923.
Hugo Oehlrich, a brother of Herman P. H. and Arnold F. Oehlrich, was born in Elmshorn, Holstein, Germany, in 1853 and died at Clarks, Nebraska, on December 21, 1912.
Mr. Oehlrich came to the United States in 1871, and went to Grand Island that year where he worked. Following that he was engaged in farming in Merrick County, near Clarks, Nebraska. He was married to Helene Moeller.
Hugo and Helene Oehlrich had five sons, John, Hugo Jr., Herman, Arnold and Rudolph; and a daughter Magdalen.
John was graduated from the Columbus High School and attended the University of Nebraska.
He married Mildred Fox Taylor. They live in Columbus where he is associated with a manufacturing company.
Hugo Jr., was graduated from the Columbus High School and attended the Nebraska Agricultural College.
He managed the Oehlrich Ranch for a time and later was associated with the Peter Kiewits Construction Company. He is married to Dorothy Roberts. They have two daughters, Mary Threse and Mimi, and live at Sacramento, California.
Herman was graduated from the Columbus High School. He attended the Nebraska Agricultural College and farmed for several years. He is now with a hybrid seed corn company as its representative.
He married Kathryn Day. They have a son Herman and a daughter Jane.
Arnold was graduated from the Columbus High School, and the University of Nebraska. He played football at Nebraska with the "Varsity" Team.
Later he played professional football with the *"Green Bay Packers." He manages the Oehlrich Ranch at Richland, Nebraska. He is married to Helen Kent. They have two daughters, Joan Helen** and Dorkal*** Ann.
Rudolph was graduated from Columbus High School, and lives in Columbus where he manages his business property.
Magdalene was graduated from Columbus High School, and attended Ward-Belmont at Nashville, Tennessee. She took a business course and prior to her marriage to Martin A. Stenger worked in San Francisco, California, and as bookkeeper at the Gottberg Ford Company in Columbus.
Hugo Oehlrich died at Clarks, Nebraska, December 25, 1912.
In 1913 Mrs. Helene Oehlrich and her sons and daughter moved to Columbus.
* Added: "Tr. * Frankfort Yellow Jackets"
** Overwritten: "Helene"
*** Overwritten: "Dorkas"
William Henry Oeltjen was born October 20, 1880, in Oldenburg, Germany, and died June 25, 1946. His parents were Gerhard and Katharina Heinamann Oeltjen.
William Oeltjen had one sister and five brothers: Fred, married to Emma Gaver, died February 9, 1945; John, married to Anna Brauner; Gerhard, married to Mary Rastadt; Sophia, Mrs. Otto Hardessen; and Herman and August, deceased.
Mr. Oeltjen was educated in the schools in Germany and came to Platte County from there in March, 1900.
On October 11, 1906, at Omaha, Nebraska, he was married to Miss Ida Brauner, daughter of Wendolin and Anna Janinick Brauner. They had one son and two daughters: Elsie, born March 25, 1908; Elmer, born May 2, 1911; and Edna, born June 3, 1923. All attended School Districts 78 and 33. Elmer and Elsie are married.
Mr. Oeltjen, who was noted in the county for his fine purebred cattle, was always active in farm and community affairs. He helped to organize the Farmer's Cooperative Mercantile Association, and held the office of president until his death, June 25, 1946. He served as manager of the Farmer's Oil Company for many years, and for thirty-five years was a member of the District 78 School Board.
William Oeltjen was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Creston, and was with the church council thirty-one years. Politically he supported the Republican party.
Michael Adolph Olivetti, manager and co-owner of the Alexand Furniture Company in Columbus, was born in Turin, Italy, September 27, 1898. His parents were James and Thresa Crosetti Olivetti. James Olivetti, a mine construction foreman, died at Cambria, Wyoming, March 27, 1922.
Michael Olivetti was enrolled in the public schools at Cambria and is a graduate of Cambria High School. He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln for two years. On November 13, 1943, he came to Columbus from Grand Island, Nebraska.
On September 16, 1925, Michael Olivetti was married to Miss Bernice Geis, the daughter of Frank A. and Catherine Healy Geis, at Marsville, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Olivetti had one son and two daughters. James, a navy veteran of World War II, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, June 5, 1927. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure's High School in Columbus. Jo Ann was graduated in 1949 at St. Bonaventure's. Judy was born July 6, 1938, at Grand Island, and attends St. Bonaventure's School.
Mr. Olivetti is a member of the B.P.O.E., the Liederkranz in Grand Island, the Knights of Columbus, the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Rotary Club, and is a Democrat. The Olivettis are members of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church.
Reverend Fred Ollendorf, pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church in Grand Prairie Township, was born on March 24, 1913, at Wisner, Nebraska. He is the son of Reverend and Mrs. F. August Ollendorf. His father and grandfather were Lutheran ministers; and in
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addition, his grandfather served as a medical missionary in Germany. His father, Reverend F. August Ollendorf, was born in Stendahl, Germany, on October 20, 1881, and died in Russell, Kansas, on December 27, 1925. His mother, whose family name was Wolff, was born at Sterling, Nebraska, on October 9, 1883.
Reverend Fred Ollendorf is one of a family of five children. He has two sisters and two brothers; namely, Walter, Arthur, Marie Koplin, and Ruth Engstrom. Ruth is a registered nurse.
The Ollendorfs lived at Wisner and Hooper, Nebraska, Russell, Kansas, and Sterling, Nebraska.
At Sterling, Nebraska, Reverend Fred Ollendorf graduated from high school. He attended the University of Nebraska and Midland College, where he studied theology. At the completion of his work in theology, he was ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church.
Reverend Fred Ollendorf came to Platte County on January 1, 1944, from Shattuck, Oklahoma, to accept a call as pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church, a country church four miles north and three miles east of Platte Center.
Outside of his work in the ministry, Reverend Ollendorf is interested in and has worked at farming.
He is affiliated with the Republican Party.
Alfred Edward Olson, prominent in Walker Township farm circles, son of John and Betty Olson, was born July 26, 1870, near Red Wing, Minnesota, and came to Platte County with his parents from Galva, Illinois, in January of 1874. His father, born in Sweden, in January, 1831, died at Newman Grove, July 16, 1894. His mother, born March 14, 1847, in Sweden, died July 8, 1906, at Newman Grove.
Alfred has two brothers and one sister: Oscar W., a farmer, is married to Mary Jacobson; J. V., a banker and insurance agent, is married to Lillie Larson; Emma is the widow of Constan Peterson. Alfred attended school in District 40 and 63.
He has many memories of the early days of Platte County. His first home in the Upper Looking Glass section, was a dugout where the Olson family lived until the sod house was built on their homestead. They often climbed into bed to keep from drowning, when the water poured down through the trap door and through the roof of weeds and hay. The Indians visited them often to demand food, but seldom did any harm except to help themselves to the goodies.
On September 12, 1906, at the Looking Glass Methodist Church, Alfred Olson married Julia Fredrickson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Fredrickson. They had seven children: Floyd, born September 1, 1907; Harold, born October 23, 1909; Alonzo, born March 21, 1912; Ralph E., born August 23, 1914; Elaine Olson Peterson, born October 23, 1918; Warren, born October 21, 1920; and Clifford, born September 6, 1924. They all graduated from the Newman Grove High School. Elaine and Warren attended college for two years. Alonzo was a student at the Norfolk Junior College for one year. Ralph received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Clark University, at Worcester, Massachusetts. Lloyd (sic), Harold, Ralph and Elaine are married.
Alfred Olson is president of the Newman Grove Cooperative Creamery and also president of the Scandia Mutual Insurance Company, which was organized sixty years ago by the pioneers of his community. The Olsons are members of the Looking Glass Methodist Church, and Mr. Olson is president of the Board of Trustees of that church.
B. P. Olson was born November 26, 1862, in Munkalyngby, Sweden. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ola Banjtson, natives of Sweden.
B. P. Olson had four brothers and three sisters, all of whom are deceased.
Mr. Olson grew up in Sweden where he met Miss Emily Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jenson, and they were betrothed. Following a custom in their native land, they took the names of their fathers.
Mr. Olson worked for Emily's father, Anderson Jenson, for five years. In April, 1888, he immigrated with Emily to the United States and came directly to Western Platte County. They were married in Columbus August 1, 1888, by Judge Ratterman in the old Platte County Court House on Tenth Street. They returned to the Monroe neighborhood, where Mr. Olson worked for fifteen doillars (sic) a month.
Three sisters and a brother of Mrs. Olson are deceased. A sister, Mrs. Selma Anderson, lives at Wallingford, Connecticut, and a brother, N. A. Hilding, lives at Waterbury, Connecticut. A brother, Gulan Anderson, lives in Sweden.
In the Spring of 1889, the Olsons moved to a farm near Genoa. In 1899 they moved into Genoa, and in 1908 moved to the John Dack farm in the O'Kay Community. In 1922 they retired and moved into Monroe.
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Olson had eight children, two of whom are deceased. Tyra died in 1904. Carl died in 1930 at the age of thirty-eight. The others are: Mrs. Fred Walker of Yoder, Wyoming; Gus Olson of Columbus; Mrs. Harry Nansel of Monroe; Emil Olson of Columbus; Joel Olson of Fresno, California; and Mrs. Walter Lindauer of Santa Ana, California.
On August 14, 1948, they celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary, and recalled how in 1894 they had experienced a crop failure. At that time they planted one hundred sixty acres of corn and some small grain, and had only corn stalks that winter to feed their stock, which they gave to both horses and cattle. For fuel, they cut sumac brush. Like many of the other pioneers, Mr. Olson was forced to borrow money from his neighbors to carry him over to the next crop, but he kept his credit good by always paying it back on time.
O. D. Oltmans, a resident of Platte County and Columbus for forty years, was born September 18, 1864, in Octersum, Germany, and died May 14, 1934.
From 1884 to 1887 he was a member of the Prussian Guards, Company 11, Infantry. After his honorable
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