prominent citizen and successful and
enterprising farmer in Osage Precinct, where he has
lived for over ten years. He is a practical farmer,
thrifty and careful. He had previously lived in Lee
County, Iowa, where our subject was brought up and
received his education in the district schools.
Mr. Hopp was about nineteen years of
age when he came to this State. He attained his
majority while living in Osage Precinct, and continued
to make his home with his parents until he came to the
Tangeman Mills. He celebrated his marriage in
McWilliams Precinct, when he was united with Miss
Alvina Tangeman. This lady was born in Clayton County,
Iowa, on the 14th of August, 1863, and was but a child
of six years when her father, John G. Tangeman,
settled in this precinct. To Mr. and Mrs. Hopp has
been born one child, who received the name Lillie.
The religious home of our subject
and his wife is within the German Evangelical Church,
with which they have been connected many years. He is
the School Treasurer of his precinct, an office he has
held since 1886. He is also one of the stanch
Democrats of the district and takes much interest in
political work. Although a young man he has made many
friends and is highly esteemed, and without doubt
there is before him a future that will grow brighter
as the years pass.
 ENRY
WINKELHAKE. The career of the prosperous German
citizen is amply illustrated in the subject of this
biography, who is proprietor of 440 acres of land in
Rock Creek Precinct, and generally well-to-do. He has
a substantial set of farm buildings, good stock and
machinery, groves, orchards, and all the other
appurtenances of the modern country estate. He came to
Nebraska during its Territorial days, and purchased a
tract of prairie land, and it is hardly necessary to
say that since then his time has not only been
industriously but profitably occupied.
The boyhood days of our subject were
passed in the Prussian Province of Schambure, where
his birth took place April 24, 1843. His father,
Gollip Winkelhake, is of pure German ancestry, and is
still living upon the old homestead in Germany. The
mother died when he was an infant. Their family
consisted of six children, five of whom are now
living. They all received a good education in their
native tongue, and Henry, more ambitious perhaps than
the others, when a youth of sixteen years determined
to cross the Atlantic, and seek his fortunes in
America. Embarking on a sailing-vessel at the port of
Bremen, he landed eighteen weeks later in the city of
New York; and proceeding at once to Madison County,
Ill., soon secured employment as a farm laborer. He
remained a resident of the Prairie State for a period
of five years, then came to Nebraska, locating in the
spring of 1865 on a part of the land which he now owns
and occupies. Later he added to his landed area; and
in the course of a few years, as the result of most
persistent and industrious labor, found himself on the
road to prosperity, and in the enjoyment of a good
income. A view of his place is shown in this
connection.
Our subject has around him a
blooming family of seven children, the result of his
marriage with Miss Sophie Blumberg, which took place
March 10, 1869, in Madison County, Ill. Mrs.
Winkelhake is a native of the same Province as her
husband, and was born July 29, 1850. Her father, a
bailiff of the court by occupation, and a native also
of Germany, spent his entire life upon his native
soil, dying there when middle-aged. The mother in 1866
came to America with her children, and located on a
farm in Madison County, Ill., where she is still
living among them, and is now quite well advanced in
years. Her daughter Sophie came to Nebraska with her
husband a short time after her marriage. The, sons and
daughters of her union with our subject are named
respectively: Emma, William, Mary, Anna, Henry, Jr.,
Frederick and Edward. The eldest is eighteen years of
age, and the youngest six months. They are being
carefully trained and educated, and there is reason to
suppose will fill a position in society equal to that
of their honored parents. Our subject and his wife are
active members of the Lutheran Church, in which Mr. W.
is one of the pillars, and to which he gives cheerful
and liberal support. Politically, he is a solid
Republican.
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RANCIS
J. STOOKER occupies a place among the agriculturists
of Belmont Precinct worthy of one who has from his
youthful years paid considerable attention to both the
theory and practical working of that calling. His
property is situated on section 5, Belmont Township,
and is 360 acres in extent. When he purchased it in
1867 its appearance was anything but promising to one
understanding the difficulties of bringing prairie
land into such condition as the farmer requires before
he can hope to utilize it and receive from it a ripe
and due reward in time of harvest. His house and farm
buildings are substantial, well built, and admirably
suited to the different purposes for which they were
designed. His fields are well cultivated, also his
orchards and groves, which cover at least from twenty
to thirty acres, showing that he has been careful both
in the selection and training of these most desirable
adjuncts to farm life in Nebraska, or any other State
where the summers suggest the necessity of shelter and
shade. A view of the place is shown on the
accompanying page.
