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WILLIAM
H. ZENTMIRE.
William H. Zentmire, now living on section 1,
Belknap township, where he owns and operates one
hundred and ninety acres of land, has for the
past twenty years been engaged in breeding registered
shorthorn cattle and now makes a specialty of
handling polled Durhams. He is a successful business
man and a worthy representative of agricultural
interests in Pottawattamie county.
He was born in Warren county, Ohio, September
1, 1844. His father, David Zentmire, was a native
of the same state and was of German ancestry.
The paternal grandfather served as a soldier in
the war of 1812. David Zentmire was a carpenter
by trade and followed that pursuit in early manhood,
but afterward turned his attention to farming
and became fairly well-to-do. His early political
allegiance was given to the whig party and he
afterward supported the republican party. He married
Diana Minick, who was born in Pennsylvania and
was a member of the Quaker or Friends church.
She represented one of the old Pennsylvania Dutch
families. By her marriage she became the mother
of the following named: Angeline, the wife of
Robert J. Black, a retired farmer living in Chautauqua
county, Kansas; Amanda, deceased; Samantha, who
makes her home with her sister Angeline; William
H.; Sylvester, deceased; Wilson. who is superintendent
of the county infirmary of Mercer county, Illinois;
Elizabeth, the wife of Hale McClure, a cattleman
of North Dakota; George, a cattleman of Montana;
Harry, who is engaged in farming near Big Mound,
Iowa; Alice, the widow of Horace McLean, of Red
Oak, Iowa; and Eva, the wife of Adam Hemingway
and a resident of Red Oak, Iowa.
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The usual experiences that fall to the lot of
farm boys came to William H. Zentmire in his boyhood
and youth. He attended the country schools and
when not busy with his text-books aided in the
work of the fields or in the care of the stock.
He has always followed farming and stock-raising,
and upon coming to Iowa in the spring of 1872
he located at Big Grove, where he has since resided.
He is now living on section 1, Belknap township,
where he owns and cultivates one hundred and ninety
acres of land. A part of this is used for pasturage,
and for the past twenty years Mr. Zentmire has
been engaged in breeding registered shorthorn
cattle, making a specialty at the, present time
of polled Durhams, of which he has a fine herd
of thirty-five head. He has been very successful
in tilling the soil and in raising stock and is
recognized as a man of good business ability and
unfaltering enterprise.
On the 22d of April, 1872, Mr. Zentmire was married
to Miss Eliza Kiddoo, who was born in Illinois
in 1850. They became the parents of seven children,
of whom Rena, Alva, Frederick and Elsie are all
now deceased. The others are Etta, the wife of
James O. May, pastor of the Broadway Methodist
church of Council Bluffs; and Frank and Martha,
both at home.
The parents are faithful and consistent members
of the Methodist church, in which Mr. Zentmire
has long been an officer, serving also as a teacher
of the bible class in the Sunday school for many
years. In politics he is a republican and has
held several township offices. He is deeply interested
in the welfare of his community, especially in
its moral 'progress, and has labored untiringly
and unceasingly for the upbuilding of the church
and- for the best interests of the community at
large.
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James Elam Brooks, who has led an active and
useful life and has now attained the age of almost
eighty years, his home being in Council Bluffs,
was born near Hillsboro in Highland county, Ohio,
May 25, 1828. His parents were Benjamin H. and
Sarah (Henton) Brooks. The father was born in
Kentucky in 1810 and engaged in merchandising
after his removal to Bethel, Morgan county, Illinois,
in 1837. There he remained for four years and
upon selling out removed to Jasper county, Missouri,
where he purchased and cultivated a farm for three,
years. On disposing of that property he returned
to Illinois and made his home in Marion county
while engaged in railroad construction work on
the Illinois Central Railroad for four years.
He next followed carpentering and contracting
at Central City; Illinois, for five years, or
until his life's labors were ended in death on
the 8th of November, 1856. His wife's birth occurred
in 1810, in the same house in which her son James
was born. Like her husband, she was educated in
the public schools of Ohio. She was killed by
lighting at Bethel, Illinois, in August, 1842,
while standing under a tree holding her baby,
Thomas Brooks, in her arms. The child escaped
with only a slight injury and is now supposed
to be living in St. Louis.
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James E. Brooks was a pupil in the public schools
of Morgan county, Illinois, and after putting
aside his text-books he became a pilot on the
Mississippi river, being thus engaged in the year
1850. He afterward went to Fort Smith, Arkansas,
where he secured employment as overseer of slaves,
but in 1854 returned to Central City, Illinois,
and became connected with railroad building, acting
as foreman of a construction gang for two years.
He was next elected constable on the democratic
ticket and served for four years, after which
he took charge of his father's business affairs,
which he conducted until the father's death.
On the 16th of September, 1859, Mr. Brooks became
a resident of Harrison county, Iowa, and for one
season engaged in farming. In 1860 he arrived
in Council Bluffs and during the succeeding five
years was employed as a stage driver, after which
he entered upon a clerical position in the office
of the stage coach. Later he became agent for
the omnibus line of G. W. Homan at Omaha, Nebraska,
where he continued for five years when Mr. Homan
sold out to Jake Rogers, with whom Mr. Brooks
remained in the same capacity for eight years.
In 1880 he became a member of the Council Bluffs
police force, serving as a patrolman for four
years, one half of the time under Chief H. H.
Field and the other half under E. W. Jackson.
Soon after leaving the police force he met with
an accident that rendered him unable to perform
further active business duties. While trimming
a tree he accidentally cut his left leg at the
knee joint with an ax, causing the limb to become
stiff. Since that time he has been engaged in
furnishing meals and for the past ten years he
has furnished meals to prisoners confined in the
city jail.
On the 1st of June, 1854, Mr. Brooks was married
to Miss Lucy Heath, a daughter of Charles and
Adeline Heath, of Washington, Davis county, Indiana.
Her father was a leading carriage manufacturer
of that locality. Mrs. Brooks was born in Little
Falls, New York, April 21, 1837, was educated
in the public schools there, and has now for more
than a half century traveled life's journey with
her husband, proving to him a faithful companion
and helpmate. She holds membership in the First
Baptist church of this city.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Brooks have been born the following
named: Charles, born at Central City, Illinois,
November 8, 1856, died September 2, 1857. Addie,
born in Central City, January 17, 1858, became
the wife of Judson Cain, and to them was born
a son, Winfield Scott Cain, whose birth occurred
July 3, 1881. He wedded Margaret Herman and they
have three children, Charlie, Edward and Helen
Cain. Mrs. Addie Cain now lives with her parents
in Council Bluffs. Katie, the next member of the
family, was born at Auterville, Missouri, March
9, 1861, and became the wife of Russell Percy.
After his death she was married February 7, 1883,
to John T. Madden, who died January 2, 1901, leaving
a son, William T. Madden, born December 20,1884.
By her former marriage she had one child, Lorena
R. Brooks-Percy, born June 1, 1880. After losing
her second husband, Mrs. Madden became the wife
of Fred Peterson, a conductor on the Union Pacific
Railroad, now living in Omaha, Nebraska. Thomas
H. Brooks, born in Calhoun, Iowa, January 17,
1863, is employed by the Wickham Brothers, railroad
builders of Council Bluffs, and lives with his
parents. William F. Brooks, born September 8,
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1865, was accidentally shot and killed by a companion
August 21,1877. Harry E. Brooks, born January
7, 1868, is city fireman. He married Addie Loomis,
of Council Bluffs, a daughter of W. F. and Alice
Loomis, the former a resident of this city, while
the latter is deceased. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Harry
E. Brooks have been born two children: Marie,
born November 27, 1893. and Alice, born May 30,
1895.
Mr. Brooks, whose name introduces this record,
is now a stalwart republican in his political
views. In 1892 he was elected on the party ticket
to the office of constable by a large majority,
but owing to his injured limb he found he could
not capably discharge the duties of the office
and resigned in favor of Joe Foreman, who was
appointed to fill the vacancy by the board of
supervisors. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are now living
at No. 257 Vine street. They have traveled life's
journey together for fifty-three years, sharing
with each other in its joys and its sorrows. They
are an esteemed and worthy couple, having the
friendship of many and the respect of all who
know them.
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Alanson J. Durfee, the manager; of Durfee Furniture
Company, figures as one of the representative
citizens of Council Bluffs. He came here in 1892
and since that time has been an important factor
in advancing its interests. Mr. Durfee was born
in Berlin, Wisconsin, in 1855, and received his
first schooling in a log schoolhouse near his
native city. His education was further extended
by his attendance at other public schools and
by his practical business experience. He always
worked during the summer vacation in order to
accumulate enough money to take him through his
winter school term. At the age of eighteen years
he was obliged to leave his books and devote his
entire time to the various occupations in which
he was later engaged. His operations have been
very extensive, embracing several fields of labor,
for he began to work when he was but nine years
old. He has run a gristmill, a furniture factory,
and between the age of fourteen and twenty-four
he had charge of a cranberry ranch in Wisconsin,
where he employed eight hundred hands. His wide
sympathy and generous nature were large elements
in his success in dealing with these men and in
managing them successfully without their ever
thinking that they were being managed. In 1890
he left Wisconsin and took up his residence for
eighteen months at Perry, Iowa. In 1892 he came
to Council Bluffs, where he bought an interest
in the furniture business in which he has since
been engaged.
Mr. Durfee was married in 1878, in Aurora, Wisconsin,
to Ida E. Chapen and their union has been blessed
with three sons: Clifton 0., Waite D. and Alanson
G. In his political relations Mr. Durfee has been
a stalwart supporter of the republican party and
fraternally is associated with the Odd Fellows.
He has been the architect of his own fortune and
all that he possesses has been acquired through
his own efforts. He owes his present position
to perseverance, hard work, mastery of the details
of his business and deter
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mination to succeed. Being a man of strong individuality
he has made a success of whatever he has undertaken
and his operations have not been limited to one
line of trade, but he has successfully conducted
many and his able management made each a profitable
investment.
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ANDREW L.
INGRAM.
Andrew L. Ingram, one of the highly respected
citizens of Keg Creek township, spoken of in terms
of praise by all who know him, now follows farming
on section 13. He was born in Kankakee county,
Illinois, September 20, 1861, and is the eldest
of the three surviving members of a family of
four children, whose parents were Robert and Melissa
(McMurphy) Ingram. The father, a native of Scotland,
was born in 1832 and came alone to America. when
a young man, making his way direct to Chicago.
This was in 1852. Soon after his arrival in the
western metropolis he established his home at
Michigan City, Indiana, where he lived for about
a year and then went to Laporte, Indiana, where
he remained for several years. On leaving that
locality he established his home in Kankakee,
Illinois, where he followed farming until 1870,
when he sold out and in the spring of that year
came to Pottawattamie county, Iowa, settling on
section 13, Keg Creek township, on a farm, which
is now owned and occupied by his son Andrew. He
purchased two hundred and eighty acres of raw
land which he developed and cultivated, tilling
the fields and also raising stock until 1896,
when he retired from active business life to spend
his remaining days in the enjoyment of the fruits
of his former toil. He removed to Council Bluffs,
where he now makes his home. For years he has
been a member of the Baptist church and has lived
an earnest, consistent Christian life, thereby
winning the trust and confidence of his fellowmen.
His wife, a native of Michigan, died on the home
farm in Keg Creek township in 1893, at the age
of forty-nine years, The surviving sons and daughter
of the family are: Andrew L., of this review;
Mrs. Roland Ward, of Pottawattamie county; and
Robert, living in Missouri Valley, Iowa.
Andrew L. Ingram was but nine years of age when
his parents came to this state. He acquired a
common-school education and assisted in the development
of the home farm until twenty-one years of age,
when he started out in business life on his own
account, cultivating a part of his father's land,
which he rented. Ambitious to own property, he
carefully saved his earnings and by judicious-management
and wise expenditure he was at length enabled
to purchase one hundred and eighty acres in Silver
Creek township. This he owned for four years,
when he sold out and upon his father's retirement
from business life and removal to Council Bluffs,
he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of the
old homestead, all of which is in grass. He devotes
his attention to stock-raising, keeping cattle,
hogs, sheep and horses. He feeds from ten to twenty
carloads of cattle each year and uses about twenty-five
thousand bushels of corn. In fact he is one of
the best known stock dealers of the township,
making extensive shipments to the city markets.
He also owns three
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hundred and twenty acres of land in the Alberta
district of Canada. He was likewise one of the
promoters of the Treynor Bank and is now a member
of its board of directors.
On the 22d of March, 1887, Mr. Ingram was married
to Miss Villa Miller, who was born near Albia,
Iowa, and is a daughter of Henry H. and Rebecca
(Hightman) Miller, who were early settlers of
Monroe county, this state, where the mother died
in 1891. The father survived for about fourteen
years and passed away at the home of Mr. Ingram
in 1905, at the age of seventy-nine. In their
family were eleven children, of whom nine are
still living. Two of the number, John and Mrs.
Mary Custer, are residents of Council Bluffs.
Mr. and Mrs. Ingram have Jour children, Lea, Robert,
Ruth and Leonard.
In politics Mr. Ingram is a stalwart democrat,
who for the past eight years has filled the office
of township trustee, a fact which indicates his
capability and fidelity in office. He belongs
to the Odd Fellows lodge, at Silver City, Iowa,
to the Modern Woodmen camp at Treynor, and to
the Elks lodge at Council Bluffs and is popular
with his brethren of the fraternity. In fact he
is a man of many admirable characteristics, highly
spoken of throughout the community and his substantial
qualities have gained for him the favorable regard
of many warm friends.
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In the remote regions of the past Germany sent
her sons forth to conquer different lands and
their people and extended her domain, carrying
the crude civilization of the earlier ages into
hitherto wild districts. As the centuries have
gone by and the ages of modern progress have come
the learning and the labor of her sons have been
a force in civilizing the new world, and the German-American
element in our citizenship is widely recognized
as an important one. Mr. Bergman, a representative
of this class, was born in the kingdom of Prussia,
Germany, on the 24th of August, 1833, his parents
being Henry and Caroline (Hesse) Bergman, also
natives of the same country. Their family numbered
fourteen children but the subject of this review
is the only one living in America. The father
always followed farming and his entire life was
passed beneath one roof--a house which has stood
for two hundred and forty-two years. The youngest
brother of our subject was ordained as a minister
in his father's home and just two hundred years
prior to that time one of his great-great-uncles
had been ordained in the same house.
A. C. Bergman remained with his father until
twenty years of age and acquired his education
in the schools of his native country. When his
life span had covered two decades he determined
to seek his fortune in America and crossed the
Atlantic to New Orleans, whence he took a steamboat
up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, it requiring
seven days to make the trip. He landed at the
latter city and soon afterward found employment
as a farm hand at nine dollars per month, being
employed in that way for three
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months. He next went to Aurora, Kane county,
Illinois, securing work on the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad at a dollar and a quarter
per day. The road was at that time being built
and he assisted in laying the track. He continued
to work on the railroad in the winter of 1854-5,
being engaged in shoveling snow a part of the
time, and in the spring of the latter year he
made his way to Galva, Henry county, Illinois,
where he was employed as a section hand for a
year. In 1856 he was engaged in prospecting for
coal in the employ of the railroad company but
in the spring of 1857 he left Illinois and with
a boy friend walked from Galva to Davenport, Iowa,
in search of farm work. Failing to find employment
as they anticipated, however, they returned on
foot to Galva and Mr. Bergman soon afterward secured
a position on the farm of Lyman Riddle, with whom
he continued for two years. He did not draw his
money during that period, wishing to save it and
gain therewith a start in business life on his
own account. Two hundred dollars was due him when
his employer went to the east, failing to pay
Mr. Bergman for his work. Such a circumstance
would have utterly discouraged and disheartened
many a man of less resolute spirit, but Mr. Bergman
bravely faced the situation and started out anew.
In 1859, A. C. Bergman was married, in Illinois,
to Miss Katy M. Johnson, a native of Sweden, born
in 1841, her parents being Peter and Katy (Olson)
Johnson, who were likewise natives of Sweden.
They came to America in 1852, settling in Stark
county, Illinois, where the father died the same
year and the mother there spent her remaining
days. Their family numbered five children.
Following his marriage Mr. Bergman went to Knox
county, Illinois, where he rented a tract of land
and engaged in farming for twelve consecutive
years. In 1871 he came to Pottawattamie county,
Iowa, and invested his earnings in eighty acres
of land in Pleasant township, which he began tilling
and cultivating, adding to this as he found opportunity
until he is now the owner of two hundred and six
acres of valuable farm property on section 1,
Pleasant township. There he carried on general
agricultural pursuits until 1903, when he left
the farm and removed to Avoca, buying a fine residence
and two lots. He and his wife are now occupying
this attractive home in the enjoyment of a rest
which they have justly earned. His property is
the visible evidence of his life of thrift and
labor, his untiring diligence having constituted
the key which has unlocked for him the portals
of success.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bergman were born two sons
but both died while the family were residing in
Knox county, Illinois. They afterward adopted
a son, who is now living upon and operating the
home farm. Mr. Bergman votes with the republican
party and for twenty-six years has held the office
of justice of the peace, presiding with impartiality
over his court, his decisions being strictly fair
and just. He has also been president of the school
board for seven years and the cause of education
finds in him a stalwart champion. He belongs to
Selentia lodge, No. 371, A. F. & A. M., at
Shelby, Iowa, having been made a Mason in Galva,
Illinois, in 1867, since which time he has been
a faithful follower and worthy exemplar of the
craft. He was reared in the Catholic faith and
his wife is a member of the First Congregational
church
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at Avoca. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bergman are much
esteemed in the community where they have now
long resided and his example is one which is well
worthy of emulation, for it shows what may be
accomplished through determined and persistent
effort in a land where labor is not hampered by
caste or class.
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William Thomas Shively, who is living in honorable
retirement in Council Bluffs, was born in Taylor
county, Kentucky, March 8, 1830. His father, John
B. Shively, was likewise a native of that state,
born in 1804. Death came to him August 12, 1864,
he being killed by Union soldiers, and it is said
that the reason was that he owned slaves. At the
same time he had six sons serving in the Union
army, including William T. Shively of this review.
The father's death occurred in Lebanon, Marion
county, Kentucky. His wife bore the maiden name
of Sarah Heavrin and was a daughter of Robert
Heavrin, of Marion county.
In the district schools of Taylor county, Kentucky,
William T. Shively acquired his education, and
afterward began flat-boating on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, going down to New Orleans in 1850. He
was thus engaged for three years and on the 15th
of October, 1853, he married and settled on a
farm on Cloyd's creek in Marion county, Kentucky,
where he continued for five years. He then removed
to Taylor county, Kentucky, and bought four hundred
acres of land, upon which he remained until after
the outbreak of the Civil war. Espousing the cause
of the Union he entered Company H, of the Tenth
Kentucky Infantry, serving under Colonel John
M. Harlan, now one of the judges of the supreme
court of the United States. He was in that command
for nearly four years and was mustered out at
Louisville. He joined the army as a private and
won promotion to the rank of captain.
When the war was ended Mr. Shively bought a farm
in Taylor county, Kentucky, which he sold after
a year and then gave his attention to the milling
business until he came to Pottawattamie county,
Iowa, in the summer of 1866. For several months
he worked in the steam sawmills at Lewins Grove
near Avoca, and in the spring of 1867 he began
farming, in which he continued until the following
winter, when he entered the employ of the Rock
Island Railroad Company. He worked at grading
until the road was completed to Council Bluffs
in the same year. Subsequently he entered the
car repairing department of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad and so continued until 1869.
In that year he removed to Lemars, Iowa, where
he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of
land and turned his attention to farming, cultivating
and developing that place until the spring of
1882, when he went to O'Neill, Nebraska. He there
pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land,
which he brought under cultivation, and upon that
farm lived for sixteen years, his labors converting
it into a rich and productive property. Removing
to the city of O'Neill, he there lived for six
years, and
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in 1904 he came to Council Bluffs, where he has
since lived retired, enjoying well earned ease.
His life has been one of untiring activity and
enterprise and thus he acquired a handsome competence,
enabling him now to live in honorable retirement.
On the 4th of October, 1853, Mr. Shively was
married to Miss Terresa Hayden, a daughter of
James and Elenor (Hayden) Hayden, who though of
the same name were not related. The marriage was
celebrated at St. Mary's church in Calvary, Marion
county, Kentucky. Mrs. Shively was educated in
the convent there. Her father was a physician
but practiced only among his friends and neighbors,
devoting much of his time to farming and to the
cooperage business. Mr. and Mrs. Shively traveled
life's journey together for more than a half century
and were then separated by the death of the wife
in Council Bluffs on the 26th of April, 1907.
She was a communicant of St. Francis Xavier Catholic
church and was a lady of many excellent traits
of character.
Sarah Elenor Shively, the eldest daughter
of the family, was born May 28, 1855, in Marion
county, Kentucky, was educated at Calvary Academy,
and was married in Sioux City, Iowa, March 27,
1871, to Samuel Agnew Anderson, a son of Robert
and Dorcas Ann Simms (Hopkins) Anderson. He was
born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, April 2,
1845, and for eighteen years was yardmaster for
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at Council
Bluffs. He was killed while on duty by a train
November 30, 1887. Mrs. Anderson is a member of
the Degree of Honor in the Ladies of the Maccabees.
Her husband was a Mason and was buried with Masonic
honors. Mrs. Anderson is a trained nurse by profession
and is now acting as her father's housekeeper.
Her son, William R. Anderson, born in Sioux City,
July 5, 1872, was educated in the common schools
of Council Bluffs and is at present engaged in
railroad work in Waco, Texas, and is a member
of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Samuel
E. Anderson, the second son of Mrs. Sarah E. Anderson,
was born March 21, 1878, in Council Bluffs. He
was educated in the public schools and on the
11th of June, 1907, married Clara Chesnut, the
daughter of William Chesnut, of Omaha. He is a
member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen
and of the Royal Highlanders.
Susan Ann Shively, the second daughter
of William T. Shively, was born in Marion county,
Kentucky, September 10, 1856, and died on the
8th of December of that year. Mary Josephine Shively,
born April 14, 1858, died February 27, 1863.
William Thomas Shively, Jr., born in Taylor
county, Kentucky, August 11, 1860, lives at Norfolk,
Nebraska. He married Rosa Hershiser, of Waterloo,
Iowa, a daughter of Henry Hershiser, and their
children are May, Ruth, Jacob M., Louise and Glen.
William T. Shively, Jr., is an engineer for the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and socially
is connected with the Highlanders, the Maccabees,
and the O. E. S.
Richard Columbus Shively, born in Taylor
county, Kentucky, August 3, 1862, lives in Council
Bluffs and is a steamfitter for the Union Pacific
Railroad Company at its shops in Omaha, Nebraska.
He was educated in the schools of Sioux county,
Iowa, and married Katie Belle Jones, a daughter
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of William and Sarah Jones, of Council Bluffs.
The children of this marriage are Lawrence Ray,
an electrician; Sarah Clara Fay, Franklin Emanuel,
and Harry William.
John B. Shively, born in Taylor county,
Kentucky, May 1, 1865, acquired a public-school
education and married Clyde Fullington at Denison,
Texas. He died February 2, 1904, and his wife
in 1905, leaving two children, Gladys and Brent.
John B. Shively in his active business career
was a conductor and he belonged to the Ancient
Order of United Workmen and the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, while his wife was connected
with the auxiliary of the latter order.
James Hayden Shively, the next member
of the family of William T. Shively, was born
near Avoca, Iowa, November 4, 1867, and was educated
in the rural schools. For several years he was
a stationary engineer and is now engaged in the
automobile business in Omaha, Nebraska. He belongs
to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the
Stationary Engineers Union. He wedded Stella Jane
Smith, a daughter of O. F. Smith, at Centerville,
South Dakota, and they have two sons-Roy and Oscar.
George Edward Shively, born in Sioux county,
Iowa, April 18, 1871, is a motorman on the electric
line between Council Bluffs and Omaha and lives
in the former city. His fraternal relations are
with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen
of the World and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.
Bertha Alice, born in Sioux county, July
13, 1873, and educated in Council Bluffs, was
married June 27, 1900, to Frederick George Loper,
a son of Louis and Ellen (Roach) Loper, of this
city. Mr. Loper is engaged in. the Rock Island
train service at Council Bluffs.
Frances E. Shively, born December 15,
1875, in Sioux county, died July 28, 1879.
Estella Gertrude, born in Lemars, Iowa,
March 25, 1878, was educated at Chadron, Nebraska,
and Sioux City, Iowa, and taught school in Nebraska
for five years. On the 16th of May, 1899, she
became the wife of Edmund Joseph Gallagher, a
son of John and Mary (McCaffrey) Gallagher, natives
of Ireland and Scotland respectively. They came
to America in early life and Mr. Gallagher, who
was a tailor at Galena, Illinois, made the first
uniform ever worn by General U. S. Grant, at the
breaking out of the Civil war. His son Edmund
was born at Galena, September 2, 1873, and there
began his education. Following the removal of
the family to the west in 1883 he resided at different
points in Nebraska and Iowa. He engaged in merchandising
and in railroading prior to locating in Council
Bluffs in 1904, and at the present writing he
is engine inspector for the Illinois Central Railroad.
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, and he and his
wife are communicants of the Catholic church.
They have one child, Frances Irene.
Francis Jesse Shively, born October 3,
1881, near Lemars, Iowa, and educated in the Nebraska
public schools, was married in 1904 to Emma Koche,
of Norfolk, Nebraska, and they have two children,
Lester and Ralph. The
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father is manager of a telephone company at Windom,
Minnesota, and is a member of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen.
Mr. Shively was a democrat until 1896 but he
now casts an independent ballot. Ever since going
to Council Bluffs he has lived retired, deriving
a good income from his properties and money otherwise
invested. He lives at No. 3256 Avenue A, and is
well known in the city, a life of activity, integrity
and honor gaining for him the respect and confidence
of all with whom he has been associated in every
community.
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Samuel McCullough, a resident farmer living in
Layton township, was born in County Down, Ireland,
on the 14th of May, 1859. His parents were Hugh
and Sarah (McKee) McCullough. The father spent
his entire life in Ireland, his native land, where
he devoted his attention to farming, passing away
when about seventy-one or seventy-two years of
age. In 1882 Mrs. McCullough came to the United
States and made her home with her sons, who had
preceeded her to this country. She died in 1906,
when about ninety years of age. The family numbered
ten children but only five are living: Alexander
and John, who are residents of Chicago; William
and Hugh, who are living in England; and Samuel,
of this review.
In the public schools Samuel McCullough acquired
his education and at the age of nineteen crossed
the Atlantic, being the first of the family to
come to the new world. Making his way into the
interior of the country he settled at Henry county,
Illinois, where he worked by the month as a farm
hand for five years. In 1883 he continued his
westward journey to Iowa and established his home
in Shelby county, purchasing one hundred and sixty
acres of land five miles north of Marne, where
he began farming on his own ground. For eleven
years he resided on that farm and then took up
his abode in the town of Marne, where he engaged
in the grain and -live-stock business. In 1893
he removed to Pottawattamie county and settled
on his present farm on section 23, Layton township,
having purchased it the year before. It comprises
two hundred and forty acres of rich and productive
land which is under a high state of cultivation,
and in connection with tilling the soil he raises
cattle, being an excellent judge of stock so that
he is able to make judicious purchases and profitable
sales.
In 1881 Mr. McCullough was married to Miss Sarah
Pritchard, a daughter of Henry Pritchard, who
was a prominent farmer of Henry county, Illinois,
and is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have
six children: Jesse Wesley, at home; Mary Gertrude,
a stenographer in Omaha, Nebraska; Arthur Clyde,
a pharmacist in Belmont, Iowa; Roy Dewitt, of
Berkeley, California; and Herbert and Raymond,
both at home.
Mr. McCullough is a republican in politics and
though he firmly believes in the principles of
the party he has never been an office seeker.
He belongs to the Presbyterian church of Marne
and affiliates with Grove lodge, No. 492,
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A. F. & A. M., of Marne, and also with Marne
lodge, No. 218, A. O. U. W.
Although he is one of the more recent arrivals
in the county, he has already demonstrated his
right to be ranked with the energetic and prosperous
agriculturists of his community.
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