DICKERHOOF FAMILIES

The first Dickerhoof family came to America in the seventeenth century from the Rhine River Valley and settled in the Susquehanna River Valley in Pennsylvania.  Frank Dickerhoof's grandparents came from Huntington County, Pennsylvania, to Washington County, Maryland, a distance of about seventy-five miles.  George, one of the family of nine sons and one daughter was born in 1820.  George married Mary Ann Brewer in 1844.  In 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, they moved with their family of seven children to Hancock County, Illinois.  (One daughter was deceased in Maryland at the age of eight.)  Two more children were born in Illinois.

Within the next twenty-five years all of this family was living in Norway Township.  Four had homesteads along the south line of the township, adjoining, Daniel and Amelia D. Hanson, Henry and Lucy D. Dutton, Owen and Sarah Dickerhoof and Frank and Melissa Dickerhoof.  Albert and Milly Dickerhoof stayed a few years then purchased land in Courtland Township and spent their lives there.  Lucy, Christiane, Amanda, and Harry were pioneer school teachers.  Harry was also a farmer and grain dealer.  Frank, Joseph, Owen and Albert were farmers part of their lives.  All are deceased many years ago.  Frank and Melissa Dickerhoof, she was of Scotch-Irish decent, reared three children, David (1878-1943), May (1880-1956) and Lottie (1884-1950).  One daughter died in infancy.

David E. married Madge Bischoff (1883) of Clyde, Kansas in 1904.  Her paternal grandfather was born in 1817 on the west coast of California in "Round the Horn" and sailing vessel days.  The family owned and operated glass factories in Posen, German Poland, and her father was taken to Cairo, Egypt when eleven years old by his father when he went there to furnish glass for a new depot.  He was given a good education and could read, write and speak English before coming to America in 1869 where the family had relatives.  He also was a cabinet maker.  He had learned the trade in Berlin.  Her father came to Clyde in 1878.  Madge Bischoff's maternal grandfather was a nurseryman now called a horticulturist and came to New York from Burke County in England in 1845.  Her maternal grandmother came from Galway Ireland to New York in 1850 and her mother from New York to Kansas in 1880.  Madge and David Dickerhoof reared two children Cecil (1910) and Lottie Mae (1912).  Joseph F. died at the age of four in 1912.

Cecil is a veteran of five years service in the Army Ordinance Dept. in World War II.  He married Ann Haupt (1911) in 1942.  Her parents are Swiss and German, Fred and Marguerite Haupt.  Cecil and Ann have a grocery in Norway, Kansas.

Lottie Mae married Paul J. Linneberger in 1947.  His parents were Boniface and Elizabeth Linneberger of German decent.  They have Susan (1948) and David Paul (1952) and live in Lomita,California.  Paul works for the Los Angeles School System.  Lottie Mae was auditor of the Commissary at the Smoky Hill Air Base during World War II.

David E. received a good education.  He was a farmer for over thirty years, and Madge was a school teacher and is a retired postmaster in Norway.

May (1880-1956) daughter of Frank and Melissa Dickerhoof married James D. Carney (1882-1958) in 1904.  His parents were James and Mary McCarthy Carney.  They reared three daughters and one son, Avis (1905) married Harold Shaver (1906) son of John and Rose Shaver in 1927.  Their children are Elden H. (1930) and Patricia Lou (1934).  They live in Enid Oklahoma.

Eva (1908) married Carl Johnson (1910) in 1937.  They have a daughter and a son Paul (1941) and Loretta (1942).  They live in Kackley, Kansas.

James (1916) married Margaret Sheriden (1917) in 1940.  they have one daughter Pamela (1941).

Jean (1923) married John Smith in 1943.  Their children are Janice and Terry.  They live in James town, Kansas.

Lottie (1884-1950) married Samuel J. Summer (1877-1953) in 1902.  His parents were John and Rachael Gilbert Summer.  Their children were Fay H. (1903) who married Bessie Pierce (1904-1929) in 1923.  She was a daughter of B. C. and Betty Thornburg Pierce.  They had one son John Lynn (1930).  John Duane (1910-1929) married Mabel Thornburg (1910) in 1928, daughter of Marion and Etta Baxter Thornburg.  One daughter Betty Jean (1929).  Paul born (1916-1916).

Frank Dickerhoof lived in Norway Township from 1870 to 1943.  The family has been here for ninety-one years.  He purchased lots 11 and 12 in the "Original Townsite of 'Elgo'" in 1883 and this property is still in the original family.