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.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
RECOLLECTIONS OF A NATIVE KANSAN
My mother, May Dickerhoof Carney, was very proud of the fact that she was a native Kansan, and that her grandfather and her father homesteaded in Kansas. He mother, Melissa Belden, was born in Jamestown, Pennsylvania in 1860, and came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Belden to Republic County from Illinois in 1871 and homesteaded in Beaver Township near Kackley, Kansas.
Her father, Frank Dickerhoof, was born in Clearsprings, Maryland, in 1852, and moved with his parents, George and Mary Ann Brewer Dickerhoof, brothers and sisters to Illinois at the outbreak of the Civil War. He came on west to Kansas in 1867, when he was 15 years old. He worked as a cowboy near Grantville, which was near Topeka, for three years. In those days there were no fences, and the cattle were herded from place to place. He and another boy stayed with the cattle, riding horseback by day and sleeping under their wagon at night, even in midwinter and during snow storms.
When Frank was 18 years old, he came to Republic county, where his brothers and cousins had homesteaded. He rode his horse as far as Washington, Kansas, the first day, spent twenty-five cents for overnight lodging for himself and his horse; rode to Clyde, Kansas, the following day and again spent twenty-five cents for lodging. On the third day, he arrived at his relatives homes in Norway Township.
As he was not eligible to obtain a homestead until he was 21 years old, it was not until 1873 that he acquired his 160 acres, in Norway Township, three miles south of Norway, Kansas. His was the last homestead granted in Republic County, and covered land on both sides of the Republican River.
Frank Dickerhoof marred Melissa Belden in 1877, and they lived on his homestead in a sod house for two years, where their first child, and only son, David, was born. The following year, they built a four-room frame house, where my mother, May, was born.
After living six years on their homestead, mother and her brother moved with their parents to Norway, on the Republican River. Occasionally a few Indians, following the river trail, would come to Norway. Mother vividly remembered once hiding under the dining room table when some Indians came in without knocking, and by pointing and grunting, made it known that they wanted food and various articles about the room. Grandmother gave them what they wanted as she was afraid of making them angry.
In the winter when the family went to visit relatives, or made a rare trip to Scandia, they rode in a lumber wagon or a two-seated buggy. They had fur lap robes and each member of the family had a hot brick to keep his feet warm. Mother and her little sister Lottie, wore three flannel petticoats and long wool stockings, and grandfather wore a great coat made of horsehide and fastened with wooden pegs.
Many winters while the children were growing up, their meat consisted of prairie chicken, rabbit, and squirrel. Mother always maintained game must be cleaned and hung out to freeze before it could be cooked and eaten. A delicacy they sometimes had was possum pie, but mother did not care for it. She said it was too greasy.
Washing was always done out of doors using a great iron kettle to heat the water. White clothes were always boiled, and the soap was homemade from lye and lard after butchering. They kept the butter in a bucket on a rope hanging down in the well and later in the cistern.
An amusing incident occurred when mother was nearly seven years old, and her sister Lottie, was three. Their mother was going to visit a relative and planned to take the two little girls. She drove a team of spirited horses she had difficulty in controlling. When she started, she placed the girls in the back seat of the buggy and told them, in no uncertain terms, to be quiet and not to bother her while she was driving. The weather was warm and, after riding a few miles, the girls became bored and began grabbing at branches and sunflowers that came within reach as they rode along. Soon Lottie leaned too far to reach one and was pulled out. Mother sat horrified for a full mile, and then finally said, in a smell, meek voice "Ma, Lottie is out of the buggy." Needless to say, they had to drive back and get her.
The Republican River had to be forded at that time, as there was no bridge across it at Norway until 1887. One summer day, mother's parents and the children went with another family in a lumber wagon across the river, the current took them a little farther down stream, and the wagon box began lifting from the running gears. They all reached out and held on to the upright bolsters at the sides of the wagon to keep the wagon box on its wheels until they reached the other side of the river and were on dry land again.
When mother was a young girl in her teens, she spent many happy hours skating on the Republican River. The boys at that time thought nothing of skating to Scandia, seven miles away, and back in an afternoon. Everyone, even the grownups, had ice skates.
When mother was about fifteen years old, grandfather used to take the horse and buggy, and take my mother eighteen miles to Concordia so that she could take piano lessons at the Catholic Convent there. Her parents set a great store by book learnin' as they termed education in those days. Mother finished rural school and in 1896 attended the Great Bend Normal and Business College. In 1898 she attended the Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia.
During her first year of teaching the school house burned down, and she finished the term teaching in an upstairs room at the Bil Dunlap home, in the school district. Mother was eighteen when she began teaching school and often some of her pupils were boys who were older than she was as they went to school only when there was no work to done on the farm. Her year of teaching at Hungry Hollow was very frustrating. That year she had an unusually large number of young men in school who frequently decided to crawl out of the window and go have a smoke.
In 1904, mother married my father James Carney, whose father had homesteaded in 1872 in Beaver Township, also in Republic County. Mother and father celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1954. Their entire married life, with the exception of three years, was spent in Republic County, Kansas. At her death in September 1956, she was laid to rest only eleven miles from her childhood home. In every sense of the word, mother was a true Kansan.
Her father, Frank Dickerhoof, was born in Clearsprings, Maryland, in 1852, and moved with his parents, George and Mary Ann Brewer Dickerhoof, brothers and sisters to Illinois at the outbreak of the Civil War. He came on west to Kansas in 1867, when he was 15 years old. He worked as a cowboy near Grantville, which was near Topeka, for three years. In those days there were no fences, and the cattle were herded from place to place. He and another boy stayed with the cattle, riding horseback by day and sleeping under their wagon at night, even in midwinter and during snow storms.
When Frank was 18 years old, he came to Republic county, where his brothers and cousins had homesteaded. He rode his horse as far as Washington, Kansas, the first day, spent twenty-five cents for overnight lodging for himself and his horse; rode to Clyde, Kansas, the following day and again spent twenty-five cents for lodging. On the third day, he arrived at his relatives homes in Norway Township.
As he was not eligible to obtain a homestead until he was 21 years old, it was not until 1873 that he acquired his 160 acres, in Norway Township, three miles south of Norway, Kansas. His was the last homestead granted in Republic County, and covered land on both sides of the Republican River.
Frank Dickerhoof marred Melissa Belden in 1877, and they lived on his homestead in a sod house for two years, where their first child, and only son, David, was born. The following year, they built a four-room frame house, where my mother, May, was born.
After living six years on their homestead, mother and her brother moved with their parents to Norway, on the Republican River. Occasionally a few Indians, following the river trail, would come to Norway. Mother vividly remembered once hiding under the dining room table when some Indians came in without knocking, and by pointing and grunting, made it known that they wanted food and various articles about the room. Grandmother gave them what they wanted as she was afraid of making them angry.
In the winter when the family went to visit relatives, or made a rare trip to Scandia, they rode in a lumber wagon or a two-seated buggy. They had fur lap robes and each member of the family had a hot brick to keep his feet warm. Mother and her little sister Lottie, wore three flannel petticoats and long wool stockings, and grandfather wore a great coat made of horsehide and fastened with wooden pegs.
Many winters while the children were growing up, their meat consisted of prairie chicken, rabbit, and squirrel. Mother always maintained game must be cleaned and hung out to freeze before it could be cooked and eaten. A delicacy they sometimes had was possum pie, but mother did not care for it. She said it was too greasy.
Washing was always done out of doors using a great iron kettle to heat the water. White clothes were always boiled, and the soap was homemade from lye and lard after butchering. They kept the butter in a bucket on a rope hanging down in the well and later in the cistern.
An amusing incident occurred when mother was nearly seven years old, and her sister Lottie, was three. Their mother was going to visit a relative and planned to take the two little girls. She drove a team of spirited horses she had difficulty in controlling. When she started, she placed the girls in the back seat of the buggy and told them, in no uncertain terms, to be quiet and not to bother her while she was driving. The weather was warm and, after riding a few miles, the girls became bored and began grabbing at branches and sunflowers that came within reach as they rode along. Soon Lottie leaned too far to reach one and was pulled out. Mother sat horrified for a full mile, and then finally said, in a smell, meek voice "Ma, Lottie is out of the buggy." Needless to say, they had to drive back and get her.
The Republican River had to be forded at that time, as there was no bridge across it at Norway until 1887. One summer day, mother's parents and the children went with another family in a lumber wagon across the river, the current took them a little farther down stream, and the wagon box began lifting from the running gears. They all reached out and held on to the upright bolsters at the sides of the wagon to keep the wagon box on its wheels until they reached the other side of the river and were on dry land again.
When mother was a young girl in her teens, she spent many happy hours skating on the Republican River. The boys at that time thought nothing of skating to Scandia, seven miles away, and back in an afternoon. Everyone, even the grownups, had ice skates.
When mother was about fifteen years old, grandfather used to take the horse and buggy, and take my mother eighteen miles to Concordia so that she could take piano lessons at the Catholic Convent there. Her parents set a great store by book learnin' as they termed education in those days. Mother finished rural school and in 1896 attended the Great Bend Normal and Business College. In 1898 she attended the Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia.
During her first year of teaching the school house burned down, and she finished the term teaching in an upstairs room at the Bil Dunlap home, in the school district. Mother was eighteen when she began teaching school and often some of her pupils were boys who were older than she was as they went to school only when there was no work to done on the farm. Her year of teaching at Hungry Hollow was very frustrating. That year she had an unusually large number of young men in school who frequently decided to crawl out of the window and go have a smoke.
In 1904, mother married my father James Carney, whose father had homesteaded in 1872 in Beaver Township, also in Republic County. Mother and father celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1954. Their entire married life, with the exception of three years, was spent in Republic County, Kansas. At her death in September 1956, she was laid to rest only eleven miles from her childhood home. In every sense of the word, mother was a true Kansan.
Eva Carney Johnson
DANIEL DAVID
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel David homesteaded in Section 32 in Norway Township at an early date. They reared a son John and a daughter Marguerite. John was a farmer and late moved to Montana with his family. He has two daughters and often came back to the homestead. Marguerite went west and became a successful Indian school teacher. When she retired she returned to the homestead and lived there for some time. Milton Stensaas purchased the David farm, and she now makes her home with her family. Milton's property joins the David farm.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
THE DANIEL KERSHNER FAMILY
Daniel Kershner was a very early settler in Norway Township. He was a Civil War Veteran and a homesteader in Section 8. Mrs. Kershner came from the East and married Daniel Kershner in Norway township.
They reared two sons, Luther King and Jerry. Luther, the older son, went on a trip around the world. In the Pacific Islands, he contracted a fever and after awhile he came home. He did not recover and died a short time after returning to his home. Jerry Kershner was a veteran of World War I. He received a high rank while in the armed forces. Later he came to Concordia and was engaged in business there. He owns property in Section 8 in Norway Township where hi father had a homestead.
They reared two sons, Luther King and Jerry. Luther, the older son, went on a trip around the world. In the Pacific Islands, he contracted a fever and after awhile he came home. He did not recover and died a short time after returning to his home. Jerry Kershner was a veteran of World War I. He received a high rank while in the armed forces. Later he came to Concordia and was engaged in business there. He owns property in Section 8 in Norway Township where hi father had a homestead.
GUST NELSON
Gust Nelson and his wife Edle were one of Norway Townships most generous and best loved of its earliest settlers. Mr. Nelson built the first home with a store in the northeast room. This house is still a dwelling and in good repair. It is in the north side of Highway 148 a short distance west of Norway's main street. This house was built a long time before Norway was platted. He gave the land for the original townsite of Norway, land for the Lutheran Church and land for the Lutheran parsonage. The first Lutheran parsonage is now a part of the Joseph Melhus home. Gust Nelson married Miss Edla Swenson. They both came to America from Sweden.
They reared a family of seven children; Minnie, Ida, Albert, Edwin S., Edna, Amit and Leona.
Albert was a printer and newspaper man. He managed the Daily Express in Beatrice, Nebraska for many years.
Edwin S. graduated from Kansas University and taught school for several years. In 1910 he was elected District Clerk of Republic County. In 1914 he represented Republic County in the Kansas Legislature. He then decided to study law and was admitted a member of the Bar.
Mr. and Mrs. Gust Nelson and family moved to Republic, Kansas for several years and later to the State of Washington. Both have passed on a number of years ago.
(Part of this history was taken from "Kansas and Kansans" by William E. Connelly, Secretary of Kansas State Historical Society Vol III 1918)
They reared a family of seven children; Minnie, Ida, Albert, Edwin S., Edna, Amit and Leona.
Albert was a printer and newspaper man. He managed the Daily Express in Beatrice, Nebraska for many years.
Edwin S. graduated from Kansas University and taught school for several years. In 1910 he was elected District Clerk of Republic County. In 1914 he represented Republic County in the Kansas Legislature. He then decided to study law and was admitted a member of the Bar.
Mr. and Mrs. Gust Nelson and family moved to Republic, Kansas for several years and later to the State of Washington. Both have passed on a number of years ago.
(Part of this history was taken from "Kansas and Kansans" by William E. Connelly, Secretary of Kansas State Historical Society Vol III 1918)
EDWARD ARTHUR CARLGREN
Edward Arthur Carlgren has farmed and resided near Norway since 1907. He came to Republic County from Sibley Township in Cloud County where he was born November 19, 1886. His mother, Caroline Jonson, came to America from Sweden in 1884 to the home of her sister, Christine Bade. She was born July 31, 1861. His father, Carl F. Carlgren, was born in Sweden, March 13, 1842. He came to Chicago in 1868 and later homesteaded in Sibley Township in 1869. He died February 11, 1916.
E. A. Cargren was married to Inga Tiller December 29, 1909. They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary December 29, 1959, with open house at their home east of Norway where they started housekeeping. Six children, five boys and one girl, were born to them.
Carrol, now deceased, was born October 17, 1910. He was married to Gladys Axelton of Manhattan on March 10, 1934. Their children are David, Arthur, Doris, and Carl.
Ivan, born September 2, 1912, was married to Aileen Nelson of Kackley, Kansas, on June 27, 1943. Their children are Robert, Elaine, Ina Jean, deceased, and Edward.
Loren, born May 4, 1916, was married to Norma Aspegren of Scandia, Kansas, on October 31, 1945. Three children were born to them; Katheleen, Dennis, and Lee Ann.
Evelyn was born May 1, 1919. She was married to Rev. Bernhard Heltne of Decorah, Iowa, June 7, 1944. Their children are Carl, Paul, Rebecca, and Ila Jean.
Joseph, now deceased, was born April 17, 1921. He was married to Clarice Widen of Concordia, January 27, 1946. Two boys were born to them; they are Jerry and Don.
Charles, born August 8, 1923, was married to Vivian Sherwood of Talmo August 6, 1950. There children are Cheryl, Nancy, and Lynette.
Ivan, Loren, and Charles farm in partnership with their father and they live near Norway. Joe lived and farmed east of Norway, and Carrol, southwest of Concordia. Evelyn lives at Goodridge, Minnesota, where Pastor Heltne has a parish charge. Loren and Joseph were both over seas in the United States service in World War II.
Edward Carlgren served several terms on township board and on the Lutheran church board. He served 25 years on the Norway school board and signed the high school diplomas for each of his children. He worked hard to help get rural electricity in Republic County.
Mrs. Carlgren remembers her father, Ole Tiller, who homesteaded a half mile east and a mile south of Norway, as being very thoughtful of fellow travelers due to the hardships in finding water between junction City and his home. He dug his first well near the road where many weary travelers drew water with the old oaken buckets to water themselves and their teams. Many hogs were also watered down there on their way to market. Mrs. Carlgren has lived in Section 22 of Norway Township since her birth which was December 29, 1888.
E. A. Cargren was married to Inga Tiller December 29, 1909. They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary December 29, 1959, with open house at their home east of Norway where they started housekeeping. Six children, five boys and one girl, were born to them.
Carrol, now deceased, was born October 17, 1910. He was married to Gladys Axelton of Manhattan on March 10, 1934. Their children are David, Arthur, Doris, and Carl.
Ivan, born September 2, 1912, was married to Aileen Nelson of Kackley, Kansas, on June 27, 1943. Their children are Robert, Elaine, Ina Jean, deceased, and Edward.
Loren, born May 4, 1916, was married to Norma Aspegren of Scandia, Kansas, on October 31, 1945. Three children were born to them; Katheleen, Dennis, and Lee Ann.
Evelyn was born May 1, 1919. She was married to Rev. Bernhard Heltne of Decorah, Iowa, June 7, 1944. Their children are Carl, Paul, Rebecca, and Ila Jean.
Joseph, now deceased, was born April 17, 1921. He was married to Clarice Widen of Concordia, January 27, 1946. Two boys were born to them; they are Jerry and Don.
Charles, born August 8, 1923, was married to Vivian Sherwood of Talmo August 6, 1950. There children are Cheryl, Nancy, and Lynette.
Ivan, Loren, and Charles farm in partnership with their father and they live near Norway. Joe lived and farmed east of Norway, and Carrol, southwest of Concordia. Evelyn lives at Goodridge, Minnesota, where Pastor Heltne has a parish charge. Loren and Joseph were both over seas in the United States service in World War II.
Edward Carlgren served several terms on township board and on the Lutheran church board. He served 25 years on the Norway school board and signed the high school diplomas for each of his children. He worked hard to help get rural electricity in Republic County.
Mrs. Carlgren remembers her father, Ole Tiller, who homesteaded a half mile east and a mile south of Norway, as being very thoughtful of fellow travelers due to the hardships in finding water between junction City and his home. He dug his first well near the road where many weary travelers drew water with the old oaken buckets to water themselves and their teams. Many hogs were also watered down there on their way to market. Mrs. Carlgren has lived in Section 22 of Norway Township since her birth which was December 29, 1888.
THE NORRIS FAMILY
The southwest quarter of Section 15, Township 4 South Range 4 was homesteaded by Amos Austin and title was received in 1875, July 30, transferred to Horace Austin who traded it to Charlotte J. and Henry S. Norris for a sawmill in Clinton County, Michigan on May 31, 1876. The Norris family still owns this farm. It is owned by a granddaughter, Ruby Norris Blosser and her husband Martin Blosser and James Henry Norris, a great grandson of Henry S. and Charlotte J. Norris, farms the land.
Henry Stuart Norris was born in Clinton County, Michigan and married Charlotte Jane Ware, also of Clinton County, Michigan.
They came to Kansas arriving at a small town near Hebron, Nebraska, by railroad and from there by ox team to Norway Township in 1873.
Mr. and Mrs H. S. Norris reared three children; Hattie, who married Ben Kerchman and moved to Seattle, Washington, Matilda who married Charles Dutton, a pioneer and moved to Philadelphia, Pa., and Arthur who married Ollie Long.
Ollie Long came to Kansas from Missouri about 1888, with her two brothers, Quilla and Tome and her sister Myrt. They lived a mile and a quarter north of Norway until they married.
Their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Long, came originally fro Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Norris then lived on the Norris farm place where he engaged in farming. They were charter members of the E.U.B. Church in Norway and Mr. Norris was a member of the Norway I.O.O.F. Lodge and Masonic Lodge. Mrs. Norris was a member of the Norway Rebekah Lodge and a charter member of the Wednesday Club and a member for over forty years.
Mr. Norris served Norway Township as clerk and as Justice of the Peace for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Norris were active in all church, community and school projects.
Mr. Norris passed on February 26, 1950. The Norris farm home burned to the ground in 1954. Mrs. Norris passed on in 1957.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Norris reared six children: Clarence, born Nov. 22, 1894, married Bertha McGeorge of Concordia, Kansas in 1919. He attended the Norway schools and graduated from the Concordia Business College. He took the Civil Services Examination and entered the Post Office of Concordia, Kansas. He later moved to North Platte, Nebraska and then to Council Grove, Kansas. He is now a retired rural mail carrier. In the Army during World War I Clarence served the Quarter Masters Corps. He is a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic Lodge and the Kiwanis Club. They have two sons, Robert and Jerry. Robert served in the Air Corps in Alaska during World War II. He married Elaine Hanson of Council Grove in 1947. They have two daughters and live in Topeka.
Robert has one son, Jerry, by a former marriage who lived with his mother in Florida. Jerry served overseas in the Air Corps during World War II. He married Peggy Wilcox of Concordia, Kansas, and they, with their two daughters and one son, live in Denver, Colorado. Ruby was born April 29, 1897. She graduated from Norway High School and taught in the Consolidated Grade School in Norway and in Fairview Dist. 93. She taught Martin Blosser in 1922 and they now live in Jamestown. Ruby is a member of the Methodist Church, Eastern Star and C. L. and H. Club. They have two daughters, Andrea Sue, who died in infancy, and Kay Annette in school at home. Graydon attended school in Norway and served in the Marines during World War I. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the E.U.B. Church. He passed away at his home in Modesto, California July 11, 1954. He had been employed in the City School System there as a bus driver and mechanic. He married Miss Mabel Kenyon of Concordia, Kansas in June 1922. They reared five children.
Ediatha married Milton McKinney of Plymouth, Indiana, who served overseas in World War II. They live in Plymouth, Indiana with their two sons. Harvey in Army Medical in World War II. He was married to Mabel Judd and they live in Garden Grove, California. They have one son and two daughters.
Ila Jean marred Frank Johnson. They have a daughter and a son and live in Modesto, California.
Naomi married Irvin Anchutz. They have three sons and a daughter. Their home is in Hayward, California.
Linda who is in high school lives with her mother in Modesto.
Lloyd was born January 10, 1903. He attended school at Norway and was engaged in farming in that community for several years. He married Edith Smith of Scandia in 1924. They later moved to Scandia. At the time of his death April 23, 1958, he was employed at the Boeing Aircraft plant in Wichita.
Lloyd was a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic Lodge, Scandia, RAM Hiram Council #10 Belleville, the Concordia O.E.S. and was a member of the IOOF at Norway, the first eighteen-year old man to be admitted to the Odd Fellow Lodge in the Stated of Kansas. Lloyd and Edith Norris reared three children: James Henry, a graduate of Norway High School, served in the Navy in World War II and graduated from the Dallas Aviation School. He is a member of the E.U.B. Church at Norway where he lives, and of the Masonic Lodge at Scandia. He is engaged in farming in the Norway community. He married Iva Gray of Jamestown in December, 1952. They have one daughter and two sons: Jean, Jim, and Donald. Jean and Jim now attend the Norway school.
Ruby, a graduate of Scandia High School, married Morris Moravek of Munden. They have two sons and a daughter and live in Scandia.
Clyde is a graduate of Norway High School. He is a member of the Methodist church and the Masons Lodge. He was a Chevrolet sales man for several years and is now engaged in farming. He married Ella Aspergren of Scandia, December 23, 1928. They now live in Belleville.
Vivian May was born December 13, 1907 and passed on in March of 1910.
Henry Stuart Norris was born in Clinton County, Michigan and married Charlotte Jane Ware, also of Clinton County, Michigan.
They came to Kansas arriving at a small town near Hebron, Nebraska, by railroad and from there by ox team to Norway Township in 1873.
Mr. and Mrs H. S. Norris reared three children; Hattie, who married Ben Kerchman and moved to Seattle, Washington, Matilda who married Charles Dutton, a pioneer and moved to Philadelphia, Pa., and Arthur who married Ollie Long.
Ollie Long came to Kansas from Missouri about 1888, with her two brothers, Quilla and Tome and her sister Myrt. They lived a mile and a quarter north of Norway until they married.
Their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Long, came originally fro Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Norris then lived on the Norris farm place where he engaged in farming. They were charter members of the E.U.B. Church in Norway and Mr. Norris was a member of the Norway I.O.O.F. Lodge and Masonic Lodge. Mrs. Norris was a member of the Norway Rebekah Lodge and a charter member of the Wednesday Club and a member for over forty years.
Mr. Norris served Norway Township as clerk and as Justice of the Peace for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Norris were active in all church, community and school projects.
Mr. Norris passed on February 26, 1950. The Norris farm home burned to the ground in 1954. Mrs. Norris passed on in 1957.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Norris reared six children: Clarence, born Nov. 22, 1894, married Bertha McGeorge of Concordia, Kansas in 1919. He attended the Norway schools and graduated from the Concordia Business College. He took the Civil Services Examination and entered the Post Office of Concordia, Kansas. He later moved to North Platte, Nebraska and then to Council Grove, Kansas. He is now a retired rural mail carrier. In the Army during World War I Clarence served the Quarter Masters Corps. He is a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic Lodge and the Kiwanis Club. They have two sons, Robert and Jerry. Robert served in the Air Corps in Alaska during World War II. He married Elaine Hanson of Council Grove in 1947. They have two daughters and live in Topeka.
Robert has one son, Jerry, by a former marriage who lived with his mother in Florida. Jerry served overseas in the Air Corps during World War II. He married Peggy Wilcox of Concordia, Kansas, and they, with their two daughters and one son, live in Denver, Colorado. Ruby was born April 29, 1897. She graduated from Norway High School and taught in the Consolidated Grade School in Norway and in Fairview Dist. 93. She taught Martin Blosser in 1922 and they now live in Jamestown. Ruby is a member of the Methodist Church, Eastern Star and C. L. and H. Club. They have two daughters, Andrea Sue, who died in infancy, and Kay Annette in school at home. Graydon attended school in Norway and served in the Marines during World War I. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the E.U.B. Church. He passed away at his home in Modesto, California July 11, 1954. He had been employed in the City School System there as a bus driver and mechanic. He married Miss Mabel Kenyon of Concordia, Kansas in June 1922. They reared five children.
Ediatha married Milton McKinney of Plymouth, Indiana, who served overseas in World War II. They live in Plymouth, Indiana with their two sons. Harvey in Army Medical in World War II. He was married to Mabel Judd and they live in Garden Grove, California. They have one son and two daughters.
Ila Jean marred Frank Johnson. They have a daughter and a son and live in Modesto, California.
Naomi married Irvin Anchutz. They have three sons and a daughter. Their home is in Hayward, California.
Linda who is in high school lives with her mother in Modesto.
Lloyd was born January 10, 1903. He attended school at Norway and was engaged in farming in that community for several years. He married Edith Smith of Scandia in 1924. They later moved to Scandia. At the time of his death April 23, 1958, he was employed at the Boeing Aircraft plant in Wichita.
Lloyd was a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic Lodge, Scandia, RAM Hiram Council #10 Belleville, the Concordia O.E.S. and was a member of the IOOF at Norway, the first eighteen-year old man to be admitted to the Odd Fellow Lodge in the Stated of Kansas. Lloyd and Edith Norris reared three children: James Henry, a graduate of Norway High School, served in the Navy in World War II and graduated from the Dallas Aviation School. He is a member of the E.U.B. Church at Norway where he lives, and of the Masonic Lodge at Scandia. He is engaged in farming in the Norway community. He married Iva Gray of Jamestown in December, 1952. They have one daughter and two sons: Jean, Jim, and Donald. Jean and Jim now attend the Norway school.
Ruby, a graduate of Scandia High School, married Morris Moravek of Munden. They have two sons and a daughter and live in Scandia.
Clyde is a graduate of Norway High School. He is a member of the Methodist church and the Masons Lodge. He was a Chevrolet sales man for several years and is now engaged in farming. He married Ella Aspergren of Scandia, December 23, 1928. They now live in Belleville.
Vivian May was born December 13, 1907 and passed on in March of 1910.
Monday, November 15, 2010
LARS J. LARSEN
Lars J. Larsen was born in Oslo, Norway, May 5, 1869, of parents Amund and Hannah Larsen. He came with his parents to America at the age of two. The family spent the first winter at McGregor, Iowa, and then homesteaded near Scandia, Kansas. Lars attended the rural school District 88 south of Scandia. He was baptized in Oslo, Norway, and confirmed in St. Luke's Lutheran Church near Jamestown, Kansas. As a young lad, to make some money, he herded cattle for fifty cents a day for a farmer, Ole Olsen, south of Norway.
When Lars was 24 years old, he bought the Farington farm in January 1893, one mile est of Norway. He married Karen Tiller January 10, 1894 and they lived in their dugout home, which had a little front structure of wood built out. In this home, their two children, Anton and Ellen were born. Mrs. Larsen passed away on November 4, 1900, of typhoid fever, so didn't get moved into the new home Mr. Larsen was building.
Lars was a telephone serviceman for the Farmer's Telephone company for several years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Scandia forty-six years. Following his retirement from farming, he spent several winters in Florida and Texas. There he enjoyed fishing and a hobby of making sea shell jewelry. E. H. Bartlett, Pete Pehrson, and Eric Thompson have accompanied him on these trips.
Mr. Larsen passed away at the Scandia Rest Home, September 13, 1961, at the age of 92 years after being an invalid for three years having suffered a stroke. He had four grandchildren, Capt. Eugene Larsen, who has been a pilot instructor in the Air Corps, Leo Hammer employed at a missile base in Denver, Colorado, Mrs. John Walser, a registered nurse, whose husband is a wholesale salesman for pen companies and lives in West Des Moines, Iowa, and Merle Hammer, bookkeeper at the Santa Fe Offices in Topeka, Kansas. His eleven great-grandchildren include Janine Larsen of Pease, New Hampshire, Paul, Mike, Doris, David and Christine Hammer of Littleton, Colorado, Janet, Jay and Stephenie Walser of West Des Moines, Iowa, and Roxane and Dale Hammer of Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. Walser is the former Elaine Hammer, Leo Hammer married Eleda Dahl of Hardy, Nebraska, and Merle Hammer married Norma Laird of silver Lake, Kansas. Captain Eugene Larsen married Narwilde Rose Hautem of Washington, D. C.
When Lars was 24 years old, he bought the Farington farm in January 1893, one mile est of Norway. He married Karen Tiller January 10, 1894 and they lived in their dugout home, which had a little front structure of wood built out. In this home, their two children, Anton and Ellen were born. Mrs. Larsen passed away on November 4, 1900, of typhoid fever, so didn't get moved into the new home Mr. Larsen was building.
Lars was a telephone serviceman for the Farmer's Telephone company for several years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Scandia forty-six years. Following his retirement from farming, he spent several winters in Florida and Texas. There he enjoyed fishing and a hobby of making sea shell jewelry. E. H. Bartlett, Pete Pehrson, and Eric Thompson have accompanied him on these trips.
Mr. Larsen passed away at the Scandia Rest Home, September 13, 1961, at the age of 92 years after being an invalid for three years having suffered a stroke. He had four grandchildren, Capt. Eugene Larsen, who has been a pilot instructor in the Air Corps, Leo Hammer employed at a missile base in Denver, Colorado, Mrs. John Walser, a registered nurse, whose husband is a wholesale salesman for pen companies and lives in West Des Moines, Iowa, and Merle Hammer, bookkeeper at the Santa Fe Offices in Topeka, Kansas. His eleven great-grandchildren include Janine Larsen of Pease, New Hampshire, Paul, Mike, Doris, David and Christine Hammer of Littleton, Colorado, Janet, Jay and Stephenie Walser of West Des Moines, Iowa, and Roxane and Dale Hammer of Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. Walser is the former Elaine Hammer, Leo Hammer married Eleda Dahl of Hardy, Nebraska, and Merle Hammer married Norma Laird of silver Lake, Kansas. Captain Eugene Larsen married Narwilde Rose Hautem of Washington, D. C.
Written by Mrs. Ellen Hammer
CLAES HENRICK HERRMAN
This history was taken from "Kansas history for Kansans", written and compiled by William E. Connelly, Secretary of Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, Vol. III, 1918; and from accounts given by Mr. Herrman's family in 1961.
Claes (Charles) was born in Sweden, October 19, 1841. He came to the United States in 1867 when he was twenty-six years old. In Sweden he had acquired a public school education and had been thoroughly trained as a blacksmith. He had decided that his opportunities were few and that in America his chances for success and a home and fortune were good.
Soon after he arrived in Chicago, Mr. Herrman became a member of the Scandinavian Agricultural Society of fifty members who were all mechanics. They left Chicago in 1868 to settle on the Kansas Prairies.
He came to Kansas a poor young man without means or influential friends, and the only prospect before him, a great new country, undeveloped and almost unexplored. The colony covered several thousand acres. He was a skilled blacksmith and other members followed various trades.
They were compelled to stay close together because of the Indians.
In November of the year they arrived, some Indians were killed. A white boy was scalped and two oxen shot in an encounter between the whites and Indians. Mr. Herrman's brother-in-law was killed trying to keep the Indians from taking their horses.
Soon afterward, the government armed the pioneers with guns and sent regular troops for their protection.
During the earliest days, the colonists' meat was buffalo and other wild game. Only a few of these earliest settlers made good on their claims. Lack of funds and Indians were the main reasons for leaving.
Claes Herrman went through the greatest of hardships and dangers and worked at anything and everything to make a living. Life in those days was a real struggle. He carried a mail route on foot from Scandia into Nebraska and drove provision wagons for the government into Colorado, hauling food for the soldiers. He drove an ox team over the Santa Fe Trail down into New Mexico and had many narrow escapes when the caravan was attacked by Indians.
Claes Herrman and Miss Hilda Amelia Grahnstedt were married in 1873 by George Johnson, Justice of the Peace at White Rock. They walked over to his home and had to ford the river. She lived five miles from Justice Johnson's home.
Hilda Amelia was the daughter of Christine and Franz Grahnstedt and the granddaughter of Adolph and Amalia C. Leander Grahnstedt. Franz Grahnstedt brought a signed statement with him from Sweden, dated 1851, that he was an expert carpenter, and recommending him.
Hilda Amelia Herrman had come to Scandia from Tranas, Saby, Forsamling, Smoland, Sweden where she received her education in a private school from Miss Christina Hahn. She taught in this school later. She was confirmed in 1870 and came to America in 1872. Her parents came in 1857.
Mr. and Mrs Claes Herrman lived for two years north of Scandia. In 1878, they moved to the farm home of Michael Thompson in Norway Township and lived there until their own home was completed on an adjoining farm where Mrs. Herrman lived continuously for fifty-nine years. Mr. Herrman died in 1928 aged fifty-nine years and his wife in 1937 aged eighty-two years. He had one brother Eric P. Herrman in American who was a miner in Colorado. Eric was born in 1847 in Sweden and died in 1911 in Colorado. The Herrmans prospered and were the owners of one thousand acres of good land. They produced fine corn, wheat, and alfalfa, and had a herd of superior grade cattle. Mr. Herrman built a fourteen room home of native dressed stone, with full basement. It was one of the finest homes at that time, finished in 1900.
Mr. Herrman threshed the first wheat to be threshed in his community and with his own equipment. He approved of raising the standards of the community, especially schools and roads.
"By Gone Days" -- This paper was written in Swedish by Claes Henrick Herrman in 1908. The family had it translated into English to be used in this history of Norway Township.
"I am not a writer but when I see how Olavis puts forth his efforts, I will do my best. After more than forty years of friendship with Swedish Americans and other people, I am wondering if one of the Swedes should read this, that was with the sixteen prairie schooners that left Fort Harker October 1, 1868 and were overwhelmed by a big band of Indians on November 11. It was a wonder that any of us could come out with our lives.
A young man from Boston was killed by two bullets and an arrow. Two oxen of ours were killed. One Indian fell so near he was scalped when he fill. Others fell like frozen potato plants and hung over their horses, and we had two miles yet to travel.
After the burial, we went back one mile for provisions which took two days. When we came back, the graves were empty. The dead lay beside the graves with scalped heads. This was sixty miles from Fort Lyon, Colorado.
When I came to Scandia in the year 1869, my brother-in-law was shot along with several others, and the women were taken prisoners. The colonists' horses were stolen and the colony pilfered, but not the Swedes.
The present Scandia
I am from Boxholm's Ironworks (In Sweden)
Claes Henrik Herrman"
Claes H. and Hilda Amelia Herrman reared five daughters and two sons, one son dying in infancy. Their daughters attended Nazareth Academy in Concordia, Kansas. Hilda (deceased 1938) married Emil Erickson, Amelia (deceased 1945) did china painting, Ellen (deceased 1954) painted pictures, Hilma was a musician, Alice who married Chas. W. Marshall lives in Racine, Wisconsin, Carl Frederick died in 1893, Victor died in 1960, Alicia Marshall has two sons - Robert who lives in Racine, Wisconsin and Charles who is married and lives in St. Louis, Missouri and has two sons.
In 1908, Mr. and Mrs. Herrman and their daughter Amelia went to visit their old homes in Sweden. They took passage on the Cunard Line, returning on the British Steamship Lusitania with Captain J. B. Watts. This was one of the fastest and finest of British Steamers afloat at that time.
Olena Ingebretson was born in Osterdalen, Norway, Europe, and came to America in 1904. She went back to Norway in 1912 and returned to make her home here with her Uncle John Ingebretson in 1913. She had done domestic work in several large cities in America.
Victor Herrman and Olena Ingebretson were married in Atchison, Kansas, November 21, 1917.
They reared two sons, Clarence and Eugene. Clarence was inducted into the Army in 1942 and was released in 1945. He served nineteen months in the infantry in the European Theater entering Normandy on D-Day. Clarence was discharged with Staff Sgt. rating.
Clarence Herrman married Virginia Persinger July 10, 1953. Mrs. Herrman was a successful teacher before her marriage. They are farmers and have two sons, Leroy C. and Marvin D.
Eugene Herrman graduated from Norway High School in 1942. He and Miss Patricia Ball were married in February 1947. They have three daughters: Doris B., Vickie J., and Carol L.; and five sons: Harold E., Howard L., Eric E., Victor E., and Olaf C. They are also farmers.
Claes (Charles) was born in Sweden, October 19, 1841. He came to the United States in 1867 when he was twenty-six years old. In Sweden he had acquired a public school education and had been thoroughly trained as a blacksmith. He had decided that his opportunities were few and that in America his chances for success and a home and fortune were good.
Soon after he arrived in Chicago, Mr. Herrman became a member of the Scandinavian Agricultural Society of fifty members who were all mechanics. They left Chicago in 1868 to settle on the Kansas Prairies.
He came to Kansas a poor young man without means or influential friends, and the only prospect before him, a great new country, undeveloped and almost unexplored. The colony covered several thousand acres. He was a skilled blacksmith and other members followed various trades.
They were compelled to stay close together because of the Indians.
In November of the year they arrived, some Indians were killed. A white boy was scalped and two oxen shot in an encounter between the whites and Indians. Mr. Herrman's brother-in-law was killed trying to keep the Indians from taking their horses.
Soon afterward, the government armed the pioneers with guns and sent regular troops for their protection.
During the earliest days, the colonists' meat was buffalo and other wild game. Only a few of these earliest settlers made good on their claims. Lack of funds and Indians were the main reasons for leaving.
Claes Herrman went through the greatest of hardships and dangers and worked at anything and everything to make a living. Life in those days was a real struggle. He carried a mail route on foot from Scandia into Nebraska and drove provision wagons for the government into Colorado, hauling food for the soldiers. He drove an ox team over the Santa Fe Trail down into New Mexico and had many narrow escapes when the caravan was attacked by Indians.
Claes Herrman and Miss Hilda Amelia Grahnstedt were married in 1873 by George Johnson, Justice of the Peace at White Rock. They walked over to his home and had to ford the river. She lived five miles from Justice Johnson's home.
Hilda Amelia was the daughter of Christine and Franz Grahnstedt and the granddaughter of Adolph and Amalia C. Leander Grahnstedt. Franz Grahnstedt brought a signed statement with him from Sweden, dated 1851, that he was an expert carpenter, and recommending him.
Hilda Amelia Herrman had come to Scandia from Tranas, Saby, Forsamling, Smoland, Sweden where she received her education in a private school from Miss Christina Hahn. She taught in this school later. She was confirmed in 1870 and came to America in 1872. Her parents came in 1857.
Mr. and Mrs Claes Herrman lived for two years north of Scandia. In 1878, they moved to the farm home of Michael Thompson in Norway Township and lived there until their own home was completed on an adjoining farm where Mrs. Herrman lived continuously for fifty-nine years. Mr. Herrman died in 1928 aged fifty-nine years and his wife in 1937 aged eighty-two years. He had one brother Eric P. Herrman in American who was a miner in Colorado. Eric was born in 1847 in Sweden and died in 1911 in Colorado. The Herrmans prospered and were the owners of one thousand acres of good land. They produced fine corn, wheat, and alfalfa, and had a herd of superior grade cattle. Mr. Herrman built a fourteen room home of native dressed stone, with full basement. It was one of the finest homes at that time, finished in 1900.
Mr. Herrman threshed the first wheat to be threshed in his community and with his own equipment. He approved of raising the standards of the community, especially schools and roads.
"By Gone Days" -- This paper was written in Swedish by Claes Henrick Herrman in 1908. The family had it translated into English to be used in this history of Norway Township.
"I am not a writer but when I see how Olavis puts forth his efforts, I will do my best. After more than forty years of friendship with Swedish Americans and other people, I am wondering if one of the Swedes should read this, that was with the sixteen prairie schooners that left Fort Harker October 1, 1868 and were overwhelmed by a big band of Indians on November 11. It was a wonder that any of us could come out with our lives.
A young man from Boston was killed by two bullets and an arrow. Two oxen of ours were killed. One Indian fell so near he was scalped when he fill. Others fell like frozen potato plants and hung over their horses, and we had two miles yet to travel.
After the burial, we went back one mile for provisions which took two days. When we came back, the graves were empty. The dead lay beside the graves with scalped heads. This was sixty miles from Fort Lyon, Colorado.
When I came to Scandia in the year 1869, my brother-in-law was shot along with several others, and the women were taken prisoners. The colonists' horses were stolen and the colony pilfered, but not the Swedes.
The present Scandia
I am from Boxholm's Ironworks (In Sweden)
Claes Henrik Herrman"
Claes H. and Hilda Amelia Herrman reared five daughters and two sons, one son dying in infancy. Their daughters attended Nazareth Academy in Concordia, Kansas. Hilda (deceased 1938) married Emil Erickson, Amelia (deceased 1945) did china painting, Ellen (deceased 1954) painted pictures, Hilma was a musician, Alice who married Chas. W. Marshall lives in Racine, Wisconsin, Carl Frederick died in 1893, Victor died in 1960, Alicia Marshall has two sons - Robert who lives in Racine, Wisconsin and Charles who is married and lives in St. Louis, Missouri and has two sons.
In 1908, Mr. and Mrs. Herrman and their daughter Amelia went to visit their old homes in Sweden. They took passage on the Cunard Line, returning on the British Steamship Lusitania with Captain J. B. Watts. This was one of the fastest and finest of British Steamers afloat at that time.
Olena Ingebretson was born in Osterdalen, Norway, Europe, and came to America in 1904. She went back to Norway in 1912 and returned to make her home here with her Uncle John Ingebretson in 1913. She had done domestic work in several large cities in America.
Victor Herrman and Olena Ingebretson were married in Atchison, Kansas, November 21, 1917.
They reared two sons, Clarence and Eugene. Clarence was inducted into the Army in 1942 and was released in 1945. He served nineteen months in the infantry in the European Theater entering Normandy on D-Day. Clarence was discharged with Staff Sgt. rating.
Clarence Herrman married Virginia Persinger July 10, 1953. Mrs. Herrman was a successful teacher before her marriage. They are farmers and have two sons, Leroy C. and Marvin D.
Eugene Herrman graduated from Norway High School in 1942. He and Miss Patricia Ball were married in February 1947. They have three daughters: Doris B., Vickie J., and Carol L.; and five sons: Harold E., Howard L., Eric E., Victor E., and Olaf C. They are also farmers.
THE MERICA AND IRELAND FAMILIES
Joseph Merica, Sr. and Lizzie Merica had a homestead in Sec. 17. They had two sons, Joseph, Jr. and S. Merica, and two daughters, Racheal and Ellen. Mr. Merica Sr. died in Jamestown in the early eighties and is buried there. Later Mrs. Merica married George Ireland. Joe Merica, Jr. lived in Section 17 SW 4. Their son, Charles William Ireland married Matilda Peterson.
Their children were; Harry J., Betty, La Vare, Charles, George Wm., and Leota.
Betty married Mr. Kersen. They had two daughters and two sons.
Charles has two daughters. George William and his wife Gladys have two daughters, Carol Jean and and Margaret.
Leota May married Raymond Falk. They have two daughters, Eula and Elizabeth. Eula married John D. Thompson, and they have two sons. Elizabeth married Cory Elliot, and they have one daughter, Johanna.
Mrs. Lizzie Ireland was one of the very earliest teachers, who taught in dugouts. She died in Natoma, Kansas in 1939.
Preserved Ireland was a Civil War Veteran, Co. C-33rd Reg. Wisconsin Inf.
Their children were; Harry J., Betty, La Vare, Charles, George Wm., and Leota.
Betty married Mr. Kersen. They had two daughters and two sons.
Charles has two daughters. George William and his wife Gladys have two daughters, Carol Jean and and Margaret.
Leota May married Raymond Falk. They have two daughters, Eula and Elizabeth. Eula married John D. Thompson, and they have two sons. Elizabeth married Cory Elliot, and they have one daughter, Johanna.
Mrs. Lizzie Ireland was one of the very earliest teachers, who taught in dugouts. She died in Natoma, Kansas in 1939.
Preserved Ireland was a Civil War Veteran, Co. C-33rd Reg. Wisconsin Inf.
By Mrs. Raymond Falk
SWEN LARSEN
Swen Larsen is a prominent farmer in Norway Township, who lives with his sisters Alphild and Esther, on the P. O. Larsen Estate a large acreage purchased by their father in 1880.
The first Larsen home is in excellent condition. Later a large stone house was built. All the stone was quarried on the farm. After the stone was cut and made ready for us, the refuse stone was placed in a kiln and burned steadily night and day for two weeks or longer until the lime was ready for use. The fuel for the fire was wood cut on the farm nearby. After the house was finished and all needed lime was used, the remainder was sold for 25¢ a bushel. An old Scandia Journal offering the lime for sale, is still kept by the family.
Swen Larsen raises prairie hay. alfalfa, corn, milo and wheat. The corn is fed to one hundred and eighty heed of registered Hereford cattle end the wheat is sold on the market. Vegetables and fruit for home use are raised. He has an irrigation well and is also in the Bostick District, using water from that source. There is a large pond built with local help end financed by Mr. Larsen.
All the buildings on the farm are in excellent condition. Everything, everywhere shows the love end care of the owners. The house, built of stone, with a frame addition at the back, is a beautiful home.
Something worth mentioning and not often found is a building which houses many things cherished because they belonged to the original owners as well as other things left by generations long gone. Farm implements used by pioneers in earlier years are found here. There is some stone showing iron after the lime was burned away that is also kept here.
The first Larsen home is in excellent condition. Later a large stone house was built. All the stone was quarried on the farm. After the stone was cut and made ready for us, the refuse stone was placed in a kiln and burned steadily night and day for two weeks or longer until the lime was ready for use. The fuel for the fire was wood cut on the farm nearby. After the house was finished and all needed lime was used, the remainder was sold for 25¢ a bushel. An old Scandia Journal offering the lime for sale, is still kept by the family.
Swen Larsen raises prairie hay. alfalfa, corn, milo and wheat. The corn is fed to one hundred and eighty heed of registered Hereford cattle end the wheat is sold on the market. Vegetables and fruit for home use are raised. He has an irrigation well and is also in the Bostick District, using water from that source. There is a large pond built with local help end financed by Mr. Larsen.
All the buildings on the farm are in excellent condition. Everything, everywhere shows the love end care of the owners. The house, built of stone, with a frame addition at the back, is a beautiful home.
Something worth mentioning and not often found is a building which houses many things cherished because they belonged to the original owners as well as other things left by generations long gone. Farm implements used by pioneers in earlier years are found here. There is some stone showing iron after the lime was burned away that is also kept here.
HENRY L. DUTTON
Henry L. Dutton was the son of Chester Dutton who was a very early settler and homesteaded in Cloud County. He was born in Wolcat, New York in 1854 and came to Kansas with his parents in 1868 where he grew to manhood. He had a homestead in Norway Township. He was united in marriage to Lucy Dickerhoof in 1875. She was a pioneer school teacher in Republic County, the daughter of George Mary Ann Brewer Dickerhoof and was born in Clear Sprint, Maryland in 1856, coming to Kansas in 1872.
Mr. and Mrs. Dutton reared three sons and three daughters; Minnie, who married Wm. Brewer; Lucy, who married Frank Crosson; Mabel; Harry, who married Ada McCulloch; Fred, who married Olga Dutton and George who married Doris Snyder.
Henry served in the Militia organized in the early seventies for protection against the Indians. He was a large land owner and a successful farmer. He was the first member initiated into the Elks Lodge at Concordia. He passed on in 1922 at the age of 67 years.
1. Minnie and W. E. Brewer had five daughters and three sons.
2. Lucy (deceased) and Frank Crosson, three sons and two daughters, Eugene, Lawrence, Robert, Vera, and Della.
3. Fred and Olga Dutton two sons and one daughter, Fred Jr. who made the supreme sacrifice in World War II, Richard and Dorathy.
4. Harry and Ada Dutton (deceased), two sons, Orville and Oren.
5. George and Doris Dutton; two sons, George and Charles.
6. Mable Jane who lives on Route 2, Concordia.
* Blogger's note: Chester Dutton figures prominently in this 1903 history: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/archives/cloud/1903/kansas5.shtml
Mr. and Mrs. Dutton reared three sons and three daughters; Minnie, who married Wm. Brewer; Lucy, who married Frank Crosson; Mabel; Harry, who married Ada McCulloch; Fred, who married Olga Dutton and George who married Doris Snyder.
Henry served in the Militia organized in the early seventies for protection against the Indians. He was a large land owner and a successful farmer. He was the first member initiated into the Elks Lodge at Concordia. He passed on in 1922 at the age of 67 years.
1. Minnie and W. E. Brewer had five daughters and three sons.
2. Lucy (deceased) and Frank Crosson, three sons and two daughters, Eugene, Lawrence, Robert, Vera, and Della.
3. Fred and Olga Dutton two sons and one daughter, Fred Jr. who made the supreme sacrifice in World War II, Richard and Dorathy.
4. Harry and Ada Dutton (deceased), two sons, Orville and Oren.
5. George and Doris Dutton; two sons, George and Charles.
6. Mable Jane who lives on Route 2, Concordia.
* Blogger's note: Chester Dutton figures prominently in this 1903 history: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/archives/cloud/1903/kansas5.shtml
THE CHARLES MARION KELLY FAMILY
In the fall of 1870 C. M. (Marion) Kelly came to Atchison County, Kansas from New Corydon, Indiana with a covered wagon train. He spent the winter with his half brother, Dr. L. D. Hall, who had come to Archison County in 1869. (Dr. Hall later homesteaded in Norway Township.) Others who traveled in this wagon train, were Sherb Lewis, Dave Walters, Rose Ainsworth, Jap Loofbourrow (a dentist), Leander Skeels, and John Loofbourrow.
In the spring of 1871 Charles Marion Kelly, who was nineteen years old, came on out to Republic County, Kansas, and bought a homestead relinquishment 2½ miles and ¾ mile north of Norway, Kansas, on the east side of the road. His father, William J. and mother, Emily, and two brothers, Austin and Harrison, followed later by wagon. William J. Kelly homesteaded 3½ miles east and ¾ mile north from Norway, Kansas.
In 1872, Mary R. Skeels with her sister, Lutie, and a brother, Perry, came to Republic County from Ohio, and Mary R. homesteaded a place 2½ miles east and ¾ mile south on the east side of the road from Norway, Kansas.
On June 5, 1873 Marion Kelley and Mary R. Skeels were united in marriage. They lived on Mary's homestead for many years where most of their children were born. Mary had built a dugout and sod house with a board floor which was unusual, as most dugouts and sod houses had earth floors. To this union were born six children: Lurena, Ernest, Marvin, Wilbur, Orrin, and Herman Albertis (Bert). Ernest died at the age of two years and Marvin died in June 1900, at the age of 22 years.
Of the above children, Wilbur is the only one who purchased land in Norway Township. He married Mary L. Tate of Norway township on December 25,1901. To this union were born three children, Gen, Vila, and Elda. Glen lives on the home place, in the northeast corner of the township. Elda married Harry Buer and lives in Norway, Kansas. Vila married A. C. Fall and resides in Jewell County.
Bert Kelly married Theodora Pacek January 3, 1908. Theodora's parents, Jan A. Pacek and Anna C. Cipra were married in Czechoslovakia, Europe, on February 9, 1869, and came to America in 1882. They resided in Minnesota until November 1905, when they came to Horace, Kansas, in Wallace County. That winter Bert Kelley was employed by the Clem Wilson Real Estate Company. Bert and Theodora had six children; Mildred, Faye, Irvin, Clarice, Orris, and Molly. Mildred is the only one of the children to reside in Norway Township. She married Roy M. Moore on June 20, 1943. Roy and Mildred, with their two children, Michael and Miriam, live on the home place of Roy's parents, E. V. and Alfa Moore, 1½ miles west and ¼ mile north of Norway, Kansas.
In the spring of 1871 Charles Marion Kelly, who was nineteen years old, came on out to Republic County, Kansas, and bought a homestead relinquishment 2½ miles and ¾ mile north of Norway, Kansas, on the east side of the road. His father, William J. and mother, Emily, and two brothers, Austin and Harrison, followed later by wagon. William J. Kelly homesteaded 3½ miles east and ¾ mile north from Norway, Kansas.
In 1872, Mary R. Skeels with her sister, Lutie, and a brother, Perry, came to Republic County from Ohio, and Mary R. homesteaded a place 2½ miles east and ¾ mile south on the east side of the road from Norway, Kansas.
On June 5, 1873 Marion Kelley and Mary R. Skeels were united in marriage. They lived on Mary's homestead for many years where most of their children were born. Mary had built a dugout and sod house with a board floor which was unusual, as most dugouts and sod houses had earth floors. To this union were born six children: Lurena, Ernest, Marvin, Wilbur, Orrin, and Herman Albertis (Bert). Ernest died at the age of two years and Marvin died in June 1900, at the age of 22 years.
Of the above children, Wilbur is the only one who purchased land in Norway Township. He married Mary L. Tate of Norway township on December 25,1901. To this union were born three children, Gen, Vila, and Elda. Glen lives on the home place, in the northeast corner of the township. Elda married Harry Buer and lives in Norway, Kansas. Vila married A. C. Fall and resides in Jewell County.
Bert Kelly married Theodora Pacek January 3, 1908. Theodora's parents, Jan A. Pacek and Anna C. Cipra were married in Czechoslovakia, Europe, on February 9, 1869, and came to America in 1882. They resided in Minnesota until November 1905, when they came to Horace, Kansas, in Wallace County. That winter Bert Kelley was employed by the Clem Wilson Real Estate Company. Bert and Theodora had six children; Mildred, Faye, Irvin, Clarice, Orris, and Molly. Mildred is the only one of the children to reside in Norway Township. She married Roy M. Moore on June 20, 1943. Roy and Mildred, with their two children, Michael and Miriam, live on the home place of Roy's parents, E. V. and Alfa Moore, 1½ miles west and ¼ mile north of Norway, Kansas.
By Roy M. Moore
Sunday, November 14, 2010
PONTOS ROSS FAMILY and ALFRED HAMMER FAMILY
Pontos Ross was born in Trondhjam in Norway, Europe about 1837 and came to Michigan in America in 1864 and to Rockford near Chicago in 1865. Then to Republic County in 1869. He Homesteaded there, but the Indians drove him off. He again filed and proved up on a homestead. Mr. Ross married Ingeborg Lekke in America. She was born near Hüverod near Stockholm, Sweden in 1849. She came to America and to Junction City. They were the parents of eleven children. Their daughter Esther married Alfred Hammer, and they own and live on his father's, Peder Hammer's, homestead, a mile and a half northeast of Norway. They have four daughters - Evelyn Wagor, Denver, Colorado; Elnora Whitney, Concordia, Kansas; Anita Cory, Haysville, Kansas; Naomi Barleen, Concordia, Kansas; and one son, Clarence, living in South Carolina.
Mrs. Pontos Ross died in 1940 at the age of 91 years. Mr. Ross died in 1917 at the age of 80 years.
Mrs. Pontos Ross died in 1940 at the age of 91 years. Mr. Ross died in 1917 at the age of 80 years.
MR. AND MRS. MICHAEL THOMPSON
Michael Thompson was born in Bergen, Norway in Europe. He came to America in 1871 and filed on a homestead S.E. 4 Sec. 3 in 1873. He received his land grant on April 30, 1880. Miss Helena Erickson came to America, and she and Mr. Thompson were married in 1884. Michael and Helena Erickson Thompson reared five children; Eric, Anna, Bertena, Michael and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson passed away many years ago. The family is all living on the homestead. Eric passed on December 30, 1961.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
JACOB MOOREHEAD
Jacob Moorehead was born in 1855. He married Miss Swyhart. They lived in Norway Township west of the river for ten years in pioneer days. They moved to Jewell County where they had purchased a farm and lived there for many years. Mr. Moorhead died in 1938 at the age of 83 years.
SHERMAN TIMMONS
Sherman Timmous and family lived on the west side of the Republican some years ago. He owned over three hundred acres of land in Sections 20-30. He passed-on in 1961 at the age of 97 years.
JOHN I. MELHUS
John I. Melhus came to the United States when he was twenty-one years old, and homesteaded the farm 1½ miles east and one mile north of Norway. In 1905 he moved to a farm ½ mile east of Norway where he and his wife lived until their death. Mrs. Melhus caem to United States in 1887. A son Iver Melhus, passed away March 21, 1961. A daughter Clara, Mrs. Russell Jacobson, and a son Joseph survive. Both live in the Norway Community.
Mrs. Joseph Melhus' parents: Lars A. Malby was born in Trondhjeim, Norway, September 4, 1864. He came to America in 1882 and lived with his uncle Severt Lovseth, south of Concordia for a time. He was united in marriage to Martha Mikkelson, February 20, 1887. They made their first home on a homestead in Sherman County, living in a dugout. After three years they traveled to Leadville, Colorado in a covered wagon. After seven years they returned to Kansas where they lived until their death.
They were the parents of eight children: Bertha, Mabel, Leo Martin, Leonard Martin, Ruth Sylvia, Arne Lena,m Clara and Elmer. Clara and Elmer are the only surviving children. Mr. Melby passed away November 19, 1942 and Mrs. Melby, March 24, 1951.
Mrs. Joseph Melhus' parents: Lars A. Malby was born in Trondhjeim, Norway, September 4, 1864. He came to America in 1882 and lived with his uncle Severt Lovseth, south of Concordia for a time. He was united in marriage to Martha Mikkelson, February 20, 1887. They made their first home on a homestead in Sherman County, living in a dugout. After three years they traveled to Leadville, Colorado in a covered wagon. After seven years they returned to Kansas where they lived until their death.
They were the parents of eight children: Bertha, Mabel, Leo Martin, Leonard Martin, Ruth Sylvia, Arne Lena,m Clara and Elmer. Clara and Elmer are the only surviving children. Mr. Melby passed away November 19, 1942 and Mrs. Melby, March 24, 1951.
By Mrs. Joseph Melhus
Friday, November 12, 2010
MR. AND MRS. EDD JACOBSON
"August Edward Jacobson was born January 28, 1838 and Eugenia Larson was born December 24, 1858 in Bogas Lan in Norway Europe and came to this country in 1867.
They were married December 19, 1876. They lived in a dugout in Cloud County for two years then ehty moved to the farm in Norway where they spent the rest of their lives.
These children were born to them: Fred Jacobson, Agnes Nystrom, Lillie Thompson, Ruby Clayton, Arthur Jacobson and Russell Jacobson. This couple was among the last of the pioneers who came and stayed. Together they endured the hardships of those early pioneer days. They watched the sod house disappear to be replaced by the more modern home. They saw the buffalo trail and the ox team gradually give way to the motor vehicle. Edward Jacobson passed away May 18, 1929. Eugenia passed away July 29, 1929."
They were married December 19, 1876. They lived in a dugout in Cloud County for two years then ehty moved to the farm in Norway where they spent the rest of their lives.
These children were born to them: Fred Jacobson, Agnes Nystrom, Lillie Thompson, Ruby Clayton, Arthur Jacobson and Russell Jacobson. This couple was among the last of the pioneers who came and stayed. Together they endured the hardships of those early pioneer days. They watched the sod house disappear to be replaced by the more modern home. They saw the buffalo trail and the ox team gradually give way to the motor vehicle. Edward Jacobson passed away May 18, 1929. Eugenia passed away July 29, 1929."
-- Written by their Family
MR. AND MRS. TAYLOR
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor came to Norway Township in the early seventies from Iowa. They had a large family and a home in NW4 of Sec. 22. They operated a boarding car and boarded the men building the Union Pacific Railroad track (later the Mo. Pac.), first to Yuma, then north and afterward on west. Jerry Murphy, a witty Irishman, was a track foreman with the Company. He was from Cork County in Ireland; and when asked where he came from, he always said "Bottlestopper County, Ireland." He spent his evenings with the Taylor's daughter, Lizzie, while she was baking bread for the next day's meals.
They were married in 1880 and went to Clyde where he worked for the Rock Island Railroad, building the Rock Island track on west in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy spent all of their married life in Clyde. They reared two sons and two daughters, Margaret Stimpson and Cornelius, both deceased. Fred of Clyde and Jane Boyd of Wichita. Mrs. Jerry Murphy visited Norway friends as long as she lived..
They were married in 1880 and went to Clyde where he worked for the Rock Island Railroad, building the Rock Island track on west in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy spent all of their married life in Clyde. They reared two sons and two daughters, Margaret Stimpson and Cornelius, both deceased. Fred of Clyde and Jane Boyd of Wichita. Mrs. Jerry Murphy visited Norway friends as long as she lived..
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