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1919. He was a farmer. His wife, Margurite, was born in Sangamon County, October 24, 1845. She is still living.
Judge Fruit was graduated from public school in Smith County, and has been county judge for the past three years. He served in the United States Army three years, is a veteran of the Spanish American War, and a member of the United Spanish War Veterans, Roosevelt Camp No. 14 Scotts Bluff. He is an Odd Fellow. His hobby is reading.
On May 10, 1905, he was married to Agnes Irene Ryan at Red Cloud. Mrs. Fruit was born in Smith County, Kansas, April 3, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Fruit have four children, Velma, born May 1, 1910, married H. Jack Honn; Fernola, born September 9, 1919; Marguerite, born November 21, 1920; and Marcelene, born July 11, 1923. Residence: Keystone.
Sidney Thomas Frum
For over twenty years Sidney Thomas Frum has been engaged in the practice of law at South Sioux City, Nebraska, where he is active in community affairs. He was born at Danbury, Woodbury County, Iowa, November 16, 1886, the son of Christopher C. and Alice (Hodgson) Frum. His father, who was born near Morgantown, West Virginia, August 16, 1853, and died at Sioux City, Iowa, May 20, 1919, was a farmer and for several years was supervisor in Woodbury and Thurston counties. His mother was born in Illinois, July 8, 1857, and died at Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 20, 1920.
Mr. Frum was graduated from the Danbury High School in 1903, and in 1909 was awarded the LL. B; degree at the University of Nebraska, where he held membership in Acacia. He was active in football at the university during 1907 and 1908. A Republican, he served as county attorney of Dakota County, 1912-16, and 1922-26. He holds membership in the South Sioux City Commercial Club, the Masons, Nebraskana Society, and the Red Cross. He is affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church.
He was married to Alice Reynolds Pomeroy at Shelby, Iowa. Mrs. Frum, who was born at Shelby, Shelby County, Iowa, July 8, 1890, is a prominent clubwoman and is now serving as president of the Woman's Club for the third district. To this marriage two children were born: Virginia, born October 2, 1917; and Catherine, born August 28, 1915, who died February 11, 1919.
Mr. Frum served in all Liberty loan drives during the World War, was active in Red Cross drives, and took part in registration work. His sports are golfing and fishing: Residence: South Sioux City.
William Thomas Fry
William T. Fry, farmer and stockman, was born at South English, Keokuk County, Iowa, July 29, 1864. He received his earlier education at Locust Grove and Prairie, Nebraska, and later attended Campbell Normal Business and Banking College and received his diploma on June 4, 1885.
John, father of William, was born at Waynesboro, Virginia, May 7, 1822. He was a teamster, driving seven or eight horses to covered wagons, hauling flour from the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, to Richmond, returning with loads of freight. Later he was a farmer. His death occurred in Pawnee County, Nebraska, August 19, 1900.
Sarah (Coffman) Fry, mother of William, was born near Staunton, Virginia, June 3, 1831, and died near Homesville (sic), Nebraska, September 20, 1914. Her parents came from Pennsylvania and settled in the Shenandoah Valley in 1804. Her father's barn was used as a hospital during the Civil War.
Mr. Fry was united in marriage to Mary Ella Dorranee on October 15, 1896. Her ancestors came from Scotland and Ireland. She was born near Pawnee City, Nebraska, October 27, 1872. She was a school teacher for six years before her marriage. They have six children, John Gilsnore, who is married to Eoe Fletcher; Cyrus W., who is married to Lois Elwood; Vera, who is married to Dean Taylor; William C.; Lawrence A., and Katheryn E.
He has been a resident of Nebraska for fifty-one years. In 1926, he was selected as one of the first master farmers in Nebraska. He is now serving his twenty-ninth year on the board of education 14 years in Riverview Consolidated School. During the World War he participated in loan drives.
A member of the South Beatrice Brethren Church, he is also a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Masons, Red Cross and The Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement. He is president of the Gage County Fair and Agricultural Society, and is chairman of the agricultural committee of the Nebraska-Iowa district of Kiwanis. His hobby is reading. Residence: Holmsville. (Photograph in Album).
Otto Fuerst
Otto Fuerst, general manager of the Platte Valley Telephone Corporation, was born at Kewanee, Illinois, March 27, 1882, son of Fred Fuerst who came from Germany when a boy and died at Battle Creek, Nebraska, May 27, 1931, at the age of 87 years.
On August 12, 1906, he was married to Martha Wolfe at Batttle (sic) Creek, Nebraska. She was born at Norfolk, Nebraska, October 20, 1885. There are two sons, Martin Otto, born December 3, 1907 at Norfolk, Nebraska, who married Dorthy Evans, daughter of Winifred Evans. They have one daughter, now living at Sturgis, South Dakota. Harry William, born March 18, 1911, at Columbus, Nebraska, is in attendance at the Boeig Air School at Oakland, California.
Mr. Fuerst has been engaged in telephone work since 1898, starting his work at Norfolk, Nebraska, and leaving there in 1908, to go to Madison, Nebraska. Leaving there he served as general manager of Platte County Independent Telephone at Columbus, Nebraska, leaving there in 1914 for Chadron, Nebraska, where he served as plant superintendent until 1919, moving to Seotts Bluff and he served as plant superintendent until 1928, then taking over the management of the Platte Valley Telephone Corporation, which position he still holds.
He is a member of the Masons, the Rotary Club, the Nebraskana Society, and the Telephone Pioneers of America. Residence: Gering.
William Charles Fuerst
William Charles Fuerst, telephone executive, was born at Battle Creek, Nebraska, June 26, 1898, son of William Bernard and Anna E. (Wolfe) Fuerst. His ancestry is German.
Mr. Fuerst attended public and high school, and was a student two and a half years in the Seward Lutheran Teachers Seminary.
He was married on July 12, 1922, to Beulah Pauline Koenig at Torrington, Wyoming. Mrs. Fuerst was born at Seottsbluff, Nebraska, August 27, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Fuerst have two children, Bernard, born September 1, 1923; and Dorothy, born September 1, 1925.
At the present time Mr. Fuerst is serving as district manager of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. He is a member of the Volunteer Fire department, and the Lions Club. His hobbies are golf and fishing. Residence: Bayard.
Phillip John Fuesler
Phillip John Fuesler was born at Friedrichstal, Germany, September 18, 1871, and since 1890 has been in business in Nebraska. His father, Phillip John Fuesler, who was a carpenter and contractor, was born at Friedrichstal, October 29, 1804, and died there January 13, 1872, after serving several terms as mayor of
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the city; his ancestors were driven from Holland early in the 17th century because of religious dissension. His mother, who was born at Friedrichstal, November 11, 1824, and died there December 26, 1880, was descended from French Huguenot ancestors who left France in the 17th century because of religious persecution.
Mr. Fuesler worked as a journeyman tailor for ten years and from 1900 to 1930, when he retired, he was a tailor at Norfolk, Nebraska. He had served his apprenticeship in Germany. As a Republican he was city councilman from 1908 to 1912 and in 1914 was unsuccessful candidate for city mayor of Norfolk. He has been a member of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce for over 30 years and is now a member of the Kiwanis Club and Grace Lutheran Church.
During the World War he served as a member of the registration board at Norfolk, sold Liberty bonds, and was active in the Red Cross. He likes to hunt.
On September 18, 1892, he was married to Rosa Broecker at Norfolk. Mrs. Fuesler, whose parents were natives of Germany, was born at La Porte, Indiana, March 3, 1874. She is the daughter of John and Friedericke Broecker. They have six children: Nora, born April 2, 1893, who married W. H. Strong; Arthur, born July 19, 1895, who married Ruth Zwicky; Eric, born December 9, 1896, who married Myrthel House; Mabel, born February 20, 1899, who married Dr. H. A. Askey; Clarence, born June 21, 1901, who married Malray Warrick; and Ruth, born February 16, 1911. Residence: Norfolk.
Hayes M. Fuhr
Hayes M. Fuhr, director of conservatory for Hastings College, was born at Lewistown, Illinois, January 25, 1891. He is the son of William Stanley and Mary Rachel (Maguire) Fuhr, the former a dentist, born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1847. Mary Rachel Maguire was born in Kentucky, August 20, 1857, of Irish ancestry.
Upon his graduation from Macomb (Illinois) High School in 1909, Mr. Fuhr entered Western Illinois State Teachers' College from which he was graduated. Here he received honors in dramatics, music and oratory. Later he attended Bush Conservatory at Chicago, from which he received his Bachelor of Music degree. He received his B. A. degree from Hastings College in 1928.
From 1910 to 1912, inclusive, Mr. Fuhr was director of voice at Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana, and since 1912 has been director of Hastings College Conservatory. During his residence in Hastings, Mr. Fuhr has taken an active part in civic and cultural work. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, (of which he is a member of the session and director of music), the Red Cross and Young Men's Christian Association, the Rotary Club of which he has twice been a director, and the Masonic Lodge (Scottish Rite, Shrine). He is also a member of the Nebraskana Society. His hobbies are reading and writing, and his favorite sport is golf at the Hastings Country Club.
On June 30, 1915, Mr. Fuhr was united in mrariage (sic) to Ruth Ann Johnson at Fairfield, Iowa. Mrs. Fuhr, who is an accomplished pianist, was born at Holyoke, Colorado, December 25, 1890. There is one son, Edgar Stanley, born February 1, 1918. Residence: Hastings.
Byron Sylvester Fulk
Born at Strawn, Illinois, September 26, 1877, Byron Sylvester Fulk is the son of Martin Alexander and Ida May (Hopkins) Fulk. The father, born in Green County, Indiana, May 18, 1854, is a retired farmer, merchant, and banker of German descent, and is the son of Joseph Fulk. He is now living in Atlanta. Ida May Hopkins, his wife, was born April 2, 1858, of Scotch descent. She was the daughter of Joseph and Louise Sempson (Henline) Hopkins. Louise Henline was the first white child born in McClean County, Illinois.
Byron Sylvester Fulk attended public school in Strawn, Illinois, and Harlan, Phelps County, Nebraska. His father moved to Nebraska when Byron was nine years old. Mr. Fulk has engaged in farming all of his life since reaching maturity. His specialty is hog raising, and he is much interested in master farming, having kept a farm record for about five years. From 1921-29, he was a director on the school board, and he has always taken an active interest in community affairs. With the exception of nine months, Mr. Fulk has lived 34 years on the same farm, his parent's home. During his lifetime he has officiated at 150 or more funerals, and has in several instances acted as undertaker.
On December 28, 1897, he was married to Bertha Evelyn Pritchard at Beaver City. Mrs. Fulk, who was born at Exeter, December 14, 1875, died at Atlanta, November 19, 1931. She was the daughter of John and Ellen (Lonsdale) Pritchard. Her parents were both born in Hampshire, England, and came to this country in 1849, when they were children. There are five children, Dothan Pritchard, born November 20, 1898, who married Dollie Read; Ora Ellen, born December 2, 1900, who married Lawrence Ossie David; Florence Fern, born January 14, 1904, who married Lars P. Christensen; Velda Mae, born September 22, 1907; and Delwin Martin, born February 26, 1912. Dothan is a farmer, while Fern and Velda are registered nurses. Delwin is a farmer with his father.
Mr. Fulk is a member of the Atlanta Seventh Day Adventist Church, is a supporter of the Red Cross, a Republican, and a member of the Nebraskana Society. He has been active in the affairs of the Atlanta Farmers Institute during its 24 years of existence, and for several years acted as president. He enjoys reading. Residence: Atlanta. (Photograph in Album).
Charles J. Fulk
Charles J. Fulk, merchant and executive, was born at Lyons, Indiana, November 16, 1896, son of James W. and Delitha (Workman) Fulk.
James W. Fulk was born in Greene County, Indiana, in 1862, of Holland, Dutch and Irish descent. He is a farmer. His wife, Delitha, was born in Greene County, Indiana, in 1864, of Dutch descent.
Mr. Fulk attended the schools of Bloomfield, Indiana, until his graduation in 1914. He was thereafter a student at the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska. From 1919 until 1925 he was secretary-treasurer of Burke and Harpole Company at Bayard. He has been in the mercantile business for himself at Dickens and Wallace since that time and is a partner and general manager of the Charles J. Fulk Company.
On April 21, 1921, he was married to Marion Barbara Berwick at Bridgeport. Mrs. Fulk was born in Illinois, February 12, 1897, of French and Irish descent. There are two children, Barbara Lee, born June 8, 1927; and Patricia Lou, born May 4, 1930.
During the World War, Mr. Fulk served in the United States Navy with the rank of seaman. He is a member of the American Legion, the First Baptist Church of Bloomfield, Indiana, the Red Cross, the Masons, and the Harper Golf Club. His favorite sport is golf, while his hobby is reading. Residence: Wallace.
Clark Adelbert Fulmer
Clark A. Fulmer, who has lived in Nebraska for the past 50 years, was born at Marcellus, Onondaga County, New York, April 22, 1867. His father, David Morgan Fulmer, who was a farmer, was born in New York, February 4, 1831, and died at Gibbon, Buffalo County, Nebraska, September 18, 1900. His ancestry was Dutch and English. Ellen Elizabeth (Longstreet) Fulmer, mother
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of Clark, was born in Onondaga Valley, Onondaga County, New York, September 10, 1838, and died at Gibbon, March 20, 1930. Her English ancestors, Oliver Breed and Comfort Tyler, were Revolutionary War soldiers. Her family history is included in The Breed Family, by J. Howard Breed, published in 1892.
Mr. Fulmer attended the grade school at Marcellus, and the high school at Gibbon; later he completed the high school course at Nebraska Baptist Seminary. He was awarded the Ph. B. degree at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1898; received the A. M. degree at the University of Nebraska, 1910; and was granted the LL. D. at Grand Island College in 1914. He was elected to membership in Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Gamma Mu.
He has served as superintendent of schools in the following Nebraska towns: Gibbon; Edgar; Pawnee City; and Beatrice. From 1908 to 1911 he was dean of the college of Liberal Arts at Wesleyan University; was acting chancellor, 1910-11; and chancellor, 1911-17. Since January 1, 1918, he has been state director of Vocational Education.
He is the author of: Civil Government of Nebraska; numerous contributions to professional magazines on Vocational Education, Vocational Guidance, School Administration, and Education. He is the editor of Vocational Education, published in Nebraska.
His marriage to Evalena Anna Ingham, was solemnized at Gibbon, June 23, 1887. Mrs. Fulmer, who was born at Upper Alton, Madison County, Illinois, August 2, 1867, was a teacher before her marriage. She is a descendant of Governor Bradford, and is a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Four children were born to their union; Ellis Ingham, born April 12, 1891, who married Ruth Files; Elbert, born April 12, 1891, who died October 16, 1891; Miriam, born May 17, 1894, who married Irvin Henry Vogel; and Pauline, born November 4, 1895, who married Joseph H. Ruliffson, Jr.
Mr. Fulmer served as special federal agent for war training in Nebraska during the World War; he was chairman of the school and college activities committee of the Federal Food Administration for Nebraska. He is a member of the National Educational Association; the Nebraska Schoolmasters Club; the National Association of State Directors of Vocational Agriculture; and American Vocational Association. He holds membership in the Red Cross; Nebraska Conference of Social Work; Lincoln Chamber of Commerce; and the Rotary Club, of which he was a director, 1929-30. He is affiliated with the Candlelight Club and the Young Men's Christian Association.
He is a Mason, a Knight Templar, and Modern Woodman of America. He is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church of Lincoln. He is a Republican. Residence: Lincoln.
William D. Funk
Since the spring of 1892 William D. Funk has been engaged in the practice of law at Bloomfield, Nebraska, where he has led in community activities. He was born at Iowa City, Iowa, September 18, 1856, the son of Joseph and Leah (Steely) Funk. His father, who was a shoemaker and a farmer, was born at Frostburg, Maryland, March 21, 1816, and died at Nashua, Iowa, March 9, 1895; his Swiss and German ancestors settled at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1709.
Leah (Steely) Funk, whose ancestry was English and Scotch, was born at Levistown, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1830, and died at Nashua, April 12, 1912.
Mr. Funk was graduated from the law school of the University of Iowa in 1886. He has practiced law continuously since 1888 and has resided at Bloomfield most of that time. He is at the present time one of the directors of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and was formerly a stockholder and director in the Nebraska State Bank of Bloomfield.
A Republican, Mr. Funk served as county attorney of Knox County for two terms, was city attorney for many years, and was a candidate for the Nebraska senate. He is a member of the District Bar Association, the Nebraska State Bar Association, the Bloomfield Commercial Club, and the Red Cross. He was Grand High Priest of the Royal Arch Masons of Nebraska in 1918 and 1919, and formerly served on the Bloomfield School Board. His chief recreation is farming.
On October 22, 1883, he married Cora Abigail King at Blairstown. Mrs. Funk, whose English ancestors were merchants, farmers and lawyers, was born at Lyndon, Illinois, October 12, 1860. Of this marriage four children were born: Hazel K., March 19, 1886, who married R. B. Miller; Angeline, April 2, 1889, who is a stenographer; Samuel W., January 25, 1891, who married Minnie B. Funk; Owen K., September 13, 1893, who married Ruby F. Funk, and who is a farmer. Samuel is also a farmer. Residence: Bloomfield.
Archie Charles Furman
Archie Charles Furman was born at Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1869, is editor and owner with his son, Charles Edward Furman, of the South Side Sentinel, operating the paper in conjunction with the neighboring towns of Lebanon and Marion, Nebraska. He is the son of Granville S. and Wanda Jane (Campbell) Furman.
Mr. Furman received his early education at Lacyville and Towanda, Pennsylvania, and upon removing with his parents to a homestead near Oberlin, Kansas, in 1879, attended school in sod school houses. He continued to live near Oberlin, until his marriage in April, 1891, to Mattie Ann Van Pelt.
In 1892, Mr. Furman removed to Danbury; Nebraska, where he engaged in barbering and photography and where in 1897 he took up newspaper work, publishing the Danbury News. In 1904 he removed to Fort Collins, Colorado, where he operated a barber shop and job printing establishment, remaining there until 1909. In the summer of 1909, Mr. Furman returned to Nebraska, locating at Marion, where he merged the Danbury News with the Marion Enterprise under the name of the South Side Sentinel. There he also served as postmaster. In 1924 he moved his printing and publishing establishment to Danbury, where he erected a one story building and continued in the publishing business.
Mr. and Mrs. Furman have five children, Hazel Winslow, born July 25, 1893, who is teaching in the English department at Hastings College; Bessie Irene, born December 2, 1894, who is now connected with the Associated Press, Washington, D. C.; Nellie Lucille, born April 30, 1896, resides with her father and brother Charles, and who is associate editor of the Sentinel, a linotypist, and has had experience in all branches of newspaper work; Donald Archie, born February 1, 1900, who married Fayette Haasa of Amherst, Nebraska; and Charles Edward, born August 4, 1902, who manages the South Side Sentinel with his father.
Mr. Furman is affiliated with the Methodist Church, and is a life member of the Nebraskana Society. His politics are non-partisan. Residence: Danbury. (Photograph on Page 228).
Charles Edward Furman
Born at Danbury, Nebraska, August 4, 1902, Charles Edward Furman is the son of Archie Charles and Mattie Ann (Van Pelt) Furman. Archie Charles Furman was born at Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1869, and is editor of the South Side Sentinel. His wife, born at State Center, Iowa, April 4, 1869, is a doctor of osteopathy.
Charles Furman was graduated from the Kearney High School in 1919, and since that time has been associated with his father in business. He is business man
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