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Reverend Sylvester William John Holstein, pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church in Lost Creek Township and the Grace Lutheran Church in Platte Center, was born June 21, 1909, at Martinsburg, Nebraska. He is the son of Reverend Jacob and Martha C. Petz Holstein. Reverend Jacob Holstein was born January 3, 1869, in Germany, and died December 4, 1944, at Norfolk, Nebraska. Martha Holstein was born April 26, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan.
Reverend S. W. J. Holstein has four brothers and one sister: Clara, Arnim, Erich, Gilbert, and Werner. Gilbert died July 2, 1925, at Plainview, Nebraska.
Reverend Holstein attended Zion Lutheran Parochial School in Plainview, Nebraska, and upon finishing grammar school, entered St. Paul's College at Concordia, Missouri. After his graduation, he enrolled in the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. At the completion of his theological course there, he was ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.
Reverend Holstein was married to Miss Victoria Westerkamp at Rupert, Idaho, June 21, 1936. A son, Frederick James, was born June 29, 1945, in Columbus. Mrs. Holstein is the daughter of Reverend Fred and Wilhelmine Feig Westerkamp. Her father was born March 6, 1868, in Germany, and died January 18, 1943, in Jerome, Idaho. Her mother was born February 12, 1874, in Atwater, Minnesota. Mrs. Holstein has three brothers and one sister: Paul, Gerhardt, Luther and Cornelia.
Reverend and Mrs. S. W. J. Holstein came to Platte County from Malcolm, Nebraska, December 9, 1942, when Reverend Holstein assumed the pastorate of the Zion Lutheran Church in Lost Creek Township.
John H. Holtz was born at Central City, Nebraska, October 16, 1906. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Holtz. His father, born in Illinois May 9, 1878, died at Central City, Nebraska, October 19, 1919. His mother was born at Central City, Nebraska, July 18, 1879.
John has three sisters: Clara, Mrs. C. M. Long; Florence, Mrs. Howard Russell; and Ruth, Mrs. Albert Beck.
As a boy, John lived on a farm in Merrick County and in Central City. He attended the Central City schools, and worked at farming, dairying, and poultry processing and distribution.
On September 1, 1935, he came to Columbus as manager of the Harding Ice Cream Company, in which capacity he served until May, 1948, when he became associated with the Behlen Manufacturing Company.
John Holtz was married June 19, 1934, to Miss Mary Louise Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Campbell, at Kearney, Nebraska. A daughter, Judy Rolene, was born in Columbus April 21, 1940.
Mr. Holtz is a member of the F.O.E. (Eagles), and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Both Mr. and Mrs. Holtz are members of the Federated Church.
Howard Lamont Horn was born May 25, 1900, at Battle Creek, Nebraska. He came to Platte County from Madison, Nebraska, March 1, 1916.
His parents were William and Margaret C. Bahnsen Horn. William Horn, a farmer, was born March 18, 1861, at DePew, Illinois, and died November 28, 1920, at Norfolk, Nebraska. Margaret Bahnsen Horn was born March 19, 1875, at Slasurich Holstein, Germany.
Howard Horn has one brother, Arthur W., a farmer, who is married to Vera Ryan, and lives at Newman Grove, Nebraska. He has two sisters: Mabel, married to Doctor L. A. Underkofler of Ames, Iowa; and Esther, of Newman Grove.
Howard Horn attended school at Madison and Newman Grove. In addition to farming, Mr. Horn is a salesman for Pioneer Seed Corn. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and the Men's Fellowship of that congregation. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Odd Fellows, and has been a supervisor of the Shell Creek Soil Conservation District.
Edgar Howard was born September 16, 1858, in Osceola, Iowa. His parents were James Dakin and Martha Daniel Howard, natives of Ohio and Virginia, and were both born on January 9, 1824. James Howard lived in Ohio and Indiana and in 1853 went to Iowa where he was engaged in the cattle and merchandise business. He died at Des Moines in 1884, and Martha Daniel Howard died at Enid, Oklahoma, in 1910. They were Quakers.
Edgar Howard attended the Osceola and Glendale, Iowa, schools and then enrolled at the Iowa College of Law. After completing his law course, he went to Papillion, Nebraska, in 1883, and in 1886 was admitted to the Nebraska Bar and practiced law in Sarpy County.
In 1872 Edgar Howard began a career in newspaper work which has passed the three-quarter of a century mark. He first worked as a printer's devil on the Opinion in Glendale, Iowa, and then after working as a cub reporter on the Iowa State Register, he began touring the country, finally settling for more than a year on the Dayton Herald, Dayton, Ohio, of which he was city editor.
In association with George A. Megney, Omaha attorney, Mr. Howard purchased the Papillion Times, in 1883. Four years later, he established the Dundy Democrat, at Benkelman.
In 1889, he returned to Papillion as editor of the Times and remained there until 1900, when he purchased the Telegram, at Columbus. The paper was then a weekly. For half a century, from 1900, he has been the editor of the Columbus paper.
All the while he was a newspaperman, Edgar Howard was prominent in the political field. At the Democratic
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Convention in 1890, at Lincoln, he placed William Jennings Bryan in nomination for Congress of the United States. When Mr. Bryan was elected Congressman, he took Edgar Howard with him to Washington as his secretary.
Mr. Howard was later elected to Congress. He served six terms from Nebraska's Third District, from 1922 to 1935. Besides his service in Congress he served one term as probate judge at Sarpy County, Nebraska, and was elected Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska in 1916.
On November 11, 1884, at Clarinda, Iowa, Edgar Howard was married to Elizabeth Burtch, the daughter of Alexander and Martha Elizabeth Burtch. Mr. Burtch was a pioneer postmaster at Bellevue in 1857 and 1858.
Edgar and Elizabeth Burtch Howard had four children, Findley Burtch Howard, Mary Burtch Howard, Martha Howard who died in the early 1900's, and Helen Rose Howard.
Edgar Howard belonged to the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the B.P.O.E. (Elks), the Masons, of which he is a Knight Templar in the York Rite, and a thirty-second degree Mason in the Scottish Rite, 1.0. O.F., and the Knights of Pythias. In politics Mr. Howard is a Democrat.
He is a member of the Grace Episcopal Church.
Mary Burtch Howard Rex is the wife of Harry Rex. She was born in Papillion, Nebraska, and came to Columbus in 1900 with her parents.
She was graduated from the Columbus High School, attended St. Mary's College at Knoxville, Illinois, and the University of Nebraska where she belonged to the Delta Delta Delta Sorority.
Harry and Mary Howard Rex had three children, Edgar Howard Rex, Helen Ann and Mary Elizabeth.
Edgar Howard Rex was graduated from high school in Creston, Iowa, and attended the University. He is married to Charlotte McCormack. They have two sons, Edgar Howard Rex, Jr., and James Frederick Rex.
Helen Ann Rex was graduated from high school in Creston, Iowa, and attended the University of Nebraska where she was affiliated with the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. She is the wife of James Begley, an attorney of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
Mary Elizabeth Rex was graduated from high school in Creston, Iowa, and attended MacMurray College at Jacksonville, Illinois She works for Federal Housing in Washington, D.C.
Harry Rex, mining engineer, was in business in Creston, Iowa, and later in government service in Omaha and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Helen Howard was born at Papillion, Nebraska. She was graduated from the Columbus High School, attended St. Mary's College at Knoxville, Illinois, and the University of Nebraska where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority.
From 1922 to 1924 she lived in Washington, D.C., with her parents, and after her marriage to Clarence E. Coen, in 1924, lived at Creston, Iowa. Clarence and Helen Howard Coen had one daughter, Martha Coen, who attended school in Creston, Iowa, and was graduated from the South Pasadena High School in 1944. Martha received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1948. She is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority.
Since 1948 she has been the secretary to the sales manager of the Schmidt Lithograph Company at Los Angeles.
Clarence E. Coen is deceased.
Findley Burtch Howard, the son of Edgar and Elizabeth Burtch Howard, was born at Papillion, Nebraska, on October 8, 1885, and came to Columbus with his parents in 1900. He had three sisters, Mary, Mrs. Harry Rex; Helen, Mrs. Clarence E. Coen; and Martha Howard, deceased.
Findley was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1904 and the University of Nebraska Law School in 1907 with a Bachelor of Laws Degree.
At Lincoln he was affiliated with the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. He was admitted to the Nebraska Bar in 1907 and shortly thereafter began his practice of law in Columbus. Following this he practiced for a short time in Grand Island, Nebraska, and around 1910 went to Roswell, New Mexico, where he had a law practice for three years.
In 1913 he began a long and interesting career of service in foreign lands.
He spent ten years, 1913-1923, in the Department of Civil Affairs with the War Department in the Canal Zone. He then spent a year under loan by this department to the Bankers Syndicate as Assistant Fiscal Representative for the Republic of El Salvador. In January, 1925, he resigned his post in the Department of Civil Affairs to accept the post of Fiscal Representative to El Salvador.
From 1925-1927, he was the sonsejero to the Republic of Chile, then served in a like capacity in Guatemala until the middle of 1931. When he returned to the United States, and for the next three years, 1931-1934, he worked in an unofficial capacity in Washington, D.C., where his father, then in Congress, was Chairman of Indian Affairs.
In 1934 he was appointed American Minister to Paraguay, a post he retained until 1941, when he again returned to Washington, D.C.
Since 1944 he has been with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation at Burbank, California, and lives at Glendale.
On October 8, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Findley Burtch Howard was married to Edna Healy, the daughter of John W. and Margaret Healy. They had two children, Findley Burtch, Jr., and Martita.
Mrs. Howard died in the summer of 1927 and after her death Findley B. Jr. and Martita returned to the States where they attended school.
Findley B. Howard, Jr., was graduated from Kramer High School in Columbus, and attended the University of Nebraska for three years. At the end of his junior
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year he went to Texas where he attended the Pan-American School of Aviation and following his graduation there he worked with the Pan-American Aircraft Corporation in the Caribbean area including, Venezuela, Colombia, Trinidad, Virgin Islands and Guatemala. In 1949 he returned to the States. He was then located at Brownsville, Texas, in the capacity of Foreign Representative for Pan-American. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
Martita was graduated from Kramer High School in 1944 and attended the University of California at Los Angeles. At the end of her junior year she transferred to the University of California at Berkeley where she received her Degree of Bachelor of Science and Registered Nurse in 1950. She took her training at the San Francisco hospitals. She is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority.
Henry J. Hudson, a direct descendant of the noted Grissel and Peto family, of whom Sir Morton Peto was a member, was born in London, England, November 28, 1822, and died February 14, 1903, in Columbus.
For eight years, Mr. Hudson was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, in England. In 1848, he united with the Church of the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ, in Sheffield, England.
He immigrated to America in 1851, landing at New Orleans, Louisiana. Proceeding by boat up the Mississippi River, he touched at St. Louis, and later located at Alton, Illinois, where he resided until 1857. During that time, he was faithful to the dispensation of Joseph Smith, and being an elder in the church of the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ, he made many missionary trips to England, which resulted in large accessions by conversions and immigration.
Henry J. Hudson intended to move to Utah, but he became dissatisfied with the polygamous institutions of Brigham Young and his church and the state regime and declined further labors in that direction.
In 1857, he piloted a party of members of the reorganized church of the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ, known as Mormon colonists, to Genoa, Nebraska. There he conducted a general merchandise store until the Genoa holdings were allotted to the Indians. In 1863, he moved to Columbus, where he was appointed president of the Central Nebraska District of Josephite Mormons, with headquarters in Columbus.
In Columbus, Mr. Hudson entered the business field where he was engaged in the selling of merchandise. He also filled many public positions. His first public office, to which he was elected in October, 1864, was justice of the peace. In 1867, he was elected County Clerk of Platte County. In 1871-1872, he served in the State Legislature, and in 1881, was elected County Commissioner, an office which he held for two terms, and when the county supervisor system was adopted, he was twice elected as a member of the Board of Supervisors.
In 1887, he was elected County judge, and after the close of his career in that office, he was elected judge of the City Police Court and served as justice of the peace.
On November 10, 1844, in London, England, he was married to Sarah Shefford, of London. They had fifteen children, seven sons, and eight daughters. Among them were: Mrs. James H. Galley, Mrs. Jackson C. Echols, and Mrs. C. E. Pollock, all of whom died in Columbus; and Mrs. Richard Jenkinson who lived with her daughter, Mrs. Herman Zinnecker; Charles Hudson; James Hudson, father of Mrs. Shell Clark, formerly of Bakersfield, California, was the grandfather of Mrs. Edward Ragatz, Sr. and Chester Clark, of Columbus; Horace Hudson, formerly of Silver Creek, Nebraska; and Mrs. W. H. Winterbotham, whose family at one time lived in Columbus, at David City, Nebraska, and later moved to Julesburg, Colorado, was also a daughter.
Henry J. Hudson was regarded highly for his work as a Mormon elder. Politically, he was a Democrat.
Mrs. Faith Mary Hurford, public health nurse for the Columbus city schools, is the widow of Louis C. Hurford. Mr. Hurford, who came to Columbus in 1925, and was owner and operator of a furniture store there. Mrs. Hurford is the daughter of Ernest and Imogene Hetler Feldkirchner. She was born at Smith Center, Kansas. Her father, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Somerset County April 19, 1860, and died at Beatrice, Nebraska, October 29, 1944. Her mother was born in Dixon, Illinois July 22, 1867, and died in Beatrice, June 17, 1936. Mrs. Hurford has one sister, Mrs. A. J. Hudson, of Neenah, Wisconsin.
On January 5, 1918, at Beatrice, Faith Feldkirchner was married to Louis C. Hurford. She has been a member of the Nebraska State and the National American Nurses Associations, the State and National Public Health Nurses Associations, the State League of Women Voters, and the Columbus Women's Club. She is a Democrat, and is a member of the Grace Episcopal Church in Columbus.
Gottfried Ingold was born in Switzerland, July 5, 1872, and died in Columbus, Nebraska, July 29, 1911.
He attended school in his native land, and when a young man immigrated to the United States, coming directly to Platte County where he was employed on construction work.
On March 17, 1896, in Columbus, Mr. Ingold was married to Miss Susan Urech, daughter of John and Elizabeth Urech, natives of Aarwangen, Switzerland.
Gottfried and Susan Urech Ingold had *four daughters and **five sons: Emma, Mrs. L. N. Bailey, of Columbus; Bertha, Mrs. Edward A. Trofholz, Columbus Township; Alvena, Mrs. Werner Ernst, Butler Township; Fred, married to Martha Klug; Paul, born September 6, 1903, and who died August 26, 1938; Walter,
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born August 27, 1907 married to Margaret Nauenburg; Lester, who was graduated from Kramer High; and Carl and William, twins, born December 13, 1908.
Walter is with the Loup River Public Power District at its garage. Both Carl and William Ingold are veterans of World War II. Carl served more than three years with the Military Police in the European Theatre of Operations. William, who was in the United States Armed Forces for three and one-half years, also served in the European Theatre; he was married to Miss Rosemary Glur of Columbus, December 12, 1948. John Ingold, born February 8, 1911, is with the Columbus Police Department, and is married to Mildred Hoppe of Richland, Nebraska.
The Ingold family are members of the Evangelical Protestant Church of Columbus. Mrs. Susan Ingold is a member of the Ladies Aid of that church, and of the Swiss Gruetli Verein.
Fred Ingold, also known as "Fritz," is the eldest son of Gottfried and Susan Urech Ingold. He was born in Columbus February 4, 1899.
Mr. Ingold was graduated from Columbus High in the class of 1918. He was employed then by the Glur Cement Works as a cement finisher until the 1930's, at which time he went to work for the Loup River Public Power District as maintenance foreman, later becoming superintendent.
On February 4, 1929, he was married to Miss Martha KIug, daughter of Carl and Anna Schreiber Klug. Mrs. Ingold has three sisters and two brothers: Anna, Mrs. Paul Heibel; Elsie, Mrs. Fred Krueger; Alvina, Mrs. Emil Ahrens; Carl Klug Jr., and Alfred Klug. All reside in Columbus, except Alfred who lives in Oregon.
Fred and Martha Klug Ingold had five children: Fred Jr., Merna, Jack, Donald, and Paul.
Fred Ingold Jr., born January 12, 1931, was graduated from Kramer High in 1948 and attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Jack, born September 14, 1933, and Donald, born December 12, 1934, are enrolled in Kramer High. Paul, born in February, 1939, attends grade school, and Merna, born in Columbus, attends Kramer High School.
The Ingolds are members of the Trinity Lutheran Church, and Mr. Ingold is a member of the Masons, the Columbus Fire Department, and was city councilman from the First Ward.
Christian lossi was born in Grindlewald, Canton Bern, Switzerland, in 1852, and was married to Anna Heiman, a native of Hasliberg, Canton Bern. Mrs. lossi was born in 1854.
Christian and Anna lossi moved from Canton Bern to Alpnach Dors in Canton Oberwalden. From there, with their eight children, they immigrated to the United States, coming directly to Platte County and settling on a farm three miles east of Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. Iossi had a family of thirteen children. Eleven were born in Switzerland: Emiline, Emele, Anna, Rosalie, Alfred, Simon, John, Martha, Ernest, Walter, Lydia, Emil and Albert. Emiline, Emele and Rosalie died in Switzerland; Lydia died two weeks after the family came to Platte County. Emil and Albert were born in Platte County.
Anna married P. F. Luchsinger and lives in Columbus; Alfred married Ida Friedrich and lives at Alliance. Simon lives at North Platte. John, who married Sarah Enzminger, died in Columbus in 1935. Martha married William Newman of Columbus and lived at Alliance until her death in 1946; Ernest married Mrs. Holmes and lives at Milton, Oregon. Walter married Clara Ritter and lives at Crawford, Nebraska. Emil married Magdalena Reinke and lives north of Columbus. Albert married Ida Schidler Odgaard and lives in South Dakota.
Anna lossi died in Platte County January 7, 1900.
In 1920, Christian lossi returned to Switzerland. He died there in January, 1933.
Leslie L. Irwin, son of William J. Irwin, veteran Platte County farmer, was born in the West Hill community February , 1890. His father, William, born October 7, 1846, in New York, came from Illinois to Nebraska in 1871. William Irwin served a term in the State Legislature in 1892-93; he died at Genoa, Nebraska, March 22, 1929. William's wife, the former Miss Ida Matson, was born in Sweden November 21, 1858; she died at Genoa, Nebraska, January 14, 1937.
Leslie L. Irwin had two brothers and three sisters: Elizabeth, Mrs. S. T. Battles; Ella, Mrs. E. C. Baird; Mae, Mrs. J. A. Osborne; William B., married to Pearl Burt; and Allen R., married to Neva Steinbaugh, Leslie was graduated in 1907 from the high school in Genoa. He then worked on his father's farm. Eighty
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acres of his present farm is a part of the farm his father homesteaded in 1871.
Leslie Irwin was married to Miss Mary Kirsten Christensen in St. Edward, Nebraska, May 17, 1911.
Mrs. Irwin is the daughter of Hans C. and Karen Larson Christensen, natives of Denmark. The Irwins have two children. Robert Leslie, born July 29, 1919, is a farmer. Clyde Creighton, born April 3, 1922, served forty-five months in the United States Army, and was discharged with the rank of first lieutenant. Both attended school in District 68, Woodville Township, and are graduates of the Genoa High School. Clyde attended the University of Nebraska for three years prior to entering the Army.
Mr. Irwin is a member of the West Hill Baptist Church, has been a director of the District 68 School for twenty years, and is a Republican.
Albert Frederick Iverson, Creston Township farmer, was born at Leigh, Nebraska, January 19, 1885. He was born Albert Johnson, but after the death of his parents in the typhoid fever epidemic of 1887, was adopted by his uncle, Andrew Iverson, and took the Iverson name. Andrew Iverson a brother of Albert Iverson's mother, was born in Denmark, November 25, 1846, and died at Leigh July 14, 1922. He came to Nebraska from Chicago in November, 1871. His wife, Marie Jenson Iverson, was born December 21, 1847, in Denmark and died February 2, 1916 at Leigh.
Albert Iverson had one brother and two sisters: Sophia Johnson, Mrs. Thomas Halleland, of Colome, South Dakota; Edward Johnson, who married Gertrude Frederic, and resides at Albion, Nebraska; and Laura Johnson, Mrs. J. D. Scott, at Osceola, Nebraska. All are farming.
Mr. Iverson was educated at School District 43 in Platte County. He was married to Miss Anna C. Sorenson September 29, 1909, at Omaha. Mrs. Iverson's parents were Anton and Martha Hanson Sorenson.
Mr. and Mrs. Iverson had four children. Eloise, born March 19, 1911, was employed in the offices of the United States Employment Service in Columbus for three years, and is married. Arnold, who is married and farms near Newman Grove, was born February 17, 1915. Lowell, born July 30, 1917, was in the United States Armed Forces for four and one-half years during World War II, spending thirty-two months in the Southwest Pacific. Robert, born October 10, 1924, farms near Leigh, Nebraska.
Albert Iverson served on the school board nine years. He has been treasurer of the Pioneer Cemetery Association for twenty years and a road overseer for eight years. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Democrat.
His uncles, Andrew Iverson and Nels Olson, were the first settlers in Creston Township, having come from Chicago in a covered wagon. In his early years, the pioneer Andrew Iverson farmed with oxen and lived in a sod house.
Reverend Waiter H. Jackson, son of Eben D. and Carrie Jackson, was born August 25, 1880, at Rock Falls, Illinois. He was six years old when his parents moved to Nelson, Nebraska. After nine years at Nelson, they moved to Upland, where young Walter lived for the next five years.
Reverend Jackson attended the schools at Nelson and Upland, and in Lincoln, Nebraska, took a course in commerce. In 1900, he entered the West Nebraska Conference and was assigned to the Methodist Church at Grant. He later attended Wesleyan University while holding pastorates in Denton, Weston, and Eagle, and studied theology in summer courses at Denver University and the Garrett Biblical School in Chicago.
Reverend Jackson was married to Miss Lotta Adkins at Lincoln, Nebraska. They had two children: Roma, Mrs. Lumir Kuncl, of Chicago; and Doris, Mrs. Lester Somers, of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Reverend Jackson has served charges in the Methodist Church at Phillips, Beaver Crossing, Bellwood, Bladen, Plainview, North Bend, Tekamah, Stanton, Newman Grove, Blair, Nebraska City and at Columbus where he was pastor for seven years.
Besides his pastorates, Reverend Jackson served the West Nebraska Conference of the Methodist Church on several boards and committees. He served also for the National Board of Pensions and Relief.
Outside of his church work, Reverend Jackson has been prominent for thirty-five years in Boy Scout activities. He is an Eagle Scout and holds the Silver Beaver award and the Scoutmaster's Key. A member of the Masonic Order, he is a knight of the York Cross of Honor.
Bengt Jacobson was born on August 7,. 1837, at Granbergsfallet, Sweden, and died on February 16, 1923, at Genoa, Nebraska.
He immigrated to the United States and located in Michigan, where he was engaged in farming. On September 1. 1877, he moved to Platte County, Nebraska, where he spent the remaining forty-six years of his life.
Bengt Jacobson was married to Anna Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson had ten children, six sons and four daughters: John Samuel; Carl John; Simon Alfred; Edward Bennett; Henry Anton; Arthur William; Anna Martha; Johanna; Ethel Albertina; and Maritt.
Maritt Jacobson was married to P. A. Olson on March 2, 1898. The Olsons had five children: Myrtle Annett, born July 11, 1900, is the wife of George Phillipsen, and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska; Gustave Vernie, born November 20, 1898, is deceased; Edward Kenneth, born March 5, 1910, is married to Eleanor Lindblom, and lives in California; Ruth Kathryn, born April 26, 1912, is the wife of Irwin Carstensen, of Omaha; and Robert August, born April 14, 1917, is married to Jean Wade, of Kearney, Nebraska.
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