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Edward Mark holds membership in the Catholic Foresters, the Farmer's Union, and the American War Dads. He is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Platte Center.
Louis J. Marohn was born June 5, 1892, in Colfax County. His parents were Adolph and Minnie Griser Marohn, both native Nebraskans. Adolph Marohn was born July 9, 1854, at Florence, Nebraska, and died at Burbank, California, in 1934. Minnie Griser Marohn was born at Fremont, Nebraska, June 23, 1862, and died July 9, 1908, in Colfax County.
Louis Marohn had one brother, Rollo, who died in Burbank, California, in 1935. Rollo was married to Anna Melliger, a sister of Albert Melliger of Columbus.
Louis Marohn attended the Colfax County schools, the Fremont Normal School at Fremont, Nebraska, and the Grand Island Business College at Grand Island, Nebraska.
In World War I, he was stationed at Camp Fleming, New Mexico, and was later with the A.E.F. in France. He is a member of the American Legion.
On May 23, 1920, in Columbus, Louis Marohn was married to Miss Lorena Prieb, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Prieb.
Louis J. and Lorena Prieb Marohn had two daughters, Carol and Mary. Carol, Mrs. Keith Iwohn, was a teacher prior to her marriage. She is a graduate of Kramer High School and the Wayne State Teachers' College. Mary Marohn Marquiss was engaged in secretarial work in Washington, D. C., and New York City. She was graduated from Kramer High School and the Van Sant School of Business in Omaha. She was a student at New York University, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
For many years Louis J. Marohn was a salesman and operated his own retail grocery store in Columbus. He was later employed with the Loup River Public Power District.
Mr. Marohn is a talented violinist. For several years, he had his own orchestra, "Raggy Marohn's," and has also played with other local orchestras.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Marohn are members of the Grace Episcopal Church in Columbus.
Ingwer Christian Martensen, known in Platte County as Chris Martens, was born in February, 1832, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and died in March, 1920, at Madison, Nebraska. He immigrated to America in 1866, coming to Platte County from Davenport, Iowa, in 1868. His name later was changed from Martensen to Martens.
In 1877, Mr. Martens was married to Miss Dorothea Pedersen, the daughter of Andrew and Dorothea Pedersen. Dorothea Martens was born May 22, 1837, and came to America third class in 1876, to join a brother, Henry Pedersen, at Madison, Nebraska. She had earned her own money to pay her transportation here. The trip took two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Ingwer C. Martens had two children: Chris Jr., born September 15, 1883; and Dorothea Martens Hoare, born August 13, 1878.
Before coming to America, Ingwer C. Martens was a farmer and served in the Denmark Army five years; he was also in the German Army. Schleswig-Holstein was owned by both Denmark and Germany at different times in its history. For his service for Denmark he received a pension of twenty-seven dollars a month until his death in 1920.
Mr. Martens, a Lutheran, was known for his remarkable memory in quoting from the Bible.
Adolph Marty, Platte County pioneer, was born December 26, 1862, near Bern, Switzerland, and died June 21, 1947, in Columbus, Nebraska. He was six when he immigrated to the United States with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benedict Marty.
Three weeks after their arrival in Columbus, his father died. His mother, with three small children, settled on a farm in Colfax County. A few years later, she moved to a farm in Platte County, sixteen miles northeast of Columbus, where she married Henry Miller. Adolph Marty lived on that farm until 1928, when he retired and moved into Columbus. He had two stepbrothers, Henry and John Miller, and two half brothers, Fred and Louis Miller.
On February 2, 1886, Adolph Marty was married to Anna Echtenkamp of Arlington, Nebraska, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Arlington.
Adolph and Anna Echtenkamp Marty had seven sons and six daughters. Adolph Jr. married Pauline Loseke and lives in Columbus. Herman, married to Frances Harvey, died in September, 1936. Gottfried Marty married Elenor Linderman and lives at Leigh, Nebraska. Fred married Jessie McMullen and lives at Leigh. John lives at Leigh. Gus married Rose Loseke and lives at Leigh. Edward married Wilma Angerman and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Lena lives in Columbus. Pauline lives at Norfolk, Nebraska. Anna died in April, 1946. Josephine married Charles Reeves and lives in Everett, Washington. Ella married Joel Hahn and lives in Beatrice, Nebraska. Margaret, Mrs. T. H. Edminson, lives in Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. Marty were members of the Christ Lutheran Church in Bismark Township until 1928. Mr. Marty served as chairman and a trustee of that church for thirteen years. After 1928, the Martys held membership in the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Columbus. On February 2, 1946, they celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Marty died in February, 1946. Adolph Marty died in June, 1947.
Gottfried Marty, born January 13, 1867, in Canton Bern, Switzerland, came to this country with his parents when two years of age. His wife, Margaret Brock Marty, was born November 14, 1870, in a log house on the Brock farm in Platte County, north of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Marty were married on June 7, 1889, by Reverend H. Fischer, who had charge
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of the congregation now known as the Christ Lutheran twelve miles northeast of Columbus.
Gottfried and Margaret Brock Marty had six sons and five daughters: Gottfried E., Walter F., Arthur, and Otto J., of Columbus; Professor Emil A. Marty, and Ernest H.; Mrs. William Johannes, and Mrs. Walter Ludwig, of Leigh; Mrs. Rudolph Wilke of Richland; Mrs. C. A. Buelow of Fresno, California; and Irma.
For the first ten years of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Marty resided on the Brock farm. They then moved to another farm in the Christ Lutheran Community, where they built a new home. In 1939, they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary with their family at the parental home sixteen miles northeast of Columbus.
S. E. Marty was born on March 28, 1862, of Swiss parentage, at New Glarus, Wisconsin. He died November 18, 1939, in Columbus, Nebraska.
After his arrival in Columbus in 1878, he worked one year in the meat market of John Knoebel, then he returned to his home in Wisconsin where he learned telegraphy. For the next four years he was employed as an operator in the depot at Brooklyn, Wisconsin.
In the spring of 1883 he again came to Columbus to work for Mr. Knoebel. Two years later, he bought the Knoebel interest in the meat market.
On May 4, 1885, 5. E. Marty was married to Miss Anna Marti, who came to Columbus from Switzerland in 1883.
They had two daughters and two sons: Anne, Mrs. S. C. Pedersen of Pomona, California; Louise, Mrs. C. C. Stafford of Altadena, California; Fred, of Seattle, Washington, married to Evelyn Parker, and Carl, deceased.
In 1913, after thirty years in the meat business, Mr. Marty sold his market to William Teich. By this time he had achieved financial independence and desired to retire. In 1916, under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, he was appointed Columbus postmaster. He served in that capacity until 1924. He then bought his former meat market from Mr. Teich and in a short time sold it to his son, Fred, who managed it for several years prior to his moving to Seattle, Washington.
S. E. Marty was an accomplished clarinetist and for many years played in the Columbus city band and several local orchestras. He was a member of the Columbus Maennerchor and the Maennerchor Orchestra.
Both Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Marty were members of the Evangelical Protestant church, in which Mr. Marty served as an elder for several years. He also held membership in the Sons of Herman, and the Modern Woodmen.
Doctor David Thomas Martyn was born July 26, 1845, in Granville, Vermont, and died April 28, 1933, in Columbus.
He went to Illinois at the age of eighteen, and after teaching school one winter enlisted in the one hundred forty-sixth Volunteer Infantry for service in the Civil War. He was at the front with his unit until the close of hostilities in 1865. Later, he became a member of the Old Glory Post of the G.A.R. in Chicago, retaining his membership there until all of the other members died and the post was disbanded.
At the close of the Civil War, he entered the Chicago Medical College, which later became the Medical Department of Northwestern University. He was graduated there in 1869, and began serving an internship in Mercy Hospital in Chicago. In 1870, Doctor David T. Martyn came to Nebraska and located at Clarks. At that time the Village of Clarks contained two stores and a Union Pacific section house, and Doctor Martyn was the only physician between Columbus and Grand Island, Nebraska.
After three years at Clarks, he returned to Chicago. But he had formed an enduring love for the pioneers and their families and three years later, in 1876, he located in Columbus.
In those early days the life of a country doctor was a strenuous one. During the historic blizzard of 1888, Doctor Martyn, bundled in his great-coat, made his way through the blinding storm to the Third Ward School, to reassure the frightened children and their teachers. En route, he stopped to summon O. L. Baker with his carry-all, and the latter in turn summoned Dick Jenkinson with his dray. Under the guidance of the Doctor, the children and their teachers were taken safely home.
On March 1, 1877, at Clarks, Nebraska, Doctor David T. Martyn was married to Miss Susan George, the daughter of Frederick and Susan Delphi Peteet George. She was born December 23, 1856, at Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and in 1871 came to Nebraska from Boston with her parents and located at Clarks. Susan George returned to Boston to attend Peabody Institute from which she was graduated. While at Clarks, she met Doctor Martyn.
Doctor and Mrs. David T. Martyn had two sons and three daughters: Doctor David T. Martyn Jr., of Columbus; Homer Martyn, of Tucson, Arizona; Lucy, Mrs. Albert Fink, of Chicago; Petite, Mrs. C. E. Givens, who died June 1, 1929; and Helen R. Martyn, who died April 4, 1889, in Columbus. Mrs. David T. Martyn Sr. died July 9, 1936, in Columbus.
Doctor Martyn was a founder and a member of the first staff of St. Mary's Hospital. He was one of the first of the Platte County Medical Society members and served as one of its early officers. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and was a Republican.
Doctor David Thomas Martyn Jr., was born January 13, 1878, in Columbus, Nebraska. He is the son of Doctor David Thomas Martyn and Susan George Martyn. His father was born in Granville, Vermont, on July 26, 1845, and died April 28, 1933, in Columbus. His mother was born December 23, 1856, at Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and died July 9, 1936.
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Doctor David Martyn had one brother and three sisters. Brother: Homer M., a salesman, married Grace Luther; they live at Tucson, Arizona. His sisters: Lucy H., is the widow of Albert Fink; Susan Petite, Mrs. Charles C. Givens, died June 1, 1929; Helen R. died April 4, 1889, in Columbus.
Doctor David T. Martyn has always lived in Columbus. He graduated from the Columbus High School in 1897, and four years later received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the medical school of Creighton University at Omaha. In 1901 and 1902, he pursued postgraduate work in Chicago, and then located for practice in Columbus where he has since remained.
On October 21, 1909, in Mount Sterling, Illinois, he was married to Miss Winnifred R. Rottger, the daughter of Frederick R. and Eugenia Susan Peters Rottger. Mrs. Martyn died August 15, 1923, in Columbus. Her father, Frederick William Rottger, was born in Germany, and was in the lumber and grain business. Her mother, Eugenia Susan Peters, was born July 30, 1849, in Ohio, and died July 2, 1934, in Columbus. Mrs. Martyn had two brothers and three sisters: Eugenia Rottger Curry, who died in 1948, in Columbus; William, who died in 1872 at Mount Sterling, Illinois; Nina Louise, who died in 1904 at Mount Sterling; Myrtle May, who died in June, 1935, at Mount Sterling; and Frederick W., who died in June, 1939, in Los Angeles:
Doctor and Mrs. David T. Martyn Jr., had three daughters: Eugenia Susan, Lucy Petite, and Winnifred Rottger.
Eugenia Susan, born in Columbus, attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from Kramer High School. She then attended Lindenwood College at St. Charles, Missouri, Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio, and the University of Nebraska. Eugenia taught kindergarten in Fremont, Nebraska, and was married to Omar Bornemeier. They reside at Elmwood, Nebraska, and have one daughter, Eugenia Lucy.
Lucy Petite, born in Columbus, attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from Kramer High. She attended the University of Nebraska, Cook County School of Nursing at Chicago, and Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio. In World War II, she served five years in the Army as a member of the Army Nurse Corps, all continental duty. Later she attended the University of California at Berkeley where she received a degree.
Winnifred R., born in Columbus, attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from Kramer High. She attended Doane College at Crete, Nebraska, and the University of Nebraska from which she was graduated. She was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Before her marriage to Leon Horn, she did stenographic work. Leon and Winnifred Martyn Horn have one daughter, Mershon Louise. They live at Kearney, Nebraska.
Doctor David T. Martyn Jr., is a member of the Wayside Country Club, the Sixty Year Club, the Elks, and the Masons. He also is a member of the. Grace. Episcopal Church in Columbus.
Theodore Konrad Matzen was born in Aarhus, Denmark, on May 28, 1835. At the age of thirteen, he signed up as a cabin boy on a freighter between Denmark and England. After two years of sailing, he hired out as an apprentice to learn the ship carpentry trade, in 1850.
Having served his apprenticeship, he again went to sea. His first long voyage took him from Antwerp to Liverpool, then with a general cargo to Hong Kong, China.
After several years of working as a sailor, he spent a year inland in Australia, working on a sheep ranch and building a ferry boat. Following this, he again went to sea. In the 1860's, he sailed to New York, his ship carrying steel for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
After a serious wreckage of his sailing vessel, Mr. Matzen landed in San Francisco, in 1870, and became a bridge builder for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He built the bridge across the Sacramento River on the line to Portland.
The lure of gold mining then drew him into British Columbia and into Montana, but anticipation proved greater than the realization, and in 1871, attracted by the demand for carpenters in Chicago, following the great fire, he traveled to Chicago, where he went to work building cars for the Northwestern Railroad.
In Chicago, on August 23, 1872, Theodore K. Matzen was married to Bertha Mariah Iverson, who was born May 3, 1851, at Veile, Denmark. Theodore and Bertha Matzen had four sons and five daughters: Walter, born September 30, 1881, in Creston Township, is married to Maude F. Weeks, and is one of the. incorporators and owners of the Columbus Al-Fa-Meal Company, an alfalfa dehydrating plant; Niels, a graduate of the Northwestern University College of Dentistry, practiced in Columbus and later became a fruit grower in Escondido, California; Chris farmed near St. Edward, Nebraska; Jacob died on February 24, 1889, at the age of three; Mamie and Emma are graduate nurses and for a time operated the Matzen Hospital in Columbus; they later had a restaurant in Columbus; Stella, a graduate nurse from the Omaha General Hospital, is Mrs. George Hirsch, formerly of Columbus, now residing in Texas; Elise died on August 28, 1918, at the age of twenty-six; and Sine died on November 28, 1908, at the age of eighteen.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Matzen located on a homestead in Creston Township, in 1873, where they remained until 1907, when they retired from the farm and established their home in Columbus.
Mrs. Matzen died on January 14, 1932, at Columbus. Theodore Matzen died in Columbus on December 24, 1932, at the age of ninety-seven.
Walter Theodore Matzen was born in Creston Township September 30, ,88r. His parents were Theodore Konrad and Bertha Marie Sverson Matzen. Theodore
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Matzen, a farmer, miner and sailor, was born May 28, 1835, at Aarhus, Denmark. He homesteaded in Platte County in 1873, and lived there until his death, December 24, 1932, at Columbus. Bertha Marie Sverson Matzen was born May 3, 1851, at Veile, Denmark, and died January 14, 1932, at Columbus. Walter Matzen had three brothers and five sisters: Niels, a graduate of the Northwestern University College of Dentistry, practiced in Columbus, and later became a fruit grower in Escondido, California. Chris farmed near St. Edward, Nebraska. Jacob died February 24, 1889, at the age of three. Mamie and Emma are graduate nurses and for a time operated the Matzen Hospital in Columbus; they later had a restaurant in Columbus. Stella was graduated as nurse from the Omaha General Hospital. Elise, a graduate of the Kearney Normal, died August 28, 1918, at the age of twenty-six. Sine died November 28, 1908, at the age of eighteen.
Walter Matzen attended the District Schools of Creston Township, and Fremont College at Fremont, Nebraska.
On June 16, 1915, he was married at Columbus to Miss Maude F. Weeks, the daughter of Herbert S. and Leola Holden Weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Matzen had four children: Jean, a graduate of the Methodist School of Nursing in Omaha, is the wife of Robert Scott of Glen Ellen, California. They have two children: Katherine Jean, born November 2, 1945 and Robert Willard, born May 12, 1947. Elise, a graduate of the Immanuel Lutheran School of Nursing in Omaha; Theodore, a farmer, born in Platte County, July 8, 1920, and educated at Iowa State College at Ames, is married to Dorothy Clausen. They have two children, Theodore Walter, born May 14, 1944, and Dana, born December 30, 1946. Walter Jr., born September 30, 1922, holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State College at Ames. He married Virginia Huffman. They have two children, Neil Robert, born January 14, 1946, and Richard Walter, born May 12, 1948. Elise is the wife of Charles Withnell, of Columbus. Mr. Withnell works for the Reed Engineering Company. They have two children: Kent, born October 3, 1940, and Susan Jean, born November 12, 1943.
For many years, Mr. Matzen was owner of the Matzen Sand, Gravel & Road Construction Company. He sold the business in 1941 and has since occupied himself with the Al-Fa-Meal Company of Columbus, of which he is part owner, and with the supervision of his farms. He is a member of the Izaak Walton League, the Wayside Country Club, the B.P.O.E. (Elks), the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and is a Republican. The Walter Matzens attend the Federated Church of Columbus.
Jacob Mausbach was born on September 21, 1857, at Pine Bluff, Dane County, Wisconsin, and was a member of one of the first pioneer families to settle in the Tarnov area.
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On July 4, 1873, when eighteen years of age, he came with his parents and brothers and sisters to Platte County. His father homesteaded about one mile north of the present village of Tarnov, in Burrows Township, and in later years, Jacob purchased this land from his father. Jacob had two brothers and two sisters living in 1948: Mike, of Iroquois, South Dakota; Henry, of Columbus; Mrs. Sophie Bethke, of Lucas, South Dakota; and Mrs. Agnes Eimers, of Los Angeles, California.
On April 14, 1885, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Platte Center, Jacob Mausbach was married to Magdalene Wack. Mr. and Mrs. Mausbach had eight children, four of whom died in infancy. The others were: Nick, Henry, and John, of Humphrey, Nebraska, and Mrs. Elizabeth Greisen, of Columbus. Magdalene Wack Mausbach died in 1935, and Mr. Mausbach then resided with his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Greisen.
On September 21, 1947, Jacob Mausbach celebrated his ninetieth birthday and his seventy-second year of living in Platte County.
David Edward Maxwell, D.D.S., was born at Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, September 26, 1883. He is the son of John and Anna Dobson Maxwell. John Maxwell, a native of Belfast, Ireland, was born March 10, 1847, and came to the United States in 1866. In 1869, he returned to Ireland, and shortly thereafter brought his family to America. He settled on a farm near Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, and remained there until his retirement to Albion, Nebraska, in 1925. He lived in Albion until his death May 19, 1928. Anna Dobson Maxwell died at Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, February 18, 1923.
Doctor D. E. Maxwell had five sisters and two brothers: Mary, Mrs. P. Theel, deceased; Sarah, Mrs. Charles
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Casper, deceased; Maggie, Mrs. John Bowers; Tilda, Mrs. Harve Merrill; John, who died in March, 1943; Sophia, Mrs. Frank Thompson; and Robert, also a doctor of dental surgery, who married Margaret Zing and practices in Albion, Nebraska.
David E. Maxwell, D.D.S., received his early education in the public schools, and was graduated from the Cedar Rapids High School and the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry where he received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1908.
On June 26, 1912, Doctor Maxwell was married to Miss Lucy Elizabeth Farley, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Farley, at Cedar Rapids, Nebraska. They have one daughter, Helen Lucille, who attended the Columbus city schools and is a graduate of Kramer High School. She later attended Nebraska Wesleyan University at Lincoln, and the Fullerton Junior College at Fullerton, California.
Doctor Maxwell began the practice of dentistry at Cedar Rapids, and was there nine and one-half years. In 1917, he moved to Albion, Nebraska, and in April, 1926, came to Columbus where he opened dental offices.
Besides his profession of dentistry, Doctor Maxwell manages several farms and the Maxwell Building in Columbus.
He is a member of the Wayside Country Club, the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Nebraska State Dental Society, the National Dental Society, and is a Republican.
The Maxwells are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Columbus.
Edward D. Mayberger, born in Austria, August 18, 1866, was the son of Carl and Anna Mehrberger, natives of Austria. In 1876, the family emigrated from Austria to Columbus, Nebraska, where they located on a farm in the Oconee neighborhood. Edward and his brothers and sisters attended the Oconee School. His mother died in 1880, and his father married again. Edward had one brother and five sisters, and two half-brothers and three half-sisters.
His sister, Thresa, married Patrick McDonald, a well-known resident of the Humphrey vicinity. A half-sister, Mrs. Lena Rupprecht, lived in Columbus. Another half-sister, Philomena, a registered nurse, who lives in Washington, worked for many years at the St. Mary's Hospital; she also served with a hospital unit overseas during World War I. A half-brother, Charles Mayberger, lives at Silver Creek, Nebraska.
On November 25, 1902, Edward Mayberger was married to Miss Frances Alt, the daughter of Frank and Celia D. Alt, natives of Austria, who settled near Bellwood, Nebraska. The Maybergers had four children: Joseph, born at Oconee September 27, 1903, married to Lillian Oppliger; Arthur, born in Columbus June 16, 1910, married to Cleo Bernt; Emil, born January 19, 1906, married to Mae Johnson; and Edith, Mrs. Ben Downs, born in Columbus September 12, 1913.
In his early life, Edward Mayberger carried mail with a mule from Columbus to Fullerton; and for nine years, until he was thirty years of age, he was a fireman on the Union Pacific Railroad between Omaha, Nebraska, and Green River, Wyoming.
He died September 15, 1941, in Columbus. The Mayberger family are members of St. Bonaventure's Church in Columbus.
The Reverend Joseph H. Mayer was born May 17, 1915, near Kirkwood, Missouri, in Bonhomme Township.
He arrived in Platte County June 12, 1947, from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to accept a call to the Independent Evangelical Protestant Church, located at Eleventh Street and Twenty-first Avenue in Columbus, where he succeeded the Reverend Martin Luther Seybold as pastor.
In 1937, Reverend Mayer was graduated from Westminster College in Missouri. He then entered the Oberlin School of Theology at Oberlin, Ohio, for study and on July 13, 1941, he was ordained at Manchester, Missouri.
Reverend Mayer was married to Miss Flora Dependahl on September 16, 1938, in Manchester, Missouri. They had three children: Gayle Angela, born August 18, 1939; Robert Howard, born June 21, 1942; and Carolyn Ruth, born September 15, 1946.
Politically, Reverend Mayer is an Independent Democrat.
William Alexander McAllister, an attorney-at-law, was born June 7, 1847, at Glasgow, Scotland, and died January 7, 1923, at Salt Lake City, Utah. He came to Platte County, March 15, 1859, from Glasgow. His father, James McAllister, was born October 17, 1815, at Ayrshire, Scotland, and died January 9, 1897, in Columbus, Nebraska. His mother, Mary Ann Carson McAllister, was born in Ireland and died in March, 1895, in Columbus. William McAllister had seven brothers and two sisters: James, Elizabeth, Henry, John, Stephen, Williams, Margaret, and two brothers who died in infancy. Elizabeth was married to Robert McPherson; Margaret was married to William N. Hensley; and Stephen, a lawyer, was married to Emma Millet.
William McAllister attended the public schools in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Columbus, Nebraska. He then studied at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and the University of Munich, Germany. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was a member of the Nebraska Legislature and at one time was the postmaster at Columbus.
On April 20, 1885, he was married to Mary Ella Coalter, the daughter of Thomas and Anne Cameron Coalter. Mary Coalter had one brother, William, who was a railroad conductor. He died in 1922 in Oklahoma.
William and Mary Ella Coalter McAllister had one son and two daughters: Donald Coalter, of Montana, born July 9, 1888; Janet Claire, Mrs. Manly Logan, of
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