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John Covert Wilson was born September 25, 1924, in Elmhurst, and was graduated from Kramer High School and in 1948 from the University of Nebraska. He is in the insurance business in Columbus with his father.
Both Arthur Phillip and John Covert are veterans of World War II. Arthur Phillip served in the Pacific Theatre and John Covert in the European Theatre.
Prior to his occupation as an insurance agent. Mr. Wilson Sr. was engaged in sales work, and for a time was in commissary contracting in Chicago.
He is a member of the American Legion, and is a Republican. The Wilsons are Presbyterians and attend the Federated Church in Columbus.
Oscar A. Windolph, former Humphrey druggist, who was born at Grand Island, Nebraska, came to Platte County in September, 1913. His parents, John and Katherine Kellner Windolph, natives of Germany, came to Grand Island from Germany in 1870. John Windolph was a dye master in Germany, but devoted his interests to farming in this country. He died at Grand Island in 1883. Katherine Windolph died there in 1929.
Oscar Windolph attended School District 74 in Hall County and St. Mary's Parochial School near Grand Island. Upon his graduation, he entered the profession of teaching and taught school for five years, after which he became the editor of a German newspaper at Grand Island. He kept this position for three years, and then entered the School of Pharmacy at Creighton University in Omaha. After his graduation in 1912, he worked in drug stores for a year. He then purchased the drug store in Humphrey, which he operated for many years. He sold his interests to Frank Bran.
On May 22, 1912, at Creighton, Nebraska, he was married to Miss Agnes C. Burkhard, daughter of Frank Simon and Genevieve Pischke Burkhard, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Poland.
Mr. and Mrs. Windolph had twelve children. All except one who died, are in religious orders and are priests and nuns.
The Windolphs belong to St. Francis Catholic Church. Mr. Windolph was instrumental in organizing the Knights of Columbus Council at Humphrey and is a charter member of that council. He is also a member of the Nebraska Pharmaceutical Association, and a Democrat.
Henry M. Winslow was born December 12, 1837, at Putney, Vermont. After attending the Putney schools, he formed a partnership with his brother, dealing in and raising purebred stock. The Winslows were at one time the best known exporters and importers of fine stock in the New England States.
In 1876, Henry Winslow moved to Illinois, locating on a stock farm sixteen miles north of Kankakee where he continued as an importer and exporter of purebred shorthorns. He came to Platte County in the same year as C. H. Sheldon, whom he knew in Vermont and Illinois.
In 1868, while residing at Heath, Massachusetts, Mr. Winslow was married to Abbie J. Kendrick, who was born in February, 1842, at Heath. Her ancestors were among the first English colonists who settled in New England.
Mr. and Mrs. Winslow had two children, Abbie, Mrs. C. J. Garlow, and George Winslow.
Shortly after coming to Platte County in 1883, Henry Winslow bought what was known as the Senecal Ranch four miles northwest of Columbus. He lived there until 1901, when he moved to Holt County. In August, 1903, he died at Badger Hills in northern Holt County. Mrs. H. M. Winslow died at Columbus, Nebraska, in January, 1911.
George H. Winslow was born May 10, 1875, at Putney, Vermont. His parents were Henry and Abbie Kendrick Winslow, who came to Columbus in 1883 when George was eight years old. He had one sister, Mamie Abbie, married to Camden J. Garlow, a former Columbus attorney.
The Winslow family moved to Kankakee, Illinois, from Vermont when George was a year old and spent seven years there. Upon their arrival in Columbus, they located on a farm northwest of Columbus where Henry Winslow engaged in cattle raising and feeding on a large scale The "Winslow Ranch" became known throughout this section of the state.
After attending the District and Columbus schools, George assisted his father in the management of his cattle business. By that time, Henry Winslow had expanded considerably and had cattle interests in other parts of the state, and in Idaho.
On November 25, 1896, George Winslow was married to Miss Harriet M. Scofield, the daughter of Richard P. and Olive Alexander Scofield. After their marriage they established their home on a farm four miles west of Columbus.
In 1901, they moved to Holt County, where they farmed about three years and then returned to Columbus. In 1910 George H. Winslow disposed of his farm and cattle business and entered the real estate business in Columbus. In 1913, he became a salesman, continuing in that capacity for several years. For some years prior to October, 1936, he operated the Winslow Oil Business in the territory adjacent to Columbus.
George H. and Harriet Scofield Winslow had three sons: Frank, of San Antonio, Texas, married to Kay Houston; George, Jr., of Columbus, married to Betty Huwaldt; and Camden, of Cincinnati, Ohio, married to Kathren Boehm, the daughter of Frederic and Whillamina Bucher Boehm of Columbus, Nebraska.
Camden and Kathren Boehm Winslow have two children: Mary Christine born April 25, 1943, in
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Los Angeles, California, and John Frederic born February 9, 1947, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
George H. Winslow, Sr., was a member of the Federated Church and the Maccabees Lodge, and was a Republican. His hobby was card playing, and each year he competed in the Columbus cribbage tournament.
He died October 12, 1936.
Mrs. George H. Winslow, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. George H. Winslow, Jr., live in Columbus.
Fred Alvin Wiren, former secretary of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, was born August 14, 1907, at Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the son of Carl A. and Anna Marie Nelson Wiren. Carl A. Wiren, a native of Sweden, was born August 28, 1881, and died at Lincoln, September 25, 1935. Carl A. spent his active years as a contractor. Anna Wiren, also a native of Sweden, was born April 12, 1883.
Fred Wiren received his early education in the Lincoln grade and high school, and then enrolled for two years at the University of Nebraska Law College. He also attended Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois.
On May 27, 1932, he was married at Lincoln to Miss Irmgard Josephine Krekeler, daughter of Conrad and Editha Kloeckner Krekeler. Mrs. Wiren is a graduate of the University of Nebraska Teachers College, and holds membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic fraternity. The Wirens had one daughter, Ann Lyn, born July 9, 1937.
Before entering chamber of commerce work, Mr. Wiren was associated successively with the International Business Machines Corporation, the Accounts Division of the United States Accounts Office, and the Nebraska Salesbook Company in Lincoln and Denver. Prior to his arrival in Columbus, he held the position of Assistant and Business Manager of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce for five and one-half years. He came to Columbus in December, 1944, and held the position of Chamber Manager and Secretary until 1948. He then went to California.
In 1926-28, Mr. Wiren was a member of the Cadet Corps of the United States R.O.T.C. at the University of Nebraska. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, the B.P.O.E. (Elks), the Izaak Walton League, and is a Republican. While attending the University of Nebraska he was affiliated with the Lambda Chi Alpha and the Phi Alpha Delta fraternities. The Wirens attended the Federated Church in Columbus.
George Paul Wolf, former instructor at the Immanuel Lutheran School in Columbus, was born December 9, 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri. He came to Platte County in August, 1920.
Mr. Wolf received his early education at the Holy Cross Lutheran Parochial School and in the public schools in St. Louis. He completed preparatory school, and college at the Addison Seminary at Addison, Illinois.
On September 9, 1912, he was married to Miss Martha Ida Jaeger at Lone Elm, Missouri. They had five children: Leona, who taught for seven years in the Platte County Schools and is married to Theodore Bokelman, at Monroe; Juanita, Mrs. Elmer Hellweg, of Lincoln; George, auditor at the Central National Bank of Columbus, married to Lucille Walters; Dorothy, the wife of Jess Creathbaum, of Liberal, Kansas; and Albert A., a former student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Martha Ida Jaeger Wolf died in 1945.
Prior to his coming to Platte County, Mr. Wolf lived in several places in Missouri, and in New Orleans, Louisiana. For nineteen years he taught in the Immanuel Lutheran Parochial School north of Columbus. On moving into Columbus, Mr. Wolf became associated as teacher with the Immanuel Lutheran City Parochial School. After the school was enlarged he taught the first four grades. He retired from teaching in 1948.
Besides his activities in teaching, Mr. Wolf was interested in poultry raising as a hobby. For a number of years, he was president of the Platte Valley Poultry and Pet Stock Association. Mr. Wolf is a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Columbus. In politics he was a Republican.
George W. Wolf was born August 6, 1918, at St. James, Missouri. His parents were George P. and Ida Jaeger Wolf. George W. was two years old when the family moved to Columbus, where his father, a teacher by profession in Lutheran parochial schools, became teacher of the Immanuel Lutheran Rural School, five miles north of Columbus. The Wolf family established their home at the country residence there, where they lived for several years. At the time that the students from the country were transferred to the Immanuel Lutheran School in Columbus, George P. Wolf moved into Columbus and continued as teacher in the Immanuel Lutheran School there.
George W. Wolf completed the eighth grade at the rural parochial school, the ninth and tenth grades at District 10, and was graduated from Kramer High School in 1936. He was the president of the Senior Class that year.
His first employment was with Condon-Kiewit, and then at Swift and Company. He was next employed as auditor at the Central National Bank. In December, 1938, he was the winner of the title, "Clerk of the Month."
Mr. Wolf served in the United States Armed Forces for five years during World War II. With the rank of captain in the Quartermaster Corps he was assigned to duty in the Pacific Theatre of Operations.
On May 31, 1947, he was married to Lucille Walters, the daughter of Oliver H. and Cora Linstrum Walters. They have a son, Donald Kirk, born September 9, 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Wolf are members of the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Columbus.
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Herman August Wolfe, manager of the Beatrice Foods Company in Columbus since 1929, was born in Columbus January 13, 1894. His parents were Herman and Emilie Froehlich Wolfe, who came to Platte County in 1866. Herman Wolfe was born in Rommerstadt, Austria, February 6, 1854, and died in Columbus, September 11, 1933. Emilie Froehlich Wolfe was born in Brandenburg, Germany, April 9, 1865. A well-known dressmaker, she conducted a sewing school for many years. She died in Columbus December 22, 1942.
On September 15, 1920, Herman Wolfe was married at Columbus, Nebraska, to Elsie Arndt, daughter of Ernest O. and Elizabeth Schelp Arndt of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe had two daughters and one son: Geraldine Wolfe, Mrs. Lawrence Bakenhus, lives at Leigh, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Bakenhus have two children, Olive Ann and Violet May. Marjorie Mae Wolfe, the wife of C. Walter Korte, lives at Columbus. They have one child, Rachel ReNee. DeVerne Wolfe was married to Erna Sommer of Grand Island, Nebraska. They have one son, Thomas Mitchel. During World War II DeVerne served three years in the United States Army, two of which were spent in the South Pacific.
The Herman Wolfe family belong to the Immanuel Lutheran Church. Mr. Wolfe is a member of the Lutheran Layman's League, and is an honorary member of the Columbus City Firemen.
Ira Clinton Wolfe was born November 14, 1890, at Atlanta, Nebraska. His parents were William and Phoeby Orahood Wolfe. William Wolfe, a farmer of Phillipsburgh, Kansas, died in April, 1913. Phoeby Orahood Wolfe died in May, 1920, at Republican City, Nebraska. Ira was one of nine children. None of his brothers or sisters resided in Platte County.
Ira Wolfe attended school at Phillipsburgh, Kansas, Grand Island and Omaha, Nebraska. He received his high school education at Phillipsburgh, where he was on the basketball team. He learned the barber's trade and was later interested in sales work. He came to Platte County from Norfolk, Nebraska, in December, 1926.
On October 12, 1916, at Hinsdale, Montana, Ira C. Wolfe was married to Naomi I. O'Leary, the daughter of James and Jessie O'Leary of Fonda, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe had three children: Evelyne E., born at Des Moines, Iowa; Wayne W., born February 1, 1926, at Broken Bow, Nebraska; and Donald D., born June 22, 1934, at Columbus.
Evelyne was graduated from Kramer High School, and then attended Graceland College for two years, and was graduated from the University of Nebraska. She is married to Russell Moore and they live at Carroll, Iowa. Wayne was graduated from Kramer High School and studied at the University of Nebraska. Donald attended school in Columbus.
In World War I, Mr. Wolfe was stationed at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. He belongs to the American Legion. He is owner and manager of the Wolfe Roofing Business in Columbus. He holds membership in the Latter-Day Saints Church.
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Reverend Hugh Corliss Wolkow was born May 3, 1919, in Erwin, South Dakota. He is the son of Alfred A. O. and Mary Hintze Wolkow. Alfred Wolkow was born April 25, 1886, in Erwin, South Dakota. Mary Hintze Wolkow was born in Iowa, July 10, 1888, and died in Erwin, August 18, 1935. Reverend Wolkow had five brothers and one sister. All are married, and all live on farms, except Helmer who is with the National Red Cross. Reverend Wolkow's father and grandfather were farmers. Reverend Wolkow attended the Erwin Consolidated School, and the Midwest Bible School at Gordon, Nebraska. He was ordained a minister of the Church of God at Nebraska State Ministers' Convention at Cozad, April 18, 1942.
On September 22, 1942, Reverend Wolkow was married to Evelyn Leone Larson, the daughter of Henning and Celia Euanger Larson, in the Church of God chapel at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Reverend and Mrs. Wolkow have two daughters: Arletta L., born in Mitchell, South Dakota, July 31, 1943; and Marleen K., born in Genoa, Nebraska, April 25, 1945.
Reverend and Mrs. Wolkow lived in Mitchell, South Dakota, from 1943 to 1945. Reverend Wolkow came to Platte County on February 7, 1945, to become minister of the Church of God in Columbus.
His hobbies are basketball, music, woodcraft and hunting. Outside of Sunday School and church work, he was interested in 4-H club work in South Dakota and held membership in the Farmers Union there.
Reverend Martin M. Wolter, O.F.M., assistant pastor of St. Bonaventure Church, Columbus, Nebraska, was born May 17, 1917, at Peoria, Illinois. His parents were Bernard Gregory and Mary Ann Strub Wolter. Bernard Wolter was born in Peoria, and Mary Wolter in Brunswick, Missouri. Reverend Father Martin M. Wolter has one brother and one sister. His brother, Reverend Allan Wolter, O.F.M., lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Reverend Father Martin received his early education at St. Bernard Parochial School in Peoria, Illinois. In
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1931, he was enrolled at the Spalding Institute. In 1932, he entered the college of St. Joseph, Westmont, Illinois, where he studied for five years. The years from 1937 to 1947 were spent in the Seminary of Our Lady of the Angels at Cleveland, Ohio, and in the Seminary of St. Joseph at Teutopolis, Illinois.
He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Francis Church of Teutopolis, June 20, 1946, and celebrated his First Holy Mass June 23, 1946, at St. Bernard's Church, Peoria.
After the completion of his final year of study at the seminary in 1947 Father Martin became an assistant pastor at St. Bonaventure's Church in Columbus.
Chris Wunderlich was born September 1, 1879, in Silberbach, Bavaria, Germany, the second son of Hauptlohrer William and Lisetta Thiem Wunderlich. He came to Columbus in 1908.
He had received his elementary schooling in his native land where he learned the cooper's and the brewer's trade. He served two years in the German Army as a sharpshooter at Aschaffenburg, Bavaria.
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Mr. Wunderlich came to the United States from Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany, May 16, 1902, settling first in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he worked at the brewer's trade. After several months, he moved to Chicago. In May, 1905, Mr. Wunderlich moved to West Point, Nebraska, where he operated his own brewery.
On May 16, 1905, he was married to Miss Rosa Lang of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Wunderlich had six children: William, Rose, Louise, Chris Jr., Max and Albert. William was married to Alida Wenant; they have two children, William Jr., and Jimmie and live in Omaha. Rose married James H. Galley and lives in Washington, D. C.; they have one daughter, Susan. Louise lives in Reno, Nevada. Chris is married to Geneva Fox and they have five children, Shirley, Kay, Chris III, Genene, and Walter; they live in Columbus. Max is married to Monica McLeod and they have three children, Monica Rose, Max Jr., and Julie Dee. Albert is married to Emogene Kemnitz and they have one son, Tommie, born May 13, 1948.
Chris, Jr., Max and Albert are associated with their father in Wunderlich's Bar.
When Chris Wunderlich first came to Columbus in April of 1908, he purchased the retail liquor business of Gottleib Launer, known as Park Buffet. This business was located in the building which was later the Daniels Studio. Mr. Wunderlich continued in this business until 1917, when the prohibition era began.
In 1919, the Wunderlichs moved to Ericson, Nebraska, where Mr. Wunderlich purchased a ranch. In 1934, he returned to Columbus and opened Wunderlich's Bar in the Oehlrich Building on Thirteenth Street, where Luschen's Grocery is located. Chris Wunderlich and his sons operated this business until May, 1946, when they moved into their own modern building at 1264 Twenty-fifth Avenue, which Mr. Wunderlich had remodeled for his business. At one time several years earlier, the building had been used as the Columbus post office.
Mr. Wunderlich made many friends among the early residents in Columbus and Platte County, and Wunderlich's Friendly Bar has been a gathering place for over forty years for many of these pioneers. Chris Wunderlich is interested in civic affairs and community improvements in Columbus.
John Frederick August Wurdeman was born November 4, 1865, at Sage, Oldenburg, Germany, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1866. The family first located at Mayville, Wisconsin. A year later in 1867 they moved to Platte County where August Wurdeman's father took a homestead in Bismark Township.
August Wurdeman received his early education in the district school and in the Christ Lutheran Church School. He worked on his father's farm and later took over its management.
On August 1, 1890, he was married to Miss Anna Cattau at Christ Lutheran Church in Bismark Township.
August Wurdeman lived on the same farm from 1867 to 1924, at which time he retired and moved into Columbus. During his residence in Bismark Township he served as road overseer for several years, Township Treasurer for two terms, and was on the District 15 School Board for ten years. He was also a member of the Christ Lutheran Parochial School Board.
Mr. and Mrs. Wurdeman were members of Christ Lutheran Church until 1924. After they moved to Columbus, they were affiliated with Immanuel Lutheran Church.
August and Anna Cattau Wurdeman had four daughters and two sons: Ida, Mrs. Adolph Hoge Sr., of Columbus; Mina, Mrs. G. E. Marty, of Columbus; Louise, Mrs. E. A. Marty, of Sioux City, Iowa; Martha, Mrs. Hugo Nissen, of Genoa, Nebraska; and Paul, who lives with his brother Julius, on a farm near Columbus. Julius is married to Ella Reick.
August Wurdeman died
July 5, 1939, and Mrs. Wurdeman died March 7, 1936.
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John Henry Wurdeman of Creston, Nebraska, was born March 9, 1890, in Sherman Township. He is the eldest son of Rudolph and Marie Hagelman Wurdeman, and the grandson of John Henry Wurdeman, Sr., one of the first settlers to locate in Sherman Township. His great grandfather was Diedrich Wurdeman who came from Germany in 1871 and homesteaded in Sherman Township the same year. In 1872, before he was able to prove up on his homestead, Diedrich Wurdeman died.
John Henry Wurdeman Sr. was born February 12, 1838, in Ahlhorn, Oldenburg, Germany. He attended the village schools, and when fourteen years of age began to work on the farm. In 1860, he came to the United States. On August 28, 1861, after working for six months on a farm, he enlisted in Company D, Thirty-ninth Illinois Infantry, at Lindenwood, Illinois. He was wounded in action, and following his honorable discharge went to Dodge County, Wisconsin. He was married there, and in March, 1869, he came with his family to Platte County. His eldest son, Rudolph, was born in Mayville, Dodge County, November 26, 1866, and attended School in District 23 in Platte County.
After his father's retirement, John Henry took over the management of the home farm in District 23. He also served as director on the school board for several years. Henry received his education in the Boheet School in District 46, Sherman Township, and the Columbus Business College.
On January 15, 1914, John Henry Wurdeman was married to Martha Iburg, the daughter of D. F. and Bertha Mueller Iburg of Elgin, Nebraska. The marriage ceremony was performed at Neligh, Nebraska. D. F. Iburg was born May 22, 1869, in Hanover, Germany, and died at his home in Elgin, Nebraska, June 1, 1937, at the age of sixty-eight. Bertha Mueller Iburg was born in Hooper, Nebraska, January 29, 1873, and lives at Elgin. Mrs. Wurdeman had five sisters and four brothers. One sister, Mrs. Floyd Martindale of Oakdale, is deceased. Elmer was in the United States Navy during World War II. All of the others are married. Bertha, married to Ernest Wurdeman, second son of Rudolph Wurdeman, lives at Monroe. With the exception of two sisters, one living in Los Angeles, and the other in Ontario, Oregon, they all live in Nebraska.
John Henry and Martha Iburg Wurdeman had three sons. Clarence Henry, born December 2, 1914, is married to Lorene Hunteman of Leigh, Nebraska; they have one daughter, D'Ete. Raymond Franklyn, born August 3, 1916, is married to Rose Schmidt; they have two daughters, Lianne Fay and Lyra Jean. Marvin Lawrence, the youngest son, was born November 8, 1918. Clarence and Raymond Wurdeman are engaged in farming and Marvin Wurdeman is in the trucking business. All received their education in the District 23 school.
John Henry Wurdeman is retired and lives in Creston, Nebraska, During his residence in Sherman Township, Mr. Wurdeman was actively interested in farming and stock-raising. Since his retirement he has continued his interest in this work. Besides his years of service on the school board, he has been active in the Farmers' Union, and is a member of the Creston Fire Department. While living in Sherman Township, he served on the township board. His hobby is baseball.
Mr. and Mrs. Wurdeman are members of St. Peters Lutheran Church of Creston.
Politically, Mr. Wurdeman is affiliated with the Republicans.
Charles Wurdeman, Columbus architect and builder, was born January 28, 1871, in Sherman Township. His parents were John Henry and Catherine Margaret Wurdeman. His father, a Civil War veteran, came to Platte County in 1869, and was among the first settlers in Sherman Township. Charles Wurdeman had two sisters and three brothers. Rudolph H. and Louise, who was Mrs. John Ahrens, are deceased. The others were: Frank, of Sherman Township; Edward, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Alma, Mrs. Fred Feye, of Columbus.
Charles Wurdeman attended school in Districts 23 and 46 of Sherman Township, Platte County, and for two years was enrolled at the University of Illinois.
On April 16, 1896, he was married in Bismark Township to Miss E. Wilhelmine Loseke, daughter of Gerhard and Eliza Mueller Loseke. Mrs. Wurdeman had five brothers and two sisters: E. Josephine, widow of Adolph Frese, of Columbus; Edward G., married to Emma Luers; E. Gerhard, married to Alma Hunteman; E. George, married to Mathilda Lutz; Emma Elsie, married to William Luckey; Emil G., married to Anna Mueller; and Ernest, married to Martha Arnold. All live in Platte County except Ernest, whose home is in Alexandria, Minnesota.
Charles and E. Wilhelmine Loseke Wurdeman had two daughters and one son: Helen, Adeline, and Harold Charles. Helen, who died in 1949, was married to Oliver Smith; both were bookkeepers. They had one daughter, Nancy Ann Smith, who attended the Columbus Schools and was graduated from Kramer High School in 1949. Adeline Clara was married to Herbert Harmison, who is in the dairy business at Dubuque, Iowa. They had two children, Herbert Jr. and Mary Katherine Harmison. Harold C. Wurdeman was married to Miss Irene Miller of Marshalltown. Iowa. They had three daughters, Gail Irene, Sara, and Susan, and live in Columbus where Harold is associated with his father in the architectural engineering business, at 2307 1/2 Thirteenth Street. Charles Wurdeman had his office there for more than thirty years.
Charles Wurdeman has been a builder and architect in Platte County since 1893, and in Columbus since 1896. In that year, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wurdeman established their home there. The Wurdemans are members of the Federated Church.
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