Fred Nehser

NEHSER, MYER, WOLFORD

Posted By: Clayton co. Coordinator (email)
Date: 3/30/2007 at 03:54:50

Fred Nehser, a prosperous and well known farmer for many years identified with agricultural operations in York county, as well as having commercial interests in Gresham, is a native of Iowa, born in Clayton county, February 27, 1860, a son of Lewis and Mary (Myer) Nehser, both natives of Germany. The parents came to America in 1855, making the voyage on an old sailing vessel, the passage occupying thirty-one days. Lewis Nehser was one of a party of five hundred comprised of all kinds of tradesmen, who located at Communia, Iowa, and there they became a colony settlement, pursuing their usual avocations and also engaging in agricultural operations. He proceeded to clear a tract of land, removing all the timber and subsequently succeeded in getting one hundred and twenty-five acres in to condition for the raising of crops. He used oxen and was the first in the district to buy a horse team for working the land. His efforts in the cultivation of his fields were uniformly successful and he had the satisfaction of seeing the prairie soil yield to the plow and harrow and produce in abundance. His personal part in bringing about these results will stand to his credit for many generations. He died on the farm at the age of seventy years and his wife passed away in 1890.

Fred Nehser was educated in the common schools of his native county and was reared on his father's place, assisting in the labors of the farm. His early youth and young manhood were uneventful amid the surroundings of the farm home and he continued to work along steadily until his thirty-third year. It was in 1893 that Mr. Nehser came to York county and settled in Gresham. He bought one hundred and twenty acres of land on which a small frame house stood and successfully operated this place, doing general farming and stock raising, being for three years engaged in the buying and shipping of live stock which yielded financial results of a substantial character. He made some valuable improvements on his land and employed the most modern machinery in the work of the farm. Aside from his land interests he established and directed the Nehser Creamery, at the end of two years selling out to a firm at Aurora. Later in connection with his farming activities he commenced the breeding of Poland China hogs and shorthorn cattle and in this line, as in his other enterprises, his labors were adequately rewarded. The call f opportunity has ever been to him a call to action and one to which he has readily responded, herein lying the secret of his success.

In 1897 Mr. Nehser was united in marriage to Hattie Wolford and to that union three children have been born: Raymond, who died at the ag eof one year and ten days; James, who served in the Students Army Training Corps, at Hastings, Nebraska; and Lillian, who is attending high school. Mr. Nehser votes an independent ticket and is much interested in everything that pertains to the public welfare and cooperates heartily in those measures and movements which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride.

York County, Nebraska and its people, together with a condensed history of the state; William H. Buss, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1921, pg.1230-1231

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