A.F. AND ROXIE ALDER
BY: COLLEEN SWITZER
FROM THE LOUP COUNTY CENTENNIAL BOOK 1883-1983

ALBERT FRANKLIN ALDER, KNOWN GENERALLY AS "BERT" SERVED THE PEOPLE OF LOUP COUNTY FOR OVER 40 YEARS AS COUNTY ATTORNEY.  PRIOR TO THAT MR. ALDER TAUGHT IN  A RURAL SCHOOL, 1916-1917; FARMED FOR A TIME AND OPERATED A PRODUCE BUSINESS IN TAYLOR.

HE WAS BORN AUGUST 8, 1896 AT STOCKTON, MISSOURI, THE FOURTH OF 10 CHILDREN BORN TO SIMON AND NANCY (LEEPER) ALDER.  THE FAMILY CAME TO GARFIELD COUNTY WHEN BERT WAS A SMALL BOY AND HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION AT BURWELL.   AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE BURWELL HIGH SCHOOL HE ATTENDED FREEMONT NORMAL SCHOOL; NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT LINCOLN.

BERT WAS MARRIED ON FEBRUARY 13, 1916 TO ROXIE CAMPBELL AT TAYLOR.  ROXIE WAS A DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND FLORA CAMPBELL AND WAS BORN DECEMBER 21, 1897, AT OKALONA, MISSISSIPPI.  BERT AND ROXIE WERE THE PARENTS OF ONE DAUGHTER, TRUIE, WHO MARRIED KENNETH CUNNINGHAM.

THE ALDERS MADE THEIR HOME IN TAYLOR AND HE HELD THE position OF POSTMASTER IN 1921 AND 1922.  HE BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH THE TAYLOR PUBLIC SCHOOL IN 1922 AND TAUGHT FIRST IN THE GRADE SCHOOL AND LATER IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, FOR A PERIOD OF 16 YEARS.  MR. ALDER WAS JUDGE OF LOUP COUNTY FROM 1929 TO 1934 AND IN 1931 STARTED A LAW PRACTICE AT TAYLOR.  IN 1934 HE BECAME THE ATTORNEY OF THE COUNTY AND HELD THAT POSITION UNTIL HIS HEALTH FAILED AND HE RESIGNED IN 1975.

BERT AND ROXIE CELEBRATED THEIR 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY IN 1966 AND WERE MARRIED 61 YEARS WHEN HIS DEATH OCCURRED JUNE 23, 1977.  HE HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE MASONS, NEBRASKA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, AND SERVED HIS COUNTRY FOR MANY YEARS AS CHAIRMAN OF THE LOCAL RED CROSS, WAS SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPT. AND TEACHER FOR MANY YEARS IN THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER.

ROXIE WAS MUSICALLY GIFTED AND WAS CALLED UPON MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT HER LIFE TO PLAY FOR DIFFERENT OCCASIONS AND WAS FOR MANY YEARS ORGANIST AT THE METHODIST CHURCH.  SHE TOO, TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE U.M.W. AND EASTERN STAR.

MRS. ALDER PASSED AWAY ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1977

BERT AND ROXIE ALDER LIVED THEIR ENTIRE MARRIED LIFE IN TAYLOR AND ARE CERTAINLY RATED AMONG THE LEADING CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY.


PER ANDERSON
1851-1943
FROM THE LOUP COUNTY CENTENNIAL BOOK 1883-1983

PER ANDERSON WAS BORN IN SWEDEN, JULY 28, 1851.  HE WORKED HARD AS A YOUNG MAN TO HELP MAKE A LIVING FOR HIS FAMILY.  HIS FATHER HAD DIED WHEN HE WAS 8 YEARS OLD.  HE WORKED IN THE MINES, THE FORESTS AND ON FARMS IN SWEDEN.

HE MARRIED BOTHILDE RASMUSSEN IN 1880.  THEY HAD ONE CHILD THAT LIVED, IN SWEDEN AND DECIDED TO COME TO AMERICA IN 1885.  THE LANDED AT NEW YORK CITY, FROM THENCE TO OAKLAND, NEBRASKA.  FROM THERE TO CLAIMS IN BLAINE COUNTY, SUFFERING THE HARDSHIP, REVERSES, AND GOOD YEARS OF ALL PIONEERS.  IN 1906 HE SOLD HIS CLAIMS AND PROPERTY AND CAME TO LIVE IN LOUP COUNTY IN DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR.  THE PLACE HE BOUGHT IS NOW KNOWN AS THE DIAMOND RING RANCH OWNED BY A GRANDSON, LESTER STECKEL.  THERE WERE 280 ACRES IN THE ORIGINAL PURCHASE.

MR. ANDERSON HAD HIS REMAINING YEARS ON THIS PLACE.  MRS. ANDERSON PASSED AWAY IN 1915.  HIS DAUGHTER AUGUSTA REMAINED AT HOME CARING FOR HER FATHER AND HER NEPHEW.  HER SISTER HAD PASSED AWAY IN THE 1918-19 FLU EPEDIMIC LEAVING A YOUNG CHILD TO BE CARED FOR.  MR. ANDERSON WAS EVER INTERESTED IN PUBLIC affairs AND WON THE NAME OF A SUCCESSFUL PERSON OF A STURDY AND IRREPROACHABLE CHARACTER.

HIS CHILDREN WERE: MAUDE-MRS. HARRY LEWIS, HILDA-MRS. BEN ALDRICH, AUGUSTA; OSCAR, WHO FARMED AND RANCHED IN LOUP COUNTY MOST OF HIS LIFE ; AND AMANDA-MRS. ELVIN STECKEL.

MRS. LEWIS AND HER FAMILY HAVE LIVED IN LOUP COUNTY OFF AND ON THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.

MRS. ALDRICH RAISED MOST OF HER FAMILY IN LOUP COUNTY.

OSCAR'S CHILDREN WERE RAISED IN LOUP COUNTY, BUT FOR A YEAR OR SO IN CALIFORNIA.

MRS. STECKEL DID NOT LIVE IN LOUP COUNTY AFTER HER MARRIAGE.  HER SON, LESTER WAS RAISED BY HIS AUNT AND GRANDFATHER ON THE HOME PLACE IN SOUTHEAST LOUP COUNTY.

MR. ANDERSON LIVED UNTIL 1943 AND IS BURIED IN THE TAYLOR CEMETERY.  BOTHILDE AND AMANDA ARE BURIED THERE ALSO. 



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