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Jeremiah Denslow
Jeremiah Denslow
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Born: 7 MAY 1944 at Oneido County, New York
Died: 22 APR 1907
Buried: Hooper Cemetery; Hooper Dodge County, Nebraska
Married (1): APR 1869 to Aurelia Harwood.
Born: 13 JUL 1858
Died: 10 OCT 1877
Buried: Hooper Cemetery
Child:
Jay A. Denslow, b. 1 MAY 1870, d. unknown, bur. Unknown
Married (2): 20 AUG 1878 to Anna M. Sutton
Born: 16 APR 1843
Died: 21 OCT 1907
Buried: Hooper Cemetery
Her children:
Albert G.
Anna
Sarah
William
Francis
Their children:
May, b. 8 NOV 1881, d. unknown bur. unknown m. Charles H. Lyman
Nina, b. 12 APR, 1883, d., NOV 1963 in Oregon bur. m. Dr. T. Wiglesworth
Lloyd, b. 7 NOV 1884, d. unknown, bur. unknown *See his story below.
Biography Album of Northeastern Nebraska, pub. 1893:
JERRY DENSLOW, JR., ranks among the very earliest pioneers of Dodge County. He first settled at Fontanelle November 19,1856. He accompanied his mother, she being a widow, and but eleven years of age at that time. His mother took a pre-emption of one hundred and sixty acres. She provided a claim shanty, and broke out ten acres, remained six months, and was taken sick and died, after which a guardian was appointed, and our subject went to work by the month on a farm which he followed for three years. He then bought three yoke of oxen and a wagon, began freighting from Omaha and Nebraska City to Denver, Laramie and Fort Casper. He followed this for four years, having occasional trouble with the Indians. We next find him on three hundred and twenty acres of land near Fountanelle, but after one year sold his farm, bought mules and went to breaking prairie on another quarter section which he had pre-empted. Here he remained and kept adding to his land until he now owns one thousand and forty acres close to Hooper. Upon coming to Nebraska, this gentlemen started at the bottom rung of life's ladder, and was compelled to grind meal in a coffee mill to subsist upon. He is now in good circumstances, his farms being well cultivated and improved.
Mr. Denslow was born in Oneido County-New York, May 7, 1844, the son of Jerry and Amanda (Knight) Denslow, of the Empire State, whose three children were named: Rachel, Mahala and Jerry. Jerry remained in New York until he was eleven years of age.
He was united in marriage, April, 1869, to Aurelia Harwood, of Maine. For his second wife, August 20, 1878, he married Anna M. Sutton, whose five children were : Albert G., Anna, Sarah, William and Francis.
By Mr. Denslow's first marriage, one child was born: J. A. Denslow, born May 1, 1870. By his second marriage three children were born : May, November 8, 1881; Nina, April 12, 1883, Lloyd, November 7,1884
Our subject has prospered financially, to a good degree, and now owns six hundred and forty acres of land in Stanton County, and three hundred and fifty-six acres in Merrick County, besides his property in Dodge County, and is President of the Dodge County Bank at Hooper. In the fall of 1892 was nominated on the prohibition ticket for State treasurer.
He is a member of Hooper Lodge, No. 72, F. & A. M., Signet Chapter No. 8, and commandry No. 9. of Fremont.
HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA
*LLOYD DENSLOW. -- Because of his success in managing the affairs of the Gering State Bank, of which he is president, it might be inferred that Lloyd Denslow has been in the banking business all his life. This, however, is not the case, although, undoubtedly the business ability which he has shown here, has been a leading factor in other enterprises in which he has been equally successful. He is an example of Nebraska's native born, thoroughly educated, steady, ambitious and enterprising young citizens who gives great promise for the future of this commonwealth.
Lloyd Denslow was born at Hooper, in Dodge county, Nebraska, November 7, 1884, the youngest of four children born to Jeremiah and Anna (Sutton) Denslow. The father was born in the state of New York, in 1843, came to Nebraska in 1854, and died in Dodge county, April 22, 1907. The mother was a native of Illinois, born there in 1843, came to Nebraska in 1857, married Jeremiah Denslow at Fontanelle, this state, and died October 21, 1907. Lloyd Denslow has one brother and two sisters: J. H., who owns a large irrigated farm near Denver, Colorado; May, the wife of Charles H. Lyman, who is in the real estate business at Polson, Montana, and Nina, the wife of Dr. T. Wiglesworth, a practicing physician at Twin Falls, Idaho. Jeremiah Denslow was a freighter in early days. He became a man of wealth and prominence, at one time was put forward by the Prohibitionist party as its candidate for lieutenant governor of the state. Yet, he was in very humble circumstances when he came to Nebraska and has been heard to declare that his sole capital was represented by thirty-five cents and no expectations. He possessed, however, capital of another kind, and in the honorable acquisition of property, and in the building up of a stable reputation, he proved that industry, prudence and personal integrity have high value. Mr. Denslow homesteaded in Dodge county and the family still have this land now grown very valuable. For twenty-five years before he retired from business he was president of a bank at Hooper. He was a Knight Templar Mason and always an ardent supporter of the cause of temperance and a firm believer in its final triumph although he was not permitted to see his judgment confirmed.
Lloyd Denslow was graduated from the Hooper high school in 1901, and from the Fremont high school in 1903. His graduation from the Nebraska State University followed in 1908 and after that came one year of post graduate work at Columbia University, New York City. He then entered business and spent two years in Old Mexico, Idaho and Washington, being twenty-six years old when he returned to Hooper, where he embarked in the real estate business, in which he continued for three years. Mr. Denslow owned a tract of forty acres of land and to that he added forty acres, and was engaged there in farming and hog-raising, together with dealing in real estate up to 1916, when he came to Gering. Here he was identified for a while with the Great Western Sugar Company. Later he sold his eighty acres of farm land, though retaining some holdings in Wyoming, and in association with William H. Lyman bought the controlling stock in the Gering State Bank, of which he was made president. This banking institution is considered one of the most solvent in the state, is amply financed and carefully and conservatively directed.
Mr. Denslow was united in marriage to Miss Alda Gray, November 8, 1913, who is a native daughter of Nebraska her birthplace being Pleasant Dale. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and the devoted mother of their little son and daughter, Jerry and Dorothy, the former of whom was born in 1914 and the latter in 1919. An independent voter from early manhood, Mr. Denslow has felt free to give his political support to men and measures approved by his own judgment. During the World War in which the country was engaged, he never failed in any patriotic duty and served as chief clerk on the draft board for almost a year. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and is past senior warden of his lodge. In religious belief the faith of the Unitarians attracts him.
Source: Ruth Moss, Washington County Genealogical Society
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