Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... farmers of the neighborhood much money and time as well as many miles travel. When that store was started they secured a postoffice and called it Melvin. The postoffice of Gopher was discontinued and all got their mail at Melvin. When the railroad was built, and a town established, it continued under the name of Melvin. Henry Klappine left quite early. Henry Simmons sold in 1873. Fred Frisbee filed on this section but lived principally in Sheldon where he and his brother engaged in the livery business for many years. In the meantime they handled real estate and became quite wealthy. Later they invested in bank stock extensively. Mr. Frisbee still owns his original homestead. Frank H. Quiggle also settled on section 18 and still owns and lives on his claim. Elmer Simmons sold and left early. Section 20. Henry Dunkelmann was a sturdy German and very industrious. He hung on through all the hard times and at last won out. Of late years he has been leading a retired life on the old farm about one mile from Melvin. When Henry Dunkelmann located in this county in the spring of 1872, there came with him a young German of noble birth and filed on an eighty-acre claim on the same section with Mr. Dunkelmann. and although of gentle birth he took up the work of a pioneer with all the earnestness of a veteran. He broke prairie, planted and sowed the same as other settlers. Being a single man he lived in the Dunkelmann family and they became great friends. The grasshoppers destroyed his crops in 1873 and again in 1874, and then this young German, josef von Willemoes-Suhm by name, became discouraged, sold his eighty acres, with sixty-three acres of breaking, for two hundred and fifty dollars and left the country. However, this fine prairie made such a...
