Zuver, George Washington (b. 7 DEC 1846, d. 18 MAY 1927)

Note: GEORGE W. ZUVER, whose farm is situated on section 15 of Hooker Township, is one of the representative citizens of the county in all that goes to make the American gentleman, and not excluding that feature which is peculiarly incidental to this country, that is, the fact that he is a self-made man, having commenced life for himself at the age of sixteen years, with nothing but his education as a fulcrum, and his ambitious, irrepressible energy and good physique as the lever.

Our subject is the son of Solomon and Julia Zuver. (See sketch of B. P. Zuver). His father was a merchant in Canaan, Ohio, and was one of the prominent business men of the place, but by reason of an over confidence in the people among whom he lived he became financially embarrassed, and moved to Iowa in 1856, settled at Mason City, and there kept the Farmers' Hotel, which was liberally patronized, and also after a time was the owner of a valuable farm. Their family numbered five children, whose names are recorded as Byron P., Sarah S., John H. (deceased), our subject, and Henry (deceased). The wife and mother was laid away to her rest in Ohio, her death occurring when she was thirty years of age.

Mr. Zuver made his entrance upon the stage of the terrestrial on the 7th of December, 1846, at Kernan, Ohio, and began his schooling at the age of nine years, when his father had removed to Iowa. At fifteen years of age he began to work upon the farm, and remained on it for about one year, and then made his way to Idaho City in the Territory of that name. He crossed the plains in company with his father and several young men from Iowa, starting by the overland route in May, 1864, reaching Idaho City on August 15. He continued one year in the gold mines of that State, making $4 per diem. In the summer of 1866, with pick, shovel and frying-pan, he started on a prospecting tour through the mountains, and opened up a place known as Diamond Gulch, and here found that which repaid him for his toil, labor and danger. He remained here one year, and then returned to Waterloo, Iowa, with a harvest of $2,000.

Upon returning to Waterloo our subject bought an interest in the Valley House Hotel, which was run under the firm name of Solomon Zuver & Son, then entered the Western College, Linn County, and attended there for a short time, but after his life in Idaho it became somewhat irksome, and in July of 1867 he once more started West, and stopped to prospect at Brownville in this State, in company with his brother Byron. The following August he came on to Gage County and filed a claim upon his present farm, and as soon as he attained his majority he homesteaded it, and has since by continued labor marvelously improved it.

In 1870 our subject was united in marriage with Miss Martha J. Hildman, June 5. This lady is the daughter of John and Eliza Jane Hildman, and was born on the 5th of January, 1850, in the State of Pennsylvania. Her parents moved to Iowa when she was about five years of age, and she has obtained a fair education. She has presented her husband with five children, who have been named as follows: James Byron, Julia E., Phronia R., Sarah and Clarence.

Mr. Hildman was born in New York State, and was a prosperous farmer there; he removed to Iowa in 1856, and three years latter settled in Nebraska, and upon his homestead in Gage County in 1861. His wife was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born about the year 1819. She became the mother of fourteen children, Mrs. Zuver being the seventh. She died in June, 1882, aged fifty-four years. Mr. Hildman, who is still living, is seventy-four years of age.

In 1884 our subject removed to Garden Plains, Sedgwick Co., Kan., and speculated there and in Missouri for a time. In Garden Plains he engaged in the livery business, which was afterward traded for a farm, which was presently exchanged for horses, and these later for the Avondale Hotel, and not long after this was exchanged for a farm in Harrison County, Mo. Thence he returned to his present home, in addition to which he owns the farm in Missouri, property valued at $2,000 in Wichita, and other real estate. Although quite a young man he is well-to-do, and takes his place among the leading citizens.

The School Treasurer's office has been filled by our subject for one term, to the satisfaction of all concerned. He is deeply interested in the political economy of the nation and all the questions arising therefrom, and is usually found with the Republican party in the campaigns. He is a man possessed of large reserve force, business push and enterprise, and continuously lends his heartiest assistance to those projects that promise the progress of affairs moral and temporal.

1870 Census - transcribed on Ancestry as Znver

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Harrison, Hall, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Canaan Bend, Wayne Co., OH

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Mason, Cerro Gordo, Iowa

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Center Twp, Hall, NE

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Geneva Ward 2, Fillmore, Nebraska

Note: The Schools of Gage County

Report of Superintendent Filley.
Beatrice, Dec. 15, 1871
Hon. J.M. McKenzie, State Supt. of Public Instruction, Lincoln, Neb.

Source: The Beatrice Express, January 6, 1872
District No. 8
About eighteen miles north-east of Beatrice, comprises Hooker, and is alive in educational matters. They have a good comfortable log house, and Mr. Zuver, the Director, informs me that they expect soon to erect a house--probably of brick, capable of seating fifty scholars, which they intend to furnish with the latest improved patent desks and everything that will make it inviting to teacher and pupil. Mr. Zuver is a practiced teacher, and he furnished the district with a golbe and other apparatus for the school room, at his own expense.

1890 Veterans Schedules Record
Veteran's name: Byron P Zuver
Home in 1890 (Township, County, State): Adams, Gage, Nebraska
Year enlisted: 1861
Year discharged: 1866
Rank: Sergeant

Table of contents for A Perfect Picture of Hell : eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa / edited by Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways.
COMPANY "D"

CAPTURED AT SHILOH, APRIL 6, 1862
Bryon P. Zuver, Company D


Zuver, Byron Plympton. (Veteran.) Age 20. Residence Mason City.
Enlisted Sept. 20, 1861.
Mustered Oct. 26, 1861.
Missing in battle April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tenn.
Re-enlisted and re-mustered Jan. 5, 1864.
Promoted Eighth Corporal March 1, 1864;
Fifth Corporal Oct. 15, 1864;
Fourth Corporal Dec. 1, 1864;
First Corporal March 20, 1865;
Fifth Sergeant June 1, 1865.
Mustered out Jan. 20, 1866, Memphis, Tenn.



Note: HISTORY OF GAGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Pages 864-868

BYRON P. ZUVER - In the years that have passed, many of the illustrious citizens of Gage County have gone to their reward. The impress of their lives and the evidences of their labors are felt on every hand, and lesson and incentive are given in reviewing the life records of such noble men of the past. The following is a copy of the record prepared for a former publication of Gage County personal histories, and the context fully merits reproduction in this volume.

The grandparents upon the paternal side of the family of which Byron P. Zuver is a member were Henry and Margaret (Schneider) Zuver; upon the maternal side, John and Elizabeth (Zuver) Kerns these families were of Holland Dutch origin, and representatives of both became residents of America prior to the Revolutionary War. The history of the Kerns family in America dates back to 1727. The two families included within their circles a large number of children, of who were Solomon Zuver and Julia Ann Kerns, the father and mother of Byron P. Zuver. Solomon Zuver was born in the year 1819, in Pennsylvania, and his wife was born in Ohio. They were united in marriage in1839, in Wayne County, Ohio; whither the father of our subject had accompanied his parents. Of this union there were born five children, the eldest of these being Byron P. The others were Sarah, John H., George W., and Henry. The last named died when quite young; John H. departed this life in 1883, in Sonoma County, California; Sarah resides in Los Angeles, that state; and George W. lives near Adams, Nebraska.

Solomon Zuver became prosperous in his farming and mercantile business, which very rapidly expanded, and in a short time he became comparatively well-to-do, but reverses followed rapidly upon the heels of success, owing to some unfortunate transactions, and his fortune melted away, leaving him nothing but the unsubstantial memory and sometimes bitter reflections of baffled hopes and desires. In 1855, a poor man and starting life the second time, he moved to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, where he was one of the early pioneers. He there engaged in keeping hotel, and by the summer of 1864 he had so succeeded in business as to be able to make a somewhat extended trip to the Pacific coast and through the northwestern states. Upon his return home he removed to Kansas, where he lived until October 5, 1878 when he departed this life, at the age of fifty-eight years. He was married three times, but had no children by the last two marriages.

Byron P. Zuver was born November 8, 1840 in Wayne County, Ohio. After the removal of the family to Iowa he attended the common schools, and in the winter of 1860 he taught school. He left the teacher's desk to attend classes of Western College, in Linn County, Iowa. April 28, 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Twelfth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, being the first to enlist from this county. Owing to the fact that only three-months men could be utilized to advantage, he was obliged to re-enlist, on the 20th of September 1861. The organization of this company for service was at Cedar Rapids, where the ladies of the city presented them with a silken flag that was afterwards carried into the conflict and became a source of inspiration and courage to the jaded and weary soldiers. From that city they went to Dubuque, and November 28th they proceeded by railroad to St. Louis, where they were stationed until January 28, 1862. They then went to Smithland, Kentucky, thence to Fort Henry, which was reached February 6th, and that very day the fort surrendered. Mr. Zuver was an active participant in the battle and splendid victory of Fort Donelson. At Mineral Landing they took the boats for Pittsburgh Landing, where they arrived March 20th, and on the 6th of the following month they were in the battle of Shiloh. On the evening of that day several regiments were taken prisoners, among them the Twelfth Iowa, which had been in the conflict all day and which fought to the bitter end, in the portion of the field known by the enemy as Hornet's Nest and Hell's Hollow.

The prisoners - among them Mr. Zuver - were hurried off to Corinth and thence to Memphis; from Memphis they were transferred successively to Granada, Jackson, and Meridian, Mississippi, and finally to Mobile, Alabama, where they were put upon boats and sent to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, their arrival at this point occurring on the tenth day of their imprisonment. It was the great misfortune of these prisoners to be under the charge of the notorious tyrant, Henry Wirz, of Andersonville Prison fame, and from him they suffered, directly or indirectly, the most scandalous treatment and untold brutality. Leaving Tuscaloosa, they were then taken to Montgomery, Alabama, and there they were paroled, on the 22nd of May. Mr. Zuver rejoined the army, on the 30th of the same month, at Huntsville, Alabama and as a paroled prisoner-of-war he was sent to Nashville, Louisville, Cairo, and finally, on the 10th day of July, to Benton Barracks, at St. Louis, Missouri. Here he remained until the reorganization of the regiment, on the first day of January of the following year - 1863.

Leaving St. Louis on the 9th of April, Mr. Zuver with his regiment started once more to the front. Their first battle was that of Grand Gulf, Louisiana, and this was speedily followed by the engagements at Fort Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Clinton, Edmund Station, Champion Hills, and Black River Bridge. They then went on to the siege of Vicksburg, near which city they remained until its fall, July 4, 1863. They next engaged in the eight days' siege of Jackson, Mississippi, which fell in the same month. Next was the battle of Brandon, which was fought on the 19th of July. Returning to Vicksburg, they were stationed there until the Canton expedition, in October, in which they took part. In the next month they went back to Memphis, guarding the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, and in this work the regiment continued during the winter of 1863-1864, at Chewalla, Tennessee.

On Christmas Day of the year 1863 Mr. Zuver re-enlisted as a veteran, and February 1st, 1864, he started once more for Vicksburg, where the regiment was engaged in guard duty at the Black River Bridge until the 4th of March. The next four days were spent at Vicksburg, and March 8th they left for home, arriving at Davenport, Iowa, on the 22nd. After much needed rest and recreation, they reassembled at Davenport on the 26thof April, proceeding immediately to Memphis, where they arrived May 1st and were engaged in picket duty until the 16th. Active hostilities for this company re-commenced with the battle of Tupelo, which lasted from the 13th to the 16th of July. This was the occasion when the Twelfth Iowa Regiment covered itself with a mantle of glory that can never grow old or dim; they were the heroes of the day. Upon the 22nd they were back to Memphis and on the 31st of the same month they started out for the Oxford expedition. At this period Mr. Zuver was detailed for provost duty part of the time, at Holly Springs, and also took part in the battles of Abbeville and Tallahatchie, Mississippi.

The regiment returned to Memphis on the 30th of August and then proceeded to Duval's Bluff, on the 8th of September, thence to Brownsville on the 11th, then leaving to go on the "Pap" Price expedition, in which they followed Price and his forces for three hundred and fifty miles. Landing at Cape Girardeau, Missouri on the 5th of October, they went to St. Louis; thence to Jefferson City, arriving on the 18th; thence by cars to LaMine Bridge, where they set forth on the march to the scene of action. On the way they passed through Sedalia, Lexington and Independence, arriving on the battlefield of the Big Blue on the24th of the same month, - just after the fight was over. From that place they went to Santa Fe, Kansas, reaching Harrisonville, Missouri, on the 26th. They left again on the 30th, for St. Louis, via Sedalia.

Upon the 8th of November Mr. Zuver voted in the capitol building of Missouri and in favor of Abraham Lincoln. This is memorable to him as being his first presidential vote. He was twenty-four years of age at the time. Leaving St. Louis on the 23rd, he proceeded with his regiment to Cairo, which was reached in four days, thence on to Nashville. December 15th and 16th he and his brave comrades were again under fire and added fresh laurels to those already won. After this they went on the Hood expedition. Mr. Zuver's regiment belonged to the Sixteenth Army Corps, which became known by the opprobrious appellation "Smith's Guerrillas." The expedition was continued to the Tennessee River, where they arrived January 2, 1865. On the 10th they were at Eastport, Mississippi, where they remained the 7th of February. Then they went to Paducah, Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans, in which last named city they arrived on the 21st. During this time Mr. Zuver, being detached from his regiment, was transferred to the ordinance department of the division, as ordnance sergeant, in which service he remained until near the close of the war.

From Lake Pontchartrain they left for Mobile Bay, and thence went to Spanish Fort. They participated in the siege of that fort and also that of Fort Blakesley, which fell April 10, 1865, and was the cause of the evacuation of Mobile the next day. Thence they marched to Montgomery, Alabama, which was reached upon the 25th. During the said march they learned of Lee's Surrender, and shortly afterward of Johnston's. During the summer and fall of 1865 they did duty at Selma and Talladega, and they then took up their march to Memphis, Tennessee, proceeding onward to Demolish, Meridian and Corinth, at which last point they arrived January 3, 1866. Mr. Zuver returned this company on the 19th of July 1865, with the rank of sergeant. Leaving Memphis on the 18th, they reached Cairo on the 20th and Davenport on the 23rd. The regiment was mustered out, to date the 20th of January, and was paid off on arrival at Davenport, where the gallant comrades, had marched, labored, fought and suffered together so long, answered the words of command for the last time, bade each other their affectionate farewells, and disbanded.

Mr. Zuver was in the service of his country during a period of four years and four months. Within this time he marched over four thousand miles, in all weathers, suffering from heat and dust, frost and wet, passing over roads rough, hard and rocky, and through streams and swamps, or plodding wearily through deep clay and mud, - no easy task or pleasant journey. It is somewhat remarkable that in spite of the fact that Mr. Zuver was so long in the service, so often an active combatant, so often engaged in lesser hand-to-hand conflicts, he sustained only one wound, and that of a comparatively slight nature, - this occurring at the battle of Shiloh. He kept a very careful record of all the happenings and circumstances of any importance from the first to the last of his military experience and has since written a very complete, accurate and interesting history of Company D, Twelfth Iowa Veteran Volunteers, besides which he has received the honor of an appointment as a member of the regimental historical committee.

After the war Mr. Zuver returned to Mason City, Iowa, and engaged as clerk in a mercantile house, but in the fall of 1866 he engaged in the hotel business at Waterloo, Iowa. There he continued until the spring of the following year, when he came with his brother, George W., to Nebraska City, where he arrived on the 1st of July, reaching Brownsville the next day. During the summer he engaged in farming and in the winter in teaching school. **(This section is a little different in my second Biographical found in a another book, see below) Upon the 17th of July 1867, Mr. Zuver took a homestead in Hooker Township, Gage County, and it was during this time that he became acquainted with Miss Nancy Adams, the daughter of John O. Adams, the first settler of Gage County, whose record appears else wherein this volume. October 16, 1873, Mr. Zuver and Miss Nancy Adams were joined in holy wedlock. Nancy Adams was born October 16, 1842, in Dubois County, Indiana, where she continued to make her home until she was fourteen years of age, when she came with her parents to Nebraska Territory, in 1857. Her education was, by force of circumstances, quite meager so far as schooling went, although she has earnestly endeavored to make up for any loss in that direction. The first school in upper Nemaha Valley was held in the house of her father, who did everything in his power to advance the interests of the young people.

Mr. Zuver owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in the Hooker Township and two hundred and forty acres in Adams Township, where he resided. He was a member of the Post No.100, Grand Army of the Republic, at Adams, of which he was commander for two years and adjutant for a number of years. For several years, he was justice of the peace in Hooker Township and also in Adams Township. He served also as township assessor and deputy county assessor, as well as a member of the petit jury and the United States circuit jury. For a number of year she was appointed by the governor as the register of voters. It is hardly necessary after the foregoing military and official record to state that in political matters Mr. Zuver was an uncompromising Republican and that all of his influence and energy were at its service.

"An intimation has already been made to the effect that Mr. Zuver has made a reputation as a writer upon the thrilling, painful and patriotic history of the war. To his department of literature he added that of a writer of travels. The productions of his pen in this department are very interesting, because he is a man of keen perceptions and knows what to observe and how to observe it, and what is perhaps more rare, how to present it. In 1884 he made a trip to California, and concerning the journey he supplied the columns of the Beatrice Express with regular letters of deep interest. Comment on such history is superfluous; it is its own compliment as to the character of Mr. Zuver and the estimation in which he was held by his fellow men."

Mr. Zuver continued a resident of Gage County until his death, which occurred March 21, 1893. From 1880 until his death he was in the United States railway service. His wife passed away April 28, 1898. The children born to this worthy couple were six in number: Georgia L. died at the age of thirteen years; Mary A. and Martha are Twins, the former being the wife of Daniel E. Tracey, of whom special mention is made on other pages of this volume, and the latter being the wife of E. H. Whitmore, of Adams, this county; Anna and John A. died in infancy; and Byron P. is a resident of Ellendale, North Dakota.


A SECOND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM CALLED - Portrait and Biographical Album of Gage County, Nebraska Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1888 -pages 749 - 752

*** NOTE - I will not retype the hole Biographical on Byron P. Zuver because it says basically the same as above until you get to page 751 I will pick it up from there. ***

Upon the 17th of July, the following year, 1867, he took a homestead in Hooker Township of this county, and it was during this time that he became acquainted with Miss Nancy Adams, the daughter of John O. Adams (see sketch of Nelson Adams), the veteran pioneer; to this lady our subject was united on the 16thof October 1873, by nuptial vows. Of this union been born six children: George L. who died when twelve years of age; Mary A and Martha A. (twins); Anna A. and John Arthur, both of whom died in infancy, and Byron Price.

Mrs. Zuver's great-grandfather, John Lawrence, was born in England, and left in infancy an orphan and was adopted by on Mr. Adams, of Massachusetts, and from that time took the name of his adopted parent. He came to America a lad of about nine or ten years of age, and settled in New York State, and upon reaching manhood was married. He made his home in New York for some years, then removed to New Jersey, next to Kentucky, and after several years went to Dubois County, Indiana, where he died in1839, aged ninety-four years. The grandfather, David Adams, was born in New York, was married to Ester A. Ross, and died in Indiana, aged seventy years; the father was born in New Jersey on the 17th of July 1808, and was married on the 13th of February 1840, to Miss Letitia Harris. The Harris family had settled in Virginia in its earlier days, and had taken quite a prominent place among its citizens. Grandfather Harris was born in that State in the year 1788. Grandmother Harris was Polly Corn, a lady who was of Scotch-Welsh extraction.

Miss Nancy Adams, now the wife of our subject, was born October16, 1842, in Dubois County, Indiana, where she continued to make her home until she was fourteen years of age, removing with her parents to Nebraska in 1857. Her education was by force of circumstances quite meager so far as schooling was concerned, although she has earnestly endeavored to make up for loss in that direction. The home in Indiana was in a district where the settlers were nearly all German Catholics and had their own schools, which were, however, not the place for Miss Adams. Upon removal to Nebraska, the country being quite new and settlers few, the only schools available were a few private schools, which were located in the more developed part of the State. The first school in the Upper Nemaha Valley was held in her father's house, who did everything in his power to advance the interests of the young people in this regard.

Our subject's farm comprises 160 acres of well-improved, rich, arable land, which he homesteaded, and which is situated in Hooker Township. His Adams Township property comprises 160acres belonging to both parties jointly, as fine land as lies out of doors where they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Zuver are members of the Adams Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject is a prominent member of the Sergt. Cox Post No. 100, G. A. R., Adams, and has been Commander for two years, and is now serving his second year as Adjutant. He is also a mason. For several years he was Justice of the Peace of Hooker Township, and occupies the same position now in that of Adams; also both Township Assessor and Deputy County Assessor. He has served on the Petit Jury and the United States Circuit Jury. The Governor appointed him as Register of Voters, for a number of years. His connection with the Mail Department is both long and honorable. He was route agent for this department from Omaha to Ogden, Utah, from January 1, 1880, and was transferred at his own request to the route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Grand Island, Nebraska, in June 1880, serving on this division until in 1883,and was then Postal Clerk from Columbus, Nebraska to Atchison, Kansas, until December 10, 1886. It is hardly necessary after the foregoing military and official record to state that in political matters or subject is entirely Republican, and that all his influence and energy are at its service.

Our subject has always been deeply interested in everything that pertains to the education of the young. For more than twelve years he has served heartily and faithfully in the various school offices, and is still the School Treasurer of his district. Intimation has already been made to the effect that our subject has made a reputation as a writer upon the thrilling, painful and patriotic history of the war. To his department of literature he has added that of a writer of travels. The productions of his pen in this department are very interesting, because he is a man of keen perceptions and knows what to observe and how to observe it, and what is perhaps more rare, how to present it. In 1884 he made a trip to California, and supplied the columns of the Beatrice Express with regular letters of deep interest concerning the journey. Comment upon such a history as the foregoing is superfluous; it is its own compliment as to the character of the subject and the estimation in which, he is held by his fellows.

During the past autumn our subject has attended the national Encampment at Columbus, Ohio, and visited his old home, from which he had been absent thirty-three years.


1870 Census shown living with his brother, George and his brother's wife

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
about B. Plymton Zuver
Name: B. Plymton Zuver
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Iowa
Regiment Name: 12 Iowa Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: 12th Regiment, Iowa Infantry
Company: D
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Alternate Name: Byron P./Zuver
Film Number: M541 roll 29

Event: Type: Directory
Date: BET 1886 AND 1887
Place: Gage County, Nebraska

Occupation: Date: 1880
Place: US Postal Clerk

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Canaan Bend, Wayne Co., OH

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Adams, Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Canaan Bend, Wayne Co., OH

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Mason, Cerro Gordo, Iowa

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Canaan Bend, Wayne Co., OH

Note: The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) > 1898 > April > 30

Death of a Pioneer
Adams, Neb., April 29 – (Special.) – Shortly after 2 o’clock today occurred the death of Mrs. B. P. Zuver. Mrs Zuver was a daughter of J O Adams, who settled here with his family in 1857, and was the first family to settle in this vicinity. Mr B P Zuver, her husband died in the spring of 1893. Mr Zuver was one of the best known and prominent men in this county. Mrs Zuver leaves two daughters, who are young ladies, and one son. Funeral services will be held at the M E church of this place on Sunday at 10 o’clock.

Civil War Pension 1861 - 1934

Event: Type: Directory
Date: BET 1886 AND 1887
Place: Gage County, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Clay, Nebraska Territory

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Harrison, Hall, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Johnson, Nebraska Territory

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Center Twp, Hall, NE

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Geneva Ward 2, Fillmore, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Geneva, Fillmore, Nebraska

Note: History of Gage County, Nebraska: a narrative of the past, with special emphasis upon the pioneer period of the county's history

James B Zuver, manager of the Farmers’ elevator Company at Adams, Gage county is a native of this county, his birth having occurred in Hooker township, on March ll 1871.

His father, George W Zuver accompanied his parents, Solomon and Julia Zuver, to Iowa, and the home was established at Mason City, where Solomon Zuver conducted a hotel. George W Zuver crossed the plains in 1864 and successfully engaged in mining in Idaho Territory. Returning to Iowa, Mr Zuver was in business with his father until 1867, when he came to Nebraska and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, on Section 15, Hooker township, Gage county. He was a successful farmer and one of the early settlers of Gage county, where he experienced the grasshopper scourge and other pioneer conditions. Mr Zuver invested in land in Kansas and Missouri and for a time lived in each of these states. Returning to Gage county he farmed until 1894, when he sold out and went to Louisiana. Ten months later he settled in Hall county, Nebraska. In 1909 Mr Zuver moved to St. Paul, Nebraska, and after remaining there a short time he located at Geneva, Nebraska, where he now makes his home. In the year 1915 he lived at Beatrice.

The maiden name of the mother of James B Zuver was Martha J Hillman. She was born in Pennsylvania, January 5, 1850. a daughter or John and Eliza Jane Hillman, who came to Nebraska Territory in 1855 and established their home in Gage county. Here Mrs Zuver was reared and educated under the condition of the early pioneer era. On June 5, 1870, in Hooker township, was solemnized her marriage to George W Zuver and they now maintain their home at Geneva, Fillmore county, this state.

James B Zuver is the oldest in a family of five children; Julia Bryson lives at Grand Island, Nebraska; Mrs L Dye resides at LeMars, Missouri, and Sarah and Clarence are with their parents at Geneva, Nebraska.

The subject of this record was reared on a farm in Gage county. He attended district school and supplemented this with a course on the Beatrice Business College, and the Lincoln Normal School. He graduated in the last named institution and taught school and farmed in Gage county until 1908, when he helped to organize the Farmers’ Elevator Company at Adams, becoming president of that institution, and later being made manager, which position he now holds.

On October 18, 1894, Mr Zuver was united in marriage to Miss Laura E Jewell, a native of Monmouth, Illinois and a daughter of William and Emma (Wonderly) Jewell, who settled in Gage county, Nebraska, in 1877. The mother now makes her home at Adams. Mr and Mrs Zuver became the parents of nine children: Floyd S is in the national army and is now located at Camp Cody, New Mexico, in the spring of 1918; Fern is deceased; Violet, Daisy, George, Orvil and Myrtle remain in the paternal home and Pansy is deceased.

Mr Zuver takes and interest in the civic affairs of Adams, is chairman of the town council, and a member of the school board, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen of America.

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Adams, Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Adams Twp, Gage, NE

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Adams, Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Harrison, Hall, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Prairie Creek, Hall, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Grand Island Ward 5, Hall, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Newport, Barton, Missouri

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Newport, Barton, Missouri

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Newport, Barton, MO

Note: Lincoln Evening Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) > 1961 > May > 28

Geneva

Sarah Zuver, 84 Born at Adams, had lived at Genea 45 years. Survivors; nephews and nieces. Funeral; 10:30 am Monday, Kirtner-Farmer, Geneva. Burial; 2:30 pm Adams.

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Harrison, Hall, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Gage, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Center Twp, Hall, NE

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Geneva Ward 2, Fillmore, Nebraska

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Geneva, Fillmore, Nebraska