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Ferdinand Juhl was married to Fredericka "Sophia" Wilke. Ferdinand and Fredericka Juhl had eight children together. Four sons and two daughters survived into adulthood.
Ferdinand Juhl was born in Germany (Prussia) on September 30, 1852.
Fredricka Sophia Wilke, born July 3, 1856 in Germany had come to Burlington, Iowa. Ferdinand traveled to Burlington and married Sophie on February 12, 1883. She had immigrated in 1882 to be with her brother Henry in Burlington, Iowa.
Ferdinand was naturalized on 21 December 1883 in Buffalo County, Nebraska. He first established an actual residence on the land...
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Ferdinand Juhl was married to Fredericka "Sophia" Wilke. Ferdinand and Fredericka Juhl had eight children together. Four sons and two daughters survived into adulthood.
Ferdinand Juhl was born in Germany (Prussia) on September 30, 1852.
Fredricka Sophia Wilke, born July 3, 1856 in Germany had come to Burlington, Iowa. Ferdinand traveled to Burlington and married Sophie on February 12, 1883. She had immigrated in 1882 to be with her brother Henry in Burlington, Iowa.
Ferdinand was naturalized on 21 December 1883 in Buffalo County, Nebraska. He first established an actual residence on the land on June 22, 1885. (Does this mean moving from the dugout to a frame structure?)
Franco-German War, also called Franco-Prussian War, (July 19, 1870–May 10, 1871), in which a coalition of German states led by Prussia defeated France. The war marked the end of French hegemony in continental Europe and resulted in the creation of a unified Germany.
He came to the United States in 1870 to New York City from Hamburg, Germany on a ship with a small group who were from the same area. S.S. Thuringia arrived in New York on November 9, 1870.
The group from Quarnebeck, Province of Saxony:
Joachim Daries, Joachim Mewes, Ferd Juel, age 17, Sophie Peiper, Dora Zimmerman, Friedr. Reisener, Elise Beckman, Friedr and Marie Schulz.
He was the only member of his family who left Germany. The story is that he was the eldest of six sons and would have been drafted into the Prussian military force had he remained in Germany. The main destination for this group was Burlington, Iowa.
Distance between New York City and Burlington, Iowa is 1,000 miles.
Distance between Burlington, Iowa and Kearney, Nebraska is 480 miles.
It is known that Ferdinand went to the Black Hills to look for gold. He was not alone. There was a family story told by his daughter Annie about her father and gold dust being hidden in a secret place in his wagon.
General George A. Custer in 1874 led an expedition into the Black Hills accompanied by miners who were seeking gold. Once gold was found in the Black Hills, miners were soon moving into the Sioux hunting grounds and demanding protection from the United States Army. Soon, the Army was ordered to move against wandering bands of Sioux hunting on the range in accordance with their treaty rights. Custer, leading an army detachment, encountered the encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne at the Little Bighorn River. On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and all of his detachment over 200 men, which included two of his brothers—were killed.
Among the force of more than 200 men wiped out by the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors on June 25, 1876, were Custer’s 18-year-old nephew, Henry Reed, brother-in-law James Calhoun and two younger brothers, Boston and Thomas (a Civil War veteran and two-time Medal of Honor recipient). Custer's detachment was annihilated, but the United States would continue its battle against the Sioux in the Black Hills until the government confiscated the land in 1877. To this day, ownership of the Black Hills remains the subject of a legal dispute between the U.S. government and the Sioux.
The 1880 federal census indicated that the largest number of foreign born persons in Buffalo County were German, accounting for just over five percent of the total population.
Demographics
1860 - 114
1870 - 193
1880 - 7,531
1890 - 22,162
1900 - 20,254
1910 - 21,907
1920 - 23,787
1930 - 24,338
1940 - 23,655
Fort Kearny was a historic outpost of the United States Army founded in 1848 in the western U.S. during the middle and late 19th century. The fort was named after Col. and later General Stephen W. Kearny. The outpost was located along the Oregon Trail (and the Mormon Trail) near Kearney, Nebraska. The town of Kearney took its name from the fort. The "e" was added to Kearny by postmen who consistently misspelled the town name.
Ferdinand was naturalized on 21 December 1883 in Buffalo County, Nebraska.
Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America
Oath
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
(Years later, after becoming a U. S. Citizen, he apparently had forfeited his right to inherit from his family in Germany. It was a bitter turning point for him. He had nothing more to do with the family in Germany.)
He applied for citizenship in Helena, Montana and later applied and was granted citizenship while in Buffalo County, Nebraska. He did some traveling around and connected with Bernard Koeppe who was also from Prussia and who was going to homestead in Buffalo County, Nebraska. They were neighbors for a while. Bernard Koeppe was like a father figure to Ferdinand. They each filed to homestead 160 acres in Divide Township, Buffalo County, Nebraska in 1879. (See Koeppe dates below. Shirley Spencer met June Koeppe in June of 2007 at the Kearney Library. June was doing research for the Fort Kearny Genealogical Society and Shirley was looking for Evalena Henderson Juhl articles. June and Shirley were very surprised to meet since June knew the Juhl name and had heard about Bernard and Ferdinand being friends.)
The Homestead Law of 1862 required a three step procedure: file an application, improve the land or 160 acres and file for deed of title. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves) and was at least 21 years old or the head of a household, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. The occupant had to reside on the land for five years, and show evidence of having made improvements.
The history of the U.S. state of Nebraska dates back to its formation as a territory by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by the United States Congress on May 30, 1854. The boundaries of Buffalo County were defined by the Nebraska Legislature on March 14, 1855. The Nebraska Territory was settled extensively under the Homestead Act of 1862 during the 1860s, and in 1867 was admitted to the Union as the 37th U.S. state.
Buffalo County is one of only two counties in Nebraska that derived its name from an animal. Years before this area along the Platte River would become a county, large herds of buffalo grazed the river valley and the rolling plains to the north. When it came time to organize the county, it seemed fitting to name it after the animal that once roamed the area freely.
While the boundaries of Buffalo County were established by the Territorial Legislature in 1855, the county was officially organized in 1864, three years before Nebraska was admitted in the Union.
Two transportation lines can be credited with the early development of the area -- the Mormon Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad.
The first settlers in this area were said to be Mormons who had headed west along the trail in 1858. But a fierce war between the Cheyenne and Sioux tribes forced these early settlers to temporarily abandon the area. When the fighting subsided, the settlers gradually returned. In time, more and more settlers came to the area because of the rich Platte River Valley and the fertile soil that could be found in the surrounding hills.
With the coming of the railroad in the 1860s, Buffalo County would continue to develop. One of the stations that sprang up was Kearney, the county seat. Originally named Fort Childs, it was later renamed Kearney Junction and finally shortened to Kearney. Moses H. Sydenham, one of the early pioneers in the county, founded a newspaper in this young settlement and used the publication to promote his idea that Kearney, with its central location, should become the capital of the United States.
Hardships such as hot, dry weather and severe blizzards were not uncommon for the early residents of the county. But the most serious challenge faced by those who worked the land was the damage done by waves of grasshoppers that swarmed over the area in the mid 1870s.
Railroads: The Big Four was a group of four American merchants—Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Charles Crocker—who created the Central Pacific Railroad company. The Big Four, of Sacramento and San Francisco, founded the Central Pacific in 1861 and were responsible for building the western part of the first American transcontinental line. The two railroads finally met at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869.
Shirley Jolley Juhl Spencer, great granddaughter of Ferdinand, in 2016 would volunteer to conduct Full Garden Tours at the Huntington Gardens, which was founded in 1919 in San Marino, by Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew of Collis Potter Huntington. Favorite Nephew Henry inherited 1/3 of the railroad stock when his uncle died in 1900. Collis' widow, Arabella, inherited 2/3 of the railroad stock. Henry moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1903 and purchased about 600 acres of a working ranch on the edge of Pasadena, CA.
The April 18, 1906 earthquake hit San Francisco hard. Nob Hill mansions were lost in the fires. The Ferry Building where son Alexander Juhl would work in 1908-1913 as a Teamster was not damaged.
After being a widow for thirteen years and being the same age as Henry, Arabella married Henry in 1913 in Paris. The Beaux Arts Mediterrean mansion in San Marino was completed in time for their arrival in January 1914. Henry's passion was books and he collected books by the library to go into the Huntington Library; Arabella collected art from Europe. They are buried in the mausoleum at the highest point of the now 207 acre estate.
In February of 1870, the Governor proclaimed Buffalo County to be duly organized and ordered election of officials.
Buffalo County, named for the numerous buffalo herds in the area, is located in what was once Pawnee Indian Territory. The land was ceded to the Government in general October 9, 1833. The Pawnee were removed to Oklahoma in 1876. Fort Kearney had been abandoned in 1871.
The source for financing some of the improvement of the land came from the gold mining endeavors. There is a story about traveling in a wagon out of the Black Hills with a secret compartment for the gold dust. (Deadwood, South Dakota came into existence thanks to the Black Hills gold rush of 1874. At the time, the Black Hills belonged to the American Indians and trespassing and prospecting in the mountains were forbidden.)
Ferdinand had lost his first wife or companion and perhaps a child to cholera during the course of moving about. So he was alone in 1879.
His home was a dugout in a small hill on the land. There is still some evidence of the location of that dugout home today. He needed a wife. He wrote a letter to the Wilke family in Burlington, Iowa and asked about the availability of someone to marry.
Fredricka Sophie Wilke, born July 3, 1856, in Germany had come to Burlington, Iowa to be with her brother after a failed engagement and relationship in Germany. Ferdinand traveled to Burlington and he met and married Sophie on February 12, 1883. She was 24 years old and he was 29 years old per the affidavit for application for license of marriage conducted in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa.
They faced many challenges together and endured, never losing the courage to stay on the land despite early hardships.
They moved from the farm to the village of Riverdale in 1912 when Ferdinand's health was failing.
Drought was an issue in 1890. Samuel Fletcher Cheney, born Boscawen, N.H., 2 Dec. 1829, Captain of Co. B, 21st Ohio Infantry in the Civil War, homesteaded land northwest of Amherst which later was owned by Irene Mollard's husband Marvin's family. Irene was a major force in organizing the Amherst Cenntenial Book (1890-1990).
The effect of the drought was noted in a sheriff's deed of sale of that homestead. Irene Mollard shared photos and history of the land with Lynne Cheney, whose husband, Dick Cheney, was a great grandson of Samuel Cheney. Samuel was a former Union soldier from Ohio who moved his family of four sons into a sod house on the homestead of 160 acres by Christmas of 1883. In 1902 the property as conveyed to Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance after being sold at a public sale on the front steps of the Buffalo County courthouse in a Kearney in 1896. One of the sons is buried in the Kearney Cemetery. Samuel died in 1911 and is buried in Ohio.
World War 1 began on July 28, 1914 and lasted until November 11, 1918.
The United States was a formal participant in World War I from April 6, 1917 until the war's end.
The immediate cause of WW1 was the assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand. The two main sides were the Allies, which included France, Great Britain and Russia; and Germany and Austria-Hungary. In total, 30 countries were involved in the conflict. End result was that Germany as a power was humiliated.
TIMELINE:
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, who was killed in Sarajevo along with his wife Duchess Sophie by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip.
July 5 Austria-Hungary seeks German support for a war against Serbia in case of Russian militarism. Germany gives assurances of support.[2]
July 23 Austria-Hungary sends an ultimatum to Serbia. The Serbian response is seen as unsatisfactory.
July 28 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Russia mobilizes.
July 31 Germany warns Russia to stop mobilizing. Russia says mobilization is against Austria-Hungary only.
August 1 Germany declares war on Russia.
For information on Nebraska's Anti-German History:
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/exhibits/we_the_people/wwi_council_of_defense.htm
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The Model T (Ferdinand is pictured with probably a 1919 model)
All bodies were mounted on a uniform 100-inch-wheelbase chassis. A choice of colors was originally available, but from 1913 to 1925 the car was mass-produced in only one color—black. The engine was simple and efficient, with all four cylinders cast in a single block and the cylinder head detachable for easy access and repair. The engine generated 20 horsepower and propelled the car to modest top speeds of 40–45 miles per hour (65–70 km/h). In most models the engine was started by a hand crank, which activated a magneto connected to the flywheel, but after 1920 some models were equipped with battery-powered starters. The transmission, consisting of two forward gears and one reverse, was of the planetary type, controlled by foot pedals rather than the more common hand lever used in sliding-gear transmissions. Spark and throttle were controlled by a hand lever on the steering column. The 10-gallon fuel tank was located under the front seat. Because gasoline was fed to the engine only by gravity, and also because the reverse gear offered more power than the forward gears, the Model T frequently had to be driven up a steep hill backward. Such deficiencies, along with its homely appearance, less-than-comfortable ride at top speeds, and incessant rattling, made the Model T the butt of much affectionate humour in innumerable jokes, songs, poems, and stories.
1909 10,666 $825 ($21,650 in 2015)
1919 498,342 $500
1920 941,042 $395
It was only in 1914 that the "any color so long as it is black" policy was finally implemented. It is often stated that Ford suggested the use of black from 1914 to 1926 due to the cheap cost and durability of black paint.
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Ferdinand died in Riverdale, Nebraska on January 12, 1924 surrounded by family; he was buried in the Riverdale Cemetery.
Sophia died November 15, 1943 at the age of 87 years; she too is buried in the Riverdale Cemetery.
The homestead land remains in the Juhl family via Dorothy Juhl Carmann's heirs. The Carmann family was recognized in 1979 for having had the land for 100 years.
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FERDINAND JUHL HOMESTEAD STORY
Composed by Shirley Jolley Juhl Hadwiger Spencer
November 8, 2013 in Pasadena, CA
Sources: Yvonne Juhl, wife of William (Billy), grandson of Charlie Juhl
Memoirs of Howard Juhl (1920-2011)
Ancestry.com
Another resource is the following link about a farm family, York, Nebraska:
www.livinghistoryfarm.org/
The Homestead Law of 1862 required a three step procedure: file an application, improve the land or 160 acres and file for deed of title. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves) and was at least 21 years old or the head of a household, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. The occupant had to reside on the land for five years, and show evidence of having made improvements.
Ferdinand Juhl was born in Germany (Prussia) on September 30, 1853. He came to the United States in 1870 to New York City from Hamburg, Germany on a ship with a small group who were from the same area.
He was the only member of his family who left Germany. The story is that he was the eldest of six sons and would have been drafted into the Prussian military force had he remained in Germany. The main destination for this group was Burlington, Iowa.
(Years later, after becoming a U. S. Citizen, he apparently had forfeited his right to inherit from his family in Germany. It was a bitter turning point for him. He had nothing more to do with family in Germany.)
He applied for citizenship in Helena, Montana and later applied and was granted citizenship in Nebraska. He did some traveling around and connected with Bernard Koeppe who was also from Prussia and who was going to homestead in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Bernard Koeppe was like a father figure to Ferdinand. They each filed to homestead 160 acres in Divide Township, Buffalo County, Nebraska in 1879.
Somehow Ferdinand also filed a second homestead claim and he then had 320 acres. Supposedly when the house of wood is built, it is built on the dividing line thus giving him two homesteads, one for his wife.
The source for financing some of the improvement of the land came from the gold mining endeavors. There is a story about traveling in a wagon out of the Black Hills with a secret compartment for the gold dust.
Ferdinand had lost his first wife or companion and perhaps a child to cholera during the course of moving about. So he was alone in 1879.
His home was a dugout in a small hill on the land. There is still some evidence of the location of that dugout home today. He needed a wife. He wrote a letter to the Wilke family in Burlington, Iowa and basically asked if anyone there was available to be his wife.
Fredricka Sophia Wilke, born July 3, 1856, in Germany had come to Burlington, Iowa to be with her brother Henry Wilke after a failed engagement and relationship in Germany. Ferdinand traveled to Burlington and he met and married Sophie on February 12, 1883. She was 24 years old and he was 29 years old per the affidavit for application for license of marriage conducted in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa.
Their first two children did not survive. The first child, a girl they named Nellie died at the age of four months. The second child, a boy, was stillborn. These two are buried in the Kearney Cemetery.
Sons George, John, Alexander, (1889) and Charlie were born followed by Lena and Annie. Somehow, Annie, one year old, is on the 1900 federal census as Ferdinand, Jr. This error has caused some confusion.
In April 1906, there a major earthquake in San Francisco. About the same time there was an earthquake in the Juhl family relationship of father to sons. Ferdinand refused to pay his sons for their labors so they headed out for San Francisco. This left their sister Lena to take on some of the field work. Charlie and John were back in Nebraska before 1910 but Alexander stayed in San Francisco. Charlie married his first cousin from Burlington, Iowa; they were married in Adams County, Nebraska in 1910 and eventually settled in Monrose, Iowa. John remained in the Riverdale and Miller area.
Ferdinand and Sophia moved from the homestead farm to a small house in the village of Riverdale in 1912. Ferdinand was not in good health. Their son John Juhl was living on the farm in 1913. Son Alexander returned to the homestead sometime in 1913-1914 from San Francisco where he had lived for about five or six years working as a Teamster or longshoreman on the pier. Alexander had finally responded to the plea that he return home. Ferdinand wanted Alexander to take over the farm. Alexander was the favorite son after all.
Evalena Henderson of Yuba City, California, born November 25, 1890, had graduated from the German School of Nursing in San Francisco before 1910 (the German School of Nursing was later renamed the Franklin School of Nursing). She met Alexander Juhl about the same time. After graduation, she went to work for the French Hospital, San Francisco, along with her friend for life, Bunny Bundersen, Petaluma, CA. They are listed on the 1910 Federal Census. They lived on the campus of the hospital with the other nurses. Evalena was the youngest of three daughters of Thomas Jefferson Henderson and Anna Fox Henderson and she was the most educated of her sisters, Lillie and Ruthe.
Evalena rode the train from Sacramento, California to Kearney, Nebraska in May 14, 1914. She and Alexander had a civil ceremony on May 28th after her arrival. They started their marriage out on the homestead farm. There was no electricity, no running water, or indoor toilets.
In fact, there was no electricity until 1951. After six years on the homestead, a doctor told Alexander that he had a heart murmur so he moved into Riverdale in 1920 with his family of three children (Harold, Dorothy, and Virginia) to live in a craftsman-like home about six blocks from where his parents were living. Three more children were born to the couple: Howard, Dolores, and Romona.
In 1924, Alexander and Evalena moved to a farm one mile west of the homestead. It became known as the "homeplace." Romona and Melvin Hadwiger eventually moved to the same farm in 1943 with two children when Alexander retired and moved to Kearney. Evalena had died in May 2, 1938.
Ferdinand died in Riverdale, Nebraska on January 12, 1924 surrounded by family; he was buried in the Riverdale Cemetery.
Sophia died November 15, 1943 at the age of 87 years; she too is buried in the Riverdale Cemetery. (Sophia was an invalid for 17 years. She spoke her native tongue and limited English.)
The homestead land remains in the Juhl family.
Glen Carmann, son of Dorothy Juhl Carmann, continues to own and manage a portion of the original homestead. Ron Hadwiger, son of Romona Juhl Hadwiger, owns the adjoining land or "homeplace" land which Alexander and Evalena Juhl owned.
In 1979, the Dorothy Juhl Carmann family was recognized by the State of Nebraska for having the land in the family for 100 years.
In March of 2013, Mary Juhl of Los Angeles, scattered ashes of her father, Howard Henderson Juhl, on a portion of the homestead he had inherited and later gifted to the Prairie Institute. Descendants of Alexander and Evalena Juhl were present as the ashes were released with a prayer. Ron and Sue Hadwiger, their son Matt and their daughter Jamie Jo and second child were present in addition to Glen Carman, Ken Carmann, Mary Ann and John Levi. Howard's granddaughter Jana Diaz, and niece Shirley Spencer were present. Lunch at Stockman's was later shared in Amherst followed by a visit to the new home of Darla Juhl near the old home of her childhood located south of Amherst.
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Ferdinand was naturalized on 21 December 1883 in Buffalo County, Nebraska
S.S. Thuringia arrived in New York on November 9, 1870 coming from Hamburg, Germany.
The group from Quarnebeck, Province of Saxony:
Joachim Daries, Joachim Mewes, Ferd Juel, age 17, Sophie Pieper, Dora Zimmerman, Friedr. Reisener, Elise Beckman, Friedr and Marie Schulz
LAND OFFICE at Grand Office
December 28, 1885, Ferdinand Juhl purchased Lots 19-20-21 and 22 of Section 6 Township 10 North of Range 16 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Nebraska containing 157.47 acres at the rate $2.50 per acre amounting to $393.57 for which Ferdinand Juhl has made full payment as required by law. Signed: Ferdinand Juhl
Notice published in Buffalo County Courier, a weekly newspaper published in Kearney, Nebraska six consecutive weeks starting November 19, 1885. Printer's fee: $3.00
NO. 7771
June 19, 1885 filed a Declaratory Statement
Pre-Emption Law
Testimony of Claimant
Had 26 acres in wheat and 2 acres in corn this past season.
HOMESTEAD
Grand Island, Nebraska June 16, 1885
Received of Ferdinand Juhl Three Dollars and 97 cents.
Lots 7-8-9 and 10 of Section 6 in Township 6 10 North of Range 16 West containing 158.47acres under Section 2291of the revised Statues of the United States.
No. 7955 August 5, 1878 Sec. 6 Town 10 Range 16 W
Lots nine and ten containing 79.48 acres signed Ferdinand Juhl
Paid $8.97 fee. 44 miles to land office
No. 8858 June 3, 1879 Sec 8, Township 6 range 10W
Containing 78.99 acres additional to No. 7955.
June 3, 1879 78.99 acres
Final Certificate Number June 16, 1885.
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GRANDSON NORMAN DALE JUHL
Birth: Mar. 28, 1920 Iowa, USA
Death: Oct. 22, 1949
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA
Norman Dale Juhl was the son of Charles William Juhl & Helena Wilke. Norman Juhl married Mary Maxine Fruehling on July 21, 1941 in Montrose, Lee Co., Iowa.
A Lee County, Iowa lawman I would like to pay tribute to is Norman Dale Juhl, the only policeman killed in the line of duty while serving on Keokuk's police department.
At 12:45 a.m. on October 14, 1949, a call came into the police department about a suspicious person behind the George Koch Buick Agency on North 9th, the site of today's Coffee Grounds building.
Juhl, driving car #61, heard the dispatchers radio call and headed for the auto agency. Upon arriving, he turned off his engine and coasted silently to the curb. He drew his revolver and entered the shadows behind the garage. Within minutes, several shots rang out and Patrolman Juhl slumped to the ground with two bullets in his lower abdomen. A woman who had phoned the first report called a second time stating that from her kitchen window she could see a man lying on the ground, saying that she thought it was a policeman.
Instantly, a general alarm was sounded and all Keokuk police officers headed towards the garage. Upon arriving, officers found Juhl unconscious and immediately started a search of the area for the shooter, but found no one. It was determined later that Officer Juhl had fired five times with his revolver before passing out.
Patrolman Juhl was transported to Graham Hospital and lingered near death for eight days, finally succumbing on October 22nd. Funeral services were held at Schmidt Memorial Home with hundreds of friends and area law enforcement personnel attending. The Gate City reported that an "unusually large proportion of those attending joined the cortege to the Montrose Cemetery where burial was made."
The search and subsequent arrest and conviction for Juhl's killer took three years to complete. Through great detective work, Keokuk police officers finally found their man, one Lloyd Woodson, who was serving time in Joliet, Ill., prison on a 1950 burglar conviction. They drove to Joliet when Woodson was released in June of 1952 and arrested him at the prison gates. On September 5, 1952, Woodson was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Fort Madison penitentiary. He was released in the early 1990's due to ill health and died shortly thereafter.
Norman Dale Juhl's name is on the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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SON Charlie Juhl
Birth: Mar. 17, 1891
Riverdale
Buffalo County
Nebraska, USA
Death: Dec. 9, 1974
Donnellson
Lee County
Iowa, USA
DEATH NOTICE
CHARLES W. JUHL
Charles W. Juhl, 83, of Montrose, died at 9 a.m. Monday, December 9, at the Donnellson Manor Nursing Home. He had been in failing health the past year.
The son of the late Ferdinand and Sophie Wilke Juhl. He was born at Riverdale, Nebraska, March 17, 1891. He had farmed in the Montrose area over 60 years.
On February 3, 1910, in Burlington, he married Lena Wilke who survives. Mr. Juhl is also survived by two sons, Kenneth L. Juhl, West Point, Everett Juhl, Montrose; two sisters, Mrs. Lena Berkheimer, Amherst, Nebraska, Mrs. Dwayne Dennis, Riverdale, Nebraska; four grandsons, eight greatgrandchidren, nieces and nephews.
A son and two brothers preceded him in death.
Final rites were held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, December 12, at the Schmitt Memorial Home in Keokuk. The Rev. H. F. Wilhelm officiated. Burial was in the Montrose Cemetery.
Note: This obituary came from my Aunt Lola (Hamilton) Juhl's obituary collection.
Family links:
Parents:
Ferdinand Juhl (1852 - 1924)
Frederika Wilke Juhl (1856 - 1943)
Spouse:
Helena Wilke Juhl (1887 - 1985)*
Children:
Kenneth Lyle Juhl (1911 - 1996)*
Charles Everett Juhl (1915 - 1989)*
Norman Dale Juhl (1920 - 1949)*
Siblings:
George Quincy Juhl (1886 - 1937)*
John Henry Juhl (1888 - 1969)*
Alexander Alec Juhl (1889 - 1951)*
Charles William Juhl (1891 - 1974)
Helena Sophia Juhl Berkheimer (1893 - 1988)*
Anna M. Juhl Dennis (1899 - 1992)*
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Koeppe, Bernhard 60831284. Juhl Friend
b. Jan. 23, 1839 d. Nov. 7, 1907 Kearney Cemetery
Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA
Wife Dorathea
Koeppe, Louis A. 60831389. Son of Friend
b. Sep. 14, 1870 d. Jul. 17, 1941 Kearney Cemetery
Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA
Wife Minnie
Koeppe, Louis R., Sr 60831455. Grandson Of Friend
b. Feb. 5, 1930 d. Feb. 16, 1997 Kearney Cemetery
Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA
Wife. June Dunton Koeppe, married October 31, 1953 in Texas
B. June 8,1930 in Bath, Maine
D. October 28, 2013 Kearney, Nebraska
Burial Service at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church
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MIDWAY HOTEL 80 year history ends in 1967
Among the notables who stayed at the hotel were former President Taft, Buffalo Bill and Madame Schumann-Heink. Many Kearneyites stayed at the hotel on a permanent or temporary basis. In the winter the "rich people on 8th Avenue" closed their large hard-to-heat homes and moved to the Midway until spring.
The Arthur L. Roberts company of Minneapolis leased the Midway in 1930 just a year before Denison's death at age 70. John Henry took over the lease in 1934. Ed and Jim Denison assumed management of the hotel in 1956, they were later joined by their brother Art.
In 1967 the hotel was sold. The proud old Midway which, with its predecessor, dominated the corner of 25th and Central for 80 years, was torn down to make way for a Safeway store. The stained glass in the dining room now sparkles in the windows of the Ed Denison home at 214 East 39th Street |
