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Mott Evert Vandenberg

Birth	:	8 Dec 1855 Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York, USA
Death	:	14 Feb 1937
Burial	:	Douglas Grove Cemetery, Comstock, Custer County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.5489006, -99.2881012
Description	:	COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY [of Nebraska]. page 169; CHICAGO: ALDEN PUB. CO., 1912 MOTT E. VANDENBERG. Mott E. Vandenberg, now retired from active life and a resident of Sargent, Nebraska, became well known as a success stockman of the central part of the state and for his specializing in shorthorn cattle. He has long been identified with the best interests of Custer county, where in early years he was an original homesteader, taking up the breeding of high-grade stock. He was born at Cape Vincent, Jefferson county, New York, December 8, 1855, the only child of Cornelius... Read More	COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY [of Nebraska]. page 169; CHICAGO: ALDEN PUB. CO., 1912 MOTT E. VANDENBERG. Mott E. Vandenberg, now retired from active life and a resident of Sargent, Nebraska, became well known as a success stockman of the central part of the state and for his specializing in shorthorn cattle. He has long been identified with the best interests of Custer county, where in early years he was an original homesteader, taking up the breeding of high-grade stock. He was born at Cape Vincent, Jefferson county, New York, December 8, 1855, the only child of Cornelius and Sarah (Chase) Vandenberg. The father, of Holland ancestry, was born in Saratoga, New York, and died in that state in August, 1856. The mother was also born in Saratoga and was of English parentage. She died in 1883. His father was in railroad service and died while our subject was a young boy, and he had to make his way in the world and gain an education in the local schools. He engaged in various occupations while a young man and spent some time as a teacher in the New York schools. He took a commercial course in Bryant & Stratton's College, from which he graduated in 1873, having made a specialty of banking methods. In the spring of 1878 he decided to seek the larger opportunities offered to young men in the west and came to Custer county, pre-empting one hundred and sixty acres of land on section twenty-three, township nineteen, range eighteen. He hauled lumber from Grand Island for building, and started in the cattle business on his own account. Later he secured a homestead and timber claim comprising three hundred twenty acres of land on sections twenty-five and twenty-six, township nineteen, range eighteen, which was his home place for many years. He was married on New Year's eve, 1884, at the home of the bride's parents at Douglas Grove, Custer county, to Miss Martha Comstock, who was born in Jefferson county, New York, and came to Custer county with her parents in March, 1882. For several years she was a teacher in Nebraska schools, and attended the first teachers institute in the county, held at Broken Bow. Her parents, DeWitt and Martha (Bennett) Comstock, now live at Comstock, and are mentioned elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Vandenberg became parents of five children: Evert D., of Dillon, Montana; Alison G. and Elosia, at home; Mort [SIC Mott] is deceased, and Nielson (also at home.) Mr. Vandenberg passed through an early period of Nebraska history and was one of the organizers of school district number one hundred and eighty-eight serving for some time as director of the board. He and his wife made their home on the homestead for many years and became the owners of seven hundred acres of well improved and equipped land. For twenty-five years he specialized in pure bred Poland China hogs, having one of the oldest established herds of the big type of these hogs in the west. In 1907 he retired from farm life and moved to Sargent where he purchased a comfortable home which is now the residence of the family. They are well known and highly respected as a representative family.

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Latitude: 41.5489006
Longitude: -99.2881012

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Martha Comstock Vandenberg

(1866 - 1960)

Children

Mott Oscar Vandenberg

(1898 - 1901)

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Coordinate: 41.4025002, -99.2307968

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Coordinate: 41.6768990, -99.4044037

17. Westerville Cemetery
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18. French Tableland Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.4818993, -99.4906006

19. Boleszyn Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.4237000, -99.1167000

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23. Liberty Cemetery
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24. Dunkard Cemetery
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