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By Tammy Real-McKeighan/Fremont Tribune
Saturday, Aug 02, 2008 - 01:36:46 am CDT
Horatio Mulliken dodge ram steering diagrams was just 17 years old when he headed west.
He set super chargers dodge ram out by train to join his older brother, William, who was raising sheep in the Elkhorn River valley. It was 1857 - and back then, the teenager probably never imagined his descendants would be farming in this area five generations later.
Yet that’s what happened.
On Sunday, the Mulliken dodge li l red pickup family will be honored with Aksarben’s Pioneer Farm Family Award during the Dodge County Fair in Scribner. The award honors farm families in Nebraska whose land has been owned by the same family for 100 years dodge charger with gs motorsports paxton or more. advantage dodge The presentation will take place at 6 p.m. in the fairgrounds tent.
The Mulliken farm lies four miles northwest of Fremont. Today family members produce corn and beans and own some pasture land.
But it all began with a young man named Horatio, who dodge truck pics came from dodge truck Massachusetts.
Boarding a removing dodge kingpin train, Horatio traveled to Omaha then complaints chrysler jeep dodge bellevue walked the rest of the way to Fremont, said his great-grandson, Jerry.
William left in 1859 to fight in the ford vs chevy vs dodge Civil War and was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness. He was buried in Massachusetts.
In 1860, Horatio filed for the Homestead Act through which c f chrysler jeep dodge settlers were granted 160 acres of land by the government. If they held it for three years and were approved, it was theirs.
Horatio built a house and later was able to purchase more land for $8 an acre.
"It was a rugged time to be farming," said Nellie Mulliken, 90, wife of Horatio’s grandson, Alan.
Horatio eventually married and became the father of five children. His wife, Hannah, died in 1888 when their youngest child was only 4 months old.
He and the older children remained on the farm, but the youngest, Nikita, went to New York for a time to stay with a relative, and later returned to the dodge dakota parts farm while still dodge dakota club cab young.
During the school year, Horatio hired a housekeeper to help, and in the farming season had hired farm help. Horatio did all the gardening himself, and the two older girls did a lot of work. Horatio moved to town after the children were vintage dodge 4x4 vehicle clubs colorado grown, but drove out to the farm every day, Jerry said.
After Horatio died in 1908, his son, Warren, became responsible dimensions of dodge grand caravan cargo for the farm.
He and his wife, Adelene, raised six program dodge durango remote children.
"He farmed the land for a long time," Nellie said.
Then Warren began having health problems. At the time, his son, Alan, was attending classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. dodge ram shaking problems He and Nellie were married by then.
"I came from the city and had never lived on a farm ... I dodge rear bumper thought I would like dodge coronet it rent dodge sprinter - and I love dodge power wagon parts it," she said.
When Warren died austrailian dodge hemi in 1945, Alan became responsible for the farm and never dodge challenger did finish college. He was only a few credits short of
obtaining a degree.
Alan and Nellie, who raised three children, hung dodge caliber towable onto dodge reman engines the farm, she said. dodge charger disassemble front bumper When Alan became ill, the Mullikens’ oldest son, Jerry, came to work on the farm. And their son, Jack, later came to help his brother farm.
"He and his brother have been farming ever since," Nellie said.
And dodge truck breaks there’s yet another Mulliken dodge dealers working on the farm: Jack’s son, Robert.
Throughout the years, the Mullikens have purchased land and added to the initial homestead.
"The boys have flourished on the farm," Nellie dodge ram egr valve said. "They've worked hard and we’ve all enjoyed each other ... For us, it’s been a privilege to work with each other."
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The Mulliken family will be honored Sunday as an Aksarben Pioneer Farm Family. Members of the who invented dodge ball family include, front row, from left, Kelsey, Nellie and Tyler; back row, Pam, Jack, dodge intrepid air bag light Robert, Jerry and Betsy Mulliken. (Chris Bristol/Fremont Tribune)
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