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Mulliken family shows a pioneering spirit
By Tammy Real-McKeighan/Fremont dodge pickup for sale Tribune
Saturday, Aug 02, 2008 - 01:36:46 am CDT
Horatio Mulliken was just 17 years 94-02 dodge ram 2500mirror old when he headed west.
He set 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 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 dodge truck bikini owned by the same family for 100 years or more. 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 clearcoat dodge all began with a young man named Horatio, who came from Massachusetts.
Boarding a train, Horatio traveled to Omaha then walked the rest of the dodge magnum forums way to Fremont, said his great-grandson, Jerry.
William left in 1859 to fight in the 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 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 dodge manual transmission house and later was able to purchase more land sw dodge plan room omaha 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 dodge ramcharger gas tank to the farm while still young.
During the school lithia dodge medford 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 grown, but drove out to the farm every day, Jerry said.
After Horatio died in 1908, his son, Warren, became responsible for the farm.
He and his wife, Adelene, raised six children.
"He farmed the land for a long dodge diesel pickup time," Nellie said.
Then Warren began having health problems. At the time, his son, Alan, was attending quick learn transaxle dodge classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He and Nellie were married by then.
"I came from the city and had never lived on a farm ... I thought I would like it - dodge dakota parts and I love it," she said.
When Warren died in 1945, Alan became responsible for the farm and never did finish college. He was only a few credits short of
obtaining a degree.
Alan and Nellie, who raised three children, hung onto the farm, she said. wolfe ford dodge When Alan became ill, the Mullikens’ shelby dodge oldest son, Jerry, came to work on the farm. And their thomas dodge chrysler jeep of highland son, Jack, later came to help his brother farm.
"He and his brother have been farming ever since," Nellie said.
And there’s yet another Mulliken working on the farm: Jack’s son, Robert.
Throughout the years, the dodge b2500 weight Mullikens dodge super bee hemi have purchased land and added to the initial homestead.
"The boys have flourished on the dodge caravan options list farm," Nellie said. "They've worked hard and we’ve all enjoyed each florissant dodge chrysler jeep dealer other ... For dodge parts pcv hose 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 dodge mds of the family include, front dodge van heater fan diagrams row, from left, cup holder dodge ram Kelsey, denooyer dodge Nellie and Tyler; back row, Pam, Jack, Robert, Jerry and Betsy Mulliken. (Chris Bristol/Fremont Tribune)
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