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GAGE
COUNTY
Gage County Nebraska Biographical 346
William Mahloch has proved himself the possessor of a
large amount of that excellent
quality of
manhood
and
self-reliance, which, untied with perseverance and
industry,
had enabled him to become
one of the useful
young farmer of Blakely Township, in
which he owns a
fine farm of 240 acres on
section 5. When he started
out
in life he
was comparatively poor, and what he now owns
had been
obtained by his own manly
efforts, he
being
indebted to no man for the help of so much as a penny.
He was born
in Sheboygan
County Wis., on the 14th
of December 1852, and is a son of Phillip and
Sophia
(Vest) Mahloch. Who had come to the United Stated
from one of the Rhine
Provinces in Germany after their
marriage. The mother died in 1854 in Wisconsin, but
the
father is still living in that state and has reached the
age of seventy-two years.
The parents were Lutherans in
their religious belief.
Our subject was twenty years old when be began working
for himself, and first hired
out as a farm laborer in
his
native State, then he went to Henry Co Ill., where he
worked for two
years, after which, when he was twenty-three years old,
he came to
Nebraska. He was married in the township on June 28th 1880, to Miss Lizzie Riddle,
who
was born in Maryland in 1862. Her father was a German farmer who had come to
the
United States and settled in
Maryland. The mother died in that State, and the
father
afterward married again and came to Nebraska, now making
his home on a farm
in Jefferson
County. Mrs. Mahloch was sixteen
years old when she came with her
father to the great
undeveloped
West, and a little later was married here.
Our subject and his wife have had six children in their
family, one whom, named Minnie
died when
she was eleven
months old, and the remaining four children bear the
names of
Louis, Hannah, Peter
and Carrie; an infant is
unnamed.
Mr. Mahloch purchased his fist
land her in 1879,
when he secured
160 acres, after which he added eighty
acres to it
from a adjoining farm, and he now has one of
the
very good farms of this county. The
land was wild
and unbroken prairie
when it came into his hands,
and
all of its
improvements are due to his own industry, it
being now in a condition to produce
fie
crops of grain.
Our subject also gives considerable attention to the
raising of stock
of a superior grade. He was one of
the
first settlers in this neighborhood, and has
been a
resident of the county since 1875. He and his wife are
highly esteemed
members
of the German
Lutheran Church, and rank well
among the best families of the township.
Mr. Mahloch
affiliated
with the Republican party in politics, and is a
first-class,
honorable man.
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