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In early boyhood, Rudolph came with his parents to Nebraska and the family home was established on the farm four miles south and four miles west of Leigh, NE., which is today occupied by his son, Henry.
After Rudolph and Mary were married, they made their home on the farm of his parents until they retired in 1917 and moved to Columbus, NE. When his infant daughter, Alma, died of scarlet fever in 1904, Rudolph was in Germany visiting the birthplace of his parents. The first trans-Atlantic cable ever sent from Leigh was the one which his wife sent him advising of their daughter's death. Within ten hours a return cable was sent, stating that he was taking a fast steamer, the vessel "LEHN" bound for America. Pending his arrival, the remains were held for nine days and he was able to be present for the funeral.
Rudolph was a member of the Modern Woodmen, the Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was also a vice-president of Maple Valley Bank.
Facts about this person:
Burial
St Paul's Cemetery; Rural Leigh, NE.
Confirmation
St Paul's Lutheran Church; Leigh, NE.
In early boyhood, Rudolph came with his parents to Nebraska and the family home was established on the farm four miles south and four miles west of Leigh, NE., which is today occupied by his son, Henry.
After Rudolph and Mary were married, they made their home on the farm of his parents until they retired in 1917 and moved to Columbus, NE. When his infant daughter, Alma, died of scarlet fever in 1894, Rudolph was in Germany visiting the birthplace of his parents. The first trans-Atlantic cable ever sent from Leigh was the one which his wife sent him advising of their daughter's death. Within ten hours a return cable was sent, stating that he was taking a fast steamer, the vessel "LEHN" bound for America. Pending his arrival, the remains were held for nine days and he was able to be present for the funeral.
Rudolph was a member of the Modern Woodmen, the Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was also a vice-president of Maple Valley Bank.
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From THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, PLATTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, Volume II-
Rudolph H. Wurdeman is engaged in general farming on section 10, Sherman township, and finds this occupation a profitable one owing to his intelligently directed efforts. A native of Wisconsin, he was born in Mayville, Dodge county, November 26, 1866, and during his early boyhood was brought to Nebraska and pursued his education in school district No. 23, in Sherman township, Platte county. He was reared to the occupation of farming and at the age of twenty-two began farming on his own account on section 10, Sherman township, where he has lived continuously since 1869, or for a period of forty-seven years. He has seen wonderful changes in the county, which at the time of the arrival of the Wurdeman family was largely an undeveloped district. The labors of the family have contributed to the pioneer development and agricultural progress of the county. For a long period Rudolph H. Wurdeman has been numbered among the active and representative farmers of Sherman township, where he owns three hundred and sixty acres Of valuable land in the home place and eighty acres on section 5 of the same township. He has made about one half of the improvements upon his farm in the way of buildings, and at all times he keeps his land under a high state of cultivation, his fields producing excellent crops of corn, wheat and other cereals.
Mr. Wurdeman is also engaged extensively in feeding and shipping stock. He keeps a large herd of cattle and specializes in the Aberdeen Angus breed. Into other lines he has extended his business activity and several important concerns have felt the stimulus of his enterprise and co-operation. For a time he was the vice president of the Maple Valley State Bank at Leigh but resigned when it consolidated with another bank. He is still a stockholder in the Farmers Union Elevator Company and in the telephone company at Columbus, which he helped to organize. He is likewise identified with the Farmers Union.
On May 31, 1889, Mr. Wurdeman was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hagelman, who was born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1868, a daughter of Gerhard and Cording Hagelman, who were also natives of the same place. In the year 1878 they arrived in Wisconsin and afterward came to Platte county, Nebraska, where Mr. Hagelman still lives at the age of eighty-four years, but his wife is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wurdeman have become the parents of eight children: Henry, who is married and has one child and who still lives upon the home farm; Ernst; Reinhold; Elsie; Walter; Olga: Louis; and Ewald.
Mr. Wurdeman is well known in fraternal circles, holding membership with the Modern Woodmen camp, the Odd Fellows lodge and the United Workmen lodge, all at Leigh. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, to which his wife and family also belong. In his political views he is a republican and for six years filled the office of justice of the peace, discharging his duties with promptness and impartiality. The greater part of his life has been passed in Platte county, and he is one of its worthy and honored pioneer settlers, its history in all of its varying phases being familiar to him, so that his memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present.
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In early boyhood, Rudolph came with his parents to Nebraska and the family home was established on the farm four miles south and four miles west of Leigh, NE., which is today occupied by his son, Henry.
After Rudolph and Mary were married, they made their home on the farm of his parents until they retired in 1917 and moved to Columbus, NE. When his infant daughter, Alma, died of scarlet fever in 1894, Rudolph was in Germany visiting the birthplace of his parents. The first trans-Atlantic cable ever sent from Leigh was the one which his wife sent him advising of their daughter's death. Within ten hours a return cable was sent, stating that he was taking a fast steamer, the vessel "LEHN" bound for America. Pending his arrival, the remains were held for nine days and he was able to be present for the funeral.
Rudolph was a member of the Modern Woodmen, the Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was also a vice-president of Maple Valley Bank.
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From THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, PLATTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, Volume II-
Rudolph H. Wurdeman is engaged in general farming on section 10, Sherman township, and finds this occupation a profitable one owing to his intelligently directed efforts. A native of Wisconsin, he was born in Mayville, Dodge county, November 26, 1866, and during his early boyhood was brought to Nebraska and pursued his education in school district No. 23, in Sherman township, Platte county. He was reared to the occupation of farming and at the age of twenty-two began farming on his own account on section 10, Sherman township, where he has lived continuously since 1869, or for a period of forty-seven years. He has seen wonderful changes in the county, which at the time of the arrival of the Wurdeman family was largely an undeveloped district. The labors of the family have contributed to the pioneer development and agricultural progress of the county. For a long period Rudolph H. Wurdeman has been numbered among the active and representative farmers of Sherman township, where he owns three hundred and sixty acres Of valuable land in the home place and eighty acres on section 5 of the same township. He has made about one half of the improvements upon his farm in the way of buildings, and at all times he keeps his land under a high state of cultivation, his fields producing excellent crops of corn, wheat and other cereals.
Mr. Wurdeman is also engaged extensively in feeding and shipping stock. He keeps a large herd of cattle and specializes in the Aberdeen Angus breed. Into other lines he has extended his business activity and several important concerns have felt the stimulus of his enterprise and co-operation. For a time he was the vice president of the Maple Valley State Bank at Leigh but resigned when it consolidated with another bank. He is still a stockholder in the Farmers Union Elevator Company and in the telephone company at Columbus, which he helped to organize. He is likewise identified with the Farmers Union.
On May 31, 1889, Mr. Wurdeman was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hagelman, who was born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1868, a daughter of Gerhard and Cording Hagelman, who were also natives of the same place. In the year 1878 they arrived in Wisconsin and afterward came to Platte county, Nebraska, where Mr. Hagelman still lives at the age of eighty-four years, but his wife is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wurdeman have become the parents of eight children: Henry, who is married and has one child and who still lives upon the home farm; Ernst; Reinhold; Elsie; Walter; Olga: Louis; and Ewald.
Mr. Wurdeman is well known in fraternal circles, holding membership with the Modern Woodmen camp, the Odd Fellows lodge and the United Workmen lodge, all at Leigh. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, to which his wife and family also belong. In his political views he is a republican and for six years filled the office of justice of the peace, discharging his duties with promptness and impartiality. The greater part of his life has been passed in Platte county, and he is one of its worthy and honored pioneer settlers, its history in all of its varying phases being familiar to him, so that his memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present.
Original individual @I01131@ (@MS_WURDEMANNGM.GED1@) merged with @I4570@ (@MS_WURDEMANLEGACYG0@)
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1866 - 1941 (74 years)