Jagels Farms, just outside of Davenport, Nebraska is a diversified operation which, in this century, includes irrigated white corn, yellow corn and soybeans; a cow/calf operation; custom feed cattle; and a trucking company.
Ron and Carol Cope
Carol Cope (born Ida Ernestine Schrepel) was born September 13, 1909, in Tate, Nebraska, to Frank Joseph and Marilena (Pettinger) Schrepel. She attended the Pawnee County District 43 rural school near Tate and St. Anthony High School in Steinauer, Nebraska, before graduating from Burchard High School in Burchard, Nebraska, in 1926.
Sheila Dickinson Dinsmore Graf
Sheila Dickinson Dinsmore Graf (1923 – 1996). In a simple yet profound way, Sheila Dickinson Dinsmore Graf believed in putting others above herself. Mother to five children and four stepchildren, Sheila taught her children that happiness comes from “doing for others.”
NEBRASKAland Foundation
The NEBRASKAland Foundation was established to promote Nebraska through programs and awards which celebrate the State’s social, historical, cultural, educational and economic heritage. Organized in 1962 under the leadership of Governor Frank Morrison, the Foundation was the forerunner of many of Nebraska’s current economic development and tourism activities.
Kremer Family Farm
The Kremer Family’s history in Hamilton County began in 1885 when Maurice Kremer’s grandparents (Christian and Katherina Rediger) arrived by train from Illinois and broke the virgin prairie and began farming six and half miles southwest of Aurora. At the time there was only a house, corn crib and three hay stacks on the place, no trees and no barn nor out buildings.
Judge William C. Hastings
Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, William C. Hastings was born in Newman Grove, Nebraska in 1921. As a child, he thought about becoming an engineer, a forest ranger or joining the Navy.
Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Nebraska
Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Nebraska had an unusual beginning. In the late 1800s, large insurance companies located in the eastern United States would not insure farmers in Nebraska, deeming the farms as undesirable risks. To isolated farmers, fire was a constant risk.
Robert S. Dickinson
Born in 1891, Robert S. Dickinson lived in Nebraska all of his life. In 1910, he graduated from Doane College in Crete, Nebraska and accepted a job as bookkeeper, office boy and janitor at the Ravenna flour mill. Thus began a sixty-year career in the flour milling business.