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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ada Mae Divan: Birth: 26 Sep 1881.

  2. Isaac Walter Divan: Birth: 17 Jun 1884 in Seward County, Nebraska. Death: 18 May 1967 in Hastings, Nebraska

  3. Grace Vera Divan: Birth: 25 Nov 1886 in near Milford, Nebraska. Death: 1 Mar 1984 in Oxford, Nebraska

  4. Bonnie Fern Divan: Birth: 9 Apr 1889 in Milford, Nebraska. Death: 24 May 1967 in Holdridge, Nebraska

  5. Faye Divan: Birth: 20 Nov 1893. Death: 1982

  6. Roy Divan: Birth: 23 Oct 1894 in near Milford, Nebraska. Death: 28 Feb 1988 in Albion, Nebraska

  7. Hazel Lucille Divan: Birth: 22 Apr 1903 in near Milford, Nebraska.


Notes
a. Note:   REFN: 130 (This article was written in 1899 or 1900) Alpha Divan a prominent representative of the agricultural interests of Seward county and also one of its honored pioneers, was born in Green County, Wisconsin, on the 15th of December, 1854. His father, Walter Divan, was born in Ohio, February 22, 1820, was educated in public schools of his native state, and learned the carpenter's trade in connection with farming. At the age of twenty he removed to Wisconsin with his parents and there met and married Miss Mary Hackworth. Seven children were born of this union, but only four are now living, two sons and two daughters, namely: Sarah, now the wife of G. W. Donley, a jeweler, of Seward, Nebraska; Charley, a resident of Chicago, Illinois; and Alpha, our subject. The parents are now living retired in Seward, the father at the age of sixty-nine years, the mother at the age of seventy-one. It was in 1874 that they emigrated from Wisconsin to Nebraska, arriving in Seward county, July 2, and the father purchased a tract of land from the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, at $8 per acres. To the cultivation and improvement of his place he devoted his energies with marked success until 1881, when he removed to Seward and has since rented the farm to different parties until six years ago, when our subject took charge of the same. On the arrival of the family in this region the town of Seward had been started, but the homesteaders were living in dugouts and sod houses, while engaged in breaking their land, and the first home of the Divans was a log house. In the quarter of a century they have resided here, however, they have witnessed many changes; the deer no longer roam over the prairies and the rude homes of the pioneers have been replaced by substantial frame residences, and the wild land has been converted into rich and productive farms. Alpha Divan is indebted to the common schools of Wisconsin for his educational privileges, and early in life he also obtained an excellent knowledge of every department of agriculture. He was twenty years of age at the time of the removal of the family to this state, and four years later he purchased eighty acres of land at eight dollars per acre and began life for himself. In 1890 he bought a forty acre-tract for thirty dollars per acre, and is now the owner of an excellent farm, which he has placed under a high state of cultivation and improved with good buildings. Politically, he is now a Populist, but cast his first vote for U.S. Grant, the Republican presidential nominee. His father is a supporter of the Republican party. At the age of twenty-four years Mr. Divan was united in marriage with Miss Mary C. Neidhardt, by whom he has six children: May, Walter, Grace, Bonnie, Fay and Roy, who are being well educated in the schools of Seward county. Mrs. Divan's father, Isaac Neidhardt, was a native of Ohio, and in early life married Miss Catherine Rogers, by whom he had three children, two daughters, Emma, a resident of Seward, and Mary C., and one son, who died at the age of three years. The parents are now conducting a hotel in Seward, and the father is sixty-three years of age, the mother fifty-nine, and both enjoy good health. During his early manhood he lived in Arkansas and while there was nominated for congress and only lacked one vote of being elected. He is an ardent Republican in politics; and since coming to Nebraska has served as sheriff of Seward county for two terms with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. He entered the service of his country during the Civil War as a private soldier, and for meritorious conduct on field of battle was promoted to the rank of captain. (obituary clipping - source unknown) J. A. Divan Passes Away Lapses into Unconsciousness in Few Hours and Never Rallies Seldom has our community been so suddenly


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