My Genealogy Hound

ANDREW HOLLENBECK, a farmer of Lake township, Phelps county, Nebr., was born in New York in 1843, where he remained until about 1878. Jacob B. Hollenbeck, his father, also a native of New York, was born in 1820 and was a prosperous farmer and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was of Holland descent and of the second generation born in this country. In 1840 he married Maria Van Ness, who was born in New York in 1822, and who bore him six children, namely — Mary (Mrs. John M. Deroe), Andrew, Archibald, Catherine M. (Mrs. Mortimer), Maggie and Sidney (deceased). The paternal grandfather of our subject was Battus Hollenbeck, a native of Fulton county, N. Y. His paternal grandmother was Mary (Argersinger) Hollenbeck, of New York. His maternal grandfather was Andrew Van Ness, and his maternal grandmother was Catherine (Vosberg) Van Ness.

Andrew Hollenbeck passed his early summers on the home farm and his early winters in getting out timbers. For a number of years after reaching manhood he lived on a rented farm in his native state, and on coming to Nebraska, in 1878, and settling in Phelps county, had a capital of only $75 in cash and a team. He was, moreover, incumbered with quite a large family. He went manfully to work, however, and is now the owner of a half section of land, of which two hundred acres are under cultivation and improved with all necessary buildings, etc. He is a democrat, has served several years as justice of the peace, and is a popular man generally. In 1867 he married Miss Sarah E. Cowles, who was born in Fulton county, N. Y., in 1849, and this union has resulted in the birth of ten children, namely — Laura (Mrs. Whitney), Elijah, Jacob, William (deceased), George, Elmer, Herbert and Herman (twins), Sidney and Earl.