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CHARLES A. ROHDER was born in Germany, September 17, 1834, and is a son of Adam and Mary (Niederhof) Rohder, both natives of the Fatherland. The subject of this sketch left his native land when nineteen years old to escape the draft. He first went to England, and there found an opportunity to work his passage to America on a boat which was about ready to sail, landed at New York and immediately went to Cambria county, Pa., where he had a sister living. He next went down the Ohio river to Cairo and served as a cook on a steamer on the Mississippi for eight years.

He came to Lowell, Nebr., in the spring of 1873, and immediately engaged in the bakery business. The town was prosperous, and Mr. Rohder’s business flourished, and he remained there till the town went down, when he purchased railroad land in Eaton township, where he has since resided. He went all through the grasshopper famine and has seen great herds of buffalo, antelope and deer in the vicinity where he now lives.

Mr. Rohder was married, February 8, 1865, to Eva Ebel, by whom he had four children, born as follows — Augustus, September 1, 1866; Fred, July 27, 1868; Elizabeth and John. His second marriage was on February 20, 1871, to Dora E. Reeder. This union has been blessed with the following named children — Henry W., born June 25, 1872; Dora E., born September 8, 1874; Chas. S., born October 23, 1876; Leona, born September 17, 1878; Emma, born August 23, 1880; Frank, born March 17, 1882; William, born October 18, 1884, Earnest, born June 6, 1886, and Josie, born November 7, 1887. Mr. Rohder has 160 acres of well improved land, and has a considerable number of trees growing. He is a democrat and has held various local offices; in religion he is a member of the Catholic church.