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Vaclav Pelan
28 Sep 1868 – 27 Dec 1949
| Birth | 28 Sep 1868 |
| Death | 27 Dec 1949 |
| Cemetery | Saint Francis Cemetery Wahoo , Saunders County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | lee martinson on 22 Sep 2009 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11198890 |
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VACLAV PELAN . Vaclav Pelan is actively engaged in farming in Elk precinct, where he has one hundred and sixty acres of rich land that he has converted into productive fields. He was born in Moravia, September 28, 1867. His father, John Pelan, is still living in that country, but the mother, who bore the maiden name of Catherine Valla, passed away in 1872. He was the eldest in a family of five children and three sisters are still living in Moravia, while his brother, Frank, is now a resident of the state of Washington. Vaclav Pelan remained a resident of his native country until 1881, when, at the age of fourteen years, he came to Nebraska with an aunt, who lived in Newman precinct, Saunders county. From that time forward he has been dependent upon his own resources. He began working as a farm hand in the neighborhood and was thus employed during the major part of the time for about fifteen years, although he spent one year in railroad work in Wyoming. In 1891 he began farming on his own account at his present location and he is now the owner of forty acres of land on section 23, forty acres on section 27 and eighty acres on section 26; Elk precinct, so that he cultivates altogether one hundred and sixty acres. This land was given to his wife by her father, Thomas Dubish. Mr. Pelan has brought the farm to a high state of cultivation and the fields respond readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon them in good crops, showing that the soil is productive and that his methods are practical and progressive. On the 16th of January, 1894, Mr. Pelan was united in marriage to Miss Anna Dubish, a daughter of Thomas Dubish, who died in the year 1913. He came from Moravia to the new world in early life and, making his way to Saunders county, secured a homestead claim of eighty acres in Elk precinct and later he purchased eighty acres of railroad land. These two tracts were inherited by his daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Pelan has been born a daughter, Rose, who is now the wife of Frank Kovan, of Mariposa precinct. In his political views Mr. Pelan is a democrat. He has never sought nor desired office, yet has served for seven years as a member of the school board and is now acting as moderator. He belongs to the Catholic church at Plasi and to the lodge of Catholic Workmen at Plasi. His time and energies have been wisely directed along the line of his chosen occupation and he has made a specialty of raising Red Polled cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. His farm is well improved, having upon it substantial buildings which were erected by Mr. Pelan. His ability and industry have been the salient features in the attainment of his success and he is now practically living retired, renting out much of his farm, from which he derives a substantial annual income. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world, for here he has found good opportunities along business lines and has worked his way steadily upward.
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