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Joseph V Kaspar

1 May 1876 – 22 Aug 1949

Birth1 May 1876
Death22 Aug 1949
CemeteryBohemian National Cemetery
Prague , Saunders County , Nebraska , USA
Added byJennifer Kuncl on 02 Aug 2015
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JOSEPH VACLAV KASPAR. Joseph Vaclav Kaspar, manager of the Prague Farmers Stock & Grain Company, was born in Elk precinct, September 1, 1876. His father, Vaclav Kaspar, was born August 14, 1839, and his life's activities covered the intervening period to the 5th of August, 1914, when death called him. He wedded Mary Cizek. The father and grandfather were employed in the coal mines in Bohemia, the latter acting as a mine superintendent. The family of Vaclav and Mary Kaspar numbered two sons and four daughters, of whom Joseph Vaclav is the youngest. The others are: James, living upon the home farm in Elk precinct; Mrs. Anna Vasina, who was born in Prague and whose husband is now deceased; Mary, the wife of Anton Fujan, a farmer of Elk precinct; Christina, the wife of James A. Kliment, of Prague; and Josephine. It was in the year 1861 that the father came from Bohemia and settled in Illinois, locating in Will county, where he was employed in the coal mines for a year or more. He then came to Nebraska, journeying westward by way of Nebraska City, where he purchased a team of oxen and thence proceeded to Saunders county. Here he took up a homestead of eighty acres in Chester precinct and afterward removed to section 1, Elk precinct, where he secured a homestead claim and a timber claim of three hundred and twenty acres. It was upon his father's farm that Joseph Vaclav Kaspar learned the value of industry and perseverance. He worked there until seventeen years of age and in the meantime attended the public schools of Prague. Afterward he entered the Omaha Business College, in which he studied for a year, and still later he secured a position in the mill which his father and brother had started at Prague. He was there employed for four years, after which he removed to Ashland, Nebraska, where he engaged in the flour milling business for another year. He then returned to Prague and in partnership with his father engaged in the milling business for eight years, at the end of which time he sold out to Charles Kastl and Dr. J. F. Kaspar in 1903. For a period he remained inactive in business, enjoying a well earned rest, but later turned his attention to the live-stock business, in which he continued for three years. In April, 1914, he accepted his present position and is proving most capable and efficient as manager of the Prague Farmers Stock & Grain Company. He is also a stockholder in the same company, is the owner of eighty acres of land in Oklahoma and also has a tract of forty acres in Chester precinct, on which he lives. The Prague Farmers Stock & Grain Company was organized in 1893 and was reorganized in 1903. Two of their elevators have been destroyed by fire, one in 1904 and another in 1905. In 1914 their elevators took in over one hundred and thirty-five thousand bushels of grain and in 1915 the amount exceeded one hundred and fifty thousand bushels. On the 31st of October, 1903, Mr. Kaspar was united in marriage to Miss Mary Otradovsky, a daughter of Joseph Otradovsky, of Schuyler, Nebraska, and they have two children, Olga and Hilda. In politics Mr. Kaspar is a democrat, and for one term served as a member of the city council. His father was one of the charter members of the Plasi Catholic church in Elk precinct, but the family are not now connected with any church. Mr. Kaspar of this review, however, is a loyal and devoted member of several fraternal organizations. He belongs to the Z. C. B. J., a Bohemian society, the Woodmen of the World, of which he served as secretary for six years, and to the Masonic lodge at North Bend. His has been an active and well spent life, his labors being intelligently directed, and in the conduct of his business affairs he seems to have readily discriminated between the essential and the nonessential and has made every point in his career one that has counted for the utmost in the attainment of honorable and growing success.

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