Nollsch, Thomas Charles

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HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY ILLINOIS - 1915

Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

Page 935

NOLLSCH, THOMAS CHARLES, a farmer of modern ideas and successful endeavor, belongs to the old Nollsch family of Cass County, which is so well and favorably known and spoken of at length elsewhere in this work. Thomas C. Nollsch was born on the family homestead, October 18, 1870, a son of Gottlieb and Catherine (Hobig) Nollsch. His boyhood was spent on the farm, he alternating assisting his parents with attendance at the district school, and did not farm alone until 1902. In that year he began renting a portion of the homestead, thus continuing for five years, when he became a tenant on land in Oregon Precinct, but within a year, he moved to Sylvan Precinct. There he rented a house and worked for various farmers until the following fall, when he bought seventy-five acres of the homestead. On this he now resides and carried on general farming and also raises horses, cattle and hogs.

On May 22, 1902, Mr. Nollsch was married by Rev. W. M. Want, of Jacksonville to Cora May Wyatt, born in Oregon Precinct, August 5th, 1873, a daughter of Fenton and Alice (Carver) Wyatt, of Cass County. Mr. Wyatt is deceased, but his widow lives at Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Nollsch have had two children: Greta Alice, born June 17, 1904, and Ralph Emerson, born January 21, 1906. A Methodist, mr. Nollsch is connected with the church of that denomination at Chandlerville. Politically he is a Progressive. The Knights of Pythias of Chandlerville hold his membership, and he is popular in that order, as he is elsewhere. He donated the ground and assisted in getting up the petition to locate the Oak Dale schoolhouse, built in 1911.