MICKEY, John H. - Election

MICKEY, OCHILTREE, BLAIR, PAISLEY

Posted By: Patricia Baker (email)
Date: 10/11/2012 at 15:24:58

Morning Sun News Herald, June 26, 1902, Page 5.

A Louisa County Boy.

An item of news that was especially
gratifying to many old friends hereabouts,
was the nomination last
week of John H. Mickey, a former
Louisa county boy, for governor of
Nebraska, on the repubican ticket.
Mr. Mickey was born in this county
and was a son of O. P. Mickey. He
was a comrade of T. J. Ochiltree,
Wm. Blair and F. T. Paisley, serving
with them in Co. D., Eighth Iowa
Cav. in 1863-65. He taught school
here after the war, about 1866, and
later attended school at the I. W. U.
at Mt. Pleasant. He was well liked,
and his old friends are not surprised
to hear of his advancement. A recent
issue of the Nebraska State
Journal has the following short
sketch of Mr. Mickey since he went
to Nebraska:
The year after he left school he
came to Nebraska and took up a
homestead in Folk county, where he
lived until 1872, when he removed to
Osceola.
In 1870 he was elected county
treasurer and so well did he fulfill
bis duties that he was kept in that
office for ten years. The year after
he left that office, the people of his
county again expressed their confidence
in him by electing him to represent
them in the state legislature
of which body he was a member during
the years 1881 and 1882. During
the last twenty years Mr. Mickey
has been engaged in banking, farming
and stock raising in Polk county.
He has always had unlimited confidence
in Nebraska, and this has led
him to the purchase of farm land as
a desirable investment. The rise in
the value of this property placed him
in a position to become the largest
individual contributor to the Nebraska
Wesleyan University last year,
when it was released from a debt of
about $70,000. Mr. Mickey conducted
a long and arduous campaign to raise
that money. For a long period he
spoke frequently in the churches all
over the state. The acquaintance
formed during that campaign gave
him much strength in the convention
and will be of much assistance in the
coming campaign.
Mr. Mickey has a pleasant address
and impresses all who meet him as a
sound, safe business man with a
wide horizon and much general information
He has a family of nine
children, five boys and four girls.