This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pollard, Wills, Shotwell, Hilborn Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hEBBAIB/1284 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, August 31, 1916 Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska OVER THE COUNTY [Nehawka News] A larger force of men are continually going to work at the Pollard orchard but it will be about three weeks before things start in full blast. Mr. Pollard informs us there will be a bumper crop this year and expects the yield to surpass that of last year. Miss Bessie WATTERMAN returned to her home in Omaha Friday afternoon after a few days’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Ernest M. POLLARD. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, November 27, 1916 DEATH OF HON. ISAAC POLLARD Passed Away at the Advanced Age of 86 Years, After Residence of Sixty Years in Cass County Last evening at his home in Nehawka where for more than sixty years he has made his home, Hon. Isaac POLLARD, one of the early residents of the county and one of the men who has had a great part in the development of the state, passed away as the immediate result of an attack of acute indigestion from which he has been suffering for the past week and which added to the other complications due to his advanced years proved too great a strain and resulted in the death of this worthy man. Mr. Pollard for the past ten years has been a sufferer from hardening of the arteries, which has gradually grown worse with the passing of the years. He was eighty-six years of age and during this long period of time has been one of the builders of Nebraska and in his death Cass county loses one of its most useful men and the loss will be one felt keenly by the entire state. It is a matter of history the part that Isaac Pollard has had in the forming of the great state of Nebraska, and the future generations will long honor the memory of this good man as one of the hardy pioneers who had forged a great agriculture empire out of what was long considered a part of the great American desert. Isaac Pollard was born in Ludlow, Vt., July 11, 1830 and here he was reared to manhood in the usual hardy New England life and was taught by his parents the great principles of life along the simple inspiring lines laid down by a long line of hardy ancestors and which was to have a direct bearing on the future of the young man. In 1851, Mr. Pollard in company with his boyhood friends, Lawson SHELDON and Perry WALKER, came west to the California gold fields, making the trip to the coast by way of the Isthmus of Panama, but on arriving there found the opportunities not as flattering as they hoped for and returned to the Green mountain state. In 1855, Mr. Pollard and Mr. Sheldon again came west to take up a home in Kansas, but on arriving at the village of Omaha, decided to locate in Nebraska and accordingly selected a homestead in southern Cass county where they have since made their homes and where they have made the land to blossom with the fruits of the earth. One of the greatest orchards in the state of Nebraska was planted by Mr. Pollard at his Nehawka farm and during his lifetime, he has taken a keen interest in the horticultural life of the state and his contributions has given the state a great ranking among the other commonwealths of the nation in this line. Never a seeker after office, Mr. Pollard repeatedly refused to be a candidate for the public service and aside from several terms as county clerk in early days, did not take any part in political life although always deeply interested in the advancement of his community and state. Surviving the loss of this good man there are three daughters and two sons, Mrs. Harry WILLS and Mrs. Lottle SHOTWELL, of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. A.J. HILBORN, Long Beach, California, former congressman E.M. POLLARD of Nehawka, and Raymond C. POLLARD, of Nehawka. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, July 21, 1919 OVER THE COUNTY [Nehawka News] The first shipment of apples from the POLLARD orchard this season was made the first of the week. While the small orchard south of town was considerably damaged by hail in the spring, the larger one west of town escaped, and a bumper crop will be harvested from it. Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, August 7, 1919 ERNEST M. POLLARD TO BE CANDIDATE FOR CONVENTION [front page] From Monday’s Daily. Petitions have appeared throughout the county asking that the name of Hon. Ernest M. POLLARD of Nehawka, be placed on the ballot as a candidate for member of the constitutional convention. Mr. Pollard is one of the best known men in eastern Nebraska as he has served two terms in congress from the First district, as well as having been one of the most active figures in the advancement of orcharding and farm- [article cut off].