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Aaaah, that’s now kind’a rings a bell… kind’a remembering it from a tour of the place about 15 years ago.  I guess the thing that kicked me - even my parents didn’t now, what that the elder was the Morton Salt guy… and they had lived in Nebraska their whole life ;p … or maybe I’m forgetting that part also xD …..

Still, it’s a very beautiful place :) .  If any of you travel through “fly over” country, Arbor Lodge would for sure be one of the many wonderful places to take a journey off and I-80 and see ^_^ ~


> On Apr 4, 2021, at 7:41 am, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, E. wrote:
>> 
>> Didn’t know about Morton Sterling and Teletype - heck ;o !  The father of Arbor Day - his mansion is just down he highway by one hour at Arbor Lodge in Nebraska City.  Next time I go down there and they have it open for tours (post pandemic), I’m going to be on the lookout for Teletypes ;D ~
>> 
> That's Sterling Morton "the elder" who was father of Arbor Day.  Sterling
> Morton "the younger" was his grandson and the president of Teletype.
> 
> There's a book "Man of Salt and Trees" a biography of Joy Morton, the
> son of Sterling the elder and father of Sterling the younger.  Author
> James Ballowe.  Tells about Sterling the elder relocating to Nebraska
> City hoping it would grow big (but in fact it was Omaha that grew big).
> 
> Joy Morton headed the salt company, and his brother headed Western
> Cold Storage.  You could say the family was hedging its bets - salt
> was big for preserving pork, and refrigeration for preserving beef.
> Charles Krum was an engineer for Western Cold Storage who evaluated
> Frank Pearne's proposal for a printing telegraph system and recommended
> to Joy that he should back it.  Then Charles' son Howard was educated
> as an engineer and pulled into the company, then called Morkrum for
> Morton and Krum.  Howard invented the start-stop synchronization scheme
> that made printing telegraphy practical for many applications outside
> the high-message-volume telegraph industry.