Butler County NeArchives Biographies.....Aldrich, Sylvia Stroman 1870 - 
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Source: Nebraskana
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Sylvia Stroman Aldrich

Born at Wolcottville, Indiana, April 20, 1870, Sylvia Stroman Aldrich was the
daughter of pioneer settlers in Nebraska. Her parents homesteaded in Seward
County near Ulysses, in 1871, on the farm which Mrs. Aldrich still owns.

Mrs. Aldrich attended school in Ulysses. She has taken an active part in the
social and civic affairs of her community for many years, and has been
especially prominent in religious and welfare work. She is a member of the
Methodist Church, the Social Union of which she is president, the Eastern Star,
P. E. O., Women’s Relief Corps and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

She is vice president of the library board, is president of the Cemetery
Association, and member of Nebraskana Society. She is a regular visitor of the
sick and a devoted homemaker. On June 4, 1889, she was united m marriage to C.
H. Aldrich at Ulysses. Five sons were born to them, George Stroman; Chester
Hardy, Jr.; John Bower, Frederick Schuyler; and Charles Lee, who died in infancy.

Mr. Aldrich, supreme judge of Nebraska and one time its governor, was an
outstanding figure in middle-west politics and public affairs. He was born on a
farm near Pierpont, Ohio, November 10, 1862, the son of landowners in Ohio. Fie
was a teacher in the public schools for several years prior to his admission to
the bar in 1890. Beginning at David City, there he was identified with much
important litigation, including prominent criminal cases.

A Republican, Judge Aldrich served as mayor of David City, was a member of the
town board for eight years, and was connected with the school board almost
continuously. He was elected state senator in 1906, and in 1907 was instrumental
in enacting much beneficial legislation. He was the author of the bill reducing
rates, known as the Aldrich commodity freight law, and war; the author of the
railway commission law in 1907.

In 1910 Judge Aldrich was elected governor of Nebraska on the Republican ticket,
and in 1918 was elected associate judge of the state supreme court to fill the
unexpired term of Francis G. Hamer. Judge Aldrich was a close personal friend of
Theodore Roosevelt, whom he entertained in his home at Lincoln on various
occasions. He died at the home of his son at Superior, February 27, 1931.

Since Judge Aldrich’s death, Mrs. Aldrich has resided at Ulysses with her
mother, who is also a widow. Residence: Ulysses.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932

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