Mr. Benninghoven was born on the estate of his parents at Hainhausen, near Eberfeld, Rhenish Prussia, on June 13, 1836, and after attending several colleges, became manager of the extended estate and business of his father. He married Miss Henrietta Krieger, then rented an estate at Unterbach, near Dusseldorf, to which he moved with his family. He was appointed mayor of that town by the government, took an active part in the "Kultur Kampf" against the Catholic church, which was then seeking to take control of state affairs. He was elected president of four farmers' unions at the same time and was always considered a leader in politics as well as agriculture. After prospering for more than a dozen years in farming and dairying, the war with France broke out, and his wife seeing the ravages of war, induced him to emigrate to the United States, since the mother did not like to see her eight sons become soldiers. Although Emperor William I stood sponsor to her eighth son, and the whole city council in Bremen called on her before sailing, trying to induce her to remain in Germany, offering to guarantee her children superior positions. They landed on January 21, 1877 in New York, going direct to Seward, Nebraska, where they located on a farm. He became editor of the agricultural department of the Illinois State Zeitung of Chicago, and moved to Powers Lake, Wisconsin, some years later, to manage and improve a dairy farm in company with Mr. Anton Hesing, proprietor of the Staats Zeitung. After the farm had been changed into a beautiful summer resort and Mr. Hesing had died, Mr. Benninghoven severed his connections with the Staats Zeitung and removed his family to St. Louis, where he became commercial editor of the Westliche Post, which position he held when he decided to spend the last years of his life on his farm one mile west of Seward. He had been there but a few weeks when grip and pneumonia ovetook him to end his eventful,upright life.

Funeral services will be held at the Evangelical church tomorrow at 2 p.m., conducted in both English and German, by Rev. K. Schneider and Rev. T. L. Sexton, D. D. It is hoped all of the family will be present, though some come from long distance.

Seward Weekly Reporter, Seward, NE, Thurs, January 19, 1899