Here are a few photos of and about Perlingers. Let me know what photos should be added.

Paul II Perlinger, Anna Huss Perlinger and family.
This photo, taken circa 1915, is of Paul II Perlinger, born 1870 in Sankt Johann, Austria-Hungary, his wife,
Anna Huss (Husz) Perlinger, born 1870 in Wisilburga, Germany, and their nine children.
In front are Paul II Perlinger, Ellen Magdeline, and Anna Huss.
From left to right standing are John, Michael, George, Joseph John, Paul III, Anna Marie,
Mary Ann, and Elizabeth Ann. As of this writing (November 2003) Ellen Magdeline still survives. A recent photo
of the home this family lived in appears below.

This is perhaps the best known Perlinger photo. Paul II Perlinger and his sons in western Nebraska, sometime in the 1930's. Third from the right is Paul II Perlinger, born in 1870 in Sankt Johann, Moson megye, Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the United States in 1888, naturalized U.S. citizen in 1917. From left to right are his sons Joe, Mike, George (my grandfather), Paul III, and John. They are posed in front of an Oliver tractor.

Paul II Perlinger's grandsons in the armed forces of the United States. The ten men pictured are all sons of the sons of Paul II Perlinger pictured in the first photo above. From left to right they are (with father's name in parentheses) Bernard (John), Francis (George), Jim (John), Bill (Paul), Joe (Joe), Don (Joe), Bob (Joe), Paul "Bud" (Joe), Ray (Joe), Fred (John). This picture was taken in the late 1950's at the Paxton, Nebraska, American Legion. Several other descendants of Paul II Perlinger not shown here have also served in the U.S. armed forces.

Alois Rudolph Heller (left) and his first cousin Frederick "Fritz" Heller, in their WW2 Wehrmacht uniforms. Alois and Fritz were second cousins, once removed, of Paul's grandsons in uniform above. Neither Alois nor Fritz survived the war. Fritz died on the eastern front in Russia, his body never recovered. Alois was badly wounded in Russia and died in a hospital in Germany, where he is buried.

Alois Heller.

 My great-grandfather Paul II Perlinger is at the left in this photo that includes the well known Father Flanagan of Boy's Town.

 Paul II Perlinger's children at his funeral in 1958. The sons, from left to right are George, Joe, Mike, John, and Paul. In front are the daughters Ellen Magdaline, Elizabeth Ann (Liz), Mary Ann, and Anna Marie (Annie).

Paul II Perlinger, home, Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska. The house lies just off of Schram Road, at the bottom of the east side of a hill, at the top of which is the Schram home. My grandfather, George Perlinger, married Annie (Sis) Schram, and his sister, Annie Perlinger, married Louis Schram, their children then being "double cousins". Photographed October 2003.

Robert Schram home, Papillion, Sarpy County, NE. My grandmother, Annie Schram Perlinger, grew up in this house. It lies on Schram Road, and is up the hill from the Paul II Perlinger home shown above. The home is still in the Schram family, though much of the original acreage has been sold and is being developed into single family homes. This is apparently the second home at this site: the first burned down around 1900. Photographed October 2003.

Rollins Pass, January 2002

Pat Perlinger on sled by himself at the edge of the play area in the very center
of the photo, with Rollins Pass trestle behind and above him.
Do you wonder why we go sledding so often?
 

On the trail headed up toward the Rollins Pass trestle.

Sledding party contemplates the Rollins Pass trestle from below.

 Francis L. Perlinger
Farmer, Perkins County, Nebraska

My grandfather George Perlinger Sr.'s 1949 Cadillac, now owned by
Patrick Perlinger of Littleton, Colorado after a beautiful restoration.
In front of the historic Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver.

The '49 posed in front of the Manor House, Colorado foothills. This car won 3^rd prize at the 2001 Cadillac-LaSalle Grand National in Denver, Colorado.

Nebraska Winter Wheat

Here's what good, Perlinger-grown, Nebraska hard red winter wheat looks like when it's ready to be cut. This photo is of a field in Keith County, Nebraska, southwest of Paxton, just as we were about to start harvesting it.

Francis Perlinger cutting wheat

Francis Perlinger operating the John Deere 9600 combine with a 24 foot head. This is the same field as pictured above, as we started to cut. View is looking to the northeast, you can just make out the sandhills on the horizon.

Wheat harvesting rigs

Pictured is Mike Perlinger's John Deere 4850 tractor with the grain cart. Behind it is George Perlinger Jr.'s semi that we were using to haul grain to the elevator. After I filled the grain cart with wheat from the combine, I would pull alongside the semi and auger the wheat into it. The grain cart holds nearly 700 bushels of wheat, and the semi trailer can hold about 1200 bushels. With radios, stereos, and air-conditioning in the cabs, this equipment is a lot easier to live with than what I remembered from 30 years ago. Photo taken in the corner of the same field pictured in the previous two photos.

Pulling the grain cart

That's me climbing into the John Deere 4850. You can get some sense for the size of the equipment.
The grain cart can hold 42,000 pounds of grain. Photo taken on George Perlinger Jr.'s farm just west of the house.

Mike and George Perlinger on the "school section", wheat harvest, July 2001

Sunflower Harvest, October 2002. Francis Perlinger is dumping sunflower seeds onto his son Mike's semi. You might be able to make out "Perlinger Farms" on the door of the tractor.

Here are some of Francis' cattle, or "money on the hoof" just south of the house. They're all looking at me wondering what kind of idiot is making the mooing sounds. I think that big one that hasn't bothered to get up is a bull. I may have eaten parts of one or more of these animals.

Nebraska Gothic

Francis Perlinger and family proudly pose in front of his first Versatile tractor, a model 145 with a Cummins V-8 diesel. I remember driving this large and powerful machine as a teenager. Francis has owned four other Versatile tractors, and continues to operate his fifth. If you don't understand the title for this photo check this out.

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