06/15/2026
Pictured in this circa 1895 Leschinsky cabinet card are four bicyclists: Dan H. Fishburn (seated left), Harry W. Culbertson (seated right), Arthur R. Weeter, and George H. Clendenin. All four were avid bicyclists in Grand Island, belonged to one or more local bicycle clubs, and participated in numerous local bicycle races. Three are dressed in dark shirts and knee-length shorts. The gentleman seated on the floor has the letters “P C C” affixed to his shirt, most likely representing the “Pukwana Cycle Club,” the name adopted by the Grand Island Bicycle Club on August 13, 1894 (Grand Island Independent, August 14, 1894, p. 4).
Daniel H. Fishburn was born in Pennsylvania in 1870. His family was living in Hall County by the summer of 1886, when his mother died at Alda. Fishburn belonged to many clubs in Grand Island. He married Maude Williams in Grand Island in 1898. He taught school and served as County Superintendent of Schools. In 1907, he became a partner in the Paine-Fishburn Granite Company, but sold his interest in the business in 1925. He later became field secretary for the Grand Island Business College. During World War II, he worked for a time at the Cornhusker Ammunition Plant before retiring to oversee his farming interests. His wife Maude died in 1914, and he later married Agatha Tooher in 1920. He died in July 1958.
Harry W. Culbertson was born in Indiana in 1876, and his family later moved to Grand Island. By 1900, he was working as a bookkeeper. He married Maud Gray in June 1905 at Summit, Utah. Over the years, he worked in the lumber industry in Nevada, served as a motorman for a street railway in Salt Lake City, returned to the lumber industry in Utah, and by 1950 was manager of a wholesale lumber company. He died in Salt Lake City in April 1951. Maud died in 1971.
Arthur R. Weeter was born in Pennsylvania in 1877. He moved with his parents to Grand Island, where he attended school before later continuing his education in Fremont. He then moved to Park City, Utah, to work as a bookkeeper for a mercantile business and would later manage a lumber company there. He married Mattie Lambert in Salt Lake City in 1900, though the couple later divorced. Along with his uncle, he managed Weeter Lumber in Park City. In 1923, Weeter moved to Humboldt County, Nevada, where he worked in mining before relocating to Jumbo, Nevada, where he operated a general store and post office. Arthur Weeter died in April 1952. Mrs. Weeter died in California in February 1959.
George Herbert Clendenin was born in Mills County, Iowa, in 1875 and lived in the Grand Island area from the mid-1880s through the 1890s. In 1896, he married Maude Miller at Elba, Nebraska. By 1900, he was working as a telephone manager in Otoe County. He had moved to Colorado by 1910 and became involved in the coal industry. Maude died in Denver in 1956, and George died there in 1966.
