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early part of the session to see the many fair, feminine, pleading applicants who beset him, in and out of season, for clerical positions. It was a trying ordeal, and he should be pensioned for life. His politics are Republican. His district, the twenty-third, includes Jefferson and Thayer counties.
HON. HENRY SPRICK, Fontenelle, Washington county, is a native of Prussia, Germany, born in March, 1826. He attended the schools common to that country, and in 1853 came to America. For about two years he resided near Quincy, Ill., and in the fall of 1855, with a colony of Americans from that place, located land where he now resides. That was when the country west of the Missouri river was termed the "Great American Desert." To say Senator Sprick has prospered in this new country, would be putting it mildly. He has steadily pushed his farming interests and is one of the representative agriculturists of the state. His lands embrace an area of several thousand acres, the greater portion of which is under a fine state of cultivation. His faith in Nebraska's growing wealth encouraged him to invest his surplus means in her choice lands, and he can count his acres by the thousand. He was a member of the House in 1873-77-81, and republican presidential elector in 1884. Senator Sprick is a man of unimpeachable integrity, a prudent and conscientious legislator, and one of the sterling men of the state. His district is the eighth, and embraces Washington and Burt counties.

HON. J. H. STERLING, Exeter, Fillmore county, was born in Michigan, Dec. 10, 1855. He resided there until 22 years of age, attended the University at Ann Arbor, read law in the office of E. N. Fitch, of that state, and in 1867 was admitted to the bar. He has since steadily adhered to his profession. In the spring of 1878, he settled

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where he now resides. He was a member of the House in 1885, and comes up here after a warm campaign and a peculiar combination of political elements to overcome. His Democratic opponent, F. D. Sturdevant, was a strong and popular man, and that fact, together with the prohibition issue, and the anti-Van Wyck Republican influence to overcome, made the fight a triangular affair of more than ordinary interest. He pulled through, however, and to his friends he accords the honor. Mr. Sterling will not betray his trust.
HON. BRUNO TZSCHUCK, Omaha, was born in Alsleben, Prussia, February 17, 1827. He is a graduate of the celebrated Eisleben College, the most famous institution of learning in Germany. It was founded by Martin Luther about 350 years ago. After his graduation in 1845, Mr. Tzschuck held a commission in the German army until March, 1851, when he resigned and came to the United States. He was in several hard-fought battles while serving in the old country, and was severely wounded on three different occasions, being shot through the shoulder, in the side, and had a portion of one of his ankles shot away. This was in the war between Germany and Denmark, 1848-51. In 1852 Mr. Tzschuck made his way to the Missouri river and stopped at Trader's Point, or Council Bluffs, which was located some distance below the present city of Council Bluffs. The latter place was then called Kanesville. Here he entered the service of the American Fur Company, at the head of which was Peter A. Sarpy, whose name has been handed down to a thrifty Nebraska county. In 1854 all this Kansas and Nebraska country was purchased from the Indians, and immediately following Mr. Tzschuck pitched his tent on this side of the river, took up land, built a house, which still marks the spot, and began life in the

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wilderness. The ever aggressive Missouri encroached upon his domain and crumbled away the best half of his broad acres. The Big Muddy took them in. This was just a mile below where Bellevue now stands. In 1861-62 he served on the staff of Gen. Fremont, and subsequently on the staff of Gen. Halleck, in our domestic trouble. For twenty-one years he kept aloof from politics, but in 1873 he was elected float Senator for the counties of Douglas, Dodge, Sarpy, Washington, and Cass, having been nominated without his knowledge, and his county was not even represented in the convention. In 1874, he was elected Secretary of State, re-elected in 1876, thus serving two consecutive terms. While in that capacity much of the time he was acting governor, as under the old constitution there was no lieut. governor, and he was also adjutant general. In 1880 he settled in Omaha, was appointed supervisor of the census for the northern district of Nebraska, and in 1882 Consul to Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he served until December, 1885, the climate in the meantime having made such inroads upon his health he was compelled to resign and come home. Last fall he was put forward for his present position, and as usual comes up to his old stamping ground after a warm campaign, with a safe majority in his hat. He espoused the cause of the Republican party at its birth in 1856, and is still a Republican. Mr. Tzschuck is as straight as an arrow, six feet in height, well preserved, very dignified, and he has experienced more hard knocks than a shipwrecked sailor. At his home he is surrounded by a pleasant family of grown-up sons and daughters, and he now dandles his grandchildren on his knee. He is a highly educated man, comes of a representative family, and is one of the most honorable and popular men in the state.
HON. JAMES KNOX VAN DEMARK, Valparaiso, Saunders county, was born near Columbus, in Fairfield county,

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Ohio, May 11, 1833. He attended the common school in his native place and took a three years' college course in Cincinnati. In 1864 he settled in Cass county, Ill., and engaged in engineering and surveying. While there he was sheriff of the county, superintendent of schools, published a newspaper, and was justice of the peace. In the mean time he studied law in the office of M. A. Carter, and in 1863 was admitted. His literary tastes led him into the field of the classics, and he read Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton, and the works of other Greek and Latin poets. He is now translating Virgil in eight syllables, instead of ten, as translated by Dryden. He is a member of the New York Historical Society, and has published an epic entitled "Troubles of America," that has attracted considerable attention. He was in attendance at the Charleston Convention, where the Southern Confederacy had its birth, and declares that Ben Butler was there and cast his vote for Jeff Davis. At one time he was a prominent candidate before the convention for member of Congress for the then eighth district of Illinois. When the war broke out he took a prominent part in the Peace Congress, and was an intimate friend of Stephen A. Douglas. Under Andrew Johnson's administration he was judge of a parish court in Alabalma (sic). In 1871 he came to Nebraska, and took a homestead near Valparaiso, which he still owns. He is a perpendicular Democrat, and made his race last fall against a Van Wyck Republican, beating him by hard work in a red-hot campaign. Senator Van Demark is a recognized Democratic leader, and a lawyer and politician of more than local repute. In the hard-fought senatorial contest recently ended he was one of the true blue Democrats who did not vote for Van Wyck.
HON. S. N. WOLBACH Grand Island, Hall county, was born in New York City, Nov. 18, 1851. He was edu-

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cated at the public schools of that city, and graduated from a business college there. In 1871 he came to Chicago, and was in business in that city until 1874, when he came to Nebraska, located in Grand Island, and has followed merchandising and banking. Although a young man he has been eminently successful in a business capacity. He is president of the First National Bank of that city, and one among the most active and enterprising men of Hall county. He was a member of the House the session of 1885, elected on the Democratic ticket by a majority of 385, from a Republican district. His majority for his present position was 880, reducing the heretofore Republican majority of 500 in Hamilton county down to 62. His senatorial district-the twenty-fifth - includes Hall and Hamilton counties. Mr. Wolbach may be termed a liberal Democrat, and is in the Senate to represent his entire district to the best of his ability regardless of party fealty. He is an active member, and his district is to be congratulated on being so faithfully and ably represented in this body.
HON. CALVIN J. WRIGHT, Seward, Seward county, was born on the Western Reserve, Ohio, August 26, 1834. He resided there until he was 20 years of age, attended the district schools, the high school three terms, taught a number of terms, and in the spring of 1855 came to Winterset, Iowa, and engaged in farming. In 1869 he went to Indiana, farmed, was a photographer, in the milling business, and the lumber trade. He came to Nebraska in the fall of 1879, and located five and a half miles north of Seward, where he now owns a section of land, and has a fine farm well stocked with several hundred cattle and hogs. His land is all improved; fences, fields, grains, grasses, orchards, fruits and flowers, good buildings, peace and plenty abound. He is feeding over 100 head of fine cattle at the

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present time, and is one of the prominent stockmen of the state. Senator Wright was elected on the Democratic ticket, although he comes from a Republican district, and of course captured votes of that complexion. His district is the seventeenth, Seward county.

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HON. HIBBARD H. SHEDD, Lieutenant Governor, and ex-officio President of the Senate, was born in Denmark, Lee county, Iowa, January 27, 1847. His father was a prominent physician, and of more than ordinary social and political influence in the state. His co-laborers and political asssociates (sic) in the cause of abolitionism, which he had espoused in the dark days of the Republic, were Judge McCrary, ex-Senator Saunders, Grimes, Gere, and others. Governor Shedd attended the schools of his native state until 16 years of age, when he joined the army and served through the war. He subsequently taught school, and graduated from the Denmark Academy. In the fall of 1871 he came to Nebraska and located in Ashland, Saunders county. He has there followed merchandising, farming, and has been prominently identified with many of the leading interests of the town and state. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1875, speaker of the House in 1881, and is now serving his second successive term as Lieutenant Governor. Governor Shedd has become a prominent figure in state politics. As the presiding officer of the Senate he dispatches business rapidly and is a ready parliamentarian.

WALT. M. SEELEY, Secretary of the Senate, is a native of Rockford, Ill., born July 4, 1848. In 1851 his parents settled in West Union, Fayette county, Iowa. He there attended the district school, and at 12 years of age went into a printing office to learn the art. Up to 1870 he was

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a printer, and that year located in Palmyra, Nebraska, where he resided up to 1874. In 1875 he was assistant sergeant-at-arms of the House, clerk of the penitentiary, investigating committee, and assistant secretary of the Senate the sessions of 1877-79. For a number of years he taught school, and the session of 1881 was clerk of the committee of the whole, and for years has filled important clerical positions. He was assistant secretary of the Senate the Sessions of 1883-85. He is a quick and accurate scribe, a ready and distinct reader, and is one of the best secretaries ever honored with a corresponding position.
V. C. SHICKLEY, Geneva, first assistant secretary, was born in Green county, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1864, and is therefore but 24 years of age. He with his parents came to Nebraska in the fall of 1876, and settled in Fillmore county. His father has been county judge there for a number of years, and the son has filled the office a portion of the time, caused by the sickness of the regular incumbent, and his final resignation. Mr. Shickley is president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Shickley, Fillmore county, and manager of the Farmers Loan & Trust Co., of Geneva. In addition he is the senior member of the firm of Shickley & Woodruff, of Strang. He has held positions in this body the sessions of 1883-85, and for a young man is making commendable progress. He is a self-made boy, and has the ring of the true metal.

E. O. LEWES, second assistant secretary, was born in McHenry county, Ill., March 2, 1861. In 1863 his parents settled in Jasper county, Iowa; remained there six years, then removed to Nebraska and located in Richardson county, where the subject of this sketch still resides. In the fall of 1877 he entered the high school in Falls City, from which he graduated in the spring of 1880.

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The fall of 1880 he entered the State University at Lincoln, and in June, 1884 graduated in civil engineering. The summer of 1883 he was in the employ of the B. & M. engineers on location. In November, 1883, he was married in Lincoln to Miss Eva E. Miller, of that city. He was second assistant secretary of the Senate the session of 1885, and the following September was elected principal of the public schools of Verdon. In the fall of 1886 he was elected principal of the public schools of Rule, and was elected to his present position Jan. 4, 1887. He is a competent secretary, and a well educated young man.
   MRS. NELLIE DEPUE, enrolling clerk, was born in Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio, and was educated in the high school of her native town. She is the daughter of a prominent attorney of that place, Orrin Webster. Her husband, Scott DePue, was drowned while bathing in a lake near Mansfield, about twelve years ago, and she has one daughter. Soon after her husband's death she came to Nebraska and located in Lincoln, where she has since resided. She is an efficient clerk, and follows that business as an occupation. Mrs. DePue is well qualified for this responsible position, and is doing her work admirably.

   MISS ADA P. OLMSTEAD, engrossing clerk, was born in Utica, New York, March 4, 1856. She came to Nebraska in 1870, and resided in Seward county. More recently she has been living in Harlan county, and has been in attendance at the State University at Lincoln. She is an enterprising lady, and is well qualified to take care of herself. Miss Olmstead is a dressmaker by trade. She is highly competent for this position, and is a quick and accurate clerk.

   JOE EASTERDAY, clerk of the committee of the whole, was born in Nokomis, Ill., Nov. 10, 1862. His parents
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came to Nebraska in 1870, and located at Tecumseh. He attended the State University at Lincoln a portion of the time for three years, and in the fall of 1883 went up to McCook and homesteaded near there. He has since been in the real estate and land law business there. Mr. Easterday is a competent clerk, a good Republican, and has filled important clerical positions. He resides in McCook, Red Willow county.
ROBERT HOLLINGWORTH, clerk of the committee on enrolled and engrossed bills, is a native of England, born in Melbourn, Derbyshire, January 26, 1829. When but 16 years of age he went to sea on board an American merchant man, and was eight years before the mast. At the age of 24 he settled in Massachusetts, and was shortly after married. At the breaking out of the war he went into the navy, on board the Susquehanna, of the North Atlantic Squadron. One year in that capacity and he was transferred to the Brandywine, and was with her until she burned, September, 1864. In 1865 he was clerk of the bureau of civil engineers at the Portsmouth navy yard. He subsequently had to resign his position by reason of rheumatism contracted while in the service of the government. For two years he was an invalid. In 1867 he was appointed by the postmaster of Boston, General Burt, letter carrier, and held that position four years. June 6, 1871, he arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska, and immediately went down into Nuckolls county and homesteaded, and his home is there still. He held a clerical position in the Senate the session of 1875. The session of 1877 he was clerk of the committee on enrolled and engrossed bills, and has held that position each session since. At Nelson, Nuckolls county, where he resides, he has held the position of deputy county clerk for the last three years. Mr. Hollingworth

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is a veteran pen-wielder, and as long as he can spread ink he will fill some position.
F. W. HOLLINGWORTH, clerk of the committee printing, was born in Massachusetts February 12,1854. When 17 years of age he came to Nebraska, was two years in Wyoming, and two years in the Black Hills, and this office the session of 1885. He is a carpenter and millwright by trade and resides at Davenport, Thayer county.

CAPTAIN W. H. RIGGS, clerk of the committee on municipal affairs, was born in Marshall county, W. Va., July 24, 1843. He was educated in Marshall Academy, and lived in his native place until August, 1862, when he enlisted, a private in the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry. He was soon after commissioned by the governor first lieutenant. In 1864, for important service in front of Richmond, he was promoted to a captaincy by the President of the United States, and commanded a company of sharpshooters during the last six months of the war. He was in many of the hard-fought battles of Virginia under Sheridan, and was three times severely wounded. He was in command of the company that fired the last shot at Lee's army just before its surrender at Appomatox Court House, April 9, 1865. He was soon after mustered out, returned home, farmed two years, and was then appointed warden of the state penitentiary, which position he subsequently resigned, then removed to Berkley county and resumed farming. This he followed up to 1873, when he was appointed railway postal clerk, and field the position for eight years, resigning by reason of ill health. He was shortly after appointed internal revenue storekeeper, and held the office until the Cleveland administration, when he was removed for his partisanism, being the first government officer ousted by President Cleveland in the state. He

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was chairman of the county Republican committee there in 1884-85, and in a town of 8,000 people was the only Grant man in the place in 1884. February, 1886, he removed to Omaha, Neb., where he now resides. Captain Riggs has been a very active and prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, having held the offices of Past Master of Robert White Lodge 67, A. F. & A. M.; Past High Priest of Lebanon R. A. Chapter No. 2, and Past Eminent Commander of Palestine Commandery No. 2; Past Grand Commander K. T., of West Virginia; Past Grand Secretary and Past Grand King of the Grand Chapter R. A. M., of West Virginia. He is also Past Junior Vice-Com of the G. A. R., of West Virginia. Captain Riggs is a man of ability, and one of the most loyal Republicans in the ranks of that great party.
PAUL FENIMORE CLARK, docket clerk, was born at Green Lake, Wisconsin, July 14, 1861. April, 1880, he came to Platte county, Neb. The fall of 1882 he entered the State University, class of 1887, and has been in attendance the regular terms since. May, 1884, he was a delegate to the Republican State Convention, and held a position in the State Senate the session of 1885. At present he is a student in the University, and is preparing himself for the law. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Greek Letter Society of the University, and his home is Woodville, Platte county, Neb. He is an ambitious young man, and is making his way to the front.

ANDY L. WIGGINS, bill clerk, was born in Indiana county, Pa., May 6, 1847. He lived in his native place until 1862, attended the Jacksonville Academy, and in the fall of 1862 went into the army, enlisting in Co. G, Second Pa. He served thirty-three months, and December 26, 1864, was wounded at Spring Hill, on the New Market

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road. He was all through that campaign, and in many of the hard fights. In 1866 he was mustered out at Fortress Monroe, returned home, and in 1867 came to Nebraska, then went into Iowa and remained there until 1881, when he located in Omaha. He was sergeant-at arms of the House the session of 1885, and by occupation is a carpenter and builder.
DON L. CLARK, clerk of the committee on privileges and elections, of which Senator Meiklejohn is chairman, was born in Winfield, Hancock county, N. Y. He was educated at Pulaski Academy, Whitestown Seminary, and after his arrival in Nebraska, the State University at Lincoln. He came to the State in 1880, and has held positions in the Senate for three terms. He is a well educated gentleman, a competent clerk, and is one of the rising young men of the state.

REV. J. G. TATE, chaplain, is a native of Bilston, Staffordshire, England, born Dec. 29, 1850. He attended the common schools of his native country until he was 16 years of age, when he went into a private boarding shcool (sic), and there continued two years under the instruction of the Rev. Geo. Southern, a Wesleyan minister. Then followed one year under the instruction of Rev. J. H. Boyden, and one year under the Rev. J. C. Harris. He was then admitted to the ministry of the church under whose care he had been trained. He was married Nov. 6, 1872, in England. His first charge was Whitehaven Circuit, Cumberland, England. At the close of his first year he was invited to a church in York State, United States, and entered upon his duties there in the fall of 1873. He spent seven years preaching in that state, and then returned to England to visit relatives and friends. That pleasant event lasted one year, and then he returned to the United States. In the

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fall of 1882 he came to Nebraska and located in Shelton, Buffalo county, where he now resides. There he has built up a strong church following, and they have erected a suitable edifice, and furnished it in a becoming manner. Rev. Tate feels that it is a minister's duty to look after the people's political welfare as well as their spiritual, and he has therefore done some good work in the campaign. June 8, 1886, he was unanimously elected Grand Master Workman of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, which office he still holds. In December, 1886, he was elected president of the Northern Relief Association, and was elected chaplain of the Senate without opposition. He is a busy man at all times, and in addition to his official duties he is frequently called to different parts of the state to address public assemblages from the lecture platform.
W. D. WILDMAN, sergeant-at-arms, was born in Galveston, Texas, Sept. 1, 1841. In Feb., 1850 he settled in northern Indiana, and from there he went into the army, enlisting in the Twelfth Ind. on the 19th of April, 1861. After one year in the service, the company was made Gen. Logan's headquarters guard. In Aug., 1862, he went into the Eighty-eighth Ind. as first Lieut., and on March 4, 1864, was promoted to a captaincy. He was in a score of hard-fought battles, was several times wounded, and was in the hottest and thickest of it for over four years. June 7, 1865, he was mustered out, and went into a wholesale hat store in Chicago. In Sept., 1868, he came to Nebraska, stopped in Sarpy county, and was there married. In 1870 he was in Cass county, and in 1873 removed to the upper Republican valley, where he has since resided. He was sergeant-at-arms of the Senate the session of 1873. His business is dealing in stock and similar work. He resides in Culbertson, Hitchcock county.

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   HERMAN WESTOVER, assistant Sergeant-at-arms, is a native of Ontario, born Feb. 27, 1848. 16 1862 he came west, and was about one year in Wisconsin, and in the fall of 1863 removed to Minnesota. He attended the State Normal School at Mankato, Minn., studied law. and was admitted to practice in 1877, after his arrival in this state. He settled in Ord, Valley county, in 1876, and the following year began the practice of law, which profession he still follows. Politics Republican.
   PERRY WALKER, Odell, Gage county, post-master of this body, is a native of Somerset county, Pa., born January 23, 1817. That makes him 70 years old, Jan. 23, 1887. He is a hale, well-preserved old gentleman, a Pennsylvania German, of the real old stock. He lived out there on his native heath until he was 45 years old, farmed, was sheriff of his county, and grew up a broad-shouldered farmer. In 1863 he came west and located in Dixon, Ill., was city marshal there, and owned and carried on a farm a short distance out of Dixon. In October, 1877 he came to Nebraska, settled in Odell, and carried on a farm until he sold out, 1880, to the Lincoln Land Company. He was appointed post-master of Odell when Postmaster General Howe held the portfolio, and held the office until Cleveland came in, when he resigned. He has since been taking the world serenely, and has money enough to make the yoke easy and the burden light the remainder of the journey. A wife and one son constitute his family. Mr. Walker weighs 250 pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches in height.

   JAMES IRELAND, assistant post-master, Fairbury, Jefferson county, is a native of Scotland, born January 1, 1837. He was but 5 years of age when his parents came to the United States, and settled in Pennsylvania, near Pottsville. They remained there about two years, and then moved into

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Maryland, and from there to near Pittsburg, Pa. About a year there and they removed to La Salle county, Ill., and there remained about twenty-five years. Mr. Ireland had the advantages of the common schools, and in 1869 he came to Nebraska and took a homestead, upon which he still resides. He follows farming and stock raising, and is getting on in the world. Several local offices have fallen to his lot, and he is a charter member of the A. F. & A. M., and of Russell Post 77.
HERMAN WENDELL, mail carrier, is a native of Hanover, Germany, born March 13, 1854. He attended the schools common to that country until 15 years of age, when he immigrated to the United States and settled in Nebraska. He at first worked on a farm, then attended the English school at Peru, and has since been teaching in English and German. He is now studying law in the office of Francis Fee, and will soon make the law his profession. He is a close student, and is determined to rise in the world. Mr. Wendell resides in Talmage, Otoe county.

J. W. BRUSH, doorkeeper, was born in Fairfax, Franklin county, Vermont, February 11, 1821. His home was there until 20 years of age. For three years he attended St. Albans Seminary, then went to Lowell, Mass., in the employ of the Middlesex Corporation. In 1841 he came to Indiana and put up woolen machinery. He next came to Nebraska with Colonel Scott, from the Wabash, with a lot of Pawnee Indians that were located out here at Pawnee Town on a reservation. He then went back to Vermont, and was three years in a factory again. He was in the Mexican war in 1846, '47, '48; returned home, and in 1850 went overland to California; returned June, 1854, via the Isthmus. That fall became west again, and stopped in Lee county, Iowa. In 1861 he enlisted as chief musi-

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cian in the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, and was in all the hard fights until the regiment was captured at Pittsburg Landing. Fifteen of them, he among the number, made their escape. He was soon after mustered out by reason of expiration of term, and was immediately mustered into the veteran service and sent home on a recruiting expedition, filling up the Twenty-fifth Iowa. He was made second lieutenant in that regiment, and at once went to the lower Mississippi river country; took part in all the hard campaigns and battles down there, and was mustered out January 14, 1864, by reason of wounds and other disabilities. April, 1865, he came to Nebraska and located on a farm five miles from Brownville, where he now resides. He draws a modest pension, and has held positions in the State Senate two or three times before. Mr. Brush is 66 years old, weighs 250 pounds, and stands five feet ten inches with his boots off.
F. M. SAUNDERS, first assistant doorkeeper, was born in Chatauqua county, New York. In 1864 he went to Crawford county, Pa., and was there employed for five years on the A. & G. W. R. R. From there he proceeded to Venango county, Pa., went into the oil regions; engaged in operating and the hotel business. His next move was to Michigan, in 1871. He there worked on a railroad. In 1879 he removed to Nebraska, and has since continued to reside in the state. He is located at Minden, Kearney county, and is a dealer in agricultural implements and machinery.

M. V. HARBOR, custodian of the Senate Chamber, is a native of Mercer county, Kentucky, born January 29, 1833. He lived there until 18 years of age, when he moved to Illinois, 1851. When the war broke out he enlisted in Co. K as sergeant, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ill. He was in all the hard fights of the western army, was several

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times wounded, and suffered untold hardships; served three years, and his wounds and other disabilities have incapacitated him to do hard physical labor. In 1879 he came to Nebraska and located in Lincoln. He was a member of Dr. Stevenson's Post, the first G. A. R. organization in the United States. By occupation he has been a contractor and builder.
J. R. SIMPSON, janitor of the Senate, resides in Omaha. He was born a slave, in Guilford county, North Carolina, March 6, 1851. When he was 12 years of age he was a servant to a rebel officer in Saulsbury prison. After the capture of the prison by the federal forces he was for a time with the Twelfth Ohio Cav., from March, 1865, to October, the same year. He subsequently drifted out to Ft Laramie with Col. Green's U. S. Cav. In 1869 he brought up in Omaha, and has since made that place his home. In 1885 he held a position in the State Senate, and at home is quite a politician. His influence among the colored voters of his place of residence is not to be ignored in a political campaign. It is needless to say Mr. Simpson is a Republican. He is a popular and efficient janitor, active and intelligent.

WINSTON EBERSON, assistant janitor, was born in Masfield, Ohio, August 1, 1851. In 1876 he settled in Bloomfield, Iowa, remained until 1883, their went from there to Centreville, to Washington, Des Moines, Oskaloosa, thence to Beloit, Kan., and from there to Hastings, Nebraska, where he remained over two years, and then settled in Grand Island. He will take a position as Pullman car porter after the adjournment of the Legislature, on the Union Pacific Railroad, having been recommended for the position by Lieutenant-Governor Shedd, of this state, and the Hon. F. M. Drake, of Iowa. By occupation he is a barber, and resides at Grand Island.