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then came west and was three years in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In 1872 he located in Otoe county, Nebraska, on a farm. For the past five years he has been doing a general merchandise business where he now resides. He has been a Democrat all his days, and was elected on that ticket in a Republican district. His opponent was the Hon. L. A. Varner, who represented the district the session before.
HON. JAMES EWING, Wood river, Hall county, is. a native of Alleghany county, New York, born July 7, 1850. Until he was 16 years of age he was raised on a farm, atended (sic) the common schools, and with parents settled in Cedar county, Iowa, about 1866. He there attended school, worked on a farm, taught school, and in 1871 removed to Nebraska and settled in Hall county. He continued teaching up to 1877, and that year was elected County Superintendent of Public Instruction, which position he acceptably filled for the period of four years. He subsequently went into the newspaper business, and at the present time is publisher of the Wood River Gazette. Mr. Ewing is well qualified to fill any position within the gift of his friends. He comes here a Republican, and he will not dishonor the name and fame of the great party.

HON. WM. FENTON, Dawson, Richardson county, is a native of the county of Limerick, Ireland, born May 25, 1846. In 1854 his parents immigrated to the United States and settled in Connecticut. There the son remained until he was 21 years of age, when he concluded to come west, and in 1867 he landed in Omaha, Neb. There he worked for Mr. Murphy on the gas works, was married in that city in 1873, and he remained there about ten years. At the end of that time he pulled up and went down to Richardson county on a farm, which pursuit he has since followed. In his farming operations he has done well.

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Although an Irishman, he supports the Republican ticket, and was a Blaine and Logan man when they were on the track.
   HON. GEO. W. FOX, Cozad, Dawson county, is a native of Licking county, Ohio, born July 6, 1850. His parents settled in Henderson county, Ill., when he was but 2 years old. About twelve years they remained at that place, and then removed to McDonough county, that state. Mr. Fox studied law in Illinois, and was admitted in 1877. May 10, 1885, he located in Cozad, and subsequently hung out his shingle on the one hundredth meridian. Cozad, it will be seen, is strung upon that line. Mr. Fox had only been in the state eighteen months when he was elected to the Legislature. He is starting in early, because he did not have to wait to be naturalized, and he comes of good political stock. His antecedents are unquestionable, and he stands square on the Republican platform.

   HON. M. F. FRANTZ, Friend, Saline county, was born in Seneca county, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1848. He was raised a farmer, instructed in the common schools, and resided there until 1883, when he immigrated to Nebraska and located at Friend. His business is buying and handling corn. He owns a section of land in the county and has the most of it under cultivation. Mr. Frantz was elected on the Democratic ticket, is serving his first term as a member of the Legislature, and is doing good work for his constituents and the state. He was one of the nine in the House who stood on deck when all the others had fled. His Democracy is unalloyed.

   HON. JOHN W. FUCHS, Platte Centre, Platte county, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, April 23, 1855. He was educated in a theological institute, and finished his course at a teachers' institute near Milwaukee, Wis., from

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which he graduated in 1874, and came to Nebraska in 1879. Since he settled in the state he has taught school five years continuously in one place. He was elected to this position on the Democratic ticket as float member from Platte and Colfax counties. Platte is a Democratic county, Colfax Republican, and between the two he had a close shave, but ran the gauntlet and came out 200 ahead.
HON. JOHN N. FULLER, Beatrice, Gage county, is a native of Paris, Oxford county, Maine, born February 22, 1831. He graduated from Hebron Academy, and subsequently from Bowdoin College, of that state. By appointment by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he was instructor in the State Teachers' Institutes for some time. He was principal of the Lewiston Falls Academy, and for several years principal of the city schools. He has been county superintendent of schools, and held the position of professor of natural sciences in Marshall College, Ill. Under President Lincoln's first call for troops he enlisted in the Eleventh Ill. Infantry, and served his time out. In 1870 he came to Nebraska, and located in Gage county on a farm, and now follows farming as a business. He was elected to this office on the Republican ticket by 818 plurality. Mr. Fuller is a well educated man. About all his manhood days he has held some educational or political position, either of a local or general character, and in his present legislative capacity he is active and influential.

HON. CHARLES C. GAFFORD, Wymore, Gage county, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, April 22, 1859. His parents moved to Hiawatha, Kansas, when he was very young, and there he was raised. He early applied himself to the study of medicine, and graduated from the Keokuk, Iowa, medical college, and attended the New York

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Polyclynic. He then came to Nebraska, and located in Wymore, in the practice of medicine. For five years he has held the position of surgeon for that department of the B. & M. Railway, and he enjoys the reputation of being a very competent physician and surgeon. In his practice he has been remarkably successful. Dr. Gafford is the second youngest member of the House, a perpendicular Republican and a good worker in this body.
HON. JAMES G. GAMBLE, Hooper, Dodge county, was born in Waukesha county, Wis., Jan. 6, 1854. He remained in his native place until 22 years of age, a farmer. In 1876 he came to this state and settled on a piece of land where he now resides. His parents were among the very early settlers in the Badger State. They immigrated to Wisconsin about 1832-3. A few years ago, however, they left the old home and followed the children to Nebraska, to become rejuvenated in this new and growing country. Two brothers of Mr. Gamble are also in the state, so one by one they drop into line. He has made good headway out here, and has opened a fine farm of 240 acres, has it well improved, and is laying the foundation for a prosperous and permanent home. He was born and has lived all these years in the midst of Republican strongholds, yet he is a Democrat, and supports that ticket.

HON. PATRICK GARVEY, Omaha, is a native of County Clare, Ireland, born Feb. 2, 1846. His parents immigrated to the United States when he was a child, and he was raised in Indiana and Nebraska. In the spring of 1857 they settled in this state, coming here from Indiana. Mr. Garvey early obtained employment with the Union Pacific Ralway (sic) Company, and has been steadily connected with that corporation since it made a beginning west of the Missouri river. He followed the construction of the great thorough-

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fare from Omaha to Green river, in the early sixties, and saw the long line go over the mountains and down the western slope to the Pacific. He has been in various classes of labor, and is now filling a position in the Union Pacific freight department at Omaha. By persevering industry he has provided himself and family with a comfortable home and a reasonable share of the blessings of life. He pins his political faith to the Democratic party, and votes the straight ticket.
HON. JOS. C. GILMORE, Plattsmouth, Cass county, was born in Mercer county, Pa., Dec. 17, 1832. He remained in his native place until 1854, then immigrated to Wisconsin and located at Genoa, Walworth county; followed farming until 1854, then came to Lancaster county, Nebraska. He was the first probate judge elected in Lancaster county the fall of 1859, on the organization of the county. August, 1860, he removed to Cass county, where he now resides. He left his family there and went to freighting on the plains, followed that business up to 1867, then he returned to his farming interests in Cass county. In 1877 he was a member of the Nebraska Legislature in the House. He was the first man to make a wagon road from Plattsmouth across the prairies to near where Lincoln now stands, then called "Yankee Hill." It was quite an event in those early times, and the few isolated settlers in the vicinity of Yankee Hill turned out and gave him an ovation. They feasted him on jack-rabbit, antelope, and buffalo meat that was fresh and fat, and he felt like a lord. Gone are the buffalo and the antelope, and the jackrabbit is making himself scarce. The Capital of the state has sprung up here, and Yankee Hill has disappeared like a vision. Railroads have supplanted the old wagon roads, and instead of the plodding oxtrain a mile long, moving
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at the rate of a mile an hour, we have the lightning express harnessed to the iron horse and annihilating time and space at the rate of fifty miles an hour. Mr. Gilmore was one of the pioneers, and he has witnessed these mighty revolutions. He votes the Democratic ticket.
HON. S. L. GREEN, McCook, Red Willow county, is a native of Saratoga county, N. Y., born Feb. 28, 1823. In 1837 his parents settled in Ill., where he was raised, in Peoria county. His father was a farmer and stock-raiser, and the son attended the common schools and the academy, and at 20 years of age began the study of medicine. About 1845-6 he went into the banking business. He followed that about ten years, then settled in Coles county in the southern part of the state and practiced medicine. In 1871 he came to Nebraska, located in Richardson county, and followed his profession there for a period of three years, then pulled up and located in Norton county, Kan., in the practice of medicine. In 1876 he was in the Kansas legislature. He located at Indianola, Nebraska, in 1880, and when McCook began to boom he went up there, practiced medicine until within the last three years, since which time he has been in the drug trade. He is a Republican, as old as the party, a man of ability, and he will fill his legislative position honorably.

HON. CHARLES J. HARRISON, Wahoo, Saunders county, is a native of Sweden, born Jan. 28th, 1841. In 1850 his parents immigrated to the United States and stopped awhile in Chicago, Ill. He then came to Rockford, to St. Charles, thence to Sycamore, where he enlisted in the Thirteenth Illinois Infantry. He served four years and three months, one year of the time in Gen. Hancock's regiment. For about two months he was a prisoner, confined in Libby and Belle Isle. He was in many of the great battles and

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was wounded, but not severely. April, 1866, he was mustered out, in poor health, and went to Minnesota for two years, then came down to Fremont county, Iowa, was there a year, and in 1870 came to Nebraska and located in Saunders county, There he farmed for a time, then engaged in the agricultural machinery and grain business in Wahoo. Mr. Harrison has had to hoe his own row ever since he was 12 years of age. He was elected on the Democratic ticket, but is for the best interests of the people irrespective of party.
HON. BEN. H. HAYDEN, Wilber, Saline county, was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, March 13th, 1851. He attended the Fairmont high school, and Madison college, Uniontown, Pa., and when 18 years of age came to Iowa, and was in Benton and Story counties, that state, until 1872, when he removed to Nebraska and located in Saline county, in July of that year. He has held some local office most of the time since; was deputy county clerk and clerk of the discourt in 1874-76-84-85-86, and held a similar position in Adams county in 1877-78. In the intervening time he has farmed, taught school winters, and has led a busy life generally. He has been prominently mentioned for the registership of the land office at Chadron, Neb., and is indorsed by representatives in Congress from West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Of course he is a Democrat.

HON. GEORGE HEIMROD, Omaha, was born in Nenndorf, Germany, Nov. 30th, 1845. His father was a prominent physician of that country, and his children enjoyed the advantages of the better schools of Germany. At the age of 14, Mr. Heimrod went to Hameln on the Weser, attended for two years the commercial college there, and fitted himself for mercantile pursuits. April 15th, 1866, he sailed from Bremen for America, landing in New York

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on the 28th of May. April 15th, 1867, he left New York via Cincinnati for Omaha, landing in the latter city June 8th, 1867. He came all the way from Cincinnati to Omaha by steamer. After knocking around for about nine months, he started a soda-water manufactory, Fiftheenth (sic) and California streets, which he continued to operate up to January 1st, 1874, when he sold out to Wm. Segelke, returned to New York, and engaged in business at 59 Avenue A. Health failing, he came back to Omaha in April, 1877, and opened a retail grocery store on Sixteenth street, which he is still running. In 1882 he purchased the extensive business of Fred. Lange on South Thirteenth street, all of which he is now carrying on. In addition he has just completed an elegant business block on Sixteenth street, costing a large sum of money, and is one of the highly valuable properties of the city Mr. Heimrod was one of the first members of the Omaha Board of Trade, and has been prominently identified with the growth and business history of the city. He is a sterling business man, a representative citizen, and stands high in the esteem of his American and German fellow citizens. Until recently he has held the position of president of the Concordia society, a distinguished German organization, from which he resigned by reason of his more pressing business and official duties. A staunch Republican, he was elected by a majority that was certainly a personal compliment.
HON. GEO. HORST, Osceola, Polk county, is a native of Brown county, Wis., born May 13th, 1854. He lived there until the spring of 1871, attended the common school, worked on a farm, then came to Nebraska and settled at his present home. In the spring of 1880 he went to Oregon and was there two years teaching school, then returned to Nebraska. He has since taught school the

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greater portion of the time. He is the proud owner of a little eighty-acre piece of Nebraska soil, as fine as the sunbeams ever kissed, and he feels that he is lord of quite a domain. He has been honored with important local offices, and was elected to his present position on the antimonopoly ticket straight. He is a self-made chap, came up afoot, and expects to hoe his own row the remainder of the journey.
HON. EDWIN JEARY, Greenwood, Cass county, was born in the county of Norfolk, England, March 6th, 1850. His education was obtained in the old country, and there he lived until 1872, when he immigrated to the United States, located in Seward county, and subsequently his present abiding place in Cass county. He has followed teaching, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. In 1884, in connection with J. W. Quackenbush, he established the Salt Creek Valley Bank at Greenwood, also a bank at Staplehurst, Seward county, and one at Elmwood, Cass county, in 1886. Mr. Jeary has been eminently successful since he settled in the state. He invested his limited means in real estate at an early day, and it has made him a competence. He owns 960 acres of land in Cheyenne county, two or three fine farms in Cass county, town and city property, and is getting on in the world. He has done all this since he settled in the state. When he arrived in Nebraska he had little to show but a good head, strong arms, and willing hands. Mr. Jeary is a popular business man, a valuable citizen, and one of the most staunch and influential Republicans in his county. He will honestly and ably represent the best interests of his district and the state in his present capacity.

HON. GEO. F. KEIPER, Pierce, Pierce county, was born in Easton, Pa., Feb., 23d, 1836. He enjoyed the advan-

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tages of the public schools of his native place, and at 15 years of age he began clerking in a store; continued up to 1856, when he came to Indiana and subsequently began the study of medicine. In 1865 he graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, and at once entered into the practice of medicine, in which he continued up to about three years ago. He settled in Nebraska in 1884, where he now resides. Dr. Keiper has traveled extensively, both in the United States and Europe, and has acquired valuable information. He is of German parentage, with Democratic tendencies. Pierce county is Republican, but the Democrats took it in last fall, and Dr. Keiper represents Pierce and Cedar counties, having been elected on that ticket.
HON. A. J. KENNEY, Red Cloud, Webster county, was born in Buffalo, New York, April 5th, 1838. When a mere child his parents settled in Illinois, some forty miles north of Chicago. That was about 1844-5. He received his schooling at Crystal Lake, Ill. About thirteen years of his life was spent in that state, two years in Wisconsin, and in 1857 he arrived in Toledo, Iowa; published several papers in that state, and in 1878 located at Red Cloud, and established the Red Cloud Argus. That enterprise he continued about five years; sold out and retired on his laurels. He is the float member from Webster and Franklin counties, a Republican, and a popular and influential citizen.

HON. HORACE P. KING, Friend, Saline county, was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 26th, 1847. His parents settled in Warrensburgh, N. Y., when he was a child, and there he attended the common schools and the Warrensburgh Academy. In 1858 he settled in Monroe, Wis. In 1870 he came to Nebraska and

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settled in Seward county. September, 1881, he located in Friend, in the dry goods and clothing trade. He has held many of the important local offices of the town and county since going there, and was a member of the House in 1881, from Seward county. His seat the present session was contested by J. E. Fishburn, on a tie vote, and each having his certificate. Mr. King was seated, however, by a vote of the House - seventy nine to fourteen - seven not voting. He is a straight Republican.
HON. DAVID KNOX, of Omaha, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born Jan. 14th, 1821. He enjoyed the advantages in early life of the excellent primary schools of Scotland, and when young learned the trade of machinist. He remained in his native country until he was 28 years of age, and May 2d, 1849, landed in New York. Soon after he obtained employment in the great shops at Patterson, New Jersey, and he has at no time been out of a job since. He subsequently went to New Haven, Conn., and was there employed in a railway shop for a period of seven years. At the end of that time he came west and engaged in similar work at Springfield, Ill., and was five years there. From Illinois he went to Washington, D. C. He there followed the photograph business, and took the likenesses of many of the eminent men of America and Europe. About eight and a half years he spent in the nation's capital; then came to Nebraska and located in Omaha in 1870. He immediately went to work for the Union Pacific Railway Company, and has steadily been employed in the U. P. shops in Omaha since, a period of seventeen years. He is a skillful mechanic, and his ability in that line is attested by the length of time he has held these responsible positions. The sturdy Scotch characteristics are stamped upon his features, and a tenacious

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continuity has been a marked element of his life. He is a Democrat.
HON. JAMES P. LATTA, Tekamah, Burt county, was born in Ashland, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1844. His parents settled in Jackson county, Iowa, when he was but two years of age. He attended the schools of that section and drifted into an active business life. In 1863 he came to Nebraska and located in Burt county. He immediately purchased land and began farming and stock raising; subsequently he branched out, purchased more land, prospered, and went into the banking business. He is the proprietor of the Burt county bank, of Tekamah; owns about 3,000 acres of Burt's best land, and is one of the most prominent and enterprising business men of that rich section of the state. He came to the state with virtually nothing, and what he has accomplished is due to his good judgment, industry, and judicious investments. He is a born Democrat, and dates his political birthright from the year James K. Polk was elected president of the United States, 1844, and he was one of the few who stood by their colors in the senatorial contest of last month.

HON. HERMAN J. LIESVELD, Hickman, Lancaster county, is a native of Arnhem, Holland, born Sept. 16, 1846. His parents immigrated to the United States when he was an infant, landing in New York. From there they proceeded to Grand Rapids, Michigan, thence to Fulton, Ill. Mr. Liesveld subsequently removed to Rockville, Wis., back to Chenoa, Ill., and eventually to Hastings, Iowa. For the period of eleven years he worked for Matt. Scott, of Bloomington, Ill. In 1872 he purchased land in Lancaster Co., Nebraska, but did not locate in the state until several years after. For the last five years he has been in the grain business at Firth and Hickman. He was a

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member of the House the session of 1885. His politics are Republican. He is of a sturdy old Dutch family, but is so thoroughly Americanized he would be taken for a Yankee.
HON. GEO. W. LORD, Ulysses, Butler county, was born in Freedom, Carroll Co., N. H., June 11, 1837. He was raised in New Hampshire and Maine, and was a member of the second Maine regiment in the war. Much of the time he was in the army of the Potomac, and was captured at the first Bull Run, taken south, confined in Libby, Tuscaloosa, and Saulsbury prisons, for over ten months, when he was exchanged, returned to the service, and was in several hard fights. After the war he came to Iowa, :and located in Clarence, Cedar county. There he remained until the spring of 1871, when he came to Nebraska, and located near Ulysses, homesteaded, bought more land, and has a fine farm in a fine section of country. He is now residing in town, and is dealing in grain and stock. Mr. Lord is a Republican, and is here to do his duty to the best of his ability.

HON. THOS. H. MARSHALL, Williamsburg, Phelps county, is a native of the province of Ontario, born near Ottawa, Upper Canada, April 28, 1838. His parents were natives of America, and Mr. Marshall lived in Canada until 1880. He was engaged in the lumber business for many years, and attended school there. His father made the iron works for the first steamboat that floated on American waters, the "Fulton." April 1, 1880, Mr. Marshall located in Phelps county. He homesteaded, purchased railroad land, and established a home there. He has been a member of the county board for a number of years, votes the Republican ticket, and is a good worker on the floor of the House.

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HON. JOHN MATHIESON, Omaha, is a native of Denmark, born July 16, 1836. He was in school during school age up to the time he was nearly 15 years old. He subsequently learned the trade of tinner and coppersmith, and attended an industrial college of a polytechnic character. When 22 years of age he engaged in business for himself, and thus continued for fourteen years, when he sold out, and made preparations to go to South Africa, but was persuaded out of it by the influence of friends. He then concluded to come to America, and did so, arriving in the United States the latter part of June, 1870, coming immediately to Omaha, where on the 6th of July of that year he secured employment in the Union Pacific shops, and has been there steadily since, with the exception of a very short time. In 1873 he took out his naturalization papers, and at once identified himself with the Republican party. He is a true Republican, a conscientious, faithful, and honorable man, and the best evidence of his standing as a citizen and skilled artisan, is the length of time he has filled an important position with the great corporation that pushed the first railroad out across the continent of North America.
HON. WM. H. McCANN, Hay Springs, Sheridan county, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 31, 1859. He attended the common schools, the Chickering Academy, and the McMicken University, graduating as a civil engineer, and in the meantime studied law, but did not practice. He subsequently went to the mountains, and was in Colorado over a year, but has devoted most of his time to railroading in Ohio. He has held the positions of assistant chief engineer, auditor, and acting general freight and passenger agent. Health failing from overwork, he came to Nebraska, and in December, 1884, took a pre-emption

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claim near Hay Springs, where he has since resided, farming, stock raising, and doing other work. In July, 1882, he was married in Ohio. His district - the fifty-ninth - embraces about two-sevenths of the state, with a voting population of perhaps 7,000. He represents the counties of Cheyenne, Keith, Sioux, and all the unorganized territory north of Keith. His politics are Republican, and upon that ticket he was elected.
HON. SAMUEL W. McGREW, Auburn, Nemaha county, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., Nov. 30, 1845. He was educated in West Newton Academy, and subsequently taught school for two or three years. About this time he began the study of medicine, and attended the medical college at Cleveland, Ohio. July, 1868, he came to Nebraska and located in London, Nemaha county. He taught the school there a year, and for four years was superintendent of schools. He has since followed the practice of medicine, carried on farming and stock raising, and was elected to this position on the Van Wyck Republican ticket. The Doctor is a very busy member, and is doing good work for his constituents and the state. His descent on the paternal side is Irish, and on the maternal, Pennsylvania German.

HON. A. P. McKENNA, Gretna, Sarpy county, was born in New Lexington, Perry county, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1842. He was raised there until 20 years of age, then went into the army, enlisting in 1862, in the Sixty-first Ohio, Co. G; served one year, and was discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disability; returned home and remained until the spring of 1866. He recuperated his health, then came to Nebraska and immediately engaged in railway building and the construction of telegraph lines. In 1871 he located at Foest City and engaged in farming and stock raising. He continued in that business until four years ago last August,

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then went into the mercantile business. This he continued up to last November, when he removed to Gretna and engaged in merchandising and grain dealing at that point. He was also postmaster there until he resigned to take his place in this body. Mr. McKenna is a Democrat in politics.
HON. MATT. MILLER, David City Butler county, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born Feb. 9, 1852. His parents immigrated to the United States and settled in Portage City, Columbia county, Wis., in 1853. He was only twelve years old when he went into the army, enlisting in Co. F, Forty-eighth Wis., as a drummer boy. In that capacity he served two years, and in 1866 was mustered out. He then returned home and went to school, studied law, and in 1870 came to Nebraska. He continued his law studies after his arrival in the state, and was admitted in Schuyler. In 1881 he located in David City in the practice of his profession. He was elected to the Legislature on the Democratic ticket, and is one of the antimonopoly champions of this body. There is music in the air when Miller is up. He is the wasp of the House. Active, nervous, and wide-awake, are his characteristics.

HON. H. C. MINNIX, Morseville, Adams county, was born in Waterloo, Fayette county, Ohio, January 7, 1830. He was raised in his native state, married there, and in 1857 settled in Illinois, a farmer. When the war was fairly under way he went into the service, enlisting Aug. 9,1862, in Co., F, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ill. The regiment was soon assigned to Buell's command, and participated in the fight at Perryville, Ky., and ended that campaign at Nashville. Subsequently they were in the Chickamauga fight, Mission Ridge, then went to the relief of Burnside, at Knoxville; returned and went

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into winter quarters at McAffee Church, Georgia. The next movement was the Atlanta campaign with Sherman to the sea, and the final Grand Review at Washington. Mr. Minnix went the grand rounds and saw war in all its ghastliness. He was mustered out June 30,1865, returned to Illinois, and devoted his attention to farming and stockraising until 1873, when he came to Nebraska, located land, and in 1875 moved into the state with his family and made it his permanent home. Up to 1878 he continued farming, and then retired. In 1883 he was elected a member of the county board, and held the position up to the time he was elected to the Legislature. He is a stalwart Republican and a submissionist.
HON. GEO. M. McCONAUGHY, Stromsburg, Polk county, was born in Rochelle, Ogle Co., Ill., Oct. 18, 1855. He was raised down there, and graduated from the Chicago University, classical department, in 1877. He then studied law, attended the law school in Iowa City, Iowa, and was there admitted to the bar in 1881. He immediately came to Nebraska, and in March of that year located at Stromsburg. By reason of poor health he engaged in the lumber business for three years, then returned to the practice of law. In politics he is a stalwart Republican, but an uncompromising prohibitionist, and would favor a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic liquors, beer, and other intoxicants. He favors an amendment to the constitution to that effect. The leaven he thinks is brewing that is destined to leaven the whole lump. Already he sees right triumphing over might, and out of the deep darkness of intemperance, like the glimmer of a star on the far-off horizon, comes a ray of light. Mr. McConaughy is one of the active and wide-awake members on the floor of the House and in committee. He will do good work for his constituents and the state.

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HON. DALLAS P. NEWCOMER, Blue Hill, Webster county, was born in Hagerstown. Maryland, Jan. 23, 1846. He was educated at Bethany College, Virginia, and graduated from the institution in 1864. He subsequently came to Illinois, was a year, in that state, then took a long westward march, and finally halted in Montana. Nine years covered the time out there. In the mean time he studied law and was admitted in Montana in 1867. He was a member of the territorial legislature out there three sessions, and was prominently identified with the politics and industries of that rising young territory. Subsequently he returned to Montgomery county, Iowa, and was several years in the grain business there. In 1879 he came to Nebraska, and located in Blue Hill, in the practice of law, dealing in real estate, banking, and other business. He is vice-president of the First National bank of Blue Hill, and one of the representative citizens of Webster county. He was a member of the House the session of 1885, and was a prominent candidate for the speakership the present session, but withdrew in favor of Mr. Harlan. Mr. Newcomer is an uncompromising Republican, and he made a gallant fight for Senator Paddock in the recent senatorial contest.
HON. WM. NEWTON, Harvard, Clay county, is a native of London, England, born Dec. 31, 1845. His parents immigrated to the United States when he was of a very tender age, and settled on Staten Island, New York. Up to about nine years ago Mr. Newton followed the business of contractor and builder. February, 1878, he came to Nebraska and located near Harvard on a piece of land. Farming has since been his occupation. He has a. good farm and is beginning to raise stock. The stock and agricultural interests of the state he thinks should be fostered by all reasonable means, as upon those industries hinge

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the progress and prosperity of the commonwealth and the nation.
   HON. JOHN R. NICHOL, Willowdale, Antelope county, was born in West V., Nov. 10, 1832. When he was a child his parents settled in Antrim, Guernsey county, Ohio. He lived there until he was 16 years old, when he came to Oskaloosa, Iowa; there he attended school, clerked in a store, and in 1878 was a member of the Iowa legislature. He was a farmer in that state, and in 1871 he came to Nebraska, took up land in Antelope county, and has since devoted his time to farming and stock raising. He was a member of the House in 1885, and is a Republican in politics. His section is coming on rapidly, and the northern part of the state is looming up in material development.

   HON. C. H. NORRIS, Table Rock, Pawnee county, was born in Canton, Fulton county, Ill., Jan. 17, 1836. His father was a farmer, and the subject of this sketch was taught to till the soil and pull weeds. In 1858 he pulled out and came to Nebraska and located at Falls City. Subsequently he became a member of the second Neb. Cav., and operated in Dakota. He was finally appointed Indian agent for the lowas, Sacs, and Foxes, and held that position for the period of three years. In 1869 he located in Table Rock, and has since followed merchandising. Mr. Norris was a member of the State Senate the session of 1885, elected on the Republican ticket, and made a good record. He is a conservative and trustworthy member and will guard well the interests of his district and the state.

   HON. NELSON OVERTON, Nebraska City, Otoe county, was born in Bradford county, Pa., April 16, 1840. He remained in his native place until 22 years of age, farmed, attended the common schools and seminary, and in the spring of 1863 landed in Nebraska City, freighted on the

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plains, was in Denver in 1862, Salt Lake in 1863, and in 1864 went to Montana; was there one year; returned to Nebraska City and followed the plains until 1868. The spring of 1867 he went to Texas, purchased cattle, and the following year bought a large amount of land in Otoe county, and began farming and stock raising on quite an extensive scale. He has since resided there, and has adhered steadily to farming, handling, raising, and feeding stock. One of the successful farmers and stockmen of the state, he has prospered beyond his expectations. He owns, in addition to his large and well cultivated home farm, a fine stock ranch in the northwestern part of the state, upon which 1,000 head of cattle are fed. Mr. Overton was a member of the House in 1881, and is here now, not of his seeking, but because he was a strong and popular man, and his constituents needed his services in this capacity. It is needless to say he was an unterrified Van Wyck Republican. Mr. Overton is of along lived family, and they are long in physical stature. There are nine living brothers, and if they were strung out in a horizontal line they would encircle the globe - if not more than seventy feet in circumference. They are each from six feet up to immeasurable heights.
HON. WM. J. PEMBERTON, Reynolds, Jefferson county, was born in Edgar county, Ill., June 13, 1848. With his parents, in 1854, he settled in Iowa. They died when he was but little more than 1.5 years of age, and from that time on he had to make his own way in the world. In 1867-8 he was employed on the U. P. railroad, and in 1869 settled in Beatrice, this state. He subsequently returned to Avoca, Iowa, and carried on the mercantile business there for two or three years. He was a delegate to the Iowa state convention that nominated Governor