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Kirkwood. In 1877 he returned to Beatrice and engaged in merchandising there, followed the business for two years, sold out, and in company with another gentleman started a newspaper, the Leader; disposed of his interest the next year, and filled various clerical positions for several years. In 1874 he received the appointment of postal clerk on the B. & M., but did not accept. In 1881 he was assistant secretary of the Nebraska State Senate, and subsequently settled in Reynolds, where he is engaged in merchandising and handling grain and stock. He is an up-and-down Republican, and was elected by a rousing majority. He came here a Paddock man, and was on the side of the heaviest battalions. It was no boys play to meet the issue and put the man in the United States Senate.
HON. JOHN PETERS, Albion, Boone county, was born and raised in Alton, Ill., and is 42 years of age. He attended the common school, and subsequently Jones' Commercial College, St. Louis. Early in the war he enlisted in the Tenth Ill., Co. D, and served four and a half years. He was in all the battles of the regiment, hot and heavy, from beginning to end, the Atlanta campaign under Sherman and Logan, and in July, 1865, was mustered out. He then returned to Alton and established a carriage manufactory, which pursuit he continued from 1866 up to 1872, when he concluded to come west. The spring of that year he located in Albion. For twelve years, by successive elections, he has held the office of county clerk of Boone county; a pretty strong recommendation in this land of rotation in office. At the present time he is engaged in the real estate business, and is a thorough-going and enterprising business man. He is a stalwart Republican, and was a Paddock man early and late. Mr. Peters is a wide-awake member on the floor of the House, and will acquit himself commendably.
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HON. WM. S. RANDALL, Fairfield, Clay county, was born in Hubbard, Trumbull county, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1840. His parents settled in Washington County, Iowa, when he was 11 years of age. He resided in that state until the war began, when he enlisted in Co. C, Eighth Iowa Infantry, and went south into active service. At the battle of Shiloh he was wounded, captured, and for about two months was a prisoner of war. He was finally paroled, and exchanged in the fall. Subsequently he re-enlisted, and the next summer was in Memphis, then the Mobile campaign, and finally wound up at Selina. May 7, 1866, he was mustered out of the service at Davenport, Iowa. Up to 1873 he spent the time, after leaving the army, on a farm in the eastern part of Washington county, Iowa, and that spring came to Nebraska and took a homestead near Fairfield. In 1876 he was elected county treasurer to fill out an unexpired term; was re-elected, and thus served three years. He has since been in the mercantile business at Fairfield, and votes the Republican ticket.
HON. ISAAC M. RAYMOND, Lincoln, was born in Schenectady, New York, May 3, 1842. He was educated in the common schools and the Janesville Academy, and in 1862, settled in Waterloo, Iowa. In 1865 himself and brother opened a store in Waverly, Iowa. They continued there until 1871, when they removed to Nebraska and opened the wholesale grocery house of Raymond Bros. & Co., at Lincoln. This extensive enterprise has kept pace with the growth of the western country, and is now one of the well established and most substantial business houses west of the Missouri river. It has a wide field of trade and commands an extensive patronage. Mr. Raymond has, in addition, valuable property interests, and is president of the Exchange National Bank of Hastings, president of the

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State Bank of Norton, Kansas, and president of the Merchants Insurance Co., of Lincoln. His partners in the store now manage that enterprise, while Mr. Raymond looks after his extensive outside interests. He is one of the most active and influential business men of the state, and in his legislative capacity in this body he is able, active, and popular.
HON. CHARLES RIEF, Grand Island, Hall county, was born near Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 13, 1842. He was educated in the excellent schools of that country, was taught mathematics and navigation, and in 1859 was at the entrance of the Suez canal, at the time De Lesseps negotiated with the viceroy of Egypt for that great water-way. He has been in all the grand divisions of the world, and saw Pompey's Pillar at Alexandria, the same old monolith that is now looming up in Central Park, New York. It was originally standing at Heliopolis, and is supposed to be over 3,000 years old. The United States will probably remember little Egypt as long as this column of stone maintains its dignity in a free country. Mr. Rief came to the United States in 1867, and immediately located in Grand Island as a civil engineer. He has been there, it will be seen, about twenty years, and has been a teacher in the public schools; filled important local positions, followed his profession, and is a well educated gentleman. He stands in with the Democrats.

HON. H. C. RUSSELL, Schuyler, Colfax county, is a native of Harrison county, Ohio, born November 26, 1843, When he was 10 years of age his parents settled in Washington county, Iowa, and his home was there until 1876. April 18, 1861, he enlisted in the Second Iowa Infantry, and was at the capture of Fort Donaldson. At Shiloh he had the third finger of his left hand shot away. Subse-

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quently, while on special service, he was shot through the body by a rebel bushwhacker, near Brown's Ferry. The ball passed through the lower part of his stomach, and lodged near his spine in the small of the back. It is yet there, and very annoying. Eminent surgeons dare not tackle it. It will probably remain - a forcible reminder where it is until he dies. It is an ugly pill to carry, but perhaps it is not as had as the hole would be were it taken out. He was at that time one of Gen. G. M. Dodge's scouts, in the secret service. In that capacity - as a spy - he went into General Forrest's command, and marched with Forrest and Chalmers the next day after they massacred the colored soldiers at Fort Pillow. He carried important dispatches to the Union forces, and ran the gantlet of the rebel pickets many times. He was mustered out in June, 1864, but continued in the service on special duty up to 1867. He then returned home, and from there went to Memphis, remained one year, then returned home to Iowa; attended school, studied law, and in 1872 was admitted to the bar. He held a position in the Iowa Legislature in 1870, sergeant-at-arms. In September, 1876, he located in Schuyler, Neb., in the practice of his profession. He was elected county judge in 1877, and served two terms. He is a stalwart Republican, and has been through the mill.
HON. N. M. SATCHEL, Weeping Water, Cass county, was born in DeWitt, Clinton county, Ill., Jan. 2, 1842. His parents settled in Montezuma, Poweshiek county, Ia., in 1844, and there he was raised. July, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Tenth Iowa Infantry. The regiment immediately went south into active service. He was in Grant's, Sherman's, and Logan's commands; in the fight at New Madrid, and Island No. 10; at the first and second

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battles of Corinth, Iuka; with Grant at Vicksburg, on the Vicksburg campaign; with Sherman at Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain; with Sherman to the sea; and finally wound up with the Grand Review at Washington. He was in a score of hard-fought battles, and was slightly wounded in the head at Champion Hill. August, 1865, he was mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas. After he returned home he attended the Oskaloosa College, Iowa. In 1872 he came to Nebraska and homesteaded in Hamilton county. He subsequently sold out and settled in Cass county, where he is still an honest farmer. He votes the Republican ticket, and is serving his first term in the Legislature.
HON. HENRY SCHWAB, Hooper, Dodge county, is a native of Dellfield, Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, born May 27, 1852. He was but 3 years old when his parents immigrated to the United States, and settled in Dodge county, Wisconsin. He remained there until May, 1861, then came to Dodge county, Neb., and settled on a farm. Since then he has followed farming and stock raising, and has done well. His farm consists of 300 acres, under a fair state of cultivation, and it has good stock advantages. Mr. Schwab was elected on the Democratic ticket. He is a married man, and is blessed with four children.

HON. JEROME SCHAMP, Lincoln, Lancaster county, is a native of Georgetown, Defiance county, Ohio, born May 14, 1847. His parents died when he was a child, and he was bound out. His school advantages were limited when a boy, and at 15 years of age he went into the army. He had drifted into Indiana, and at South Bend enlisted in the 12th Indiana, Dec., 1862. He immediately proceeded to Louisville, and was soon a member of the army of the Tennessee. They were in the battles of Atlanta, Nash-

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ville, and many other hard fights. Mr. Schamp was thrown from a horse while carrying dispatches from Point Rock, Ala., to Vienna, same state, and crippled for life. August 13, 1865, he was discharged at Indianapolis, by reason of permanent disabilities obtained while in the service of his country. He then returned home, took up books and began to educate himself, although an invalid. April, 1866, he came to Hamilton county, Iowa, and the following June to Lancaster county, Nebraska. Here he took a homestead nine miles South from where Lincoln now stands, and was five years holding down his claim land turning over the sod. In the meantime he went back to Adrian, Michigan, and attended school about a year. In 1878 he located in Lincoln, and engaged in the agricultural implement business. This he sold out in 1881, and then began the manufacture of similar goods at the penitentiary, In 1882, he sold out at the penitentiary and took up his old business in the city. This he has steadily adhered to since, and has prospered. He was married in 1874, on Salt Creek, in Lancaster county. Mr. Schamp is preeminently a self-made man. At a tender age he was left an orphan, and all the way up has had to paddle his own canoe. He has been a true Republican all his life, is a popular business man, and will creditably fill his position in this body.
HON. B. M. SIMMS, Alma, Harlan county, is a native of Salem county, New Jersey, born May 10, 1853. He lived there until 23 years of age, on a farm, and attended the country school. He then came west and was about one year in Stark and Peoria Counties, Illinois. In the spring of 1877 he came to Pawnee county, Neb., taught school awhile, and in 1879 went up the Republican and located in Alma. He there went into the drug and book trade and has prospered. Early investments in real estate, and the

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frequent turnings of real estate transactions, have turned things handsomely to his advantage. He now owns 1,600 acres of land in Washington precinct, Harlan county, and has other valuable property. He is on the road to a fortune and a seat in Congress. Mr. Simms was a Van Wick Democrat, and came here under that pressure. He is an enterprising business man, and a prudent and faithful member in his present position.
HON. THOMAS SIMANEK, Plasi, Saunders county, is a native of Bohemia, born Jan. 16, 1854. He lived in his native country until 14 years of age, attended the schools common to that country, and with his parents immigrated to the United States in 1868, and settled at this present abiding place. He has followed farming and stock raising since, and has made some headway in his chosen avocation. His farm embraces an area of 200 acres, well improved, and the land is rapidly advancing in value. Mr. Simanek is one of the straight Democrats who did not doff his colors in the recent bloodless battle. He has a long credit mark on the Democratic roll of honor.

HON. A. B. SLATER, Wayne, Wayne county, was born in Warren county, New Jersey, June 29, 1847. He left there when a boy, his parents settling in Virginia. In 1864 he came to Iowa, and attended the State University there. He then went across the plains, and was three years in Montana. Returning to Iowa he farmed a while, then removed to the western part of the state and engaged in the real estate and stock business. About five years ago he located in Nebraska, and went into the stock business. He is now largely in the real estate and stock business. About 6,000 acres of land are on his catalogue, and he is prepared to show a purchaser the cream of the state. He is an active and influential Republican, and bobs up in the twinkle of an eye on the floor of the House.

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HON. C. J. SMYTH, Omaha, was born in county Cavan, province of Ulster, Ireland, December 4, 1860, and is therefore but little over 26 years of age, the youngest member of the House. At 12 he landed in New York, came west to Chicago, thence to St. Paul, Minnesota, and about nine years ago to Omaha, where he has since resided. He is a graduate of Creighton College, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Omaha. In 1883 he was a delegate to the convention of the Irish National League, held in Philadelphia, and served as secretary of the committee on constitution and by-laws. Again, with the Hon. John A. McShane, he represented the Omaha branch of the League at the National Convention held in Chicago on the 16th of August, 1886. He was elected to this body by a highly complimentary majority on the Democratic ticket. This is his first experience in politics, but his abilities and popularity commanded the attention of his friends, and, young as he is, they pushed him to the front. He is a polished gentleman, a well-versed student of Irish history, a graceful speaker, and is spoken of as one of the rising young lawyers of the city of his adoption. He is prominent in Irish affairs, and takes a deep interest in promoting the welfare of his countrymen.
HON. JOHN J. SULLIVAN, Columbus, Platte county, was born in Harvard, Ill., April 11, 1855. He was raised on a farm and attended the common schools, and in 1879 came to Nebraska and located at Columbus. In 1878 he graduated from the law school at Iowa City, and has since followed the practice of law at Columbus. He has held the office of county judge, has established a good practice, and those who know him best speak of him as a smart lawyer and a young man with a promising future. He affiliates with the Democratic side of the house, and was one of the ten Spartans.

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HON. FRANKLIN SWEET, Clarks, Merrick county, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., Sept. 14, 1838. He attended the common schools and academy of his native place, and in July, 1861, went into the army, enlisting in the Sixty-second Pennsylvania. He went in as second sergeant, and at the end of three years was mustered out a captain of Co. E. At the battle of Gettysburg he was severely wounded in the left side by a Mississippi rifle bullet, a bad pill. He was finally mustered out, went back to Pennsylvania, and assisted in raising more troops under the Governor's call for an additional fifty companies. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of a company he assisted in raising, was assigned to the Eighty-third Pennsylvania, went to war again, and was mustered out captain of the company H. He then returned home, farmed awhile, and finally sold out and went to Cincinnati. There he was in the county recorder's office about four years. In the spring of 1871 he came to Nebraska and went to farming and stockraising. About two years ago he took a position in the banking house of W. R. Morse, of Clarks, as cashier. When the State National Guard was organized, he was made Inspector General, with the rank of Major, which office he has held for six years. Mr. Sweet is a Republican, and a man of integrity and sterling worth as a citizen.
HON. S. W. THORNTON, Prairie Center, Buffalo county, was born in Madison county, Ohio, Oct., 23d, 1832. In 1869 he came west and located in Washington county, Iowa. He was raised on a farm. August, 1861, he entered in Company C, Eighth Iowa; and was with the regiment until February, 1865, when he was discharged by reason of wounds received in battle. He was severely wounded the time Forest made his raid on Memphis, August 21, 1864. After his return home he was engaged

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[i]n various pursuits, and about all the days of his manhood he has held responsible local offices. In 1874 he came to Nebraska and located in Buffalo county, took a timber claim, homesteaded, purchased railroad land, and blocked out a home for himself and family. He now has a fine farm of 480 acres, and is tilling the soil and raising fine stock. In the cultivation of the tame grasses he is meeting with marked success. He put up forty-five tons of clover and timothy hay last season, and is proud of his fine grass fields. He is the leading tame grass farmer in the county, and he would like to see more following his example. The time is not far distant when all the stock of this western country must be provided with hay and shelter in winter. The humane of humanity calls loudly for that merciful feature in stockgrowing even now. Mr. Thornton is a thorough and well-posted farmer. He is prominently identified with the agricultural societies of Buffalo county and the state, and is a progressive and public-spirited man. He was married in Ohio in 1854 to Miss Sarah Larimer. She is now 51 years of age, and they have seven living children, and have lost one by death. Mr. Thornton is a Republican in politics, and himself and wife are members of the Congregational church. He believes a grand destiny awaits the state of his adoption, and while he lives he will do all in his power to promote her interests.
HON. A. H. TINGLE, Bassett, Brown county, was born in Keokuk county, Iowa, December 12, 1852. He was raised in the western part of the state, in Adair and Cass counties, and has followed farming about all his life. He studied law at Atlantic, Iowa, and was admitted in the circuit court of that place. In 1882 he came to Nebraska, and has been in the practice of law here. His district embraces a very large portion of the state, Holt, Brown,

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Keya Paha, and Cherry counties, containing a population of about 40,000 people. Mr. Tingle votes the Republican ticket, and he takes especial pride in the rapid advancement of the new country he represents. Railroads are penetrating it, and settlers are pushing out over all that broad region. Towns are rounding into form, farms are being opened, and habitations and domestic animals dot its face.
HON. JOHN TREACY, North Platte, Lincoln county, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, May 28, 1849. He was raised in England until 20 years of age, attended school there, and was an apprentice in the great ship-building establishment of John Laird & Co. In 1870 he immigrated to the United States, and was two years at his trade in Pittsburg, Pa., employed on locomotive work. The spring of 1872 he arrived in Omaha, and was immediately employed in the Union Pacific shops of that city. He was there five years, then went to Nevada; was a year there; came back to North Platte and found employment in the company's works at that point. Since then he has steadily worked for the company there, and is well satisfied with his position. He was elected on the Democratic ticket, and advocates retrenchment and reform.

HON. S. A. TRUESDELL, Carlton, Thayer county, was born at Belmont Corners, Pa., Aug. 27, 1842. About fifteen years of his life was spent in his native state. He then went into York State, and there resided until 1872, staging and doing a livery business. That year he immigrated to Nebraska and located where he now resides, in the mercantile trade. He held the postmastership of Carlton abou (sic) ten years, until the Democratic administration came in, when he deemed it prudent to step down and out. Mr. Truesdell was married in the "Empire State," and has

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two children, a son and daughter, both of age. He is a staunch Republican, a popular citizen, and in his present legislative capacity will merit and receive the approval of his constituents.
   HON. W. L. TURNER, Creighton, Knox County, was born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa, Jan. 5, 1851. His parents removed to Iowa the spring of 1860, and located in Benton county. In the spring of 1871 Mr. Turner located in Saline county, Neb., in the drug business. In 1883 he went up to Creighton and continued the drug trade. He is serving his first term in the Legislature, elected on the Democratic ticket.

   HON. WATSON TYSON, Blair, Washington county, is a native of Lancashire, England, born Nov. 30, 1832. His parents immigrated to the United States when he was 17 years old, and settled in Lafayette Co., Wis. There he remained until 1869, then crossed the plains to Pike's Peak with an ox outfit. In 1862 he again struck out for Oregon with a bovine train, and was about six months on the road to Portland. From there he came back over the Cascade mountains into Idaho, and was where Boise City now stands before the first white man had made a hole in the ground there. He roughed it out in that wild region about two years, then returned by water and the Isthmus to his old stamping ground and the wife he left behind. In 1864 he came to Nebraska, located in Washington county, purchased land, and settled down to business. He has followed farming, stock raising, buying and shipping stock, and has prospered. He owns 860 acres of land, votes the Democratic ticket, and came here this winter to study the ins and outs of men and measures.

   HON. GEO. C. UNDERHILL, Unadilla, Otoe county, was born in Auburn, Rockingham county, N. H., March I

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1852. He attended the common and academical schools until about 18 years of age, then came to Royalton, Ohio, where he engaged in the dairy business. In the spring of 1879 he settled in Otoe county, his present home. He is engaged in stock growing, farming, and feeding stock, and comes up to the Legislature a Van Wick Republican. He neither sought the office nor desired it, but was put forward by his friends, and will stand by his colors. Mr. Underhill is a substantial farmer and a popular citizen. The Underhills trace their lineage to English stock, and back in this country six generations. The subject of this sketch is related to the great manufacturers of that name in Nashua, N. H., and Boston, Mass.
HON. MOSES A. VEACH, Stella, Richardson county, was born in Pittsboro, Hendrix county, Ind., March 18, 1847. In 1855 his parents settled in Clayton county, Iowa. He there attended the public schools and remained until 1874, when he settled in Nebraska, where he now resides. He is a perpendicular Democrat from a Republican district, the first. There are two other members from Richardson county, both Republican. Mr. Veach polled a large vote. He is a farmer, prosperous and happy. Mr. Veach is one of the straight ten, and made many friends by his steadfastness in the senatorial contest. He is social, an energetic worker in the House, and popular with all parties.

HON. JOHN M. WARDLAW, Pickrell, Gage county is a native of Warren county, Ky., born May 6, 1837. When he was a child his parents settled in Putnam county, Ill., and there he was raised. His father was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and the son was educated at the Granville Academy. In the war days he went into the army, Col. C. C. Marsh's regiment, as a musician, and came out

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the same January, 1871, he arrived in Nebraska and located nine miles north of Beatrice, in Gage county, where he has a good farm of 240 acres, and is moderately well situated. He is an outspoken Republican, and comes from one of the finest counties in the state. Gage county is making her people rich.
HON. JOHN C. WATSON, Nebraska City, Otoe county, was born in Ray county, Missouri, Sept. 20, 1850. His father died when he was young, and he was raised in Miami county, Ohio, and in Cincinnati. He there attended the common and academical schools, and in his teens was local editor on the Memphis, Tenn., Daily Sun. He subsequently attended the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, studied medicine a year, and finally graduated in the literary and law departments of that institution in 1873. That year he was admitted to the bar in Detroit in the supreme court of Michigan. He immediately came to Nebraska and located in Nebraska City in the practice of his profession. In 1878 he was elected district attorney, reelected in 1880, second district, and in 1883 was elected city and county attorney. Mr. Watson is one of the able men of the bar. In the prosecution of the Bohanan case, and in the Lee Shellanberg defense, he attracted the attention of the courts and bar throughout the state. In his legislative capacity he is active and influential. His politics are unqualifiedly Republican.

HON. FRANK M. WETHERALD, Hebron, Thayer county, was born in Thornton, Boone Co., Ind., June 29, 1866. He resided in his native state until 18 years of age, most of the time in Richmond, Wayne Co., Ind. He was given the advantages, of the common and academical schools of his native state, and in 1874 removed to Nebraska, and located in Beatrice, Gage county. In August of that year

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he removed to Hebron, which has since been his home. Himself and brother own a large flouring mill there, a grain elevator, and they are prominently identified with many of the leading business enterprises of that thrifty town, and the magnificent county of which it is the county seat. Mr. Wetherald is also largely interested in the Thayer County bank, and is one of the heavy property owners of that section of the state. The Wetheralds do a milling, banking, elevator, grain and stock business, and they rank among the enterprising and public-spirited men of the state. The subject of this sketch was married in 1880, to a daughter of W. J. Green, an old settler of Thayer county, and highly esteemed. He was elected on the Republican ticket and is one of the hard-working and influential members of this body.
HON. FRANCIS E. WHITE, Plattsmouth, Cass county is a native of Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, born January 20, 1848. When he was 9 years of age his parents immigrated to the United States, locating in Plattsmouth in the year 1857. Mr. White has followed various occupations during the intervening years, from a day laborer to a member of the Legislature. For the last fifteen years he has been engaged in the grain business, Commencing when the B. & M. Railroad extended only as far west as the town of Ashland. In the year 1860 he made a trip across the plains to Denver, and remembers the place as a town of frame shanties, tents, and covered wagons. He was in the city of Lincoln shortly after the location of the capital, when two stores and a blacksmith's shop constituted the town; when grass grew on every street, and when corner lots were as plenty as now but a little cheaper. He helped to lay the stone for the first capital building of the state, now a thing of the past, and wondered why such a wilderness was selected as a site for the capital of Nebraska.

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In politics Mr. White is a Democrat. Was elected city clerk of Plattsmouth in 1875. In the year 1880 he thought he wanted to go to the state Senate. The people of the county were not of the same opinion, and snowed him under by a handsome majority.
HON. W. G. WHITMORE, Valley, Douglas county, is a native of Sunderland, Franklin county, Mass., born June 23, 1849. His father was a farmer, and the son was early taught to hoe his own row. In his youth he attended the public school, the academy, and at 17 years of age began clerking in a store, and from that he became proprietor of a store, which continued for ten years. He was one year in the office of the city clerk of Holyoke. In 1876 he was elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature and served the session of 1877. During the session his wife died, and the next spring he disposed of his property there, and traveled extensively in the west. The following winter, 1878, he looked Nebraska over, and finally located at Valley. In partnership with his brother he purchased about a section of land and at once blocked out a stock farm. The place now maintains a large number of cattle, horses, and other stock, and the brothers buy, feed, and handle many more. They have an extensive hay-baling establishment, and last year baled 5,000 tons. Their shipments of hay, grain, and stock amount to 600 car loads yearly. The place is twenty-five miles from Omaha, at the junction of the Union Pacific and Republican Valley railroads. It is a magnificent property, and a great business point. Mr. Whitmore was a member here in 1885, and has been prominently identified with the politics of the state, and her leading industrial public enterprises. He was recently elected president of the Nebraska Dairyman's Association, is vice-president of the Fine Stock Breeders' Association, and one of the leading farmers and stock growers of the

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state. He votes the Republican ticket, and is active and influential member on the floor of the House. He was one of the delegates to the National Convention of Charities and Corrections, held at St. Paul, Minn., last summer, and was largely instrumental in securing Omaha as the place of holding the next convention. Mr. Whitmore is the only member returned from Douglas county who was here the session of 1885.
   HON. JENS WILHELMSEN, Dannebrog, Howard county, is a native of Denmark, born near Slagelse City, on the Island of Zeland, upon which stands Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, May 23, 1848. He attended school in the old country until 14 years of age and then learned the wheelwright trade. When 19 years old he landed in New York, remained there eighteen months and worked at the carpenter's trade. He then went by water to California, across the Isthmus, and was there two years, working at the carpenter business. He then came overland to Nebraska, 1871, and took a homestead in Howard county, purchased more land and began farming, stock-raising, and dealing on quite a scale. He has recently erected a fine flouring mill at Dannebrog, of the roller process. It has a capacity of seventy barrels of flour in twenty-four house (sic). Mr. Wilhelmsen owns 600 acres of fine land, valuable town property, and has been climbing up in the world. He yet hangs on to the old homestead, and looks upon it as a kind of a mascott. Quite a colony of his countrymen have settled in and around that Danish town, and they desired to be properly represented in the Legislature, so they sent Mr. Wilhelmsen to see that justice was done them.

   HON. JOHN L. WILSON, Waco, York county, was born in De Peyster, St. Lawrence county, New York, April 17,
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1829. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Massachusetts, in the class of 1855. He subsequently followed teaching, until the war broke out. In 1855 he came to Springfield, Ill., taught there until 1862, then went into the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ill., captain of Co. G., by election, and was commissioned. He served with the company and regiment for eighteen months, until after Vicksburg capitulated, then returned to Memphis, was detached from his command and assigned to the duties of assistant provost marshal, and soon after provost marshal of the district of West Tennessee. This position he held until near the close of the war, when he returned to his regiment, then at Montgomery, Ala., and from there proceeded to Vicksburg and was mustered out, and returned to Illinois. He then engaged in teaching, continued two years, when his health failed, and he went into other business. He soon became convinced that he could not live in Illinois, and in 1879 came to Nebraska and located near Waco. Here he has regained his health, and has prospered beyond his expectations. His business is farming and stock raising. He has a pleasant home, and is surrounded with a fair complement of the blessings of life. Politically he is a Republican, but, is not a politician, and came here because his constituents put him forward, had faith in his ability and integrity, and he will see that they have not mistaken their man.
HON. ALBERT WILSEY, Hampton, Hamilton county, was born in Kendall County, Ill., Oct. 3, 1846. His father was a farmer, and the soon took his preliminary instruction in that line under the paternal eye. His educational advantages were the common schools and the Fowler Institute at Newark, Ill. Although in his teens he went into the army, enlisting in the One Hundred and

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Forty-seventh Ill., Company C. About one year that lasted, and he was mustered out, returned home, attended the High school, and subsequently engaged in stock dealing and farming. In 1875 he came west and located in York county, Neb., and there followed farming up to 1881, when he moved to Hamilton county. He has a good farm up there, but rents it and does business in town. Mr. Wilsey is an uncompromising Republican, and one of Senator Paddock's original supporters. He was a member here in 1881, when Van Wick was on top and Paddock was downed, The tables are now turned.
HON. NICHOLAS WULLENWABER, Seward, Seward county, is a native of Calkar, Germany, born February 20, 1846. He attended school for a few years in the old country, but immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1859. They located in Tazewell county, Ill. Mr. Wullenwaber lived there eighteen years, and in 1877 came to Nebraska, and located in Seward county on a farm. He now owns 320 acres of prime land, and is in the stock business, raising, feeding, and handling cattle and other domestic animals. He is a thrifty farmer and is here by virtue of his popularity and the race he won on the Democratic course.

HON. PIERCE G. WRIGHT, Martinsburg, Dixon county, was born in Ontario county, N. Y., November 15, 1816. He lived at home until 13 years old, then struck out for himself with a shilling and a cotton bandana. He drove a tow-boat on the Erie Canal, but has never been president of anything higher than an agricultuarl (sic) society. After two years on the canal, with no great results, he went to work on a farm and in a mill, and so floated around until 1833, when he came west and stopped in Willoughby, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He held out there until the fall

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of 1836, then pulled out for Michigan, and located on the St. Clair river. He put in twenty years out there in the Wolverine state, and in 1854 came on west again, and established his dugout in Allamakee Co., Iowa. There he managed to beat old father time out of twenty years more. He farmed in Iowa and went to the Legislature, a member of the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth General Assemblies. In 1876 another western fever struck him, so he made his way to Nebraska, and here he is yet, over 70 years old, and as tough as a grizzly bear. He settled in Dixon county on a farm, and still follows farming. His place is on South Creek, where he has 200 acres of land, and is reasonably well heeled. Mr. Wright is a popular citizen up there, and has been of valuable service to the county. He is on the Democratic side of the House, and came out of the race last fall twenty-three ahead, where the Republican majority is ordinarily 319.
HON. J. C. YUTZY, Falls City, Richardson county, was born in Meyersdale, Somerset county, Pa., march 24, 1843. He was educated in Somerset Academy, and in Philadelphia. During the war he was three years in the service, enlisting in Company C, Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry. He went in a private and maintained that honorable distinction for three years, or during the war. At the battle of New Market, Va., he was severely wounded, being shot through the arm and leg, and to cap the climax, was taken prisoner, and was ten months in Libby, Belle Isle, and Salisbury prisons. March 2, 1865, he was released from prison, and on the 31st of May was mustered out. He then returned home, attended school, studied dentistry, and attended a course of lectures. He was five years in the office of an eminent dental surgeon, then came out and opened an office of his own. Since then he has been stead-

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ly in practice. January, 1879, he came to Nebraska and located in Falls City. Last November he buried his beloved wife. He has five living children and two deceased. Dr. Yutzy has been mayor of Falls City, and has held other local offices. He votes the Republican ticket, and is an honest and hard-working member of the House.
HON. JAMES R. YOUNG, Omaha, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born January 10, 1848. He lived in the old country until 20 years of age, and learned the iron moulder's trade. In 1867 he immigrated to the United States and for a time worked at his trade in Boston, Mass. He has since traveled from Bunker Hill to the Golden Gate, and been in about all the states and territories of the Union. He was a year on the Sandwich Islands, and returned to Scotland, back again to America, and the spring of 1868 landed in Omaha, Nebraska. He then followed the Union Pacific Railroad out into the mountains, and saw it go over the continental divide and down the other slope. For the last four years he has been at work in the U. P. shops, Omaha. He has been too busy to marry. His old country lassie would not leave her native heath, so he is single. His politics are Republican.