STEWARD INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND.
UDGE
B. S. LITTLEFIELD, steward of the Institute for the Blind at
Nebraska City, was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
January 21, 1862, of Puritan stock, and points to a
genealogical line reaching back to the Pilgrims of the
Mayflower. His father and mother, at the age of eighty, are
still living on the old homestead, where they celebrated
their golden wedding in June, 1895. Young Littlefield came
to Nebraska in 1884, and taught for a number of years, two
of which he was employed as an instructor in the Lincoln
Business College. In 1889 he became editor of a Lincoln
newspaper, afterwards known as the Nebraska State
Laborer. This paper represented the trades assemblies
and other organizations, and made its mark in the field of
reform. Mr. Littlefield was a caustic, fearless, and
brilliant writer, exposing official corruption vigorously
and without compromise. He located in Perkins county in
1892, and was chosen one of the secretaries of the senate in
the legislature of 1893. In the fall of that year he was
elected county judge on the populist ticket. In 1896 he did
valiant service for the fusion cause, and was appointed to
his present position last January. He was married April 29,
1896, to Miss Hannah Andrews, of Syracuse, daughter of Hon.
Edwin Andrews, an old settler and prominent business
man.
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