J. A. WOOLSTENHOLM, Democratic state senator from Hall and Howard counties, the seventeenth district, was born in Wisconsin in 1861, coming to Nebraska from Topeka, Kan., in the year 1886. He was married to Mary K. Hyde in 1888; they have one girl ten years of age. Mr. Woolstenholm is a merchant residing in Grand Island, has been member of the city council in his home town for two terms, and its president during the latter term.

   WILLIAM WALLACE YOUNG, state senator from Wayne, Stanton, Madison, and Pierce counties, the eleventh senatorial district, is always a Republican; was born November 7, 1859, at Monmouth, Ill., coming to Nebraska from Iowa In 1882. Mr. Young lives in Stanton, where he is a practicing lawyer, is married and has three daughters and one son. He has been prosecuting attorney of Stanton county and member of the school board for the past seven years. His district is the home of Senator W. V. Allen and has been Democratic for a number of years. Mr. Young was elected by 255 majority.

   T. F. ZIEGLER, from the eighth senatorial district, comprised of the counties of Dixon, Dakota, Knox, Cedar, and Thurston, resides at Hartington, Cedar county, where he is engaged in the business of breeding registered Hereford cattle. He was born May 24, 1863, and came to this state from Virginia. He was married to May E. Saunders, and they have three children. Mr. Ziegler is a Democrat, has been county treasurer, but never held any other public office of importance until being elected member of the twenty-seventh session of the Nebraska Legislature.

   JOHN C. F. McKESSON, secretary of the senate, was born in Buena Vista, Ill., December 13, 1858. Immediately after the war his parents moved to Kansas, removing within a year to Richardson county, this state. After completing his studies in the common schools, he took a six years' course in the State University in Lincoln, leaving it just before completing his senior year, to engage with Colonel Hyde in publishing the Lincoln Daily News. He remained with this paper for one year, removing at that time to his farm near Emerald which was his homestead and where he still resides. In the fall of 1890 he was elected a member of the Nebraska Legislature, being reelected in 1892, when he was considered one of the leaders on the Republican side of the house. He was a member of the state senate during the twenty-sixth session of the Legislature.

   CLARK ROBINSON, sargeant-at-arms of the state senate of the twenty-seventh session of the Nebraska Legislature, is now serving his second term, having filled that position during the twenty-sixth session. He was born in Scott county, Illinois, April 16, 1843, and came to Nebraska April 1, 1870. He married Hannah Edwards, and they have three children. He is engaged in the insurance and real estate business; has never held any public office except that of postmaster.

   REV. ABRAHAM A. CRESSMAN, chaplain of the state senate during the twenty-seventh session of the Nebraska Legislature, was born in Pennsylvania, July 4, 1849, and, came to this state from Ohio in the year 1879; took charge of the Congregational Church at Camp Creek. He married Josephine Redmond, and their family consists of two children. Mr. Cressman has been a minister in the Congregational Church since 1875. He was at one time county superintendent in Boone county for two terms, secretary of the school board at Wahoo, and is now serving for the second time as chaplain of the state senate, having been elected to that position by the senators in the twenty-sixth session of the Nebraska Legislature. His present address is Crete, Saline county.