P. F. BEGHTOL.
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P. F. BEGHTOL.
Peter F. Beghtol, Senator from the Twentieth District, Lancaster county, was born at Industry, Illinois, December 27, 1857. His father was a merchant. Senator Beghtol received his education in the common schools and the High school of his native town. He took up the study of Pharmacy and, for some years, was employed as a pharmacist at Industry; then removed to Shenandoah, Iowa, where he followed his profession for nearly three years, and in 1883 settled at Bennett, Nebraska, where he engaged is the drug business with his brother, A. L. Beghtol, which he still continues at that place. Senator Beghtol has been active in politics but has never before held office other than that of school trustee, village clerk and positions of similar import in his own town. He is also in partnership with his brother in the ownership of three farms near Bennett.Senator Beghtol was married October 2, 1879, to Miss Ella L. Kenyon, of Bloomington, Illinois, and has two children, sons, one aged twenty-one and the other sixteen. Senator Beghtol is chairman of the Committees on State prison, and on Library, and member of the Highways, Budges and Ferries; Miscellaneous Subjects, Medical Societies, Manufactures and Commerce, Reform School, Asylum for the Feeble Minded and Home for the Friendless committees. Senator Beghtol is a Republican.
JAMES T. BRADY.
James T. Brady, Senator from the Ninth District, composed of Antelope, Boone, and Greeley counties, was born in Heyworth, Illinois, in August, 1885. His early days were spent on his father's farm and in attendance at the public schools. In 1884 he removed to Nebraska from his native state and located an a farm near Bradish in Boone county. After several years of successful farming he removed to Albion, and there engaged in the real estate business. He still attends to his farming interests.Senator Brady is one of the Fusionists in the Senate, but has always been a member of the Independent party. He never before held office and his nomination for senator came to him unsought for, and was nominated without opposition by both Democrats and Populists. He is a member of a number of fraternal societies in which he has always taken a deep interest. He was married in June, 1902, to Miss Theresa Brown. He is one of the careful, cautious, conservative members of the upper house of the Nebraska Legislature.
WILLIAM C. BROWN.
William C. Brown, Senator from the Fourteenth District, composed of Brown, Keya Paha, Cherry, Sheridan, Dawes, Box Butte and Sioux counties, was born in Syracuse, New York, November 28, 1853, When he was eight years old his family removed to Rochester, New York, where he received his education. He was admitted to the bar in McKean county, Pennsylvania, in 1882. For three years he practiced law in Clarenden, Warren county, Pennsylvania, of which town he was elected burgess, an office corresponding to that of mayor. In 1888 he removed to Springview, Keya Paha county, where he has since made his home and has been in the continual practice of his profession. He was elected first county attorney of Keya Paha county and by election has filled that office four terms. In 1880 he was appointed receiver of the Northwestern Bank at Springview, of which for some time prior he had been the cashier, closing up the affairs of the bank in 1892, returning to the depositors 72 1/2 per cent of their deposits when it was thought that the bank could not pay more than 50 per cent. He was the first chairman of the Fifteenth Judicial district and for several terms the county chairman of the Keya Paha County Republican Central committee. At various times he has been a delegate to congressional, judicial and state conventions. He is chairman of the board of trustees of Springview and president of the Keys Paha County Irrigation Association..
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