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      Dominicus S. Hasty, Senator from the Twenty-ninth District, composed of Furnas, Red Willow, Hitchcock, Dundy, Gosper, Frontier, Chase and Hayes counties, was born in York county, Maine, December 13, 1846. His birth-place was on a farm and he was reared as a farmer boy and given the advantages of a common school education. Notwithstanding his inclination to play pranks upon fellow pupils and worry his teachers, he managed to secure as. education which enabled him, in later life, to become a surveyor and hydraulic engineer. During his life in Maine he was a lumberman and surveyor. In 1871 he removed to Nebraska and settled on a homestead near Arapahoe, in Furnas county, and upon this homestead he still resides and devotes his attention to farming mainly. In Nebraska he has followed surveying, hydraulic engineering, bridge contracting and the building of irrigation ditches, reservoirs and mills. His life has been an active one. While always a Republican, he has been too busy to devote much time in seeking office, and is now holding his first official position other than minor local offices. If he had to seek the nomination he would now not be a member of the Senate, but once nominated for the office, as a duty to his party, he made a winning fight. Senator Hasty was married in 1875 to Emma Atkinson, and has a family consisting of three sons and two daughters. His post-office address is Arapahoe, Nebraska.

      John Cary Hedge, Senator from the Twenty-seventh District, composed of Adams county, was born and reared in Washington county, Pennsylvania, the date of his birth being December 4, 1844. He received his education in the schools of his native state and February 1, 1865, enlisted in Company H, Second Pennsylvania Cavalry and served as a private until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He came to Nebraska in April, 1878, and for some time was engaged in the lumber and banking business at Fairfield. In 1891 he sold out and removed to Hastings, his present home, where he commenced business as a miller and exporter of flour and grain with offices at both Hastings and Lincoln. Senator Hedge has always been a Republican, but never has he held an office above member of the School Board, which he has filled for four years in Hastings, until he was elected to the State Senate. His business career has been a successful one, and he follows his business principles closely in his official acts as a member of the Senate.

      Senator Hedge was married in 1870 to Eva M. Hewitt, and his family consists of two eons and one daughter.

      Robert B. Howell, Senator from the Sixth Senatorial District, Douglas county, is a native of Michigan. Mr. Howell entered the Naval Academy at an early age, and after graduation and subsequent service resigned and located in Omaha to practice his chosen profession of civil engineering. From the first he took an active interest in irrigation and was instrumental in securing the enactment of the present laws upon the subject. As the first state engineer, he organized the Department of Irrigation. In 1895 he was tendered and accepted the position of city engineer of Omaha. In 1896 he was appointed by President Cleveland a member of the Naval Board of Visitors to Annapolis. His term of office as city engineer terminated in 1897, and the following year upon the outbreak of the Spanish War he tendered his services to the Navy Department and was appointed by President McKinley a lieutenant in the Navy, in which capacity he served on the U. S. Cruiser "Prairie," with the North Atlantic squadron and subsequently with the forces in the West Indies.

      At the close of the war he received an honorable discharge and actively re-entered his profession.

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