ROBERT J. SLOAN.
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won the Maiden Prize in the competitive drill at Omaha, that year, and was awarded a prize cap by the citizens of Omaha. Upon the organization of the 3rd Nebraska, U. S. Volunteers, Senator Sheldon was commissioned captain of Co. B, 3rd Nebraska Volunteers, and served with his company in the United States and in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, and was mustered out of service with his regiment in 1899. Senator Sheldon was married at Roseville, Illinois, in 1895, to Miss Rose Higgins, and has two children, George Lawson Sheldon, Jr., aged five years, and Mary Sheldon, aged two years. Senator Sheldon is engaged in farming and lives in the house where he was born. He was nominated for the Senate by unanimous vote and without solicitation for the office, he at the time being in the state of Mississippi.
ROBERT J. SLOAN.
Robert J. Sloan, Senator from the Twenty-fourth District, York and Fillmore counties, was born on a farm near Monticello, Iowa, February 16, 1870. He is of Irish ancestry; his parents, while young, emigrated to Philadelphia, and in 1857 became pioneers of Jones county, Iowa. He received his early education in the public schools and then entered the Iowa State College, at Ames, from which he was graduated in November, 1892 with the degree of B. Sc. Immediately after his graduation he located in Nebraska and took up the study of law at Geneva, which place has since been his home. He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and has been in active practice ever since. In 1901 he was elected Grand Vice Chancellor of Knights of Pythias in Nebraska. Senator Sloan, during the 28th Session, was the chairman on Constitutional Amendments and Federal Relations and on Privileges and Elections committees. He was also a member of the following committees: Judiciary, Public Land. and Buildings, Enrolled and Engrossed Bills, Education, Reform Schools, etc., and Counties and County Boundaries. He was married in 1893 to Miss Rose Owens, and has one child, a daughter, two years old. He is a Republican.
J. H. UMSTEAD.
Jacob Horace Umstead, Senator from the Eighteenth District, composed of Polk, Merrick and Nance counties, was born in Ohio in 1851. He received his education in the common schools and early in life learned the printer's trade, at which he worked for eight years. He came to Nebraska in 1879 and settled on a farm in Nance county, where he has since resided and has been successful as a farmer and for seven years he has served as a member of the Nance County Board of Supervisors, two years of which time he has been chairman of the same. He has always taken a deep interest in agricultural matters and is at present the president of the Nance County Farmer's Institute. He is a Republican and is serving his first term as a member of the Nebraska Assembly.Senator Umstead is a married man and his wife, whom he married in 1882, in maidenhood was Mary F. Lamb. His post-office address is Fullerton, Nebraska.
AARON WALL.
Aaron Wall, Senator from the Sixteenth District, Buffalo and Sherman counties, was born August 7, 1849, in Lancastershire, England. He come to Nebraska in 1870, and located at Dewitt, Saline county, and in 1876 settled in Loup City. He commenced the study of law in Dewitt and was admitted to the bar in 1871. For more than thirty years he has been in the active practice of his profession. From 1876 until 1880 he was county Judge of Sherman county. He has always been an active worker in the political field and in 1888 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago. The same year he was the chairman of the Republican State Convention. He has never been ambitious to fill office and is now serving his first term as a member of the Nebraska Assembly. Senator Wall stands high among the legal fraternity of the state. He is a hard and earnest worker and has met with a flattering degree of success. He was married in 1876 to Miss Addie Vanhuesen. He is one of the conservative members of the Senate.
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