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      William P. Warner, Senator representing the Eighth District, composed of Knox, Cedar, Dixon, Dakota and Thurston counties, was born at Richland, Iowa, April 28, 1866. When he was two years old his parents removed to Dakota county, where he received his elementary education and has since lived. He attended business college at Sioux City, and commenced reading law in the office of Judge McLain, now of the Iowa Supreme Court, then chancellor of the law school of the Iowa State University. and was admitted to the bar in 1891. For four years he served as county judge of Dakota county and for five years as county attorney. He has been an active worker in the political field, thoroughly Republican in all his principles, and his election in 1902 to the State Senate was by a majority of 1,114 in a district that in 1894 gave 300 Fusion majority. Senator Warner is the first Republican senator sent from his district in eight years. He is conservative, a hard and earnest worker, quick to see into matters and very careful in examining every point before arriving at conclusions. Senator Warner was married February 16, 1893, to Miss Alice M. Graham of Sioux City, Iowa. Senator and Mrs. Warner are the parents of three children, two sons and one daughter. He resides at Dakota City.

      Warren A. Way, Senator from the Twelfth District, composed of Platte and Colfax counties, is one of the Fusion members of the Senate. He was born in Peru, Clinton county, New York, October 27, 1850. He was reared on a farm and received his education in the country and village schools. In March, 1878, he came to Nebraska, and for four years was a farmer in Douglas county. In the fall of 1882 he removed to Platte county, where he purchased a farm and successfully continued agriculture until 1893, when he became a resident of Columbus, Nebraska, and there engaged in the coal and grain business, which he continued to the present.

      Senator Way was married at Keesville, Clinton county, New York, October 6, 1872, to Miss Mary F. Dodge. To this union three children have been born, two sons and one daughter, of which one son and the daughter are living.

     Julius L. Young, Senator from the Second District, composed of Nemaha and Johnson counties, was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1842. When he was eleven years of age his parents removed to Jo Daviess county, Illinois, and there his youth was spent at work on the farm and in attendance at the public school, and his education finished in Rock River Seminary, at Mt. Morris, Illinois. On September 23, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Independent battalion of Fremont Rangers. Upon the removal of General Fremont this organization was consolidated with Mulligan's Paroled Prisoners, and in January, 1862, was re-mustered as Co. I, Third Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. Mr. Young was mustered out of service at Little Rock, Arkansas, December 31, 1864. In 1866 he drove overland from Galena, Illinois, to Nebraska, crossing the Missouri river on the 19th of May. He took up a homestead in the western part of Nemaha county, where he remained until the completion of the A. & N. railroad, when he removed to Elk Creek Station and engaged in the buying and selling of grain and live stock. In 1885 he was elected county clerk of Johnson county and was re-elected in 1887. At the expiration of his term of office he moved to a farm which he had bought one mile west of Tecumseh, and there he still lives and devotes his attention to farming and stock-raising. Mr. Young is a Republican and is filling his first term in the Nebraska Legislature. He was married in March, 1871, to Caroline S. Matson, and has reared a family of five children, four sons and one daughter.

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