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GEORGE E. BACON.

      George E. Bacon, Representative from the Fifty-ninth District, composed of Dawson county, was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, August 16, 1843. When he was nineteen years of age he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and there, for seven years, was clerk in a grocery store. He then engaged in the grocery business on his own account and continued in the same until he came to Nebraska in March, 1884, and settled in Dawson county.

      Mr. Bacon served as county commissioner of Dawson county for three years from 1887 to 1890. Prior to coming to Nebraska he was twice elected to the Common Council of Boston. He has always been a Republican and is now serving his first term in the House. Mr. Bacon in the 28th Session was the chairman of the Committee on Penitentiaries, and is a member of a number of other committees. He was married in March, 1867, to Miss Susan D. Savage, and has a family consisting of two sons and one daughter. His post-office address is Doss, Nebraska.

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DR. A. E. BARTOO.

      Dr. Albon E. Bartoo, Representative from the Fifty-fifth District, composed of Valley county, was born in Eden, Erie county, New York, in 1862. After completing his studies in the district school he entered Springville (New York) Academy, where he attended two fall terms. During the winter months he taught school and later attended for one term each the academies at Forestville and Hamburg. In the fall of 1885 he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Buffalo, from where he was graduated president of his class in 1889. For six months he practiced at Angola, New York, then removed to Westcott, Nebraska, and nine months later, in 1890, removed to Arcadia, where he has since resided, and where, for a time, he was one of the proprietors of the Crystal drug store. The doctor is a member of the Custer County Medical society and the ex-secretary of the Loup Valley District Medical society. In the fall of 1896 he married Miss Rosetta F. Potter, and the following year built a cosy (sic) residence in the southern part of the town. Dr. and Mrs. Bartoo are the parents of one child, a daughter. The doctor is interested in agriculture and stock raising and is a sanguine advocate of irrigation and alfalfa growing.

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D. A. BECHER.

     Dirk A. Becher, Representative from the Twenty-fourth District, composed of Platte county, was born January 17, 1859, in Germany. He emigrated to America and settled in Illinois, and in 1880 removed to Nebraska, locating in Platte county, where he engaged in farming and stockraising. Mr. Becher received a thorough education in his native country. He has served as justice of the peace for one term, town clerk two terms and four terms as county supervisor of Platte county. He served in the 27th Legislature and was re-elected in 1902, both times on the Democratic ticket, receiving the support of the Fusionists. Mr. Becher has been twice married. His first wife was Anna Johnson, whom he married in 1880 in Illinois, and who died in 1887, leaving three sons. His present wife, to whom he was married in 1888, in maidenhood was Miss Gesine Johannes, and is the mother of two boys and three girls. His post-office address is Columbus, Nebraska.

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