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H. S. BELDEN.

      H. S. Belden, Representative from the First District, composed of Richardson county, was born in Ohio in 1840. In his youth his parents became residents of Illinois and there he received his education in the public schools. He was reared on a farm and early in life became accustomed to hard work. On May 24, 1801, he enlisted in Co. E, 15th Illinois Infantry as a private, and served four years, four months and four days, and was mustered out at Springfield, Illinois, as first sergeant. During most of his service he served in the 16th and 17th army corps. In 1867 he came from Illinois and located on a farm in Richardson county, where he has since been continuously engaged in agricultural pursuits, giving particular attention to the growing and feeding of livestock. Mr. Belden has been a Republican from his early manhood, though never classed as a politician. The only office he ever held other than precinct and school offices, was that of county commissioner of Richardson county, having served on the board in 1896 and 1897. This is his first term in the House. Mr. Belden was married to Miss Martha Jennings in 1867 at Salem, Nebraska, and has four sons and three daughters. His post-office address is Dawson, Nebraska.
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H. C. M. BURGESS.

      Henry C. M. Burgess, Representative from the Thirtieth District, Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska, was born in New York, August 20, 1858. When an infant his parents removed to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and there he received his education in the public schools and in the Methodist College of that city. In 1882 Mr. Burgess came to Nebraska and located at Omaha, where he engaged as a commercial traveler. One year later he became connected with a St. Joseph, Missouri, commercial house which he represented for three years, and then for several years traveled for one of the wholesale houses of Omaha. He abandoned commercial pursuits and turned his attention towards life insurance and is the manager of the Tribe of Ben Hur for Nebraska and Kansas. The past few years he has made his home in Lincoln. Mr. Burgess was married February 15, 1893, to Marie C. Burgess, and has one son. Mr. Burgess is a Republican and is now serving his first term in the House.

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P. A. CALDWELL.

     P. A. CaIdwell, Representative from the Forty-second District, composed of Clay county, was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, November 7, 1848. He received his education in the schools and academies of his native state and passed the principal part of his youth at farming. He located in Nebraska in 1883, settling at Crete, where for six years he was in the employ of the Crete Milling Co. In 1892 he removed to Clay county, where he purchased a farm and has since been devoted to agriculture and stock raising. Prior to coming to Nebraska, for nine years he was engaged in the coal mining arid lumber business. His politics are Republican. In 1869 he was married to Miss Sarah Bloom, and has a family of five sons and four daughters. Mr. Caldwell's address is Edgar, Nebraska. .

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