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      Job W. Cassel, Representative from the Sixth District, Otoe county, was born in Warren county, Indiana, December 7, 1835. He received his education in the common schools of Indiana and passed his youth upon the farm. He is one of the Nebraska pioneers, coming from Indiana in 1856 and settling in Otoe county. From 1859 to 1865 he was a freighter and miner in Colorado and Montana. Then he returned to Otoe county, where he has since made his home and where he has been a farmer, giving his particular attention to horticulture, and has done much towards the advancement of fruit-growing in his section. He has always been a Republican and at various times has served as a delegate to county and state conventions. He has been an active worker for his party but never an office-seeker, and is now serving his first term as a member of the Legislature.

      Representative Cassel was married January 19, 1805 to Miss Mary L. Harmon, daughter of Oliver Harmon, of Suffield, Connecticut, and has a family consisting of three sons and one daughter. One of his sons is John H. Cassel, a newspaper artist well known as an illustrator of ''Puck," and other publications. Another son, Walter, is in New York, assistant cashier in the foreign department of the American Express company, and the other son, Albert, is in the employ of the Anaconda Mining Co., at Butte, Montana. The daughter is Mrs. A. J. Klepser of Weeping Water, Nebraska. Mr. Cassel's post-office address is Nebraska City, Nebraska.

     George S. Christy, Representative from the Third District, Nemaha county, was born in Keokuk county, Iowa, October 25, 1863. When he was ten years of age his parents removed from Iowa and located in Nebraska. His early education was received in the public schools of his native state and Nebraska and completed in the Fairfield College; Nebraska. He was reared on a farm and has been a farmer and a breeder of line live stock for a number of years. He has always taken a lively interest in agricultural affairs and has been an active member of the State Horticultural Society for many years, now being the president of that body. He has always been an active worker for the Republican party but has never held office until the present, being elected to represent his county in the Legislature in the general election, 1902. He is a married man. His wife, in maidenhood, was Miss Hattie Fredenburg. His family consists of five sons and one daughter. His post-office address is Johnson, Nebraska.

     William Nathaniel Coats, Representative from the Fiftieth District, composed of Holt county, was born in Mansfield, Ohio, March 7, 1868. He received his education in the schools of his native state. At an early age he learned telegraphy and for a number of years was an operator and station agent for the Erie railroad. He came to Nebraska in July, 1891, and settled at Stuart, Holt county, where he engaged in the furniture, undertaking and implement business. In 1897 and 1898 he was one of the county supervisors of Holt county. He is the first Republican elected to the Legislature from the Fiftieth District in fourteen years. Mr. Coats was married March 4, 1893, to Miss Fannie Inglis, and has four daughters. He owns one of the finest homes in northwestern Nebraska, at Stuart.

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