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A. V. CUNNINGHAM.

      Alfred V. Cunningham, Representative from the Forty-first District, composed of Hamilton county, was born near Hudson, McLean county, Illinois, June 18, 1864. His childhood days and youth were spent on a farm and in attendance at the district school, where he acquired a liberal education. In November, 1888, he came to Nebraska and located first in Adams county, and later at Giltner, in Hamilton county, which is his home. All his life he has been a farmer, and for several years past in addition he has been interested in insurance matters. He has always been self-reliant and he considers the most useful school to him has been the school of experience. He is a calm thinker and reasoner, and a man of strong character and convictions. For some years he has been a member of the Masonic order, in which he has been an ardent worker. He has always supported and worked for the Republican party though he has never held office, other than in a local way, until the present time. Mr. Cunningham was married in November, 1885, to Miss Mary Poulson, of McLain county, Illinois, and to himself and wife ten sons have been born, eight of whom are living and all promise to become good American citizens. Their education is being carefully looked after, and each is a splendid specimen of model American youth, and are sources of pride to their parents. Mr. Cunningham stands alone among the members of the House and Senate as the father of the largest family of sons and is justly proud of this fact.

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FRANK CURRIE.

      Frank Currie, Representative from the Fifty-third District, composed of Dawes, Sioux, Box Butte and Sheridan counties, was born at Detroit, Michigan, January 15, 1855, He has been a resident of Nebraska since 1876, most of which time he has been engaged in the mercantile and live stock business, and is a ranchman, grower and shipper of stock. Mr. Currie has never before held other than local office. He has always taken an active part in politics in behalf of the Republican arty, of which he has been a steadfast adherent, but has never had the distinction of being classed as a politician or an office-seeker. He has been successful in his chosen occupation. He has been active in furthering the live stock interests of northwestern Nebraska. -

      Mr. Currie is a married man, his wife, in maidenhood, being Miss Minnie Richards, and his family consists of one son and two daughters. His post-office address is Whitney, Nebraska.

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JAMES H. DAVIS.

     James H. Davis, Representative from the Fifty-eighth District, composed of Buffalo county, is a native of Vermont, where he was born May 6, 1843. He received his education in the schools of Vermont and Massachusetts, and served throughout the Civil War, first in the Fifty-second Massachusetts, and later in the Sixth Massachusetts Light Artillery, participating in the engagements in which these two regiments participated. He was honorably discharged from the service in June, 1865. In 1873 he located in Nebraska, settling in Buffalo county, where he was one of the pioneers and where he is engaged in farming and the milling business. Mr. Davis is a Republican. This is not his first term in the Legislature, having served in the House during the session of 1879. His family consists of a wife, who in maidenhood was Miss Sarah L. Morrison, and two children, one son and one daughter.

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