WILLIAM DELES-DERNIER.
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WILLIAM DELES-DERNIER.
William Deles-Dernier, Representative from the Seventh District, Cass county, was born at Memphis, Tennessee, December 3, 1856. When he was ten years of age, with his parents, he came to Nebraska and has since been a resident of Cass county. In early days, prior to the building of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with his father, he was a freighter. He took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1894, and since then has been in the practice of his profession, at Elmwood, his home town. Mr. Deles-Dernier makes a specialty of probate law, and has the largest practice of any in Cass county, and stands high among the legal fraternity of southeastern Nebraska. In 1888 he was Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the Nebraska Legislature. He is now serving his first term as a member of the House. He has taken a lively interest in educational affairs and, for some time, has been president of he High School Board of the town of Elmwood.Mr. Deles-Dernier is a Republican and one of the solid standbys of the party in Cass county. He was married in 1882 to Miss Gertrude I. Beck, and has a family consisting of four sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Chester, is an apprentice in the United States Navy.
H. M. DETRICK.
Horton M. Detrick, Representative from the Thirty-eigh h (sic) District, York county, is a native of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, born October 26, 1835. In 1856 he became a resident of Iowa, and in 1870, removed from Mt. Pleasant, in that state, to York county, Nebraska. Mr. Detrick is a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the 4th Iowa Cavalry from 1861 to 1865, and participated in all the engagements in which his company took a part. For seven continuous years he represented the City of York as a member of the York County Board, and from 1890 until 1895, was postmaster of York. He is one of the staunch Republicans who has always stood by his party's principles. He was married October 25, 1865, to Jennie C. Andrews, and has two sons and three daughters. His residence is in the City of York. He followed farming in Iowa and Nebraska until 1902, when he retired from active work and to enjoy the result of his many years of labor.
JOSEPH G. DOBRY.
Joseph G. Dobry, Representative from the Twenty-sixth District, Colfax county, is one of the few native Nebraskans serving in the House. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1870, and when he was an infant his parents removed to Midland Precinct, Colfax county, in which place he continuously lived until two years ago, excepting two years he attended school at Schuyler and two years at Creighton University, in Omaha. In the spring of 1901 he removed to his present home one mile and a half west of Schuyler, Nebraska, where he is engaged in farming. Mr. Dobry served in the 26th Session of the Nebraska Legislature as a member of the House. He is known as a Bryan Democrat of the uncompromising kind, he was married in 1901, to Miss Mary Castek.
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