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      Fred Marion Gregg, Representative from the Seventeenth District, composed of Wayne and Stanton counties, is an Ohioan, the son of a Civil War veteran, of American ancestry, and was born March 17, 1867, on a farm near the village of Nevada. When five years of age his parents moved to Jackson county, Kansas, where he enjoyed his initial schooling. Three years of hot winds, chintz-bugs and grasshoppers terminated the Kansas experiences, and the family returned to the Ohio farm, where schooling was continued in the graded schools of the village of Nevada. Graduating from the High school at eighteen, Mr. Gregg alternated work on the farm with teaching and attending college until the age of twenty-seven, when he completed the Classical Course of the Ohio Normal University. Then followed three years of teaching Latin, Greek and English in the Tri-state Normal, Scottsboro, Alabama, and a year of similar work in a female college in Missouri.

      In 1898 he was married to Miss Carrie Cockerill, of Washington, C. H., Ohio, and came to Nebraska to take the position of teacher of Natural Sciences in the Nebraska Normal College, Wayne, Nebraska. He owns a little home in Wayne, and is recognized as a useful citizen as well as a popular and successful teacher. He has never held any other public office.

      David Hanna, Representative from the Fifty-second District, Cherry and Keya Paha counties, was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, July 5, 1845, of Scotch-Irish parentage. He received his education in the public schools of his native state and in 1883, after some years spent in Minnesota, he settled in Nebraska, where he took up land and engaged in the cattle business which he still follows. Representative Hanna served as sheriff of Cherry county during 1890 and 1891. This is his first term in the House and is the chairman of the School Lands and Funds committee. He has been successful in his business pursuits and carries his business principles into all affairs in his official capacity, exercising sound judgment and common sense. He is one of the conservative and careful members of the House. He was married in 1876, in Minnesota Lake, Minnesota, to Janett Lambie, born in Mr. Hanna's native county, and his family consists of one son and three daughters. His post-office address is Wood Lake, Nebraska.

     William J. Harmon, Representative from the Twenty-seventh District, Saunders county, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, January 30, 1849. He descends from good old stock, his early ancestors having located in America in 1635 and in his native town in 1670. His family tree embraces the family of Attorney General Harmon, who filled the office under Cleveland's administration. Mr. Harmon came to Nebraska in March, 1872, and in May following entered into contract with W. A. Richards, late Governor of Wyoming and now commissioner of the General Land Office, to survey government lands. Mr. Harmon followed surveying for a period of eighteen months; returning from this survey Mr. Harmon located at Omaha for a time and was employed by the Union Pacific shops. In 1874 he bought land in Saunders county, and commenced cattle raising, which he has since continued and is now the owner of 680 acres of rich Saunders county land. In 1875, in company with Jack Staats--the latter killed by lightning in the seventies---constructed the first bridge across the Platte river at Fremont, and upon the death of Mr. Staats, became its sole owner and conducted it as a toll bridge until he sold out to the Fremont corporation in 1883. Mr. Harmon is a member of the Masonic, Pythian, and a number of other orders, in which he is prominent. He was married in 1879 to Miss Nellie Staats, and has a family of four sons and two daughters. His post-office address is Fremont, Nebraska. He is a Republican,

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