W. H. HOGREFE.
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W. H. HOGREFE.
William Henry Hogrefe, Representative from the First District, Richardson county, was born near Hanover, Germany, June 18, 1852. When seventeen years old he came to America with two brothers and located in Missouri, where his education was finished in the public schools, he came to Nebraska in 1883 and located at Stella and there engaged in the mercantile business which has been his occupation for the past thirty years. Mr. Hogrefe is also interested in farming, being the owner of two farms near Stella, and is a director in the Stella Bank.Mr. Hogrefe is a Republican, he was married to Miss Effie M. Martin in 1877, at Corning. Missouri, and has a family consisting of one son and two daughters. He has never held office before, except of minor character, and is now serving his first term in the House.
J. G. HOLLIET.
J. G. Holliet, Representative from the Thirtieth District, Lancaster county, was born in Richmond, Indiana, in 1843. He received his education in the common schools and then engaged in farming in his native state. In 1887 he came to Nebraska and settled at Denton, where for seven years he was engaged in farming. In 1894 he removed, to Havelock and opened a hotel, the conducting of which has been his business since then. Mr. Holliet has been a Republican all his lifetime but has never before held office. He was married in 1872 to Miss Clara I. Nichols, and has a family of one son and one daughter.
CHARLES H. HOY.
Charles H. Hoy, of Silver Creek, Representative from the Thirty-ninth District, Polk county, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July 2, 1863. At the age of six he removed with his parents to Sanagamon county, Illinois. After a residence there of two years the family again removed to Polk county, Nebraska, where his father took up land under the Timber Culture Act. Here he attended school in winter and worked on his father's farm in the summer. In 1892, feeling the need of a better education, he attended the Fremont Normal school, from which he graduated in the business and also in the teacher's course. After this he taught school for a time, but gave up school teaching and went to farming again, at which occupation he is now engaged. He was a member of the Legislature in 1901, representing the same district which he now represents. He is a Populist.
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