CASS JONES.
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CASS JONES.
Cass Jones, Representative front the First District, Richardson county, was born in Fulton county, Illinois, October 28, 1842. He was educated in the common schools, spent his boyhood days on a farm, and has been a farmer ever since. When he was a child his parents removed to Kansas, where he grew to manhood. In April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 2d Kansas Cavalry, at Leavenworth, and soon was transferred to the 2d Nebraska. Upon the expiration of his term of enlistment, in November, 1863, he was discharged, and then entered the service of the government as a wagon-master, and directed the removing of supplies from Omaha and Fort Kearney until 1865. In 1866 he settled on section 30, Rulo Township, Richardson county, and still resides on this section. He has been successful as a farmer and is now the owner of nearly two sections of land in his home township. Representative Jones is one of the solid standbys of the Republican party and has never been an office-seeker, and is now serving his first term in the House. In 1895 he was married to Tillie Keil, and has one daughter. His post-office address is Rulo, Nebraska.
R. W. W. JONES.
Robert W. W. Jones, Representative from the Sixth District, Otoe county, is one of the Republican members. He was born in London, England, July 16, 1849, and in the spring of 1868 located in Nebraska. He received a thorough education in his native country, and for some time taught school in Nebraska, alternating with farming. For the past twenty-two years he has been engaged in the mercantile business at Dunbar, Otoe county, in which he has been fairly successful. He was a Democrat for some years, leaving that party on account of the silver issue, and has since been a Republican, and while an active worker for his party's good, he has never before held office. Representative Jones was married in 1876 to Miss Margaret Wilson, and has an interesting family of four sons and one daughter. Two of his children are graduates from the University of Nebraska, academic department, a third is a graduate from both the academic and law courses oh the same institution and the fourth is still a student in the University.
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FRANK JOUVENAT.
Frank Jouvenat, Representative from the Twenty-second District, Boone county, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee October 29, 1855. When he was about twenty years of age he became a resident of Indiana. His education was acquired by attendance at the public schools of Knoxville and Knoxville College. In 1879 he removed from Indiana and settled in Butler county, where he remained seven years, and then settled at Petersburg, in Boone county, where he is now engaged in the banking business. Mr. Jouvenat was a member of the 27th Session of the Nebraska Legislature. During the 28th Session Mr. Jouvenat is chairman of the Committee on Banks and Currency. He was married in November, 1880, to Miss Annie M. Crider, and has a family consisting of three sons and one daughter.
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