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      Frederick W. Koetter, Representative from the Tenth District, Omaha, Douglas county, was born in Germany in 1846. He was educated in the schools of his native country, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed in the cabinet-making trade. When he was twenty-one he entered the Prussian army and served throughout the Frano-Prussian war. In 1879 he came to America and located at Omaha, where he has made, his home since then. Mr. Koetter has been active in Union Labor circles and is a prominent member of Carpenter's Union No. 427, of Omaha. He has never before held office. He is a Republican. He was married in 1873, and has a family consisting of wife and two sons.
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      George L. Loomis, Representative from the Fourteenth District, Dodge county, was born in Chautauqua county, New York, fifty-three years ago. The ancestors of Mr. Loomis came to this country more than one hundred and fifty years ago, and his great-great grandfathers, both paternal and maternal, were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. One saw General Israel Putnam make his famous ride for life, and was also present at the hanging of Major Andre. His grandfather was an officer in the War of 1812. The youthful days of Mr. Loomis were spent upon a farm and in attendance at the district schools, He commenced the study of law in the office of Barlow & Green, Jamestown, New York, and later entered the law department of Union University, Albany, New York, from which he was graduated in May, 1875, with the degree of LL. B., and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New York. He located in Fremont, Nebraska, in August, 1876, where he has since been in active and highly successful practice of his profession. For two terms he was city attorney of Fremont, was county attorney of Dodge county two terms, served as member of the Board of Education three terms and is now serving his second term in the Legislature. He is a Democrat.

     Representative Loomis is an Odd Fellow of national standing, having

held all the offices in the gift of the Order in this state and served for eight years as Grand Representative to the Sovereign, Grand Lodge. He is somewhat interested in banking, having helped organize the Commercial National Bank and Home Savings Bank of Fremont, and served as director in each since their organization. Representative Loomis was married July 21, 1880, to Alice M. Hadley, of Hillsdale, Michigan, and has a family of six children, five sons and one daughter.

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