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G. C. McAllister, Representative from the Fifty-fourth District, was born in Marion county, West Virginia, December 28, 1856; Scotch-Irish descent; father Pennsylvanian, mother Virginian, both living in Marion county, West Virginia. The first school he attended was, the first free school in West Virginia. He attended school three mouths each year until eighteen years old; came to Illinois in 1878 and worked on a farm; came to Nebraska in 1881 and worked on the farm of Hon. John M. Brockman, of Richardson county; in 1882 and 1883 attended school at Valparaiso, Indiana; came back to Nebraska in 1884 and taught school nine years; homesteaded in Lincoln county, Nebraska; graduated from the law department of the State University in 1894; taught school one year; came to North Platte in 1895 and tried to engage in the practice of the law; came to Chappell in 1897, and in May, 1897, was appointed county attorney to fill vacancy. Has been twice elected without opposition. Was the first in the state to institute tax foreclosure proceedings without county treasurer's certificate. Represents more acres than any other representative in the state; district consists of nine counties, Lincoln, Cheyenne and Keith counties and the territory west of Logan county.
JOHN H. MCCLAY.
John H. McClay, Representative from the Thirtieth District, Lincoln, Lancaster county, was born October 5, 1844, in West Liberty, Ohio, of Scottish. parentage. He received his education in parochial schools. When he was sixteen years of age he enlisted in Company G, of the 47th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served from 1861 until mustered out in 1866; and was commissioned, in 1863, lieutenant for meritorious service. Two years after leaving the army he settled in Lincoln, Nebraska, which place has since been his continuous home. He was county clerk of Lancaster county for four years and one of the county commissioners for three years. For the past five years he has been engaged in the bond and security business. During the Spanish-American War he served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Third Nebraska. In 1900 he was a delegate to the National Republican convention at Philadelphia. He is now serving his first term in the State Legislature. Col. McClay was married in 1867, at Farmington, Illinois, to Tryphena M. Wickwire, and has a family of children consisting of one son and two daughters.
D. A. MCCULLOCH.
David A. McCulloch, Representative from the Sixty-second District, Harlan county, is one of the Populist members of the House. He was born in Dekorra, Columbia county, Wisconsin, January 24, 1856. His early days were spent on the farm and in attendance at the common schools, where he acquired a liberal education. In March, 1878, he came to Nebraska and located on a homestead on Section 5, Range 4, 17 West, Harlan county. In 1895 he was elected county treasurer, and in January, 1896, removed to Alma. For eight years he served as supervisor of Harlan county, and four tears as county treasurer. He is a member of the Masonic, the Odd Fellows and the A. O. U. W. orders. He was married November 27, 1879, to Christina Jensen, and has a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. His residence is in Alma, Nebraska, where from 1898 until December, 1902, he was engaged in the grocery and queensware business.
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