CHARLES C. REED.
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CHARLES C. REED.
Charles C. Reed, representing the Fourth District in the House, was born August 31, 1854, in Portage county, Ohio. When he was five years of age his parents removed to Nebraska, first locating at Wyoming, where they remained fourteen years and where he received his education in the district school. He their removed to Sterling, Nebraska, where he remained until 1887, when he located at Vesta, Johnson county, his present home. Mr. Reed has been, from his early manhood, engaged in the mercantile business, and has a large general merchandise store at Vesta. He is one of the large landholders of Johnson county, and is an extensive dealer in real estate. He has never before held office, though he has been an earnest worker in the ranks of the Republican party. He was married in 1875 to Miss Clara Perkins, and has one son and four daughters. He is one of the "common-sense" members of the House and is chairman of the Roads and Bridges committee, and is also a member of the Committees on Telegraph and Telephone, Manufacturing and Commercial, and Banking and Currency.
CURTIS W. RIBBLE.
Curtis W. Ribble, Representative from the Thirty-first District, Saline county, was born in Fountaingreen, Hancock county, Illinois, November 13, 1856. In early boyhood his parents removed to Knot county, Illinois, and there his education was finished in the college at Abingdon. In 1878 he came to Nebraska and located on a farm near Swanton, in Saline county. This farm, for three years, he cultivated during the summer months, and during the winter time taught school. In 1881 he became a resident of DeWitt, which place has since been his home, and where he has been most of the time engaged in the mercantile and banking business. Mr. Ribble has taken a lively interest in educational affairs, and for many years has served as a member of the School Board, and has also been one of the Village Trustees. He is an active secret and fraternal society man. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, the A. O. U. W. and the Royal Highlander lodges. He is married and has a family consisting of three daughters. Representative Ribble is a Republican.
JAMES H. RIGGS.
James H. Riggs, Representative from the Tenth District, Douglas county, was born in Henry county, Iowa, in 1858. He received his education in the public schools of Iowa, and early in life learned the printer's trade. In April, 1880, he located at O'Neill, Nebraska, and set type on the first newspaper of Holt county, The Holt County Record. The following July he assisted W. D. Matthews to establish The Frontier in the same town, and later became a partner of G. M. Cleveland in publishing The Holt County Banner. In the spring of 1884 the Banner was consolidated with the Frontier under the name of the latter, and by purchase of Mr. Matthews' interest a year later, Mr. Rigors became its sole owner. In 1892 he disposed of his interests to Mr. Matthews, having been appointed postmaster of O'Neill the year previous, a position he held until the spring of 1895, when he removed to Randolph, Cedar county, and again resumed work in the newspaper business. In May, 1896, he went to Fremont, Nebraska, awl resided there for three years, then located at Waterloo and became the owner of the Gazette at that place. In 1900 he purchased a list of papers published at Valley, and at the present time is the publisher of the Gazette and also of editions for Elkhorn, Millard, Elk City and Bennington, all in the western part of Douglas county. Mr. Riggs is a Republican. On July 25, 1889, he was married to Henrietta Kimball, a native of Springfield, Illinois, and has a family consisting of one son and two daughters.
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