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      William E. Robbins, Representative from the Thirty-second District, Gage county, is a native of Iowa, born in Mills county, November 18,1870. His childhood days were passed on the farm and in attendance at the public schools. After leaving the public schools, for two years he attended the Western Iowa Normal College, at Shenandoah, from which he was graduated in 1885; then entered Tabor College and took a two years course. In February, 1891, he came to Nebraska, settled in Gage county, where he has since been a farmer. Mr. Robbins is a Republican. He has never before held office except that of township clerk, which position he held four years. He is the chairman of the Committee on Other Asylums; is also a member of other committees of the house. He was married at Malvern, Iowa, December 22, 1891, to Miss Nanna Norton. His home and post-office address is Cortland, Nebraska.

      Joseph H. Roberts, Representative from the Fourteenth District, composed of Dodge county, is a native of Great Britain, born in County Cornwall in 1855. He went to school there till he was fourteen years old. At that age, when a mere boy, he availed himself of an opportunity to come to America. He came to Warren, Illinois. There he continued his efforts to get an education. He went to school in the winter and worked on a farm in the summer time. In 1881 he came to Nebraska. He bought a farm five miles west of Hooper, Dodge county, which he cultivated during the following two years. The four succeeding years he traveled through the West, as far as the Pacific coast, as agent for a large horse breeding establishment. Soon after quitting this he purchased a farm now owned by him, about four miles east of Fremont. In 1893 he was married to Miss Emma Hicks, since which time they have lived on the farm in one of the handsomest and best kept country homes in the county.

     Mr. Roberts has never held but two public positions, in both of which he has acquitted himself with credit. He was treasurer of Elkhorn township three years. He has been a member of the County Board of Supervisors for four years. Three years ago when the County Supervisors of Nebraska organized a state association he was chosen its secretary, to which position he has three times been re-elected.

     George L. Rouse is now serving his fourth term as Representative from the Forty-seventh District, Hall county. He is one of the Republican members of the House and is a native of the Buckeye state, having been born in Ottawa county, Ohio, June 17, 1846. His early days were passed on a farm. The rudiments of his education he acquired in the public schools and finished at Baldwin University and Oberlin College. For some years he was a school teacher in Ohio and in Illinois, and in 1872 came to Nebraska, purchased a farm in Hall county, where he has since been a farmer and stock-grower. By hard work and good management he has accumulated a comfortable competency and is the owner of a farm of 640 acres, all of which is in a high state of cultivation. For six years he was a member of the Hall county board, three of which he served as chairman. Representative Rouse was one of the strong candidates for the speakership of the 28th Session, he is one of the hard workers in the House and is serving as chairman of the Committee on Deficiencies. Representative Rouse was married in 1873 to Miss S. A. Rexroad, and has a family of eight children, five sons and three daughters. His post-office address is Alda, Nebraska.

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