W. G. SADDLER.
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W. G. SADDLER.
William Greene Saddler, Representative from the Forty-fifth District, Adams county, was born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, August 15, 1844. He was reared on a farm and received his early education in the public schools. In January, 1863, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry Volunteers and served until January 12, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. After leaving the army he returned to Kentucky, and in 1875 settled in Putnam county, Indiana, on a farm, where he remained until September, 1883, when he located in Adams county, Nebraska, near the town of Juniata, where he has since resided and is engaged in farming and in the breeding of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. For seventeen years Mr. Saddler has been a director. of School District No. 37. This is the only official position held until elected to the Legislature in 1902. He is a Republican. He was married May 3, 1865, to Miss Susan C. Hale, of Kentucky, and has a family of nine children, eight sons and one daughter. His post-office address is Juniata, Nebraska.
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WILLIS G. SEARS.
Willis G. Sears, now serving his second term as Representative from the Twelfth District, Burt county, was born in Ohio, August 16, 1860. When he was one year old his parents removed to Crawford county, Pennsylvania. In 1879 he came to Nebraska and located at Tekamah. In 1882 he entered the law department of the Kansas State University at Lawrence. He then returned to Tekamah, and in 1884 was admitted to the bar. Representative Sears has since devoted his entire time and attention to his profession. For six years he was county attorney of Burt county, and for three terms mayor of Tekamah. He served in the House during the 27th Session, and was Speaker of that body. He was unanimously nominated for re-election in the fall of 1902 and was elected to the House by an increased majority over the vote received two years before. Mr. Sears has been one of the earnest workers for the good of his party, and is one of the strong men of the House, He has a family consisting of five children, Maybelle, Edward, Flora, Sigsby and Charles, who are motherless, Mrs. Sears having died in May, 1902.
T. C. SHELLY.
Thomas C. Shelly, Representative from the Tenth District, Omaha, Douglas county, was born of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 27, 1843. In his youth his parents removed to Illinois, where he grew to manhood. In 1861, when he was but seventeen years of age, he enlisted in the 17th Illinois Infantry as a private; subseqently promoted to Captain for meritorious service, and placed in command of Company H, 15th Illinois, and sent to the frontier to fight Indians. In September, 1865 he was mustered out of service at Springfield, Illinois, and later located at Montour, Iowa, where he engaged in the drug business. In 1870 he settled at Falls City, Nebraska, where he remained four years, when he went to California, and after four year's spent there, returned to Falls City. There he served as mayor. In 1889 he took up his residence in Omaha and organized the Shelly-Rogers Commission Co., of which he is the president. Mr. Shelly is a Republican and is serving his first term in the Legislature. He is the chairman of the Committee on Corporations. Representative Shelly was married in 1868, to Miss Mattie E. Bell, and is the father of one child, a daughter. Representative Shelly is a member of the Loyal Legion, is a Knight Templar and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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