I. N. TRASK.
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I. N. TRASK.
Isaac N. Trask Representative from the Thirty-seventh District, composed of Fillmore county, was born in Columbus Grove, Ohio, June 21, 1856. He attended the public schools until he was seventeen years of age, after which he took a course in the Ada (Ohio) business college. He was reared on a farm, and this has been his occupation all his lifetime. After leaving business college he was a farmer in Ohio until the spring of 1879, when he removed to Fillmore county, Nebraska, and located on a farm near Geneva, where he has been engaged in farming and stock raising since then. Mr. Trask was married in Ohio, in 1877, to Miss Amelia Fravert, and has two children, one son and one daughter. His post-office address is Geneva, Nebraska. Mr. Trask was elected to the Legislature by Democrats and Populists.
JOHN .J. VLASAK.
John J. Vlasak, representing the Twenty-seventh District in the House, was born in Sichov, Bohemia, October 12, 1868. In 1871 his parents came to this country and settled in Saunders county, Nebraska. His youth was beset with pioneer hardships, and when he was only seven years of age, during the summer months, it was necessary that he work as a farm helper to assist in the support of his father's family. He attended school during the winter months until he was fourteen years old. Left fatherless, at an early age, the care of the home farm devolved upon him. When he was eighteen years old he left home, and for a number of years worked as a clerk in general merchandise stores of different places. From 1882 to 1896 he was manager of a general store at Morse Bluff. In the spring of 1898 he took charge of his brother's store at Prague, Nebraska, and in the fall of the same year bought the hardware, implement and coal business of F. Secor. August 1, 1992, he formed a partnership with his brother under the name of J. J. Vlasak & Co. Mr. Vlasak was married November 20, 1894, to Miss Anna Worka, of North Bend, Nebraska, and has a family of three children, seven, four and one year old respectively. He was village trustee of Prague for one year and for three year was village treasurer. Mr. Vlasak is a member of the A. F. and A. M. and Modern Woodmen of America lodges.
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EZRA M. WARING.
Ezra M. Waring is now serving his second term as a member of the lower House. He was born in Steuben county, New York state, August, 1848. He left his birthplace with his parents when he was seven years of age. He was reared on a farm and received his early education in the public schools of Illinois and Iowa. When a young man he removed to Iowa and resided there until 1880, when he settled on a ranch in Holt county, and commenced farming and stock growing. Mr. Waring served for two terms as a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Holt county. He was elected to the 27th Nebraska Legislature by the Democrats and the Peoples' Independent party, and was re-nominated and re-elected by the same parties in 1902. Mr. Waring has hosts of friends among the members, regardless of political complexion, and is one of the genial, whole-souled members who takes delight in work. He was married August 19, 1873, to Miss Jeanie Bruce, and to them four children have been born, two sons and two daughters, of which three children are living, the eldest son dying at the age of eleven years.
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