H. M. EATON.
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H. M. EATON.
Henry Moore Eaton, Deputy Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, was born July 16, 1867, in Lafayette, Indiana. When he was ten years of age his parents removed to Davenport, Nebraska. He received his primary education in the public schools and a higher education in the Salina, Kansas, Normal and the University of Kansas. At the age of sixteen he commenced school teaching, and eleven years of his life have been devoted to this profession, five years of which were passed as an instructor in the Fremont Normal college. For some time he was the principal of the High school at Davenport, and for a while was the assistant cashier of the State Bank in the same town. Mr. Eaton was appointed to his present position in 1900 and was reappointed in 1903. He has always been a Republican. He was married December 25, 1899, to Susie C. Smith, of Dunlap, Iowa and has one son.
WILBUR F. BRYANT.
Wilbur Franklin Bryant, Deputy Supreme Court Reporter, was born in Dalton, Coos county, New Hampshire, March 21, 1851, of Irish ancestry, his family name at not a very remote period being O'Brien. He received his early education in Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire, and finished at Dartmouth College. Soon after leaving college he taught school in Mississippi; then returning to the North, he was admitted to the bar in Yankton, Dakota, in 1877, and soon after located in Nebraska. For three years he was postmaster at St. Helena, Nebraska; then became county attorney of Cedar county; later district attorney of the Sixth District, then served as county judge of Cuming county; police judge of West Point; was appointed a colonel in the state militia, and for a while was the head of the State Bureau of Insurance. He is the editor of the 59th, 60th, 61st, 62d, 63d and 64th Nebraska Reports. He is the author of the "Life of Louis Riel," "Letters to a Young Law Student," "Did Virgil Write the Æneid?" and numerous articles and addresses. He has been the state president of the Catholic Knights of America, twice delegate to the Supreme Court of this Order; was a delegate to the Columbian Catholic Congress in 1893; is a director and member of the finance committee of the charity organization of the City of Lincoln. He is married and has five children, two daughters and three sons.
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