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      Charles G. CaldwelI, Second Assistant Secretary of the Senate, was born in Meigs county, Ohio, September 11, 1868. He received his education in the public schools of Letard Falls, in his native state. When he was fifteen years of age he commenced school teaching, which vocation he followed in Ohio until 1893, when he came to Nebraska and located at St. Paul. For six years he was a teacher in the St. Paul schools and then settled on a farm immediately west of St. Paul, where he has since been a farmer. Mr. Caldwell is a Republican and in 1902 was the candidate of his party for the lower house of the Legislature, being defeated by Fries.

     Mr. Caldwell was married September 5, 1894, to Agnes Harvey of St. Paul, and has a family of three children, daughters.

     Byron H. Goulding, Clerk of the Committee of the Whole of the Senate, was born in Falmouth, Kentucky, July 14, 1849. He received his early education in the public schools and in Center College, at Danville, Kentucky. When he was but thirteen years of age he enlisted in the 7th Kentucky Cavalry as a private and served until he was mustered out in May, 1865. He then became a commercial traveler, and in 1874 located at Kearney, Nebraska, which place he has since made his home. He has been active in business affairs and in public matters. For the past four years he has been the city editor of the Kearney Hub. He is a Republican of the true-blue kind and a good worker for his party. Mr. Goulding was married April 13, 1873, to Miss Mattie Foster, of Crown Point, Indiana, and has two sons, George Goulding, a horse and sheep grower in the Black Hills country, near Edgemont, and Howard Goulding, cashier of the Western Union Telegraph Company in Omaha.

      L. S. Russell, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1831. He received his education in the schools of his native state. April 30, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 11th Massachusetts Volunteers and served in the Army of the Potomac. At the end of the war he was discharged from the service, holding the rank of captain on the staff of General Burney. In 1873 he located in Iowa, where he engaged in the hotel businesss (sic). In 1885 he removed to Nebraska and settled at Fremont, his present home, where he resumed the occupation of hotel keeper, which he continued until 1897, when he retired from active business life. Captain Russell has always been a steadfast Republican. He was married in 1884, in Iowa, to Emma McKinsey.

      John R. Manning, of Carroll, Nebraska, is the postmaster of the Senate. He was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 10, 1845. He was educated in the common and normal schools, and for eighteen years was a school teacher in Illinois. He located in Nebraska in 1882 and engaged extensively in farming and stock raising. His politics are thoroughly Republican. In 1889 he represented the Eleventh District in the Nebraska State Senate. Mr. Manning is a widower, and has a family consisting of four sons and one daughter.

      James W. Burleigh, Proof-reader of the Senate, 28th Session, was born at Vinton, Iowa, February 27, 1854. He was educated in the public schools and early in life learned the printer's art. He has been a newspaper man the greater part of his life, and has published papers in his native state, in Kansas and Missouri, and for the past five years has been the publisher and editor of the Star-Journal, at Ainsworth, Nebraska. He was the proof-reader in the House during, the 27th Session. Mr. Burleigh is a widower, and has a family consisting of one son and one daughter. He is secretary of the Brown County Live Stock Association.

     Maurice C. Forney, Custodian of the Committee Rooms and Gallery during the 28th Session, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, September 24, 1851. When a boy he removed with his parents to Iowa City, where he received his education in the public schools. For two years he was a school teacher in Illinois. In 1880 he came to Minden, Nebraska, his present home, and there engaged in the implement and well business, which he continued until 1900. Mr. Forney is a Republican. He was married in 1872 to Emma J. Richard, of Iowa City, Iowa, and has a family consisting of two sons and one daughter.

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