his parents moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and ten years later to Steubenville, Ohio, where he attended college. After completing his education he came to Antelope County, Nebraska, and engaged in stock-raising. Mr. Huffman is a member of the Republican party and in 1882 was elected Sheriff of Antelope County. He has been Mayor of Neligh for seven years, which position he holds at present.

BANNER COUNTY.

     Banner County was organized in 1888 and has an area of 756 square miles. In 1902 the population was 1,114 and the county has no railways. It belongs to the western tier of counties and is bounded on the west by the Wyoming line. Harrisburg the county seat has one hundred and twenty-five inhabitants, while Heath is next with a population of forty-eight, and Kirk with thirty-six. The price of land ranges from $1.50 to $40.00 per acre. There are about 12.3 miles of irrigating ditches, chiefly owned by private individuals. Stockraising is the chief occupation, and much less farm land is cultivated than formerly. Owing to the advanced prices of live stock the demand for ranches has increased very considerably during the past five years. There is an abundance of good water in the county and the principal creeks are Pumpkin Seed and the Lawrence, in the very narrow valleys of which there is some fine alfalfa and pasture land. There is also some good farming land in the

county. Timber is found along the banks of the creeks. Three hundred and seventy-three acres are sown to alfalfa.

      A. S. ALEXANDER is a native of Massachusetts, born May 25, 1832. Educated in the public schools, he began travelling in his twentieth year. Between 1852 and 1886 he lived in Rhode Island, New York, Illinois, Cincinnati, and Lincoln, St. Paul, Kearney, Kimball, and Banner County, Nebraska. He homesteaded in Banner County before its organization. He studied law at Blackstone, Massachusetts and in an office at Kimball, Nebraska, and was admitted to the bar in 1889. Independent in politics he has served three terms as County Superintendent and also three terms as County. Attorney.

      J. N. WYATT was born December 3, 1876 in CIio, Iowa, from whence he came to Banner County, Nebraska, in 1888. He received his education in the public schools at Lineville, Iowa, and Harrisburg, Nebraska. After coming to Banner County, he spent three years in Iowa, one year in Colorado and one year in the Philippines, having enlisted in the First Colorado Volunteers. He was married to Miss Stella Downer of Harrisburg, Nebraska, in December, 1903. Mr. Wyatt is a Democrat and is serving his first term as County Treasurer.

      MURDOCK McLEOD is a native of Canada, having been born in Prince Edward Island April 22, 1866, where he resided until his parents removed to Colfax county, Nebraska in 1874. He received his education in the public schools and settled in Banner County in 1887. He is engaged in the ranching business and is the clerk of Banner County, elected by the Populists. November 16, 1896 he was married to Miss Charlotte Turnbull of New Brunswick, Canada, and they have five children.

      WILLIAM H, INGLES is a native of Denny, Scotland, was born March 3, 1862 and at fourteen set out to support himself. In 1868 his parents came to Midway, Pennsylvania, where he went to work in the coal mines and lost an arm. He has been in nearly every state west of the Mississippi and finally settled in what is now Banner County, where he took a homestead in 1888. March 15, 1887 he was married to Miss Edith Richards of Whatcheer, Iowa. He has a one thousand acre ranch on which he lived until elected Sheriff of Banner County.

      W. O. AKERS was born in Magnolia, Iowa, May 28, 1874. When fifteen he went to Omaha, then to Colorado Springs, returned to Omaha in 1892 and then went to Chicago. where he remained for four years. After living in Iowa and New Mexico he returned to Omaha and entered Creighton Medical College, graduating in 1902. He is a graduate of the high school at Magnolia, Iowa, and the Western Iowa Business College of Council Bluffs. He prcaticed (sic) medicine in Omaha and Florence for one year, then moved to Harrisburg and has been elected Coroner of Banner County. He was married August 17, 1903 to Miss Elfreda Johnson of Tecumseh, Nebraska.

      W. S. M'KEE was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1867, and when seventeen years of age removed to Iowa with his parents. In 1888 he came to Banner County, Nebraska, where he has since lived. That same year he married Miss Alura Sutton and they have one daughter. In 1889 he took a homestead and has considerable ranching interests in the county. He has been elected Commissioner three terms on the republican ticket.

      A. J. SHUMWAY, editor of the Banner County News, the only newspaper published in Banner County, was born in Oxford, Illinois, May 11, 1870. In 1887 he came to Banner County where he homesteaded. He took a course in a business college and also studied at Knox College, Illinois. He was married in 1896 to Miss Nettie McKennon-Rosenfelt of Harrisburg, Nebraska. He is a Republican, has been Justice of the Peace and is also an abstractor.

     J. M. WILSON is a native of Indiana, born in Tippecanoe County, October 18, 1863. When five years of age his parents moved to Cuming County, Nebraska, where his father took a homestead and Mr. Wilson received his education in the public schools. In 1887 he came to Chadron, two years later to Scott's Bluff County and in 1890 to Banner County. He is a druggist, was married to Miss Rubie Fitzsimmons in 1892 and they have three children. Mr. Wilson is affiliated with the Democratic party, and has served as County Treasurer two terms.