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SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF
NEBRASKA
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Deputy County Attorney for two years. He is a
Democrat and in 1891 married Laurina E. Gardner.
JOHN J. DONAHUE
was born near Iowa City, Iowa, on the 15th of September,
1857. At first he worked as a mechanic in the Burlington
shops until he accepted the position of patrolman of
Creston, Iowa. Since that time he has always been on the
police force, having been marshal, patrolman, detective
and captain of the police. He was elected Chief of Omaha
Police in November of 1899, which position he still
holds. December 26, 1881, he was married to Miss Annie E.
Fitzgerald of Iowa City.
FRANK E. MOORES
has been Mayor of Omaha since 1897. He was born in 1842
in Butler County, Ohio, and came to Omaha in 1875. At
that time he was City Ticket Agent of the Kansas City,
St. Joe and Council Bluffs Railway. He was Clerk of the
District Court for eight years and was appointed Colonel
on the staff of Governor Dietrich. He has always been a
Republican in politics. He served in the Civil War and
spent some time in Libby Prison.
DUNDY COUNTY.
Dundy County is
situated in the southwest corner of the state and it
occupies a region of 960 square miles. In 1880 its
inhabitants numbered only 37, but since its organization
ten years ago the population has grown to 2,434. The
county received its name in honor of a United States
Judge, Elmer S. Dundy, of the U. S. Circuit Court. The
table-lands and prairies are relieved by the fertile
valleys of the Republican River and Rocky Spring, Indian,
Muddy and Camp Creeks. All the soil is fertile. Apples,
plums and cherries are the most widely cultivated fruits,
while corn, wheat, sorghum, hay and potatoes make tip the
principal farm products. The stock market is supplied
with cattle, hogs and sheep. Rich grasses are very
plentiful, and the blue joint grass is said to grow as
high as a man in many places in the lowlands Land values
have increased twenty-five per cent in the last seven
years, and just now there is considerable demand for
farms and ranches. The Burlington and Missouri Railway
passes through the southern portion, making 41.54 miles
of railway across the county. There are 836 school
children in the county.
R. D. DRULINER,
County Attorney of Dundy County, was born in Laporte
County, Indiana, February 6, 1873, and seven years later
went to Iowa with his parents, where he lived until 1893,
when he came to Nebraska. After attending High School at
Oakland for a time, he studied at Orleans College, of
Orleans, Nebraska, and graduated from the Law Department
of the University of Nebraska in 1901. He enlisted in the
Third Nebraska in June, 1898, and served about six months
as Sergeant of Company I. Mr. Drulinger is a lawyer and
teacher by profession. He is serving his first term as
Attorney of Dundy County.
C. C. BARR is a
native of West Virginia, having been born in Reedy,
February 4, 1870, from whence he came to Saunders County,
Nebraska, in 1884, and has traveled a good deal since
that time. He has resided in Dundy County since 1891,
where he has been engaged in the lumber business. He was
educated in the Common Schools of West Virginia. He was
married to Miss Anna King in 1893 and they have two
daughters. Mr. Barr is a Populist in politics and is now
serving his second term as Treasurer of Dundy County.
JACOB RICKARD
was born in Letart, West Virginia, October 8, 1863, where
he lived until his twenty-first year, when he went to
Omaha and later to Western Nebraska. He has been engaged
in school teaching principally, having taught in West
Virginia and Nebraska. He has homesteaded in Dundy County
and previous to his election was a clerk in a store. He
is now serving his second term as County Clerk, Register
of Deeds and Clerk of the District Court of Dundy County,
having been elected on the Republican ticket. He married
Miss Margaret A. Hurlow in 1893, and they have two
children.
L. E. CAMPBELL is
a native of Nebraska, having been born on a farm in
Fillmore County, May 26, 1870. He received his education
in the common schools of Friend, Nebraska, and has always
been a resident of this state. His father is a native of
New York State and his mother is of German birth. Mr.
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