prepared for college in the seminary at Ypsilanti, taking a classical course, and then entered Ann Arbor Law School. He went to the war before finishing his course, but completed it in 1868. He enlisted in Company H of the Eighth Michigan Volunteers and afterwards became Captain of Company E and was a member of General R. S. Granger's staff. In 1869 he came to Nebraska and located at Pawnee City, where he practiced law until 1880, when he removed to Beatrice. Mr. Babcock was a representative from Pawnee in the State Legislature of 1873 and 1874. He was married to Jemath DuBois of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1880, and they have two children. Mrs. Babcock died in September, 1892. He is associated with the Republican party and was elected District Judge of the First District in 1892, serving four years, and was re-elected in 1903 for another term. He received a commission from the Governor to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of judge Letton and consequently filled two positions.

      LEONARD W. COLBY, usually known as General Colby, of Beatrice, Nebraska, was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, August 5, 1848. His boyhood was spent in Illinois on a farm, until 1863, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighth Illinois Infantry, with which he served as a private until the close of the war. He graduated from the High School at Freeport, Illinois, in 1867, and thereafter graduated from the Classical, Engineering and Law Departments of the University of Wisconsin. He came to Nebraska in 1872 and engaged in the practice of law, in which profession he is still engaged. General Colby has served two terms in the State Senate of Nebraska and was Assistant Attorney General of the United States during President Harrison's Administration. He is Republican in politics. He has a long record for military service, having been two years Colonel, nine years Brigadier General, two years Adjutant General of Nebraska, and one year Brigadier General of United States Volunteers in the Spanish-American War. He had command of a battalion in the Indian War of 1877 and of a Brigade of Nebraska State Troops in the Sioux Indian War of 1890-91.

 

      Garfield County is well adapted to raising cattle and sheep. A large area of good pasture and hay land has already been taken up and at present there is a demand for ranches in this section. About forty per cent of the surface is tillable, the soil being a dark, sandy loam. Cedar and Loup Rivers and smaller streams afford good drainage. Wells are from twenty-five to three hundred feet deep and the supply of water is everywhere abundant. The principal trees are ash, box elder and cottonwood, Plums, cherries, raspberries and small fruits do well. Alfalfa has been cultivated to a very limited extent, but with satisfactory results, and sugar beets have proved very successful. The value of land has increased fifty per cent since 1897, selling at from $3.00 to $50.00 per acre. There is one grist mill and one brickyard in the county. Garfield County was organized in 1884 with an area of 576 square miles. It only has 4.17 miles of railway and the population is 2,127. Burwell, the county seat and only town, has a population of 460.

      GRACE E. McCLIMANS was born October 31, 1881, three miles east of Burwell, Nebraska, on the old homestead taken by her father in the early seventies. She received her education in the high schools at Burwell and Clarinda, Iowa, and has taught school in both Iowa and Nebraska Her mother came to this county in 1876 with her husband and still lives on the homestead. Miss McClimans is a member of the Populist party and is serving her first term as Superintendent of Garfield County.

     W. C. JOHNS was born in Green County, Wisconsin, in 1863. His parents came to what is now Garfield County in 1878. He received his education in the public schools of Wisconsin and Nebraska, and was married to Miss Anna Beauchamp of Fort Hartsuff, Nebraska, in 1892. Mr. Johns taught school and has been engaged in farming and ranching and has a half interest in the grocery store of Johns & Tunncliffe at Burwell. He is a member of the Republican party and was Sheriff of Wheeler County just before the organization of Garfield, County, of which he was the first Sheriff. He is serving his second term as County

Treasurer and has been County Superintendent.

      GEORGE S. TODD was born February 24, 1841, at McComb, Ohio. In 1854 his parents removed to Cedar County, Iowa, where he received his education. He enlisted July 14, 1862, in Company B of the Twenty-fourth Iowa, and was mustered out at Port Gibson, Mississippi, April 10, 1865. He was a participant in the battles of Champion Hill and Black River Bridge and the Siege of Vicksburg. He was married to Miss Eda L. Brainard of Wyoming, Iowa, in 1866, and they have seven children living. Mr. Todd homesteaded in Garfield County in 1901 and is serving his first term as County Judge, having been elected on the Republican ticket.

      T. G. HEMMETT was born in Niagara County, New York, March 9, 1850. His parents went to Allegan County, Michigan, where they engaged in farming until 1875, when they came to Garfield County, Nebraska. Mr. Hemmett took a homestead here in 1887. He was Clerk of Wheeler County in 1885 and after the organization of Garfield County was elected Clerk in 1894, serving three consecutive terms, and was re-elected in 1903. Mr. Hemmett is one of the oldest settlers of the county, having settled here when the nearest trading post was Grand Island, ninety miles distant.

     CYRUS O. BROWN was born in Roches-

ter, Cedar County, Iowa, December 2, 1866. From Iowa he went to South Dakota in 1883. He graduated from the South Dakota Agricultural College in 1894, receiving the degree of B. S., and in 1898 received his LL. B. from the University of Nebraska. He is a member of the Republican party, and is serving as Attorney of Garfield County.

      A. A. WATERS was born in DeKaIb County, Indiana, March 21, 1866. Twenty years later he came to Wheeler County, Nebraska, and took a homestead, which he afterwards sold and now has a half section in Garfield County. His father served during the Civil War in Company A of the 100th Indiana. Mr. Waters married Miss Mary Marlow of Wheeler County in 1893, and they have adopted two children. He is associated with the Republican party, was Deputy Sheriff of Wheeler County six years and is now serving his first term as Sheriff of Garfield County.

      J. W. BROCKUS is a native of Indiana, having been born September 1, 1851, in Carroll County, from whence he came to Iowa with his parents in 1855. In 1879 he came to Garfield County, but homesteaded in Valley County that same year. He still owns the homestead, but returned to Garfield County in 1900. He owns a section of farm land, one-fourth of it being in Garfield County and the remainder in Valley County. Mr. Brockus is a member of the Populist party and is serving his second term as County Commissioner. He has also been Constable and Justice of the Peace. He was married to Miss Mary Hollis of Bremer County, Indiana, in 1872, and they have one son, aged twenty-two.

      D. S. BEYNON settled in Garfield County, Nebraska, July 3, 1886, and four years later passed the state examination in pharmacy at Beatrice, Nebraska, and is now engaged in the drug business at Burwell. He was born December 5, 1856, at Albia, Iowa. Mr. Beynon has been a member of the school board at Burwell for ten years, Chairman of the village board several years, Deputy Sheriff two terms and for seven years Postmaster, which position he now holds. December 3, 1883, he was married to Miss Christina J. Cornelia of Albia, Iowa, and they have four children.

      JAMES BARR is a native Scotchman, having been born in April, 1845, at Glasgow. His father was a stone mason and contractor; also a bridge builder. He put in the masonry on one of the first bridges to span the Mississippi River. Mr. Barr came to the United States with his parents in 1850 and settled at Chicago. He came to Nebraska in 1874 and took a homestead in what is now Garfield County in 1875 and lives on the same at present. He is a Republican and was County Commissioner of Wheeler County just before its division. Mr. Barr drafted the petition for the division of Wheeler County, giving the county its name.. He was married to Miss Esther A. Abbott of Illinois in 1873, and they have, one daughter. He sided the first frame house in Garfield County, hauling the lumber from Grand Island, a distance of about ninety miles.

      H. J. COFFIN was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 11, 1860. In the spring of 1878 he came to Schuyler, Nebraska, remaining there until 1883, when he went to Holt County. He took a homestead in Garfield County in 1884, but sold it later. After farming in Nebraska for fifteen years, he went into the lumber business at Burwell in 1892. He was married to Miss Mary Halloran of Inman, Nebraska, in 1893, and they have three daughters. Mr. Coffin has two quarter sections of land in the Loup Valley. He is a Republican and has been a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Garfield County and at present is acting as Chairman of the Town Board of Burwell.

      T. M. CLARK was born in Monroe County, Iowa, December 30, 1851. When a small boy he moved to Decatur County, Iowa, where he remained until 1870, and after traveling through Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, settled in what is now Garfield County, Nebraska, in 1880. He enlisted at Madison, Wisconsin, in the Fourteenth Infantry of the Regular Army and served nine years, engaging in the suppression of the Ute Outbreak in Colorado. Mr. Clark was married to Miss Clara Pitts of Gordon Grove, Iowa, in 1902. He is a member of the Republican party and is engaged in farming a quarter section of land in this county.

     WILLIAM DRAVER was born April 13, 1840, on the Isle of Westray, near Scotland. Here he received his education and was married to Miss Ann Randal in 1861. He came to the United States with his parents in 1868 and located in West County, Iowa, where he remained for five years, and then came to what is now Garfield County, Nebraska, in 1873. He pre-empted and homesteaded on coming to the county and still lives on the old home-