Boston. On the 2d of September, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Sixty-third New York Volunteer Infantry, which was a division of the Army of the Potomac. On September 17, 1862, he was wounded in the leg at the battle of Antietam, and in February of the next year was discharged for disability. He re-enlisted July 17, 1863, in Company A, Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was again wounded in front of Petersburg, which necessitated the amputation of his right arm. In 1880 he emigrated to Nebraska. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1892. In 1894 he was again elected to the House of Representatives. April 13, 1895, he was appointed Adjutant General of the State by Governor Holcomb, serving through the Spanish-American War. He was reappointed Adjutant General by Governor Poynter and served under him until the expiration of his term. On February 27, 1901, he was elected by a unanimous vote as Brigadier General of the Nebraska National Guard, commanding First Brigade, with headquarters at Greeley Center, which position he now holds. He was nominated for Congress by the People's Independent and Democratic parties at Kearney, Nebraska, July 9, 1902. He is now a member of the Populist State Central Committee. His wife was Miss Mary Monahan of East Boston, Mass., and their marriage occurred in July of 1865. They have five sons living.

      JAMES R. HANNA has been a resident of Greeley, Nebraska, since he came here as a young man. He was born in Vincent, Iowa, February 21, 1861. He was graduated from Cornell College in 1884, after which he studied law with Judge Gilchrist at Vinton, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar in 1886. He was elected to the Legislature in 1888 and Judge of District Court in 1903. He is President of the Greeley State Bank, of the Gas Company and of the Milling Company. In 1887 Mr. Hanna received the degree of Master of Philosophy at Cornell College. The next year he married Miss Lora Chaffin of Marion, Iowa.

 

      Grant County was organized in 1888 with an area of 720 square miles. Its population is 763, of which number Hyannis, the county seat, has 200. Whitman has 76 inhabitants. Grant County is chiefly valuable for its good pasturage and hay, twelve and a half per cent only being tillable. Most of the untillable land consists of sandhills, which are very high and abrupt in places, but afford considerable pasturage. There are no living streams in the county. Wells from twelve to one hundred feet deep furnish an abundant supply of water. On the many hay flats a large number of live stock is raised, the value of which amounted to $1,546,309.00 in 1900. Land values have increased fifty per cent since 1897. There are now 750 acres devoted to the raising of alfalfa.

     JOHN McCAWLEY took a homestead in Saline County, Nebraska, in 1871 and in Grant County in 1892. He owns a ranch near Hyannis. He is County Judge, and is acting in this capacity for the third term. He was born at Dayton, Ohio, October 26, 1850, and moved to Iowa, where he lived until he was eighteen. He lived in Dakota Territory before coming to Nebraska. In politics he is Democratic, and March 27, 1870, he married Miss Edna A. Haggin and they have nine children, four sons and five daughters.

      R. M. MORAN was born in Marion County, West Virginia, November 28, 1860. He lived in Indiana and Minnesota before coming to Nebraska in 1884. He lives on his ranch about five miles from Hyannis, but has served as Sheriff since the organization of the county, seventeen years ago. In 1891 he married Ella Mclntire of Hyannis. They have one daughter, Winifred. He is one of the earliest settlers of this part of Nebraska.

      W. H. NICKLES is County Treasurer at present, having previously served four years as County Clerk. His birth occurred September 13, 1867, at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He moved to Kansas in 1879 and to Colorado in 1888, where he lived four years. He came to Grant County in 1892, after his marriage to Miss Cora Keene in 1891. He attended the Lawrence, Kansas, Business College. He is cashier in a bank at Hyannis.

      HENRY R. DELLINGER lived thirty-four years in Pennsylvania, one year in Illinois, ten years in Iowa and nine years in Kansas before coming to Grant County in 1887. He has taught schools in all these states. He

was born in York County, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1833. His higher schooling was at Union Seminary, New Berlin, Pennsylvania. Mr. Dellinger is serving his fourth term as County Superintendent, and his fifth term as Surveyor. He has also been Postmaster at Hyannis. He married Sarah Ann Dubs in 1856, and they have six children.

      L. B. UNKEFER was born at Humboldt, Nebraska, on the 14th of November, 1873. He is a lawyer and newspaper man at Hyannis and is editor of the Grant County Tribune. He began practicing law at Hyannis on March 10, 1900. He was graduated from the Humboldt High School in 1893 and from the law department of the State University in 1899. He has been a member of the City School Board and is now serving his third term as County Attorney, having been elected on the Republican ticket. He was married to Miss Mamie Sight, June 18, 1903.

      T. L. MARRIN was born at Harper's Ferry, Iowa, November 10, 1867. From Iowa he came to Nebraska in 1878, settling in the southern part of the state, and about 1890 moved to Grant County, which has since been his home. He was married at Hyannis in 1893 and has two sons and one daughter. Mr. Marrin is a member of the Democratic party and has served as Precinct Assessor, Deputy Sheriff of Grant County and Town Marshal of Hyannis. In 1903 he was elected Clerk of Grant County. While at Hyannis he has been engaged in the hotel, livery and meat business.

      M. E. HARMSTON is a druggist, born September 28, 1861, in Mercer County, Missouri, and moved to Iowa at two years of age. When twenty-three he moved to South Dakota, near Huron, farming and teaching three years. After spending one year in the Black Hills, he came to Grant County, Nebraska, where he has lived since. He has held the position of County Superintendent; was Postmaster at Hyannis eight years, and has been County Clerk. He is now Deputy County Clerk, and is a Democrat in politics. In 1897 he was married to Isabel Thurston of Hyannis, and they have one boy.

     WILLIAM M. ALDEN is City Treasurer of Hyannis. He was born at Union, Illinois, in the year 1860 on June 29. His parents moved to Tipton, Iowa, when he was five years