GEORGE N. YOUNGSON is a native of Valparaiso, Indiana, the date of his birth being October 27, 1864. His parents came to Nebraska when he was twelve years of age, and he has resided in Kearney County since that time. He has been engaged in farming, mercantile business and banking. In 1890 he married Miss Cora Hill, and they have three children. He is a Republican and has been elected Mayor of Minden three times.

      ED. L. ADAMS, District Judge, was born in Monroe County, Indiana, May 24, 1861 where he grew to manhood. He came to Nebraska in 1885, and has since lived in Kearney County, where he has engaged in farming and school teaching. He gained his education in the country schools of Indiana and a preparatory school at Bloomington. In 1882 he was married to Miss Alta Strain of Indiana, and they have two sons and two daughters. Mr. Adams is a great-grandson of Captain Samuel Adams of Virginia. From 1888 to 1892 he was County judge and from 1892 to 1897 Attorney of Kearney County. He is united with the Fusion forces, and has been District judge since 1900.

 

      Keith County is situated in Western Nebraska, with a population of 1,951. This large county, which includes 1,134 square miles, was organized in 1873. The North and South Platte Rivers flow across the county, and where they leave the eastern boundary they are separated by a distance of only four miles The valleys of these rivers are broad, level and very fertile. Seventy-five per cent of the land is capable of cultivation, and the county contains 303 farms. The mean elevation is over 3,300 feet, and this altitude causes such a dry climate that irrigation is necessary to successful farming. Ninety-seven miles of irrigating ditches supply water for 12,646 acres, at an expense of $9.67 per acre. The largest crop on irrigated lands is that of hay and forage. Corn covers 6,971 acres of land. Every season alfalfa is spread over a larger territory. The growing of sugar beets covers a small acreage. The value of land has come up 20 per cent since 1897. The uplands are rolling and often contain lagoons of water for stock, .the raising of which is the principal occupation. In 1900 the value of live stock was $1,195,742, cattle being the largest export. Wells vary from 7 to 350 feet in depth, according to elevation. The school property of Keith County amounts to $26,817.50, and the expenditures for the year 1901-2 were $18,229.11. The county contains 688 school children. Ogallala, the capital, has a population of 355.

      J. H. McGINLEY was born October 27, 1857, in Missouri, from whence his parents moved to Otoe County, Nebraska. In the spring of 1881 he went to New Mexico and the next year returned to North Platte, Nebraska, thence to Keith County in 1884. Mr. McGinley was married to Miss Kate Mallog of Wisconisn (sic) in 1881. He is a Democrat and was at one time Deputy County Treasurer of Otoe County and at present is Treasurer of Keith County.

      HENRY A. DANO, a school teacher by vocation, and at present County Judge of Keith County, was born October 30, 1874, in Oswego, Illinois. He came to Ogallala, Nebraska, in 1890 and has since resided here with the exception of two years while attending Ozark College, in Missouri. He is now preparing for the legal profession. Mr. Dano has been Chancellor Commander of the Knights of Pythias and V. C. in the M. W. A. for two years. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in the County Judge's office and then elected to the office by the Fusionists.

      DENNIS W. HARRINGTON was born September 16, 1856, in Rochester, New York: where his father was engaged in canal work and running boats on the Genesee Valley and Erie Canal. He received his education in New York at Rochester, Macedon and Black Creek. In 1880 he married Miss Elizabeth J. Decker of Towanda, Pennsylvania. Mr. Harrington came to Ogallala in 1885 and with the exception of three years at Cripple Creek, Colorado, he has since resided at Ogallala. He is engaged in the implement and harness business and is serving his second term as sheriff of Keith County.

     T. H. WHYMAN was born March 17, 1868, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, from whence his parents came to Adams, Gage County, Nebraska, in February, 1869. He graduated from