the Adams High School in 1886 and four years later he married Miss Keturah Moore of Gage County, and they have a son, aged eight. Mr. Whyman has taught school in Gage and Keith Counties and is now serving his first term as Superintendent of Keith County. He has an interest in the implement store of Hull & Whyman of Ogallala.

      ORIN REED was born April 21, 1853, in Morgan County, Illinois; was educated in the common schools and Lincoln University, at Lincoln, Illinois. In 1881 he removed to South Dakota and six years later went to. Richardson County, Nebraska. He settled in Keith County in 1891, where he has since resided and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Reed is a Populist and is serving his second term as County Clerk. In 1879 he married Miss Lizzie Copper of Logan County, Illinois, and they have five children.

      W. J. TAYLOR, Surveyor of Keith County and a merchant at Brule, was born in Pennsylvania, January 1, 1862, and came to Nebraska in 1886. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1892 and came back to Nebraska in 1897. Mr. Taylor attended the State Normal at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and has taught off and on for eighteen years in Nebraska and Pennsylvania. He is a Democrat and was once Postmaster at Brule. He was married to Miss Emma Walker of Huntington County, Pennsylvania, in 1885.

      WESLEY TRESSLER, ex-County Superintendent of Keith County, was born May 12, 1866; in Crawford County, Ohio, where he remained until 1889, when he came to Richardson County, Nebraska. He settled in Keith County, Nebraska, in 1891, and has resided here since with the exception of one and a half years spent at Grand Island. Mr. Tressler completed his education at Northwestern Ohio University of Ada, Ohio, and has served two terms as County Superintendent of Keith County. He married Miss Maggie Lute of Paxton,. Nebraska, in June 1899.

      W. H. HAMILTON, engaged in the real estate and insurance business and serving his second term as Postmaster of Ogallala, was born in Wyoming, Iowa, October 8, 1857, where he was educated and engaged in the retail grocery business five years. He moved to Wayne County, Nebraska, in 1882 and came to Keith County in 1884, where he has since resided and dealt extensively in Keith and Perkins County land. Mrs. Hamilton was principal of the schools in Ogallala for three years prior to her marriage.

      ANNA GRAY CLARK, editor of the Keith County News, the oldest paper published in the county, was born at Oxford, Ohio. About the time of the war her parents moved to Jefferson County, Iowa. She attended Howe's Academy and the Wesleyan University of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and at eighteen was tendered the nomination for County Superintendent of Jefferson County, Iowa, but her father would not permit her to accept it. In 1882 she was elected Principal of the Stromsburg, Nebraska, schools and then served as Superintendent of Polk County four years. She then removed to Keith County, where she took a homestead, and now owns 1,800 acres of fine ranch land, 200 acres of which is under irrigation. She is fond of literary work and teaching and has the material collected for a book, "Folklore of the West," and also a book of poems, which she intends to publish.

      MALCOLM MacLEAN was born April 25, 1859, in, Scotland, where his father was engaged in farming, and Mr. MacLean received a part of his education, completing it in Nebraska. He located at Lexington, then Plum Creek, Nebraska, in 1874, and in 1885 settled at Ogallala, where he has been engaged in banking and stock raising. He was Deputy Sheriff of Keith County for four years and is a member of the town and school boards and Cashier of the First State Bank of Ogallala. He was married to Miss Mary Forsyth of Ogallala in 1886.

      J. W. WELPTON, born in Lee County, Iowa, October 29, 1858, moved to Red Oak Iowa, in 1872, where he completed his education and went to Emerson, Iowa, in 1878. Was married to Miss Hester Corp in 1879 and moved to Osceola, Nebraska, where he engaged in the grocery business for eleven years and then returned to Emerson, Iowa. Came to Grant, Nebraska, in 1892 and engaged in the real estate and banking business until 1897, when he located at Ogallala. Is a banker and stockman and has over seven thousand acres of land. Mr. Welpton is a Republican, was Chairman of the County Central Committee six years and a member of the School Board six years.

      H. L. GOOLD came to Nebraska in 1886, where he has since lived. His birthplace is Knox County, Illinois, and the date December

26, 1850. The public schools and the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois, contributed to his education. He is a dealer in live stock at Ogallala, of which city he acted as Mayor at one time. For six years he was Regent of the Nebraska State University. He has served on the State and County Republican Central Committees. Miss Florence Hurd, whom he married in 1875, died in 1881. Later he was married to Miss Matilda P. Wentworth of Kewanee, Illinois.

      H. E. GOODALL is a native of London, England, where he was born September 1, 1849. He was educated in a private school at Leeds. On coming to the United States he located at Harvard, Clay County, Nebraska, in the year 1872, and lived there for fifteen years. He then moved to Grant, Perkins County, and finally to Ogallala in 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and is still a practicing lawyer. From 1885 to 1887 he was Deputy Clerk of Court in Clay County, and has held the office of County Attorney in both Keith and Perkins Counties. He is associated with the Republican party. In June of 1885 he married Cary A. Boyd of Eddyville, Iowa.

     RALPH L. ABRAHAM came in 1887 to Keith County, Nebraska, which has since been his home. He was born in Washington County, Iowa, on the 1st of April, 1884. He is the son of Vestal S. Abraham, who is a ranchman. He obtained his higher education at Franklin Academy, Franklin, Nebraska. Mr. Abraham is now Deputy County Treasurer and is affiliated with the People's party.

      A. M. FORSYTHE was educated at the Ogallala High School and at the Denver Business College. His birthplace is Oakland, Pennsylvania, and he was born April 22, 1872. In 1884 he moved to. Galva, Illinois, and the next year to Nebraska, where he located at his present home. In 1892 he homesteaded here. He served as Deputy Sheriff during one term and is affiliated with the Republican party. In 1895 he married Miss Christine MacLean of Lexington, Nebraska. Mrs. Forsythe died in 1902.

      V. S. ABRAHAM was born December 23, 1860, in Washington County, Iowa, where he lived on a farm until he came to Nebraska in 1887. He is a ranchman by occupation, and the ranch on which he lives has a feeding capacity for about 500 head of cattle. For four years he was County Treasurer and he has also been Chairman of the County Central Committee of the People's party. He is an independent in political matters. In 1883 he married Miss Rose lams of Iowa. He has eight sons.

 

      Keya Paha is one of the youngest Nebraska counties, having been organized in 1884. Although it is handicapped by the lack of a railway, it has a population of 3,076. Springview, the county seat, has 188 residents. There are 1,062 school children and 44 teachers, to whom about $6,913 is paid annually in wages. The total value of school property in 1901 was $12,122.50. There are 56 school districts, 28 of which have terms lasting from six to nine months. The county has one graded school, for which two teachers' are employed. There are 46 schoolhouses in the county, half of which are of log. The surface consists of rolling highland and fertile valleys. The water supply consists of Keya Paha and Niobrara Rivers and Sand Shadley, Last Cottonwood, Holt, Burton and Spring Creeks. The leading industries are farming and stock raising. The principal crops are corn, small grain, potatoes, vegetables and hay. Alfalfa growing has been successfully tried. Land is two-fifths more valuable than in 1897, and in the last two years the sales of farms have exceeded 100. Twenty-nine thousand and seventy acres of land are devoted to corn. There are 599 farms and in 1899 the farmers paid out $8,470 for help. The county live stock in 1900 was valued at $890,806.

      H. M. DUVAL, a native of Atlantic, Iowa, was born May 18, 1880. He graduated from the Atlantic High School, attended the University of Iowa for a time and then went to Montana, where he was in a lumber camp as commissary. In 1902 he graduated from the Law School of the University of Nebraska and homesteaded in Keya Paha County in 1903. After a residence there of less than four months he was elected County Attorney.

     ROSS AMSPOKER was born in Iowa No-