Front
Row, Left to Right--FRANK A. BARTON, Judge; O. R.
MARTIN, Sheriff; V. M. BABITT, Surveyor; C. W
HARRIS. Commissioner; J. M. HURD, Commissioner.
Back Row, Left to Right.--J. B. BROOKS, Clerk
District Court; CHARLES A. SCHAPPEL, Coroner;
OLIVER H. LOCH, Treasurer; J. CLYDE WADDELL,
Superintendent; J. R. GOSSIN, Assessor; GEORGE L.
LORE, Clerk.
and
from 1895 to 1897 was Deputy State Superintendent of
Nebraska. He was married to Miss Hanna G. Turner in 1888
and they have four children. Mr. Barton is a member of
the Republican party and is now serving as Judge of
Pawnee County.
J. B. BROOKS was
born in Hillsboro, Ohio, June 1, 1841. Mr. Brooks served
over four years in the Civil War, engaging in the battles
of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and
was then transferred to the Army of Tennessee, where he
served under General Sherman until the close of the war.
He came to Iowa in 1870 and then was engaged in the drug
business in Kansas from 1872 to 1881. He then came to
Pawnee City. He has been twice married and has one son
and one daughter. Mr. Brooks is a Republican, and has
been Clerk of the District Court of Pawnee County for
seventeen years.
J. CLYDE WADDELL
was born in Christian County, Illinois, July 14, 1876. He
came to Pawnee County in 1882 and lived with his father
on the farm and taught school. He is a graduate of the
Pawnee Academy and has taken work in the University of
Nebraska and in Tokio College, Missouri. In 1901 he was
married to Miss E. Josephine Gifford of Lincoln,
Nebraska. He is a member of the Republican party and is
now serving his second term as Superintendent of Pawnee
County.
C. F. NYE was
born in Highgate, Vermont, December 17, 1838. He attended
the University of Vermont until he entered the War of the
Rebellion, and studied law in St. Allans, Vermont, two
years. He came to Pawnee City in 1867 and practiced law
for four years and then engaged in farming and stock
raising. He was married in 1870 and has five children.
Mr. Nye is a member of the Republican