to Humphrey, and finally to Columbus as County Judge. He was educated at the Normal School at Milwaukee. In 1879 he married Miss Mary Kuchta and has six children. He has been justice of the Peace and is now serving his second term as County Judge.

      JERRY CARRIG was born in Platte County, Nebraska, December 27, 1860, where he has always lived except a short time spent at Beaver Crossing. He was educated in the Platte Center High School and the Lincoln Business College. He married Miss Kate Hayes in 1900. Mr. Carrig's father was one of the pioneers who came to Platte County in 1854, when ox teams were the only means of transportation. He has been assistant in the County Clerk's office since 1899 and is now Deputy County Clerk.

      D. A. BECHER was born in Germany, January 17, 1859, where he was educated. In 1880 he removed to Illinois and in the same year came to Platte County, where he has since resided. He has been married twice and has eight children. He is affiliated with the Democratic party and has held various offices, having been a member of the County Board and the Nebraska State Legislature from 1901 to 1903, also County Treasurer, which office he now holds.

      LYMAN R. LATHAM was born in Franklinville, New York, April 29, 1871. In 1897 he came to Columbus, his present home. He was educated in Tenbrock Free Academy and studied law in judge Spring's office, being admitted to the bar on coming to Nebraska. He has held the office of City Clerk, was United States Referee in Bankruptcy three terms, and has been nominated for a second term as Attorney of Platte County, which position he now holds.

      OTTO E. HENER was born in Bremen, Germany, June 29, 1856, son of Professor Hener. He came to New York in 1872 and after traveling extensively in the South settled in Nebraska in 1882. He married Miss Lena Loseke in 1886 and has four children. He has served as assistant Deputy Treasurer of Platte County for ten years and is now serving his second term as Deputy Treasurer.

      C. J. CARRIG was born in Platte County, Nebraska, January 21, 1869, where he has spent all his life. He attended the Business College at Burlington, Iowa, also at Lincoln Nebraska. In 1894 he married Miss Harvey, and has four children. He follows the occupation of stock buyer and has been Supervisor of Platte County seven years prior to his election as Sheriff on the Democratic ticket. His father was one of three brothers who were pioneer settlers of Platte County.

      L. H. LEAVY was born in Great Falls, New Hampshire, March 6, 1859. He removed to New York City with his parents in 1865, later to Illinois and to Columbus in 1884, where he has since resided. He was educated in the New York City schools, Eureka College, Illinois, and the Columbus High School. He married Miss Loseke in 1889 and has three children. He was instructor in the County Institute six years and has been elected County Superintendent, four successive terms.

      R. M. ROSSITER was born in Ireland, June 24, 1844, coming to Ohio in 1850 and in 1871 to Columbus, Nebraska. He attended the Christian Brothers' School in Cleveland, after which he studied civil engineering. In 1881 he married Miss Alice McCaffrey. In the summer of 1872 he surveyed unorganized government land in Nebraska, later in Wyoming and then again in Nebraska. Mr. Rossiter is a veteran of the Civil War, Company E, Forty-first Ohio Volunteers; was wounded at Missionary Ridge, and was in the famous flotilla at Brown's Ferry.

 

      Red Willow County is situated in the Republican Valley. Besides the Republican River, there are Beaver, Red Willow, Driftwood and Coon Creeks, whose valleys are, for the most part, occupied by alfalfa. The county has an area of 720 square miles. The surface is composed of table lands, which slope down to the valleys by means of terraces. Good pasturage is to be found on the hills near the streams, and a large number of cattle and horses are shipped from the county annually. There are twenty miles of irrigating ditches, by which 1,542 acres are watered. Sugar beets, alfalfa, cereals, potatoes and melons are grown on the irrigated land, the cereals comprising the largest crop. Small grain, corn, cane and millet, are raised on the farm land, which includes 1,237 farms. Land has become 40 per cent more valuable in the last few years. Large quantities of fruit and a great deal of timber are successfully grown. The county population is 9,604, while that of the county seat, McCook, is 2,445. There are eighty-two school districts and four square miles of unorganized territory. There are eighty-six schoolhouses, which include five graded school buildings. In 1871 herds of buffalo, antelope and other wild game were very numerous here. The first permanent settler was John S. King, who settled in the eastern part on the Republican River in 1871. Immigration came in rapidly in 1873 and the county organization was effected. In 1872 the first postoffice was established at the Red Willow settlement, with Royal Buck as Postmaster. O. H. Cobb taught the first school at Indianola in 1873-4, the building being the county courthouse.

      ROBERT W. DEVOE was born in Lebanon, Nebraska, February 7, 1882, and has always resided in Red Willow County. He attended Franklin Academy and studied law in an office. In 1904 he married Miss Maud Soverns He served as Deputy County Clerk for two years and in 1903, when only twenty-one yeasr (sic) of age, was elected Clerk of the District Court. He was probably the youngest county officer in the state when elected. He is a worker in the Republican party. His parents came to Nebraska in 1879 and his father, Elmer E. Devoe, is engaged in the banking business.

      E. J. WILCOX was born in Canaan, New York, December 26, 1870. When a child he removed with his parents to Illinois, and in 1884 to Nebraska, making the state his permanent home. He graduated from the McCook High School and went into the mercantile business. He has been City Clerk for three terms, City Treasurer for two terms, and is serving his second term as County Clerk.

      FLORA B. QUICK was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, October 16, 1873. In 1878 she came to Nebraska with her parents. She attended Franklin Academy and Doane College and has done summer work at the University of Nebraska and the Peru Normal College. She has taught for seven years in Indianola and was elected County Superintendent by popular vote. Miss Quick has been affiliated with the Prohibition party, but was nominated by the Populists and Democrats.

      B. G. GOSSARD was born in Ames, Iowa, December 15, 1872, and came to Nebraska in 1886. He is a graduate of the Indianola High