farming for a few years and then starting a laundry, which he has operated for fifteen years. He is connected with the Republican party and has been elected Clerk of the District Court.

      L. F. SCHULTZ was born in Germany, November 2, 1865. In 1872 he came to Boston with his parents and three years later settled in Seward. He is Cashier of the Jones National Bank at Seward and has been City Treasurer and County Treasurer, which office he still retains. He is affiliated with the Republican party.

      A. LEAVENS was born in Bethel, Ohio, January 16, 1851, of New England parentage. Later he removed to Utica, Iowa. He received his education at Erving Academy, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar at Vinton, Iowa. He has practiced law in Iowa and Nebraska since. He is of Republican faith and has been elected County Judge of Seward County.

      M. D. CAREY was born in Fillmore County, Minnesota, in 1863. He removed to Hamilton County, Iowa, and later came to Seward County, Nebraska, where he has since remained. He obtained his education in Depauw University, Indiana, taking the law and academic courses. He is a member of the Populist party and in 1902 was elected County Attorney.

      CARL A. BEMIS was born September 8, 1861, in Cavendish, Vermont. In the spring of 1877 he came to Nebraska. He received his education in the Black River Academy. Ludlow, Vermont, and the Seward High School. He is a practicing attorney at Seward and has been Surveyor of Seward County for two terms and is the acting County Surveyor of Butler County at present. For the past three years he has been connected with the Nebraska Investment Company of Milford, Nebraska, as their land examiner. He has also published a map of Seward County and has just issued one of Butler County, both of which have been highly complimented for their workmanship and correctness.

 

      The greater part of the 6,033 people of Sheridan County are engaged in the raising of cattle, sheep and horses. The sandhills in the southern part furnish good pasturage. Over fifty miles of irrigating ditches are in operation. The county has a large area of 2,484 square miles, which is watered by the Niobrara and many small streams, chief of which are Beaver and White Clay Creeks. Alfalfa and sugar beets occupy quite a large acreage. Land has increased in value by onehalf within recent years, and nearly 1,000 farms have been sold lately. The county has three flour mills and two brickyards. Sheridan was organized in 1885. Rushville, its capital, has 463 residents. The transportation facilities consist, of 77.65 miles of railway. The county has 939 miles of unorganized territory, although there are 107 districts. The average school term is five months. There are three graded schools and ninety-six buildings in all, three having been built within the last two or three years. The county has 1,897 children of school age.

      C. L. HOPPER was born in Christian County, Illinois, February 11, 1869. When two years of age his parents removed to York County, Nebraska. He attended York College two years, the State Normal at Peru two years and the University of Nebraska one year. He was principal of the schools at Hay Springs. Nebraska, from which place he was elected Superintendent of Sheridan County. He was married in 1894 to Miss Louise Ralston of McDowell, Virginia. He is a member of the Republican party.

      LEE FRITZ was born in Scioto County, Ohio, September 26, 1865. In 1885 he came to Sheridan County, Nebraska, where he has since remained, and engaged in farming and stock raising. He has a ranch of eight hundred acres in Sheridan County and was married to Miss G. Ziegler of Gordon, Nebraska, in 1893. He is a Republican, has been precinct assessor and is now Treasurer of Sheridan County.

      AMY I. STEWART, Clerk of the District Court, was born in Pennsylvania and in 1887 went to Kansas with her parents. She took a three years' normal course at Chapman, Kansas, and a business course in the Ottawa Business College, Ottawa, Kansas. Miss Stewart came to Rushville, Nebraska, in 1896 and took a position as Deputy Clerk of the District Court, in 1899 was assistant cashier in the Stockman's Bank, Rushville, served as Deputy

Clerk of the District Court eight years and has been elected Clerk of the District Court, being affiliated with the Republican party.

      DE F. VAN FLECK was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 14, 1849. In February, 1863, he enlisted in Company F of the Sixty-fourth Illinois Regiment and was badly wounded at the Battle of Atlanta, the injury destroying the use of his left arm. In 1879 he came to Nebraska and homesteaded in Sheridan County in 1884. He was appointed Deputy County Clerk in 1893, two years later was elected Clerk and has held that position ever since.

      J. H. EDMUNDS, County Judge, was born in Minnesota, October 15, 1860, where he lived until his admission to the bar in 1885, when he came to Nebraska. Since coming to Sheridan County he has practiced law continuously, is a member of the Republican party and is serving his third term as County Judge. In 1886 he was married to Miss R. B. Tull of Hamilton County, Nebraska, and they have four children.

     T. E. HOUSH was born in Milledgeville, Iowa, January 12, 1863. In 1882 he came to Seward County, Nebraska, and in 1884 home-