Republican party and is serving as County
Treasurer of Washington County.
GEORGE FABER was
born in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 13, 1860. His
father, George L. Faber, was a brick mason. He moved to
Auburn, Nebraska, in 1887 and to Blair in 1891. He
received his education in New Orleans and has been
engaged in the marketing of meat. He married Miss
Elizabeth Bohs in 1895. Mr. Faber is a Democrat and has
served two terms as County Treasurer, being now the
County Clerk of Washington County.
THEO. HALLER was
born in East Troy, Wisconsin, August 10, 1842. He came to
Blair, Nebraska, in 1874 and has been engaged in the
general merchandise business for thirty years. Jacob
Haller, his father, was a tanner. Mr. Haller was educated
in the public schools of Wisconsin and in Quincy College,
Quincy. Illinois. He has been Mayor of Blair, sixteen
years Secretary of the Board of Education and County
Commissioner. He was appointed Clerk of the District
Court to fill an unexpired term and has been elected to
the office once since. In 1874 he married Miss Grace
Morgan. They have two daughters and two sons living,
having lost two daughters.
CLAUS MENCKE, an
old settler of Washington County, having taken a
homestead there, was born April 7, 1850, in Germany. He
came to Washington County, Nebraska, in 1869, where he
engaged in farming. His father, Henry Mencke, was a
tanner. He attended the public and private schools of
Germany. Mr. Mencke is a Democrat, has been Deputy
Sheriff of Washington County, and is now serving his
sixth term as Sheriff of the county. He was married in
1874 to Miss Tina Rathman. They have seven children, five
boys and two girls.
G. C. MARSHALL,
a Democrat, now serving his second term as Judge of
Washington County, and also served two terms as County
Superintendent, was the son of John Marshall, a farmer
and stock dealer. He was born in Ohio, September 15;
1858, and came to Washington County in 1896. He married
Miss Sadie M. Williams, February 5, 1891, and they have
two daughters. Mr. Marshall, a lawyer, was educated in
Northern Ohio University at Ada, Ohio, graduating from
the scientific course in 1892 and from the law course in
1895.
A. L. COOK was
born January 5, 1875. in Clayton County, Iowa; and came
to Washington County, Nebraska, with his parents in the
same year, where he has since resided. His father, E. M.
Cook, was a farmer and one of the early settlers of
Washington County, al though he did not take a homestead.
Mr. Cook attended the Fremont Normal College and
graduated from the law school of the State University in
1895. Mr. Cook is a Republican and was elected for the
second time as County Superintendent of Washington
County.
E. B. CARRIGAN
was born in De Soto, Washington County, Nebraska,
November 5, 1867. His father, John Carrigan, a lawyer,
came to Nebraska in 1867, and located in Washington
County, remaining there until his death in 1880. Mr.
Carrigan was educated in the Blair high school, and at
Shenandoah, Iowa, in the Western Normal College. He has
served three terms as Deputy Sheriff, as City Attorney,
and five years as County Attorney, which office he is now
occupying. He was married to Miss Frances Lawson and they
have three children, one son and two daughters.
W. H. HILL, who
has been surveyor of Washington County since 1882, was
born in Osceola, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1846. E. R.
Hill, his father, was a farmer. Mr. Hill moved to Newman
County, Indiana, in 1863 .and came to Nebraska in 1868.
His schooling was received in Osceola, Pennslyvania (sic)
and the Commercial College of Oberlin, Ohio. He is a
Republican and has been city engineer. Washington and
Dole are towns laid out by him while serving as County
Surveyor. In the spring of 1874 he married Miss Lizzie
Wentworth and they have five children.
