named city, and when he was but five years old he was called to mourn the loss of his devoted mother. After this sad bereavement he lived with his aunt and his grandmother until he was nine years old, after which he labored in the employment of others in Wayne County, Pa., until the breaking out of the war. Boy as he was, his young heart was fired with enthusiasm, and he could not be restrained from offering himself and his young manhood in so just a cause as that which his country had espoused, and on the 6th of August, 1862, when he was not quite sixteen years old, enlisted with Company A, 137th Pennsylvania Infantry.

For some time our subject was drilled with his company at Harrisburg, and on the 14th of September he participated in the battle of South Mountain. A few days later he was among the number engaged in the fearful encounter at Antietam; think of it, a boy not yet sixteen, where they buried 2,000 Confederates! At Fredericksburg, on May 3d and 4th, and at Chancellorsville on the 5th and 6th, he distinguished himself as one of the bravest soldiers. His time of enlistment having expired, he re-enlisted, Sept. 23, 1863, with Battery C, 2d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and in that command he served before the defenses of Washington. He was transferred to the infantry field in May, 1864, having in the previous winter of 1863-64 been promoted to the rank of First Corporal, which position he held until the close of the war, He also served in the battles of Cold Harbor and Petersburg on the 14th of June, 1864, in what is termed ,The Crater," the 30th of July, 1864, and in September he participated in the James River campaign, and remained with Grant all summer. He was at the seiges of Petersburg and Richmond until the close of the war, and remained on reconstruction duty until February, 1866, doing provost duty at Petersburg. He received his second honorable discharge at Philadelphia.

 After having so nobly distinguished himself as a brave warrior, our subject remained at home for one year, then went back to Wayne County, and in 1869 he came to Nebraska and took up his present homestead. He was married to Miss Nannie E. Fuller, on the 19th of March, 1874. She was born on the 23d of February, 1856, in Kosciusko County, Ind., and came to this State on the 4th of July, 1864, when she was a girl of eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Hibbert have numbered seven children in their family, the three oldest of whom are deceased. Their names are: Mary P., Charlie E., Anna J., Guy, Ha (sic) E., Roscoe C., and Thomas E., Jr.

Our subject owns 160 acres of fine land on section 13, Hooker Township, which he devotes to the purposes of general farming, and on which he has made many fine improvements. He has a grove of box elder, maple, cottonwood, poplar, ash, elm, etc., all of which trees have grown from seeds and cuttings, and present a fine appearance. There have been other improvements, also, which add materially to the value of the farm. As a supplement to his excellent war record Mr. Hibbert has taken an active part in the political affairs of his county and district, having been a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1886, and in the year 1888 he was elected delegate to the Republican County Convention, and delegate to the Congressional Convention, in which honorable offices he represented his constituents in a manner which was entirely satisfactory to them. He takes a great delight in discussing political matters, and he has a pleasant, genial disposition, which is so necessary to a man in  the political arena if he desires to retain his own urbanity of manner, and the respect of others. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hibbert are esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ENDERSON BURTON. One of the oldest farms in Sicily Township is that occupied by the gentleman whose name is at the head of this sketch, who was born in the southern part of Virginia, Oct. 23, 1818. When at the age of five years his parents, Jared and Nellie (Adams) Burton, removed to Kentucky, they too being natives, of Virginia, and until that time having made their home in that State. Our subject was reared to mature years in Morgan County, Ky., where, unfortunately, he was able to receive no school training, because at that time schools were not established in the district.

Our subject removed in the year 1851 to Fre-

mont County, Iowa, making the trip by the river, first upon the Ohio down to Cairo where it unites with the Mississippi; at that point the prow of his boat was turned up the last-named river, and presently he arrived at St. Louis, where, owing to the frozen condition of the river, he was compelled to winter, in March of the following year (1852) he recommenced his journey up the Missouri River, and upon the 8th of April went ashore at Lambert's Landing, which is situated about four miles above the present site of Nebraska City.

After one year spent in Iowa our subject returned to Kentucky, but in 1855 once more made his way to Nebraska City. The following year (1856) found him again in Kentucky. After eight years he again migrated westward, and in the year 1864 settled near Wyoming, Neb., where he remained until the year 1874, when he removed to his present home. At that time it was an entirely undeveloped country, and for three years or more the visits of Indians were a daily occurrence. There were very few neighbors, and none of them near, the first white settlement having only been effected the year previous to our subject's coming, and his house and farm being the most southerly in the entire county. The farm includes 200 acres of exceptionally good land for the pursuit of husbandry, and is situated on the twenty-first section, and, by constant attention and labor, has been brought to an unusually high state of cultivation.

Mr. Burton has been twice married, first in March, 1840, to Miss Rosa Sexton, who, however, died seven years later, and left one son, James E., who was born Dec. 13, 1844, in Carter County, Ky. This lady was a native of Kentucky, and a most devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her son James, when at the age of seventeen years, answered the call of his country, and enlisted in her defense in Company K, of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry, and served for fourteen months. During that time he contracted the disease which ultimately removed him from the sphere mundane. He was for many years devotedly attached to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and continued his membership until the last. He was married, on the 31st of December, 1868, to Alvira J. Austin, who presented him with two sons--William C. and Leonard E.; the former died at the age of eighteen years, upon the 26th of December, 1887; Leonard E. continues to make his home with his grandparents.

The second marriage of our subject was with Miss Rebecca M. Lambert, of Boyd County, Ky., and was celebrated on the 10th of October, 1848. This lady and her husband are both within the pale of the communion of the Evangelical Church, and receive the full confidence and esteem of those with whom they are associated. Mr. Burton is one who gives full attention to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and is careful regarding the disposition of his ballot, but at the same time is in sympathy with the Republican party, and in National campaigns usually votes its ticket.

EORGE KRAUTER, a pioneer settler of Clatonia Township, has long been a familiar figure among the farmers of section 3. A native of Bavaria, Germany, he was born Dec. 5, 1833, and is the son of John and Anne Krauter, who traced their ancestry among the best families of the Fatherland. He was reared in his native Province, where he lived until a youth of twenty years, then resolved to seek his fortune in the New World. He accordingly bade adieu to his youthful associations, and taking passage on a sailing-vessel at Bremerhaven, landed, after an ocean voyage of nine weeks, in the city of New York. He remained in Orange County, N. Y., for about two years thereafter, employed as a farmer. In 1853 he was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Wolf, a native of Alsace, Germany, and this union resulted in the birth of twelve children, nine of whom are living, namely: Frank, George, Charles, William, Edward, Wilhelmina, Caroline, Frederick and Archie. John, Ella and Frederick are deceased.

From Orange County, N. Y., our subject removed to the vicinity of the city of Sing Sing, where he remained, however, but a short time, then started for the West, and crossing the Father of Waters, was engaged for about eight years in a lumber-yard at Burlington, Iowa. Subsequently he farmed in the vicinity of that city, but about the fall of 1871 came to this county and homesteaded

eighty acres of land in Clatonia Township. He was one of the first men to follow the plowshare in this township. He retained possession of his first land about seven years, then sold out and took possession of his present farm, where he has brought about the improvements naturally suggested to the intelligent and progressive agriculturist. He has been remarkably prosperous in his labors, and is now the owner of 400 broad acres, which yield in abundance the richest crops of this section. His dwelling is comfortable and the barns and out-buildings properly adapted to the storing of grain and the shelter of stock.

Mr. Krauter after becoming a naturalized citizen identified himself with the Republican party. He has served as School Treasurer of his township for a number of years, and in the spring of 1887 was chosen as Judge of Election. To the maintenance of schools and churches he gives his uniform and hearty support. The German Americans of this county comprise a portion of its best element, and none are more deserving of honorable mention than the subject of this sketch. In religious matters he belongs to the German Methodist Episcopal Church, is one of its Trustees, and contributes liberally to its support.

OBERT C. HEMPHILL is entitled to honorable mention as a participant in the late civil difficulties, having served as a loyal soldier of the Union, as well as a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of this county. His father, Moses Hemphill, was born in Cumberland, Pa., in 1804, and died in 1865, at the age of sixty-one years. His mother, Margery (Clark) Hemphill, was born in Franklin County, Pa., in 1812, and died in 1872, at the age of sixty years. They were the parents of ten children, of whom our subject was the sixth born.

 The birth of our subject occurred on the 24th of April, 1841, in Cumberland County, Pa., and as a youth he received a common-school education and then engaged in work on his father's farm, until he reached the age of twenty-one years. At that age began the period which furnished but one topic of thought in the minds of men, women and children, and our subject enlisted on the 12th of August. 1862, in Company F, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was mustered in at Harrisburg as a private, and remained throughout the war until its termination. He participated in the engagements known as the battle of the Wilderness, battle at Spottsylvania Court House, the siege of Petersburg and the battle of Winchester. He was mustered out at Little York (Pennsylvania) Hospital on the 25th of May, 1865.

After he was honorably discharged from the service of his country, our subject went to Illinois where he remained for one year, and then returned to Cumberland County, Pa., in which place he continued farming until the year 1883. He then came to Nebraska and began farming on his present land, consisting of 160 acres on section 1, Elm Township. He broke the soil, and by his improvements from time to time he has brought his farm to its present lucrative and attractive condition, and is in every respect well and pleasantly situated. He does not reside on his own farm but on the one adjoining it.

On the 13th of February, 1868, our subject was united in marriage, in Franklin County, Pa., to Miss Margaret J. Brown, who was born in Cumberland County, of the same State, on the 13th of February, 1848. Her father, John C., and mother, Ellen (Quigley) Brown, were both natives of the county in which she was born. The father died in 1862, at the age of forty-five years, and the mother in 1858, at the age of forty years, they having reared a family of eight children, of whom the wife of our subject was the third child.

Our subject and his wife are the parents of nine children, all of whom are at home and whom we name as follows: Robert B., Ellen Q., William J., Bessie F., Walter C., Margery H., Carrie B., Charles N. and Agnes O. Our subject does not seek prominence in public affairs, but his true worth being recognized by the people of his community, he has at different times been called to share the public honors. He has served for two years as Justice of the Peace; having served for one term as School Director, he was elected for a second term and is now serving in. that capacity. He is an ardent Republican, and is a member of the G. A. R., Rol-

lins Post No. 35, of Beatrice. He and his wife are influential members of the Presbyterian Church in the above-named city. One of the admirable characteristics of our subject is his love for method and order, having a place for everything and keeping everything in its place, and his wife also adopts that excellent rule in the management of her household. She possesses the qualities of refined womanhood in a marked degree, and is an estimable lady.

MER T. GARRISON. The homestead of the subject of this sketch, pleasantly situated in Adams Township on section 19. forms a pleasing picture of peaceful rural life, and the abode of plenty and comfort. Mr. Garrison, forming a portion of the bone and sinew of his community, has pursued the even tenor of his way perhaps without making any great stir in the world, but is a man upon whom his fellow-citizens look with confidence, and as such is amply entitled to recognition in a work of this kind. He has been fortunate, too, in the selection of his life partner, having for his wife a most amiable and intelligent lady, who has presided with dignity and grace over his household affairs, been a wise and judicious mother to a bright family of children, and in all things labored disinterestedly with her husband for the best good of those having a claim upon them.

Mr. Garrison was the second child of his parents, and was born in Washington Township, Dearborn Co., Ind. June 12, 1832. His father, William Garrison, was a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, and born about six miles from the city of Cincinnati. The mother was born in Pennsylvania, and when a young girl went with her parents to Indiana, where, when grown, she made the acquaintance of her husband. William Garrison was a man of much force of character and good education, and was a practicing physician of Dearborn County for a period of fifteen years. A strong anti-slavery man, he was fearless in the expression of his principles, and was also active in temperance work, devoting much time to the lecture field, in which he attained a fine reputation as an orator and a most efficient helper.

 The parents of our subject left Indiana in 1855, and, crossing the Mississippi, located in Wapello County, Iowa, where the father died at the age of seventy-three years, in 1875. The mother passed away three years later, in 1878, while on a visit at the home of her son Amos, in Chicago, being also seventy-three years old. The six children comprising the home circle were named respectively: Sylvester, Omer, Herod, Amos. Robert and Silas. Of these all lived to mature years, and four are now living, being residents of Nebraska and Illinois, respectively.

Omer T. Garrison acquired his education in the common school, and when of suitable years began to make himself useful about the homestead. At the age of nineteen he became interested in carpentering, which he followed about a year, and when twenty-one began the study of pharmacy in Iowa, and also practiced medicine to a slight extent. This, however, not being congenial to his tastes, he abandoned the profession for the farm prior to his marriage, and wisely acquired ownership to a tract of land. He took unto himself a wife and helpmate, Miss Amanda McCullough, in April, 1858, the wedding occurring at the home of the bride in Iowa, and they began life together at a modest home in Van Buren County.

Mrs. Garrison is the daughter of William and Jane McCullough, natives respectively of Ireland and Pennsylvania. The father emigrated to the United States when a young man, settling at an early day in Switzerland County, Ind. There the parents were married, and removed thence to Iowa in 1849, locating in Van Buren County. Mr. McCullough, about 1849, while on a business trip to Keokuk was taken sick, and died at the age of sixty-seven years. Thus were shattered the fond hopes which had nerved the family to seek a wild new country in the hopes of bettering their condition. The terrible blow was most fatal in its effects upon the poor mother, who, left comparatively without means, and a large family to provide for, lost her reason and never recovered. She only survived five years, being tenderly cared for by her children, and dying at the home of her son in Iowa, in 1868, at the age of sixty-eight.

To the parents of Mrs. Garrison there were born ten children--Thomas, Elmira, Andrew, Jane, Mary,

John, Margaret, William, Washington, and Olive, the wife of our subject. The birth of the latter took place Oct. 13, 1842, in Switzerland County, Ind., and she was there reared amid the pioneer scenes of a new country. Her education was conducted in the primitive schools, and she retains to this day many recollections of that time, and particularly the details of their departure for Iowa. She recalls the words of parting from old friends, the disposal of some of their effects and the loading of the others upon the wagon, by means of which with horses they were to make the journey to their new home. Its results and the sad scenes which followed are but one chapter among the experiences of a world whose children are prone to meet with disappointment and sorrow.

Mr. and Mrs. Garrison, however, have been prosperous in their home and in their children, and enjoy the friendship of a large circle of acquaintances. They came to Nebraska in. the fall of 1872, and lived at Beatrice until Mr. G. purchased 160 acres of land, which now forms a neat and comfortable homestead.

Our subject is a stanch Republican, politically, and with his estimable wife an earnest worker, like his father before him, for the success of the temperance cause. Seven children came to bless their union, the eldest of whom, Aldula, is now the wife of Charles Gale, who is connected with the Express Publishing Company at Beatrice; they have one child, a son, Clarence. Edgar married Miss Beatrice Lynch, and is farming in Adams Township; Mary F., Mrs. Orin Weyman, is the wife of a well-to-do farmer of Adams Township; Walter, William, Guy and Glenn are at home with their parents.

 ILLIAM H. RUYLE. The stock farmers of Gage County are among the very best of its citizens, and fill in this newer country a place, perhaps, of chief importance as concerns its business interests. Among these, and representative of his class, is the gentleman whose history is here epitomized; one who is in the front rank of his fellows in the same calling, is most prosperous and enterprising. His farm is most admirably situated for pastoral purposes, and is part of section 35, Logan Township, a rich soil, of undulating prairie, and well supplied with water from Cedar Creek, that flows directly through it. His farm is 320 acres in extent, but with his Sherman Township property he owns not less than 500 acres.

William L. Ruyle is a native of Knoxville, Tenn., where he was horn in 1824. He removed to Scott County, Ill., with his father in 1832, and, in 1849 went to California, and was engaged for three years in mining, succeeding in accumulating quite a large fortune. He then returned home to Illinois, where he is the owner of 1,500 acres in Jersey County, well stocked with thoroughbred horses and cattle. He has for many years held a very high position in the community, and held the office of County Commissioner for about four years; his political sympathies are with the Democratic party, of which he has always been a member. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary J. Elliot, was born in 1836, on the Chamteau Island, which is in the Mississippi River above St. Louis. She is still living, and in the enjoyment of both health and faculties. Of this union there were born eight children, whose names are here subjoined: W. H., Elizabeth, Annie, Laura, Louis, Lucinda, Edward and Ollie.

Our subject was born upon the 14th of April, 1856, in Jersey County, Ill., and continued his residence with his parents until he attained his majority. He received a good practical education, and from childhood became every day more conversant with farm life in all its details. In 1877 he went to Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, in which latter place he had quite an extensive ranch, and was more than usually successful in its operation, but did not stay long enough to become a permanent settler, as he returned to Illinois after an absence of about three months. He then returned to farming for a time, and in 1880 removed to Logan Township and settled upon his present farm, at that time comprising only 240 acres; four years since he opened a butcher shop on Cort street, Beatrice, and this, although lacking his personal oversight, represents quite a large business. The whole of his shrewd, cultivated and experienced intelligence is brought to bear upon the proper working of his farm, and his time is given chiefly

to that end; he is a very large buyer and shipper. never shipping less than from 125 to 150 carloads of stock each season.

The maiden name of the wife of our subject was Miss Nettle Bateman; she is the daughter of William and Julia (Cowan) Bateman, a native of Jersey County, Ill., and was born on the 26th of October, 1858. Her father, whose life dates from the year 1830, was born in Lynchburg, Va., and was by trade a bricklayer. In 1858 he went to Jersey County, Ill., and there began farming; in 1880 he became a resident of Logan Township, this county, upon the property still occupied by him, which comprises 160 acres. Her mother, who was born in the year 1839, is a native of Jersey County, Ill. Of their union were born nine children, who received the names here appended, viz: Janet, John and Elizabeth (deceased); Ida, Ann J., William T., Theron W., Edward and Cora. Miss Bateman became the wife of our subject on the 10th of October, 1878, in Jersey County. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ruyle are as follows: Eva J., Clarence L., Willie L. and Herbert R.

Our subject, while in nowise remiss in accepting the responsibilities that come to him as a citizen of the Republic, is not of that number who might be called office-seekers, although he has been for two years Collector of Taxes, and is at present serving as School Director. In his political opinions, sympathies and principles, our subject is in strict accord with the Democratic party, of which he has been an acknowledged friend and supporter for many years. There are few if any of Logan's citizens held in higher regard than Mr. Ruyle and his most estimable wife.

 ICHARD GLASS is one of the well-known and progressive farmers and stock-raisers of  Blakely Township, where he owns a fine farm of 151 acres on section 1. His father, Richard Glass, Sr., was a farmer and weaver, and was born in the northern part of Ireland. Shortly after his marriage in that country to Martha Watt, he came to the United States, and made his home in Lancaster County, Pa., where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days, and died at about the age of eighty years. They were Presbyterians in faith, and were respected citizens of the community in which they lived. The father was the only one of his father's family who left his native country for America. Our subject was the youngest of eight children, of whom there were five sons and three daughters, and the only remaining members of that family are our subject and a sister, Mrs. Betsey Sides. The latter is now living in Lancaster County, Pa., where her husband, Henry Sides, is engaged in farming.

Our subject lived with his father in his native county until he was twenty years old, when he took the responsibility of shaping his future course in life into his own hands, and went to Ohio and worked for two and one-half years in learning the miller's trade. He discontinued that vocation and again engaged in farming. He was married, in 1840, in Franklin County, Ohio, to Miss Paulina Ogden, who was born on the 14th of February, 1822, in the afore-mentioned county. She is a daughter of Elias and Hulda (Whitehead) Ogden, both of whom are deceased, the father having been accidentally killed by a vicious horse when Paulina was but three years old. Her mother afterward married Mr. John Kelso, who died in Ohio, and later Mrs. Kelso went to Iowa, where she died at the advanced age of eighty-seven years.

Mrs. Glass is next to the youngest child of her father's family, consisting of two sons and three daughters, and after the death of her father she remained in the care of her mother until the time of her marriage with our subject. She is the mother of ten children, three of whom died in infancy, and a fourth, named Martha, died after she became the wife of James Brightman, leaving two small children to mourn a mother's tender care. The remaining children of the family of our subject and his wife are: Hulda J., Mary, Bessie, Jennie L., Robert and Milton. Hulda has been engaged in teaching school for ten years, and makes her home with her parents; Mary and Jennie also live at home; Bessie is the wife of James L. McCan, and they live on a farm in Bremer County, Iowa; Robert married Miss Araminta Stanley, and lives on a farm