to Illinois resumed work at the carpenter's bench until coming to this State. About 1858 he identified himself with the Masonic fraternity. and is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter No. 5, at Quincy, Ill.

ATHAN S. HARWOOD, the subject of this sketch, and whose portrait appears on the opposite page, is senior member of the law firm of Harwood, Ames & Kelly, and President of the Lincoln National Bank. He is a native of St. Joseph County, Mich., and was born at Corey's Lake, near Constantine, June 18, 1843. The household of his parents, Nathan, Sr., and Nancy (Dorrance) Harwood, included nine children, of whom five are now living, and Nathan was the youngest born. Aurelia is the wife of Thomas Fitch, of Waterloo, Iowa; Louisa, Mrs. John Speese, lives in Winthrop, Iowa; Jane, Mrs. N. S. Fairchild, resides in Valparaiso, Ind.; Matilda is the widow of Frank Morton, and makes her home in Hastings, Neb.
   Nathan Harwood, Sr., was born in Bennington, Vt., Jan. 6, 1794, and was the youngest son in a family of twelve children, ten sons and two daughters, the offspring of Zachariah and Lovina (Rice) Harwood. Zachariah Harwood, born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1742, was of English origin, being of the sixth generation from the first representative of the family in this country, namely, Peter Harwood, who, upon crossing the Atlantic, settled in Concord, Mass. Zachariah Harwood lived to the advanced age of eighty years. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and spent his last days at Bennington, Vt. The following obituary is from the Vermont Gazette, of June 19, 1821, published by Darius Clark, at Bennington: "Died, in this town, on the 6th day of June, instant, Mr. Zachariah Harwood, in the eightieth year of his age. He was one of the earliest settlers and fathers of this town, and was an industrious and worthy man. He was one of the heroes of Bennington battle, and through life maintained in steady practice the principles which early led him to espouse those political and to aid those manly efforts which resulted in the independence of his country. He has left many and respectable descendants, relatives and friends, to remember his usefulness and mourn their loss."
   Nathan Harwood, Sr., spent his early days near Bennington. He enlisted as a volunteer in the War of 1812, and before the battle of Plattsburg, during a night of storm, crossed Lake Champlain in an open boat. A severe illness followed this exposure, an illness from which he never fully recovered. He was an invalid for life, fighting against odds to support a large family in a new country. He married Nancy Dorrance in 1815, and they lived in Bennington ten years, when the first move in the grand march westward was made. In 1825 he emigrated to Ontario County, N. Y., and settled near Lake Canandaigua, where he bought a small farm. There he lived until 1832, when he moved to St. Joseph County, Mich., then upon the frontier. The land he chose is now upon the borders of the town of Three Rivers. Here twenty years passed by, before the next change was made. In 1855 a company of white-sailed prairie schooners, headed due west, crossed the Mississippi River and found safe harbor in Black Hawk County, Iowa. Nathan, Sr., was accompanied by his daughter Aurelia, Mrs. Thomas Fitch and her family, and by Matilda, afterward Mrs. Morton, and Nathan, Jr. He secured his land by a warrant received from the Government in payment of his services as a soldier in the War of 1812. Here he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring March 4, 1858. Nathan, Sr., was a Whig, politically, a member of the Congregational. Church, and a man of sterling honesty.
   His wife, Nancy Harwood, was born in Bennington, Vt., in 1798, the daughter of William and Anne (McCormick) Dorrance. William was of Scotch-Irish descent, and Anne was born in Scotland. Her life was beautiful, not only in its devotion to her husband and children, but also for a certain large kindliness of nature which was especially shown to the sick, for whose needs she had a fine intuition. She died in December, 1852, of an illness which followed her ministrations to a sick daughter.
   The early days of the subject of this biography were spent under the home roof until the death of his mother, when he was but eight years of age.

The two following years he made his home with his sisters, then took up his abode with his father, in Black Hawk County, Iowa, where he assisted in the improvement of a now farm until the marriage of his sister Matilda two years later, when he went with her to her home at Janesville, and until the summer of 1860 spent his time at farm work and attending school. In the fall of that year, having been a studious lad, making good progress with his books, he became a student at the Upper Iowa University at Fayette, and making his home with the family of Prof. McKenzie, worked for his board during the first term, and the next two terms employed himself in different capacities around the college for the purpose of earning money to pay his way. The year following occurred the outbreak of the Rebellion, and young Harwood, in August, 1861, a, youth of eighteen years, enlisted in Company G, 9th Iowa Infantry, and soon afterward went down the Mississippi with his comrades to St. Louis, where, after sojourning a short time at Benton Barracks, they were detailed to guard the railroads in the vicinity of Franklin, Mo., and on the 28th of January set out on the memorable march of the Pea Ridge campaign.
   The exposure and hardships to which our subject was subjected produced an illness, on account of which he was not long afterward forced to accept his honorable discharge. He had, however, seen the smoke of battle at Pea Ridge, and with his discharge in his pocket advanced to participate in the fight. After it was over he remained in the hospital at Springfield, Mo., about six weeks, then tore up his discharge, and resumed his place in his regiment, going with it on the march to Helena, Ark., where he was again attacked by illness, which necessitated once more his abandonment of the military service. He returned home broken down in health, but, in the winter of 1863 had recovered sufficiently to take up his studies again, attending school at Fayette, Iowa, until the winter of 1863-64, when he engaged as a teacher.
   The war being yet in progress, Mr. Harwood could not content himself to remain at home while so many of the young men of his country were fighting in the field and he rallied his energies once more, and, in the spring of 1864 raised part of a company of infantry, of which he was commissioned First Lieutenant. This was named Company D, and was assigned to the 46th Iowa Infantry, being mustered into service on the 17th of June, 1864, at Davenport. They went directly to Memphis, Tenn., and were detailed to do guard duty on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad. Our subject was mustered out in the fall, there being no further need of his services, and again returned home.
   Still intent upon securing an education, Mr. Harwood, in January, 1865, became a student of Hillsdale College, Michigan, from which he was graduated in the Class of '69, in the classical course. In September following he entered the Albany (N. Y.) Law School, and was graduated from this institution in the class of '70. He supplemented his legal studies in the law office of Messrs. Brown & Patterson. at Marshall, Mich., where he remained until a short time before coming to Lincoln, in February, 1871.
   Mr. Harwood now formed a law partnership with Samuel J. Tuttle, which was in existence until November, 1875, under the firm name of Tuttle & Harwood. At this time John H. Ames was added to the firm, but in the spring of 1877 Mr. Tuttle Withdrew, and the firm continued as Harwood & Ames until the 1st of January, 1885. Then William R. Kelly was admitted. Mr. Harwood has stuck closely to his profession, declining to be a candidate for office; only once has he departed from this rule. when in 1876 he was a candidate before the Republican State Convention for the office of Attorney General, but was defeated by the then incumbent, George H. Roberts, who was renominated. Nevertheless, in addition to the practice of law, he has filled many positions of trust and responsibility since coming to this County, among whose people he occupies a position of the highest standing. He was Private Secretary for Gov. Garber in 1875-76, and Delegate-at-Large to the Republican National Convention held at Chicago in 1884, where he served as one of the committee on resolutions. In 1885 he was elected one of the Vice Presidents of the National Tariff Reform League, and has been identified with many of the leading enterprises of this county, among them the Lincoln Public Library Association, of which he was one of the founders and