farmers throughout the State of Nebraska. He owns the building that he occupies, which is two stories in height, and 25x134 feet in dimensions, built of brick.
   Mr. Meyer was married, Oct. 2, 1879, to Miss Anna Gunarson, of Lincoln, Neb., daughter of Andrew Gunarson. She was born in Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill. Their pleasant household circle is completed by the presence of their son Max, and two daughters, Paulina and Leah. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are favorites in social circles in this city, and have many warm friends. Mr. Meyer, beside attending to his large business interests, finds time to spare to the duties of public office, to which he is often called. He is at present a member of the City Council, of the Fifth Ward, to which he was elected in April, 1888. He was elected one of the Directors, and Treasurer of the Board of Trade for the second term in April, 1888. In politics, he has always been a strong Republican, and in favor of the enforcement of law and order.

ENRY H. WILSON. One cannot rise from the thoughtful reading of Sir Walter Scott's works without being impressed with the strength of character, pertinacity and robust manhood of the Scotch, as a race. The descendants of this people of remarkable history mark with the same traits and characteristics their individual record, and leave their imprint upon their surroundings, whatever may be the country in which they sojourn.
   Henry H. Wilson, whose portrait appears on the opposite page, is a gentleman well known throughout the country as an able lawyer and a brilliant writer. He was born near Fremont, Sandusky Co., Ohio, Jan. 1, 1854, and is the eldest son and seventh child of a family of nine. His sisters Rachael and Martha died in infancy; Caroline is married to John B. Brown, of Bryan, Ohio; Agnes resides near Ashland, Neb., and is the wife of Martin Van Horn; Rebecca married Christian Krabill, a successful farmer of Farmer's Center, Ohio; Jane is the wife of Samuel Biggerstaff, whose home is near Ithaca, Neb.; his younger brother, William, died Feb. 6, 1888; the youngest, John J., is now living in Wahoo, Neb.
   The father of our subject was born in Lucerne County, Pa., not far from Shickshinny, Sept. 13, 1813, and was the son of farmers, Robert and Agnes (Wilson) Wilson; although of the same name they were not related. Robert was the son of Joseph Wilson, who came to the United States from Ireland in pre-Revolutionary times. In Robert there was a mixture of Irish, Scotch and Welsh blood, the former predominating. The two great-grandfathers of our subject bore the same name, Wilson, and the mother's grandfather came from Ireland at the age of seven years. Until the year 1832 the father of Henry H. remained under the parental roof, surrounded by home influences and educated in the schools adjacent to that home.
   In the year mentioned the father of our subject went to Ohio and began teaching, at which he continued until settling near Rome, now called Fostoria, in Seneca County. Here he soon became the owner of a farm, and continued his residence until 1841, when he moved to Jackson Township, Sandusky County, and bought eighty acres of Government land at a cost of $100. In the home which he there built up all his children were born, and not until March, 1871, was any further removal made. Then, accompanied by all his family except the two eldest, he came to Nebraska and settled near Ashland, Saunders County. Here he purchased land and improved a homestead of 320 acres, making it his abode until the spring of 1886, when he took up 320 acres of land adjacent to Camp Clarke, Cheyenne County, and there now makes his home. He is a member of the German Baptist Church, sometimes known by the name of Dunkards. He is independent in politics, pledging himself neither to one party nor another, the dictator of his votes being his sense of right and the requirements of the office to be filled.
   Mr. Wilson, Sr., is a man of slight stature and strength, and was ill prepared for the struggles of pioneer life and the hardships incident to carving a farm out of the dense and almost trackless forests of Northern Ohio of a half-century ago. He is, however, a man of buoyant spirits, strong mind and

powerful will, and by his indomitable pluck, unfailing courage, and the peculiar faculty of accomplishing by indirect means what he lacked the physical strength to do by direct means, he was enabled to subdue the forest, clear his farm and rear his unusually large family. During these years of struggle he often accomplished results that many robust men of less resolution would never have undertaken. His changes of residence, both in 1871 and 1886, were made in hope of relief, only partially realized, from the asthma from which he has suffered for thirty years. On the 1st of March, 1838, he married, in Seneca County, Ohio, his first wife, Hannah Benscoter, who died in a few months. On the 1st of April, 1841, in the same county, he married his second wife, Mary Feasel, who became the mother of our subject. She was born in Franklin County, near Columbus, Ohio, on the 23d of May, 1819, and was the eldest child and daughter of Henry and Jane (Kendall) Feasel. The Feasels were of German descent. Jane Kendall was the daughter of an English nobleman, who at an early age came to America to escape the tyranny of an elder brother. About the year 1836 Henry with his family removed to Seneca County, Ohio, where he settled adjoining his brother, and the neighborhood was familiarly called Feaselburg, from the large number of their descendants who settled about them.
   Henry, for whom our subject was named, was a prosperous farmer, reared a family of nine children, and he and his wife ended their days on the old homestead in Feaselburg. The family were Methodists of the old type, eschewing all ornaments, and regarding luxuries and even comforts as dangerously near the dividing line between the innocent and the sinful. Mary after her marriage became closely allied in feeling and thought with her husband, and became a member of the Dunkard Church. She was a woman of more than ordinary strength, both mentally and physically. It is from her that our subject inherits his muscular strength and robust figure. She was strong in her affections, devoted to her children, and beloved by all. She died Sept. 8, 1874, mourned by her family, her friends and the community at large who recognized and fully appreciated her many virtues, and realized the social, religious and domestic loss occasioned by her sudden and untimely death.
   The early days of our subject were spent on his father's farm, where at the early age of thirteen he assumed the entire burden of work as well as the management of the farm. Here he enjoyed the advantages of a very indifferent country school for three or four months during the winters. This very meager elementary education, eked out by one term in the Normal School at Bryan, Ohio, enabled him, after a hard summer's work on the new Nebraska farm (the last regular work done on the farm), to obtain a license to teach in an Irish settlement on Platte Bottom, near Forest City. Sarpy County. After spending a single term at the Normal School at Peru, this State, he returned to Papillion, Sarpy County, and taught two terms.
   By this time a broader view of life began to dawn on the vision of Mr. Wilson, and having concluded that a more general education was a necessary preparation for his future, he entered the preparatory department of the State University in September, 1873, and resolved to complete its most thorough course, although he had to rely solely on his own efforts to maintain himself. During his college course Mr. Wilson was successively business manager and editor of the Hesperian Student, a college paper, and was twice made President of the Union Debating Society. He graduated with honors in 1878, with the degree of Ph. B., and in 1886 the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater.
   Immediately after his graduation Mr. Wilson became Principal of the High School at Seward, in this State, and by his peculiar ability to impart his knowledge to others, as well as by his untiring zeal and enthusiasm in his work, he soon placed himself in the front rank among the educators of the State. During his two years at Seward, besides his school work, he read privately such elementary books of the law as are usually mastered by students before admission to the bar. In May, 1880, he entered the law office of Walter J. Lamb, one of the ablest as well as best known attorneys of the State, and there completed his very thorough preparation for the bar, to which he was regularly admitted Feb. 2, 1881, in the United States Circuit