hard labor and careful management. He was formerly a member of the Republican party, but beliving that the good of the Country would be enhanced by advocating the policy of the Prohibition party, he now takes an active interest in promoting its views, his wife being also strongly in favor of temperance. For two years our subject was Assessor, and for six years he has been School Director, at present filling that honorable position in Panama Precinct. He is a good, honest, upright man, and as such he and his family have the esteem of the entire community in which they live.

AURICE E. JONES, M. D., a prominent capitalist of Lincoln, has gained a wide reputation as a successful and skillful physician and surgeon, and to-day occupies a leading position in the medical profession of Nebraska, and he has also shown himself to be a financier of no mean ability. He was born in Montgomeryshire, England, Aug. 3, 1836, a son of John M. and Elizabeth (Edwards) Jones. His parents came to America in 1845, and settled in Great Barrington, Mass. In 1852 his father established himself in the mercantile business in Pittsfield, Mass., and continued to reside there with his family until his death in 1887, when a valued and respected citizen was lost to that community. His amiable wife did not long survive the shock occasioned by his death, as her own occurred a month later. Six of the children born of their marriage grew to maturity, namely: Maurice; Thomas, now in the mercantile business in Taunton, Mass.; Jonathan was a merchant in Providence, R. I., where he died in 1887; Elizabeth C.; Emma A.; A. May married James Hosburg, and they live in Dalton, Mass.
   The subject of this sketch was nine years of age when he came to America with his parents, and amid the beautiful scenery of that part of the old Bay State where his parents made their home he grew to vigorous manhood. He received substantial education in the excellent academy at Great Barrington, and in a private school in Lanesboro. He was strongly attracted tothe medical profession, and determined to become a doctor, and he accordingly commenced the study of in medicine with Dr. Cady, of Pittsfield, and later was graduated from the Berkshire Medical College in 1860. He commenced to practice his profession in Chesterfield, and thence went to Westford, Mass. In 1862 he was called to Chelsea, Mass., to take the position of Assistant Superintendent of the Chelsea Marine Hospital. He was there but a short time when he resigned to accept the office of Assistant Surgeon in a Rhode Island regiment, and in that capacity he did good service at the battles of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg. He was in the army for a year, when he resigned, and settled at Meredith Village, and practiced there for a time. From there he went to Mt. Vernon, N. H., remaining there in active practice until 1867. He then established himself in Port Jervis, N. Y., and was there appointed surgeon of the Delaware Division of the Erie Railway. In 1871 he visited his birth place in England, and after traveling in Europe for three months, returned to America, and settled in his old home in Pittsfield, Mass., where he formed a partnership with Dr. O. S. Roberts. While residing there he invested in real estate in Lincoln without ever having seen it. In 1876 he again visited Europe, and spent six months in traveling over the Old World. On his return to this country he concluded to come to Lincoln to look after his real estate here. At that time Lincoln was a small and quiet place, with but little prospect of ever reaching its present size and importance as a great Western metropolis. The Doctor opened an office here, but after practicing his profession here for two years, he sold out and returned to the East. In 1882 he was selected to take charge of the medical department of the Insane Asylum at Amityville, N. Y. He remained there one year, discharging the duties of his position with satisfaction to those in charge of the institution. He then opened an office in New York City, and was successfully engaged there until 1886. But he had not forgotten Lincoln, and he decided to locate here once again, and he has ever since been an honored resident, and has contributed very materially to its growth. Soon after his return he erected the handsome brick block which he now owns on the corner of

Twelfth and P streets. While a practicing physician in Massachusetts the Doctor was prominently identified with the Pittsfield, Berkshire and Massachusetts State Medical Societies. He joined the Masonic fraternity at Milford, N. H. The Doctor's travels and wide experience have made him a polished and cultured man of the world, and his strong personality, genial manners and entertaining conversation, have drawn to him many warm friends from among the intelligent and educated people whom he has met at home and abroad.

OHN J. TROMPEN. Among the biographies which grace this volume will be found that of J. J. Trompen, one of Hickman's most popular citizens, influential politicians and prosperous business men. He is one who stands high in the community in stature, as also in the foregoing qualities. He is a man of unusually fine physique, standing six feet six inches, and large in proportion. He is possessed of almost unbounded resources and reserve force, and in spite of a number of reverses has made his way to a very advanced position in life, and if ever pride is a virtue it is so under such circumstances. How much however, of this prosperity has been the result of his alliance with his talented, cultured and most estimable wife would be hard to say.
   The father of our subject was John Trompen, who was born in North Holland, and came to the United States with his father, brothers and sisters while yet a young man, and with them located in Ottawa County, Mich, where also he began farming, continuing his residence at home until 1874, when he came to Nebraska, accompanied by his father, and located in South Pass Precinct. Here he became the owner of 320 acres of farming land, and died upon the homestead at the age of sixty-five years, in 1883. His mother, Mary (Raak) Trompen, was also born in Holland, and still lives upon the homestead, aged sixty-eight years. She has been twice married, her first husband being H. Wiefrich, by whom she became the parent of one child, Frederick. Her second marriage has been fruitful in the birth of two children--our subject and his sister Martha.
   Our subject was born April 8, 1854, at Vriesland, Mich. His early days were spent and his education was received in the schools of the same place. His school life was marked by the same attention to details and perseverance that have made him so successful in later years. His unusually large proportions were early noticeable and rapidly developed. In this regard he took somewhat after his great-grandfather, who was a cavalryman in the favorite regiment of Napoleon 1, renowned wherever the history of that military genius is read. He was also a man of large brain power, which seems to have been transmitted by some psychic law of generation to our subject, who also bears the same name.
   Mr. Trompen's felicity has been largely enhanced by his union with Miss Jennie Huyser, daughter of Quirinius and Gessie Huyser. This lady was born in Zealand, Ottawa Co., Mich., June 23, 1853. The education in the common school was supplemented by that of a full course in the Ladies' Seminary, at Holland, of the same State, the curriculum of which included a complete course in music, living languages, artistic work and other accomplishments, and occupied a period of between four and five years. Immediately after her marriage with our subject, which was solomnized at Zealand, she came to Lincoln, arriving Sept. 22, 1874. The father of our subject had purchased a half-section of hind, and upon this occasion presented one-half of it to his son, who began farming at once upon it. For three years they lived in a sod house, as may be surmised of not very extensive proportions. The first three or four years our subject met with trials and adverse circumstances which would have crushed many, and possibly but for the high inspiration that had now come into his life, and lifted him above mere selfish consideration, would have conquered him also, but he labored on and was victor over all.
   In the year 1887 our subject began the breeding of hogs and cattle for the market, the former most extensively, and in this new business was remarkiably successful. Single-handed he ran his farm of 120 acres, his team consisting of three mules; besides the ordinary draft work they became also the mo-

tive power of his threshing-machine. He began business in Holland in 1882, in farm machinery, implements and general requirements, and in this his prosperity continued with him. In the fall of the same year he came to Hickman, where, continuing his other business, he went into partnership with Mr. McKimmon in grain and live stock. This, however, was a reverse, for he lost during this partnership about $1,500. Soon after this he entered into partnership with Mr. Liesveld, and persuaded him to erect a steam grain elevator. The first year the firm ran under the name of Liesveld, Vanburg & Co., but Mr. Vanburg was bought out, and the firm took its present name. Their shipments amount to over 125,000 bushels per year. Besides this business they keep always on hand a large supply of agricultural hardware, and the best makes of buggies and wagons. Mr. Trompen has an especial affinity for mechanism of all kinds, and is entirely in his element in this department of his business, which is the largest of its kind in the county.
   The home of our subject has received at different times seven children, who have made it bright with their presence and happy with their mirth. Their names are recorded as below: Nicholas, Sena, Sarah, John, Martha, Fritz and Fredericka, all of whom are at home, the four older ones being in attendance upon the schools of the district.
   The history of our subject in connection with all movements and enterprise for the benefit of the community reveals the fact that he is a large-hearted, public-spirited man, intensely interested in the advancement of all classes of the community in which he resides. Politically, his record indorses the same opinion, and moreover has proved the opportunity for advancement of some of the above enterprises. He affiliates with the party of "The Plumed Knight." He has been a candidate nine times in the Republican County Convention, was sent as a delegate to the State Conventions in the years 1880, 1886 and 1887. In the year 1886 he seconded the nominated speech which presented Gov. Thayer to the convention, also Gen. Laws, the present Secretary of State, and Church Howe, now President of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, to the office of Congress. In an exceptionally efficient manner our subject has filled the office of Notary Public for one term, of Director of Schools for many years, and Justice of the Peace for a period of nine years.
   In the Northwest there is a large society of wheat producers and grain buyers, who hold an important position in regard to the business in that commodity in the Northwest, with the object of mutual protection, help and support, known as the Northwest Grain Association. Our subject is one of the prominent members of this association, and one of its most earnest supporters. His high political station and large influence, his popularity and massive intellect, all combine to make him one of its leading members.

ALTER HOGE is Secretary of the News Printing Company, of Lincoln, which publishes the Weekly and Daily News, and also does a flourishing business in job printing. The subject of this sketch was horn in Greene County, Pa., Oct. 27, 1847, being a son of Abner and Maria (Wise) Hoge. In 1856 his parents removed to LaSalle County, Ill., and the father bought a farm in the southwestern part of the county, and has been prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuits there ever since. He and his wife are benevolent, upright people, whose conduct has always marked them as well worthy of the confidence that they have inspired in their neighbors.
   Our subject received his early education in the district school, and by a four-years attendance at that excellent institution of learning, Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., was still further fitted for the literary vocation that he has since adopted. He comenced teaching during his collegiate career, and for several years taught in LaSalle County. He abandoned the profession of teaching for that of a journalist in 1873, buying at that time a third interest in the Streator Monitor. In 1875 he sold that paper, and bought an interest in the Streator Free Press, then a weekly publication. In 1878 he made it a daily, and continued to publish it with good financial success until 1884, when he sold out, and started West to seek a location. He visited Lincoln, and being pleased with the city, its surroundings, and business prospects, he decided that he would make his home here. He bought an inter-

est in the Lincoln Daily News, and has been connected with that paper since that time as managing editor, and he has been Secretary of the company that publishes it since its formation as a stock company. He is a man of good literary ability, has a decided talent for business, and is well thought of in this community.
   Mr. Hoge was married, in 1874, to Miss Belle Tullis, and to her sympathy and encouragement he is greatly indebted for his success in life. They have three children--Mabel, Charles and Jessie. While a resident of Streator, Ill., our subject took a prominent part in local and county affairs, was a member of the City Council for several terms, and represented Streator on the County Board of Supervisors for four years, filling the office with great acceptance to his constituents, resigning it in 1884.

HOLLMANN is a well-known general farmer and stock-raiser on section 9, Olive Branch Precinct. In this business he has been very successful. He owns 240 acres, nearly all of which is the best improved land. His farm is a fine one, having on it a capital house and substantial out-buildings. Mr. Hollmann developed it from the raw prairie, and its present prosperous condition furnishes abundant proof of its owner's business tact and energy.
   Mr. Hollmann came to this State with Henry Kramer, in the year 1865, since which date he has continued to live where he now resides. He formerly resided in Clayton County, Iowa. He and Mr. Kramer were among the first to settle this far west in Nebraska, and endured all the manifold hardships of pioneer life. His account of things as they then were is one of thrilling interest. The subject of our sketch was born in what is now Prussia, Germany, in 1831. When only twenty years old he came to this country alone and unmarried. His father, Frederick Hollmann, was a Hanoverian, and served as a soldier. After spending twelve years in the army as a private, he was pensioned, and spent the latter years of his life in the seclusion of his native village, where he died at the age of eighty-tbree. He appears to have been a smart, educated German. Early in life he had married Fredricka Wilka, a most intelligent woman, who died in Hanover at the age of seventy-six.
   Our subject was one of the younger of a family of seven stalwart sons and two daughters. He grew to manhood in his native land, and was educated in the German language. On his arrival in the United States he located at Cincinnati, Ohio, for one year, after which he removed to Clayton County, Iowa, where he was married to Eliza Kramer, daughter of the above-mentioned Henry Kramer. This lady was born in Prussia, German.
   In the year 1841, while yet young she came to the United States with her parents, with whom she continued to reside until her marriage to Mr. Hollmann. She is the happy mother of eleven children. Of these the eldest is Magarata, wife of John Fix; they live on a flourishing farm on section 16 of Olive Branch Precinct. Henry, the eldest son, took to wife a Miss Emma Brahnsted, and is a prosperous farmer in this precinct. The second daughter, Amelia, is the wife of George L. Fisher, who lives on and owns a fine farm in the same precinct. The other children are: Fred, Sophia, William, Louisa, Emma, Bernhard, Lany and Edwin, all of whom live at home with their parents.
   In religion, Mr. and Mrs. Hollmann are German Methodists. Mr. Hollmann is one of the Church Trustees of the town in which he resides, and also occupies the position of Sabbath-school Superintendent. Mr. Hollmann, who has held most of the offices of his precinct, is a Republican.

ENRY JOHNSON, who resides upon his farm on section 34, Nemaha Precinct, was born in Denmark, Oct. 22, 1845. The news of the broad American prairies, its liberal and liberty-loving institutions, was sounded in the valleys of the land of the Norsemen, and in common with others of his countrymen he determined to visit the New World. Accordingly, in the spring of 1869 he came to this country, and soon after found his way to Nebraska, where he took eighty acres of land on the above section, under the Homestead Law. It is well proved that his confidence in

the country of his adoption and in her resources was not unfounded, for, whereas, when he landed in Nebraska City the total amount in his purse was fifty cents, he is now possessed of 120 acres of well-improved and highly cultivated land, and a most pleasant home. Our subject was married first, in Bennet, Neb., Sept. 4, 1874, to Jennie Ganey. This lady was born in Michigan; her parents were natives of Holland, and possessed their full complement of characteristics incident to the average native of that country. They had brought with them the we-will-not-be-overcome spirit of that sturdy race who dwell beneath the level of the ever-threatening wave, and are perpetually engaged with King Neptune in a war, the cessation of which on their part would mean desolation, defeat and death, This lady bore to our subject six children, who were named as follows: James, Garrett, Charles E., Martha A., Franklin and Willie, the two youngest children being now deceased. The mother of this family, after having spent the years of her wedded life in the noble effort to build up and advance the interests of husband and children, in December, 1886, was called upon to exchange the activities of life, with its shade and sunshine, bright sky and cloud-covered horizon, its labor, pain and tears, interspersed with some smiles, laughter and happiness, for the life beyond, of which we know so little, excepting as we obtain it from Revelation, and may realize from the nature of things some of its outlines, which are beyond our ken, upon the same principle that the sculptor can complete the outline of the mutilated Torso.
   The second marriage of our subject occurred in Lancaster County, Neb., May 6, 1887. This lady is also a native of Holland, and is the daughter of Peter and Nellie Clark. Of this marriage there has been born one child, Jacob P.
   Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Lutheran Presbyterian Church, and enjoy the confidence and high regard of those with whom they are associated. His political connections are with the Republican party, and whenever occasion demands he is found willing to engage in any legitimate enterprise for its support and advancement in the community.
   Our subject must be classed among those who have not had the inestimable advantage of parental assistance in making the grand start in life. Whatever he is, whatever he has done, whatever he possesses is the result of his own ambition, labor and courage.

ILLIAM H. SUTTON. This gentleman, who represents worthily the peaceable and law-abiding element of Yankee Hill Precinct, has a well-conducted farm of eighty acres, pleasantly located on section 24. He came to Nebraska from Michigan in 1876, through Illinois with a team of horses and a buggy, and after taking ample time to survey the country, finally located in Saunders County, where he lived five years occupied in farming. Then selling out he came to this County in the spring of 1884, locating upon his present farm, where he has since resided.
   Our subject is essentially a self-made man, starting out in life without other capital than strong hands and a willing disposition, and has now a comfortable home with a prospect of a competency in his old age. He was born in Livingston County, N. Y., on the 26th of January, 1841, and is the son of Henry C. and Elizabeth Sutton, who were also natives of the Empire State, born in the beautiful tract of country lying along the Hudson River. The Sutton family is of English descent, while on the mother's side our subject has a tincture of French in his veins, as his maternal grandfather, Peter DeGarmo, was a native of France. He crossed the Atlantic in time to do good service with Gen. LaFayette in the Revolutionary War, and spent his last years in New York State. The parents of our subject after their marriage resided for a number of years in the vicinity of the Hudson River, and finally moved into Livingston County, whence later they made their way into Michigan, locating in Washtenaw County. After a few years' residence there they moved to Calhoun County, the father still carrying on farming, and there the death of the mother occurred in 1884. The parental household included eleven children, ten of whom are living, namely: Mary, John, Rowland, Solomon, Peter, Smith, William H., Alfred, Charles and Isabelle. Annie is deceased.
   Our subject removed with his parents to Michi-

gan, where he was reared to manhood, and acquired a common-school education. Upon reaching his majority he left the parental roof, and began on his own account, working by the month, receiving $20 per month and his board. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in a Michigan regiment, and was mainly in the Quartermaster's Department, and finally became Assistant Wagonmaster, his duty being to look after the stores, and see that everything was kept in proper shape. After the close of the war he returned to Michigan, where he continued farming, until emigrating to Nebraska.
   While a resident of Saunders County he was united in marriage with Miss Susan A. Hills, the wedding taking place June 10, 1883. Mrs. Sutton was born in Warren County, Ill., Feb. 10, 1847, and of her union with our subject there has been born one child, a son, Clare, March 5, 1884.
   Mr. Sutton gives his attention mainly to his farming interests, but at times of general election casts his vote with the Republican party. He is a man of quiet, unobtrusive habits, making very little stir in the world, but pursuing the even tenor of his way honestly and uprightly, performing his duty creditably, and amply filling his niche in the world.

ATRICK BROWN. The fine farm of 160 acres, the property of our subject, and which is eligibly located on section 11, Little Salt Precinct, on the northern line of this county, was homesteaded by him during the early settlement of the latter in 1870. Here he has since labored industriously, lived economically, and built up a homestead which invariably attracts the admiring eye of the traveler through this region. He is a man of whom his neighbors speak in the highest terms, being honest and upright, and possessing fill the elements of a good citizen, and one who is of value in his community.
   The subject of this sketch, named after the patron saint of his native Ireland, was born on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1838, in County Limerick, where he lived with his parents until a lad of fourteen years, and, in 1852, set sail for America. After a brief sojourn in New York City he was employed on a railroad in that State for some time, and then was a resident of Springfield, Ohio, engaged in railroading. He came to the State of Nebraska in the year 1870, and purchased the land which constitutes his present farm, but which was then a bare prairie, destitute of trees, and upon which no attempt had been made at cultivation. Among his first labors was the planting of forest trees of various kinds, besides setting out an orchard of apple trees, together with cherry, plum and other choice fruits of the smaller varieties. This feature of his labor at once stamps him as a man of intelligence and forethought, as the planting of trees is everywhere recognized as only the work of an intelligent man of progressive ideas and cultivated tastes.
   In addition to general farming Mr. Brown has also given much attention to stock-raising, dealing mostly in Galloway cattle, while he has also some fine horses, brood mares and swine. His homestead in all its appurtenances indicates the labors of a man of energy, prudence, and those better elements which go to make up the first-class citizen. His domestic affairs are presided over by an intelligent wife, who in her girlhood was Miss Margaret Kenyon, and to whom he was married in the city of Lincoln, in May, 1871. Their union resulted in the birth of six children, a bright and interesting group, all of whom are living and at home with their parents. They are named respectively: George, John, Katie, Mary, Maggie and Winnifred M.
   Mr. Brown has given his children the advantages of a good education, and by a course of careful home training there is every prospect that they will become amply fitted to represent their worthy parents in an enlightened community of the future. Mrs. Brown was born in the Dominion of Canada, in 1843, and is the daughter of James and Mary (O'Donel) Kenyon, who came to this county, settling in Lincoln; they are now living in Kansas. She acquired a common-school education, and remained with her parents until her marriage.
   George Brown, the father of our subject, was born in County Limerick, Ireland, where he married Miss Catherine Griffin, and they became the parents of five children, four of whom lived to mature years and emigrated to America. George