from October until the following May. He drove all the distance from Indiana with a double team and a horse and buggy, being thirty-one days on the road, and taking the first buggy that had ever been seen in Ashland. In the year 1868 he removed to Lancaster County, where he remained but a few days until he built a dug-out, in which his family lived for five or six years, when he built a sod house in which he lived for six years, and in 1881 he built the residence in which he now lives.
   On the 8th of December, 1839, our subject married Hester Ann Whaley, of Jefferson County, N. Y. Mrs. Griswold is a daughter of James and Sarah (Gordonier) Whaley, the former of English, and the latter of Holland descent. Mr. Whaley died in Oneida County, N. Y., in 1827, and Mrs. Whaley made her home with her daughter in Angola, Steuben Co., Ind., until the time of her death in 1867. They had a family of eleven children, five of whom were sons and six daughters; but five of the children are now living. Mrs. Griswold was the eighth child, and was born on the 11th of August, 1819, in Oneida County, N. Y.
   Our subject and his wife are the parents of seven children, five of whom are sons and two are daughters, as follows: Martha A., wife of J. C. Wolfe, of Red Cloud, Neb.; Grace A., wife of James M. Myers, a farmer of Rock Creek Precinct, of whom a sketch appears in this ALBUM; James W., a farmer of Rock Creek: Charles M., a fireman on the railroad, living at Hudson, Col.; Eri H. and Cascius M., both living at home; George Clinton, a grocer of Wallace, Neb. While living near Ashland, Mr. Griswold had to go to that place for supplies, and on one occasion on his return home he had to cross Salt Creek on a low water bridge of logs over which the water was running at that time to the depth of two feet, and in the morning it had risen to the depth of twenty feet.
   Our subject has suffered, in common with all the early settlers of this country, from the devastation of grasshoppers, hailstorms and prairie fires, and in common with the early settlers of this country he has had to apply himself diligently in order to recover from the effects of such losses, and gain for himself a competence for his older age. Mr. Griswold has long been a member of the Republican party, and he voted for Gen. Harrison on the second election. He is a member of no society, either secret or social, but he has been Justice of the Peace since the year 1872 with the exception of one year. For eleven years he has been Assessor, and for seven years he has been a member of the School Board. In 1869 he was thrown from a horse, receiving an injury from which he has never recovered and which has been a great detriment to his success. He is the only original settler on his section in the precinct. As a man well advanced in years who has traveled over much of the country and seen many changes, who has striven to keep up with the times and to aid in the advancement of education and government, he is entitled to the respect and esteem of the community and an honorable mention in this ALBUM.

RANKLIN H. BOHANAN is one of the firm of Bohanan Bros., who have very large business interests in the city of Lincoln. Among these enterprises are a meat-market, which is supplied with nearly every known variety of animal food; a livery and sale stable, and a packing and provision department. They also represent a large amount of real estate. Like his brother he is a native of Peoria, Ill. He is in the prime of life, having been born Oct. 14, 1844, and is the son of Edward and Mahala (Wilber) Bohanan, who were natives respectively of Schenectady County, N. Y., and Taunton, Mass. His father was reared on a farm in the Empire State, and emigrated to Illinois in 1834, where he carried on agriculture and butchering successfully, and finally took up his residence in the city of Peoria, abandoning farming, and giving his attention exclusively to butchering and the ice business for many years. In 1866 he retired from active life, and is now living at his ease. He owns valuable real estate in Peoria, and is looked upon as one of its solid and reliable citizens.
   The parents of our subject were married about 1840, and the mother, born in 1816, died at her home in Peoria in 1865. The seven children of the household were: Major G., Franklin H., Walter G., Edward G., Lavina M., and two who died in infancy. The two elder brothers, our subject and

his partner, after leaving the primary school were given a course in the Commercial College at Peoria, and embarked together in the butchering business in 1866, in Peoria, Ill. Two years later they sold out, and started for Nebraska overland with a team, arriving in the embryo city of Lincoln on the 21st of April, 1868.
   Bohanan Bros., upon their arrival in Lincoln, began at once to make arrangements for the establishment of their present business, and in building their first shop were obliged to have the lumber hauled from Plattsmouth and Nebraska City. On the 9th of June, that year, they spread their counters with a choice assortment of meats, and began to take in money, which business they have continued uniformly until the present time. Their methods of transacting business obtained high favor among the people of this section of country, and ere long they found themselves on the highway to prosperity. They have been wise in their investments, securing the property from time to time, which naturally increased in value, and have occupied no unimportant position in the progress and growth of the city of Lincoln.
   The subject of this sketch was united in marriage with Miss Brudencia A. Mosher, Aug. 27, 1867, at the home of the bride in Peoria. Mrs. Bohanan, like her husband, is a native of Illinois. She was born in Peoria on the 14th of July, 1848. Her father, Philip J, Mosher, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., Oct. 18. 1814, and when a young man became a blacksmith by trade. He spent the most of the years of his life in Peoria, Ill., but now resides in Lincoln. Her mother, Mrs. Sarah L. (Bristol) Mosher, after long happy years of married life, died March 1, 1885. To our subject and his estimable wife there have been born two sons, William F. and Phillip E., who are now promising young men, twenty and eighteen years of age.
   The largest livery stable in the State of Nebraska was established by Bohanan Bros., at Lincoln, in 1876; they have the largest assortment of handsome vehicles and fine horses of any institution of the kind in the city, and obtain a corresponding patronage from the people of this part of the county. They have put up several fine buildings in the city, including the business blocks which are occupied in the carrying on of their various business interests, besides dwelling-houses and other valuable real estate. Connected with their livery oufit (sic) are several very fine carriage teams and all the paraphernalia required either at a first-class wedding or funeral Their stables shelter seventy horses, including some of the best roadsters and trotting stock in Lancaster County. The two hearses which they now employ are costly vehicles, while they contemplate in the near future the purchase of another which cannot be built under $2,000. In addition to their city property they own quite an extent of farming land in the county. Their career has really been phenomenal in its success, everything which they touch seeming to become at once a source of profit and an established success.
   The residence of Franklin H. Bohanan is finely located at No. 1029 M street, and in its surroundings indicates in a marked manner the cultivated tastes and ample means of the proprietor. Mr. B., politically, uniformly casts his vote with the Democratic party, and socially, belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P., being a member of the Grand Lodges of the same. Mrs. Bohanan is a member of the Williard Woman's Christian Association; the Woman's Relief Corps, and a Daughter of Rebekah, and, as would naturally be supposed, in connection therewith, is one who finds greatest delight in all works of mercy and deeds of kindness, especially toward the sick and helpless.

OBERT H. MOFFETT, a representative farmer and stock-raiser of Denton Precinct, was born in Pocahontas County, W. Va., April 27, 1849. His parents were George B. and Margaret E. Moffett, the father a physician and surgeon in the Confederate army for a period of nearly four years. His paternal ancestors were of Scotch-Irish descent.
   Our subject was reared to manhood in his native State, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was given a good education, and during the absence of his father in the army assumed the management of the homestead. In 1879 he came to Nebraska, settling upon the land which he now

owns and occupies, and to which he has added until his real estate now includes 480 acres, which he has brought to a good state of cultivation. In addition to general agriculture, he is largely occupied in the breeding of fine horses and mules, which is the source of a handsome income. He began life largely dependent upon his own resources, and may properly be numbered among the self-made men who by their own efforts have achieved success.
   Mr. Moffett, politically, is one of the most reliable members of the Democratic party. In the fall of 1884 he was the nominee of his party for Sheriff of Lancaster County.

AMES A. WALLINGFORD is well known throughout Lincoln and surrounding country in connection with his business in farming and other implements and machinery. He is the senior member of the firm of Messrs. Wallingford & Shamp, of Lincoln, and an introduction to those at all acquainted with that section of the country would be superfluous. Mr. Wallingford was born in Shelby County, Ohio. His parents came West and located in Decatur County, Iowa, while he was yet a child. After remaining about a year and a half, they migrated to the new State of Nebraska, and made their home in Lancaster County, and were numbered among its early pioneers, for there were only five or six families in the county, and these were scattered along the Salt Creek. For several years Nebraska City was their nearest market, and for ten years continued to be the nearest post-office.
   The father of our subject bought a claim, and homesteaded 160 acres of land on section 25 in what is now Yankee Hill Precinct. This he improved and continued to make his home until 1836. Our subject was reared upon the farm, and attended the first schools that were started. These were maintained by private subscription, and continued to be well attended until the public schools were established. Our subject continued his attendance until this important advance was made, and was then transferred to the latter institution. Having completed his studies there, he attended the classes at Tabor College, Iowa. After this he returned to Lincoln, and took a partial course in the State University, and prepared himself for teaching.
   For seven years our subject was engaged during the winters in the above noble profession, and during the summer spent his efforts upon the farm in the endeavor to teach something of a more in material form than "ideas" how to shoot. In 1873 he went to Washington Territory, and was engaged in teaching school for about ten years. By 1879 Lincoln had become quite a business center, and Mr. Wallingford was convinced that a great future was before it. In company with Messrs. Davidson, Shamp & Co., he formed a partnership, and put in quite a large stock of implements. From that time our subject has devoted his constant attention and bent every energy to make the firm the best business house in its line in the city, and has been abundantly successful. The reputation of the house is a credit to the city as well as the gentleman at its head, for it is one of undeviating honor and "square dealing," and doubtless has much to do with. the constantly increasing sales.
   Mr. Wallingford was united in marriage with Miss Celia Miller in 1875. Mrs. Wallingford is the daughter of H. B. Miller, for many years a resident of Ohio. He located in Nebraska in 1873, first in Hamilton and afterward in Boone County, and there spent his last days. To our subject and wife have been born five children, who are named: Vero O., Mabel R., Eunice E., Richard J. and Grace I.
   Our subject has naturally always taken the greatest interest in educational matters, and is a member of the Board of Education. He is by no means an office-seeker, rather avoiding than courting such distinction, but is ever mindful of the duty which is his as a citizen of the Republic.

ILLIAM E. HARDY, senior member of the firm of Hardy & Pitcher, furniture dealers in Lincoln, and prominent among the business interests of the city, was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., Aug. 5, 1863. His father, Harvey W. Hardy, also a native of the Empire State,

was reared to manhood in his native county, and there married to Miss Charlotte Abbott, a lady of excellent family. They began life together upon a farm in Wyoming County, where they lived until 1867, and during that year Mr. Hardy disposed of his interests in New York State, and removing westward to Illinois, engaged in the furniture business at Aurora until 1870.
   In the spring of the year above mentioned the father, of our subject crossed the Mississippi, and coming to Lincoln, purchased a half-interest in a furniture firm, which was the only institution of the kind then in the place. Two years later he purchased the interest of his partner, and operated alone until 1878. That year he sold a half-interest in the business to A. A. Hartley, and the firm of Hardy & Hartley continued two years, when he purchased the whole business, which, in 1886, he disposed of to the present firm.
   The subject of this sketch was a little lad seven years of age when his father came to the city, which was then a mere village, with perhaps a population of 1,500. Most of the surrounding country was a tract of wild prairie, where deer, antelope and other wild animals roamed in freedom. Mr. Hardy has been the privileged witness of the remarkable growth of this city to its population of 40,000 people, and has contributed his quota toward its advancement and prosperity. He received a practical education, attending first the city schools, and later the Nebraska State University at Lincoln.
   The career of our subject as a merchant commenced in his father's store in 1880. After an experience of seven years, during which he improved his opportunities to become acquainted with the proper methods of doing business, he, in 1887, associated himself with Charles D. Pitcher, and they are fast becoming one of the popular firms of the city. Both are wide-awake and energetic business men. They carry a full stock of furniture, and everything pertaining to this line of merchandise, and enjoy a patronage which is steadily increasing. Mr. Hardy, mainly engrossed in his business affairs, has little time to give to political matters, but is warmly interested in the success of the temperance movement, and has arrayed himself on the side of the Prohibitionists. He still retains an interest in the university, and is a member of the Society Sigma Chi.
   The parental family of our subject included four children--Clement A., Cora B., William E. and Emery C. William E. makes his home with his parents in Lincoln.

ENRY H. FAULKNER, a representative farmer and stock-raiser of Yankee Hill Precinct, has been operating in a profitable manner on a good farm on section 32 since the spring of 1883. During his five years' residence here he has effected great improvements, increasing the value of his property, repairing the old buildings, and adding the appliances necessary for the successful prosecution of his calling, in which he has had a lifelong experience.
   Our subject is a Western New Yorker by birth, having begun life in Allegany County, Jan. 7, 1844. His parents, Russell and Nancy Faulkner, were also natives of that State, where his paternal grandfather settled after doing good service as a soldier in the War of 1812. The latter spent his last days at Sackett's Harbor, dying at a ripe old age.
   Russell Faulkner, by his two marriages, was the father of four children: Charles F., now a resident of Indiana; Nancy Z., the wife of C. G. Johnson, of Independence, Iowa; Daniel W., of Burlington, Iowa, and Henry, our subject. The mother departed this life at her home, in May, 1861. The father subsequently removed to Michigan, and is now a resident of Newaygo County.
   Our subject was a lad of fourteen years when his parents left the Empire State and settled in Michigan. For four years they were residents of Eaton County, and then removed to Calhoun County, where, at the age of twenty-two, young Faulkner was married, Dec. 20, 1866, to Miss Mary F. Van Ness, a sister of Mrs. John F. Hay, of Yankee Hill Precinct, this county, and a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this work.
   Our subject, after his marriage, was employed at farm work in Michigan for several years, and

being strong of muscle and faithful in the performance of his duties, received, during his last summer's work, the unusually high wages of $29 per month and board. In the spring of 1870 he crossed the Father of Waters and located in Webster County, Iowa, where he employed himself for one year. At the expiration of this time he changed his residence to Buena Vista, where he resided until 1883, then determined to cast his lot among the people of Southern Nebraska. Coming to this county he purchased 160 acres of land, which constitutes his present farm. He has been successful in his operations here and fully established himself in the esteem and confidence of his community. He is a man of decided ideas and votes with the Prohibition party. No man can point to a dishonest deed of which he has been guilty, and he is one of the few whose word is considered as good as his bond.

OHN E. HAAS. The subject of this biography occupies a leading position in the community of Grant Precinct, to which he came in 1871, and is the owner of 480 acres of land on section 12, nearly all of which is in a productive condition and affords to the proprietor a handsome income.
   The principle that intelligence in every calling is requisite to carrying it on in a proper and profitable manner, is illustrated in the career of Mr. Haas in agricultural pursuits, who in his earlier life was occupied for a period of ten years as a teacher and writer. He has been for several years an occasional correspondent of the Nebraska State Journal, and also takes an active part in political affairs. This experience led him to a fuller appreciation of the genuine comfort to be derived from rural life, where nature had provided the many facilities for man's comfort and happiness. Accordingly, after many years otherwise employed, he finds much satisfaction in rural occupations, of which he is making a fine success, and is numbered among the leading representatives of the farming interests of Lancaster County.
   Our subject was born in Miffinburg, Pa., Feb. 27, 1835, and is the son of John and Margaret (Roush) Haas, natives of the same State as their son. They spent their entire lives in the Keystone State, with the exception that the father passed the two last years of his life in Stephenson County, Ill., where he died in 1869. Their household consisted of eight children, two sons and six daughters, three of whom are living.
   Mr. Haas continued a resident of his native State until over thirty years of age. At the call of Gov. Curtin to repel the rebel invasion in 1863, he entered the temporary Union service. In 1867 he changed his residence to Freeport, Ill., of which he was a resident until the spring of 1870. Then coming to this county he sojourned for a brief period in the city of Lincoln until having time to look about him for a permanent settlement, and finally chose his present location and changed his employment from that of a teacher to a farmer.
   No man has taken a warmer interest in the growth and development of Southeastern Nebraska than the subject of this sketch, and he has responded liberally whenever help was needed for furtherance of those enterprises calculated to build up his community, and add to its attractions as a place of residence for an intelligent and enterprising class of people. To such men as Mr. Haas is due the present prosperity of Lancaster County, to which may many more such as he be added, and long may they flourish.

EV. CYRUS CARTER was one of the first settlers of Lincoln, of which he is still an honored resident. When it is stated that in 1865 our subject came here and took up land from the Government, which he improved into a farm that is now included within the city limits, and is the site of many costly buildings, it gives one something of an idea of the rapid growth of this enterprising and wealthy metropolis, with its population of nearly 50,000 souls. Our subject is in the best sense of the term a "self-made man," as he began life without other capital than willing hands and a stout heart, and is now a man of wealth and consideration.
   Our subject was born in Mechanicsburg,
   

Champaign Co., Ohio, June 2, 1824. His father, Benjamin Carter, was a native of Tennessee, and his grandfather, Caleb Carter, was, it is thought, a native of Connecticut. He was there reared and married, and moved from his New England home to Tennessee soon after the Revolutionary War, in the very early days of the settlement of that State. He took up a tract of land there, but never secured a title to it, as he lived there only a short time when he removed to Kentucky, and was an early settler there. He subsequently took up his abode in Ohio in the latter part of the eighteenth century, in Territorial days, and was numbered among its pioneers. He located near Mechanicsburg, taking up a tract of Government land there, and residing there on until his death.
   The father of our subject was young when his parents removed to Ohio, and he there grew to maturity. He was reared amid pioneer scenes to a vigorous and self-reliant manhood, and early took upon himself the hard work of a pioneer by buying a tract of timber land, on which he erected a log house which became the birthplace of our subject. His wife was a stirring, active woman, and a notable housewife, and having no stove she used to cook all their meals before the open fireplace, and she spun and wove and made the most of the clothes worn by the family. Mr. Carter finally sold the place in which he and his wife had started on the journey of life together, and in 1828 moved to Union County, where he bought a tract of timber land, and began anew the weary task of clearing away the forest trees, that he might prepare the soil for culture, having first erected a log cabin to shelter his family. His death occurred in that place, and the community in which he settled was thus deprived of a useful and industrious citizen. His wife, a native of Virginia, whose maiden name was Mary Owen, also died on the homestead in Ohio. There were nine children born to this most worthy couple, and eight of them grew to maturity.
   The subject of this sketch was the fourth child of that family, and was quite young when his parents went to Union County to reside. He was reared in that county, and received his education in the typical log school-house of those times, with homemade furniture, the benches being made of puncheon. He resided with his parents until nineteen years of age, working on the farm and attending school. At the age, of twenty he commenced teaching, and taught several terms of winter school. He was converted when eighteen years of age, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church on probation, but he found himself more in sympathy with the Methodist Protestants, and united himself with their church. At twenty-one years of age he commenced to preach for that denomination as a local preacher, and at twenty-three years of age he became a member of the Ohio Conference. He traveled on circuit for nearly ten years, and by his earnestness and enthusiasm did much good work for his church, and he was considered a bright and shining light by those in authority. In 1862 he gave up his beloved calling, as it seemed to him his sacred duty to take up arms in the defense of his country. He enlisted in Company I, 99th Ohio Infantry, and bravely and faithfully served in the ranks until 1863, when he was taken sick, and in the month of July was honorably discharged on account of ill-health. He then returned to his old home in Ohio, and remained a resident of that State until 1865, when he started for the Territory of Nebraska with his family, traveling via rail to St. Joseph, and thence on the Missouri River to Nebraska City, where he was met by Elder Young, an old friend. They then started for their destination in the vehicles that the Elder had provided, Mr. Carter accompanying Mr. Young in a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen, and Mrs. Carter driving with Mrs. Young in the buggy, drawn by a pair of horses. A little adventure befell the occupants of the buggy, which very fortunately did not prove to be very serious. Mrs. Young was not as well acquainted with the road as she thought, and lost the way. To make matters worse, the ponies became unmanageable, ran away, and left both ladies on the prairie seven miles from any house. Fortunately a man who was seeking work came along and captured the ponies, and then drove them to their destination. Mr. Carter took up a claim of Government land, now included within the city limits, Lincoln not having then been laid out, and thus it has been his privilege to watch its growth, and to aid other pioneers in its upbuilding. He built a