purchased a farm three miles from Dayton Court House, upon which he still resides. The mother of Mrs. Haggerty, whose maiden name was Eliza M. Kemp, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1827. Her parents were natives of Maryland, and of German ancestry. She died Aug. 23, 1882. She was a member of the United Brethren Church.
   In polities Mr. Haggerty affiliates with the Republican party, and is n honest citizen and a man of influence among his acquaintances.

ETER HOMER. The farming community of Yankee Hill Precinct acknowledges no more honest or industrious man than the subject of this sketch, who carries on agriculture in a profitable manner on section 36. He began life on the southern line of the State of Pennsylvania, in Adams County, not very many miles from the battle-field of Gettysburg, on the 20th of December, 1829, and is the offspring of a family of excellent German ancestry. His parents, John and Eliza (Linard) Homer, were also natives of the Keystone State, where also his paternal grandfather spent his entire life.
   The paternal great-grandfather of our subject crossed the Atlantic from Germany in the Colonial days, in time to do good service as it soldier in the Revolutionary War. The family, without making any very great stir in the world, has been noted for its sterling honesty, industry and enterprise, and from father to son, each generation, as far back as the records go, has produced a line of sturdy men and virtuous women. The parents of our subject, when the latter was a little lad eight years old, left the Keystone State for Ohio, and took up their abode amid the pioneers of Holmes County. There they lived and labored until well advanced in years, building up a good homestead, and both departed from the scenes of earth in 1884.
   John and Eliza Homer had a family of fourteen children, eight of whom are living, and all with the exception of our subject are residents of Ohio. Barnard lives in Richland County; Peter, Ephraim, John, Jacob, Benjamin, Margaret E., Mrs. Jane Herring and Elizabeth, in Holmes County. Peter was reared to maturity on the farm which his father built up from the wilderness, and received an education afforded by the best country schools of that day. He assisted in the development of the primitive soil, remaining under the home roof until over thirty years of age. He was first married in the summer of 1860, to Miss Mary Emerick, who bore him one daughter, Sarah E., and who passed away in 1862. His second marriage occurred in 1865, with Miss Melinda Pierpont, a native or Pennsylvania, who still survives.
   Mr. Homer left the Buckeye State in 1873, and settled in LaPorte County, Ind., on a farm, wbere he continued a resident for a period of seven years. The spring of 1881 found him in Nebraska looking around for it location, and he was not long in deciding to settle in this county. He purchased eighty acres of land in Yankee Hill Precinct, where he has since operated to good advantage, and will pass muster as a self-made man of the first water. The illustration which accompanies this sketch will give the reader a good idea of the extensive farm and the very commodious and pleasant home he has provided for his family. He is it Republican, politically, and in favor of everything to improve the county and elevate society. In religious matters he is identified with the First Baptist Church at Jamaica Station, of which he is a Deacon, and one of its most liberal supporters. Our subject and his wife have no children. His daughter Sarah, by his first wife, is now deceased. Mr. Homer enlisted in Company K, 16th Ohio Infantry, and served until Sept. 10, 1864.

EORGE W. MARSDEN. Among the most, beautiful landscapes, tinged with the wilderness of mountain scenery, which is the fortune of man to gaze upon, is that found in the neighborhood of the Peak of Derbyshire, England; winding through the valley is the beautiful, blue, limpid Derwent, which, after passing through the rich pastoral district above, washes the foot of Hulme Cliff, and finds time to pass through the grounds of the Duke of Devonshire, that most magnificent estate, Chatsworth Park, where the

beautiful deer and graceful antelope come down, gratefully to drink of its cooling waters, after which it escapes though the quiet and sedate town of Bakewell, and passes on its way.
   The father of the subject of this sketch was born in the beautiful district above referred to. on the 27th of January, 1808. In the schools of his native district he received his education. That most important work completed, he went to work on a farm and also engaged in mining, until he reached the age of twenty-two, when he came to the United States. He first settled in Pottsville, Pa. In this place both he and his father went to work at the mines, and shortly became overseers, and continued for three years. Then they removed to Galena, Ill. The journey was undertaken with some knowledge of the difficulties to be encountered. A wagon and two horses were procured, and into this their belongings were placed and the journey commenced. Day after day they continued with their faces toward the setting sun, meeting trials, bearing hardships, and yet withal hearing a light heart and spirit; at night they had their choice of shelter, and could take their rest in the basement of their traveling house, or sleep under the wagon, or they could retire to the upper story and repose in the wagon bed itself, or, lastly, slumber under the canopy of the starry heavens. After several weeks spent in this way they reached their destination.
   When it is remembered that the events above described occurred in the year 1833, it will plainly be seen that the family had entered upon the life of advanced pioneers. After prospecting, a tract of land was taken up but one mile from Galena, and this continued to be their home until the year 1877, when the removal was made to Nebraska. While at Galena, Mr. Marsden was engaged in supplying the city with milk. He was the owner of over 100 very fine cows, which enabled him to carry on successfully quite an extensive dairy, as the population of the city increased. He was also the owner of a one-third interest in the lead mines, situated about four miles from the city. After managing that property for about twenty years, he bought an interest in seven lead mines, in what was at that time called New California, of which he was Superintendent. He was one of the few who were unquestionably successful in operating mines, and did more, perhaps, than any one man for the development of the mines in his district.
   In the year 1887 Mr. Marsden put his city property, farm, mines, and 800 acres of land in Iowa in the market, and having sold them to advantage, came to Nebraska, purchased 800 acres of land in Red Cloud, and the section of land owned by his son in this township. Mr. Marsden makes his home in Red Cloud, where he has a very pleasantly situated home. He is one of the most prominent stock-raisers, and although well advanced in years still enjoys remarkably good health. and is receiving the benefit of his fortune, every dollar of which has come to him as the result of his own efforts, enterprise and intelligence. He was married in England, about the year 1829, to Miss Sarah Gregory, and to them were born nine children, of whom three are still living: Mary Ann, who is the wife of John Beresford, and resides at Red Cloud; Priscilla Marsden, who is still unmarried; and George W., our subject. His wife was removed by death about 1870.
   George W. Marsden was born at Galena, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., Jan. 11, 1853, and is a graduate of the Galena High School. After school days were over, he, with his brother, worked the father's farm, after which they removed to their present home. The house on section 1 is the property of our subject; it is by far the finest residence for many miles around, and might stand beside some of the city houses without a blush. It is an ideal country residence, 32x40 feet, and if wanting in some modern tricks of architecture, it is not without its excellencies, even from a professional standpoint. It is elegant and commodious, and is built with the idea of its being a home. In addition to the residence, the farm is supplied with an extensive and commodious barn and other farm buildings, the, lumber for all these buildings being shipped from Burlington, Iowa. The farm possesses another important property which we may not overlook, viz: It contains some of the best water that can be found in the whole district, both spring and well water. Great attention has been given to procuring the finest grade and varieties of fruit and shade trees, which have been set out by the hundreds, and these, besides being valuable property, go far to make the