little girl of eight years, attending the village school in Talmage.
   Mr. Mohrman, politically, votes the straight Republican ticket. In religious matters he is a devout member of the Lutheran Church, and his wife of the Southern Methodist Church. He has been quite prominent in public affairs, serving as a member of the School Board and the City Council, and making himself useful as opportunity occurs in advancing the social and moral status of the community.

ESSE CAMPBELL. The subject of this biography came to Nebraska Territory from Moniteau County, Mo., in the fall of 1861, with his parents. Since that time he has been mostly a resident of this county, and is now proprietor of one of the best farms of Wyoming Precinct, embracing 160 acres of land on section 6, while he also owns 120 acres in Liberty Precinct, Cass County. He has fair improvements, including a neat and substantial dwelling, together with a suitable barn and out-buildings, adapted to the storing of grain and the shelter of stock.
   Our subject, a native of Ohio, was born about twelve miles from Mt. Vernon, Knox County, March 6, 1848. His father, Robert Campbell, a native of Pennsylvania, was the descendant of an excellent old Scotch and German family, from whom he inherited those qualities of character essential to good citizenship and an upright life. He was reared to manhood in his native State, receiving a common-school education and being employed mostly in farming pursuits. He took for his wife a lady of his own county, Miss Mary McClure, who was born and reared in Washington, the county seat of Washington County, Pa., and was of Irish descent. Her birth took place Feb. 1, 1813. Her parents lived and died in Washington County, Pa. Robert Campbell and wife after the birth of a part of their family removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio, where two more children were added to the household circle, our subject and his brother Robert.
   In August of 1854 the Campbell family, gathering together their household effects, the father having disposed of his property, started for the farther West, crossing the Mississippi and locating in Moniteau County, Mo., where eventually the father became owner of 220 acres, and where they lived for a period of seven years. They were not satisfied, however, with their surroundings and the prospect for the future, and accordingly resolved to cast their lot with the people of Nebraska. The father became possessor of another farm in Wyoming Precinct, located on section 6, where he built up a good home, and where his death took place July 19, 1869, when he was fifty-nine years old. He was a very intelligent man, and a citizen held in high respect in his community. Politically, he had been a member of the Republican party since 1860, having voted for President Lincoln. The wife and mother is still living, making her home with her son Jesse, our subject. Although seventy-five years old she retains her faculties, mentally and physically, in a remarkable degree, and is able to tell many an interesting tale of pioneer life across the Mississippi, as well as in Ohio.
   Jesse Campbell had only the advantages of a common-school education, but he is a man who has kept his eyes open to what is going on around him in the world, and is more than ordinarily intelligent and well informed. He is a reader and thinker, and keeps himself well posted upon current events by the perusal of instructive books and newspapers. With his excellent mother, he is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. By his father he was naturally imbued with Republican principles, but his warm interest in the temperance cause has made of him a Prohibitionist.
   In this connection is shown a portrait of Mr. Campbell.

ONATHAN R. SWALLEY. The subject of this biography is proprietor of one of the most beautiful farms in Otoe County, occupying an elevated situation overlooking the Missouri River. It embraces 200 acres of highly cultivated land, upon which have been erected a handsome residence and other convenient farm buildings. Mr. Swalley settled here in June

of 1868, and there is ample evidence of the industry and perseverance with which he has labored. He, however, settled in Nebraska City in April, 1855.
   Besides the property above mentioned our subject also owns valuable land in Syracuse Precinct. He came to Nebraska ten years before it was transformed from a Territory into a State, and when the lard which he now occupies was but little removed from its primitive condition. He made the journey overland from his native State of Ohio, landing in this county on the 10th of April, 1855, and operated on land in another part of the precinct two years before making his purchase. He was born in Crawford County, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1833, and is the second son and fourth child of Solomon and Elizabeth (Miller) Swalley, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, and of substantial Dutch ancestry. The father was a farmer by occupation, and after his marriage and the birth of three children, Migrated with his little family to Crawford County, Ohio, where Jonathan R. was born not long afterward. In due time eleven more children were added to the family circle, which eventually included six sons and nine daughters. Of these five sons and seven daughters are still living, and all have been married.
   Our subject was reared to manhood in the Buckeye State, where he became familiar with agricultural pursuits and acquired a common-school education. In the meantime he learned the trade of carpenter, and thus, armed with a good trade and a knowledge of farming, crossed the Mississippi, and soon afterward began to carve out his fortune among the pioneers of Nebraska Territory.
   Mr. Swalley, after laying the foundation for a future home and competence, was united in marriage with Miss Nancy J. Holmes, who was born in Howard County, Mo., Dec. 9, 1844. Mrs. Swalley is the daughter of George and Susan (Ethell) Holmes, natives of Boone County, Mo. Her father died when she was quite young, and she was taken into a good home in Davis County, Iowa, where she was reared to womanhood, and soon afterward came to Nebraska with her mother and stepfather. She is a very intelligent and capable lady. Of her union with our subject there were born three sons, two of whom are deceased, George E. and an infant unnamed. The former was born Aug. 30, 1869, and died April 7, 1874. Herbert B. was born Nov. 29, 1873, in Wyoming Precinct, and is now a promising boy, making his home with his parents.
   Mr. Swalley is a Republican, politically, and is esteemed among his neighbors as a man whose word is considered as good as his bond. Quiet and unobtrusive in his habits, he has never sought office, although keeping himself well posted upon current events, and encouraging the enterprises calculated to advance the people socially and financially. The Swalley homestead invariably attracts the attention of the traveler along the northern line of this county, being not only one of the most beautiful, but one of the most valuable in its precinct. Everything that the hand of industry could accomplish and taste could suggest, has been done to fulfill the idea of the modern country estate. A portrait of Mr. Swalley accompanies this sketch.

OHN H. TETEN, SR., one of the most thrifty German farmers of Rock Creek Precinct, has been for the last twenty-one years successfully cultivating 160 acres of land on section 29. Here he established himself in the midst of an unbroken stretch of country, when his neighbors were few and far between, and when what is now a populous district of intelligent and enterprising people was then inhabited principally by wild animals and roamed over by Indians. Not only had Mr. Teten come to the wild West, but had journeyed across the ocean to a strange country, from his native Province of Hanover, in Germany, which was a Kingdom at the time of his birth, which occurred on the 15th of August, 1831.
   The father of our subject, John Henry Teten by name, accompanied the latter hither, and died six months after his arrival at the home of his son in Rock Creek Precinct. The mother, Mrs. Gesche Teten, had died in her native Germany. John H. was one of the younger members of the household, and, like most of the children of Germany, received a thorough education. Upon reaching manhood he was married to Miss Sophie C. Ekhoff, also a native of Hanover, and who was born April 10,

1826. They came to the United States after the birth of five children, and after their arrival here one more child was added to the household circle. These children are all living: J. Henry, Jr., married Miss Margareta Walken, who was born in Germany and came to the United States when a young woman, three years before her marriage. They have two children--John H. and an infant named Gerhard A. This son and his family live with our subject, and assist in the management of the farm. He is a very promising young man, fully as energetic and industrious as his father. John J. married Miss Barbara Orban, a lady Of German birth and parentage, and is in the drug business in Nebraska City, and City Clerk; Herman is farming for himself in Otoe County; H. Christina is the wife of Herman J. Neemann, who is engaged in farming in Russell Precinct; Talka M. and Anna Z. are at home with their parents.
   Our subject and his family all belong to the Lutheran Church, to the support of which they contribute cheerfully and liberally, and in which Mr. T. is a leading member and one of its pillars. He is an earnest advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and Vice President of the Democratic Club of Rock Creek Precinct.

APT. H. H. CHILDS, who represents the lumber trade in Talmage and Douglas, dealing largely in every variety required in every department of house building material, has been identified with the business interests of Talmage since its foundation in 1882. He is a successful business man, and a much valued citizen He first carried on the yards established by W. H Hassett, of Tecumseh, for seven months, and then continued the same for the successors of that gentleman, Stewart, Chute & Co., remaining with them until he purchased the yards and became sole proprietor. He threw himself into this business with his usual ardor, and considerably extended it, opening the yards at Douglas in order to meet his growing trade. Latterly his business represents an annual total of $15,000.
   Prior to engaging in the lumber business Mr. Childs had followed agricultural pursuits in Spring Creek Precinct, Johnson County, where he took up land in 1870, and until he came to this place continued to operate his farm, which comprised 160 acres of fine, arable, fertile land. He first came to Nebraska in 1866, and lived about fourteen miles north of Lincoln, but after three years moved to Saline County, and ran a saw and grist mill quite close to where Crete now stands. In 1869 he sold his interest in this, and moved to the above-mentioned farm.
   Until coming to Nebraska Capt. Childs had lived chiefly in Wisconsin since he was about ten years of age, at which time his parents removed from the township of Messina, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where he was born. He is a son of Elijah and Sabrina Childs, who gave him the best opportunity possible to obtain an education, and were very careful to bring him up so that his life and character might end in a right direction.
   Our subject was living in Juneau County, Wis., upon the farm of his father, when the first call for 300,000 troops was made by President Lincoln, in April, 1861. He at once presented himself, and became a private in Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, which became part of the Army of the Potomac, under the command of Gens. McClellan and McDowell. our subject served at the second battle of Bull Run, but previous to the engagement he had been transferred to the 4th United States Light Artillery, and served in Company B. The 2d, 6th and 7th Wisconsin, 19th Indiana and 24th Michigan infantry comprised the "Iron Brigade" of the Army of the Potomac. He served in that battery at the battle of Rappahannock Station, Aug. 20, 22, and 23, 1862, at Warrington Springs on the 26th of August, at Gainesville on the 28th of August, Bull Run on the 29th and 30th, and South Mountain on the 14th of September; three days later he was wounded at the battle of Antietam, Md., by a gunshot wound through the right shoulder, and was in the hospital at Chester, Pa., after lying upon the battle-field for ten days. He was discharged on the 7th of February, 1863, from the hospital on account of the wound having disabled him from further service at that time; therefore he returned to his home in Wisconsin.