latter twins. With the exception of Samuel S. and our subject, William H., the living are residents of New England. Edwin R. died in 1873, leaving two children.
   The subject of this sketch was born Oct. 1, 1832, on the banks of the Connecticut River in Middlesex County, Conn. He grew up on the farm, and remained a member of the parental household until twenty-six years of age. He then learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed for a period of twenty years. In his native State he put up the Custom House and State House at Middletown, and a large number of other buildings, including some fine private residences.
   In the spring of 1860 Mr. Johnson, leaving New England, went to Licking County, Ohio, but not being satisfied with this experiment, after nine months returned home. In the meantime he had accumulated considerable property, and in the summer of 1878 again turned his face toward the setting sun. Upon coming to this State, the outlook impressing him favorably, he made his way to this county and purchased a tract of railroad land, paying cash down. Russell Precinct since that time has been the scene of his operations, and his fine large farm of 320 acres is one of the most valuable in the western part of this county.
   June 6, 1883, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Catherine G. Raymond, who, like himself, is a native of Connecticut, and born in West Hartford, Aug. 12, 1848. The parents of Mrs. Johnson were Josiah and Fanny A. (Hurlbut) Raymond, natives of Connecticut, where the father spent his last years. The mother makes her home with our subject. The father traced his ancestry back to Richard Raymond, who landed at Plymouth Rock with his two nephews, William and John, in the year 1622. From these sprang the Raymond family in the United States. They were the scions of an energetic and enterprising race of people, and became closely identified with the early history of Now England. Grandmother Raymond was a niece of the Hon. James Hillhouse, who is frequently mentioned in the history of those times. The father of Mrs. Johnson during the session of 1858 was a member of the Connecticut Legislature, and died in 1862, at the age of forty-seven years. The mother is still living, making her home with her daughter Catherine, Mrs. Johnson; she is now sixty-eight years of age. The seven children in the parental family of whom Mrs. J. was the eldest, were named respectively: Catherine G., Robert O., John F., James H., Fanny F., Charlotte H. and Henry J.
   Mrs. Johnson received a good education, completing her studies in the High School at Hartford, and was for some time engaged as a teacher there.
   She came to Nebraska with her mother's family in the spring of 1879. Of her union with our subject there have been born two children, a babe unnamed and Henry Raymond, both of whom died in infancy. They have now an adopted daughter, Emily Catherine, four years old. Mr. Johnson has been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church a number of years, and Mrs. J. seeks religious consolation among the Presbyterians. Our subject votes the straight Democratic ticket, but has steadily refused becoming an office-holder.

ON. J. O. MOORE, an ex-member of the Nebraska Legislature and one of the most prominent citizens of Otoe County, is still a gentleman in the prime of life, and it is to be hoped has yet before him many years of usefulness. He became a resident of Palmyra March 4, 1872, and has become closely identified with the interests of Southern Nebraska.
   Our subject is the offspring of an excellent family, being a son of Kimber A. and Nancy. J. (Speer) Moore, natives of Pennsylvania, the mother born in Franklin County. The paternal grandfather, also a native of the Keystone State, was a farmer by occupation, and spent his entire life there. The great-grandfather did good service as a Major in the Revolutionary War. He was a native of Scotland, and crossed the Atlantic during the Colonial days, settling after the war in Pennsylvania. Grandfather Speer was a native of Ireland, was a merchant, and spent his last years in Bedford County, Pa.
   The parents of our subject, after their marriage, settled on a farm in Fulton County, Pa., where the

father, in addition to the successful pursuits of agriculture, achieved local fame as a politician. He was a Whig until the abandonment of the old party and then cordially endorsed Republican principles. After the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a Union soldier, being the eldest of eight brothers, all of whom gave their services in a like manner to their country.
   Kimber A. Moore emerged safely from the dangers of warfare, and leaving his old home in Pennsylvania in the fall of 1868, crossed the Mississippi to this State, and settled on a tract of land in Gage County. He is still living but now retired from active labor, being seventy years of age. and making his home in Adams, Gage County.
   The parental household included eight children, namely: John O., our subject; Ella, D. H., Augustus, Etta, Gertude V., Union L. and Ernest. The latter died when a lad of thirteen years. The survivors are mostly residents of Nebraska. John O. was born near New Grenada, Fulton Co., Pa., March 10, 1844, and after emerging from the district school, pursued his studies in a select school in Wells' Valley for several terms. He then began to work in the coal mines of his native county, and during the eight years tin which he was thus occupied filled every position from mule driver and office boy to that of waymaster. He was holding this position upon a good salary at the breaking out of the Rebellion. The year following he was constrained to follow the example of his honored father, and accordingly enlisted as a Union soldier, Aug. 7, 1862, in Company F, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry, going in as a private under the command of Capt. J. J. Lawrence. The latter had been a railroad Superintendent, and they entered the service in response to the nine months' call.
   This regiment was drilled at Ft. Bernard and Arlington Heights. They left the latter place on the 6th of September, 1862, and first saw the smoke of battle at South Mountain. On the 17th of the same month they were at Antietam, where their regiment suffered a loss of 162 men within the space of ten minutes. Mr. Moore was wounded by the explosion of a shell, although not seriously.
   He was, however, rendered insensible, but upon remaining consciousness resumed his position in the ranks. After lying thirty days at Maryland Heights, this regiment with others went to Loudoun Valley, Va., and thence to Fairfax Court House, engaging in the conflict there. The scene of their next engagement was at Stafford Court House, where they remained in camp thirty days, and in due time met the enemy at Chancellorsville. They moved on to Harrisburg, where our subject, with his comrades, received his honorable discharge on the 23d of May, 1863, having served nine and one-half months.
   Mr. Moore now returned to his native county, and resumed his former position as waymaster until the 1st of March, 1865. He next repaired to Washington, attended the inauguration of President Lincoln, and was appointed Superintendent of the Government stables at a point in Virginia. He was occupied with the duties of this position until the 1st of October, then going back to his native State engaged in farming until the fall of 1867.
   Our subject now began making preparations for settlement in the West, and in the spring following came to Nebraska, arriving in Adams Precinct, Gage County, on the 10th of March, 1868. He at once took up a homestead claim, and while carrying on to a limited extent the improvement of his property, also taught school and engaged in breaking prairie for other parties. In the fall of 1871 he took up his residence in the embryo town of Bennet, where he engaged in the lumber and grain trade, at the same time having charge of the freight and express business of the Missouri Pacific Raillroad and also the post-office.
   In March, 1872, Mr. Moore changed his residence to Palmyra Precinct, of which he has become a resident. Here he also engaged in the lumber and grain business, establishing the first yard in the town of Palmyra and operating with a partner, the style of the firm being Hill & Moore. In 1874 they disposed of their lumber business and purchased a flouring-mill in Palmyra, which they operated in connection with their grain business successfully until 1883. Mr. Moore then forming a partnership with J. R. McKee, began dealing in live stock, and was engaged in buying and shipping three years. In July, 1884, he became manager for a Chicago lumber company, and still holds the posi-

tion. In 1880 the heavy rainfalls caused a general washout, doing great damage to mill property by the carrying away of dams, and there also occurred great loss of stock by drowning, and depreciation in value to the extent of $5,000. The credit of Mr. Moore, however, remained unimpaired, and in due time he recovered from his losses.
   Our subject, on the 15th of June, 1873, was united in marriage with Miss Mary R., daughter of William and Catherine Blachart, who at that time were residents of Adams Township, Gage County, where the wedding took place. Mrs. Moore was born in Blairsville, Pa., Aug. 26, 1835, and was a maiden of sixteen years when she came with her parents to Nebraska. In the meantime, however, they had removed from the Keystone State to Mercer County, Ill., where she lived from a child of five years until the age mentioned. She received a common-school education, completing her studies in Gage County. Her parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and are now living in Gage County, this State.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Moore have been born four children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, Blanche, died at the age of three and one-half years. Lillie G., Myrtle M. and Darley are at home with their parents. Mr. Moore has always taken a warm interest in the progress of his adopted county, and has been identified with many of its leading enterprises. At the incorporation of Palmyra Village, on the 5th of May, 1882, he was elected President of the Village Board, in which office he served two years. He had been elected to the State Legislature in the fall of 1880, and served through the special session held in May, 1882. He introduced Bill No. 71, providing for a license of $1,000 for selling spirituous liquors. By agreement with Hon. Mr. Slocum, he permitted the bill to go by default, as one introduced by the latter had practically the same provisions. To Mr. Moore is fully due the honor of introducing the first high license bill in the Nebraska Legislature.
   Mr. Moore was also actively interested in several other bills in connection with his county and constituency. He has filled many positions of trust and reponsibility, and for a number of years has been sent as delegate to the various conventions of his party. As an ex-soldier, he is naturally interested in the perpetuation of the G. A. R., with which he is prominently connected, being a charter member of Mansfield Post No. 54, at Palmyra. Of this he is now Commander, which office he has occupied three years, and which is in a very prosperous condition. He also belongs to Palmyra Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., having passed all the Chairs, and has several times been a representative to the Grand Lodge. In the I. O. O. F., with which he identified himself in 1866, he has been a District Deputy of the Grand Lodge, has passed through all the Chairs in this likewise, and is Treasurer of the lodge in Palmyra. In religious matters with his estimable wife, he belongs to the Baptist Church at Palmyra, being Treasurer, and one of the most liberal and cheerful contributors to its support. Mr. Moore and his family occupy a tasteful and comfortable home, their own property, and enjoy the acquaintance of a large circle of friends.

LIJAH D. MARNELL, a young man of exceptional talent and ability, is the well-known Secretary and General Manager of the News Company, and assistant editor of the Nebraska City Daily News. He is a native of the city of Hannibal, Mo., March 5, 1855, being the date of his birth. His father, James E. Marnell, was burn in Philadelphia, Pa., where his father, who was a native of Ireland, had settled after coming to America in early manhood. He, the grandfather of our subject, married in the City of Brotherly Love, and seven years later moved with his family to Kentucky. He located in Bardstown, and there pursued his trade of hatter until his death, which occurred in 1854.
   The father of our subject was an infant when his parents moved to Kentucky, and there he grew to manhood. He learned the trade of firmer, and in, 1843 established himself in business Hannibal, Mo. When the Mexican War broke out he sold out and went to Mexico with Shepard's Regiment, 2d Missouri Cavalry, and was in quite a number of the most important battles, including that of the City

of Mexico. He was discharged with his regiment at the close of the war, and in 1850 made an overland journey to California, where he engaged in mining until the spring of 1853. He then returned to Missouri, by the Isthmus and New York, and married there, in December of that year, to Miss Kate Hawkins, a native of Maysville, Ky. After his marriage Mr. Marnell opened a stove and tinware store, at that time the only establishment of the kind in the city of Hannibal. He also ran a line of boats to New Orleans in company with his brothers-in-law. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil War he closed his business, but continued to be a resident of Hannibal until his death, June 14, 1870. He was a man of more than usual intelligence, and he inherited the genial, frank manners and ready tact of the Celtic race from which his paternal ancestry sprang, so that he made friends whenever he went. The mother of our subject is still spared to bless her children, and makes her home in Nebraska City. To her and her husband were born six children, namely: Elijah, Edward, Mary, Laura, Frank and Robert.
   The subject of our sketch received his early education in the city schools of Hannibal. When he was fifteen years old he began a life of self-dependence in the office of the Watchman in Hannibal. He worked there three months, and then engaged is a clerk in the drug-store of J. B. Brown in his native city. He was employed there four years, and the following two years was in the same business with D. B. Barnes. After that he was engaged in the drug business for nearly a year in Illinois on his own account. He then sold out, as his health was not good, and spent eight months among the mountains. In October, 1877, he came to Nebraska City to make his home, that he might enjoy its salubrious climate and its many business and social advantages. He immediately engaged in the office of the Daily News, and has been connected with that paper ever since in various responsible capacities -- editor until 1882, and has been assistant editor and manager ever since. In February, 1887, the News Company was formed, and he was elected its Secretary and General Manager. He has been very successful in the management of the affairs of the company, which are in a very prosperous condition, as he pays strict attention to his business, and is zealous and faithful in looking after the interests of his associates. The News is a popular sheet, a Democratic organ, and is all that its name implies.
   Mr. Marnell was married, Aug. 5, 1880, to Miss Ida Hawley, a native of Nebraska City, and a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth B. Hawley. Their pleasant home has been brightened by the birth of one child, Frank by name. Mr. Marnell has been an enthusiastic Democrat ever since he was old enough to vote, at which time he cast his first Presidential ballot for the Hon. S. J. Tilden. He occupies a prominent position in many social organizations of this city. He is Receiver of Nuckolls Lodge No. 7, A. O. U. W.; Commander of Nebraska City Legion of Select Knights of the A. O. U. W. of Nebraska City, and he is Past Master Workman and Venerable Sage of Foster Assembly, K. of L., No. 8,248, and a member of Ramplin Camp No. 331, M. W. A.

OHN MATTES, of Nebraska City, is well known among its most prominent residents, where he occupies a good position socially and financially. His business is that of a brewer, and he represents a fine amount of property, while at the same time he is public-spirited, liberal, and warmly interested in the welfare of his adopted city and State. Mr. Mattes came to Nebraska City with his family in July, 1886. He was born in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany, June 4,1847, and was the youngest of six children, the offspring of Frank and Frances (Sperry) Mattes, who were also of German birth and ancestry, and the father a large land-owner and farmer in his native Province. The brothers and sisters were named respectively: Rosa, Xavier, Aloes, Alex and Paul.
   Young Mattes was given a thorough education in the common schools, and in addition to becoming familiar with farm pursuits, also learned the trade of wagon-maker. Three of his brothers, one in 1853 and two in 1864, emigrated to the United States, settling in Burlington, Iowa, and our subject joined them in 1866, when a little over eighteen

years of age. He worked at wagon-making in that place two years, then, in company with his brothers, began operating a brewery at Des Moines, where he lived until the spring of 1886.
   Mr. Mattes was married in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1875, to Miss Mary Hummel, of Monroe, that State, and who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, in January, 1853. Her parents, Michel and Josephine Hummel, were natives of Germany, and emigrated to Iowa in the spring of 1854, when their daughter Mary was less than a year old. They are still living in Iowa.
   Our subject had, in company with his brother Paul, put up a brewery in Des Moines, and they were very successful. In 1880 he sold out his interest and rented a brewery in the same city, where he remained until coming to Nebraska City. Here he has since invested a portion of his capital in his brewery, and also has some valuable real estate. Politically, he votes the straight Democratic ticket. He is a man prompt to meet his obligations, and one thoroughly reliable as a business man and citizen.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Mattes there have been born eight children, three of whom, Josie, Mina and Frank, died in infancy. The survivors are: Josie (2d), Louis, Rosa, Carl Grover C. and Alexander. The eldest is twelve years of age and the youngest two; they are a bright and interesting group, being carefully trained and educated, and the parents may be pardoned for looking upon them with pride. Mr. Mattes cast his first Presidential vote for Greeley, when a resident of Iowa, and since coming to this country has been a conscientious member of the Democratic party.

 H. MASON. In the career of the subject of this biography we find that of a man whose course in life has been such as to commend him in a marked manner to the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens. Upright in his dealings, generous and public-spirited, he has been a member of a community exerting a good influence around him and furthering the enterprises calculated to upbuild the moral and religious elements of society. In this praiseworthy labor he has been encouraged by one of the best of women, a lady possessing rare qualifications, and one who has assisted in drawing around herself and her family the best social elements of the community. We thus find a home which, without pretensions to elegance, is encircled by an air of culture which makes it a most delightful resort.
   The Mason homestead occupies the southwest quarter of section 7, in Otoe Precinct. Before going any further we give a brief glance at the ancestry of our subject. The family is supposed to have been of English ancestry, and the parents of S. H. were Abraham and Elizabeth (Gartin) Mason, the father a native of Albemarle County, Va., and the mother born in what was then Washington County, now Marion County, Ky. Abraham Mason received careful parental training, and during his early manhood served as a soldier in the War of 1812. Afterward he took up his residence in Washington County, Ky., where he was married. Not long afterward he started for the farther West with his young wife, and they settled on a tract of land in Monroe County, Mo. The father purchased 160 acres which now he in the vicinity of the flourishing city of Paris, which at that time gave no indication of a town. There his death took place in 1849, when he was sixty-one years old. The mother survived her husband twenty years, remaining a widow, and died in 1869, at the age of seventy-seven.
   The parental household included eleven children, namely: Perry L., George G., Uriah G., Martin F., Abraham G., Amanda G., Nathan W., Stephen G., Sylvester H. (our subject). Mary H. and William H. The mother of our subject was a child of one of the first families of Kentucky, and many of her relatives are to-day prominent as politicians and professional men, and almost invariably people of wealth and position. Sylvester H. was born near Paris, Monroe County, Mo., on the 28th of September, 1838. Among his first recollections is that of the Predential election of 1848, when Harrison was seated in the National Executive Chair. Even at that early day the educational advantages of that locality were very good, but young Mason was unable to avail himself of them to the extent he desired on account of an affection of the eyes. This, however, he overcame in due time, and when a youth of

seventeen years went into the office of the Mercury, at Paris, to learn the printer's trade. The close application required brought on his old trouble, and he was obliged to abandon his labors in this direction. His brother, Abraham G., also had a taste for newspaper work, and was a man of much literary merit, becoming one of the noted journalists of Missouri. His death took place at Shelbina, Mo., on the 23d of April, 1887. Martin F., another brother, and the only one living besides Sylvester H., is engaged at farming, and continues his residence near his old home in Paris, Mo.
   Young Mason, after leaving the printing-office embarked in the livery business, setting up in business for himself at Paris, Mo. Upon the outbreak of the Rebellion he sold out and removed to Douglas County, Ill., where he engaged in farming a period of four years, and thence removed to Cass County, Ill., locating on a farm. Before leaving Missouri he had been married to Miss Laura Bounds, who only survived her wedding about ten months. This was a sore affliction to Mr. Mason, and for a time thereafter he felt unable to go on with the duties and labors of life.
   After going to Douglas County, Ill., Mr. Mason entered the employ of a very excellent man and an extensive farmer, and in due time, on account of his honesty and fidelity to duty, was given the supervision of a part of the land. After removing from Douglas to Cass County, he made the acquaintance of Mrs. Annie Jenkins, whose home at that time was in Peru, Nemaha Co., Neb., but who was visiting her parents in Illinois. This acquaintance ripened into a mutual affection, and on the 8th of October, 1873, Mrs. Jenkins having returned to her home, our subject joined her there, and they were married.
    Mrs. Annie Mason was born in Ohio, in Cosehocton County, Oct. 10, 1839, where she lived until a young girl fifteen years of age,, and then accompanied her parents to Illinois. She was there married, Aug. 11, 1861, to Henry F. Junkins, a Virginian by birth, and a farmer by occupation. They came to Nebraska in 1863, settling in Nemaha County, subsequently moving to the present farm in Otoe County, Neb., where the death of Mr. Jenkins occurred Oct. 17, 1869. Of this union there have been born three children -- Mary H., Olive T. and Verda A. Mary H. is now the wife of T. S. Mason, agent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Holliday, Mo.; they have one child, Henry M. Olive T. is the willow of George E. Smith, and the mother of two children, Annie M. and Neola G., and lives in Auburn, Nemaha Co., Neb.; Verda A. is employed as a typewriter in Kansas City, Mo.
   The parents of Mrs. Mason were Elijah and Jane (Hankins) Duling, the father a native of Virginia and the mother of Ohio. The Dulings were of Scotch and English ancestry, and were largely represented in the early days in Ohio, being prominent in the Methodist Church, and many of them ministers. They, like the Hankins family, were of English and Scotch ancestry, an admixture of two of the best nationalities on the face of the globe. Mr. Duling was a farmer by occupation, and the parents after their marriage lived in Ohio for a period of twenty-one years. Thence they removed to Cass County, Ill. Before his marriage to the mother of Mrs. Mason Mr. Duling had by a previous alliance become the father of three children, two of whom survive --Nathan McKendry and Syvilla. Of his marriage with Miss Hankins there were born the following children: Laban, William, Annie (Mrs. Mason) Anderson, Elijah, Amelia and John. Mrs. Jane Duling died about 1846, in Ohio, and Mr. D. was the third time married, and became the father of three more children. His third wife was also the mother of three children by her former marriage. An older brother of Mrs. Mason died and left a little girl. They all lived together, so at one time the father's roof sheltered five different sets of children. In 1854 they all removed to Cass County, Ill., where the father carried on farming successfully, and lived to be seventy-eight years old, his decease taking place in July, 1876. He was a man possessing all the better qualities of character, beloved and respected by his neighbors, popular, public-spirited, charitable and kind to all who came within his reach. In early manhood he had identified himself with the old Whig party, and upon its abandonment cordially endorsed Republican principles. The members of that large family are scattered in different States.
   To our subject and his present wife there have

been born two children, daughters, Edna J. and Annie B., who attend school and constitute the light and joy of the household circle. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mason are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, attending regularly at Harmony. They have both been active workers in the Master's vineyard, Mr. Mason officiating as Secretary and Trustee of his church, and both largely instrumental in the organization of the Zion Sunday-school at Zion, in 1888, and where Mrs. Mason officiates as a teacher. She is also prominently identified with the W. G. T. U. at Harmony, which enjoys a membership of forty persons. Of this Mrs. M. is the librarian, and a most efficient laborer in this good work. Mr, Mason, politically, votes with the Prohibitionists, and has served a period of nine years on the School Board of his precinct.

ANNOY HANKS is among those pioneers of Nebraska who have give her reputation as a great agricultural State, and who now rank among her most extensive farmers and stock-raisers, his claim to this distinction being based upon the fact that he owns one of the largest farms in the county, located in Otoe and Hendricks Precincts, and has large herds of fine graded cattle.
   Mr. Hanks was born in Carroll County, Va., Feb. 10. 1830. His father, Thomas Hanks, was a native of the same county, and his grandfather, Joshua Hanks, was for many years a resident of that county, where he was engaged as a farmer, and he died there.
   Thomas Hanks was reared in his native county, and there married to Jane Moore, a native of Surrey County, N. C., where her father, George Moore, so far as known, spent his entire life. Mr. Hanks bought a tract of land in his native county, and there spent the remainder of his life, dying about 1840. His wife, the mother of our subject, died about 1850. They were the parents of eight children, namely: David, Edward, Hallie, Lee, Cannoy, Hugh, Thompson and Susan.
   Cannoy Hanks, of whom we write, was reared in his Virginian birthplace. He was ten years old when the sad death of his father left his mother with a family of small children to care for. She nobly performed her task, carefully training them to habits of industry and self-reliance, and as soon as old enough our subject and his brothers and sisters went out to work to assist in the support of the family. The summer after his father's death our subject, then only a small lad of ten years, went to work on a farm, receiving eight cents a day for his services. As he grew larger his wages were increased, until when he was man grown he was paid fifty cents a day during haying and harvesting. He was prudent and saved his earnings, until finally he had saved money enough to engage with his brother in trading horses, mules, wagons and tobacco, making two trips to Georgia every year for that purpose, between the months of September and April. In the summer seasons they were engaged in farming. In 1855 Mr. Hanks concluded to come West, and in the fail of that year started with a team from his old home in Virginia, and drove the entire distance across Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri, to his destination in Nebraska. He arrived at Rockport, Mo., after forty-eight days of travel, spent one night there. then came on to Otoe City, and from there to Nebraska City. For awhile he engaged in teaming between the latter point and Hamey Landing and Sioux City. In 1856 he bought the claim to the land where he now resides in Otoe Precinct, built a log cabin thereon and, when the land came into the market entered it from the Government in the land-office at Omaha. He farmed one year, and then, in 1857, went to the mountains to engage in mining some twenty-six miles northwest of the present site of Denver, which was not founded until the following year. At that time there were no railways across the plains, and all transportation was done with teams. Mr. Hanks mined in Colorado until the fall of 1861; when he returned to this State, and resumed farming and stock-raising, in which he has since met with more than ordinary success, having increased his real estate to 2,080, acres, and large numbers of cattle high grades, among the finest in the State, roam over his rich pastures. He has all the conveniences for carrying on agriculture after the most approved methods, and his farm is provided with neat substantial buildings.