County; the mother Feb. 2, 1885, also in Otoe County. Of this union of our subject there are two children, a son and daughter--Frank and Theresa. The career of Mr, Heng has been signalized as that of a man more than ordinarily industrious and clear sighted. He began life without capital, dependent wholly upon his own resources, and from first principles has built up an estate of which he has reason to be proud. He votes the straight Democratic ticket, but has never sought official honors. He and his wife are members in good standing of the German Catholic Church. In the support and maintenance of this he takes a warm interest and is noted for his charities, giving largely of his means to benevolent objects. He is likewise active in his encouragement of education, believing that the young should receive every advantage in order to tit them for worthy and useful citizens. In 1864 the Indians became very troublesome, and Mr. Heng joined a company to suppress them.

ASHINGTON C. WOLF. South Branch has within its confines many thoroughly practical farmers, enterprising and prosperous stock-raisers, men of intelligence and character. Among these and worthily representing the industries is the subject of our sketch, who has 480 acres of splendid land devoted to the above interests, situated on section 30 of that precinct.
   Our subject is the son of Frederick and Sophia (Clark) Wolf. His father was born of German parents, who settled in Maryland, in which State he first saw the light. His mother was born in Bowling Green, Ky., where she was married to Mr. Wolf in 1827. The grandfather upon the maternal side was of English family, and served in the War of 1812 as a private.
   After some time spent in Kentucky the parents of our subject removed to Ohio, and made their home near Eaton, and at that place all their children were born. In 1832 they removed to Shelbyville, Ill., where Mr. Wolf continued farming until his death, which occurred on the 12th of June, 1879, at the age of seventy-seven years. His wife died at Athens, Ill., on the 1st of October, 1858. There were thirteen children born to them, the family record giving their names as subjoined: Sarah, Louis, Nancy, Frederick, Daniel, Susan (died when three years of age), Sophia, Rebecca, Cornelius, Jacob, Washington C., Melinda and Oliver. Cornelius was in the 73d Illinois Infantry, was mustered in at Camp Butler in 1862, was taken with fever, and died at Louisville, Ky. The subject of our sketch was born in Preble County, Ohio, on the 11th of November, 1845. Accompanying his parents to Illinois, he continued to live with them until he was thirteen years of age, attending the classes of the common schools. When his mother died he began working for himself, and at the age of sixteen years he enlisted in the 2d Illinois Cavalry, in 1861, and became a member of Company B. He was mustered in at Camp Butler and served under Gen. Banks. He took part as an active combatant in the siege of Vicksburg, the raid up the Red River, the battle of Memphis, Jacksonville and Baton Rouge, besides many smaller battles, skirmishes and conflicts, and was mustered out after a service of three years at Camp Butler, and there received his honorable discharge.
   Hanging up his saber and doffing the Union blue, Mr. Wolf returned to the more peaceful avocation of husbandry. In beginning he started in Township No. 19, Logan County, continuing there until he came to this county in 1879. At that time he settled on his present property, which was at the time entirely unimproved, and offered an inviting field for intelligent industry, unflagging perseverance and resolute energy. The reward of his labor is his.
   Mr. Wolf has been twice married; first on the 8th of August, 1867, while residing in Illinois. The maiden whom he sought for his companion in life was Mathilda Donovan, daughter of David and Sarah (Martin) Donovan. who were both born in the Buckeye State. She was the youngest of five children, and was born on the 15th of November, 1848, in Logan County, Ill., and prior to her marriage ably filled the position of schoolmistress. She died on the 24th of November, 1865, leaving her husband their son Charles Edward, as a pledge and memorial of their affection.
   The second alliance in matrimony of our subject

was with Mrs. Mary Farrall, relict of Francis Farrall, and was celebrated on the 11th of November, 1885. The first husband of this lady was born in Ireland, and came to this country when a young man, settling in Illinois in Cass County. He then went to Kearney. After seven years they removed in 1875 to this county, where he died on the 17th of March, 1884. He was the father of three children, named John, Lucy and Maggie. Mrs. Wolf was born in Queens County, Ireland, May 22, 1845, and is the daughter of Charles and Bridget (Butler) Flinn. She came to America alone when sixteen years of age.
   The farm of Mr. Wolf, which lies partly on section 13 and partly on section 31, comprising as above noted 480 acres, is carefully kept and worked. From house to field, barn to orchard, the improvements are the work of the proprietor. The fields are fertile and very productive. The cattle sheds and pens are well stocked with high-grade stock, including cattle, hogs and horses, many of them very valuable creatures and of fine appearance. Mr. Wolf is Supervisor of roads, and has held other offices, being popular, intelligent, a man of character and social position. Our subject and wife are members of the Catholic Church at Palmyra. Although one in religious faith they differ materially in politics. Mr. Wolf is a stanch Republican; his wife, although Irish by birth, has carefully studied the institutions of her adopted country, and is very intelligent upon this and upon all general topics, and also some of the more erudite. This lady espouses the cause of the Democratic faith.

UDGE JESSE S. MAPES is one of the most worthy and valued citizens of Nebraska City, and was born July 20, 1838, in Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., in the same house in which Gov. Seward was born, as was also his father, Sanford Mapes, whose nativity dates the 11th of September, 1811, and his father, Jesse Mapes, and also James Mapes, grandfather of Sanford H. Mapes. The family is of German extraction. The first member of the family to come to this country was Thomas Meppes, great-great-grandfather of our subject, who was born at Elberfeldt, Germany. (In later generations the name was Anglicized, and is now spelled Mapes.) He settled in Blooming Grove, Orange Co., N. Y., and took up a large tract of land, and clearing a plantation, made for his family a home. There he resided until his death.
   The great-grandfather of our subject came with his parents from Germany, and was reared upon the above farm. He served in the War of the Revolution under Washington, after which he retired to his farm, and there made his home until his death, in 1834, when the property passed into the hands of his son Jesse, and then to Sanford H., the father of our subject, who continued to make it his home. The maiden name of his wife was Hannah Little, a native of Orange County.
   The father of Jesse S. was brought up on a farm, and continued to operate it. In 1838 with his wife he went to Warwick, and for a time resided on the Seward homestead; while there the subject of our sketch was born, in the month of July, as above mentioned. Mr. Mapes afterward purchased a farm at Warwick, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, March 8, 1874. The maiden name of his wife, the mother of our subject, was Ruth Rose Mapes, who was born in Blooming Grove, Orange Co., N. Y. The father of this lady, Ramsey Mapes, of the same county, was a soldier in the War of 1812. The maiden name of his wife was Mary, daughter of James and Rachael (Miller) Rumsey. The first husband of this lady, Joshua Miller, was murdered by the Claudius Smith gang during the Revolutionary War. They watched for him, knowing him to be home on furlough, and discovering his hiding place, followed his wife when she took him food, and sprang upon him and assassinated him.
   There were six children born to the parents of our subject, as follows: Jesse S.; Horace was born in 1840, and died in 1862; William served in Company B, 127th New York Infantry, in the late war; he lost an eye in the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, and in the battle of Deep Bottom lost a leg, and now resides in Orange County. Mortimer and Walter are both residents of the town of Warwick; Eugene is a minister in the Presbyterian Church,

now stationed at Carlisle, Pa.; he is a graduate of Union College, N. Y., also of the University at Leipsic, Germany.
   The subject of our sketch received his early education in the district schools of his native place, and afterward received instruction in the "S. S. Seward" institute, at Florida, Orange Co., N. Y., an institution endowed by the father of Gov. Seward, After being graduated he served three years' apprenticeship in order to learn the trade of carpenter. In 1861 he was appointed Deputy United States Marshal for the Eleventh New York District, and served until the close of the war, and was then appointed Deputy County Clerk of Orange County; this office he continued to fill for nine years, during which time he was a student-at-law. In 1877 he came to this State, and bought the farm on which he has resided ever since. This is a very fertile and well-cultivated property, comprising 160 acres on section 29 of Syracuse Precinct. In 1879 he was elected Assessor of Syracuse; in 1880 he became Justice of the Peace, was elected County Judge of Otoe County in 1885, and re-elected in 1887.
   On the 16th of May, 1861, Judge Mapes was united in marriage with Evelyn F. Randall, which union has resulted in the birth of four children--Jessie Benton, Willie S., Lena and Bernie. Mrs. Mapes was born in New York City, on the 16th of May, 1841. Her father, Culver Randall, was born in 1804, at Goshen, Orange County, while his father, Jesse Randall, was a native of New Jersey; his father, William Randall, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Mapes, was a Welshman, who came to America in the employ of C. C. Seward in the early days of the Colonies.
   The grandfather of Mrs. Mapes was a young man when his parents migrated to York State; there he built a gristmill in Goshen, and continued to do business there, at the same time running his extensive farm, upon which the father of Mrs. Mapes was reared. After he was married he went to New York City, and engaged in business there as a ship's chandler, and afterward returned to Goshen to take charge of his father's mills, which ultimately came into his ownership. There he resided until his death, which occurred in September, 1888, when he was eighty-five years of age. His wife, whose maiden name was Sophia Provost, was born in 1808, in New York City. Her father's name was Daniel Provost.
   Judge Mapes has been a member of the Masonic Lodge for twenty-four years, joining at Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., of which lodge he was Master six years, and has been a Royal Arch Chapter son for fifteen years. He is much interested in political matters, and is a stanch Republican. With his wife, he is a member in good standing of the Episcopal Church.

ERMAN KREIFELS. The comfortable and well-regulated homestead of this gentleman embraces 160 acres of land situated on section 10 in Rock Creek Precinct. Most of it has been brought to a productive condition, the buildings are comfortable and in good repair, and the entire premises presents it cheerful picture of rural life.
   Mr. Kreifels settled upon eighty acres of his present farm in the fall of 1869, and followed the usual routine of the early settler, enduring many hardships, and being obliged to labor early and late in order to obtain a foothold. He has been fairly prosperous in his labors and been able to surround himself and his family with many comforts. Prior to his arrival in Nebraska he had been a resident of Stearns County, Minn., for a period of fourteen years. To that place he had migrated from Osage County, Mo., where he first took up his residence when coming to the United States in the early summer of 1816, taking up his residence there on the 2d of May.
   Mr. Kreifels was born near the River Rhine, in Prussia, Dec. 30, 1824, and is a son of John and Sibela Kreifels, natives of the same country, where the father followed farming, and where both parents spent their entire lives. The father died when his son Herman was twelve years old, and he was then thrown mostly upon his own resources, thereafter his own living. He was twenty-one years of age when he decided to seek his fortune in the New World. He was married in Osage County, Mo., to Miss Margaret Bloomer, who was born in

Prussia, April 20, 1828, and came in the spring of 1840 with her father, Matthew Bloomer, to America. They also located in Osage County, Mo., where Mrs. K. was reared to womanhood, remaining under the parental roof. After her marriage with our subject her parents removed to Minnesota, and died in Stearns County.
   Mr.. and Mrs. Kreifels began their wedded life together on a farm in Missouri, when later they removed to Minnesota, and from there to this county. Of their union there have been born ten children, namely: Peter, Louis, Sebastian, Frank, Melcher, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Anna and Helen. Joseph, Elizabeth and Mary are married, and make their homes in Otoe County. Our subject, politically, is independent, and he and his estimable wife are members in good standing of the German Catholic Church.

TEPHEN A. HAIL is the oldest native-born citizen of Otoe County now a resident within its limits, his birth occurring in Nebraska City June 2, 1855, and ever since attaining manhood he has been identified with the best interests of his native city and county, and is now numbered among the leading business men of this part of Nebraska. He is the youngest son of William B. Hail, of whom an extended sketch appears elsewhere in this work.
   Our subject received the preliminaries of his education in the early schools of this city, and completed it by attendance at Talbot Hall, an advanced school, under the charge of Prof. Diffendorf. This school was first conducted in a building erected for the purpose three miles southwest of this city. It was afterward moved to the city, and was known for some time as Nebraska College, but is now called the Nebraska City Academy, Prof. Cary being the proprietor. Our subject was a student of the college after its removal to the city. When he was twenty-four years old he entered upon the mercantile business as a clerk in the store of S. B. Eastman, and was employed in that establishment for two years. He then went to Omaha and kept books for a lumber firm in that city two years. At the expiration of that time he returned to this city and went into the insurance office of David Brown, and was a clerk for him until 1885. In September of that year Mr. Hail bought Mr. Brown s insurance business, and has conducted it himself ever since with marked success. He represents ten of the leading insurance companies of the United States, and his business extends over Otoe, Nemaha and Cass Counties. By his close attention to his affairs, and his prompt and systematical business habits, he has not only been exceedingly prosperous, but has won the confidence of the many who have dealings with him.
   Mr. Hail was married, March 4, 1881, to Miss Anna V. Steinhart, a native of St. Louis, and a daughter of John and Anna Steinhart. In their pleasant and attractive home two children, Warren Lee and Irene, complete the family circle.
   Mr. and Mrs. Hail are active members of the Presbyterian Church, and it is through Mr. Hail's efforts as leader of the choir that this church is greatly indebted for its beautiful music, as he is a fine singer and an enthusiast in music.
   Mr. Hail is a fine representative of the young men of the West who have grown up within it's borders, he having a full measure of the push and energy that characterize so many of them, and make them conspicuous in the industrial, commercial and other business interests of their native towns. He is earnest and sincere in his convictions, straightforward and manly in all his acts, and one upon whom friend or stranger can place the utmost reliance. He is, of course, interested in all that tends to promote the growth of his native city, and as a member of the Building and Loan Association, is an important factor therein. Mr. Hail is an ardent advocate of the policy of the Democratic party in his political views.

OHN NUTZMANN. The subject of this sketch represents a fine property in the State of Nebraska, including 480 acres of land in Berlin Precinct, this county, and eighty acres in Cass County. His homestead is embellished with first-class improvements, including a commodious residence, a good barn and other out-buildings, and

all the appliances required for the convenience of the extensive stock-dealer, of which industry our subject makes a specialty. For his partner and helpmate Mr. Nutzmann has one of the most intelligent of wives, a lady with fine tastes, who exercises rare and good judgment in the adornment of her home, and is possessed of that genial and hospitable spirit which makes it a most welcome place for friend or stranger.
   The family history of our subject is in its main points as follows: His parents, Christian and Mary (Brandt) Nutzmann, were natives of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, Germany, and Grandfather Brandt served in the wars against the first Napoleon. His son Christian followed farming on a small scale in his native Province until 1865, when he emigrated with his family to the United States. Soon after landing in New York City they took up their abode in Milwaukee, Wis., but six months later came to this county, and the father purchased 160 acres of improved land in Berlin Precinct, upon which he operated successfully, and to which later he added forty acres. He thus left an estate of 200 acres at his death, which took place in December. 1870, when he was sixty-one years old. The mother is still living at the old homestead, being now sixty-seven years old. The five children of the parental family were named as follows: John, Henry, Christ, Ernest and Frederick. They are all residents of this State, and well-to-do.
   Our subject was born not far from the early home of his parents in Mecklenburg, Germany, Oct. 21, 1846. He received a limited education, and remained under the parental roof until a youth of sixteen years. He then began an apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade, serving until making up his mind to emigrate to America with his parents. They left the city of Hamburg in October, 1865, and after a voyage of nineteen days on an ocean steamer, landed in New York City, and our subject thereafter leaving his parents in Milwaukee, worked at his trade in Chicago six months, subsequently joining them and accompanying them to this county. This journey was made by rail to St. Joseph, Mo., and thence to Nebraska City by steamer. Here our subject resumed his trade, and was thus occupied mostly for two years. In 1869, having with true German thrift and forethought saved what he could of his earnings, he purchased the quarter-section of land whereon stands his present homestead, and of which he took possession Nov. 14, 1870.
   Mr. Nutzmann is starting out to develop a farm began with the raw prairie, with rude farm implements, a far-away market, and other difficulties incident to pioneer life. The provisions which he could not raise and his building material were hauled from Nebraska City. He proceeded the cultivation of his land, and in due time set out groves of shade trees, 250 apple trees, planted hedge fences, and from year to year added something to the beauty and value of his property.. About 1876 he turned his attention more exclusively to livestock. He ships annually a carload each of cattle and swine. He keeps sixteen to twenty head of graded Norman horses, and employs four teams in his farming operations. His land is supplied with running water from Spring Creek, and a fine wind mill takes it to the places desired. The land is operated by modern machinery, and no pains or expense have been spared in making the farm first-class in every particular.
   Our subject, among the other good things found in Nebraska, found here also the estimable lady who in her girlhood was Miss Philipena Opp, and to whom he was married Nov. 13, 1870, in Nebraska City. Mrs. Nutzmann was born in Prussia, on the 8th of May, 1853, and came to the United States with her parents in April, 1868. Of her union with our subject there have been born eight children, namely: Richard, Christ, Alfred, Ernest, Julia, John, Rosa and Dina. They form a bright and interesting group, none of whom have as yet fled from the home nest. Mr. and Mrs. M. are charter members of the German Lutheran Church at Avoca, to which they tender a cheerful and liberal support. Our subject, politically, is a true Republican, prominent in the councils of his party in this region, and frequently sent as a delegate to the County Conventions. He is a member of the School Board of his district, and was Supervisor two years. Socially, he belongs to Wyrum Lodge No. 29, I. O. O. F., in which he has held the various offices. He has also served on the Grand Jury.
   Mrs. Nutzmann is the daughter of John and Cath-

erine (Gruber) Opp, who were born in Rhenish Prussia, where the father carried on farming, and was also connected with a hotel. Grandfather John Opp was at one time a very prosperous farmer, and the owner of a good property. which he lost later. Grandfather Gruber served against the first Napoleon during the War of 1812 and thereafter. He was of Spanish birth and ancestry, and during the wars of Spain with other powers migrated to Germany where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Opp came to America with his family in 1868, and purchased land in the vicinity of Nehawka, where his estimable wife spent the remainder of her days. She died at the age of sixty-seven years. Their five children were named respectively: Peter, Jacob, Philipena, Nicholas and Catherine. The father is still living, residing in Cass County.

URTON DORMAN. The snug homestead of this gentleman comprises eighty acres of thoroughly cultivated land, lying on section 34, in Russell Precinct. He possesses all the elements of a substantial and reliable citizen, and as an agriculturist has operated with that skill and good judgment which have resulted in the construction of one of the most desirable homesteads in the western part of the county. Everything about the premises is neatly kept and in good order, and there have been added from time to time the little comforts and conveniences which have so much to do with the happiness of a home.
   Our subject is the offspring of a good family, his parents being Michael and Ann (Burton) Dorman, the former of whom was a native of Worcestershire, England, and the latter of Rutland. Michael Dorman was a successful farmer and stock dealer, and spent his entire life upon his native soil, his death taking place in 1853, at the age of fifty-seven years. THe mother had preceded her husband to the silent land, dying in 1850, at the age of forty-seven. The nine children of the parental family were named respectively as follows: Elizabeth, Mary A., Fanny, Emma and William (deceased), Frederick, Burton, Charles and Thomas. Those living are residents mostly of England; Thomas lives in Sioux City, Iowa.
   The paternal grandfather of our subject, also Michael Dorman by name, was born in Lincolnshire, England, and during the time of the first Napoleon served in the English army. and was present at the battle of Waterloo. He spent his last years in England. Burton, our subject, was born in Medborn, Leicestershire, England, April 23, 1836, and lived with his parents attending school until a lad nine years of age. He then commenced an apprenticeship at the butcher's trade, of which he gained a thorough knowledge in all its details, and which he followed three years in his native town. He was afterward a resident of the city of Birmingham four years, and during the time of the Crimean War. Here he started in business for himself, and was thus occupied a period of twelve years, at the expiration of which time he determined to change his location to the United States.
   Mr. Dorman, in pursuance of the above-mentioned plan, engaged passage on the old ship "Denmark," and after a voyage of seventeen days landed in New York. Thence he proceeded to Chicago, Ill., and for a year thereafter was employed in the stockyards adjacent to that city. Afterward he was engaged four and two years respectively in two market houses, and then established in business for himself at No. 1168 State street. In the meantime, in the summer of 1868, he had visited this county, and purchased eighty acres of land in Russell Precinct, and of this, in the fall of 1878, he took possession, and upon it has since remained. It was a tract of wild prairie at the time he purchased it, and the groves, orchards, fruit trees, and buildings which we now behold, are all the result of the perseverance and industry of the present proprietor.
   While a resident of the city of Birmingham, England, our subject was united in marriage with Jane Cartwright, on the 9th of January, 1865. This lady was born in Birmingham, Dec. 16, 1841, and is the daughter of George and Sarah (Underhill) Cartwright, natives of the same city. The father was a jeweler by trade, and carried on his own factory in Birmingham, where he accumulated a good property. There he spent his entire life, dying in 1876, at the age of sixty years. The

mother had passed away some years previous to the decease of her husband, her death occurring Oct. 18, 1851, when she was but forty years of age. Their two eldest sons, John and George, died at the ages of nine and forty-one years respectively, while of their two younger sons Albert is deceased, and George (2d) living in England. It will thus be seen that Mrs. Dorman and George are the only survivors of her family.
   Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Dorman there have been born three children -- Elma, Fanny A. and an infant who died unnamed. The two daughters are fourteen and seven years of age respectively, and, it is hardly necessary to say, constitute the light of the household. Mr. Dorman has become thoroughly identified with the institutions of his adopted country, and uniformly votes the Republican ticket. He has served as Assessor in his precinct two years, as School Director nine years, and been otherwise intrusted with matters of importance. Religiously, he belongs to the United Brethren Church at Unadilla, in which he has served as Treasurer several years, and also as Superintendent of the Sunday school. He is somewhat prominent in local politics, and has twice been sent as a delegate to the County Conventions at Syracuse. Mrs. Dorman is a very pleasant and intelligent lady, a genuine helpmate to her husband, and their combined efforts have built up one of the most pleasant and desirable homes which it is the lot of mortals to enjoy.

ATRICK McGUIRE, whose name will be mentioned as one who has both faithfully served his country in her hour of need, and as heartily assisted in the development and advancement of the interests of a comparatively new section of the country, is one of the esteemed citizens of Russell Precinct, at once an old settler and successful farmer. He is now operating 160 acres on section 6 of that precinct. Our subject is of Irish descent, his father, Patrick, and his mother, Katharine (McGrath) McGuire, both being natives of Ireland, and born in the same county. In the year 1838 his father, who had been a small farmer in his native country, emigrated to America, sailing from Queenstown to New York, where he worked for awhile on the railroad, then removed to Benton Township, LaFayette Co., Wis., where he rented a farm and embarked also in mining, which, however, was not in every regard a success. In 1858 he went to Iowa, and purchased 120 acres of land and improved the same. While in Wisconsin he was one of the petitioners for its admission as a State.
   When the War of the Rebellion broke out Mr. McGuire, Sr., watched its progress with much interest, and in 1862 he enlisted and became a member of a regiment of Iowa Infantry, nearly every member of which was over forty-five years of age, to which possibly is due the nickname they afterward obtained, which was that of "the Graybeards." They were sent South to do garrison duty, after having been mustered in at Dubuque. They were stationed at Nashville and St.. Louis, and were at the latter city at the close of the war, but were mustered out at Nashville. Politically, Mr. McG. was a member of the Republican Party; religiously, of the Catholic Church. He attained the advanced age of threescore and ten years, and died in 1876. Mrs. McGuire, who is now eighty years of age is still living at Clermont, Iowa. She is the mother of nine children -- Peter, Bridget, Patrick, James and Katherine (twins and both deceased), Rosanne, Thomas, Julia E. and Michael.
   The subject of our sketch was born in Benton, LaFayette Co., Wis., on the 16th of March, 1843. He staid at home upon the farm, and attended the common school until he was about fourteen years of age. About that time his parents removed to Iowa, but he elected to remain upon the farm, and remained operating it successfully until he was about twenty-two years of age. Upon reaching that age he determined to go West, and in the year 1866 he started overland on foot to Cedar Rapids, where he took the train to Boone, Iowa, and from there walked to Council Bluffs, where he took the steamer for Nebraska City. At that time there were only sixty miles of railroad in the State of Nebraska, and considerable money was made, although sometimes at considerable risk, by carrying of freight and passengers to different points. He entered into this business, and continued freight