was born in 1801. He was a farmer by occupation, and carried a musket during the War of 1812.
   Grandfather Aaron Reeves was born in New Jersey and served in the Revolutionary War as a private under the command of Washington. He spent his last days in Warren County, Pa. The paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Holland and settled in New Jersey, where it is supposed his decease occurred. Stacy Reeves left New York in 1832, and settled in Warren County, Pa., where he engaged in farming, but only lived six years thereafter. The mother shortly after the death of the father married James Sears, and became the mother of two children, both deceased. Shortly after the death of Mr. Sears she became the wife of Mr. Opdyke, who died, leaving her a widow. Quite late in life she came to Nebraska, and died at the home of her son, our subject, in 1883. There were only three children in the parental family, two sons and a daughter, of whom Alexander, our subject, was the eldest. Amos I. and Hannah are in Nebraska and California.

EORGE ADAMS, of Rock Creek Precinct, is spoken of by his neighbors as one of the most successful farmers and stock-raisers within its limits. Certain it is that he has one of its most attractive homes, the residence being a substantial frame building, tasteful and well furnished, situated in the midst of pleasant grounds with shade trees and shrubbery, and supplied with everything conducive to the comfort of its inmates. Upon the farm is a fine grove of walnut, cottonwood and elm trees, and an orchard which can scarcely be matched in the county, planted with 600 trees of the choicest fruit. The farm, 200 acres in extent, has been brought to a state of thorough cultivation. It was but a tract of raw prairie when Mr. Adams settled upon it in March, 1870, and its present condition is sufficiently indicative of the manner in which the proprietor has employed his time.
   Orleans County, N. Y., was the childhood home of our subject, where his birth took place on the 22d of July, 1843. He is of an excellent New England ancestry, his father, Henry Adams, the son of William and Rebecca (Hyde) Adams, having been a native of Connecticut and of genuine Yankee stock. Henry Adams was reared and educated in his native State, and when a lad of about fourteen years removed with his father, William Adams, to New York State, locating near the city of Rochester. He was twice married. To his first wife, Sophia Warren, he was wedded in Monroe County, and to them were born two children, only one of whom is living, Nathaniel, residing in Nebraska City, this county. Mrs. Adams died about 1838, in Orleans County, N. Y., where she and her husband had settled after their marriage.
   About 1840 Henry Adams was married the second time, to Mrs. Mary (Smith) McCrillis, who had by her first husband two children, who are both living, the son a resident of Orleans County, N. Y., and the daughter of Boston, Mass. This lady was born in Peterboro, N. H., and it was there that her marriage with Mr. George McCrillis took place. Subsequently they removed to Orleans County, N. Y. She was of Scotch-Irish descent and the daughter of William Smith. The family was noted as possessing all the admirable qualities of that admixture of nationalities. The first representatives crossed the Atlantic, it is supposed, in the Colonial days, settling in New England. Of this union were born two children: George, our subject, and his sister Sophia, who is now the wife of William Kennicutt, of Otoe Precinct, this county. A sketch of Mr. K. is given elsewhere in this work.
   After the death of his last wife Henry Adams, with his two children, started in October, 1858, for the farther West. Coming into the Territory of Nebraska, he purchased land in Otoe Precinct, this county, seven miles southeast of the present site of Nebraska City, where he spent the remainder of his days. These, however, were destined to be but brief, as he lived only about two years, his death taking place in October, 1860.
   Our subject after the death of his father went to Hillsdale, Mich., where he completed his education by an attendance of three years in the college there. He then came back to Nebraska, and was united in marriage with Miss Emma Horrum, May 5, 1872, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride in Rock Creek Precinct. Mrs.

Emma Adams was the daughter of Sherburn and Eliza (Brunson) Horrum, and was born in Dearborn County, Ind., where she was reared and educated. She came to Nebraska with her parents when about eighteen years of age. Three years liaer she was married, and eight years later, Nov. 3, 1880, passed to her long home, leaving two sons, Nat and Edwin, who are now at home.
   Mr. Adams, on the 11th of April, 1883, contracted a second marriage, with Miss Mary Horrum, a sister of his first wife, and also a native of Dearborn County, Ind., born Oct. 3, 1848. Of this marriage there are no children. Mr. Adams, politically, is an uncompromising Democrat. Both he and his excellent wife are greatly esteemed by their neighbors and fellow-citizens. Their home is a very pleasant resort, they extending that cordial and well-bred hospitality both to friends and strangers, which at once distinguishes them as people of culture and innate politeness.
   In 1869 Mr. Adams identified himself with the Western Star Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., of Nebraska City. He subsequently became a Royal Arch Mason, and now belongs to Keystone Chapter No. 2. In 1885 he assisted in the organization of the Masonic Lodge at Talmage. and for the last two years has officiated as Worshipful Master. He is also a charter member of Alpha Consistory No. 50, A. & A. S. R. The view of the Adams homestead, which will be observed on another page, illustrates more forcibly than words can do the hand of industry and the eye of taste which have contributed to its embellishment and its value. We gladly give it a place among the pictured homes of other men to whose labors Nebraska owes her present condition of wealth and prosperity.

AMES M. JARRETT, whose farm is situated on section 32 of Belmont Township, may be justly proud of the success that has attended him as an agriculturist; he began without those opportunities and advantages that are usually provided by parental care. He was born in Monroe County, Va., on the 4th of December, 1838, and is a son of Andrew and Susan Jarrett, natives of Virginia. His parents migrated in 1842 to Davis County, Mo., where our subject was reared upon the home farm, and in the school of that county was educated.
   Seeing that his life has been practically spent amid the surroundings of an agricultural district and in the midst of farm home life, Mr. Jarrett has had every opportunity of learning all the details of practical husbandry. He came to this county in 1865 and settled where he now lives, and at the time of his settlement there were eight acres broken and a two-board fence around that portion, but this was destroyed by a prairie fire shortly afterward.
   There are now 420 acres of good land property belonging to our subject. It is all well improved and yields him abundant harvests, while that portion which is devoted to his stock gives him a rich supply of food for their use. A view of the homestead is given in this connection.
   Upon the 29th of January, 1863, Mr. Jarrett was united in wedlock with the lady of his choice, Miss Susan P. Meadows, the daughter of John and Nancy Meadows, natives of Virginia. Mrs. Jarrett was born in Davis County, Mo. There have come to our subject and wife six children, four of whom are living, who bear the following names: Holly M., Stewart G., William W. and Samuel W. Holly is in the State Normal School at Peru, in this State, and Stewart is attending the classes in Stanberry College, at Stanberry, Mo.
   Mr. Jarrett, his wife and two younger children are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and both in religious circles and the community at large they are held in much esteem. The political opinions and sympathies of our subject are with the Democratic party, and he is an acknowledged friend of free trade.

ILLIAM H. SNYDER. The farm owned and operated by the subject of this sketch lies on section 31 in Palmyra Precinct. and embraces 160 acres of land, with convenient buildings well adapted to the various purposes of country life. The chief characteristics of the proprietor

are sturdy industry and integrity, he being a man who, during his younger years, earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, and formed the habits which later in life have resulted in surrounding him with everything needful for his comfort and maintenance. These principles conscientiously carried out have given him a good position among his fellow-citizens, whose confidence and esteem he enjoys in a large measure.
   Mr. Snyder by his own industry has brought about the improvements upon his farm, these including a commodious and substantial dwelling, good barns, sheds and other outhouses, the machinery necessary for the successful prosecution of agriculture, and all the other appliances required by the progressive farmer of to-day. His domestic affairs are presided over by a very intelligent and capable lady, who possesses all the womanly virtues, being domestic in her tastes, and esteeming her home the most attractive place in all the world, which has been tendered thus by her labors and refined tastes. Under this pleasant roof-tree are three children, who are being reared and educated in a manner corresponding to the means and station of their parents.
   The subject of this sketch was born April 22, 1850, in Lancaster Township, Stephenson Co., Ill., and spent his boyhood and youth after the manner of most farmers' sons, receiving a district-school education, and becoming familiar with the various employments of country life. He was first married, Feb. 12, 1874, to Miss Emma E. Kenyon, a native of Canada, and they became the parents of two children: Harry Charles (deceased), and Perry B., who is attending school.
   Mr. Snyder was a resident of his native county until 1874, in the spring of which year he moved across the Mississippi, and has since been a resident of Nebraska. His parents, Benjamin and Mary (Styres) Snyder, were natives of Pennsylvania, whence they emigrated after their marriage to Stephenson County, Ill., where the mother died in 1855, when only thirty years of age. Benjamin Snyder was subsequently married, and his householdwas completed by the birth of twelve children in all -- three sons and four daughters by the first wife, and two sons and three daughters by the second. He accumulated a good property, and died in the eightieth year of his age, at his home in Stephenson, in September, 1886.
   The present wife of our subject, to whom he was married Sept. 27, 1881, was in her girlhood Miss Augusta Grossman. She was born in Germany, Jan. 20, 1863, and when a child two years of age was brought by her parents to America, they settling in Woodford County, Ill. Her parents are of pure German ancestry, and are now residents of Lancaster County, Neb. Their family consisted of eight children, who are now in Nebraska.
   Mrs. Snyder speaks the English language perfectly, and is a very intelligent lady, well informed and thoroughly identified with the interests of her adopted country. Of her union with our subject there have been born two children, a daughter and a son, Laura B. and Frank E., who are six years and four years of age respectively. Mr. Snyder cast his first Presidential vote for U. S. Grant, and is the uniform supporter of Republican principles.

ERMANN TETEN, of Rock Creek Precinct is the owner of 240 acres of finely improved land lying on section 19, and supplied with good buildings. He came to Nebraska in the spring of 1859, during its Territorial days, accompanied by others of his countrymen, and first pre-empted eighty acres. After making a few improvements he returned east as far as Illinois, where he staid two years, then recrossed the Mississippi, and here has since been contented to remain. He possesses all the best characteristics of his nationality, being industrious and persevering, and a man who attends strictly to his own concerns.
   A native of the then Kingdom of Hanover, our subject was born May 28, 1834, and is the youngest but one of a family of ten children. His parents, Henry and Heska (Tiland) Teten, were natives of the same Province, where they lived until well advanced in life, and until the death of the mother, which took place when she was sixty years of age.
   After the death of his wife the father of our subject joined his children in the United States, and died at the home of one of his sons in Rock Creek Precinct, this County, in the fall of 1871, when

about seventy-four or seventy-five years old. Both parents were devoted Christian people. and members in good standing of the German Lutheran Church.
   Our subject received a thorough education in his native tongue, and was a youth of nineteen years when he crossed the Atlantic. He attained his majority in Madison County, Ill., and was there married in the fall of 1861, to Miss Anna Frerichs, a native of the same Province as her husband in Germany, and born Sept. 20, 1844. Mrs. Teten was a most excellent Christian lady, greatly beloved by her family and friends, from whom she was taken by death in June of 1885, when but forty-four years of age. She had been the truest and wisest helpmate of her husband, encouraging him in all his worthy efforts, and standing by his side during the labors and difficulties incident to the building up of a home in a new country. They were possessed of but limited means when coming to Nebraska, and on account of this walked from Nebraska City to their present home, a distance of twenty miles. They were also obliged to carry their little child, and a few of the goods which they had found it necessary to bring with them. In addition to the weariness of travel they had scarcely anything to eat during the whole journey, and but a little milk and impure water to drink. They made this memorable journey in one day, and when arriving at their destination took shelter in a small shanty.
   At this time the people around were as poor as Mr. Teten himself, and could render them but little assistance. They experienced very many hardships during the first year, and the second winter was unusually cold. On account of exposure Mr. Teten was taken ill, and suffered from the effects many years afterward. The first summer he worked all through the harvest time for fifty cents per day, and with the money thus earned purchased a cow, which was the first stock he ever owned. Time, however, which always brings changes in the journey of life, began to deal more gently with our subject, and after a series of years spent in reducing his land to a state of cultivation and putting up buildings as necessity called for, he found himself surrounded by many comforts, not-withstanding he and his family have always suffered greatly from sickness. In 1882 he had a stroke of paralysis, and was for several months disabled both physically and mentally. From this, however, he has now recovered.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Teten there were born ten children one of whom, John H., died when a little lad nearly two years old, the survivors are Abraham George, who married Miss Anna Ekhoff, and lives on a farm in Rock Creek Precinct; John H., Jacob M., Mary R., Herman J., Maggie M., Frederick and Anna, at home, and Herman, deceased. They are all connected with the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Teten, politically, votes the straight Republican ticket. He has held some of the minor offices of his precinct, and is considered one of its most worthy and reliable citizens.
   Mr. Teten has a comfortable and substantial dwelling, good barns and outhouses, fruit and shade trees, a stream of running water through his land, and his home is withal very pleasant and desirable. A view of the place is shown on another page.

AMES N. ANDERSON, well known throughout Wyoming Precinct and vicinity, occupies a quarter of section 23, where he has a well-developed farm with comfortable buildings. He settled here a pioneer, coming in the spring of 1856, and here has since lived. He makes a specialty of stock-raising, and in his general farming operations is meeting with fair success. Our subject first came to Nebraska with his father, D. M. Anderson, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. They made the journey from Orange County, N. Y., where were spent the boyhood and youth of our subject, and where he was born Aug. 26, 1839. His father is a farmer by occupation, and the parental homestead in the Empire State was located in Mamakating Township, Sullivan County. There James N. was reared and educated, and lived with his father until their removal to Nebraska in 1856. His mother, Mrs. Mary Anderson, had died when he was a little lad three years of age; he was an only child.
   Our subject was united in marriage with Miss