well continued to reside in his native State until 1854, when he moved with his family to Illinois. In the fall of the year of 1868 he came still further West, and passed the remainder of his days in the home of our subject, dying here in 1883. His wife had preceded him in death two or three years before. They were people of sober, blameless lives, who were justly held in respect and esteem.
   Our subject was a child of five years when his parents took him to their new home in Illinois, and he grew to a stalwart manhood, his parents carefully training him in habits of industry, and instilling into his mind principles of honesty and virtue. He completed his education in that state, and in 1868 came with his parents to Dodge County. and took up land, but continued to make his home with his father and mother until his marriage, and then they lived with him. They staid in Dodge County nine years, and in 1877 came to the place where our subject now lives. This they bought when it was wild in prairie land, and have put on it every improvement of which it can boast, and they are many and valuable. Our subject has a good orchard, comprising three acres of choice fruit trees, besides small fruits. A good house was erected and substantial out-buildings the first year of possession. The farm is well stocked, and is cultivated to a high degree, rendering it very productive, and our subject raises a large quantity of grain.
   Our subject has a pleasant home, his wife being a good housewife, who knows well how to make everything comfortable and cozy. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell were united in marriage Sept. 11, 1881, and three children, Walter Calvin, William O., and Abram M., deceased, have blessed their wedded life. Mrs. Rockwell was formerly Miss Mary Maple, of Centre Precinct, where she had lived for some years prior to her marriage. She was born Feb. 22, 1862, in Iowa, and is a daughter of William and Martha A. (Jenkins) Maple. They were natives of Ohio, who became pioneers of Iowa, and subsequently of Nebraska. Mrs. Rockwell lived with her parents until her marriage, and they are now living in Elmwood Precinct, where her father is engaged in farming.
   Mr. Rockwell is worthy of respect and esteem, inasmuch as his conduct in life is guided by principles of right and true piety, and by all his townspeople he is spoken of as a man of ability and integrity of purpose. His busy life gives him no time to mingle in public life or to attend to polities, but on election days he is always found at the polls, supporting the ticket of the good old Democratic party by voice and vote. He is an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and does what he can to extend its influence.

DWARD WILLIAMS, one of the prominent and leading farmers of Tipton Precinct, settled on his present homestead in 1869, where he arrived after a tedious and wearisome journey overland with teams, and settled down to the improvement of his eighty acres of raw land. He built a sod house in which they lived nine months. In the spring of 1870 he built a small frame house, hauling the lumber from Plattsmouth; he broke some prairie land and raised a few potatoes the first year, one of which weighed a pound. He set out trees from time to time until he now has a grove of eight or ten acres and a small orchard. He began raising strawberries for market, but has now quit, it not proving sufficiently remunerative. The entire farm is divided into 15-acre lots by cross fences of wire; the entire tract is well watered by a branch of Camp Creek, and is in all respects a well located and admirably conducted homestead.
   In 1881 the present beautiful residence was built, 14x26 feet, two stories high, with a wing 14x16 feet, with porch and cellar, and is surrounded by a neat picket fence, new barn, and other convenient out-buildings. His attention is devoted to gardening, general farming, Short-horn, graded Jersey and Angus cattle, and thoroughbred Poland-China hogs. The cattle and hogs show the care that has been given them by their owner, and most certainly do him full credit.
   Mr. Williams was born near New Diggings, LaFayette Co., Wis., Oct. 12, 1845, and was one of a family of six children: Melvina, Mary and William are older, and Lucy and Emma are younger than our subject. The sister Melvina and brother William are dead. The father died when our subject

was a child. After his death our subject went to live with Mr. W. Thompson, where he remained several years. When he began to work out by the month all his wages went to help support his mother and her family. He continued working until eighteen years of age, when, Dec. 29, 1863, he enlisted in the 46th Illinois Infantry, Company D, and was mustered into service at Camp Butler, under Capt. Miller, Col. Jones Regimental Commander. He participated in the skirmish at Benton, Miss., May 13, 1864, and the engagement at Jackson, Miss., July 6 and 7; in the skirmish at Spanish Fort, Ala., March 28, 1865; in the charge on and capture of Ft. Blakeslee, April 9; at Mobile, April 12, and many other minor engagements and skirmishes. He was mustered out and honorably discharged from the service at Baton Rouge, La., June 20, 1866, when he returned North and rented various farms until 1869, when we find him located at his present homestead in Tipton Precinct.
   The subject of this sketch and Miss Caroline E. Krieger were married at Cadiz, Green Co., Wis., Jan. 3, 1869. This lady is the daughter of Albert and Mary Magdalene (Humell) Krieger. Jesse Williams, the father of our subject, was a miner, and was engaged in mining at Galena, Ill., where he continued working up to a year or two before his death, when he removed to McConnell's Grove, near Freeport, on the Pecatonica River, where his decease occurred when he was forty years of age.
   Our subject's mother was married the second time, to Mr. David D. Young. Mr. Young served in the 46th Illinois Infantry during the late Civil War, from which he was honorably discharged at the expiration of his three years' term of service, this being the same regiment of which our subject was a member. The mother died in 1871, aged fifty-seven years. The father of the wife of our subject came to America when he was seventeen years old, settling in Pennsylvania. He was a blacksmith, and continued his trade in Philadelphia after his marriage. He was a fine musician, highly educated in the art, and was unusually expert in handling the violin, and was a member of one of the leading bands of Germany. In 1859 he removed with his family to Milwaukee, Wis., where he farmed for two years. In 1861 he removed to Stephenson County, Ill., where he bought and improved fifty acres of land. He lived on this farm for seven years, when he removed to Nebraska, where he bought a tract of land, which he held only three months when he sold it, and went back to McConnell's Grove, Ill., where he rented land and lived until 1880, when he died, aged fifty-seven years.
    The lady's mother is living with one of her daughters in Freeport, Ill., and is now seventy-two years old. She has been married three times; four children were born to her as the result of the first marriage, they being Arnold, Ellis, Sarah and Mary. Arnold and Ellis were in the late Civil War; Arnold died of the typhoid fever at Winchester, Va.; Ellis was wounded but recovered, and is now living in Pennsylvania. Two children, twins, were born as the result of the second marriage, Moses and Aaron Heise. They were both in the army. Moses died four weeks after he enlisted, from the black measles; Aaron served to the close of the war. and was honorably discharged. The wife of our subject, Caroline, was born in Clearfield County, Pa., Dec. 19, 1855. When she was four years old the family removed to Wisconsin, and from there to Illinois when she was six years old, where they lived until she was married to our subject. She was the eldest of three children of her mother's third and last marriage, her sister Sophia J. and brother Joseph being younger.
   During the period in which our subject was in the army he lost his health by exposure and the vicissitudes of war, and returned home with his constitution broken and health shattered, so much so that at this time he finds himself the large portion of the time unable to look after the operations of the farm. At such times the work is not neglected, for in the person of his estimable wife he finds a good manager and a veritable helpmate. When he is unable to work she takes the burden from his shoulders, and if need be will go out into the field and help assist in stacking the grain, breaking ground, and participating in any other necessary labor to make their farm a success, and it is only due to her to say that the competency and comfort which they now enjoy are largely due to her ability and willing-

ness to assume the management of the place when needed. During her leisure hours she has acquired great skill in making wax flowers and other waxwork, and she has lovely specimens in her parlor, which is the most costly furnished room in the precinct. Many of the articles contained there being the direct result of her exquisite taste and skill.
   Two children have been born to this couple, William J. and James A.; both died with the dread disease diphtheria. Both husband and wife are conscientious members of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Williams is a straight Republican in polities.

TYSON. The subject of this personal narrative was an early settler of Stove Creek Precinct, and has contributed his full quota toward its development and progress. He is a native of Canada, born in Ontario, April 27, 1821. His father, John Tyson, was born in Germany, near Hamburg, where he grew to man's estate. He learned the cooper's trade there, and was also a sailor, having charge of a private vessel for several years. He subsequently emigrated to America and settled in Canada, where he married Malinda Waldron, a native of Chittenden County, Vt. He afterward moved to Prescott, on the St. Lawrence River, but after sojourning there a few years he moved across the river into New York State. Six years later he moved to Genesee County, where he worked at coopering until 1842. Mr. Tyson then moved with his family to Hancock County, Ill., where he engaged at his trade. Another removal found him in St. Louis. where he remained but a short time before returning to Illinois, when he settled in DeKalb County, and continued his former occupation. Besides working at his trade Mr. Tyson was a local preacher in the Universalist denomination for some years, and preached occasionally until his death, which occurred in DeKalb County in 1862, at the venerable age of ninety years. His wife survived him, dying in 1873, at eighty-six years of age. They had a family of six children as follows: William H., a soldier of the Mexican War, who, after being discharged from the army, returned as far as St. Louis, and there fell a victim of cholera; Abiathar; Sarah, deceased; Harriet, of Columbus, Neb.; Silas and Louisa, deceased. Abiathar Waldron, the maternal grandfather of our subject, at the time of the Revolution, being too young to enlist, went into the army as a servant, but was mustered into the ranks. After the war he went to Vermont, and in 1798 married a daughter of Mr. Evarts, and settled on a farm in Williston. He subsequently sold his land there and moved to Quebec, Canada, becoming one of the pioneer farmers of that section of the country. When the Canadian Rebellion broke out in 1838, he sold his Canadian possessions, and moved to St. Lawrence County, N. Y. In 1840 he bought a farm there, on which he lived until his death in April, 1841. Mrs. Waldron survived her husband, dying in 1846.
   Abiathar Tyson, of this sketch, can remember moving with his parents from Canada to the States, first locating in St. Lawrence County, and then in Erie County, N. Y.; when twenty-one years of age he moved to Illinois and followed the cooper's trade, and also worked at carpentering somewhat. He afterward removed to DeKalb County, Ill., in 1848, but the cholera breaking out soon after, he took a trip back to New York. and remained there a year. Our subject then returned to DeKalb at coopering there until his marriage, June 22, 1857, to Miss Ellen W. Boughen, daughter of James and Maria (Worf) Boughen. Her maternal grand father, William Worf, was a farmer in England, and her paternal grandfather, James Boughen, was a huckster in the same country. James Boughen, Jr., the father of Mrs. Tyson, was born in England, and there spent his entire life. When young he worked out as a gentleman's servant, but after marriage engaged in milling until his accidental death by scalding in 1849, while at work in a brewery. His widow afterward emigrated to the United States, and located first in New York State, then moved to Illinois, but is at the present time living in Clay County, Kan., at the advanced age of seventy-one. She is the mother of four children, namely: Ellen, Charles (deceased), and Ambrose and John, of Clay County, Kan. Ambrose enlisted in an Illinois regiment in 1864, and served until the close of the war. Ellen, the

wife of our subject, was born in Walton, Norfolk County, England, Dec. 23, 1838, and came to America with her mother when fifteen years old. She sailed from Liverpool on the sailing-vessel "Van Gerard," and after a voyage of seven weeks disembarked in New York City. She remained with her mother until her marriage with our subject, in Belvidere, Boone Co., Ill.
   After their marriage Mr. and. Mrs. Tyson remained in Illinois until the full of 1865, when they came with two teams to Nebraska, crossing the Mississippi River at Ft. Madison, Iowa, and the Missouri River at Nebraska City. Five weeks after leaving home they reached Nemaha County, thence came to Cass County. and took up a homestead claim of 160 acres in Stove Creek Precinct, section 10, township 10, range 10. It was raw prairie land, and our subject broke it with oxen. He raised a small crop the first year, and hauled the lumber to build his house, having to ford a stream with it. He continued improving his land, set out trees and orchards, but the grasshopper raid came soon after, and for four successive years Mr. Tyson lost his crops. He had a hard struggle then, having to subsist one year on buckwheat and had to mortgage his farm to live. A few years of good harvests after that enabled him to retrieve his losses, and soon placed him in an independent position. He has since then built a fine house, a large barn, and other buildings on his farm, and bought forty acres of land in Elmwood, on which he has erected a commodious dwelling, where he now lives and carries on farming on a small scale, having given up the management of his homestead farm to one of his sons.
   To our subject and his wife the following family has been born: Lester R. is a mail agent from Council Bluffs to Ogden; William Henry, deceased; Horace manages the homestead farm; Louis A. is a farmer in Stove Creek Precinct; Florilla is the wife of J. Breeden, a farmer of Dundee County, Neb., and they have one child; Arvilla, at home; Moroni is at school at Council Bluffs; Delbert is at home; Hattie, deceased; Ellen M., at home; Edith and an infant both deceased.
   Mr. Tyson, politically, votes the straight Republican ticket, and has served as constable four years and on the School Board several terms. Religiously, he and his estimable wife worship with the Latter-day Saints, who hold their meetings in the district school house. They are both kind, hospitable people, who, by their genial, pleasant ways have endeared themselves to their entire neighborhood. Mr. Tyson has amassed a comfortable property, but is still expecting more, a dowry settlement of an estate that was given to some of his ancestors by Col. Dondow in 1666. They emigrated from England to New York, and were granted a tract of land on the Harlem River by the common syndicate that controlled it, and the heirs are now trying to prove their claims.

ILLIAM WESTLAKE. By a happy dispensation of Providence men are led into a thousand channels, some delighting in the pursuit of agriculture, others inclining to a professional life, while others are born with mechanical genius, and so on we might enumerate a long category. All these worked out properly are important in completing the sum of human acquirements and happiness. The subject of this sketch, a success in his line, is not only a skillful farmer, but a stockraiser of no little importance in Southern Nebraska. In carrying on his operations he utilizes a fine tract of land in Avoca Precinct, pleasantly located on sections 18 and 19, and 400 acres in extent.
   As an especial lover of the equine race Mr. Westlake has in his stables and fields some of the finest specimens of horseflesh to be found in Cass County. At the head is "Bonnie Boy," an animal registered No. 2,965, sired in France in 1882, and imported by Mr. Perry, of River View, Ill. He was purchased by Mr. Westlake in February, 1883, and weighs about 2,000 pounds. In color he is that of almost indescribable brown, which is universally admired. The next two animals most valuable in the estimation of their owner were purchased by him of William L. Elwood, of DeKalb County, Ill., in 1887. They are named respectively "Soubise" and "Houri," the former No. 5,795 (5280), and the latter No. 5,878 (8224). Soubise was foaled in France in 1884. He is a dark gray stallion of

magnificent proportions, and was imported a few months prior to his purchase by Mr. Westlake. He weighs 1,900 pounds, and is of proportionate value, "Houri" is a fine black horse, foaled also in France, in 1885, imported the year following, and purchased by our subject in 1887. He weighs 1,800 pounds, and is much admired.
   Mr. Westlake has obtained a fine reputation as a breeder throughout Nebraska and the States adjoining. He has exhibited at both the State and local fairs, and frequently carries off the blue ribbons. His experience in this business is quite extended, he having given to it much attention since coming to the young State of Nebraska in the June of 1867. He at that time settled in Avoca Precinct, of which he has since been a resident, and is the owner of one of the finest farms within its limits. His land is all improved and embellished with a handsome and substantial set of frame buildings. The village of Avoca is two miles distant, and forms his post-office and the nearest Station of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, four miles from Weeping Water.
   The Westlake farm, when purchased by its present proprietor, was a tract of raw prairie, of which he first secured only eighty acres. He is now a land-owner to the extent of 400 acres, which comprises an exceedingly valuable property, and upon, which he has expended years of labor and thousands. of dollars. Adjacent to the buildings is a spring of never-failing water, which can only be appreciated at its full value by those who have suffered the inconvenience of drouth in a somewhat capricious climate. In addition to the breeding of horses Mr. Westlake has also a herd of fine cattle and swine.
   A native of Devonshire, England, Mr. Westlake was born Oct. 30, 1836, and came with his parents to America when a little lad ten years of age. They settled in Canada, where he was reared to man's estate with a limited education. He was married in the Dominion, Nov. 11, 1858, to Miss Ann Graham, who was born in Simcoe County, Canada,, about 1838. Her parents were natives of Ireland. Her father died when she was a little child one year old, and the mother died Jan. 1, 1881. Like her husband her school days were brief in duration, she early became acquainted with the cares and responsibilities of life. These experiences, however, usually result in a self-reliant and independent disposition, and are in many cases of more value than college learning.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Westlake there were born six children, of whom the record is as follows: The eldest son, William H., married Miss Mary E. McKay, and they are living on a farm in Avoca Precinct; John and Samuel are at home with their parents; Hannah is the wife of George Hebner, and they are also residents of Avoca Precinct;, George and Frederick continue under the home roof. Mr. W., politically, is independent, aiming to support the men whom he considers best qualified for office, and carefully refrains from taking upon himself the cares and responsibilities incident to a phblic (sic) position. The stock-raising interests of Cass County, and in fact Southern Nebraska, have found in him one of their most useful and efficient factors.

OSHUA W. BULLIS occupies a prominent position in the farming community of Weeping Water Precinct, where he is quite extensively engaged in raising grain and stock. His from, embracing the northwest quarter and forty acres of the southwest quarter of section 9, contains 200 acres of as fertile aind productive land as is to be found under the sunny skies of Nebraska.
   Our subject was born in Canada, Nov. 20, 1853, received his education in the excellent schools of his native town, and lived there until he was twenty years of age. His father, Joshua Bullis, is likewise a Canadian by birth, and he is still living there at an advanced age, he having been born in 1809. He has always lived on the same farm, although he has now practically retired from work, having won a comfortable competence by hard labor in earlier life, so that he can now pass his declining years in ease. He has been a prominent man in his day, having served in public capacities, and he is still an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church with his family. He married Mary Andrews, of Leeds, England, who crossed the waters to Canada when a young lady, with her mother. She

died in 1860, when our subject was seven years old. Her father, Capt. William Andrews. was a soldier and officer in the English service most of his life. At the age mentioned Joshua Bullis left his father's home, and crossing the border to the States," made his way to Wisconsin, where he began life as a clerk in a store in Menasha. Seven years later he came to Nebraska, in June, 1879. He first located in Elmwood Precinct, and was there engaged in farming for several years. At one time he owned an improved farm on section 10, which he afterward disposed of, and bought another on section 13, which was also well improved. He subsequently disposed of that also, at an advance on the original cost, and coming to Weeping Water, was actively engaged in the mercantile business for two years. He was very successful in that venture, but thought that a stirring, out-of-door life would agree with his health better, and would also suit his tastes. Therefore he bought his present farm in 1885. In the three short years that have elapsed since that time, by his energetic and well-directed toil he has brought about a great change, converting the tract of wild prairie land into a well-cultivated farm, replete with all the improvements of a model farm. He has it all neatly fenced and under good tillage, and has erected a substantial dwelling and other necessary buildings. In this, the third year of his occupancy, he has raised 4,000 bushels of corn, 700 bushels of oats, 500 bushels of barley, 200 bushels of wheat, besides potatoes and other vegetables, and he has put up ten tons of hay and a like amount of millet. He raises twenty head of cattle on his place all of the time.
   Mr. Bullis and Miss Mary I. Chapman, of Menasha, Wis., united their fortunes Odt. 9, 1878, and together they have built up one of the coziest homes in all Weeping Water Precinct. Mrs. Bullis was born in Sheboygan, Wis., a daughter of John Chapman. a woolen manufacturer of Menasha. He died in January, 1885. His widow, a woman of great business tact and ability, is still living, and manages the mill at Watertown, Wis.
   Our Subject is a man of more than ordinary ability, and although still young, has, by his own exertions, gained a competency. His fellow-citizens have confidence in him and would gladly entrust some responsible office to his care, but he is too busy with his own private affairs to mingle in public life, and has refused to be nominated to any position. He is a Republican in his political views, and his party has no more stanch supporter in this Precinct.

MIL SCHRIDER. The neat homestead occupying 160 acres on sections 4 and 5, Avoca Precinct, is owned and operated by the gentleman whose name stands at the head of this sketch, and who is still in the enjoyment of single blessedness. With the exception of this he has performed his duties creditably as a member of the community and it is supposed that in the thorough and skillful cultivation of his land he has found himself too busy to take upon himself the further responsibilities of a family.
   In the Duchy of Sleswick-Holstein, which has furnished so many of the best citizens of America, was located the boyhood home of our subject, and where his birth took place July 16, 1846. He was there reared and educated, and for a period of eleven months during his early manhood belonged to the standing army of Denmark. He lived in his native country until twenty-four years of age, then not satisfied with his surroundings or his prospects, started for America, taking passage on the ship "Sembrio," and landing ten days later in the city of New York. His destination was the Far West, and he accordingly proceeded straight toward the Mississippi, landing in this county, and setting at once in Avoca Precinct. He purchased 160 acres of land on sections 4 and 5, which constitutes his home farm, while he has 160 acres on section 8, in Weeping Water Precinct. He has always made it a rule to live within his income, and avoid placing an incumbrance upon his property. His land is mostly under a state of cultivation, and each year is adding something to its value upon becoming a naturalized citizen he identified himself with the Republican party, and is a man of prominence in his precinct, holding many of the local offices, and generally respected in his community.
   The patents of our subject were Claus and Anna (Johanson) Schrider; the father lives in his native