in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, making his headquarters at Pacific Junction. Mr. Rummel during his lifetime was a Democrat, and a man of pure principles and integrity.

EORGE W. LAMBING is one of the leading merchants of Weeping Water, and is the only implement dealer in the city, excepting a small branch of a Plattsmouth house. Mr. Lambing established his present prosperous business about six years ago, in 1882, when the railway came through, and although at one time there were two opposition dealers in implements, by his fair and square dealings with his farmer customers, he has maintained his trade, and is now the only dealer remaining that was established at that time. Mr. Lambing has a large trade in wagons, buggies, and all kinds of farming implements, and always keeps on hand a good class of goods.
   Our subject was born in Jefferson County, Pa., June 9, 1844, to John and Margaret (Shirley) Lambing, natives and lifelong residents of Pennsylvania. The father died in 1876, and the mother in 1883. They were the parents of eleven children, eight of whom grew to maturity. Our subject received a substantial education in the schools of his native county, and continued to live there until 1869. In that year he came to Plattsmouth, this State, where he engaged in his trade of blacksmith, which he had learned and practiced in his native home. Nineteen months later he opened a smithy in Weeping Water, arriving here in September, 1870, and he is now the only blacksmith that was here at that early date, and, he still has a shop in connection with his business. He continued to ply his trade until he opened his store for the sale of implements.
   Mr. Lambing has a substantial residence on Randolph street, near the Congregational Church, and to the lady who makes his home pleasant and attractive he was married in this city, Nov. 14, 1871. Of the six children born to them, five are still living, as follows: Charles O., George E., John H., William and Clara B. All are at home and enjoying the benefit of good educations. Mrs. Lambing, whose maiden name was Sarah F. Potter, was born in Maryland, Her parents moved to Indiana when she was a small girl, and there she lived until she had grown to womanhood, and then accompanied her parents to Illinois. Her father died in that State, and her mother came here with her son, T. L. Potter, who was the first jeweler in town. He did not remain here long, but went to Springfield. While here our subject met and made the acquaintance of his wife. Her mother makes her home with our subject and her daughter the most of the time.
   Mr. Lambing takes in active part in promoting the material prosperity of his adopted city, and the furtherance of any and all schemes for its improvement is sure to meet with his cordial approbation and substantial aid. He has borne an honorable part in the public life of this place, and was a Trustee of the village the first year of its incorporation. He and his wife are esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in their daily walk show themselves to be sincere Christians, guided by the highest principles, and they are therefore eminently worthy of the respect accorded to them. Mr. Lambing is identified with the I. O. O. F., and is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

ON. JOHN F. BUCK. Of all the honored pioneers of Cass County who came here at an early day, and who have witnessed and aided its steady development and growth, the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch is a worthy representative, and his silvered hairs and venerable form are everywhere greeted with the respect and reverence due to an honest and upright man.
   Mr. Buck was born in Metz Township, Cayuga Co., N. Y., May 31, 1815. His paternal grandfather, Elijah Buck, was a native of Pennsylvania, and came of a good old English family, who had settled in that State many years before. After his marriage he removed to Wyoming County, Pa., and during the Revolutionary War, when his son, the father of our subject, was an infant, he enlisted in

the home militia, and was mustered in as Lieutenant. He was a brave soldier, and fought gallantly for his country. While he was away the Indians attempted to massacre the people of Wyoming, and his wife escaped from the house with the baby in her arms, saving none of her household goods except the silver spoon with which she was feeding him. In 1781, Lieut. Buck moved with his family to what is now Chemung County, N. Y., and settled on the banks of the Chemung River, where he cleared a farm and spent his last years, dying in 1829, of paralysis, after a long and useful life of more than fourscore years. His wife, who had died some years before, was of Irish parentage.
   The father of our subject. Aholiab Buck, was born in Wyoming, Pa., in 1776. and when five years of age accompanied his parents to Chemung County, where he grew to manhood. He was there married, in 1781, to Miss Annie Drake. who was a descendant of one of the first settlers of Manhattan Island. She was a lineal descendant of the Prince of Orange. A large part of the land now owned by Trinity Church corporation, New York City, originally belonged to that family. Her father, Benjamin Drake, spent his entire life in New York State. After marriage Mr. Buck and his wife began their wedded life in Cayuga County, N. Y., where they cleared a farm from the wilderness, seven miles from the present site of Auburn, living there until 1831, when they removed with their family of five sons and two daughters to Peoria County, Ill. Mr. Buck had accumulated, considerable property while in New York, but lost it through the dishonesty of others, and was a comparatively poor man when he emigrated to the Prairie State. With characteristic energy he set to work to establish a new home for himself and family, and lived there, happy and prosperous, until his death from paralysis, Nov. 21, 1855. His wife survived him five years, dying in 1860, at the venerable age of eighty-four years. Both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church, and lived honest, Christian lives.
   John F. Buck, of whom we write, was the sixth child born to his parents. He was reared and educated in New York, and being naturally studious and ambitious, with a keen intellect, acquired a good education, which he has further extended by constant study and reading. He was married in Peoria County, Ill., Nov. 5, 1839, to Miss Mary Schryder, daughter of Ernest C. and Sarah Schryder. (For full parental history see sketch of her brother, George F. Schryder.) Mrs. Buck was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., near Lake Ontario, May 23, 1820, being next to the youngest of the family of three daughters and two sons born to her parents. When seventeen years of age she accompanied her parents to Peoria County, Ill., and remained an inmate of their home until her marriage with our subject. She received a good education in the schools of her native State, and a superior training in domestic duties from her excellent mother, which well fitted her for her position as companion, helpmate, counselor, and all that makes a true wife and faithful mother. To her and her husband there have been born ten children. The, names of the deceased are Charles D., James R., George N., Willie E. and Daniel W., all of whom died when quite young, and some of them of diphtheria. The record of the living is as follows: John S., a farmer and stock-raiser of Whitman. W. T.; he married Huldah Wolph, and they have six children; Theodore D., a farmer of Liberty Precinct, married Florence R. Barber, and they have four children; Abigail J. married Andrew Klepser, and is a resident of Bellevue; Sarah A. married W. B. Gates, a farmer of Ottawa, Kan.; Maria A. is a well educated young lady, and is residing at home with her parents.
   Mr. and Mrs. Buck remained in Peoria County several years after their marriage, but in 1855 concluded to start with their family for the new farming regions of the West. May 19th of that year they crossed the Missouri River, and coming to Liberty, Mr. Buck pre-empted 160 acres of land, and later, after the Government had disposed of its domain to this county, he became possessor of another quarter-section in Liberty Precinct, which had really been secured by another man in Mr. Buck's name, and thus fell to him by deed and title.
   A short time after our subject purchased another tract of 160 acres, thus becoming owner of three-quarters of a section before 1860. As soon as he had established himself here, Mr. Buck identified