which have yielded him success. Mr. Cutforth has among his household relics a copy of the history of England by counties, which was printed in 1771, and which was originally the property of his paternal great-grandfather. This ancient volume is still in a good state of preservation, and it is scarcely necessary to add becomes more valuable each year, as one among the relics of the past, which, if lost, could scarcely be replaced.

IMEON I. LONG. Among the thrifty and successful famers (sic) of Cass County who are represented in this biographical work no one is more worthy of notice than the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. His home is in Plattsmouth Precinct, where he owns two valuable, highly improved forms, residing on the one on section 33, and renting the other on section 32.
   Our subject was born in Jefferson County, Ind., July 28, 1818, to Abraham and Ruth (House) Long, natives of Virginia. The maternal and paternal grandparents of our subject removed from the Old Dominion to Kentucky at a very early date of its settlement, thus becoming pioneers of that State, and there the parents of our subject were united in marriage. They continued to live there a few years after marriage, Mr. Long occupying himself in agricultural pursuits. In about 1800 they removed to Indiana, then a wild, sparsely settled Territory, and located in the primeval forests of Jefferson County, where among other perils they had to contend with bears, wolves, wildcats, and the still more formidable foe, hostile Indians. They immediately began the tedious task of making a home in that heavily timbered country, first erecting a log cabin, in which they cooked and ate their meals, but when night came they would betake themselves to the block-house, which they had jointly built with the few other settlers as a protection against the Indians. When the red men were on the war path the father volunteered to assist the inhabitants of a British settlement in that part of Indiana to suppress hostilities; this was in Wayne's campaign. That was before his marriage, and after the close of the war he returned to Kentucky and was married. He and his wife reared a family of nine children in their pioneer home in Indiana, and in the year 1828 the faithful helpmate and devoted mother closed her eyes in death. Mr. Long returned again to Kentucky, selling the old homestead in Indiana, and remained it resident of the former State four years, marrying, in the meantime, Sarah Taigue. In 1854 Mr. Long once more became a pioneer, moving still further west, and settling in Monmouth, Warren Co., Ill. He staid there four years, when he again took up the westward march, and did not stay his course until he had crossed the Mississippi and taken up his abode in Henry County, Iowa, becoming an early settler there, and there his pilgrimage on earth was brought to a close by his death. He had been a pioneer in three States, and his life was spent on the frontier.
   The subject of this sketch was but a lad ten years of age when he had the sad misfortune to lose a good mother, and he then returned to Kentucky with his father. He staid there with him three years, and then returned to his birthplace in Indiana and made his home with his brothers, Louis, Scrawder, Clay and Samuel, who had staid In Indiana. There he went to school one winter, and thence went to South Bend, Ind. From there he returned to Jefferson County, and lived with his sister, Lucinda Long, the three ensuing years. In 1839 he joined his father in Iowa, and resided in that State until 1866, returning, however, to Indiana in 1844, where he was soon after married to Miss Elizabeth Shafer, July 18 being the date of their wedding. He immediately proceeded to Iowa with his bride, he having previously bought a farm in that State, and there his family of seven children were born, namely: John S., who died at the age of two years; Malinda, now Mrs. William Wetenkamp, who lives in Plattsmouth Township; Abraham, who lives in this county; Silas and Rowell W., who also live in this county; Samuel, who died in Iowa when quite young; and William T., who lives here.
    Mr. Long came to Cass County with his family in 1866, and purchased his present farm of 160

acres on section 33. There were then only a small house and about sixty-five acres of the land plowed as improvements. Now he has a fine set of commodious buildings, and has the land under the best of cultivation. He also owns another 160-acre farm on section 32, all under improvement, and from its rental he derives a good income.
   Our subject has always been strictly honest and honorable in all his dealings, and his conduct in all the relations of life has been such as to command the warm friendship of the many with whom he has associated. His success in life has been brought about by incessant industry, shrewd management, and the wise economy that knows how to spend judiciously as well as how to save. He is a man of sturdy, independent views, and politically, generally casts his vote with the Democrats. When a resident of Iowa he was actively interested in public affairs. and served one term as Justice of the Peace. In his wife our subject was fortunate in selecting one who has been to him a true helpmate, and is devoted to the interests of her family. She is a sincere Christian, and a valued member of the United Brethren Church.

OSHUA MURRAY. The family of this name is widely and favorably known throughout the eastern part of Cass County, being closely connected with its pioneer element. The subject of this sketch, a resident of Plattsmouth Precinct, and having a good farm on section 30, was born June 12, 1833, in Moniteau County, Mo., and is the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Berger) Murray, natives of Tennessee. The parents became residents of Missouri when mere children, and there were reared and married.
   The paternal grandparents of our subject, Joshua and Polly Murray, natives of Kentucky, moved from the blue grass region to Tennessee when young people, probably after their marriage. They were of English and Irish ancestry respectively, and possibly natives of England and Ireland. The grandfather, if emigrating at all, did so at a very early date, and in time to enter the Revolutionary Army, being then but a youth of eighteen years.
   On his mother's side the grandparents of our subject, Michael and Margaret (Ledgerwood) Berger, were of German ancestry, and early settlers of Tennessee. Thence they removed across the Mississippi into Missouri, locating among the pioneers of Moniteau County, where all of the grandparents of our subject spent their last days. Jonathan Murry, leaving Missouri in the fall of 1852, moved to Mills County, Iowa, where the family lived until the spring of 1855; thence they changed their residence to this county, locating in the vicinity of Rock Bluff were the father spent his last days, his death occurring in July, 1860.
   Joshua Murray came to this county on the 1st of October, 1854, with his family, this being his second visit to Nebraska, as he had the spring before selected his land and built a house adjoining the present limits of Rock Bluff. He purchased the right to build from the Otoe Indians, this being prior to the consummation of the treaty between them and the Government. The humble dwelling was constructed of round logs, and covered an area of 16x18 feet. The floor was laid with puncheon, the chimney built outside, of earth and sticks, and the fireplace occupied nearly one side of the structure. When the parents and family of nine children came in the spring of 1855, father and son united their interests. The father had a team, with which he plowed for his son, and the latter paid his father by making rails for him. Of the parental family, finally embracing thirteen children, twelve were born in Missouri and one in Nebraska. One child died and two were married before the family removed to Nebraska.
   Our subject was the second child of his parents, and was married in Moniteau County, Mo., in October, 1852, to Miss Rachael Williams. This lady was born in 1833, in Indiana, and of her union with our subject there were born three children, all now deceased. She only survived her marriage five years, dying at her home in this county in July, 1857.
   Our subject, on July 4, 1859, was married the second time to Miss Lucina Walker, in Mills County, Iowa. Mrs. Murray was born Nov. 25, 1835, in Hendricks, County, Ind., and is the daughter of Robert and Sallie (Campbell) Walker, who were natives of

North Carolina, whence they removed to Morgan County, Ind., about 1825, and a year later changed their residence to Hendricks County, where Mr. Walker put up a little rail pen, the cracks of which were stopped up with spice brush, and in which the family lived until he could build a log cabin. He cleared a portion of the heavily timbered land at a time in the history of that section of country when they were obliged to keep a fire all night in front of the cabin to protect themselves from the wolves. There the mother died in the year 1852.
   In 1854 Mr. Walker with his six motherless children started for Kansas, but on the way there stopped in Jackson County, Mo., where they sojourned from October until February of the year following. They then resumed their journey to Iowa, and thereafter lived in Mills County, where the father rested from his earthly labors in June, 1878, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. He was a true type of the pioneer and frontiersman, of sturdy frame, industrious and persevering, a man of limited education but reliable qualities of character, who, though living a quiet and unostentatious life, performed faithfully his part, and is in kindly remembrance.
   The subject of this sketch, like his father before him, is intimately acquainted with all the phases of pioneer life, having been an early settler of three States, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. By a course of regular reading he keeps himself thoroughly posted upon current events, and while making no pretenses to be a politician, is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party. He occupies a good standing in that party in this section, and in the fall of 1886 was its nominee for the Nebraska Legislature, in place of the regular nominee, who had been withdrawn about two weeks before the election. So little did he care for the office that he declined to spend one cent to secure his election, and being in a Republican county was defeated, as he expected, although by only twenty votes. This indicates in a forcible manner the estimation in which he is held by the people of this section. He was Assessor of Rock Bluff Precinct while a resident there, and has filled many positions of trust.
   Of the second marriage of our subject there have been born seven children, namely: Alvis C., Estella M., the wife of William Mutz, of Cuming County, Neb.; Sarah E. and Robert G., deceased; Charles E., Emma F. and Joshua L. The home farm includes 320 acres of valuable land, finely improved, and occupying a part of sections 30 and 3 1. Besides the homestead Mr. Murray owns 160 acres of improved land in Holt County, in addition to a timber claim there. He makes a specialty of stock-raising, feeding about seventy-five head of cattle and from seventy-five to 100 hogs annually. It will thus be seen that he has borne no important part in stimulating the agricultural interests of this portion of the county.

YCURGUS RUSSELL. The precinct of Salt Creek recognizes the subject of this sketch as one of its most prominent men and useful citizens. He owns and operates 200 acres of good land on section 18, and has signalized himself as a gentleman of more than ordinary enterprise and ability. His home is that of the typical American, attractive, orderly and well-regulated, and is presided over by one of the most estimable ladies, Mrs. Russell being in all respects the suitable companion for such a man as her husband. Their children are being carefully trained and educated, and under these circumstances it is hardly necessary to say that the Russells are surrounded by hosts of friends.
   Wapello County, Iowa, was the early tramping ground of our subject, and where his birth took place Oct. 14, 1849, in the little village of Dahlonega, two and one-half miles from Ottumwa. His father, Owens Russell, was born in Pennsylvania, and the mother, in her girlhood Miss Mary Kight, was a native of Ohio. The paternal grandfather first opened his eyes to the light among the Scottish Highlands, and upon emigrating to America settled in Pennsylvania, among its earliest pioneers.
   The Kights were of English origin, and the first representatives of the family in America settled in Pennsylvania during the Colonial days. Owens Russell upon leaving his native State migrated first to Ohio, where he was married, and a few years

later pushed on further westward to Wapello County, Iowa. In the Hawkeye State he was abundantly prospered as a tiller of the soil, and accumulated a good property. He rested from his earthly labors in April, 1868, at the age of fifty-six years. The mother had died in 1861, when forty-seven years old. The seven children of the parental household were named respectively: Harriet, Rhoda, Elizabeth, Lycurgus, our subject; Hamilton, Franklin and Monroe. Five of these are living, and located mostly in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.
   After leaving the district school our subject entered the graded school at Ottumwa, where he completed his education. He was a little lad eight years of age at the time of his mother's death, and about fifteen years when deprived of his father's care. Although so young he then assumed mainly the charge of the homestead, assisted by his two elder sisters, who presided over their domestic affairs. After the marriage of Rhoda the family was practically broken up, and the year following, in April, 1869, at the age of sixteen, young Russell came to Nebraska. He was a resident of Plattsmouth four or five years, employed at working on a farm. His first intention had been to go to Denver, but meeting Mr. T. Martin Marquette, of Plattsmouth, he was advised to remain at Plattsmouth. His farming experience now served him well, and he entered the employ of Mr. E. Sage, of Plattsmouth, as foreman of his ranch at Plattsmouth. He occupied this position a period of four years, then coming to Greenwood Precinct, purchased a homestead claim of eighty acres, comprising a part of the southwest quarter of section 18. This purchase was made in the spring of 1874, and it was then an uncultivated tract of prairie. He took up his abode upon it alone in a frame house, and his labors that year came to naught on account of the grasshoppers. In the spring of 1875 Mr. Russell added forty acres to his real estate, and two years later purchased another forty acres, thus becoming owner of a quarter section.
   The marriage of Lycurgus Russell and Miss Mary E. Robbins was celebrated at the home of the bride in Saunders County, Neb., Feb. 18, 1876, and they soon thereafter took up their abode at the new farm, They are now the parents of seven children, one of whom, the eldest, a son, Bertie, died when four years old. The survivors are: Maude, Etta E., Goldie, Leonard J., and an infant, Lonie. Mrs. Russell was born Jan. 10, 1857, in Davis County, Iowa, and is the daughter of Charles and Nancy (Pollard) Robbins, who were natives of New York State and Iowa. They came to Nebraska when their daughter Mary was a little child three years of age, and settled in Ashland, where they are still residing.
   Mr. Russell in common with the men around him has embellished his farm with groves of cottonwood, ash, maple and walnut trees, and the much admired Catawba flourishes adjacent. The buildings are neat and substantial structures, and Mr. Russell has the farm machinery necessary for the successful prosecution of agriculture. Although having little time to meddle with political affairs he is a uniform supporter of Democratic principles, and has been quite prominent in local serving as a member of the Board of Education five terms, officiating as a Grand Juror, and otherwise identifying himself with the interests of the community. Socially, he belongs to the Knights of Pythias at Ashland.

SAAC STONE, a model citizen, conscientious Christian and prosperous farmer, owns and resides on a fine farm embracing 240 acres on section 24 of Greenwood Precinct. He was born in Indiana, Oct. 18, 1817, the son of Benjamin Stone, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania, and in his early life moved to Indiana. He was a school teacher, and engaged in educational pursuits all his life. He died in 1833, aged fifty years. The mother died in 1871, aged eighty-seven years.
   Our subject is one of a family of ten children, who are named: Abigail, Polly, Ann, Elijah, Rebecca, Benjamin, Abraham, Sarah J., Isaac, Jeremiah and Lovisas. Ann was born in Pennsylvania; Elijah, Rebecca and Benjamin were born in Ohio; Abraham and Isaac are twins.
   Our subject resided a short time, in Kansas, where he settled in March, 1871. About one year from

this date he moved to Cass County, Neb., and settled on the farm where he now resides. He was married, Nov. 7, 1841, to Miss Nancy Milner, a resident of Indiana. She departed this life in September, 1861. She was the mother of a family of five children -- Zerelda D., Minerva D., Richard K., David M. and Mary M. Richard resides on a farm located on section 24, this precinct; Minerva is married, and the other three children are deceased.
   After a season Mr. Stone married Miss Malisinth P. Wygall, a resident of Ohio County, Ind. By this marriage he became the father of five children: Edgar Mc., I. Dean, Roland A., Adelea H. and Josephine W., all of whom are at home at this writing, assisting in the various duties of the farm, attending school, acquiring an education, and thus laying the foundation for a life of usefulness and benefit to themselves and the world.
   Mr. Stone is a pleasant, agreeable gentleman to meet, highly educated, and thoroughly informed on the general topics of the day. He has a good farm, well improved, and the land is divided into fields by fences of wire and hedges, good barns and commodious sheds for the accommodation of cattle, of which he has a large number, all high-grade animals, which he keeps in fine condition, and gives the best care possible. They area goodly source of profit to their owner.
   The residence of Mr. Stone is neat and tasty in appearance, and is well kept both inside and out. It stands in the midst of a fine grove of trees, mingled with shrubbery and flowering plants, the whole presenting a very attractive and beautiful appearance. All the improvements are arranged in order, indicating the owner to be a man thoroughly well posted in his business.
   Mr. Stone was elected to the Legislature of the State in 1878, where he served one term. He has been Postmaster ten years, and Mrs. Stone has served four years. He has been School Director for some time, and has been connected with the School Board in some capacity the greater portion of the time he has resided in Nebraska. He is now, and has been for the last twenty years, a minister of the Gospel in the Free-Will Baptist Church. His daily life is a living example of what the love of God will accomplish, when the heart of a man is devoted to His service. His good wife joins her husband in his plans and labors, is a conscientious, unostentatious Christian woman, a joy, blessing and comfort to all with whom she comes in contact. She is several years younger than her husband. In politics Mr. Stone is a Republican.

TEPHEN HULFISH. The best interest, of a town in its incipiency depend largely upon the men instrumental in its establishment and after them those who seek to identify themselves with it. The subject of this sketch is numbered among the men of prominence and influence who are bringing Wabash into a position worthy of more than a passing notice. Here he has invested a large portion of his capital, while his enterprise and intelligence have been the means of others of like character locating here. He officiates as Postmaster and Notary Public; and conducts a flourishing trade in drugs, medicines. paints and the other articles pertaining to this department of trade. He came to Nebraska in the spring of 1880, settling first in Bushberry, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits until Wabash was laid out, when he changed the scene of his operations to this place, a very fortunate thing for Wabash. He brought to it the first stock of commodities in which he is now dealing, and is looked upon is a leading man of his community.
   A native of the Keystone State, our subject was born in the city of Philadelphia, April 24, 1840. His parents were David and Rebecca (Carpenter) Hulfish, the father a native of New Jersey, and the mother of Philadelphia, Pa. The paternal grand father was a native of Germany, and emigrated to America in time to shoulder a musket effectively during the Revolutionary War. Later he served in the War of 1812. David Hulfish, his son, upon approaching manhood, learned the trade of a shoemaker, and afterward became a large dealer in boots and shoes in Philadelphia. He lived there after his marriage until 1853, and then removed to Owensville, Ind., where he also established a trade in boots and slices, and where he still lives, being now seventy years old. The. mother is likewise

living, and is five years younger than her husband. They were the parents of two children only, Stephen, our subject, and Ewin D. a newspaper man and editor, of Owensville, Ind.
   The first recollections of our subject are of a modest home in his native city, where he commenced a practical education in the public schools. Being necessarily much of his time in the shop and store of his father, he learned the rudimentary details of the business at an early age, and when a lad of thirteen years, being unusually bright and apt, was given a position with a large wholesale establishment in Philadelphia, where he remained until 1853. He was reared to man's estate in his native city, but in 1859 joined his parents in Owensville, Ind., where he met his future wife, then Miss Kate Storton, to whom he was married March 31, 1863. In the spring of 1865 he began on his own account in the hoot and shoe trade at Owensville, being then twenty-five years of age. His good business capacities and his progressive ideas as a citizen, and member of the community brought him into prominence among his townsmen, and in the year above mentioned he was appointed, by President Johnson, Postmaster of Owensville.
   Mrs. Kate (Storton) Hulfish was born in England. and came to America with her parents when young. Of her union with our subject were born two children, the elder of whom, a son, Willie, married Miss Henrietta Gorden, of Wabash, this county, and is now living in Wabash. The daughter, Rebecca, is the wife of Charles Hite, a well-to-do farmer, of Elmwood Precinct. They have two children -- George and Letta. Mrs. Kate Hulfish died at Owensville, Ind., in December, 1874.
   Mr. Hulfish contracted a second marriage in December, 1875, with Miss Anna Worrell, daughter of Charles and Catherine (Templeton) Worrell, of Wayne County, Ill. This marriage has resulted the birth of three children, a daughter and two sons -- Myrtle, Charles and Frank. They are a bright trio, and the daughter is completing her education in St. Francis' Academy at Council Bluffs, Iowa. She has evinced considerable musical talent, and is a young lady greatly liked in the social circles of her community.
   In 1880, the present wife of our subject having been in ill-health for some time, Mr. Hulfish decided upon a change of climate, and accordingly left Indiana for Nebraska. He started the first store in Bushberry, this county, and was soon thereafter appointed Postmaster. During the building of the Missouri Pacific Railroad he came to Wabash, and after assisting in platting the town, built a store and post-office. His residence is a neat and substantial structure. and both himself and family are highly esteemed by the people of this locality. Mr. H. in 1882 was first appointed Notary Public, and reappointed in 1888 for another term of six years. Politically, he affiliates with the Democratic party, and is an active member of the I.O.O. F. He believes in the establishment of schools and churches, and as he has opportunity gives his aid to every enterprise calculated to advance the interests of the people, morally and financially.

OHN PHILPOT, SR., an enterprising farmer, lives on a highly cultivated, and improved farm, located on section 27 in Mt. Pleasant Precinct. He was born in Kent County, England, March 10, 1815. He is the son of George and Abigail Philpot, and lived at home in England with his parents until he was twenty years old. Recognizing the fact that for a young man in his position in life there was no opportunity for advancement or procuring a home for himself, he decided to emigrate to America. In pursuance of this decision he took passage from London in the sailing-ship "St. James." After a stormy passage of eight weeks he arrived in New York City. His means being very limited he found it necessary to seek employment, which he procured on a farm in New Jersey, where he worked for two years.
   Wishing to see more of the country and learn the ways of the people, our subject went to New Orleans, where for a time he worked at various occupations. He then worked his way northward, and finally settled in Jo Daviess County, Ill., which was then an unsettled wild country. He secured a tract of finely located land, which he proceeded to improve, and in later years, when the railroad was built, and a market was made for the varied prod-