dom of Bavaria, July 2, 1865, and is the only child of John F. and Maggie (Patal) Wunderlich, who were also natives of Bavaria, and of pure German ancestry. The father was a blacksmith by trade, and met his death accidentally in his native country, by falling from a train of cars, being caught and having both legs severed from his body. He only lived about five hours. This calamity occurred in the fall of 1869. He was a good and worthy man, and labored industriously to maintain his little family in comfort.
   The mother of our subject remained a widow ten years after the death of her husband, and was then married to Henry Helmer, also a Bavarian by birth. They came to the United States in the fall of 1880, and settling in Avoca Precinct have since made it their home. Mr. Helmer is carrying on farming successfully, and is regarded as a worthy citizen.
   Mr. Wunderlich accompanied his mother and stepfather to the United States before reaching his majority. He had received a practical education in his native tongue, and from his youth up been accustomed to labor. He was married in Berlin Precinct, Otoe County, March 9, 1887, to Miss Lena Carsten, who was born in Avoca Precinct, this county, Dec. 26, 1865, being a few months younger than her husband, The history of her parents is given in the sketch of Henry Schomaker, which will be found on another page of this work.
   Our subject and his young wife settled soon after their marriage at their present homestead, and are the parents of one child, a daughter, Lotta, who was born Dec. 14, 1887. Mr. Wunderlich votes the straight Democratic ticket, and both he and his wife in religious matters adhere to the faith of the Lutheran Church, in which they were reared.

APT. JOHN T. A. HOOVER, well known as the founder of Louisville, Cass County, has by that fact alone, independent of his well-known character for energy and enterprise, made himself a man of much consequence along the northern line of ass County. His sagacity and forethought made this point, in his judgment, a good one for future operations, and after persuading the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company to lay their track as near as possible to the projected site of the village, contributed $500 for the location of a station there. He put up the first house in the place, and the town has since been the object of his fostering care.
   Capt. Hoover, it is hardly necessary to state, was one of the pioneers of this county, to which he came with a capital of but $320. He has now a fine property, and at his farm on sections 23 and 27, Louisville Precinct. He has inaugurated the modern improvements which have made it one of the most valuable estates in the precinct. One noticeable feature is a fish pond of seven acres, well stocked with German carp, the first enterprise of the kind in this region. The Captain has of late years been engaged in the manufacture of fire brick, in which he utilizes some of the best quality of clay found in the West, the product of his own land. A citizen public-spirited and liberal, giving generously of his time and means for the advancement of his township, he holds a position second to no man in Cass County. He was the founder of the Louisville Pottery, one of the flourishing industries of the place.
   The birthplace of our subject was in the city of Nagold, Wurtemberg, Germany, where he was born Sept. 13, 1826. He was the youngest of twelve children, seven of whom lived to mature years, but only three of whom now survive. The, father, Ferdinand Hoover, was a farmer and stock-trader, and was married in his native Germany to Miss Catherine Scheahinger. This lady was born in 1783, being five years younger than her husband, whose birth took place in 1778. After marriage they settled on a farm in their native Province, where the father carried on agriculture until 1816. He then emigrated to America with his family, landing in New York City after a voyage of twenty-one days. From the great metropolis they proceeded directly to Darke County, Ohio, where the parents settled on a farm, and where the death of the father took place in 1857. The mother survived her husband a period of seventeen years, passing away in 1874.
   The subject of this sketch was placed in school at the age of five years, and followed his studies quite closely until a youth of sixteen. He then entered an establishment for the manufacture of

essences, where he also learned the compounding of medicines, and devoted himself to the study of chemistry. He was thus occupied three years, and then accompanied his parents to the United States, and made his home with them in Ohio until the death of his father. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he resolved to assist in the defense of his adopted country, and soon after the first call for troops enlisted in Company D, 58th Ohio Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee, under command of Gen. Smith. He met the enemy in some of the most important battles which followed, being in the fights at Ft. Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, the siege of Corinth, and various other minor engagements and skirmishes. Such was his natural intelligence and energy that he was made a First Lieutenant, and was a short time later promoted to a Captaincy, receiving his commission from Gov. Denison of Ohio. He was thus actively engaged about two years, and then, on account of failing health, was obliged to resign his commission in March, 1863.
   Capt. Hoover now returned to his home in Darke County, Ohio, and thereafter engaged in agricultural pursuits. Later he disposed of his interests in the Buckeye State and determined to locate in Nebraska Territory. Coming to this county he purchased land on section 23, Louisville Precinct, securing at once 320 acres, upon which there were no improvements, with the exception of a small log house. Under many disadvantages he commenced the opening up of a farm, and six years later, in 1869 put up the present stone dwelling, which is a fine, substantial structure, commanding the admiration of the country around. The material was quarried on his farm, and the building is constructed to stand for generations. The Captain has found that his land was best adapted to the cultivation of corn, from which he has realized as high as 100 bushels to the acre. This he utilizes largely in the fattening of swine. His well-regulated pens, to which he gives particular care, make a cleanly and healthy domicile for his porkers, and they have been singularly free from the diseases usually attending this species of live stock.
   The marriage of Capt. John T. A. Hoover and Miss Eva Hufnagel was celebrated in Darke County, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1848. Mrs. Hoover was born in Lebanon, Pa., in 1832, and is the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Breckbiel) Hufnagel, who spent their last years in Ohio. This union resulted in the birth of ten children, six sons and four daughters, all of whom are living, presenting a family group which any parent may well be proud to look upon. These are recorded as: Benjamin G.; Ellen, the wife of G. Metzger; Catherine, Mrs. Hern Smith; Lizzie, Mrs. Morris Carnay; Emily M., Mrs. William Worth; James; Mary, Mrs. Nelson Dewey; Andrew, William and Isabelle. The two latter are at home with their parents.
   After signalizing himself in a most decided manner as a man well fitted for positions of trust and responsibity (sic), Capt. Hoover was, in 1867, elected to represent this county in the Nebraska Legislature on the Republican ticket, endorsed by the Democracy. He served his term acceptably, and in 1870 was appointed by President Grant the Postmaster of Louisville, which position he held a period of ten* years. He has served in. the various other local offices, and, socially, belongs to the G. A. R., Post No. 175, of Louisville. This well-known pioneer and founder of one of the flourishing towns of Cass County is fitly represented by his portrait, shown on an adjoining page.

HOMAS GOODIER is one of the early settlers as well as one of the most prosperous farmers of Mt. Pleasant Precinct, and resides on a well-improved farm located on section 21. He was born in Manchester, England, Jan. 17, 1831. He attended the schools in his native country until he was about eleven years old, where he acquired a taste for reading and study, which he continues to the present time. In his twelfth year he began the business of gardening, which he followed for two years; from this time for nearly twenty years he was employed in the warehouse of Wolff, Hassah & Co., in Manchester, England, his duties in this house being principally the packing of goods for foreign shipment. Another year was spent in the same business for another firm.
   In September of 1856 Mr. Goodier was married

to Frances Woolstencroft, a daughter of John Woolstencroft, who resided near the native city of our subject. They are now the parents of five children, named: Mary E., George, Anna, Maud and Thomas. Mary E. is the wife of James Stockem, and resides in Custer County, Neb.; the son George also resides in the same county; Anna is the wife of Jacob Stamm, and resides in Mt. Pleasant Precinct.
   Feeling that there were countries that offered better advantages than his native land, our subject with his family came to America in 1872, sailing from Liverpool, England, in the Canard steamer "Batavia," and after a voyage of ten days they landed at New York City, came direct to Cass County, and purchased the eighty acres of land on which they now live. When they arrived on their land it was in a perfectly wild condition, not a furrow had been turned or any improvement of any kind had been made. With the pertinacity for which his countrymen are noted, he went to work with a will to improve his farm, and by close, application and continuous hard labor he is the owner of one of the most productive tracts of land in the county.
   From a wild and unsettled condition our subject has seen the country about him develop into the splendid, prosperous and highly cultivated state it has now reached, and he has taken no unimportant part in bringing it to its present high and flourishing degree of prosperity, and where a few years ago deer and buffaloes roamed at will, we see productive fields, pleasant, comfortable homes, churches and school-houses abound, denoting an intelligent and God-fearing people.
   Our subject is the son of John and Mary Goodier. The mother is now deceased. Both parents were natives of England. He is the second oldest son of the family; all the surviving members of his parents' family are still in England. He has become an American citizen by complying with the laws of the country relative to that question; all his interests are here and his sympathies are wholly and entirely with the American people.
   The residence of our subject is pleasantly situated, neatly designed and comfortably furnished. The barns and other out-buildings necessary to the successful prosecution-of the business in which he is engaged are conveniently located and are sufficiently extensive to meet his present requirements. A tine thriving orchard yields to his family an abundance of fruit, and a number of ornamental trees and a quantity of flowering plants and choice shrubbery add to the beauty of his home and the pleasure of its inmates. The political allegiance of our subject is with the Democratic party. He has served one term as School Director, but declines to accept further political favors from his neighbors, as he cannot spare the time from his farm duties. He is large-hearted and public-spirited, and with his wife and family, takes a great interest in the social matters of their locality. They are members of the Christian Church, are widely and favorably known, and enjoy the confidence and esteem of all who know them.

RA GORDON, one of the first business men locating in the young town of Wabash, established himself in the hardware trade here in March, 1888, and is now carrying on a prosperous trade, receiving a generous patronage from the people of this part of the county. He came to Nebraska in 1879, from Dubuque County, Iowa, to which he had been taken by his parents when a little lad seven years of age, and where he developed into manhood on a farm. He was born in the Province of Quebec, Canada, near the town of Patton, April 15, 1847, and was the fourth child in a family of seven, the offspring of Ransom S. and Rachel (Little) Gordon, who were natives of Maine and Ireland. The father died at the old homestead in Dubuque County, Iowa, at the advanced age of eighty years. He was twice married, and was one of a family of fourteen children. The mother is still living, making her home with her son, Smith Gordon, in Red Willow County, this State, and is now seventy-eight years old.
   This branch of the Gordon family is of Scotch ancestry, and was first represented in this country forty years or so after the settlement of the Plymouth colony by the paternal great-grandfather of our subject, Alexander Gordon, who took up his abode in Saco, Me. His progenitors were the heirs of a large estate in Scotland, Gordon Castle and

its appurtenances, which is still in existence, and estimated to be worth $40,000,000. The brothers and sisters of our subject were named respectively: Ransom, Smith, Henry and Lois. The first named is now numbered among the prosperous farmers of Centre Precinct; Smith is a resident of Red Willow County; Henry is a soldier of the regular army, and located at Ft. Windgate, New Mexico; Lois is the wife of John Hess, of Elmwood Precinct, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.
   Mr. Gordon was given the advantage of a practical education in the common school, completing his studies in Dubuque County, Iowa. He was but a boy at the outbreak of the Rebellion, and consequently did not enter the army as he wished, in company with his brothers and half-brothers. In the meantime they had pre-empted land in Centre Precinct, this county, where they settled afterward. Young Gordon, also deciding upon the pursuit of agriculture, purchased, in 1879, eighty acres of land in Stove Creek Precinct, to which he came with his little family not long afterward. He had been married, Dec. 22, 1875, to a Miss Ida Tisdale, who was born in Dubuque County, Iowa. Mrs. Gordon was carefully reared and thoroughly educated, completing her studies in St. Mary's Academy in Dubuque. She became the mother of two children, daughters, May M. and Emma M., and departed this life at their home in Iowa, July 23, 1879. Thereafter our subject for several years following lived in Iowa, and his children were taken care of by himself, his sister keeping house for him.
   On the 18th of February, 1886, Mr. Gordon contracted a second marriage, with Miss Annie, daughter of William Thaler, of Palmyra, Otoe County, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Of this union there is one child, a daughter, Bessie Lurettie. In March, 1888, leaving his farm in Stove Creek Precinct, Mr. Gordon purchased the hardware business of G. W. Woodruff, the pioneer establishment of its kind in Wabash. His energy and enterprise are proverbial among the people of this section, and he has become identified with the various leading interests of the town, to which he lives his encouragement and support. He is one of the stockholders of the Wabash Publishing Company, and uniformly votes the straight Republican ticket. In religious matters he adheres to the doctrines of the Free-will Baptist Church, and in Masonic circles is a member of Euclid Lodge, at Weeping Water. He has distinguished himself as an able financier, and if we may judge anything from the opinions of his fellow-citizens, no man stands higher in the business or social circles of Wabash and vicinity than Mr. Gordon.

REELEY GARRISON. The main points in the history of this highly esteemed resident of Plattsmouth are as follows: He was born near Three Rivers, St. Joseph Co., Mich., Feb. 16, 1854, and is the son of William Garrison, a native of the State of New York. The paternal grandfather it is believed was a native of Holland, and upon coming to America early in life, located in the State of New York, whence he removed later to Michigan, settling in St. Joseph County, and there spent the remainder of his days.
   William Garrison, the father of our subject, was reared to manhood in his native State, which he left about the time of reaching his majority, casting his lot among the pioneers of St. Joseph County, Mich. He purchased a tract of timber land near which grew up the present flourishing city of Three Rivers, eliminated a good homestead from the wilderness, and lived there until November, 1854. Then crossing the Mississippi he established himself a short time in Glenwood, Iowa, where he subjourned until March, 1855, and with the spirit of adventure still upon him, once more changed his residence, taking his abode among the pioneers of Nebraska Territory. He located this time in Cass County, when there were little indications of white men in this region.
   The removal of the father of our subject from Michigan was made overland by means of a team of horses and a wagon. He crossed the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, before this now flourishing city had even assumed the dignity of a platted vil-