Tekamah and Vicinity, Noteworthy Men of

since resided. For a number of years the popular hostelry, the "Astor House," since passed away, was under his management. Five years ago he entered the book and stationery business which he still carries on.
   Mr. Wheeler was united in marriage in the fall of 1860 at Kenton, Ohio, to Miss Esther L. Smith.

   W. M. BEAN was born at Benton, Wisconsin, where he remained until the breaking out of the Civil war when he enlisted in the 33d Wisconsin Infantry, Company A, August 131h. 1862. He saw service in the western army under Grant and was at Vicksburg and Nashville; took part in the Red River campaign under Banks: was at the storming of the Spanish fort at Mobile Bay. He was sworn out of service at Vicksburg in August, 1865, but his regiment came home in a body and he was mustered out at Madison, Wisconsin.
   In 1866 Mr. Bean came to Nebraska with an ox team and bought the tract of land where he is now living. December 1st, 1868, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah F. Cornelius in this county.

   SAMUEL T. STORY was born September 11th, 1830, in Washington county, Arkansas. Upon reaching young manhood the opportunities of that country did not suit his progressive and ambitious nature and he came North. The winter of 1863 he spent in Calhoun and in the spring of 1864 he came north into Burt county settling, as did most of the first settlers, in Arizona township along the river. One of W. B. Newton's farms was the first home of Mr. Story and his wife in this county. By the spring of 1868 he had accumulated money enough to buy a place of his own which he still owns and on which he resided until 1886 when he purchased a residence in this city and moved here. During all of his life he has followed farming and stock raising at which he has been very successful and is now numbered among Burt's wealthy men.
   Mr. Story, out of his busy life, gave to his country

several year's service during the Civil war, enlisting in the First Arkansas Cavalry at Springfield, Missouri, in August, 1862.
   He was united in marriage December 17th, 1862, to Miss Manda Chambers.

   ELIJAH TUTTLE was born October 12th, 1830. at Lawrence, St. Lawrence county, New York. He was united in marriage September 24th. 1853, to Miss Eliza Whiting and accompanied his parents upon their removal to Wisconsin in 1856. He enlisted in the war of the rebellion, April 18th, 1861. in Company A, 3rd Regt. Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and served until July 25th, 1865, seeing much hardship and participating in many hard fought battles. Coming home from the war he removed, with his family, to Tekamah, reaching here he took up his part of pioneer life, August 1st, 1866. He has been an almost continuous resident since, respected and honored by many acquaintances.

   JOHN L. WILSON was born at Camden, Indiana, April 14th, 1845. In the summer of 1863, he located in Marshall county, Iowa, and that fall enlisted in Company B, 24th Iowa Infantry. He says that in the fall of 1864 he voted for "Honest Abe" for president,--although he was a little young. He saw service on the Mississippi under General Grant at New Orleans under General Banks; up the Red River, where he was twice wounded; in the Shenandoah Valley with General Phil Sheridan and in 1865 was sent to Savannah, Georgia, to meet General Sherman under whom he served until the close of the war.
   On the 28th day of August, 1871, he located at Tekamah, where, until his removal to Oklahoma, in April, 1901, he was one of the foremost citizens of the county. For many years he conducted one of the largest hardware stores in this part of the state distributing goods, not only to distant parts of this county, but also to neighboring counties. For four


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