Custer County, Nebraska - Founders and Builders, 1919 (part 7 of 32)

FRANK DEVINE, who was born in 1872, is a son of John A. and Bridget A. ( Shaqj ) Devine, very excellent people, of Irish extraction, who have given to this cmmtry the splendid contribution of their life effort and a family of children who are numerated among our best citizens. In the family of John A. Devine were eight children : Charles,- the first son, lives in Illinois; the second son is Frank, the subject of this sketch ; the third. James, is a banker and prominent citizen of Oconto, Custer county; Joseph, the fourth born, is a young farmer living with his mother and his brother Frank on the home place, where he assists in the farming operations : John, the youngest son, is a dentist by profession and is living at Cheyenne, Wyom- ing; Martha is the widow of Joseph P. Berry and maintains her residence at Oconto, this county: Anna is the wife of James Noon, of JoHet, lUinois ; and Mary, who has been popular and successful as a school teacher, resides at the old home, with her mother and two brothers.

As indicated above, Frank and Joseph Devine and their mother live on the old home place, and here the father died about nine years ago. The brothers are doing a general farming and stock-raising business, to which they devote the most of their time. They are energetic men of good judgment and of ^that business ability which insures success to every venture they undertake.

They have been very patriotic and ardent supporters of the government in the crisis entailed by the great world war. They responded liberally to every call and were glad to render whatever assistance lay in their power.

They are members of the Knights of Columbus, and to the splendid war work done by this organization, as well as the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association, they have made their contributions. They are also substantial supporting members of the Catholic church.

MRS. ALBERT GUNDY. - Several of the valuable and highly improved farms of Custer county are owned and operated by women, and most of these are widows of former agriculturists, while most of them became well versetl in the science of tilling the soil by reason of basing assisted their respective husbands during their years of industrious labor. Under this classification is to be placed Mrs. Gundy, whose farm, six miles soiuheast of Broken Bow, comprises a tract of 160 acres, with good improvements. This property is owned by Mrs. Gundy, who has resided here for more than nine years.

The late Albert Gundy was born near the city of Berlin, Germany, September 25, 1832, and was a son of Frederick and Minnie Gundy, who brought their family to the United States in 1839 and settled in Ohio. Later they went to Illinois, where they engaged in agricultural pursuits, and where both parents jjassed away in the faith of the Lutheran church. They gave three sons to the Union cause during the Civil war - Fred, William, and Ed., the first-named of whom fell on the battlefield of (Gettysburg.

in Illinois. He was an industrious man, with good, practical ideas, and did not lack the courage to adopt modern methods, so that he made a success of his operations. In 1892 he moved to Iowa, where he had just begun to repeat his Illinois success when he was called by death, April 22, 1894. Following his demise Mrs. Gundy disposed of the home farm in Iowa and came to Custer county, where she j)urchased 160 acres of land six miles southeast of Broken Bow, this place being her present home. Here she has develoi)ed a splendid fami, one of the most valuable in this part of the county, with substantial buildings and modern improvements of every character. She has numerous friends in the communit)', attracted to her by her many fine qualities of mind and heart, and she belongs to the Catholic church, attending services at St. Joseph's church. Broken Bow.

Mrs. Gundy, who married Mr. Gundy in 1869, bore the maiden name of Mary Lerette, and she was born in Illinois, a daughter of Louis and Eliza (Delill) Lerette, the former a native of France and the latter of Canada. There were eleven children in the Lerette family, of whom four survive - Mrs. Catherine Jones, of Chicago; Mrs. Margaret Fingure, of Joilet, Illinois ; Nicholas, a retired farmer of Hancock, Iowa: and Mrs. Gundy. ( )f the thirteen children Ijorn to Mr. and Mrs. Gundy, ten attained to maturity : Henr}-, an Iowa farmer: Jessie, deceased wife of Louis Range, of Joliet, Illinois : Frank, farming in Custer county: Fred, a mail carrier at Minden, Iowa: May, the wife of \Vill Booth, a farmer near Broken Bow : Maggie, the wife of George Allard, proprietor of a garage at Crookston, Nebraska : Kate, the wife of Frank Coulter, of Custer county : Lewis, a carpenter of Lincoln: Lucy, the wife of James Roucis, a railroad man of Lincoln ; and .Vndrew and George, at home, and assisting their mother in conducting the home farm.

HENRY SWEENEY. - In this brief memoir is given the life record of one of Custer county's early settlers - a man who contributed his full share to the upbuilding of his community.

Henry Sweeney was born in Roscommon county, Ireland, and when a young man of about eighteen years, having heard favorab'e reports concerning the opportunities to be found in .America, he left his native land, and came to the L^nited States, where he first found em])loyment in New Jersey. It seems that he was not disappointed in the jjrospects which confronted him, for he sent for his par- ents and had them join him, he making^ a home for them as long as they lived. They were Thomas and Ellen (Henry) Sweeney, and both passed away in New Jersey.

Henry Sweeney then went further west, and in Livingston county, Illinois, he established a home. There he married Bridget Harvey, who was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, August 24, 1840, a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (McGuire) Harvey, both of whom lived and died in their native land. Bridget Harvey was a girl of sixteen years when she came to America, with friends and neighbors who settled at Dwiglit, Illinois, where she met her future husband. The young couple continued to reside in Illinois until 1886, when they came to Custer county, Nebraska, and located in section 16, township 18, range 22. This being school land, it was not open for settlement, but Mr. Sweeney purchased 480 acres of it as soon as it was on the market for sale. Pioneer conditions were still in evidence on every hand, and a sod house served as the family home for many years. In 1908 Mr. Sweeney made arrangements to provide better quarters for the family, and the large frame house which adorns the place was erected that year. But the husband and father was not long permitted to enjoy the new home, as he was called from the scene of earthly activities in November of that year. His widow still makes her home on the old farm and is one of the Custer county pioneer women who shared in its pioneer hardships and who has been spared to view the changes that have taken place and share in the joys and pleasures of the present day. She became the mother of ten children : Thomas met accidental death at the age of nineteen years, in a sand bank caving at Ulysses. Nebraska ; Catherine is the wife of Owen Gray, of Seward Nebraska ; Harry is married and resides in Wyoming ; George is a farmer of Custer county ; Alice died at the age of four years and seven months; Arthur is a resident of Anselmo ; Amrose resides at Merna ; Ann is the wife of James D. McCarty ; William lives at Merna ; and Edward J. owns and operates the old home farm. The family are communicants of the Catholic church and are held in the highest respect. ,

JAMES FARRITOR. - Among the pioneers of Custer county who still reside within its borders mention should be made of James Farritor, who for thirty-eight years has been a resident of the county.

1834. He was a babe in arms, only five weeks old, when his parents, John and Nora ( Fitzgerald) Farritor emigrated from Ireland to the United States. They first settled in Boston, later living at Worcester, Massachusetts, then in Connecticut, and from the latter state they removed to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where they spent the remainder of their lives. James Farritor spent his boyhood days in the different places where his parents lived and when a young man he became a coal miner. He was still a young man when he went to Streator, Illinois, where he follov/ed mining until 1880. In that year he came to Nebraska and secured a homestead on Victoria creek, Custer county. But few families were to be found in the county when he took up his residence here, and the work of development had only been begun. He built a sod house, began the task of conquering the wilderness, and in due time was planting and harvesting. Here he followed agricultural pursuits for many years. In the early days Kearney was the nearest trading and milling point, and Mr. Farritor made many trips there to get wheat ground and to secure provisions for the fam-

At Elmira, New York, Mr. Farritor was united in marriage to Miss Ann McDonald, a native of Ireland, and she became one of Custer county's noble pioneer women. They became the parents of five children, as follows : The firstborn, a daughter, is now a Sister of Charity in a Catholic convent in Kansas: Mrs. H. G. Clark, Mrs. Joseph Moroney ; and Mrs. Homer Hickman all reside in Custer county ; and Julia, is deceased.

Mr. Farritor makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Moroney, his wife having passed away. He is one of the venerable pioneers of Custer county and has reached the age of eighty-four years. He has been an eye-witness of the vast changes that have taken place in this section of Nebraska, and delights in recounting the experiences of those early days.

EDWARD J. SWEENEY. - The subject of this record is a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of Custer county, within whose borders he has resided since he was five years of age.

Edward James Sweeney was born in Butler county, Nebraska. March 16, 1880, and is a son of Henry and Bridget (Harvey) Sweeney, a record of whom appears on other pages of this volume. Reared on the farin, he wisely chose as a vocation the occupation with which he was familiar, and he is to-day the owner of 320 acres of the old home place. It is one of the best improved fannsteads in the township, the buildings having been put here by his honored father.

Mr. Sweeney married Miss Delia Kaelm, a native of Custer county, and they are the proud parents of twin children, a boy and a girl, named Helen Eileen, and Henr\' Edward.

The family are members of the Catholic church and Mr. Sweeney votes the Democratic ticket. He is a progressive and up-to-date farmer, as well as a representative of one of the early families of Custer count v.

GEORGE W. TRUEMAN is consistently given pioneer honors in Custer county, within whose borders he has maintained his residence for more than thirty years. He reclaimed and developed one of the excellent farms of the county and as an energetic and progressive business man he is now manager of the general merchandise store at Georgetown, w-here he also holds the office of postmaster.

Mr. Tnieman was lx)rn in Pennsylvania, in the year 1S57, and is a son of John George Trueman and Caroline (Coleman) Trueman, who were folk of sterling character and who reared their children in such a way as admirably to fit them for the duties and responsibilities of later years. Of the four children the following brief record may consistently be entered : David L. is a resident of Camus Valley, Oregon ; Martha is the wife of William Rollins and they reside on their fami north of Sumner, Dawson county ; George W., of this review, was the next in order of birth : and William lives in Dawson county.

George W. Trueman acquired his early education in his native state and supplemented this by attending school after the family removal to Illinois, in which latter state he was reared to adult age. He continued his residence in Illinois until 1886, when he came with his family to Nebraska and established his permanent home in Custer county. Here he entered claim to a homestead of 160 acres, and in its development, improvement, and diversified activities he showed characteristic energy, thrift, and good judgment, with the result that he made the property one of the well equipped and valuable farms of the county. That the homestead was recently sold for $4,000 gives tangible evidence of the fact that the property had received the best of management on the part of Mr. Trueman, who had incidentally made a record for vigorous and effective enterprise in connection with agricultural and live-stock industry. He now has full charge of the general store of Georgetown, as representative of the owner, H. S. Clouse. In his present field of enterprise he is meeting with the same gratifying success that attended his activities as a farmer, the while his personal hold upon popular confidence and esteem inures to the success of the business with which he is now identified. In politics Mr. Truenian upholds the basic principles for which the Republican party stands sponsor, but he is not constrained by partisan dictates to the extent of feeling it necessary to vote for candidates who do not appeal to his judgment, even if they are advanced by his own party. He holds membership in the Christian church, of which his wife likewise was a devoted adherent, her death having occurred in 1897.

The year 1882 recorded the marriage of Mr. Trueman to Miss Mary Helen Hope, and the four children of this union are living: Carrie is the wife of Byron Morgan, of Custer county; John William conducts a garage and blacksmith shop at Cumro, this county ; Martha is the wife of Dell ^^lason, their home being in Custer county : and Arthur S. resides at Fort Collins, Colorado.

JOHN TEAHON. - As we write of the early settlers of Custer county, giving each his meed of praise, the name of John Teahon should have a place in the front rank.

John Teahon is a native of the Emerald Isle, born in County Kerry, Ireland, where the days of his boyhood and youth were passed. In 1880, when a young man of twenty-one years, he came to America, and for one year he resided in Halifax. In 1881 he came west to Nebraska, and in the month of July, 1882, he drove a team and wagon to Custer county, where he pre-empted the northwest quarter of section 17, township 18, range 22. When asked if "Uncle Sam" had made any improvements, Mr. Teahon answered as only an Irishman could do, "No, that was left for your Uncle John to do."

Not a house was in sight in the valley on the west, and North Platte and Kearney were the nearest trading points when Mr. Teahon took up l^s residence here. He shared in all the trials and hardships of the pioneer days, but has been faithful to duty and has contributed his share toward the betterment of conditions.

.\t Milford, Massachusetts, Mr. Teahon married Miss Mar\' Ellen Teahon, a native of that place, and following is a brief record concerning their children : Mar\- E. and Lizzie were given special advantages in busi- ness education, the former taking first prize in a contest given by the Remington Typewriter Company, and she now has a position at Grand Island, while her sister holds a similar position in Montana ; Ella, John, Jr., William, Michael, and Maurice are all at home. The family are members of the Catholic church. When asked his political views, Mr. Teahon replied, "Put it in your book just as I tell it," and, pointing to a knoll where he slept under a wagon the first night after he came here, he said, "I have never missed an election and never voted a straight ticket."

Mr. Teahon has rendered valuable aid in promoting those measures that have had to do with the upbuilding of his part of the county. He is a friend of the publi: school and has always advocated the employment of efficient instructors, realizing that the boys and girls of to-day are to be the men and women of the future. He gave his time and influence to help establish rural free delivery in his community, sacrificed his own convenience to benefit the majority, and did all in his power to make possible the present system of parcel post service.

Mr. Teahon is possessed of an unusual amount of real Irish wit, is genial and optimistic, is well posted on current events, and is a fluent conversationalist. He is the owner of 240 acres of land, and what he has achieved is the result of his own and his family's hard work and good judgment.

Patrick and Elizabeth (O'Donohue) Teahon, parents of the subject of this sketch, were sent for by their son, and they spent their last days with their children in Custer county.

EDWIN A. BUTLER, a veteran business man of Ansley, who has constantly been connected with the mercantile interests of this place for thirty-twO' years, is accounted one of his community's progressive citizens and a prominent factor in the automobile industry as represented in Custer county. He entered his present business, as proprietor of a garage, after a quarter of a century's connection with the implement trade, and in his present field of endeavor he has equaled and added to the reputation which he gained in his former line.

Edwin Adams Butler was born on a farm in Knox county, Illinois, Augu.st 31, 1859. a son of Matthew and Louisa (Drake) Butler. His father, a natiVe.-of Gardner, Maine, went as a young man to Ohio, where he was united in marriage with Miss Louisa Drake, who was born in the city of Cincinnati, and shortly after their union they moved to Illinois. There Mr. Butler was able to purchase good government land for one dollar and twentyfive cents an acre, and on the home farm in Illinois Mrs. Butler passed away in 1862. Her husband continued to follow farming there with success until 1878, when he came to Seward, Nebraska, and bought land at seven dollars an acre. He became the owner of valuable farming land and much town property, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1898, he was accounted one of his county's well-to-do citizens. He was a Republican in his political affiliation and wielded some influence in party circles, and his religious connection was with the Congregational church. He and Mrs. Butler were representative of the best element in community life. They were parents of si.x children: Samuel, who is a well known realty operator of Lincoln. Nebraska ; Allen, who is engaged in the jewelry business at Ansley, Custer county ; Edwin A., whose name introduces this sketch ; and three who are deceased.

Edwin A. Butler received his early education in the public and district schools of Illinois, and when he was nineteen years of age he accompanied his father to Seward, Nebraska, where he gained his first knowledge of the implement business. For four or five years he was engaged in that business on his own account, at Seward, but in 1886 he removed to Ansley, where he established the business that he conducted for twenty-five years, with constantly increasing success. Mr. Butler displayed excellent ability in the handling of his afTairs. which placed him among the town's leading business citizens, and in addition to this he traveled for six years for the International Harvester Company, in selling its widely known products. In 1913, recognizing an opportunity, he opened a modern garage at Ansley, and began doing a large business, not only with the automobilists of Ansley and the surrounding towns and countryside, but also with those traveling through this region from distant points. From the start he has handled Ford cars and various accessories, in addition to which he has done a large business in general repairing. By 1917 his business had grown to such proportions that he was obliged to secure larger quarters and better accommodations, and accordingly he built his present establishment, a building, modern in every wav, and fifty by forty feet in dimensions. Mr. Butler is a man of the highest and strictest integrity - one whose reputation for soliditv and sterling character has been built up through years of straightforward business transactions. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen, is a Republican in politics, and has served efficiently and conscientiously as a member of the town board.

In 1882 Mr. Butler married Miss Clara Anderson, who was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Lewis Anderson, who settled, at a very early date, in Seward county, Nebraska, where he was a very successful farmer, and at his death left a handsome estate. Five children were born to J\Ir. and Mrs. Butler, namely: Alice, who is the wife of Charles Chandler, engaged in the drug business at Ansley ; Grace, who is the wife of Fred Maulick, engaged in the meat-market business at this place; Delia, who is the wife of Ray Lockhart, of Broken Bow, who entered the United States army in June, 1918; Harry, who is engaged in the automobile business with his father, and is a thirtysecond degree Mason ; and Edwin, who resides with his parents and attends school. Mrs. Butler is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

JOHN STA.\B. - The financial stability and personal influence of John Staab. one of the foremost farmers and large landholders of Custer county, are the result of patient application to merchandising and farming, prudent investments, and industry and perseverence in whatever undertakings have occupied his attention, Mr. Staab was born in Dane county, Wisconsin. June 11. 1859, and is a son of Liborius and Louisa Pauline (Marold) Staab, both natives of Germany.

The parents of ^Ir. Staab were both young people when they immigrated to the United States, and they met and were married in Dane county. Wisconsin. In his native land the father had been a cabinetmaker, and in Wisconsin he followed carpentry and baking as occupations, but in 1870 he came to Platte county, Nebraska, where he secured a homestead and engaged in farming, a vocation which he followed during the rest of his life. He was a suc:essful, self-made man and had the esteem and regard of his associates and neighbors in each of the communities in which he lived. He was reared as a Catholic, but later adopted the faith of the Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Staab were the parents of nine children, of whom seven are living: Charles, who is living retired in the state of Washington; John, who is the suljject of this sketch; Adam, who is a ranchman of Cherrv countv.

Nebraska ; Louis, who conducts a meat market at Chicago, Illinois ; Will, who is a dairyman in the state of Washington ; Theodore, who is a turner by trade and at present employed at Chicago ; and Otto, who drew a section of land in .\rthur county, Nebraska, and has since purchased a like acreage.

The educational advantages of John Staab were limited in his youth to attendance at district schools of Dane county, Wisconsin, and Platte county, Nebraska, during three months of the year, and in the latter state he was forced to travel twelve miles to attend school. However, he has done much to educate himself, having been a close observer and a great reader, and he is now well informed in regard to a wide range of important subjects. As a youth he secured a position clerking in a general store at Columbus, Nebraska, and subsequently he ran a herd of cattle and hauled freight for a distance of twenty-six miles, his various activities combining to give his a start in life. His first property was secured in Platte county, when he traded a pair of ponies for a tra:t of eighty acres of land, and later he engaged in the general-store business at Lee, Nebraska, where he made a success of his undertaking, by reason of his ability and good management. In 1895 he secured another Platte county farm, on which he installed his family, and in 1898 he disposed of his store business at Lee, increasing his Platte county holdings to 200 acres and living on his farm there for about five years more. In 1903 Mr. Staab came to Custer county and bought 1.480 acres of land, and he gave his supervision to this property for another year before he returned to Platte county, where he sold his property, after which he brought his family back to Custer coimty. Here he has since resided and here he later added eighty acres to his holdings. There were no improvements on the Custer county property at the time of his arrival, but he at once began building operations, and he now has six complete sets of buildings, including residences, barns, and other structures. His sons now own their own places - land their father bought when he came here - and are doing well. Mr. Staab has always carried on general farming and has engaged in stock-raising, and his operations have been uniformly successful. A man of varied interests and keen and active mind, he has been more or less prominent in public affairs. In early life he was a Democrat, leaving that party to join the Populist movement and subsequently returning to the Democratic organization. At this time he is greatly interested in the work of the Non-Partisan League.

While' residing at Lee., he was for a number of years a trustee of that town and was township clerk of Sherman township in Platte county. Since coming to Custer county he has been chairman of the township board of Berwyn town several years and a member of the school board during a long period. His official record is one which has been characterized by conscientious attention to duty and the same kind of energy and intelligent direction of affairs tliat have been noted in the handling of his j)ersonal enterprises.

In 1882 Mr. Staab married Miss Elizabeth Mayer, who was born in Schuylkill county. Pennsylvania, a daughter of Enoch and Rachel (Yoder) Mayer, the former born in 1831, in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and the latter in 1838. in Schuylkill county, that state. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in the Keystone state, and in 1868 thev removed to Iowa, where Mr. Mayer purchased a homestead. He continued operations thereon until 1908, when he removed to Tipton, Iowa, and since then he has lived in retirement and in the devoted companionship of his wife. He is a son of John Mayer, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mayer is a Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the German Reformed church. Their eight children are all living, but Mrs. Staab is the only one residing in Nebraska.

Mr. and Mrs. Staab are the parents of twelve children: John E.. of Anslev : Aaron Clark, farming near his father's home ; Anna, the wife of Harry J. Newman, a farmer at Guelph, North Dakota ; George Enoch, farming near his father's home ; Ida. the wife of Wesley Harris, operating one of Mr. Staab's farms : .Arthur L.. farming near his father's property: Madia A., the wife of Ray Hawk. a farmer near .Ansley ; \\'alter. his father's assistant on the home farm; and Reuben. Irena. Carlisle, and Zelma. all at home. The family belongs to the Baptist church.

ARCHIE L. LOWRY. - One of the newcomers who constitutes a valuable asset and has made Custer county the benefactor by his advance is Archie L. Lowry, who is a native of Hall county, Nebraska, in which county he was bom September 4, 1884. He is a son of Clarence N. and Maggie (Dufford) I<owr}-. The father was bom in Indiana, but the mother comes from the rugged hills of Pennsylvania. The father came to Nebraska when but seven years of age, with his widowed mother, and they made a home near Peru. Nemaha countv. In 1871 thev moved to Hall

Archie L. Lowr}- is a member of a family of seven children, and has two brothers and four sisters. Robert and Roland are substantial Hall county fanners. Delia is the wife of M. J. Meserall. of Doniphan. Of the other children it may be recorded that Nettie is the wife of Thomas Herr, of Doniphan; Gertrude is the wife of Vem Crawford.

Archie L. Lowry was united in marriage, April 9, 1905, to Eva Gray, a fine young woman of Hall county, she being a daughter of Eugene and Ella ( Hudson ) Gray. Mr. and Mrs. Lown*- have two children, Malcolm and Eva Jean, bright youngsters who contribute to the joy and satisfaction of the home.

^Ir. and Mrs. Lowry came to Custer county in 1914 and bought land in section 25, township 20, range 21, north, and they are now the owners of 400 good acres, on which are fair buildings, a good farm home and everything to indicate without announcement that the owner is one of the prosperous farmers and ranchmen of the county.

In politics Mr. Lowry is a Republican, and fraternally he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. Custer county has room for and can afford to pay a premium for more families like the Lowrys.

ENNIS SCOTT. - Custer county has had few citizens of finer fiber or more sterling worth than the late Ermis Scott, whose field of operation was the community northeast of Anselmo, where are located the farm he developed and the fine country home which he erected for himself and his family, and in which he expected to spend the years of his retirement.

Mr. Scott was born June 28. 1855, in Whiteside county, Illinois. His father was Edwin Scott and his mother Mar>' ( Scott) Scott, both natives of the Buckeye state. An incident in the family history of Mrs. Scott is so remarkable that it is worthy of record in this column. Her parents moved from Ohio to Illinois in an early day, and to make the trip the father built a house-boat, loaded into it all his worldly goods and a family of thirteen children, and floated leisurely down the Ohio river to the Mississippi river, then up the Mississippi to Rock river, thence up the Rock river to Como, Illinois, which is near Sterling, that state. This was long before railroads were built, and the house-boat constituted an easy and economical mode of travel.

advantages, by which he quaHfied himself for useful citizenship and such public sen-ice as he was called upon to render. His life occupation by his own choosing was farming, in which he made a striking success. In 1884 he yielded to the call of the west and arrived in Antelope county, Nebraska, where he remained only a short time. In the fall of the same year he settled in Custer county, where he homesteaded 160 acres in section 26, township 20, range 22. His wife remained in Antelope county and continued teaching school, in order to supply the sinews of war by which the western claim could be improved and the primitive home established.

December 30, 1877, the same year in which Custer county was organized, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Charity D. \\ bite, a daughter of Humphrey K. and Mary (Bumgardner) White. Her father, descended from an old English line, was born in 1798, in X'irginia, and he died in Ohio, in 1883. The mother was born in Maine, in 1818, and she passed away in the same state and in the same year as her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Ennis Scott established an almost ideal home, into which were born, in the course of years, four children, two of whom died in infancy, the other two are sons: Stanley B., who was born July 27, 1886, is now farming in Custer county ; and Leon E., who was born June 11, 1894, is with his mother on the home place, but was in the draft for military service in the world war. It was arranged that when Leon was called to the service Stanley would take charge of the old home farm and conduct the extensive farming operations that his father maintained all through his active years.

In coming from Antelope county into Custer, Mr. and Mrs. Scott hauled their goods in a covered wagon, which was drawn by an ox team. They experienced many hardships, but their indomitable will conquered all obstacles.

Mr. Scott died July 9, 1916, having just completed a fine country home and having added to the fanu equipment all necessary outbuildings, barns, and sheds. He and his good wife expected to pass their declining years in ease and comfort. They had passed the years of toil, they had reached the hilltop from which the prospect was pleasing and the road much easier, but the end of life had come to Mr. Scott.

Mr. Scott was one of the most enterprising men in Custer county. He believed in public improvements for the community and comfort for his family, and both of these he did all in his power to provide. A generous spirit. Custer county is the richer for the years of his residence within its confines. He was a member of the Independent C)rder of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and in politics was a stalwart and leading Republican. Mrs. Scott continues to reside in the beautiful home, surrounded by all the blessings and comforts of life except the companionship of the worthy husband whose life fortimes she shared so many years.

GEORGE E. RICHTMYER. - The community of Ansley records upon its roll of departed and honored citizens none who left behind more substantial and valued evidences of association with its affairs than the late George E. Richtmyer. As a banker, farmer, and stock-raiser, politician, and public-spirited citizen, he came and went among the people of the vicinity of Ansley from the time of his arrival in Custer county, in 1883, until the close of his life, October 1, 1917, and in connection with memories of him there remains an impression of practical usefulness and genuine, dependable character, traceable to his imtiring zeal, persevering industry and ready recognition of opportunity.

Mr. Richtmyer was a native of the state of New York, where he was born in 1850, a son of William and I\Iary (Francher) Richtmyer. The family originated in Holland, and was early founded in New York state, where, at Gilboa, Schoharie county, William Richtmyer was born. He was a machinist and wagonmaker, trades which he followed for a number of years, but eventually he turned his attention to farming and completed his career as a tiller of the soil in his native state.

George E. Richtmyer was educated in the public schools, completing his studies in the high school at Windham, following which he entered upon his career as a school-teacher. However, he did not find the desired financial success in this field, and finally he concluded to try his fortune in the west - in the new country opening up in central Nebraska. Accordingly, he became a pioneer of Custer county, where, in 1883, he located on a homestead. He proved up on his claim, adding to his income by teaching in the pioneer country schools during the short winter terms. When he had established ownership of his land, he returned to New York, and in March, 1889, he there married Miss Sophia Decker, who was born in Schoharie county. New York, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Vandevort) Decker, who spent their lives in New York, the former being a native a Conesville and the latter of Gilboa. There were six children in the Decker family, of whom three survive : Elida D., the widow of William Bemer, a farmer of Jefferson, New York; Sophia, now Mrs. Richtmyer ; and Louie, the wife of John E. Martin, a farmer of Jefferson, Xew York.

Returning to Custer county with his bride, Mr. Richtmyer settled down to the business of cultivating and improving his property, and in the passing years became one of the leading and substantial men of his community, his management of his affairs being governed by an inherent ability, and his perse\erance and industry l)eing particularly strong points in his character. He became interested in public affairs, first as a Republican, but when the Populist movement suddenly became an important factor in national affairs, he joined that organization. In 1892 he was appointed deputy county clerk. In 1896 he was elected clerk of Custer county, by a large majority. While he traveled out of Omaha for almost two years, his main interests were confined to Custer county, and he had the utmost faith and confidence in this section. In 1903 he turned his attention to financial matters, by becoming the chief organizer of the Farmers State Bank of .\nsley, of which he became cashier. Later he was president of this institution, the affairs of which he directed wisely and well, in a conservative though progressive manner, and he was president of this bank at the time of his death. The death of Mr. Richtmyer occurred October 1. 1917, and was of tragic order - he was run over by a wagon when he was returning to Ansley from a visit to the old homestead, and he did not recover from the injuries he received in this deplorable accident. He left many behind to mourn him - those who had known him best and who recognized his superior qualities of mind and heart. At the time of his death the Ansley Herald said : "He was the soul of honor and his friends and friendships once made were always sacred to him."

Mr. and Mrs. Richtmyer had one son : Louis D., who was born in 1890, and who was educated at Wesleyan University, Lincoln ; the Nebraska State University : and Wentworth Institute. Boston, Massachusetts. In the last named institution he was graduated in 1915. Since the demise of his father, he has been operating the old homestead upon which his revered father first located in 1883. Mrs. Richtmyer. who survives her husband and resides in her pleasant home at Ansley, has in this community a wide circle of friends, and she is a memi)er of the Christian Science church of Boston.

G. THOMAS HARTSON. - In this paragraph is an exhibition of young blood on the fami - blood that is as red and vigorous and floats as much iron as the blood that welled in the veins of the hardy pioneers forty years ago. There is an old and hackneyed phrase that "blood will tell." and it is probably true, but blood finds no better opportunity for telling than on a Custer county farm under present day conditions. Tom Hartson was l)orn May 2, 1889. twenty-nine years ago, by which it is noted that he is on the morning side of thirty. For family history see sketch of James B. Hartson.

December 18. 1912. recorded the marriage of Mr. Hartson to Minnie Butcher, a young lady born and reared in this county, possessed of all the western graces that always impart life and vigor without taking toll of womanly virtues or gracious characteristics. The young people are now engaged in making their start. They have one child, Fem, four years of age - old enough and bright enough to direct the affairs of the household and to keep the fond parents dancing in attendance.

The farm operated by Mr. Hartson is rented from his father and consists of 160 acres of well cultivated land, with good buildings and general equipment. Tom Hartson owns his own implements and horse jx)wer, has a good line of live stock, and chances for sticcess are very largely in his favor. He milks five cows and gives much care and attention to the profitable details of the fanning game. He has been fifteen years a resident of the coimty. and within another fifteen years, with like diligence and economy, he and his good wife will have a comfortable home, "fronting on easy street."

Mrs. Hartson belongs to the Christian church. In politics Tom is independent. He votes the ticket as it suits his fancy, and no political boss cracks the lash alx)ve his back. A young family like this is part of the assets that insure the future prosperity of the county.

AL:MER E. SPENCER. - One of the substantial men of the present day in Custer county is Aimer E. Spencer, who has survived the many hardships the early settlers here had to contend with, and the stor)' of his experiences is very- interesting, as throwing a light upon the sturdy pioneers of 1880. He was born in Bremer county. Iowa, a son of Josiah W. and Margaret (Greenwood) Spencer, the latter of whom resides with her son .Mmer

E., of this review. Josiah W. Spencer served three years as a soldier in the Civil war, and at one time was captured by the enemy and incarcerated for three weeks in the prison pen at Andersonville, Georgia. His seven children all survive, namely : Aimer E. is the immediate subject of this sketch: Addalaska G., who was bom Februar\' 14, 1873, and who is a farmer near Broken Bow. married Sarah Story ; Josiah L., who was born May 8, 1875, and who is a retired farmer living in Broken Bow, married Dora Mottinger ; Alta. who was born November 14, 1877, is the wife of Rev. John \V. Pirnie, pastor of the Church of God at Broken Bow : -Katie F., who was born September 25, 1880. is the wife of John Holland, a farmer near Westerville ; Lula D., who was born October 30, 1885, is the wife of Aaron Story, a farmer near Farley, Iowa; and Thomas L., who was bom December 6. 1887, resides at home. Mr. Spencer brought his family to Valley county, Nebraska, in 1879. and in the following year homesteaded in Custer county. In order to secure provisions Mr. Spencer had to make a trip to Grand Island, leaving the family alone, and, with Indians still in the neighborhood and wild animals not entirely eliminated, Mrs. Spencer found many causes for anxiety. She relates that on one occasion when he was away, the children went out to gather wood and one of the sudden blizzards of snow came on and they were snowbound the entire night in the schoolhouse. Josiah W. Spencer was one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Custer county at the time of his death, which occurred in February, 1908.

Aimer E. Spencer accompanied his parents to Custer county in 1880 and still lives on his father's old homestead, where he carries on mixed farming and stock-raising, the former disadvantages of this section having been largelv overcome by improved methods. July 1. 1894, he married Miss Carrie Bishop, who is a daughter of George and Emily ( Hipsher) Bishop. Mrs. Spencer was the fourth in order of birth of her parents' family of children, the others being: .-\ddie is the wife of Alfred Crowther. a fruit farmer in Tulare county, California: Charles, who also is a fruit farmer in Tulare county, married Marj' Govier : David, who owns a f mit ranch in the above county, married Belle Sidwell ; Nellie is the wife of Oscar Lindgren, a famier in Hamilton county, Nebraska : and Nettie. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer have five children : Ralph, who was bom August 8, 1895, and who is a farmer in Custer county, married Elsie Pirnie: Lela. who was born August 8, 1897. is the wife of John Piper, a farmer in Custer county ; Aimer was born July 30, 1903 : George was born September 10, 1907 ; and Alvin was born January 18, 1910. The three youngest children are all at home. Mr. Spencer is affiliated with the Berwyn camp of the Modern Woodmen of America.

AXEL E. ANDERSON, who is a farmer and stockman in Custer county, is also a public official and is well and favorably known. Mr. Anderson was born in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, IMarch 29, 1870, one of a family of three children born to Augustus and Tilda ( Larson) Anderson. The parents of Mr. Anderson came to the United States and in the spring of 1880 settled in Polk county, Nebraska, where the mother died thirty days afterward and the father some years later. Two of their three children are living - Axel E. and John E., the latter of whom married Alma Almberg, , their home being at Stromsberg, Nebraska.

Axel E. Anderson obtained his early education in the public schools of Polk county. Nebraska, and supplemented this discipline by a course in a business college at Bushnell, Illinois. He theii spent a year in Minnesota and from there went to Decatur, Illinois. From that place he came, in 1906, to Custer county, Nebraska, and this has been his home ever since. He owns a half-section of land, which is well improved and favorably located, and his industries include general farming and stock-raising.

]\Ir. Anderson was united in marriage, in December, 1898, to Jessie M. Hart, the eldest daughter of Sunderland and Mary (Briscoe) Hart, of Decatur, Ihinois, where Mr. Hart was a retired farmer. Mrs. Anderson has two sisters and one brother - Lucy, who is the wife of Charles P. Maxwell, a musician, at Decatur, Illinois ; Edith, who lives with her sister: and Edward C. who is a business man of Jennings, Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have two children : Earl H., born December 15, 1899: and Horace W., born June 13, 1901. Both sons are at home and attending the Broken Bow high school. Mr. Anderson is somewhat prominent in Republican politics and for the past two years has been treasurer of Garfield township. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America, still holding membership in Illinois.

the person of John Ciovier, who has an exceptionally well developed property, located in section 20, township 18, which has been his home since 1885. Mr. Govier, during the thirty-three and more years that he has carried on operations here has accomplished several objects, in that he has established a good home, contributed a prosperous farm to the development of the county, and established himself in a tirm jx>sition as a substantial and esteemed citizen, thereby reaching a goal that many men might well envy.

John Govier was born near Wolverhampton, England, August 7, 1850, a son of James and Ann (Osbom) Govier. His parents came to the United States in 1864 and settled in the vicinity of Boscobel, Wisconsin, where James Govier was engaged in farming during a period of many years. He was a man of industry, held the good will and respect of his neighbors and the confidence of his associates, and was a stanch Republican in his political views. He and his wife were faithful members of the Church of God and died in Custer county, Nebraska, in that faith. They were the parents of thirteen children, of whom seven are living: John, who is the subject of this notice; Thomas, who is single and lives in Canada, where he follows farming ; Charles, who married Addie Atkins, and is a farmer of the vicinity of Weissert, Nebraska; James, who is single and resides at Ansley, Nebraska ; .Annie, who is a resident of the locality of Knob, California ; .\lbert, who married Margaret ]\Iitcheson, and lives at Ansley; and Mary, who is the wife of Charles Bishop and makes her home in California.

John Govier was a lad when he accompanied his parents to the United States, and when he reached manhood he adopted the vocation of farming, in which he has been engaged ever since. After some years of operation in Wisconsin, during which he achieved only a measure of success, in 1885 he came to Nebraska, and on March 31st of that year he secured a homestead in section 20, township 18, Custer county. He has since resided on the same property, engaged in general fanning and the raising of live stock, and has met with marked success in his efforts, being the owner of fine buildings, up-to-date equipment and a fine grade of stock. He maintains a high standing in the community, and while he has not been particularly active in local affairs, he has always shown his public spirit when measures of an important character have called for the supjx)rt of progressive citizens.

and Mrs. Beamer there were born seven children, of whom five are living: Nancy J., of Broken Bow, is the widow of the late John Trtiitt; Angeline C. married Thomas Cook and lives on a farm near Cromwell, Iowa; Clark, who married Sadie Allen, is engaged in farming in .Missouri ; Hannah is the wife of James Derickson, a carpenter of Broken Bow; Rebecca M. is the wife of John Govier. of this sketch ; and Ira Hopkins, a son of a later marriage of Mrs. Beamer, is a halfbrother of Mrs. Govier. To Mr. and Mrs. Govier have been bom eight children, and of these six survive: Harrj' E., who married Sadie Smith, is a farmer in -the Round valley community of Custer county ; Clarence E', who also farms in Round valley, married Coralee Covert ; Mabel L. is the wife of Miller Peterson, a farmer near Weissert ; Lulu P. is the wife of .\lfred Larson, a farmer near Broken Bow ; Thomas W. W., who married Emma Johnson, is a farmer of Round valley ; and Nellie E. B. is single and resides with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Govier also have an adopted son, Joseph T. Govier, who was born Mav 30. 1915".

\MLLIAM T. S. LINE. - One of the best stock fanns to be found in the southern part of Custer county figures as the home and the stage of the activities of Mr. Line, who is one of the progressive and representative citizens of the county. He claims Indiana as the place of his nativity and he celebrated his fiftythird birth anniversary in 1918. His wife, whose maiden name was Carrie Irene Spellmeyer, was born in the state of Illinois and is fift)-four years of age at the time of this writing. Mr. Line is a member of a family of eight children. Four of his brothers are living, and one of the number is a Nebraskan - Marshall Line, who resides near Burwell, Garfield county. Two brothers and one sister are deceased.

Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Line brief record may consistently be entered at this jtmcture : Arthur and Ren S. are both associated with the work and management of their father's North ranch; Ivan J. remains at home and contributes his quota to the ranch operations ; Claude represents the family and his native county as one of the gallant young men who became members of the national militar}- forces when the country l^ecame involved in the great European war, and he was stationed at Camp Funston, Kansas, at the time when the war came to a close ; Laura Lomas is living at home ; Eva and Dennis B. are students in the high school at Eddyville.

The Line landed estate comprises 1,600 broad acres, and 400 acres are maintained in a splendid state of cultivation. Mr. Line came into possession of this fine property by purchase. The permanent improvements are of excellent order and the property constitutes one of the best and most profitable stock farms in Custer county. The fann machinery is of the most modem and approved type and in itself constitutes a splendid asset, the while its utilization, as well as the general appearance of the farm, clearly indicates the progressiveness and good judgment of the owner of this valuable landed estate.

In the past years Mr. Line has bought cattle and fattened them for the market, and he has made the enterprise profitable, as has he also that of raising and handling hogs. However, in later years Mr. Line has given special attention to the dairy department of his fami activities, and at the present time he maintains a fine herd of thirty-five milch cows. The prevailing high prices for dairy products have made dair\'ing very profitable to Mr. Line, especially during the period of the great world war, and he has been progressive in the handling of all details of this line of enterprise.

Mr. Line was reared and educated principally in Illinois, to which state his parents removed when he was about twelve years of age, and there he continued to maintain his home until 1884, when he became a pioneer settler in Dawson county, Nebraska, whence he later came to Custer county. He remained in this county about five years and then returned to Dawson county, but he has owned and resided upon his present Custer county farm since 1896, this being one of the best properties in the fertile region in the southern part of Custer county. The Line family is one of prominence and influence in this community and its members enjoy unqualified popular confidence and esteem.

ALBERT BAYNE. - 'The responsibilities of present-day activities rest heavily upon the men and women living. Albert Bayne. who lives down in the Georgetown section of the South Loup, belongs to this class, and is a man who is well able to share the responsibility and discharge individually all obligations, public and private, resting upon him. He was one of the homesteaders of 1886, and has been since that time one of the improvers,

He is a son of Lee George Bayne and Lyza (Richmond) Bayne, both of whom were natives of Ohio, in which state both of them passed from the activities of this world. The subject whom these lines concern passed his early days in the Buckeye state, where publicschool opportunities were afforded, and there he qualified himself for good citizenship and for business transactions as they arise to-day in general country life.

In the home established by Mr. and Mrs. Bayne six children have been born : Hattie Johnson, who lives on a farm in Dawson county ; Mattie, who died in Iowa, several years ago : Charlie, who is a Dawson county farmer ; Jennie Line, who lives near Burwell, on a farm ; Harry, who is the youngest, and who is married and living on a farm near O'Neill. Nebraska, his one child being but twenty months old at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1918.

On the homestead where the Baynes live are to be found fairly good improvements, which meet the requirements of the operations as Mr. Bayne conducts them. He has been, withal, a successful farmer and stockman, and merits the good reputation he sustains in the immediate circle of his acquaintance.

LINCOLN G. SELL. - This title line introduces a man with a history, a man who has gone through various and varied experiences in the western country, and who to-day is one of the constituents of comnnmity enterprise and country prosperity. Mr. Sell was born in the state of Michigan, December 24. 1869. and is a son of John G. and Sylvia ( Smith ) Sell. In his father's family were three children, the other two being Mrs. Anna Robertson and Mrs. Minnie Hudson.

Lincoln G. Sell received his early education in his native state, where he attended the public schools and supported himself in the meantime by cutting cordwood. It was probably here that he learned to "saw wood." a characteristic which has stood him in good stead during all his life.

On" the 10th day of December, 1901, the matrimonial career of Mr. Sell began, when he led to the marriage altar Miss Annie Mutchie. a splendid young lady of Lexington, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Sell became the parents of five children, all of whom are living and doing honor to their parents - Maggie, Mabel. Francis. Peter, and Charles. All of the children are still at home and are engaged

Mr. Sell arrived in Nebraska November 10, 1887, about one month prior to his eighteenth birthday anniversary. Like most of the settlers, his parents came with little of this world's goods and some of the hardest experiences of the pioneer davs fell to their lot, the father having taken up a homestead. The father froze to death, fifteen years ago, in a canyon north of the Sells home place, and this tragedy shocked and grieved the entire community. Lincoln G. then took a homestead and to-day he has a half-section of well improved land.

Concerning his early life, Mr, Sells says that in 1S90 he went into McPherson county, where he stayed a short time, and later he engaged in railroading. From there he went to Omaha, where he was employed for a time in the L'nion Stockyards, which yards he helped to build. While working there he contracted typhoid fever, and he came home. After recovering he returned to Omaha and went into the army, with which he participated in one of the engagements during the Indian trouble. His conijjany took an active part in the battle of Wounded Knee, on December 27th. After leaving the army he returned to McPherson county, where he ran wild horses for a time. In this enterj>rise he had the misfortune to have his left hand badly crippled. While in McPherson county at that time he took hay contracts and put up a large amount of prairie hay. He then moved back to his home, where he has since resided and where he enjoys the comforts of farm life under most favorable circumstances. He belongs to the Republican ])arty, to whose principles he has long given a faithful adherence.

ROBERT B. WALKER. - More than a quarter of a century's connection with the banking interests of Mason City, during which time he has risen from a clerkship to the presidency of the Mason City Banking Company, has made Robert B. Walker one of the best known figures in financial circles of central Nebraska He is a native of Canada, and was bom January 29, 1<%7, a son of Robert and Margaret (Baird) Walker.

Robert Walker, the paternal grandfather of Robert B. Walker, was born in Ireland, and was a young man when he immigrated to Canada with his wife and infant children, the rest of his life being ])assed in farming in that dominion. John Baird, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Walker, was likewise a native of the lunerald Isle and was an earlv settler and farmer of Canada. Robert Walker, father of Robert B. Walker, was born in Ireland, and was a child when taken by his parents to Canada, where he was reared and educated. Following his marriage to Margaret Baird, a native of Canada, he continued farming in that country- until 1884, when he came to Custer county, Nebraska, and secured a homestead. He was an agriculturist on that property for some years, then moving to Gibbon, Buft'alo county, where he established himself in the hardware business, with his son. He is now retired, at the age of eighty years. He has been a Mason for many years and he and Mrs. Walker are members of the Presbyterian church. They have had ten children, of whom two reside in Custer county : John, who is a supervisor of Custer county and engaged in farming near Mason City; and Robert B., who is the subject of this review.

Robert B. Walker was educated in the public schools of Canada and was seventeen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Custer comity. For two j'ears he lived and farmed on the family homestead, but in 1886 he came to Mason City, where he clerked for two years, and then was variously employed until entering the Bank of Mason City, in the capacity of bookkeeper. From that time to the present he has been identified with banking matters, always advancing, and to-day he is president of the Mason City Banking Company, one of the strong institutions of this part of the state, with a capital of $25,000, surplus of $5,000, and average deposits of $275,000. Mr. \\'alker is considered one of the capable, careful, and conservative bankers of Custer county, and is a man whose personal integrity and probity have done much to conserve the interests of his institution and to gain and hold the confidence of the public. He is a Republican in his political views, and is well known in Masonrv', having attained Scottish Rite degrees, having been master of his lodge at Mason City, and holding membership as a noble of the Mystic Shrine. As a citizen he has been public-spirited and constructive in his assistance of worthy movements for the general welfare.

October 22, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. Walker to Miss Maude Hill, who was born in Wisconsin, daughter of L. B. Hill, who came to Mason City in 1888 and for a time was the incumbent of the postmastership. Four children have been bom to Mr. and Mrs. ^^'alker: Harold, twenty-six years of age, is a graduate of the medical department of the L'niversity of Nebraska, at Omaha, and enlisted in the United States Medical Reserve, in which connection he has l>een assigned to the general hospital at Kansas City, as a medical interne: Mildred, a graduate' of Kearnev Normal school, is now a teacher in the public schools of Mason City ; Marion resides ;it home and is a high-school student ; and Paul, aged seven years, is attending school. The family belongs to the Baptist church.

CARL HOLCOMB. who is favorably known in business circles of Broken Bow as one of the proprietors of Holcomb Brothers' garage, has resided in Custer county practically all of his life, and in his career he has demonstrated the possession of abilities of a superior order. This enterprising business man was born November 20, 1882, in Gibson county, Indiana, a son of Monroe C. and Amanda (V'ickers) Holcomb. His father migrated from Indiana to Grand Island in 1883. and about 1885 homesteaded northeast of Broken Bow, in what is known as the Holcomb neighborhood, there passing the remaining years of his active life. His death occurred at Broken Bow, January 13. 1900. and Mrs. Holcomb survived until February 11. 1912. They were faithful members of the Baptist church, and parents of three sons : Carl, Floyd, and Ray.

At the time of the death of their father, the Holcomb brothers inherited the old homestead, which is now being operated by the youngest of the three, Ray, a skilled and thorough agriculturist who is securing excellent results. In addition the brothers own 640 acres of land adjoining, and have the best of equipment and buildings - three complete sets of improvements. Ray Holcomb is a Democrat, affiliates with the Woodmen, and has numerous warm and appreciative friends. Floyd Holcomb, who is now a member of the firm of Holcomb Brothers, proprietors of the garage at Broken Bow, was brought up as a farmer and that was his vocation until entering business life, in 1918. He is a member of the Baptist church and votes the Democratic ticket, while his fraternal relations are with the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen. He is accounted an alert and hustling business man whose standing has been gained through marked ability and individual effort. Mr. Holcomb married Ruby Baker, and they have four children : Margaret, Monroe, Donald, and Gift'ord.

Carl Holcomb was brought up on the home farm, assisting his father during the summer months and attending the district schools in the country in the winter terms, and his first money was earned by plowing corn with an old "walking" cultivator, for Mr. John

Smalley. After his father's death, he remained on the homestead and continued his activities as a farmer until 1918. in which year he and his brother Floyd bought the garage at Broken Bow, from Martin & Son, located the first block east of the Farmers' co-operative store. An excellent business has been developed, and in addition to conducting a general agency for Dodge Brothers cars, a general line of repair work is done and all manner of tires and accessories are handled. Mr. Holcomb has firmly established himself as a reputable man of business, of much ability, and of strict integrity. While residing in the country he was called upon to fill public offices, being school director for six years and township clerk two years, and he discharged his duties in an entirely satisfactory and efficient manner. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen, and he and Mrs. Holcomb are members of the Baptist church.

Mr. Holcomb was married March 22, 1906, near Broken Bow, to Miss Rose Triplett, a daughter of Clark S. and Ruth (Holman) Triplett, farming people of Custer county. Mr. Triplett was a Democrat and he and his wife belonged to the United Brethren church. They had the following children : Inman, John, Jesse, Earl, Rose, Ida, Ada, ^laud, and Goldie. Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb have one son : Carl, Jr.

SAMUEL T. KEARNEY. - Down in the south part of the county, so far that Sumner is the nearest town, on a farm of 240 acres, is the home domicile of Samuel Tilden Kearney, who was born in Greene county, Illinois, in 1873. His wife, Lizzie (Boyer) Kearney, was born in the same year, in the Buckeye state. The father of Mr. Kearney was Henry C. Kearney, who was born on the high seas, and who departed this life in the sixty-eighth year of his age. The mother was Mary Ann (Jones) Kearney, a native of Greene county, Illinois, and she was sixty-one years of age at the time of her death. In the family of the senior Kearney were five children : W. T., who lives near Lomax ; Frances Orr, who is living at Sigourney, Iowa ; Samuel T., who is the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. Anna Wellett, of Sheridan, Wyoming ; and Nettie Boyer, of Aitkin, Minnesota.

In the family of Samuel T. Kearney arc four bright children, who do credit to himself and his wife and make happy and enjoyable their farm home: Esther Viola and Adah Hazel are both attending the high school at Overton, Nebraska : and Mary and Merle are attending school at Sumner.

The Kearney place consists of 240 acres of good land, and the farm is well improved, 100 acres being under cultivation and ven,- productive. All kinds of farm machineni", out-buildings, etc., make up the farm equipment. Stock-raising is one of the sources of profit and income followed by Mr. Kearney. The develojiment of the place has been brought about under many difficulties and early-day experiences. Lumber for the buildings was freighted in the early days from Kearney. Sumner is the nearest towMi. The spring wagon and the lumber wagon of the early day are no longer used as the vehicles of conveyance, but the family ride in a motor car and are farming with modern-dav implements.

Mr. Kearney is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, in which order he takes a prominent part. The family stand high is the community and are worthy of the rating accorded them.

CHARLES E. SHEPPARD. - The life of Charles E. Sheppard, of Broken Bow, is an illustration of the j)Ossible control over earlv limitations and the wise utilization of ordinary op])ortunities. His career has been identified with Custer county from 1889, since which year he has engaged in several business ventures, but for the past seventeen years he has been proprietor of the elevator of the Central Granaries Company. Mr. Sheppard was born January 19. 1851. near Springfield. Illinois, a son of Franklin Bullock. He was about one year old when his i)arents died, within a month of one another, and he was adopted by and taken into the home of Ira S. and Marjorie (Van Vleet) Sheppard.

Ira S. Sheppard was bom in the state of New York, and as a young man removed to ^Minnesota, where he was engaged in the boot and shoe business until reaching the age of thirty-five years, when he turned his attention to farming. He was a memlier of the Masonic fratcrnitv and was a strict Prohibitionist. He died in 1917, Mrs. Sheppard passing away in October, 1908, both in Moon Lake township. Their own children were a daughter who died when young: and Joseph P., Cyrus R., Prosper E., Benjamin F., and Fred.

Charles E. Shepjiard was sent to the district schools in Minnesota, and spent the summer months in working on his foster father's farm. He remembers well the first money he ever made, the sum of ten cents, which was given him for handing bundles of wheat on a stack to Elder Kem, a Methodist Episcopal minister. The incident remained in his memon,- because of something that followed. In the evening, with the other youngsters, he went out to the old log barn to look at some newly-arrived puppies, and when the jealous and irritable mother dog charged him he nearly lost his hard-earned dime as he fled to safety. Mr. Sheppard remained on the home ])lace until he was twenty-two years of age, and then founded a home of his own when he married, April 18. 1873. at Linden. Minnesota. Miss Mar\^ E. W'arner. daughter of Captain Luther and Jennie (Goodwin) Warner. Her father was a native of New York and was captain of a canal boat, and her mother was bom in England. Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard became the parents of eight children, of whom five are living. Franklin Luther, the eldest son. is a member of the Broken Bow grocery firm of Sheppard & Burk. located in the Dierks Block, and is a Mason and Highlander, a Republican in politics, and a member of the Episcopal church. He was first married to Grace Kennedy, daughter of Charles Kennedy, and they had one child. Stella. Mr. Sheppard married, second, Marion Vanderburg. and they have a son. J. Luther. Charles .\. Sheppard. second, son of Charles E.. follows the trade of mason at Broken Bow. and is a Republican. He married Marj' Carr. daughter of George Carr, a pioneer farmer of Custer county, and they have two sons and three daughters. Mabel, the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Sheppard. is the wife of John Myrick. a farmer in the vicinity of Sherman. Pennsylvania, and has three daughters. R. J. Shepjiard. youngest son of Charles E., is a musician of Beloit. Kansas, and is a Republican voter. He married Eva McCall. Pearl, the yoimgest child of Charles E. and Mrs. Sheppard, is a graduate nurse from Green Gables Sanitarium, Lincoln, as is her husband, George Minor, and for the past several years they have been conducting the Broken Bow Hos- [lital. Thev are members of the E]iiscopal church and Mr. Minor is a Republican.

Charles E. Sheppard came to Custer county in 1889 and took up his residence at Broken Bow, where he embarked in the ice business. This he conducted for seven years, when he disposed of his interests and for some time thereafter applied himself to caq:)entry, a trade which he had mastered in his youth, but in 1901 he became the manager of the elevator known at Broken Bow as the Central Granaries Company, of which he has made a substantial success. He is one of the progressive business men of his community and a citizen who supports actively and generously all movements which promise advancement.

PETER W. MULLEN. - The qualities of adaptability, common sense, persistence, and good judgment have prevailed in the energetic life of Peter W. Mullen, winning for him .enviable rank in business circles of Broken Bow, where since 1908 he has been a member of the firm of Mullen Brothers, operators in real estate, loans, and insurance. Mr. Mullen is a product of the agricultural region of Harrison county, Iowa, having been bom at Missouri Valley, Julv 6, 1878, a son of Peter R. and Ellen MJ ( Rourke ) Mullen. His parents were natives of Dubuque county, Iowa, and his grandparents on both sides were born in Ireland.

Peter R. Mullen passed his entire life as an agriculturist in Iowa, where he was known in several communities as a capable and industrious man, a stanch member of the Democratic party and a faithful Catholic. He died January 16, 1918, at Missouri \'alley. Iowa, where his widow still resides, in the home of her son-in-law, Frank McBride. There were nine children in the family, as follows : John is deceased ; James P., a ranchman of Broken Bow, Democrat and Catholic, married Rose Sweeney, daughter of Michael Sweeney, and has had five children, of whom four are living - James, Joseph, Charles, and Thomas; Peter W. is the immediate subject of this review: Man,' A., who died in November, 1916, was the wife of George P. Sweeney, owner of a garage at Neola, Iowa, and a member of the Catholic church and the Knights of Columbus, with four children - Francis, Ellen, James, and Eileen ; Charles M., a Custer county farmer, Democrat voter, Catholic, and a member of the Knights of Columbus, married Catherine Ryan, daughter of Edward Ryan, and has five children - Loretta, Catherine, Bernard, Carmelita, and Joseph ; Ellen M., wife of John J. Ryan, a farmer of Broken Bow, Catholic, Democrat, and Knight of Columbus, has five children - Leona, Celestine. Joseph, Ellen, and Richard : Catherine is a member of the Dominican Sisters at Omaha; Genevieve, wife of Frank McBride, of Missouri \'alley, in the L'nited States postofifice department, a Democrat, and memljer of the Knights of Columbus, has two children - Geraldine and Lucille ; and Cecelia is the wife of John Doyle, a farmer near Neola. Iowa, a Democrat, Catholic, and Knight of Columbus, with one child - Clair.

Peter \\'. Mullen received his education in the public schools of Harrison county, and until he was thirty years of age he worked on his father's farm with his brother Charles. When he was a lad his father was greatly troubled by gophers. In order to stimulate his sons' energy in getting rid of these pests he made them an offer of three cents for each animal, and in case its head possessed gray hairs the reward was five cents. It is to be supposed that a thorough search was made on each little rodent by the sharp-eyed youths, to see that no gray hairs escaped them. While residing in Iowa Mr. Mullen took some interest in real-estate matters, but this was only as a side line, and it was not until he came to Broken Bow, in November, 1908, that he engaged in the business seriously. Here he joined his brother James, who had preceded him by about one year, and the finn of Mullen Brothers, real estate, loans, and insurance, was formed, the business having since been developed to large and important proportions. The brothers have won universal confidence and respect because of their straightforward manner of conducting their transactions, and their business standing is excellent.

On October 5, 1909, Peter W. Mullen was married, at Missouri Valley, Iowa, to Miss Anastasia J. Ryan, daughter of John and Julia fSenat) Ryan, farming people of that community and devout members of the Catholic church. Mr. Ryan was a Democrat and belonged to the Knights of Columbus. In the Ryan family there were the following children : Edward, Richard, Timothy, Mary, Patrick, James, Bridget, Malachi, Margaret, Johanna, and Anastasia. Mr. and Mrs. Mullen are the parents of four children : Angela, born in 1910; Patricia, born in 1912; Alary, born in 1914; and John, born in 1916.

EUGENE J. BOBLITS. - In Eugene J. Boblits, one of Custer county's best known citizens, is found a leader in the cattle industry on the South Loup river, and he is also an honored veteran of the great Civil war. Mr. Boblits was born December 21, 1846, in Frederick county, Maryland. His father, Jacob Boblits, was likewise born in Frederick county, where he became a man of considerable prominence. He was influential in the Masonic fraternity, the Independent ( )rder of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias ; was an elder in the Moravian church, and was a tanner bv occupation. He married Josephine Gernand, who was a daughter of Jacob Gernand, a weaver, and of the eight children born to them the following are living: Eugene J. is the subject of this review: Alice is the widow of Eugene Willard. of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, and she has four children ; and Ida is

Eugene J. Boblits Hved at home and assisted his father until July 7. 1862. when he enlisted for service in the Civil war. entering Company H. One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was so severely wounded at the battle of Antietam. September 17, 1862, that he was confined in a hospital for three months, at the expiration of which he was honorably discharged, December 8. 1862. Of his bravery and the quality of his service no better testimony can be produced than the following lines, which may be found on page 74 of the history of the regiment : "In the retreat from the said West Woods, tile regimental colors of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth were saved through bravery worthy of special mention. The color sergeant. George A. Simpson, was shot down and instantly killed, and five of the color guard went down. Then Eugene Boblits, of Company H. rescued and carried them for some distance, and when he was badly wounded, he threw them to Sergeant Walter W. Greenland, of Company C (afterward adjutant general), from whom Captain Wallace received them and carried them to the rear of the batter)- we were ordered to support. In the meanwhile men were falling thick and fast, like leaves in autumn, and out of the 150.000 soldiers engaged on both sides in this great battle. -40.000 men were killed and wounded between sunu]) and sundown."

Home care and nursing brought about Mr. Boblits' partial recovery, so that, in 1863, he was able to enter Millwood Academy, at Shad Gap. Huntington county. Pennsylvania, where he continued for three years and completed his education. By tliat time he had so far recovered from his wounds that he was able to learn the tanning business under his father, and he became so expert that he was engaged by James B. Reese to operate the latter's large steam tannery at New Creek. West \'irginia. where he remained for four vears. In the meanwhile he married, and in 1874, with his father's assistance, he went into the cattle business on the South Loup river, having come to Custer county in the fall of 1873. He has witnessed many changes in this field of enterprise, as in every other industry, during these forty-four years, but he has always maintained that Nebraska is the natural stage for cattleraising. Mr. Boblits has tender recollections of his childhood home and of his loving parents, who taught him habits of industry and instilled ideas of thrift. He tells an amusin" story of what was probably his first business transaction, when he was yet a little boy. His mother prevailed upon him to keep the cowyard clean, and encouraged him by the payment of three cents a week. He carefully. saved his pennies until he had accumulated eightyfive cents, when, unknown to his mother, he planned to spend his entire fortune on a valentine for a little neighbor maiden and awaited the coming of the good saint's day to purchase and send the heart missive. It was but a short time before -this that his dear mother came to him and. patting him on the shoulder as good mothers do. she said, to his dismay: "Eugene, you have been a good little boy and I am going to take your saved-up pennies and put enough more with them to buy you a pair of red-top boots with copper toes.''

Mr. Boblits was married October 3, 1871, to Mrs. Harriet E. McNeill, of New Creek, West Mrginia. She had one daughter by her first marriage, and this daughter is now Mrs. Jennie B. Allcar. a resident of Keyser, West \'irginia. Mrs. Boblits' maiden name was Harriet E. Duling. Her father. William A. Duling. was born near Bull Run, X'irginia. and before the Civil war. was a slave-owner and planter. Her mother. Harriet (Cluter) Duling. was a native of Hampshire countv. West Mrginia. Mr. and Mrs. Boblits have three children - James J., w-ho operates the home ranch, four and one-half miles north of Oconto : Mary J., who is at liome : and Harriet A., who is the wife of Frank A. Ticrney. a ranchman near Oconto.

FLOYD HOLCOMB. - In the thriving community of Broken Bow, one of the live and enterprising business men is Floyd Holcomb, w-ho, with his brother, Carl Holcomb, is actively engaged in the conducting of an automobile garage. He has been a resident of Custer county since 1885. in which year he came to this community from his birthplace, Hamilton county. Nebraska, where he was boni Novemlier 9. 1874. a son of John Monroe Holcomb and Amanda (Vickers) Holcomb. There were three sons in the family : Carl, Floyd, and Ray, of whom the lastnamed is looking after the brothers' large and valuable agricultural interests in Custer county.

Floyd Holcomb started to attend the district schools of Custer county, he iiaving been still a boy w-hen he accompanied his parents to Custer county, in 1885. the family settling nine miles northeast of Broken Bow, in a locality which subsequently became known as the Holconib neighborhood. He earned his first money working for his father, with whom he remained until the latter's death, in 1900, when he removed to other land, which he and his brothers had purchased. In 1917 Mr. Holcomb and his brother Carl decided to enter business at Broken Bow, and accordingly they here bought the old Martin garage, which they have since conducted with great success. Air. Holcomb is known as a business man of superior ability, and in addition to executive capacity possesses much mechanical skill and ingenuity. He is interested in fraternal affairs, being a member of the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the W'oodmen, and his political faith is that of the Democratic party. He and his family belong to the Baptist church.

Mr. Holcomb was married, May 16, 1908, to Miss Ruby Baker, daughter of Rolland T. and Margaret J. (McClain) Baker, former farming- people of this county and now retired residents of Broken Bow. To this union there have been born four children : Marguerite T., John M., Donald R.. and Gift'ord F.

R.\SMUS ANDERSON. - The career of Rasmus Anderson, a pioneer of Custer county, and now one of the successful business men of Broken Bow, has been one in which interesting incidents have occurred from his early boyhood, and in which he has worked his way from obscurity to prominence and from poverty to affluence. He is a native son of Denmark, and was born July 11, 1863, his parents being Niels and Marie (Rasmussen) Anderson, natives of that country.

Mr. Anderson's father was a sea captain who owned his own vessel and did a general commercial business, both at home and abroad, frequently conveying cargoes of grain to England, where he would take on coal as cargo for the return trip. Mr. Anderson vividly remembers one trip which he took with his father when he was about twelve years old, to Iceland, carrying a load of provisions and returning with wool and woolen goods. He was ver\' greatly interested in the Hekla geyser, near INlount Hekla and the famous volcano of that name, the geyser throwing a stream some fifty feet in height. The return journey was delayed through various reasons and it was not until late in the fall that the sturdy little vessel again put to sea. so that it was twice necessary on its voyage to run out into the Gulf Stream, where the warm waters would melt the great cakes of ice that had formed on the vessel's sides and threatened to sink it. There were eight children in the Anderson family, of whom seven are living, five in Denmark, and Mr. Anderson and one sister in the United States. This sister is now Mrs. IMarie Winters and resides at Norman, Nebraska.

Rasmus Anderson received a public-school education, and when a lad of seven years began to think of going to foreign lands, eagerly listening to the stories of the sailors from whom he occasionally secured employment at cleaning their nets and knocking the barnacles from the bottoms of their boats. He was but seventeen years of age when he left the parental roof and shipped on a three-masted schooner, "The Sun," bound for England, with a cargo of barley. When he arrived in the latter country, stories that he heard in America fired his imagination with a desire to visit this country, and March 10, 1880, he embarked on a tramp steamer, "The Marathon," and set sail for the United States. As it was still early in the spring the sea was rough and the weather stormy, but after a voyage of twenty-two days the steamer made port at New York city and young Anderson thereafter arrived in Boston with only five cents in his pocket. In addition to this financial handicap, he had no working knowledge of the English language, but he soon secured employment in helping to unload cargoes from the incoming vessels, and he continued to be thus employed until he had enough money to buy a ticket to Niles, Alichigan. There he obtained work on a farm and remained for a few months, following which he moved on to (jmaha, Nebraska, and was given free transportation to Grand Island, to work with a surface gang on the Union Pacific Railroad. After one day's work he graduated from that position, for which he had little liking after his blankets had been stolen by some of the gang, and he accordingly made his way to a farm in Hamilton county, where he worked for a short period. In 1883 Mr. Anderson came to Custer county and settled on a homestead in the Dutchman's valley, six miles east of Broken Bow, where he made his real start toward success.

(Jn May 13, 1886, about three years after his arrival, Mr. Anderson was married, at the home of the bride's parents, near Berwyn, to Louisa E. Barnes, daughter of Peter \i. and Eunice (Roden) Barnes, farming people, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes had three sons and three daughters. They were devout members of the Alethodist church, and Mr. Barnes was a Republican. Mr. Anderson remained on his farm about fifteen years, and each year he was increasingly successful as a farmer and stock-raiser. Eventually he became interested in real estate, and finally he moved to Broken Bow, to devote all of his time to this business, in which he has made a marked success. His office is located over the postoffice. he being the owner of the building, in addition to which he has various other interests and holdings. He has an excellent reputation in business circles, as he has also as a citizen. He is a member of the Masons and is a Republican in politics.

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have had six children, as follows : Ray R., a graduate of Broken Bow High school and Broken Bow Commercial College, is now municipal-court judge and United States commissioner at Billings, .Montana; Nels M. is a salesman of automobile accessories, at Portland. Oregon ; Omer K., who is a resident of Broken Bow, and who is a salesman for Swift & Company, of Omaha, married Anna Eddy, and has one son, Omer K., Jr. ; Lee I. is a student at the Bailev SanitariunT, Lincoln; Eunice I. is a teacher in the public schools of Broken Bow ; and Florence is the wife of Lieutenant W'arde Cousin, a member of the United States Tank Corps, stationed with his regiment at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the time of this writing.

GUY E. LIVERMORE. - The life of a professional or literary man seldom exhiliits any of those e.xciting or striking incidents that seize upon public feeling and fix attention upon himself. His character is generally made up of the aggregate of the qualities and cjualifications he may possess and as these may be elicited by the exercise of the duties of his vocation or the particular profession to which he may belong. Guy E. Livermore, editor of the Sargent Leader, may not form an exception to this general rule, but since maturity his life has been one of constant professional duty, and the distinction he has attained in the journalistic circles of Custer county is evidence enough that these qualities have not been planted on barren soil.

Mr. Livermore was born in Ringgold county, Iowa, October 17, 1875, and is a son of M. F. and Sophia E. (Hatch) Livermore. His father was born in Louisa county. Iowa, where he was united in marriage with Sophia E. Hatch, born near Canton, Ohio, in 1854. In his native state, where he was bom in 1850, ^Ir. Livermore followed farming and school teaching in the vicinity of Mount Ayr until 1879. in which year he moved to Kansas, where he engaged in farming a homestead for four years. The bufi'aloes had disappeared from the plains of Kansas a number of years previously, but Mr. Livermore added to his income through the former presence of this noble animal, by collecting bones from the prairies and hauling them forty miles to market. In 1883 he came to Custer county and settled on a homestead, and here he continued to be engaged in farming until his death, in 1892. He and Mrs. Livermore were the parents of seven children : Guy E., whose name initiates this article ; \\eldon, of Sargent ; Floy, who is engaged in teaching school in Custer county ; Mrs. R. W. Hicks, whose husband is a Sargent druggist ; Mrs. Rae Hicks, whose husband has the star mail route from Ansley to Sargent ; Fay, who is farming near Burwell ; and Harrison B., who, as a member of the national amiy, in France, and in a medical coq:is at the time of this writing. Mrs. Livemiore, who is a resident of Sargent, belongs to the Christian church, and her husband held the faith of the Methodi,St Episcopal church. He was a Republican in politics and ser\'ed on the county board of supervisors about 1886 or 1887.

Guy E. Livermore attended the graded schools of Sargent and the high school at Broken Bow, graduating from the latter, in 1900, as a valedictorian of his class. He began teaching in 1894, and continued to be thus engaged for twenty-two years, being one of the best known and most popular teachers in Custer county. In 1908 he took a course in the University of Nebraska, attending summer school courses. He made good advancement in his profession, and during the last eight years of his pedagogic labors he was principal of the school at Comstock, which, during his regime, increased from three to six rooms. He was a general favorite with ])upils. teachers, and his other co-v>orkers, and was acknowledged a man of particular efficiencv in his field. In 1916 Mr. Livermore turned his attention from this kind of educational work to another field, the instruction of the jniblic through the columns of a newsjxiper. He purchased the Sargent Leader, which now has a circulation of nearly 1000 copies in Custer county and which has been a success under his management. It is bright, clean, enter])rising and wholesome, and it has made many lasting friends among the reading public, being also well deserving of the su])port it receives as an advertising medium. In connection with the paper .Mr. Livermore conducts an ui>-to-clate job printing office.

September 1, 1908 Mr. Livermore was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Miller, daughter of the Hon. E. Miller, who represented liis district in the state legislature. Mr.

Miller was a pioneer farmer of Sargent and was a well known real-estate man, but he is now living a retired life at Hastings, Nebraska. Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Livermore, four are living - Leland C, nine years of age (1918); Clarice, six years old ; Roscoe, aged four years ; and Wanda, two and one-half years of age. The family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Livermore is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed the official chairs, and in politics he is independent.

- Standing among the highest in his profession in Custer county, and enjoying a not less exalted jjosition in the estimation of his friends, whose name is legion. Dr. Clark H. Fensterniacher, of Sargent, is likewise deserving of more than passing mention because of his accomplishments in the field of surgery. He is a native of Cass county, Michigan, and was born March 2, 1873, a son of C. A. and Margaret (Hill) Fenstermacher.

C. A. Fensterniacher was born in Pennsylvania, where he was educated and reared as a farmer, a vocation which he adopted and followed in Michigan. He was married in Cass county, that state, to which his wife had come as a young woman, from her native New Jersey, and there Mr. Fenstermacher continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits uiUil his retirement, several years prior to his death. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which his widow, who is a resident of Michigan, also belongs. They were the parents of five children : Dr. C. C. is engaged in practicing medicine ; Dr. Clark H. is the subject of this notice; Abbie is the wife of Clarence Metcalf, an implement dealer of Sargent, Nebraska ; Maggie, twin of Abbie, is single and is a resident of Michigan ; and Verna is a teacher in the public schools of that state.