Richardson County, Nebraska - Biographical sketches, 1917 (part 13 of 19)

Edward C. Vogele

. Edward C. Vogele, one of the progressive young farmers of the precinct of Barada and the owner of a fine place of one hundred and twenty acres in section 23 of that precinct, was born on the farm on which he now lives and has lived there all his life. He was born on February 12, 1884, son of William and Augusta (Schibe) Vogele, pioneers of that section of the county, both of whom are now deceased.

Both William Vogele and his wife were of European birth, natives of the kingdom of Wurtemburg, the former born in 1833 ^"d the latter in 1845, who were married in the city of Bufifalo, New York, in 1864, and three years later, in 1867, came to the then new state of Nebraska and settled on a farm in the Barada strip in this county, where they established a comfortable farm home and where they spent the remainder of their lives, William Vogele dying in 1912 and his widow in February, 1913. They were memliers.of the Lutheran church and their children were reared in that faith. There were eleven of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others being as follow : William, now a resident of California; Charles, also of California: Albert, of Oklahoma; Anna, deceased; Barney, of Minnesota; Lena, wife of P. Voltz, of Oklahoma; August, of Oklahoma; Henry, a farmer of Arago precinct, this county; Robert, who is farming near Rulo in this county, and Rudolph, of Minnesota.

Edward C. \'ogele was reared on the farm on which he was born, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools, and from the days of his boyhood was a valued aid in the labors of the home place. After the death of his father he inherited eighty acres of the home farm and has since bought an adjoining "forty," thus giving him a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, on which he has made vaKiable improvements and which he has brought up to an excellent state of cultivation. In addition to his general farming Mr. Vogele has given considerable attention to the breeding of horses and since 1915 has also been an extensive breeder of mules and is doing very well in his operations.

On December 24, 1907, Edward C. Vogele was united in marriage to Katherine Blieholder, who was born at McCook, this state, and to this union four children have been born, Gladys, Helen, Grace and Edwin L. Mr. and Mrs. Vogele have a very pleasant home and have ever taken an interested part in the general social activities of the community in which they live. Mr. Vogele is a Republican and gives a good citizen's attention to local civic afifairs.

Christian Kammerer

The Kammerer family, of which the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this sketch, is a well-known and respected representative, have been known in Richardson county since the early pioneer days, known as industrious, law-abiding citizens.

Christian Kammerer, who is farming in Falls Cit\- precinct, was burn on October 30, 1868, in Arago precinct, this county, a son of Karl H. and Christina (Roesch) Kammerer. The father was born, July 10, 1831, in Baden, Germany, where he grew to manhood and made his home until 1868, when he crossed the ocean to America, the trip across the Atlantic requiring two weeks in a sailing vessel, landing in New York City. lie then came by sail to St. Joseph, Missouri, thence by steamboat up the Missouri river to Arago, in the neighborhood of which place he bought raw land, eighty acres, for which he paid three dollars an acre. He built a frame house from the native Cottonwood timber, and began life there in true pioneer fashion, farming there for ten years; then sold out and went to Nuckolls county, Nebraska, where his death occurred in 1896. He was married in 1858 in Germany, to Christina Roesch. and to their union seven children were born, namely : Christina, who married August Seover and is deceased; Elizabeth, widow of P. Warner, who is now living at Deweese, Nebraska; William, who makes his home in Los .Vngeles, California; Karl H., who lives at Flats, Nebraska; Philip, who lives at Deweese, Nebraska; August, who lives in Germany, and Christian, the subject of this sketch.

The mother of the foregoing children died in 1870. The second marriage of Karl Kammerer took place in 1873, to Wilhelmina Last, a native of Germany, which country she left for America in the spring of 1873. She is now living in Deweese, Nebraska. To this second union nine children were born, namely : Anna, who married Clarence Ranck, editor of publications at Shenchow, Hunan, China, where he was sent by the Evangelical Missionary Society, and has two children, a son and a daughter, both born in China; Mrs. Lina Kahsea, who lives in Arapahoe, Nebraska; Albert, who lives in Vermillion, South Dakota; Otto, deceased; Mrs. Elvenia Class, who lives in Reserve, Kansas; Paul, Emma and Edward, all living in Deweese, Nebraska, and Martha, who lives in Los Angeles, California.

Christian Kammerer was reared on the farm and attended the earlyday di.strict schools. When twenty-one years old he Ijegan working as a farm hand. In 1894 he began renting land at Preston, Nebraska, and in 1898 bought his present farm of ninety-three acres in sections 24 and 25. Falls City precinct. He also owns eighty acres in Jefferson precinct, making one hundred and seventy-three acres in all. He is carn,'ing on general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of Poland China hogs. There was only a log cabin on the place when he came here. In 191 5 he built a modern and commodious home, which he equipped with a hot-water heating plant, electric lights, etc., and he has also built an up-to-date barn and other convenient outbuildings. Mr. Kammerer has made exhibits of corn, wheat, oats and eggs at the farmers institutes at Falls City. He has a productive and well-kept fann, fifteen acres of which is still in native timlier.

On February 13, 1896, Mr. Kammerer was married to Louise Hartman, who was born. March 27, 1871, in Wisconsin. She is a daugliterof Frederick and Wilhelmina (Hoffeins) Hartman, natives of Germany, who came to America on the same ship which carried the parents of her husband to the new land. They located in Wisconsin, where they lived until 1882. when Air. Hartman came to Richardson county, Nebraska, his first wife having died in Wisconsin. His second wife is now living on the dd heme place, seven and one-half miles northeast of Falls City, where iiis deatii occurred many years ago. ^Irs. Kammerer was eight years old wlien her father brought her to Richardson county, and here she made b.er home with her sister. Mrs. John Brecht. until her marriage. Four children ha\e been liorn to Mr. and Mrs. Kammerer. namely: Milton. Edgar. Alice E., and Lester L.. all at home.

district No. 55 for the past sixteen years. He has an interesting collection of Indian relics gathered from his farm, including canes, axes, spear heads, etc.. among which is one of the largest stone axes in the county.

Henry F. Pribbeno

Henry F. Pribbeno. proprietor of a fine farm of four hundred and fort}- acres in section 24 of the precinct of Arago, this county, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on January i. 1 87 1, son of Charles and Caroline (Thompson) Pribbeno. both of European birth, the former born in Prussia and the latter in Norway, who became substantial residents of this county and here spent their last days.

Charles Pribbeno was born in 1846 and remained in his native Prussia until the days of his young manhood, when he came to the United States and after a sometime residence in Wisconsin went to the mining regions of the West and staked out a number of silver-mining claims. About the year 1865 he came to the then Territory of Nebraska and settled in Richardson county, engaging in freighting from the river lamling at Arago over the plains to Colorado and other points West. In the meantime he bought a tract of land in section 24 of Arago precinct and after a while established his home there, becoming one of the most substantial farmers and most extensive stock feeders in that section, remaining there until his death. His wife, who was born in June, 1841, and who was but a girl when her parents came to this country from Norway, died in 1909. Charles Pribbeno and wife were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being as follow : Charles, of Preston, this state; Sophia. Emma and Sophia (second), who died in infancy: Mrs. Anna Ernst, a widow, living at Preston, and William, deceased.

Reared on the farm on which he was bornj Henry F. Priljbeno received his early schooling in the district schools of Arago and supplemented the same by a course in Campbell College at Holton, Kansas. From the days of his boyhood he had been a valued aid in the labors of developing and improving the home place and after leaving college he settled down on the home farm and began farming there on his own account, renting land from his father. After his marriage in the spring of 1896 he established his home there and in 1902 bought the home place from liis father and has since continued to own and operate the same. Mr. Pril)l)eno has a well- cultivated place of four hundred and forty acres, in addition to his general farming giving considerable atention to the raising of Shorthorn cattle, and is doing very well in his operations. Since taking possession of the farm he has made numerous substantial improvements and his farm plant is now one of the best in that part of the county.

On April i6, 1896, Henry F. Pribbeno was united in marriage to Elizabeth Werner, who also was born in the precinct of Arago, February 6, 1876, daughter of Ernest and Caroline (Miller) Werner, who are now living retired in Falls City* and to this union the following children have been Ixjrn : CaroHne, Fred, ' Esther, Anna, Elsie, Mary (deceased), Ruth, Emma (deceased), Walter and Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Pribbeno are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church and take a proper part in church work, as well as in the general good works and social activities of the community in which they live. Mr. Pribbeno is an independent Republican. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America and takes an active part in the affairs of the same.

Alexander Rankin McMullen, one of the most substantial and progressive farmers and stockmen of the northern part of Richardson county and the proprietor of a fine farm of four hundred acres in the precinct of Muddy, two miles east of Stella, and of one of the finest farm residences in this county, is a native of the old Keystone state, but has been a resident of Richardson county since the days of his young manhood and has done well his part in the labors of developing the northern part of the county. He was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1862, son of Dr. Thomas and Rebecca (Swan) McMullen, both natives of that same state and the latter of whom became a pioneer of this county, where her last days were spent.

Dr. Thomas McMullen was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, in 1828, a son of Alexander McMullen, of Scottish descent, who had come to this country from the north of Ireland and had settled in western Pennsylvania. The Doctor married Rebecca Swan, a daughter of the Rev. Samuel Swan, one of the most influential men in that part of the state, and for years was engaged in the practice of his profession at Greenville. Pennsylvania, where he died in 1884, ^t the age of fifty-six years. He and his wife were the i)arents of eleven children, eight of whom are still living, the three eldest heing deceased, the survivors, hesides the subject of this sketch, the fourth in order of birth, being as follow : Elizabeth Morehead, of Tarkio, ^Missouri; Genevieve Blanche, also of Tarkio; James Wallace ;\IcMullen, of Loveland, Colorado; Dr. Charles Bell McMuUen, a member of the faculty of Tarkio College; Richard Bard McMullen, also of Tarkio; ]\Irs. Jeannette Beatie, of the precinct of Muddy, this county, and Jessie Poe McMullen, formerly a secretarj' of the Young Women's Christian Association, and now a teacher in the high school at Tarkio. In 1884, following the death of her husband, Mrs. Rebecca McMullen came out to Nebraska with nine of her children and entered upon possession of a tract of four hundred and eighty acres of fine land in the precinct of Muddy, this county, which Dr. Thomas McMullen had previously purchased, he having made some excellent investments in this state, and here she spent the remainder of her life, her death occurring on November 17, 1908, she then being seventy-three years of age.

Alexander Rankin McMullen was reared at Greenville, Pennsylvania, A\here for years his f?^ther was a practicing physician, and completed his schooling at Elders Ridge Academy. He was twenty-one years of age when he came to this county with his mother and the others of the family and upon him fell the management of the farm which had been left to his mother, and there he continued to make his home until his marriage in 1893, when he established his home on his present place two miles east of Stella, where in the summer of 1903, he erected a commodious new modern house, one of the finest farm residences in Richardson county. Mr. McMullen is the owner of four hundred acres of land and has two other houses cm his place for the use of his farm help. Near his home he has a fine apple orchard of ten acres and in the care of these trees takes much personal interest. For }ears Mr. McMullen has been a breeder of live stock and formerly gave much attention to the feeding of cattle for the market, in the height of his activities in that direction his operations in live stock reaching twenty thousand dollars annually, and he long has been recognized as one of the most substantial farmers and stockmen in the northern part of the county. Mr. McMullen is a Republican and has ever given a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office. He was reared a Presbyterian, but he and his family are now attendants at the Lutheran church.

1.0 Nellie Tynan, who was born at Peru, this state, daughter of Andrew Tynan and wife, pioneers of this part of Nebraska and further and fitting mention of which family is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union four children have been born, namely : Mildred, born on ]\Iay 3, 1897, who died on June 9, 1915; Richard Andrew, December ^9. 1903. and Joseph Rankin and Philip Bard, twins, August 24, 1906.

Patrick F. Murphy

The general appearance of Patrick F. Murphy's farm in Falls City precinct would indicate that a man of thrift and good management was at the helm there. Mr. Murphy was born in Clinton county, Iowa, February 3, i860, a son of Michael and Ellen (Tobin) Murphy. Michael ^Murphy was born in Ireland about 1820. but left that country when young with his parents, the family locating in Canada, later coming to Iowa. In 1872 he came to Nemaha county, Kansas, and established his home in Richmond township, one mile and a half west of Seneca. He lived there about five 3-ears, then came to Richardson county, locating on a farm northwest of Falls City, in Barada township, and there he engaged in farming and made numerous improvements until 1880. when he bought land in the southwestern part of Jefferson precinct, where he farmed until his death, which occurred in 1885. His wife was also born in Ireland, alx)ut 182 1. Her death occurred in 1880. They were members of the Catholic church. To these parents twelve children were born, eight sons and four daughters, of whom Patrick F., of this sketch, was the ninth in order of birth, the others being as follow: Edward R., a veteran of the Civil War, who now lives in Seneca, Kansas; Mary J., who married P. Casey, and is now deceased ;. Thomas F., deceased ; James, who lives in Moberly, Missouri ; Ella, wife of John Draney, of Seneca, Kansas; John, who lives in Oklahoma; Lizzie, wife of Jerry Kanaly, a retired farmer and extensive landowner, now living retired in Falls City; Michael D., who lives in Oklahoma: Robert, wlio lives in Falls City; Margaret, wife of Mat. Kanaly, of Edmond, Oklahoma, and \\'illiam, deceased.

Patrick F. Murphy was reared on the farm and he attended the district schools when a boy. He remained at home with his father until the latter retired from active life in 1885, when the son traded for his present farm of one himdred and sixty-three acres in Falls City precinct. He has made many improvements here and has carried on general farming and stock raising. !Most of the original buildings on the place were demolished by a tornado. Mr. Murphy is a Democrat and has served as a member of the local school board in district 94. He belongs to the Catholic church and, fraternally, holds membership in the Knights of Columbus and in the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

^Ir. ilurphy was married on February 16, 1885, to Hannah Moran, who was born, July 10, 1862, in Canada. She is a daughter of John and Mary (Barrett) Moran, who moved from Canada to Missouri and later, in 1870, to Nebraska, and settled on a farm in the vicinity of Rulo, this county. The father later bought land near Preston. He and his wife are both now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Murphy eleven children have been born, namely: ^^Irs. ]\Iary Stump, who lives in Texas; Thomas, who lives in Falls City ; Paul, Alice and John, at home ; Leo, deceased ; Grace, deceased ; William, a student in St. Benedict College at Atchison, Kansas; Vera, at home ; Ruth, who is in a convent in Falls Citv, and Bernice, deceased.

William Sanborn Hevvs

No more progressive and scientific agriculturist could be found in western Richards(in county than William Sanborn Hews, of Franklin precinct. He was born on the old Hews homestead just east of Verdon, in this county, a son of Sanborn Smith Hews, who was born in 1828, near Trenton, Ontario, Canada, of Scotch parentage, and who died in 1895. His wife was Alida Longshore, born in 1828, who died in 1880. Their children were named as follow: Joseph, David and Samuel, all three of whom died in Richardson county; \\'illiam S., the subject of this sketch; Mary Margaret, who died in Iowa, and Abner, who is engaged in farming in Franklin precinct, this county.

Sanborn S. Hews grew to manhood in Canada and when a young man went to Ogdensburg, New York, and was married in St. Lawrence county, that state, in 1850. He later moved to a farm near Wilwaukee, Wisconsin, where he resided fifteen years, or until 1865, when he moved to Newton. Jasper county, Iowa, and purchased a farm. In 1868 he came to Nebraska and bought one hundred and sixty acres east of Verdon, in Richardson county, which he improved and on which he built a comfortable home. After his wife's death he moved to Falls City and engaged in the drugbusiness a while, but several years later he returned to farming.

William S. Hews received a common school education, but he left school wnen only twelve years old and went to work on the place he now owns, at a wage of eight dollars a month, remaining there three years ; then worked on another farm, but later worked here again for two years. In 1892, when twenty-two years old, he began farming for himself, operating a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Franklin precinct for two years. He then rented the Gavitt farm for sixteen years, during which period he saved enough money to buy his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section 13, Franklin precinct, and has made many important improvements on the same. He has a large modern barn, good hog house and other outbuildings such as his needs require. He has a commodious eight-room house, with bath and other up-to-date conveniences. An extensive evergreen windbreak is also to be seen on the place. Mr. Hews has been very successful as a general farmer and stockman, having forged ahead by hard work and perseverance, starting from the bottom with nothing. One thing that he is proud of is that his great-grandfather, Joseph Hews, of North Carolina, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Hews is a Democrat, but has never sought the emoluments of public office.

On December 30, 1896, William S. Hews was united in marriage to Minna McDougall, who was born in Porter precinct, this county, May 25, 1873, and who was reared in Humboldt, where she attended school. Her father was an earl3^-day plainsman, having come West in the late fifties. In 1859 he bought land in Porter precinct, this county, and there developed a good farm through hard work and perseverance. During the Civil War he served in the Fourth Iowa Battery, taking part in a number of engagements. After his war service he taught school at Monterey school house for three terms. For some time he engaged in freighting with J. K. Cornelius and also with Elmore Crow. Mr. McDougall was born in Indiana on January 2, 1841, and his death occurred on January 11, 1908. He was in the army three years, and served for some time as regimental clerk. He was an excellent penman. He crossed the plains three times. His wife, Hattie Barnhart, was born in Ohio, June 2, 1846, and is now living in Huml)oldt. The McDougall family moved to Humboldt in 1875, ^"d there Mr. .McDougall engaged in business the rest of his life. His family consisted of hut two children, Miima, wife of Mr. Hews, and William, who died in 1912. .Mr. McDougall was a memlier of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Thomas G. Bowker

Thomas G. Bowker, vice-president uf the Bank of Kulo. at Rulo. tliis county, one of the large landowners of that part of the county and for year^ actively identified with the affairs of that community, is a native son of Richardson county and has lived here all his life. Pie was born at Rulo on i\ugust 25. 1872, a son of Thomas B. and Margaret Bowker, natives of England, who were married in Canada and who came to Nebraska in 1859 and located at Rulo, wliere they spent the remainder of their lives, the latter dying there in 1874. wlien the sul)ject of this sketch was but two years of age.

Thomas B. Bowker was trained to the railway service in his youth and in Canada was an agent for the Grand Trunk Railroad. His younger brother, George Bowker, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, had come down to this part of the country in 1857, becoming a large landowner in the eastern part of Richardson county, and about three years afterward he moved down here from Canada to participate in the advantages which seemed to he Ijeckoning the earnest, energetic, pioneering type of men. Upon his arrival here Thomas B. Bowker bought a tract of land in the neighborhood of the landing at Rulo and began farming and cattle raising, taking an active part in the work of the early development of that region. When the railroad came out this way he took part in the christening ceremony when the road was completed and when the station was established at Rulo he was made the first station agent and continued acting in that capacity for some years. Thomas B. Bowker died in 1889. leaving three children, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Mrs. Alice Lewis, of Pennsylvania, and Margaret, who makes her home with him at Rulo.

Reared on the home farm .in the \ icinity of Rulo. Thomas G. Bowker received his early schooling in the schools of that place and completed the same in Christian Brothers College at St. Joseph. Uix)n leaving college he returned to the farm and was there successfully engaged in farming until 1903, when he became bookkeeper in his uncle's bank at Rulo and upon the tiie death of his uncle the next year was made vice-president of the bank and has since occupied that position, one of the best-known bankers in this part of the state. In addition to his interest in the Bank of Rulo Mr. Bowker is the owner of seventeen hundred acres of land in the precinct of Rulo and has long been accounted one of the most substantial citizens of that part of the county. Politically, Mr. Bowker is a Democrat and gives a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and takes a proper interest in neighborhood good works, helpful in many ways in promoting the best interests of that community.

The Bank of Rulo had its origin in the old First National Bank of Rulo, which was established on March 30, 1887, by S. B. Miles, John W. Holt, F. O. Edgecombe, J. H. Miles, George Bowker, Clarence Gillespie, P. H. Jussen and F. Godfirnan, F. O. Edgecombe being the first cashier. In September, 1891, that bank was succeeded by the Bank of Rulo, with S. B. Miles as president; George Bowker, vice-president, and B. F. Cunningham, cashier. The present officers of the bank are as follows : President, J. H. Miles; vice-president, Thomas G. Bowker; cashier, W. J. Cunningham. The bank statement of ]\Iarch, 191 7, showed that the bank, capitalized at $20,000, had deposits of $182,000.

Hon. Cass Jones

In the historical section of this volume there is set out at considerable length the interesting story of the adventures of the late William M. Jones, who died at his home in Rulo township, this cotmty, in 1913, and of his son, the Hon. Cass Jones, the subject of this biographical sketch, both of whom played an important part in the work of settlement during the early days of the establishment of a social order throughout this part of Nebraska, and it will therefore not be necessary to go into detail here in settling out some of the trials and hardships suffered by the Joneses in getting a start in the new country back in pioneer days.

Cass Jones, an honored veteran of the Civil War, former representative from this count}- to the Nebraska General Assembly and one of the bestknown and most substantial of the pioneer residents of Rulo township, owner of a fine farm of four hundred acres there, is a native of the state of Illinois, but has been identified with the development of the state of Nebraska frcjm the days of his young manhood, and there are few men in this section of the state who have a wider or more intimate acquaintance with pioneer conditions hereabout than he. He was born on a farm in the vicinitv of St. Augustine, in Fulton county, Illinois, October 28, 1840, son of William M. and Rebecca (Morris) Jones, the former a Virginian and the latter a (75) native of the state of Pennsylvania, who were married in Ohio, later became residents of Illinois and still later, pioneers of Nebraska, early settlers of Richardson county, where both spent their last days, honored and influential residents of the Rulo neighborhood.

William M. Jones was born on a farm near Blue Springs, in Tazewell county, Virginia, September 6. 1812. His parents al.so were born in \^irginia. the father of Scottish descent and the mother of German descent. When he was but three years of age his father emigrated with his family from \'"irginia to Ohio and took up a tract of "Congress land" in Jackson county, in the latter state, buih a log house on the tract and there established his home. In that pioneer home William M. Jones grew to manhood, taking advantage of such schooling as offered in those days in that vicinity, and became a practical farmer. On August i, 1832, he then being but nineteen rears of age, he married Rebecca Morris, who was born in Pennsylvania on January 28, 1810, but who had also been reared in Jackson county, Ohio, her parents having moved there from Pennsylvania when she was but a child, and after his marriage rented one of his father's farms and established his home, living there for three years, at the end of which time he decided to have a home of his own in the wider stretches of the new country tlien being developed farther to the west. With that end in view, accompanieil by his wife's father and two brothers, he moved to Illinois and took a sciuatter's right to a quarter of a section of land in Fulton county, in the western part of the state, near the Illinois river. There he built another log house and settled down to the lot of a pioneer prairie farmer; but in 1840 disposed of his interests there and moved with his family to Iowa, making the trip in a wagon he made for himself, using a large sycamore tree for the purpose. The wheels of this rude vehicle were four-inch cross sections of the bole of the sycamore and there were neither bolts, nails nor iron of anv kind in the wagon, the same being made entirely of wood. Upon his arrival in Iowa, William M. Jones pre-empted a quarter of a section of land in Johnson county, in the eastern part of the state, and with the tliree yoke of cattle, five cows, one horse and six pigs he had brought with him frtjni Illinois began farming on another pioneer farm. Ten years later, in 1S30, he sold that place for eleven hundred dollars in gold and moved to Cass county, in the southwestern part of Iowa, where he bought a saw- and gristmill and a dwelling house, paying for the property seven hundred dollars in gold. There he continued in the milling business for several years ancf with the help of his sons did a good business, remaining there until 1856, in which vear he disposed of his mill and came to the then Territory of Nebraska, settling on the west bank of the Missouri river, in Dakota county, wliere he entered a tract of government land and again started "pioneering.'" During the second winter of his residence there all his cattle save one yoke of oxen were frozen to death and he decided that such a place was not fitted for human habitation. Selling his land for one hundred dollars he moved south, settling on the Delaware Indian reserve land in Leavenworth county, Kansas, where he remained until the fall of 1859, when he emigrated to Texas, expecting there to engage in the business of cattle raising. But he found a cold i-eception in Texas, the feeling at that time existing tliere against Abolitionists being expressed in such A'igorous term by the Texans that in the fall of i860 he was glad to get away on any terms, and he returned to Leavenworth county. Kansas, where he traded a yoke of oxen to an Indian for a quarter of a section of land and began grazing cattle. But even there he was doomed to further disturbance, for the "Jayhawkers" made it so unpleasant for him. stealing his horses and cattle and threatening his life, that he again felt it necessary to move and as soon as possible got out of the county and came farther north, settling a few miles north of Rulo Landing; in this county. There he found a few families preparing to make the long-join-ney to the Pacific coast and in the spring of 1863, with seven other families, started for Oregon, arriving there, after innumerable hardships, in October of that same }'ear. Mr. Jones purchased a quarter of a section of land about fifteen miles southeast of Portland and there once more settled down to a job of "pioneering," but conditions presently began to prove disappointing and in the spring of 1865 he sold out and came back to Nebraska. He spent the winter at Omaha and in the spring of 1866 returned to Richardson county, where he and his sons, Charles and Cass, bought a half section of land from a "squaw man" and settled oh the banks of the Missouri, about three miles north of Rulo. There William M. Jones continued farming until he was eighty years of age, doing most of the work him.self, for he always was a man of much physical vigor and of enormous powers of resistance. When eighty years of age he sold his place to one of his sons and he and his wife then retired from the active labors of the farm, though continuing to make their home on the place, and there Mrs. Jones died on October 12, 1909, she then being ninety-nine years, eight months and fourteen (lays of age. \^^illiam M. Jones survived his wife until February li, 1913. he then l)eing past one hundred years of age. He and his \Vife were the parents of nine children, Phoebe, Charles. Henry. Cass, Margaret, Rachel. Lewis, Louise and Stephen, and at the time of his death W^illiam i\I. Jones

. Cass Jones was but five years of age when his parents moved from Illinois to Iowa and in the latter state he received his schooling, going to school at Iowa City, county seat of his home county there. When his father engaged in the milling business in Cass county, same state, Cass Jones became an active assistant in that enterprise and remained with his father during the latter's subsequent move to this county and later to Kansas and thence to Dallas county, Texas, from which place the family, as Northern sympathizers, were run out, as noted above. When the Civil War broke out Cass Jones was twenty years of age and on May 5, 1861, at Leavenworth, he enlisted for service as a member of Company I, Second Kansas Cavalry, to serve six months. During the battle of Wilson's Creek, Mr. Jones's horse was shot from under him and he was pinned beneath the fallen animal, his right hip being dislocated, his right shoulder severely injured and his jaw broken. After two months spent in the hospital at Springfield he rejoined his regiment, but his term of enlistment having expired he was discharged, November 18, 1861. Shortly afterward, he by that time having sufficiently recovered from his injuries to re-enter active sen-ice, Mr. Jones re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, which was being reorganized for the three-year service, and resumed his place at the front; presently being promoted to the rank of regimental sergeant-major and later assigned as a body guard to Adjutant-General Bell, a staff officer in General Sibley's command. Later, at his own request and with a desire to get into more active service, Mr. Jones was transferred to Company I, Second Nebraska Cavalry, and with that command served until his discharge, November 18, 1863. at Sioux City, Iowa.

About the time of the completion of his military service, the Powder River expedition was being organized at Sioux City and Cass Jones took service with that expedition, under the employ of the government, as a wagon-master, and participated in that notable expedition until its completion, being finally paid off at Kearney, later rejoining his parents and his family at Omaha; remaining there until the spring of 1866, when tlie family returned to Richardson county and settled a few miles north of Rulo, where Mr. Jones has ever since made his home, and where he and his family are very comfortably and very pleasantly situated. Mr. Jones has done well in his farming operations and has increased his original farm holdings of a quarter of a section of land until he now has a fine farm of four hundred acres. He is an active Republican, as was his father, and during the sessions^ of the Nebraska Legislature of 1903 and 1907, served the people of Richardson county as representative. Mr. Jones also has served as school director in his district for ten years or more and for eight years was road supervisor. He has been a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons since 1864 and is one of the charter members of Trego Post. Grand Army of the Republic, at Rulo.

Mr. Jones has been twice married. On March 25, 1869, he was united in marriage to Amanda E. Mowery, who died on March 8, 1888, and is buried in the Lutheran church burial grounds, a few miles west of the Jones home. On December 30, 1896, at Oregon, Missouri, Mr. Jones married Caroline Matilda Keil, a daughter of Carl and Augtista (Belute) Keil, natives of Germany and early settlers in Missouri. Carl Keil died at St. Louis when his daughter Caroline Matilda was but an infant and his widow was afterward twice married. She was the mother of eight children, seven by her first marriage and one by her last marriage. Of these children, three daughters are still living, Mrs. Jones having two sisters' living in Holt county, Missouri. Mr. Jones has six children, namely: Harlan Jones, of Anadarko, Oklahoma; William Jones, of that same place; Elston Jones, a well-known resident of the Rulo neighborhood; Mrs. Bessie Bochman, who lives on one of her father's farms north of Rulo, and Miss Mina Jones and Mrs. Effie Vogel, who also live near their father's place. Mr. Jones has fourteen grandchildren.

William Rieschick, a well-known retired pioneer farmer of Richardson county and a substantial landowner of the precinct of Arago, now living at Falls City, where he has made his home since 1905, is of European birth, I)orn in a village in Germany on June 2, 1831, but has been a resident of this country since he was twenty-five years of age and of this county since 1858. having come here in territorial days, and has thus seen this region develop from the days of the open plains. He was the fourth in order of birth of the eight children, five sons and three daughters, born to his parents, John Frederick and Johanna (Barden) Rieschick, also natives of Germany, who spent all their lives in their native land. Of these eight children, all save one came to America and here reared families, but all are now dead with the

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Reared in his native village, William Rieschick there learned the caljinetniaker's trade and became a highly-skilled craftsman in that line. He served for tvyo years and six months in the army and then, in 1856, he then being twenty-five years of age, came to the United States, Buffalo, New York, being his destination. Upon his arrival in that city he had but one dollar left of ,the not oyerly large fund with which he started, but he had no difficulty in s^ecuring, work at his trade and lost little time in settling down to work, his first wage being one dollar a day; but as he was a skilled workman this wage presently was increased to one dollar and seventy-five cents a da>-. Not; long afterward, however, on account of the general business depression noticeable alx)ut that time, wages were cut and Mr. Rieschick decided that the thing for him to do was to come out to the then new West and "grow up with the country." With that end in view he came to the then Territory of Nebraska in 1858 and was so charmed with the view upon his arrival at old Arago that he determined here to make his permanent home. As Mr. Rieschick says: "When I arrived at Arago in the springtime and looked out over the bluffs overlooking the vast plains of Nebraska, grass covered and dotted with flowers, I beheld the most beautiful view my eyes ever looked on.": And in all the years that have elapsed since then he has not changed his opinion of this region gained on that first distinctive impression. Upon his arrival here Mr. Rieschick found plenty of calls for his service as a carpenter and builder and he l>egan working at Arago and at other points throughout this county and over the river in Missouri, much of his pay for services rendered being made in hogs, chickens and cattle, he and his eldest brother, who had accompanied him, buying a small tract of land and stocking the same with the live stock thus obtained. It was in April, i860, that the Rieschick brothers moved on to that little farm of thirty acres. Among the live stock they had received were seventeen hogs, but as there was no feed for the hogs file animals wandered off and did not return until fall, when the crops had matured, liy which time there had been a c]uite noticeable increase in the drove. On that place Mr. Rieschick and his brother remained for seven years. By this time William Rieschick had become the owner of a team of horses and had paid down two hundred dollars on an "eighty" of his own in the center of the precinct of Arago, also trading in on the same a town lot in the old town of Arago whicli had come into his possession, and decided to marrv and "settle down." In 186; he married and established his home on that "eighty," having meanwhile made considerable initial improvement on the same, declaring: "I'll make my living here or die!" Needless to say, he did not die and it is equally certain that he prospered, for he long has been recognized as one of the covmty's most substantial landowners. During the first years of his farming Mr. Rieschick, in common with most of the pioneers of this region, felt the eflfects of "hard times," and he still recalls that at one time the price of farm produce had fallen to such a point that he had to give three dozen eggs for a box of matches, but those depressing days presently passed and he l^egan to see his way clear to the competence for which he had left his native land and journeyed out here to the great Western land of opportunity. In 1869 Mr. Rieschick 1x)ught an adjoining quarter of a section of land, paying for the same eight dollars an acre, and when his sons had grown to the point of being able to care for land for themselves he bought an additional tract of four hundred and forty acres, paying for the same fifty dollars an acre, and he recalls that he found it much easier to pay for this last tract than it was to pay for his original "eighty." On that farm Mr. Rieschick continued to make his home until 1905, in which year he retired from the active labors of the farm and moved to Falls City, where he and his family are very comfortably situated, having a beautiful home surrounded by an orchard at the end of Sixteenth street.

In 1865 William Rieschick was united in marriage to Varina Hunzeime, who was born in the republic of Switzerland in 1844 and who was but ten years of age when she came to this country with her parnets in 1854, and to this union six children have been born, namely: August Wilhelm, who died at the age of twenty-three years ; Amiel William, who died at the age of two years and three months; John W., a substantial farmer living four miles north of Falls City; the Hon. William F. Rieschick, a farmer living one mile east of Falls City and who is the present representative from Richardson county in the Nebraska state Legislature; Albert W., who is farming the old home place in the precinct of Arago, and Amelia Varina, who is at home with her parents. Mrs. Rieschick is a member of the Lutheran church and her children attend that church. Upon attaining his citizenship here Mr. Rieschick affiliated himself with the Republican party, but in the memorable campaign of 1896 joined his political fortunes with those of William Jennings Bryan and has ever since been an ardent Bryan Democrat. For two years during his residence on the farm he served as precinct treasurer. Mr. Rieschick has never lost his interest in woodworking and has in his home some rarely beautiful specimens of his craftsmanship, including a combination bookcase and desk, made of walnut, which is generally regarded as the finest piece of work of its kind in Nebraska and wliich Air. Rieschick holds as a priceless possession.

Williaai T. Fextox

Nebraska has been especially fortunate in the cliaracter and career of her public men. In every section have been found men l>orn to leadership, men who have been able successfully to discharge the duties of official position because of their sterling qualities and force of character. It is profitable to study such lives, weigh their motives and hold up their achievements as incentives to greater activity and higher excellence on the part of others. These reflections are suggested b}- the career of William T, Fenton. exsheriff of Richardson county and the present warden of the Nebraska State penitentiary at Lincoln.

Mr. Fenton was born in this county on October 2. 1872, a scion of an honored old pioneer famil}' of this section of the state, being a son of Jerry and Catherine (Calnan) Fenton. The father was born in Ireland in 1830 and there spent his boyhood, immigrating to America when seventeen years old, being accompanied by his mother, four brothers and one sister. The family located at Richmond, \^irginia, where they remained until in the sixties when they came to Nebraska, locating on a farm near Dawson in Richardson county. Jerrj' Fenton and Catherine Calnan were married before leaving Virginia, prior to the breaking out of the Civil War. He developed a good farm in Richardson county through close application and perseverance and established a comfortable home here. He continued general farming and stock raising successfully on his farm of one hundred and sixty acres until about five years prior to his death. He died in 191 4, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He was an influential man in his community and helped organize nearly all the schools of the Dawson neighborhood. He was active in the Catholic church and was the only trustee of the church in his vicinity. The mother of the subject of this sketch was also born in Ireland, the date of lier birth being 1838. She came to \'irginia with her parents when seven years old. To Jerry an.d Catherine Fenton twelve children were born, five of whom are deceased : those li\ing at ibis writing being as follows: Mrs. IMary S. Kane of Dawson: Mrs. Ella I-tiley.

also of Dawson; Thomas F., who hves at Reedley. Cahfornia; Robert E., who Hves at Haddam, Kansas ; Mrs. Catherine Carr ; Mrs. Nora Ryan, who makes her home at Dawson, and William T., the subject of this review.

No doubt one of the potent contributing causes of the success and popularity of William T. Fenton has been his Celtic blood, for people of this strain are everywhere noted for their courage, fortitude, perseverance and pleasing personal traits. He grew to manhood on the home farm in Richardson county, where he assisted his fatlier with the general work during crop seasons, when he became of proper age. In the winter time he attended the district schools. He remained at home until 1894, when he went to California and worked for a fruit company two years. He then returned to Nebraska and for two years operated a hardware and implement store in the village of Dawson, then sold out and engaged in general farming and stock raising, witli very gratifying results, near there until 1906. In that year he was elected sheriff of Richardson county on the Democratic ticket, and he continued to discharge the duties of the office in a faithful, al)le and highly acceptable manner until 191 3, when he resigned in order to assume the office of warden of the state penitentiary at Lincoln, in January of that year, having been appointed to this responsible position by Governor Morehead. He had made his home in Falls City for seven years, but early in 1913 moved to the city of Lincoln, where he has since resided, and has gi\en eminent satisfaction to all concerned as warden. He understands his work thoroughly and has instituted many reforms and has evervthing about the prison under a superb system ; in fact, it is said to be one of the best managed penitentiaries in the United States. Since he took charge he has kept the grounds and Imildings in good repair and everytliing is in ship-shape at all times. He has established a large greenhouse and he has done much to Ijetter the general conditions of the prisoners. He is a man of tact, executive ability, prudence and caution; kind, but firm, and is always faithful in seeing that the laws and rules of the institution are strictly obeyed. He is popular with all his associates and is evidently the right man in the right place.

.Mr. I'^enton, in partnership with e.x-Governor Morehead, owns a fine farm in Lancaster county, Nebraska, of two hundred and eighty acres. At one time he and his l)r()ther. the late Jerry P. Fenton, owned fi\e drug stores in the cit\- of Omaha.

On .Vpril 9, 1902, Mr. Fenton was married to Vinnette M. Colman, who was born at Falls City, where- she grew to -womanhood and was educated, being gradnated from the high school there, and taught school for

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5onie time at Falls Cit\ and at Dawson prior t(; her niarrias<e. She is a (laughter of Thomas and Anna (Ryan) Colman, who were early settlers in Richardson county. Mr. Colman. a veteran of the Civil War. was a harnessmaker by trade. His death occurred in Falls City in 1876 and his widow is now making her home with Mr. and Mrs. I'enton. Two children have been .torn to Mr. and Mrs. h'enton, namely: Helen Ruth, born in 1903; and Bryan, 1905.

Mr. Fenton is a Democrat and has long been an influential worker in his party, as was also his father. The latter was elected representati\ e t<i the Legislature from Richardson county in the early days here. Fraternallv, the subject of this sketch is a memlier of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of I<^lks, the Higlilanders. the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Knights of Columbus. He belongs to the Catholic church.

Marixo Gianninl

During the many years of his residence in F'alls City there were lew men there who were better known or who took a, more active interest in the work of promoting the city's best interests than did the late Alarino Giannini, a Virginian and a veteran of the Confederate Army, who came to this state from Missouri, in 1883, and engaged in the "bus business at F'alls City, where he spent the remainder of his life, one of the most iiiifuential citizens of tliat city, his death occurring there in the fall of 191 5. Mr. Giannini . became quite successful in his business affairs and left his family quite well circumstanced. His widow is stilt making her home at l*"alls City, where she is very comfortably situated.

;\Iarino Giannini was born in the city nf Richmond, X'irginia, January 2, 1850, son and youngest of the thirteen children born to Marino and Mahala (Hamlet) Giannini, the former a native of Italy and the latter of Virginia. The senior Marino Giannini was born in Tuscany and in 1820 left his native Italy and came to the United States, landing at the port of New York, presently proceeding thence to Philadelphia and thence, after some time, to the city of Richmond, where he became a pros])erous and wealthy merchant and shipper, an extensive skne owner and the owner of two large sailing vessels engaged in the o\erseas trade. During the Civil War these vessels were captured as bkx-kade runners and were burnetl. It was not long after taking up his residence in Richmond that Marino

Giannini married Mahala Hamlet, wlio was born in that city, of luiglish descent, and their children were reared in that city. The father nf ihe.-c children died just before the close of the Civil War, he then being si.\t\- three years of age, and his widow survived him for exactly nine years, her death occurring in Missouri on Deceml>er 20, 1871, her youngest sun, the subject of thi smemorial sketch, having provided for her a home at Milton, m Atchison county, that state.

The junior Marino Giannini was reared at Richmond and was gi\en excellent educational advantages in his youth. When thirteen years of age he succeeded by a ruse in enlisting for service in the army of the Confederate States of America and served with that army for eighteen montiis, or until the close of the Civil War. Two of his elder brothers, Franklin P. and Ferdinand Washington Giannini, were serving in the army of Gen. Robert E. Lee and his youthful ardor sought service in the .same army, but on account of his tender years he was unable to enlist at home ; hence he slipped away and in company with a fifteen-year-old kinsman succeeded in getting into an Alabama regiment, serving until the close of the war as a member of Company C, Forty-sixth Regiment, Alabama \'olunteer Infantry, and was afterward an active member of Camp Grace No. 472, United Confederate veterans. Too small to pass the mustering oificers on an open lield, young Marino stood. on a stump underneath the window of the recruiting oflfiice and thus seemed to the eye of the officer in charge of proper size for army service and he was gladly accepted. He then eagerly signed the enlistment roll and as there was no outside objection raised , he was retained in the ranks- even after his patriotic subterfuge had been discovered Ij}- the officers and he made a good soldier.

Upon the completion of his military service Marino Giannini returned to his home at Richmond, only to find the family slaves gone and the family fortunes sadly reduced. His mother put him inta ftc^cuioke College and following his graduation there he traveled witb an elder brother for for some time in the South and later went to New York City, returning thence to Richmond, from which city, accompanied by his mother, he then came West and located at St. Joseph, IMissouri, w-here he became engaged as a clerk in the Merchants Hotel. A year later he w-ent to Milton, Missouri, where he made a home for his mother, and not long afterward returned to Richmond to receive his share of the family estate. With the fund thus secured he l)ought a farm in the vicinity of Milton, where his mother died in 1871. Shortly afterward, in February. 1872. he married

Edna Williams, who died in 1875, leaving two children, and in February. 1878, he married Linda Seymour, of Milton. In 1883 Mr. Giannini disposed of his interests in Missouri and came over into Nebraska, locating at Falls City, where he was engaged in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Ouincy Railroad for six years, at the end of which time he bought the 'bus line in that city and for some time operated the same quite successfully : then selling it and buying the Werring creamery, which he operated for three years, after which he sold it and bought bad< the 'bus line, which he continued to operate for years thereafter. Mr. Giannini also made considerable investments in farm lands and city property, but when the "hard times'' came on in the middle nineties he lost heavily and was compelled practically to begin all over again. He was again successfyl, however, and at the time of his death on September 27, 191 5. was regarded as one of the well-t<i-do citizens of Falls City. Mr. Giannini was a Democrat and erer since becoming a resident of Falls City had taken an active part in political afYairs. but always declined to accept the proffer of nomination to public office. He was one of the county seat's most active and progressive business men and his influence in the way of promoting civic improvements was for years one of the leading factors in the development of the town, the paving of streets and the creation of the "White Way" having been largely due to his insistent advocacy of such improvements. Mr. Giannini's father was a Catholic, but his mother was a Baptist and he and the other children of the family were reared in the latter faith. He afterward became a member of the Cuml^erland Presbyterian church, but during his residence in Falls City attended the Baptist church, of which his widow is a member. He was an active Mason and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and was a member of several beneficiary orders, such as the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Royal Arcanum, the Legion of HdUor and the Modern \\'oodmen, and took an earnest ]iart in lodge work.

It was (in I'ebruary j8, 1878, that Marino Giannini was united in marriage to Linda Sevmour, who was Imrn at Milton, Missouri, Se]Jteml)er 26, 1858, a daughter of Leander and Elizabeth (Beck) Seymour, pioneers of that section of Missouri and both of whom are still living. Leander Sevmour. a cousin of Horatio Seymour, twenty-fourth governor of New York and candidate for President of the United States against General (irant. was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. February 5, 1830, a son of John antl Lnvica ( Eakm ) Sevmour. both members of old Colonial families, the former of whom was a grandson of Dr. John Sexmour. uf Litchtield, Connecticut. John Seymour's father w^as a manufacturer of carriages and his son, Leander, acquired a very strong leaning toward the manufacturing arts, becoming an unusually skilled artisan. Though his main field of activity was that of a millwright, he was an expert in the field of mechanics and could make a watch, a sewing-machine or most any ?ort of a machine, and upon moving out to Missouri in pioneer .days not only was active in the erection of mills, but made the first plows manufactured in northwestern Missouri, and has always been looked upon as a real genius in the mechanical arts. Though now long past the traditional "three-score-and-ten" stage of his life, Mr. Seymour retains to a remarkable degree his physical vigor and is still able to read without glasses. His wife, Elizabeth Beck, was born on March 31, 1838, and is descended from the Parsons and the Howells, of English descent and formerly large landowners at Salisbury, Raleigh and Berne, North Carolina. To Leander Seymour and wife six children were born, of whom Mrs. Giannini was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow: Franklin, who is at the old home in Missouri with his aged parents; Lydia, who married Andrew Jackson Carmen, a Civil War veteran from Ohio, and is now living at Downs, Kansas ; Wilson, a well-to-do retired farmer, now living at Fairfax, Missouri: Leander, Jr.. of Stewartsville, Missouri, and Mrs. Mary Simpson, of Hiawatha, Kansas. By his first marriage Mr. Giannini was the father of two children. Mamie G., wife of John F. Martin, a traveling salesman, of Falls City, and Ferdinand W., a successful farmer living in the neighborhood of Barada, this county, who is married and has two children. B\- his marriage to Linda Seymour Mr. Giannini became the father of five children, namely : Eva, wife of William Robinson Holt, a well-known merchant of Falls Cit\- : Rufo Orden and Royal Byron, twins, now deceased: I^aura G., wife of A. E. Speer, of Falls City, and Lloyd Seymour Giannini. of Fargo, North Dakota, who married Elizabeth Neal, daughter of George H. Neal, and has two children, Neal Marino and Isabel. Since her husband's death Mrs. Giannini has continued to make her home in Falls City, where she is very pleasantly situated. She is a member of the Ba[)tist church, as noted above, and has for years taken an interested p;irt in cinirch work, as well as in the general good works and social and cultural actixities of her home town. For more than fourteen years she has been one i)f the leading members of the Sorosis Club and is also a member of the locall\- influential Women's Club, in the affairs of both of which (^rgam'zations she takes a warm interest.

Joseph lulgar Morrison, one of the well-known and substantial farmers of Salem precinct, this count), the t)wner of the northwest quarter of section 25 of that precinct and the proprietor of one of the best farm plants in that part of the county, is a native of the neighboring state of Kansas, born in Brown county, that state, September 7, 1870, a son of Joseph and I^izzie (Shafifer) Morrison, pioneers of that county, whose last days were spent in this county, they having come here in 1881.

Joseph Morrison was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Louisville. Kentucky. April i, 1829, a son of Robert -Morrison, also a native of Kentucky, and his wife, Lizzie Shafifer, was born in Maryland in 1834. After their marriage they made their home in Illinois until the early sixties when they went to Wisconsin, remaining there until 1865, when the\- moved down into Kansas and settled in Brown county, but later moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they remained a couple of years, at the end of which time they moved over into western Kansas and remained there until the fall of 1881, when they came to RichanLson county. Joseph Morrison bought a farm of eighty acres in this county and here he and his wife s])ent the remainder of their lives, both dying in 1912. They were members of tlie Methodist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were nine of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eighth in order of birth and of whom six are still living.

Joseph E. Morrison received his schooling in the common schools and was reared to a life of farming. After his marriage, when twenty-one years of age. he began farming on his own account and in 1901 bought his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section 25 of the precinct of Salem, this county, the northeast quarter of that section, and straightway began extensive improvements on the same, including the erection of a fine, modern eight-room house, with bathroom, hot and cold running water, electric lights and the like; admirable farm buildings and other improvements, creating there one of the best farm plants in that part of the county, and there he since has made his home. Mr. Morrison is a Democrat and has ever given a good citizen's attention to local political affairs. l)ut has not l)een a seeker after office. Fraternally, he is afifiliated with the local camp of the Modern Woodmen of America at Salem and takes a warm interest in the afifairs of that organization.

lo Linnie Eakins, 'who was born in Iowa on June 17, 1872. daughter of Thomas and Juha (Barnes) Eakins, natives, respectively, of Ilhnois and of Ohio, who settled in Brown county, Kansas, in 1879, later moving to Sahetha, where Thoinas Eakins spent his last days. His widow is now living at Steele City, Kansas. Mrs. Morrison died in 1908. She was the mother of six children, namely: Mr5. Zelma Zellers, of Jefiferson precinct.. this county: Robert, who is farming near Shubert: \^era. who is at home with her father: ]\label. deceased; Warren, at home, and Vvc. also at home.

William Martin, extensive landowner in the states of Nebraska and South Dakota, is a native of Illinois, born in Aurora, that state, on October 8, 1854, and has been a resident of Richardson county since he was four years old. He holds a portion of his land in partnership with his sister,. Catherine, the farms being located at various points. Five hundred and sixty acres are in Richardson county: six hundred and forty in Brown county. South Dakota; one hundred and sixty in Nemaha county, this state, and the homestead of one hundred and twenty, entered by William .Martin. Sr.. on October 30, 1858.

William Martin. Sr., was a native of Nova Scotia and was born of Irish parentage, who settled in Canada in an early day. William Martin emigrated from Nova Scotia to the United States in 1848, arriving at Chicago, and going thence to Aurora. Illinois, where he worked as a well digger for some time. In 1858 he drove to this part of the country with two yoke of oxen and two cows. He was accompanied by his wife, who liefore her marriage to Mr. Martin was Catherine Doyle, and three sons and three daughters. The long journey into Nebraska occupied one month, and on his arrival he pre-empted one hundred and twenty acres of land in Nemaha county, .\bout nine years later his wife i^re-empted forty acres. ^^'illiam Martin cleared his land and in due course liad it ready for cultivation and continued the life of a farmer up to the time of his death in 1862. at the age of fiftv-five years. William and Catherine (Doyle) Martin were the parents of six children, of whom William, the subject of this sketch, was the fifth in the order of birth, the others l)eing James, who died in 1914 in Porter precinct: Mary, deceased; Catherine, born in 1845.

Wilham, James and Catherine Martin made their home together up to the time of the death of James, who died in 1914. They began on the home place, which contains one hundred and sixt}- acres and farmed that land on partnership terms. William Martin continued to add to his land holdings, paying a price per acre which varied from sixty-five dollars to one hundred and seventy-five dollars, which latter figure was the purchase price of the last tract bought just north of Humboldt. During his farming career Mr. Martin has bought upwards of two thousand acres of land and is regarded in the county as an excellent judge of land. He carried out extensive improvements on each of his holdings, and his last purchase is now considered to be worth two hundred and fifty dollars an acre. From small beginnings he has gradually increased his holdings and is now a prosperous farmer. Mr. Martin is a Republican, but has never sought public ofiice. He holds, membership in the Modern Woodmen of .\merica.

Isaac W. Harris

The late Isaac Harris, of Libert)' precinct, was one of the real "old settlers" of Richardson county, having come to this county and made a settlement as early as 1873. During his career in this county he handled live stock on an extensive scale and becam.e one of the most widely and favorably known men of southeastern Nebraska ; honest and upright to a fault in all of his dealings, and was recognized as an expert judge of live stock. His interests in county affairs were wide and were of such a varied character as to indicate the broad-gauged citizenship of the man himself.

Isaac W. Harris was born in the old Buckeye state, on August 20, 1846, and was a son of J^cob Harris and Mary A. (Shurts) Harris, natives of New Jersey. He was reared to young manhood in his native state and migrated to Nebraska in 1873, settling on the land owned by his son Guy, in Liberty precinct. He early engaged in the cattle and live-stock business on an extensive scale, and. having faith in the eventual development of the country and confidence in the ultimate future of tiiis section of Nebraska, he investeil heavil\- in Richardson count}- hind, accumulating over sixteen hundred acres of fine farming and grazing land. His skill as a live-stock judge and dealer was generally recognized and he was regarded as having few equals in this part of the state when expert judgment of Hve-stock was required. His death occurred on Novemljer 30, 191 5. General regret was felt throughout the community and wherever he was known at the loss sustained by his departure from this earthly realm.

Isaac Harris's activities were not restricted to his agricultural interests and in many other ways he gave evidence of commercial enterprise. He helped to organize the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Compan)- and was president of that company at the time of his death. He was a stockholder in the State Bank of Stella and in the Bank of Shubert, and was also interested financially in the State Bank of Hum|>oldt and in the State Bank of Omalia. For a considerable period he was vice-president of the Stella Bank and a director of the other three banks in which he was interested, and in all of these undertakings took a keen interest and brought a ripe experience to bear in shaping the policy of the banks with which he was identified.

Isaac Harris was married in Illinois, in 1869, to Rosa Hassler, who was born in Bureau county, Illinois, on January 29, 1849; She preceded her husband to the grave by about ten months, her death occurring on January 28, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Harris were ever helpful in all neighborhood good works and in all efforts making for the good of the people among whom they had so long resided. The following children were born to Isaac and Rosa Harris, namely: Mrs. Caroline Clark, of Stella, tliis county; George W., who lives in Yakima, Washington; Bert L., also living in Yakima; Guy,- who is farming in this cottnty; Olive and Lucile J., living Avith their brother Guy on the home place.

Guy Harris was reared on his father's farm, having been born on March 22, 1876. He was graduated from the Stella high school and later attended the State Normal at Peru, this state. At the age of eighteen he began to work for himself and put out a crop of wheat and corn. He sold the \\'heat for seventy-five cents a bushel and the corn at fourteen cents, and with the proceeds paid his way through school. For some years afterward he was in partnership with his father and brother Bert, and thus continued until 1905, when Guy Harris took over his brother's interest in the farm. At the death of his father, he acquired the home place of two hundred and ninety acres and has since bought other land. He is the owner of eight hundred acres of land, the home place in section 6; one hundred and sixty acres in the southeast corner of section i. Grant precinct; one hundred and sixtv acres in the southeast quarter of section 9, Porter precinct, (76) ' and across the international border in Alberta. Canada, he is the owner of eight hundred acres of land. In addition to his extensive land holdings. Mr. Harris is heavily interested in hog and cattle raising. He feeds on an average about one thousand hogs annually and in some years has fed up to five hundred head of cattle, and is generally recognized as one of the most prosperous farmers and stockmen in this part of tlie state. His sisters. Olive and Lucile, are partners with him in all his farming operations.

William C. Margrave, president of the \\'illiam A. ]\Iargrave Company, one of the leading ranch corporations in eastern Nebraska, the company's extensive corporate holdings comprising the estate of tlie late William A. Margrave, who for years was one of the best-known ranchmen in this part of Nebraska, or in the adjoining section of Kansas, was born in the neighboring county of Brown, in Kansas, and has lived in this part of the country all his life. He was born on June 27. 1876. son of William A. and Margaret R. (Rubeti) Margrave, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Kansas, and the latter of whom is still living, now a resident of Hiawatha, Kansas.

William A. Margrave, founder of the great Margrave estate, now being operated by his heirs under the corporate title of the William A. Margrave Company, with headquarters at Preston, this county, was born on a farm in the vicinity of the city of Peoria, Illinois, ]\Iay 1. 1H43. and was fifteen years of age when he came out into this part of the country with his parents, James W. and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Margrave, from Illinois in i860, the family settling at Hiawatha, Kansas, where James W. Margrave became a farmer and miller, and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1888. He was born in the state of Kentucky on August 16, 1814. His widow survived him about four years, her death occurring on May 21, 1892. They were the parents of eight children, of whom William A. was the fourth in order of birth.

As noted above. William A. Margrave was about fifteen years of age when he came to this part of the country with his parents, in i860, and he grew to manhood on the home farm in Richardson county, becoming thoroughly familiar with pioneer conditions hereabout. He early began operating on his own account and from tlie first his operations were sue- cessful, early becoming recognized as one of the most successful traders in land and cattle in this section. After his marriage he established his home on his ranch in the vicinity of Preston, this county, and gradually enlarged his holdings until he became the owner of several thousand acres of land covering that section and reaching down to Reserve, besides lands in Sheridan and Cherry counties, this state, and was one of the most extensive dealers in and graziers of cattle, horses and mules in this part of the country. William A. Margrave died on July 31, 1906, and his widow survives him, now a resident of Hiawatha, Kansas. She was born. Margaret R. Rubeti, in the neighboring county of Doniphan, Kansas, in 1848, and at the age of three years was left an orphan. She was reared in the household of S. M. Irvin and in time became a teacher on the Indian reservation, and was thus engaged at the time she married Mr. Margrave. To that union were born five children, one of whom, a daughter, died in infancy, the others being Julia, wife of George W. LeClere, storekeeper on the Margrave ranch in Jefferson precinct; William C, the subject of this biographical sketch; James T., of Preston, vice-president of the Margrave corporation, and Earl I., of Gordon, secretary and treasurer of the corporation. After the death of William A. Margrave his sons continued to operate the ranch property, their aim being to carry out their father's plans with regard to the estate as closely as possible, and with that end in view presently incorporated the business under the name of the William A. Margrave Company and have since been conducting the business under that corporate style, the officers being as above named, the subject of this sketch Ijeing the president of the company. The local station of the Margrave Company in Jefferson precinct, this county, carries a thousand 'fiead of cattle and on the ranches in Sheridan and Cherry counties there are two thousand head or more.

William C. Margrave received his schooling in the old Indian, school on the reservation, in the school in Lost Creek district, in the public school at Reserve and in Hiawatha Academy and early began his active connection with his father's extensive and growing ranch activities, as the eldest son proving a valuable factor in the development of the greait property of which he is now the general manager and with the development of which he has been actively identified since he was twenty years of age. In addition to his interest in the family corj^oration Mr. Margrave is a member of the Ixtard of directors of the Morrell & Jones Bank at -Hiawatha, and is the owner of two hundred and sixty acres of land in Kansas, eighty acres of which is an allotment from the government, through his mother's claim on the reservation lands. Mr. Margrave is a Repuljlican and has e\er given a good citizen's attention to local civic affairs, bnt has not been an office seeker. In 1916 he erected a fine new, modern residence of twelve rooms, with hot and cold rnnning water in the same, the house being electricall\- lighted from a private power plant on the place, and he and his family are very comfortably situated.

Mr. Margrave has been twice married. In 1897, when t\vcnt\-one years of age, he was united in marriage to Mary Waller, who also was born in Brown county, Kansas, daughter of Cornelius and Marth.i Waller, natives of Kentucky, who settled in Kansas about 1857, and to this imioii three children were born, Howard, who is in high school at Hiawatha, and Julia and Martha, at home. The mother of these children died on April 28, 1908, at the age of thirty-one years, and on June i, 1910, Mr. Margrave married Ida Pribbeno, who was born in this county on September 15. 1 886, daughter of C. F. Pribbeno, a member of one of the old families of Richardson county and further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union two children have been born, Helen and William A. Mr. and Mrs. Margrave are memljers of the Methodist Episcopal church at Preston and Mr. Margrave is one of the trustees of the same.

Joseph W. Cullen

One of the well-known and loyal citizens of Richardson county is Joseph W. Cullen, of Verdon, now living in retirement after a long and successful career as a general farmer. He was born in Mifflin county. Pennsylvania. April 3, 1840, a son of George and Susan (z\llen) Cullen. The father was of Scotch descent and probably was born in Scotland. He spent his earlier years in Pennsylvania, moving to White county, Indiana, in 1852, where he established his permanent home on a farm. He was born in 1804 and died in 1882. His wife died about 1848, at the age of forty-five years. To these parents nine children were bom, all Jiow deceased but the subject of this sketch, who was fourth in order of birth.

Joseph W. Cullen spent his childhood in Pennsylvania, being twehe years old when his parents moved to White county. Indiana. He attended the old-time district schools and worked on the farm when a boy. He remained in Indiana until the breaking out of the Ci\il War. On June 4. 1861, he enli.sted in the Twentieth Regiment, Indiana \'olunteer Infantry, and saw considerable hard service in the South, taking- part in numerous engagements in Virginia, North Carolina and other states, among them Ijeing Hatteras Island, North Carolina, his first engagement. After this battle he was encamped near Fortress Monroe. His regiment witnessed the great battle between the "Monitor" and the "Merrimac" at Newport News, following the sinking of the "Cumljerland," and the "Congress." His regiment then went to Norfolk and then joined McClellan's army at White House Landing on York river; thence to within six miles of Richmond, where they dug trenches and cut timber for barricades ; took part in a skirmish on June J5, 1862; captured a fort, but being unsupported, retired again, the regiment losing very heavily. They then took part in the Seven Days Battle and Harrison's Landing engagement; next the Peninsular campaign; next to Manassas Junction; from Rappahannock by forced march, thence to Centerville; witnessed great disorganization of the army; retreated and fought at Chantilly. General Kearney was killed there, Gen. Robt. E. Lee sending the body of General Kearney to the Union lines under a flag of truce, and presented Kearney's horse to his widow. The regiment then retreated to Alexandria; thence to Washington; served in Virginia until marched through Maryland to Gettysburg, July i, 1863. Engagements: Glendale, June 30, 1862; Malvern Hill, July I, 1862; second Battle of Bull Run: Chantilly, Waterloo, Fredericksburg, Cedarville. Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights : suppressed July riots in New York City in 1863; Orange Grove, Mine Run, November 29, 1863; Petersburg, Virginia, and the Battle of the Wilderness. Mr. Cullen was honorably discharged at Indianapolis. Indiana, July 24, 1864. After his career in the army he resumed farming in Indiana, where he remained until 1868, when he came to Nebraska and bought a farm where the town of Auburn now stands, in Nemaha county. In 1870 lie came to Richardson county and bought one hundred and sixty acres of raw land in ]\Iuddy precinct, which he broke himself and made general improvements. He set out five acres of orchard and a grove of cottonwood trees, which however, finally died, and he then planted two acres of walnut trees which are thriving. He erected a pleasant home and convenient outbuildings. The farm is well located, two miles north of Verdon. He sold it some time ago and is now living retired from active life. He is owner of a half block of city property in Verdon, and is a shareholder in the Farmers and Merchants Bank there. While on the farm he made a specialty of handling high-grade live stock, and was a well-known breeder.

children were born to that union, namely : Mrs. Rosa Belle Xanderventer, who lives in Long Mount, Colorado; Earl, deceased; Ferdinand, who lives in Holtxounty, Nebraska; William T., who lives in Idaho; George M., who als.o .lives in Idaho; Ethel E., wife of T. Griffiths, of Greenleaf, Idaho; Ernest E-., deceased; Herbert L., who lives in western Nebraska; Oliver J., deceased; Walter F., who lives at Page, in Holt county, Nebraska, and Bertha, deceased. On December i8, 1892, Mr. Cullen married Mrs. Ella Jane (Steplienson) McClain, a native of Missouri, and to their union one child w^s. born, Edith M., wife of, Guy Schley, of Verdon.

Politically, Mr. Cullen is a Democrat. He was formerly a member of the,. Grand, Army of the Republic, and was commander of the local post until the charter was surrendered. It was known as the George Vantlerventer Post. He belongs, to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and to the Congregational church.

Cleon Peck

Cleon Peck, assessor of the precinct of Ohio and one of the best-known and most progressive farmers of that part of Richardson county, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life, having been born on the farm, a part of which he now owns, in Ohio precinct, October 2, 1881, son of George W. and Sarah (Maust) Peck, natives of Pennsylvania, who became pioneers of Richardson county and the latter of which is still living here one of the best-known and most highly esteemed pioneers of the precinct of Ohio.

George W. Peck was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 16. 1841, a son of Elias Peck, who also became a pioneer of Richardson county, and Was reared in that county. He was united in marriage in Pennsylvania to Sarah Maust, who also was born in that state on .\ugust 4, 1844, and in the fall of 1869 he came out to Nebraska and bought a farm in the precinct of Ohio, in this county, made arrangements for the erection of a house on that tract and then returned to Pennsylvania for his family and came back here, establishing his home on his farm, where he continued to make his home until the spring of 1906, when he retired from the farm and moved to Falls City. His death (Occurred on September 13. of that same \ear. tJeorge W. Peck ijecame a successful farmer and stockman and he and his wife gave their children every advantage in the way of schooling. both being ardent advocates of higher education. Mr. Peck was a Repul)ii- can and for four years served as a member of the board of county commissioners from his district. He was a member of the Church of the Brethren, and gave material assistance to the erection of the church of that denomination in his home precinct. His widow is still living in this county. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the ninth in order of birth, the others being as follow : Felicia, deceased; Mrs. Margaret Miller, of Waterloo, Iowa; Elias, a farmer, of Ohio precinct; Milton, who died in infancy; Lloyd, now a resident of Reserve, Kansas; Mrs. Lorena Humbarger of Falls City; Charles, who died in infancy; Elsie, wife of Judge John ^^'iltse, of Falls City, and Mrs. Edith Kindig, of Holmesville, this state.

Reared on the home farm. Cleon Peck received his early schooling in the district schools in the neighborhood of his home and supplemented the same by a course in McPherson College, in which institution practically all of the Peck children finished their schooling, all becoming school teachers with the exception of the subject of this sketch and his youngest sister. Cleon Peck passed the examination for teachers and received a certificate to teach, but never used it. A year after his return from college he became a partner of his father in the operation of the home farm and, in 1912, bought from his mother the eighty-acre tract of the old home place on which he is now living, at the same time farming one hundred and sixty acres of the home place. Mr. Peck is a progressive and up-to-date farmer and is doing very well in his operations. He is a member of the Farmers Union and of the C. P. A., in the affairs of which he takes an active interest. By political inheritance and on national issues Mr. Peck is a Republican, but on local issues reserves his right to an independent vote. In 1916 he was elected assessor of the precinct of Ohio and is now serving in that important public capacity, giving to the duties of that oflfice his most intelligent attention.

On January 22, 1908, Cleon Peck was united in marriage to Ella Way, who was born in this county on November 12, 1883, but was reared in Thayer county, this state, a daughter of Henry and Clara (Daniels) Way, natives, respectively, of Ohio and Kansas, who are now living in Thayer county, this state, where Mr. Way is a large landowner. Henry Way came to Ne- Ijraska from Illinois, and was here married to Clara Daniels, who was born in Kansas, but who lived in Illinois until she was thirteen years of age, when she returned to Kansas. After his marriage Henry Way made his home in this county until 1884, when he moved to Thayer county, where he has developed large farming interests. Mr. and Mrs. Peck have two children, Glenn, born on February i/, 1909. and Eugene. October 5. 1911. They have a very pleasant home and have ever given their interested attention to the general social activities of their home community.

William S. Marsh

William S. Marsh, one of the best-known pioneer farmers of the precinct of East Muddy, this county, an old plainsman and an honored veteran of the Civil War, now living practically retired, is a native of the Badger state, but has been a resident of Nebraska since territorial days, having come to this county with his parents in 1859, he then having been but a 1x)y of fourteen years. He was born on a pioneer farm in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, February 11. 1845. son of Elijah S. and Delilah (Horner) Marsh, natives of Ohio, the former born in 1821 and the latter in 1825, who were married in that state and later became pioneers of Lafayette county, W^isconsin, living there imtil 1850, when they moved to Saline county, Missouri, living there eight years, and then settled near Rockport, Atchison county, Missouri, where they remained until in March, 1859, when they came over into the then Territory of Nebraska and settled on Long Branch, north of Humboldt, in this county. Six months later Elijah S. Marsh bought a farm adjoining the Stephens place in the precinct of Barada and there established his home and became a substantial farmer and stockman. When the Civil War broke out Elijah S. Marsh enlisted in behalf of the Union as a member of Company D, Fifth Missouri Cavalry, and with that commantl served for eighteen months. He lived to Ije past eighty years of age and died at Lincoln, this state, while on his way to Iowa on a visit, his death occurring on June 27, 1902. His wife had preceded him to the grave less than a year, her death having occurred at her home in this county on August 9, 1901. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being as follow : James S., who also was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as a member of Company K, Forty-eighth Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry; Jolin T., who is living with a son of W. S. Marsh on the old home farm in the precinct of Barada; George W.. now a resident of University Place, near Lincoln, this state; Alcana, who married C. F. Peabody and is now living in the state of Washington ; Hiram, whose last days were spent in Saline county, Missouri; Josepli, who died in 1876 and is buried in the Barada cemetery ; Richard L., who is living on the farm adjoining that of his brother, Wiiham S., on the north; Mrs. Lucinda Davis, deceased; Mrs. Emma Boatman, of Nemaha county, tliis state, and Mrs. Margaret Chamberlain, of Eugene, Oregon.

As noted above. William S. Marsh was but fourteen years of age when he came to Ricjiardson county with his parents from Wisconsin and his youth was spent on the hoine farm in Barada precinct, growing up there thoroughly familiar with pioneer conditions. On March 7, 1862, he then being less than a month past seventeen years of age, he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company D, Fifth Missouri Cavalry, with which command he served for eighteen months, being chiefly engaged in chasing "bushwhackers," his most important engagement during his cavalry service having been that of the battle of the Charitan river. He then on August 15, 1864, enlisted as a member of Company K, Forty-eighth Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and with that command served until the close of the war, the principal part of that service being rendered in Missouri and Tennessee. Upon the completion of his military service he returned home and in the fall of 1865 took service with a freighting outfit and for two years was eiigaged as a freighter across the plains to Julesburg and F't. Kearney, liis l^rothers James and John also being thus engaged. Upon leaving the plains Mr. Marsh resumed his place on the home farm and in 1868 Ijought the farm of eighty acres on which lie is now living, in the precinct of East Muddy, and proceeded to develop and improve the same, estaljlishng his home there after his marriage in the fall of 1870, and has ever since continued to make that place his home, now lixing practically retired from the active labors of the farm. Mr. Marsli is an ardent Republican and has ever given his earnest attention to local civic affairs, for twenty years serving as director of his home school district. He is an active member of the local post of the Cirand .Army of die Republic at Shubert, in the affairs of which patriotic organization he has for vears taken a warm interest, and is also affiliated with the local lodge of the .\ncieiit Order of United Workmen at that place.

On November 20, 1870, William S. Mar.sli was united in marriage to Lillie Calvert, who then lived on the farm adjoining the Marsh place in the precinct of Barada and who was torn at Hiramslnirg, Ohio, .\.pril 4, 185,3, a daughter of Hiram and Rachel (Frazier) Calvert, natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1804 and the latter in i8t6, who became pioneers of Richardson county and here spent their last days. Hiram Calvert, after whom the town of Hiramsburg, Ohio, was named, was a descendant of the famous Cecil Calvert (Lord Baltimore), of Maryland. In 1864 he came to this county with his family from Ohio and settled on a farm adjoining the Marsh place in Barada precinct, where his wife died three years later, in 1867. He survived until 1891. They were the parents of two children. Mrs. Marsh having a brother. William Calvert, now a resident of Gold Hill, Nevada. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have four children, namely: Ora O. Marsh, present county clerk of RichartJ.son county and a resident of Falls City; William Earl Marsh, who is fah?,iing the old Marsh homestead place in Barada precinct; Mrs. Josephine RaV, whose husband, Elmer Ray, is now operating Mr. Marsh's farm, and who has four children, Gladys, Russell, Helen and Warren, and George Roy, no\\' a resident of Lewistown, Montana. The ^Marshs have a very pleasant f(ome north of ^'erdon and have ever taken an interested part in the general Jocial activities of the community in which they live, helpful in many waysr in promoting causes having to <lo with the advancement of the common good thereabout.

Louis. M. Suess

Louis M. Suess, one of the substantial farmers and landowners of the precinct of Arago, this county, and former justice of the peace of that precinct, was born on a pioneer farm in that precinct and has lived there all his life, his present home being not far from the place of his birth. He w-as born on June 8, 1866, son of August and Catherine (Werner) Suess, pioneers of Richardson county, and the former of W'hom is still living here, now a resident of Falls City.