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Reared in St. Louis, Rev. Francis X. McMenamy prepared for the priesthood of the Catholic church and was graduated from St. Louis University with the class of 1892. He afterward continued his studies in St. Stanislaus' Seminary near St. Louis, in which he completed his course by graduation with the class of 1906. He was called to the presidency of Creighton College in August, 1914, and has since guided the destinies of that institution with all of its varied branches, increasing its reputation for thoroughness and raising its standards until it has become one of the strong forces in educational development in the middle west. He is constantly working out along broadening lines for the benefit of the institution and his w'ell defined plans and purposes cr}^stallize into tangible results of farreaching eft'ects.

Charles Henry Brown

. Discriminating judgment may well be termed the dominant characteristic of the late Charles Henry Brown, an Omaha capitalist who throughout the period of his business career figured prominently in the field of investments and became connected with some of the most important financial enterprises of the state. He was born October 19, 1875, in Omaha, son of James J. and Missouri (Kennedy) Brown, and was a representative of one of the city's oldest families. A sketch of the life of his father will be found elsewhere in this publication.

Charles Henry Brown supplemented his public school education by study in the Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, and then entered Harvard University, where he completed the work of the sophomore year, and upon returning to Omaha he became the assistant of his father in the investment business and ultimately his successor. Later while he continued active in this field, he handled mostly his own property. Something of the nature and extent of his interests is shown in the fact that he was the president of the Omaha Safe Deposit and Trust Company, secretary and treasurer of the Brown Realty & Investment Company, secretary and treasurer of the Boulevard Park Improvement Company, director of the Omaha National Bank, director of the National Bank of Ashland, Nebraska, director of the Battle Creek Valley Bank of Battle Creek, Nebraska, and a director of the Omaha Realty Company.

On the 15th of November, 1913, in Kansas City, Missouri, Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Ella Mae Brown, daughter of the late Frank Dwight

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Brown. Two sons, Charles Henry, Jr., and Frank Dwight, were born to them. ^Ir. Brown belonged to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and was a well known figure in club circles of Omaha, having membership -in the Commercial, Country, Omaha and Jacksonian Clubs. Always a resident of this city, his life record was well known to his fellow townsmen, who speak of him in terms of high regard. He was a very public-spirited citizen and his charities were known to have been large. To accumulate a fortune requires one kind of genius ; to retain a fortune already acquired, to add to its legitimate increment and to make such use of it that its possessor may derive therefrom the greatest enjoyment and the public the greatest benefit requires another kind of genius. Mr. Brown belonged to that younger generation of business men of Omaha called upon to shoulder responsibilities differing materially from those resting upon their predecessors. In a broader field of enterprise he was obliged to deal with affairs of greater magnitude and to solve more difficult and complicated financial and economic problems, but he was at all times found adequate to the demands put upon his powers. Mr. Brown passed away on November 7, 1916.

Almost three decades ago Herbert McCoy established the business in which he is now engaged and through the intervening period has developed one of the highest class job printing and engraving houses of Omaha. His plans have ever been carefuUv devised and promptly executed, and; in his business he has kept abreast with the progressiveness that has strongly luarked the printing trade. He was born in Vinton, Iowa, December 31, 1865, d son of John A. and Sarah Anna (Jack) McCoy, the former a native of Mount Eaton. Iowa, and the latter of Franklin, Pennsylvania. Following the discovery of gold in California, John A. McCoy crossed the plains to California, enduring" all the hardships incident to the trip over the long stretches of hot sand atid through the mountain passes to the Pacific coast. He remained in CaHfornia for three years and returned by way of the Panama route, again settling in Iowa, where he engaged in the business of a millwright. In 1892 he removed to Omaha, where he resided until his death in 1903, at the age of seventy-five years. Mrs. McCoy survived until 1906 and was sixty-nine years of age at the time of her demise.

Herbert McCoy is the only survivor in a family of five children. In his boyhood he w^as a pupil in the graded and public schools of Vinton, Iowa, completing his studies in 1879, after which he took up the printing business as an employe on the Vinton (la.) Eagle. Starting in the capacity of printer's devil, he worked his way upward through the various departments until he had mastered the trade. He then became a journeyman printer and worked in various paper and printing establishments at Winnipeg and Victoria. Canada, and at San Francisco, California. In 1884 he first came to Omaha, where he remained for nine months and then again took up journeyman work. He returned to this city in 1887 and was employed by others until the following year, when he established business on his own account on a small scale. Gradually his interests have expanded and enlarged and today he has one of the neatest, as well as best equipped job printing houses of the city. He originally had William McBride and John Ryan as partners but he later bought out the plant. He then added more modern presses and machinery and bent his energy to the careful direction of his mterests. From time to time he has added to and enlarged his office and its equipment and today has a plant supplied with the most up-to-date machinery and modern appliances known to the printing business. Such an equipment implies a very extensive patronage and indicates the business to be one of substantial profits.

In Omaha, on the 12th of May, 1890, Mr. McCoy was married to Miss Emma May George, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George George, who became pioneer residents of Rockford, Illinois, in 1846. Mr. and Mrs. McCoy have three children: Helen Yule, who was born December 25, 1892, and after being graduated from the high school of Omaha attended Wellesley College of Massachusetts; ^Marguerite A., who was born March 28, 1896, and after completing the high school course entered the University of Nebraska class of 1918; and Gwendolyn, who was born October 28, 1900, and is now a high school pupil.

Mr. McCoy exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party. He belongs to the Omaha Field Club, which indicates something of the nature of his recreation. He is a well known and prominent man, standing high in citizenship and in business circles. He believes in Omaha first, last and always and in that loyal support of its interests and enterprises which encourages and fosters home industry and leads to substantial public prosperity.

R. J. Madden

R. J. Madden, police judge of Omaha, was born in Waseca, Minnesota, February 25, 1892, a son of John and EHzabeth (Burns) Madden, who were natives of Waseca county, Minnesota. The father became a well known farmer of that district and afterward removed to Omaha, Nebraska, where he is now living retired at the age of fifty-nine years. His wife passed away in Minnesota in 1912, at the age of fifty-two years. In their family were five children: Ambrose, a resident of Sheridan, Wyoming; Mary, living in Winona, Minnesota; Raphael (.; Leo, now in San Francisco, California; and Gertrude, in Omaha.

At the usual age R. J. Madden became a public school pupil and passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school with the class of 1910. He next became a student in the law department of Creighton University, completing his course in 191 3. He then entered upon active practice in Omaha, where he has since remained. In 1914 he was defeated by fifteen votes for the office of police judge of the city court and in 1916 he again became a candidate for that position, to which he was elected by a majority of twentyone hundred. He is recognized as an able attorney, well fitted for judicial service, and he stands high in public regard and also in the esteem of his professional brethren.

Mr. Madden belongs to the Roman Catholic church and is a third degree Knight of Columbus. He always votes with the democratic party and has frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions. He has membership in the Delta Phi Delta, a legal fraternity, and he is interested in athletics. While a university student he was a member of the football team of Creighton and he endorses all manly athletics and outdoor sports.

Nathan O. Talbot

Nathan O. Talbot, owner and publisher of The Daily Record at Omaha, is a native of Pella, Iowa. He was born April 30, 1862, of the marriage of William Talbot and Isabel Moore, who were natives of Ohio and of Illinois respectively. The latter was of Scotch descent, while the former represented an old Ohio family of English lineage that was established in Massachusetts while this country was still num.bered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain. William Talbot became a successful farmer of Iowa, where he took up his abode in 1853, afterward contributing to the pioneer development and upbuilding of the state. He drove across the country with ox teams and became a valued citizen of the county of his adoption. His wife died in 1883, when but forty years of age. In the

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Nathan O. Talbot, the eldest, pursued his education in public schools and in Central University at Pella, Iowa. Through the period of his youth his time was divided between the work of the schoolroom and of the home farm and when eighteen years of age he started out to earn his own livelihood. He continued his studies, however, until he reached the age of twenty-two and after leaving college taught school for about two years. He later became topographical surveyor for a map publishing company of Quincy, Illinois, and through the succeeding three years traveled for that company, known as the J. P. Edwards Mapping Company. On the ist of January, 1889, Mr. Talbot arrived in Omaha, where he entered the publishing business in connection with the Douglas County Reporter, which was the pioneer commercial paper of the city, the business having been established in 1886. At the time when Mr. Talbot became connected with the paper C. C. Campbell was conducting it. Mr. Talbot purchased a half interest in the business and after six months became sole proprietor. He has since conducted the paper alone and in 1892 he changed its name to The Daily Record. It is the only paper of the kind issued in this city and that it is regarded as of value in commercial lines is indicated by its large subscription list. Mr. Talbot is also secretary of the City Linotyping Company of Omaha and is the vice president of the Midland Title Guarantee & Abstract Company. The first money that he ever earned was one hundred dollars, for which he worked eight months, spending that time as an employe on a thousand-acre farm. Gradually from that point he has advanced until he is well known in the business circles of the city as one of the representative men. -- .

On the ist of March, 1888, in (^uiricy; Illinois, . Mr. Talbot was united in marriage to Miss Harriett Edwards, ^'rtaiiVe.of Ilhnois and a daughter of the late Charles W. and Maggie (Quihton) Edwalrd-Sy, representing an old family of Hannibal, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Talbot have three children, namely: Raymond A., who is associated with his-viather in the publication of The Daily- Record; Willard O., vice president atid-J;ener-al manager of the Refiners Oil Company of Dayton, Ohio ; and Alice K-^athene.

Mr. Talbot belongs to the Commercial Club, being in hearty sympathy with its purposes to extend the trade relations of Omaha and promote its business and civic progress. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, gives his political allegiance to the republican party and indicates his interest in moral development through his membership in and support of the First Baptist church. He has many substantial qualities worthy of praise and commendation and he enjoys the warm friendship of the large majority of those with whom he comes in contact.

Clarence E. Corey

Clarence E Corey, senior partner in the Corey & McKenzie Printing Company of Omaha, was born in York county, Nebraska, May 26, 1873, his parents being A G and Mary C. (Gilmore) Corey, in whose family were four sons and a daughter, Clarence E. being the eldest. The father was a native of Wisconsm and the mother of Pennsylvania. In 1866 he arrived in Nebraska and cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of the state. He took up the occupation of farming and afterward entered into mercantile pursuits. He is now filling the position of postmaster at Fairfield, Nebraska, at the age of seventy-two years and his wite

Junction in York county. He mastered the printers' trade and then entered the tield of newspaper pubHcation on his own account, conducting papers in various parts of the state. He sold out at different times because of advantageous offers which he received, and in 1901 he came to Omaha where he established the Corey Printery. Later he was joined by Guy C. McKenzie under the name of the Corey & McKenzie Printing Company. They are today among the leading printers of Omaha, doing all kinds of printing and dealing in office supplies. Something of their business methods is indicated in the fact that they have been termed "The livest printing concern in Omaha." They have organized a progressive system that produces results. Visiting the business man they tell him how advertising can help his business and guarantee the increase. Mr. Corey as office man has under his supervision the work of the office, and no finer is turned out in Omaha. Mr. McKenzie is at the head of the selling department and has developed the Business Mens Result-Getting Plan that has put the concern into the front ranks of live, aggressive firms. Their plan has been termed "Salesmen of the Mail" which is a follow-up system of direct advertising, one whereby the thing to be sold is placed before prospective buyers and placed before them in such a way that it commands attention and consideration. A local writer speaking of the firm said : "These men are satisfied from the results obtained by many who have worked out their sales problems along the line of selling by mail, that this field will return a hundred- fold, and they are equipped to help the business man seed and harvest the crop. Salesmen of the Mail is a guaranteed service. It consists of copy-writing, compiling, illustrating, cut making, printing, planning sales promotion, in fact everything that goes into the making of business-getting literature. The company has experts who know how to write advertising copy that brings results. They compile statistics for any line of business. They have an artist who devotes all his time to fine special illustrations. In fact they handle your campaign from the start to finish." They now employ twenty men and their business is growing rapidly and continuously. In addition to this "Salesmen of the Mail" service they do general job printing in a most completely equipped office and turn out as fine work as can be found anywhere. Quality has been made their watchword.

In Omaha on the ist of November, 1904, Mr. Corey was married to Miss Virginia Peterson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Peterson, and they have two children, Marjorie, wdio w^as born in Omaha in 1906, and Audrey, in 1909. Mr. Corey has membership with the Knights of Pythias and with the Commercial Club. He is also president of the United Typothetae, a printers' organization. He is likewise connected with the Kountze Memorial Lutheran church. Those who know him recognize in him a man worthy of highest respect and esteem because of his admirable traits of character and his consideration for all those things which make for honorable manhood and upright citizenship.

Nets P. Swanson

From early manhood to the present Nels P. Swanson, a well known undertaker, has resided continuously in Omaha. He is, however, of foreign birth, being a native of Sweden, born July 24, 1865. His people remained in that country and there after completing his education Nels P. Swanson spent three years as a clerk in a general store. The opportunities offered in the new world caused him to come to America in 1884. He remained a resident of Glens Falls, New York, until the spring of 1885, when he came to Omaha, but after a few days he went to Lyons, Nebraska, where he spent the summer. In the fall, however, he returned to this city and entered the employ of General Leavitt Burnham of the Union Pacific, with whom he remained for a year. He next secured a position with H. K. Burkett, an undertaker, with whom he spent two years, at the end of which time he engaged in the same line of business on his own account at No. 1701 Cuming street. By close application he has built up a large business and in 1912 erected his present substantial building across the street from his former place. It is a two story brick structure, having the office, retiring and reception parlors, also the chapel and the preparing rooms on the main floor. There is a private entrance to the chapel, which furnishes ample accommodation for one hundred or more. The show rooms are on the upper floor and the establishment is well equipped.

In October, 1890, Mr. Swanson was united in marriage to Miss Nettie E. Valien, a native of Chicago, whose parents removed to Omaha in an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Swanson have two sons. Roy, who was educated in the Omaha schools, was in the United States National Bank for three years and was making continuous advancement in that business, but found that the close confinement was injuring his health and was compelled to resign. He joined a surveying party, spending eighteen months in Wyoming, and upon his return he became associated with his father in business. The younger son, Harry, became a commercial traveler for the National Casket Company of Chicago, with which he remained for three years, and is now a traveling representative of the Firestone Tire Company. Both are progressive young business men who are making good in their respective lines.

Mr. Swanson votes with the republican party and in 1897 was elected coroner, which position he filled for two years and was then reelected. He is well known in Masonic circles, having taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He is likewise identified with the Elks and he is a member of the Lutheran church. Coining to America before attaining his majority, he has never had occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in the new world. In the improvement of the opportunities here offered he has steadily worked his way upward and his success has been the merited reward of persistent effort, close application and honorable dealing.

Dr. Edward Chaloupka, physician and surgeon of Omaha, was born in Wilber, Nebraska, April 5, 1878. His father, Frank J. Chaloupka, a pioneer of this state, is a native of Bohemia, Austria, and when twelve years of age was brought to America by his parents, who settled in eastern Iowa, being among the pioneer residents of that state, where the grandfather followed agricultural pursuits. Frank J. Chaloupka was reared and educated in Iowa, being trained to farm work, and in 1873, with his wife and family, came to Nebraska, driving across the country with cattle and horses. He purchased land in Saline count}% where he has since continuously resided, being now about seventy-nine years of age. On the 23d of November, 1916, he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding. He has been very successful in business and has long been prominent in social and civic matters in Saline county. He married Anna Sacora, also a native of Bohemia, who came to the United States when a maiden of ten summers with her parents, who took up their abode in Iowa, where she met and married Mr. Chaloupka. To them were born thirteen children, nine of whom are yet living.

Dr. Chaloupka completed his public school training by a course in the high school at Wilber, Nebraska, after which he entered the Highland Park College of Pharmacy and was graduated therefrom in 1900 with the Ph. G. degree. This constituted an intermediate step toward his present professional connection. His understanding of drugs and their properties awakened his interest in the practice of medicine and he entered the Creighton Medical College at Omaha, from which he was graduated in 1905, winning the M. D. degree. His early life to the age of sixteen years was spent upon the home farm and his time thereafter was devoted to study until he had qualilied for the practice of medicine and surgery. In the year 1905-6 he was interne in St. Joseph's Hospital in Omaha and thus gained the broad practical ex])erience which hospital service brings. lie afterward entered upon the general practice of medicine, in which he has since continued, and he is now associated with his brother. Dr. Hugo R. Chaloupka. He has also become well known in educational circles as professor of gynecology in the Creighton College of Medicine. He belongs to the Douglas County, the Missouri Valley, the Nebraska State and the American Medical Associations and thus keeps in touch with the trend of modern thought, investigation and research concerning his profession.

At Des Moines, Iowa, May 27, 1909, Dr. Chaloupka was married to Miss Anna Krcma, a native of South Omaha and a daughter of Fred Krcma, a merchant of that place for the past twenty years. Dr. and Mrs. Chaloupka have three children : Edward, bom in Omaha, February 27, 1910; Grace, April 13, 1912; and Lucille, November 14, 1914.

Dr. Chaloupka was in active service as a private in the Spanish-American war, belonging to the Second Regiment of Nebraska Volunteers. He worked his way through college and thus early displayed the elemental strength of his character, which has enabled him to overcome obstacles and difficulties and steadily advance toward success and professional prominence.

Henry David Needy

Henry David Neely, who for many years has been manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York at Omaha, is a native of Platteville, Grant county, Wisconsin, and a son of Robert and Helen M. (Chase) Neely, the latter a daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Franklin Chase, while the former was a son of David Neely, a native of County Tipperar}^ Ireland. The Rev. Benjamin Franklin Chase was a Methodist minister and was a relative of Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the United States supreme court. Robert and Helen M. Neely became pioneer residents of southern Wisconsin, where they established their home in 1836, and they were strong adherents of the Presbyterian faith.

Henry David Neely completed his education with a full literary course in the State Normal School of Platteville, Wisconsin, from which he was graduated on the 23d of June, 1873. He then took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar at Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1876. However, he turned his attention to the insurance business and for many years has been manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at Omaha, thus becoming well known as one of the most prominent representatives of the insurance business in this city. Mr. Neely has become president of a company owning a large cattle and hog ranch near Hereford, Texas, which is in charge of his son, Henry F. Neely, treasurer of the company.

On the loth of September, 1881, in Winona, Minnesota, Mr. Neely was united in marriage to jMiss Emma J. Johns, a daughter of Winthrop and Lydia Johns. They have two sons : Henry Fay, who wedded Nellie Herrod ; and Robert Donald, who is a member of the law firm of M^cLaughlin & Neely, of Omaha, and who married Miss Ann Dennis.

Mr. and Mrs. Neely are members of the Lowe Avenue Presbyterian church. His political support is given the republican party and fraternally he is a prominent Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, while with the Mystic Shrine he is also identified. He is well known in club circles as a member of the Happy Hollow, Omaha Athletic, University and Commercial Clubs, and something of the breadth of his interests is indicated in the varied nature of these organizations. He is likewise identified with the Sons of the

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American Revolution and in matters of citizenship he has always displayed the same spirit of loyalty that caused his ancestors to fight for American independence in the Revolutionary war.

William N. Jamieson

William N. Jamieson, attorney at law practicing at South Omaha, was born October 12, 1885, in Grand Island, Nebraska. His father, David F. Jamieson, a native of Scotland, came to America during the early '70s and located at Grand Island, becoming one of its first settlers. In the early days there he followed farming very successfully and he afterward left as a landmark m.any noted buildings which he erected, including the Jamieson Hotel and others at Grand Island. His well spent life was crowned by a very gratifying success, enabling him to leave his family in comfortable circumstances when in 1892 at the age of fifty-one years he passed away. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Delia Dunphy, was a native of Ireland and came to America with her parents, who settled in Albany, New York. Later she joined her brother, Patrick Dunphy, at Grand Island. He was a prominent banker and an influential man of that city and it was there that she met and married Mr. Jamieson, whom she survives, making her home now in Omaha. She became the mother of eight children, of whom William N. is the fourth in order of birth.

In the public schools of Grand Island William N. Jamieson pursued his early education and in 1907 was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Marys College at St. Marys, Kansas, while in 1910 he won the LL. B. degree upon graduation from Creighton College of Omaha. 'He entered upon active practice at Papillion, Nebraska, and almost immediately was there elected county attorney of Sarpy county, which position he filled for one term. Early in 1913 he removed to South Omaha and entered into a partnership with Eugene D. O'Sullivan, who was then serving as deputy county attorney of-Douglas eounty. The firm practices under the name of Jamieson & O'Sullivan and has won a very extensive clientage, handling a large number of important criminal cases. In fact its practice is the largest of the kind in Douglas county. Mr. Jamieson is notable by reason of his keen logic and his conclusive arguments. He is very thorough in cross-examination and seems to lose sight of no point that bears upon his case, at the same time giving due prominence to the important point upon which the decision of the case finally turns.

In Omaha on the 19th of June, 191 1, Mr. Jamieson was married to Miss May Lovely, a native of Omaha and a daughter of Michael Lovely, an old settler of this city. In politics Mr. Jamieson is a democrat, active in support of the party. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Stags and his religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church. He possesses a studious trend of mind and attended school and college for twenty years in preparation for life's practical activities and duties. His advancement at the bar is based upon broad learning and added to this is the more essential factor of ability to accurately apply legal principles to the points in litigation.

Dr. R. E. Schindel, physician and surgeon, practicing in South Omaha, vvas born in Hagerstown, Maryland, January 24, 1870, a son of Jacob H. and Katherine (Emmert) Schindel, both of whom were natives of Hagerstown. where they were reared, educated and married and afterward made their home until called to their final rest. The father was engaged in farming just outside the city limits for a number of years but later lived retired for some time. He was born in 1836 and passed away in June, 1916, while his wife, who was born in 1846, died in 1902. In their family were five children : Dr. C. M. Schindel, who for twenty-two years was engaged in active practice as a prominent physician and surgeon of Omaha but is now deceased; Elsworth. a resident of St. Paul, ]\Iinnesota ; Samuel F., a leading citizen and druggist of llagerstOAvn, Maryland; Mrs. Ida N. Fehl, a resident of York, Pennsylvania ; and Dr. R. E. Schindel.

The last named was the fourth in order of birth. He acquired his early education in the schools of his native city and after leaving the high school took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years in Washington County, Maryland. On the expiration of that period he decided to study medicine and entered the Baltimore Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1897. I'^ollowing his graduation he entered the Baltimore General Hospital as house physician and continued in that capacity until 1899, when he came to Omaha and entered into partnership relations with his brother, Dr. C. M. Schindel, with whom he practiced for five years. He later became connected with the medical department of Creighton University as teacher of pathology for three years and afterward as lecturer on gastroenterology. He resigned that position in 1914 and resumed the private practice of medicine and surgery. In the meantime he has taken several post graduate courses, first under Dr. John C. Hemmeter of the Maryland University, specializing on gastroenterology in 1902. In 1909 he attended the New York Post Graduate School and 1913 took his second post graduate course under Dr. Hemmeter. Through constant reading and also private research and investigation he has continuously broadened his knowledge and promoted his efficiency. He belongs to the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society, the Nebraska State Medical Society, the Missouri Valley Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

On the 1st of October, 1903, at Atlantic, Iowa, Dr. Schindel was united in marriage to Miss Alice Childs, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. June Childs, prominent and well known people of Atlantic.

Dr. Schindel holds membership in the Lutheran church while Mrs. Schindel is a Congregationalist. He gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He is a valued representative of several fraternal organizations, being now a thirty-second degree and a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine and a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He likewise has membership in the Seymour Lake Country Club, but all these interests are subservient to his professional duties and he is recognized as one who is conscientious in practice and most careful in the diagnosis of his cases, so that remedial agencies are administered with the utmost skill. Scientific investigation finds in him a worthy exponent, for he keeps in touch with the trend of modern thought.

Colonel Sophus F. Neble

Colonel Sophus F. Neble, one of the most prominent Danish-Americans in the west and a man well known in the public life of Nebraska, is president of the Den Danske Pioneer at Omaha. He w^as born at Stubbekjobing, Denmark, Decern^ ber 15, 1859, a son of Martin and Karen (Paulsen) Neble, who were also of Danish birth. They were reared, educated and married in their native land and the father there became a tailor. He went to the front as a soldier for the crown in the war of 1864 and was killed in action when but thirty-eight years of age. Prior to that engagement he had been decorated for bravery. His widow came to America in 1889 and lived with her son Sophus in Omaha until her demise, wdiich occurred in 191 1, when she was seventy-three years of age. In their family

In his youthful days Sophus F. Neble attended the public schools of Denmark and after laying aside his text books decided to learn the printer's trade. He learned typesetting and other branches of the work in Stubbekjobing, completing his full term of apprenticeship there, and then went to Copenhagen, 'where he added to his knowledge of the business as an employe in the government printing office. He decided to master the dairy business, at which he worked for a time in Denmark. He then came to America, thinking to follow dairying in Wisconsin, where in 1883 he secured a position on a farm, but remained in that state only until the fall of that year, when he came to Omaha and' secured a position as typesetter on the Den Danske Pioneer, a Danish newspaper, published in Omaha. Three months later he was made foreman, in two years became assistant editor and later chief editor. In 1887 he purchased the paper, of which he has since been the publisher. This is one of the foremost Danish papers of the country. It is housed in a modern two story brick building, erected especially for the purpose, on Twenty-fourth street, in Omaha. It is thoroughly equipped with the latest models of presses and linotype machines and has an able staff of expert newspaper men, well qualified for the conduct of the work in the various departments. When the paper was first acquired by Colonel Neble it had a circulation of eleven thousand and today there are forty-one thousand names on the subscription list and the paper is sent to all parts of the world, there being five thousand subscribers in Denmark alone, while copies are regularly mailed to China, Japan, South Africa and every part of the globe where Danish people reside.

On the 24th of April, 1884, Colonel Neble w^as united in marriage to Miss Christine Larsen, who was a native of Denmark and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lars Mortensen. Mrs. Neble died August 7, 1900, and is survived by only three of her fifteen children: Sophus F., Jr., who was born in Omaha in 1886 and was formerly assistant county attorney of Douglas county but is now state oil and food inspector of Nebraska; Eyvind, who was born in Omaha in 1889 ^'""^^ is manager of his father's large stock farm.Tnown as the Neble Farm, near Springfield. Nebraska; and Frances, who was born in 1894 and is a graduate of Brownell Hall. The elder son, Sophus F., Jr., is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He is married and has one child, Dorothy. The younger son married Maria Fedderson, a daughter of Christ Fedderson, one of the pioneers of Hamilton county, Nebraska, and has a daughter, A^ivian. Having lost his first wife. Colonel Neble wedded Miss Olivia Hansen, of Chicago, on the 6th of December, 1901. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen.

Colonel Neble is prominent in various Danish societies and organizations and he also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while he is a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second degree and a member of the Mystic Shrine. lie has been called upon to fill various offices of public honor and trust. He gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and at the last three elections has been chosen presidential elector. In 1916 he received for this office one hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred and eighty votes. Four times he has served on the governor's staff, thus earning the title of colonel, and that position he is now filling. He is also a member of the public welfare board and there is no feature of public life in city or state in which he is not interested and there is no movement for the general good to which he does not give generous and substantial support. Colonel Neble has interests aside from his extensive publication. His farm near Springfield, Nebraska, comprises three hundred and forty acres and is one of the best if not the model farm in Nebraska. Here he has expended a large sum of money in improvements for both agricultural and beautifying results. Here he maintains a summer residence and finds one form of recreation. His fondness for outdoor life is otherwise gratified in hunting and fishing. He has hunted extensively through the south and southwest. Colonel Nehle has traveled a great deal, ha\ing visited all the principal cities and sections of the country. He has made numerous trips ahroad. On one of these trips a few years ago he motored over a great portion of Denmark, visiting sections where his automobile was the first one to be seen by the residents. Colonel Neble delivered the address on Danish Day at the Panama Exposition held at San Francisco in 191 5, on which occasion he spoke to an audience of more than eleven thousand. Not only is he a well known and influential newspaper man of Omaha but is a poi)ular citizen in every respect, a most courteous and genial gentleman and one with whom association means expansion and elevation. He came to America a poor boy without friends in this country and that as the architect of his own fortunes he has builded wisely and well is shown by his present ])Osition of influence and prominence and the high regard entertained for him by all who who know aught of his character.

Archie E. Houghton

Archie E. Houghton, one of the best known automobile men in the west, is territorial representative in charge of sales for Dodge Brothers, Detroit, Michigan, with headquarters at Omaha.

Mr. Houghton was born in Putney, Vermont, in 1874, and comes of New England stock, his father, George A. Houghton, being a native of ]\Iarlboro, Vermont. His ancestors, John and Ralph Houghton, came to the United States from England in 1636. These brothers settled in Massachusetts and since that day representatives of this family have lived in New England.

Spending his youthful days in the many manufactin-ing towns of New England, where his father was engaged in cotton and woolen manufactories, Mr. Houghton migrated west soon after his high school days and settled in Wisconsin, interesting himself with his father in the lumber business. After the crash in 1892, he removed to Colorado and engaged in mining, meeting with the usual fate of the inexperienced miner.

In April, 1895, he entered the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company, in the motive power department, later turning his attention to the ice business in Salida, Colorado, where he remained for another two and a half years.

In November, 1907, he went to Denver, Colorado, where he engaged in the real estate business Avith the motor car business as a side line. In 1909 Mr. Houghton dropped the real estate business and organized the Western Motor Car Company for the sale of automobiles, becoming its secretary-treasurer. To that business he devoted his entire time and attention until June i, 1914. He then entered the employ of Dodge Brothers, Detroit, placing agencies for their new car just out at that time, and acting as their local representative in Denver until November i. 1915. In July, 1915. his duties were extended and took in the Omaha branch, handling both the Denver and Omaha interests for Dodge Brothers up to November i, 191 5. At that time his former assistant in Denver relieved him of the Denver territory and he has had exclusive charge of the Omaha branch, which includes all of Nebraska, the west two-thirds of Iowa, the south half of South Dakota and a few adjoining counties in Minnesota, Kansas and Wyoming.

Mr. Houghton gives his political allegiance to the republican party, while fraternally he is indentified with the Elks, the Red Men and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He is a prominent member of the Happy Hollow Club and in religious faith is an Episcopalian. He is making steady progress in his chosen line of business, building up a trade through his territory that is most gratifyino-. He has thoroughly organized the business and his systematic management anil control are bringing most satisfactory results.

John B. Watkins

John B. Watkins is one of the best known and most prominent business men of South Omaha, where he has figured as a leading factor in the upbuilding of the community for many years, doing much to further public progress and improvement along substantial lines. Illinois claims him as a native son, his birth having occurred in Aurora on the 8th of August, 1861, his parents being John B. and Louisa (Willis) Watkins. His father was born in New York, while his mother is a native of Wisconsin. In young manhood the former emigrated westward to the Badger state, w^here he formed the acquaintance of Miss Willis, whom he wooed and won, their marriage being celelDrated at Winona. They afterward removed to Aurora, Illinois, and there Mr. Watkins entered the employ of the Burlington Railroad as an operator. Subsequently he removed to Clinton, Iowa, where he became superintendent for the Northwestern Railroad Company, which he represented in an official capacity until he met an accidental death in a railroad wreck on the Northwestern in 1873, when he was forty-three years of age, the accident occurring at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His widow still resides at Clinton, Iowa, and is now eighty years of age. In their family were five children : James F.. a resident of Chicago; John B. ; Charles B., living in Cloquet, Minnesota; Willis W., whose home is in Menomonie, Wisconsin ; and a daughter who died in 1912.

In his youthful days John B. Watkins was a pupil in the public and high schools of Clinton, Iowa, and in 1880 he became connected with the lumber industry in the camps of Wisconsin, where he was employed until 1887. He then secured a position as traveling salesman wath a lumber concern, covering the state of Nebraska in that way from 1887 until 1889. On the Tst of January of the latter year he established the firm of J. B. Watkins & Company at South Omaha, with George A. Hoagland as a partner, and of this business he has since been the resident manager. Steadily the trade of the firm has grown and gradually the scope of the business has been extended to include the sale of all building materials, including cement, stone and roofing, while coal has been added as a side line. The firm has excellent railroad facilities and in its business methods has kept in close touch with the progress and growth of the city until the trade of J. B. Watkins & Company is today the largest in that line in South Omaha. Mr. Watkins has also become a director of the Brown Park Mineral Springs Company. He is a man of sound and discriminating business judgment and his energy and close application have brought about a substantial measure of success. His plans are carefully formulated and promptly executed and while contributing to individual success he has also advanced the public welfare along the line of commercial expansion. Mr. Hoagland still remains his partner in the undertaking, their relation having long existed most harmoniously.

On the 19th of October, 1892, Mr. Watkins w^as united in marriage to Miss Maude Hayward, of South Omaha, a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Hayward, well known and prominent pioneer people of Nebraska. The mother is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins have become parents of five children. Louise, born in South Omaha in 1898, is now attending St. Katherine's School at Davenport, Iowa. Helen, born in 1903, John Burton in 1906, Irving in 1908, and Charles in 1910, are all attending the schools of South Omaha.

The parents are communicants of the Episcopal church and Mr. Watkins is well known in various lodges. He holds membership with the York Rite Masons, being a chapter and commandery Mason, and he is a life member of the Ancient

Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. His political endorsement is given the repubHcan party but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him, as he has felt that he could serve his city in other ways besides office holding. Through his individual efforts he has contributed to the material development of South Omaha and has made for himself a creditable position as a business man. However, he has done important work as a city builder, and it is well known that his influence is always on the side of advancement and improvement.

Thirty years have been added to the cycle of the centuries since Dr. Robert Gilmore entered upon the practice of medicine at Omaha, taking up professional duties here well equipped for his chosen life work. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, June 4, 1856, a son of James and Jean (McRoberts) Gilmore, who spent their entire lives in Belfast.

It was in the schools of Belfast that Dr. Gilmore obtained his early education and in preparation for a professional career he entered, in 1875, the Queen's University in Ireland at Belfast, and in 1879 he was graduated from the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland. The following year he received the degree of M. D. from Queen's University of Ireland in Dublin, now the Royal Irish University, and thus very liberal professional training equipped him for the onerous and responsible duties that devolve upon him in connection with his profession. He practiced for seven years in his native country and then sought the opportunities of the new world, arriving in Omaha in 1887, since which time he has continuously and successfully practiced in this city. He concentrates his efforts and attention upon his professional duties, which he discharges with a sense of conscientious obligation, and his ability and skill, acknowledged by colleagues and contemporaries, have made him one of the prominent physicians of the city. He has some other business connections, being one of the organizers and vice president and secretary of the Skinner Manufacturing Company of Oiiiaha, president of the Central States Investment Company and president of the Central States Land Company.

On the 2ist of October, 1884, in North Lodge, Carrickfergus, Ireland. Dr. Gilmore was united in marriage to Miss Gretta Campbell Burrows and to them has been born a daughter, Amy Kathleen, who is a graduate of National Park Seminary of Washington, D. C.

Dr. and Mrs. Gilmore hold membership in the Presbyterian church and his political endorsement is given to the democratic party. His fraternal connections have advanced him to the Royal Arch degree in Masonry and he is also associated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In the club life of the city he is also well known as a member of the Country and Omaha Clubs. Those who know him speak of him as a cultured gentleman of charming personality, courteous, genial and approachable and one whose standards of life are high.

John B. Carver

John B. Carver, doing official service in connection with the public schools of Omaha as supervisor of attendance, was born June 3, 1869, in Clarksville, Missouri. His father, Charles E. Carver, a native of Virginia, belonged to one of the old families of that state of English origin. His father removed from Virginia to Missouri at an early day, becoming a pioneer of Pike county, where he followed agricultural pursuits, residing on the old homestead until his death, which occurred October 28, 1910, when he was seventy-two years of age. His wife, who in her maidenhood was Mattie Mackely, was born in Missouri and was of English descent. She died in Clarksville in 1886, when but thirty-eight years of age, leaving four children.

John B. Carver, the youngest of the family, was educated in the public schools of his native county and also spent one year in St. Paul's Episcopal school at Palmyra, Missouri. His youthful training was that of the home farm, upon which he remained until he reached the age of seventeen years and then started out to earn his own livelihood, being first employed in clerical lines in connection with mercantile pursuits. He came to Omaha in March, 1888, and followed merchandising in the employ of others until 1904, when he became an officer of the juvenile court, spending his time in that way until 1908, when he resigned to accept his present position, which he has since efficiently filled, being now supervisor of attendance of the public schools of Omaha. He devotes his entire time and attention to this department and to child labor law, having the entire responsibility concerning the enforcement of child labor law under his jurisdiction. He believes that the child should have the right of education as a preparation for life's practical and responsible duties and does everything in his power to enforce the law concerning compulsory attendance at school and the prevention of work among children still of school age.

Mr. Carver was married in St. Joseph, Missouri, June 4, 1901, to Miss Maggie Palmore, a native of Tennessee and a daughter of J. E. and Elizabeth Palmore. They have one child, Jack, who was born in Omaha, November 20, 1910.

In politics Mr. Carver is a republican but takes no active part as a poHtical worker. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, having been initiated into the order in Omaha in 1912. He also has membership with the Woodmen of the World and his religious faith is that of the Christian Science church. He has made an excellent record in office as one who places fidelity to duty before all things and exercises intelligence and tact in learning the causes of truancy or non-attendance at school for other reasons.

Fred A. Bailey

Fred A. Bailey, filling the position of mayor at Benson, is giving to the town a progressive and public-spirited administration. He is well known in Douglas county, having become a resident of Omaha in 1890. He was born in Toledo, Iowa, August 2, 1870, a son of Charles S. and Margaret E. (Fisher) Bailey, the latter also a native of Toledo. The father, who was born in the state of New York, went to Iowa in early manhood, taking up his abode in Toledo in 1857. He was among the early settlers there and continued to make his home at that place until 1872, when he became a resident of Shelton. Nebraska, where he resided until June 7, 1916, when his death resulted from an automobile accident. He had spent his active business life in farming and after his retirement he made his home in Shelton. He took an active part in local afifairs and for thirty years filled the office of justice of the peace, the duties of which position he discharged with promptness and fidelity, his decisions being strictly fair and impartial. To him and his wife were born but two children, a son and a daughter.

Fred A. Bailey largely spent his youthful days in Shelton, where he attended the public schools, and in 1890 he came to Omaha, where he was engaged in the railway mail service between Omaha and Cheyenne, continuing at that place until 1893, when he located in Benson. He was still employed in the mad service until 1911^ when he retired from that connection and turned his attention to the real estate and insurance business, in which he has since been engaged, having fine modern offices at 5821 Main street. He has conducted a general real estate busi- ness and he is thoroughly familiar with property values and has negotiated many' important realty transfers. He is also owner of a furniture store and his business affairs are most carefully and wisely directed, the enterprise and integrity of his methods bringing to him deserved success.

On the 4th of May, 1890, Mr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss May E. Calkins, of Wisconsin, her father being W. S. Calkins, who came to Nebraska in the year 1885. They have one son, Charles W., who is now employed as engineer by the firm of Anderson & Bennett.

Fraternally Mr. Bailey is connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Loyal Order of Moose. He has been prominent in the affairs of his town throughout the period of his residence here and was chairman of the first elected village board, while in 1916 he was chosen mayor of the city. He has seen to the just enforcement of the laws during his term of office and stands at all times for municipal progress and improvement and is a stanch advocate of high civic ideals. In a business way he has been successful and his efforts have contributed much to the upbuilding of the city as well as to his own prosperity. His investments have made him the owner of considerable valuable property in the town.

Dr. Samuel Mount Campbell, physician and surgeon of Omaha, was born in Fairfield, Iowa, July 2, 1853, a son of Joel E. and Anna E. (Crawford) Campbell. The father was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1822, and represented an old Maryland family of Scotch lineage. The paternal grandfather was William Passmore Campbell, born October 26, 1796, in Maryland. The father devoted much of his life to merchandising in Fairfield, Iowa, where he passed away March 23, 1899, on the seventy-seventh anniversary of his birth. His wife, a native of Steuben ville, Ohio, born in 1831, was of Scotch descent. She met an accidental death in Omaha in 1894, wdien sixty-three years of age. By her marriage she became the mother of six children, of whom two died in infancy and two later in life, while those surviving are: Samuel Mount; and Eugene, a physician of Los Angeles, California.

Samuel M. Campbell was educated in the public schools of Fairfield, Iowa, and afterward took up the printer's trade, which he followed for eight years, and during part of that time published a weekly journal at Albia, Iowa, called the Industrial Era. While thus engaged he became interested in medicine and resolved to prepare for the active practice of the profession. In 1878 he entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, in which he completed his course by graduation with the class of 1881, at which time his professional degree was conferred upon him. He then went to Batavia, Iowa, where he practiced for a time, but later returned to Fairfield, where he became associated with his brother, Dr. Eugene Campbell. The partnership between them continued until 1885, when Dr. Samuel M. Campbell went to New York city and entered the Homeopathic Hospital on Ward island for post graduate work. He gained valuable experience in a year's* hospital training, at the end of which time he opened an office in Omaha, where he has since been in active and continuous practice, being today one of the oldest physicians in years of continuous professional connection here. He remains in general practice and his position is an enviable one, the public recognizing his superior professional merit and worth.

In Omaha, Dr. Campbell was married to Miss Theodosia Kennedy, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kennedy, and they have two children, Cecil Dorothy and Joel E. Dr. Campbell gives his political support to the republican party and while in Fairfield, lOwa, he was United States pension examiner and also a member of the sanity commission of the state. He has membership in the Methodist church and belongs to St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M., the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World. His social qualities as well as his professional skill have gained him prominence and popularity and he is today widely and favorably known in his adopted city.

William J. Dobbs

William J. Dobbs, secretary and treasurer of the Campen Engineering & Contracting Company of Omaha, was born in Troy, New York, Januaiy 14, 1855, a son of the late John Dobbs, who until 1893 was pubhsher of the Winona (Minn.) Daily Republican and enjoyed a national acquaintance and reputation among the representatives of the press. At the time of the Civil war he was among the first to volunteer in defense of the Union, but on account of a slight physical imperfection he was twice rejected. He had previously been a stalwart supporter of the abolition movement, and when the repviblican party was formed to prevent the further extension of slavery into the north he became one of its most active supporters. He was a man of marked prominence and influence, doing much to mold public thought and action in Minnesota. He came of a family of Scotch descent long resident at Dobbs Ferry, on the Hudson, and he passed away in Winona in 1893, when sixty-three years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Elizabeth Porter, was born in Troy, New York, and passed away in 1868.

William J. Dobbs was the second in order of birth in a family of five children and is the only one now living. He was educated in the schools of Winona, Minnesota, to which city his parents removed in October, 1864, when he was a lad of nine years. He became telegraph operator at Prescott, Wisconsin, in the spring of 1869 and followed that profession until 1898. He became the first railroad agent for South Omaha with the Union Pacific, accepting that position in 1888. He also opened stations for all other railroads entering Omaha except the Burlington, and he continued in the railroad service until 1898, when he entered into the work of promoting interurban railroads. In March, 1914, he took up the work of contracting in heavy bridge building and general construction work, also heavy foundations for skyscrapers, and is today secretary' and treasurer of the Campen Engineering & Contracting Company, which ranks among the leading contracting corporations of the state. They operate not onl}^ in Nebraska but in many adjoining cities and states, and in the spring of 1916 they completed a large government contract - the building of the postoftice at Corpus Cliristi, Texas. Mr. Dobbs is also secretary and treasurer of the Omaha Steel Construction Company, Incorporated, the secretary of the Allen Park Power & Mining Company of Denver, Colorado, and the secretary and treasurer of the Underwood-Stoker Company. His business interests and connections have gradually broadened and have also become of a more and more important character until he is now a prominent representative of industrial activity in his adopted city.

On the 6th of August, 1876, Mr. Dobbs was married in Winona, Minnesota, to Miss Franc E. Rowe, a native of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and a daughter of Walter S. Rowe, a representative of one of the old families of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs have one son, Nye Fred, who was born in Lewiston, Minnesota, August 5, 1878, and is now manager for the National Film Company at Portland, Oregon. He was married in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Politically Mr. Dobbs is a republican but takes no active part in political afifairs, although he served as the first purchasing agent for the city under George Craig in the engineering department from 1908 until 1912, being chosen for the position because of his broad experience along those lines. He belongs to Covert Lodge, No. II, F. & A. M. ; to Omaha Chapter, R. A. M. ; Omaha Council. No. i, R. & S. M. ; Mount Calvary Commandery, No. i, K. T. ; and is a life member of Tangier Temple, A. A. O. N. M S. For almost a third of a century he has been a resident of Omaha and in his husiness career, while all days have not been equally l;)right. he has worked his way upward through determination, effort and adaptability until he is now controlling important interests that contribute to public progress and prosperity as well as to individual success.

William Riley McKeen, who in the conduct of his business interests and the exercise of his inventive genius has made valuable contribution to the world's work, pushing forward the wheels of progress, the result of his efforts reaching out to the far corners of the earth, is now the president of the McKeen Motor Car Company. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, October 2, 1869, and in his choice of a life work it seems he was "to the manner born," as through various generations the family have been connected with railroad interests. His grandfather, Samuel Crawford McKeen, was president of the Vandalia Railroad Company, while the father, William Riley McKeen, succeeded to the presidency of that company and so continued for twenty-six years. He was likewise president of the McKeen National Bank of Terre Haute. His birth occurred in Vigo county, Indiana, in 1829, and his second wife, who bore the maiden name of Anne Crawford, became the mother of W. R. McKeen. The father died in 1913. in Terre Haute, having for a third of a century survived his wife, who passed away in 1880. One of their sons, Benjamin McKeen, is now vice president at Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, for the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh. The ancestry of the family can be traced back to Thomas M'Kean, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Having attended the public schools of Terre Haute, W. R. McKeen was graduated from the Rose Polytechnic Institute of that city with the Bachelor of Science degree in June, 1889, ^^^ i" June, 1890, he completed a post-graduate electrical course in the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland. From that date until October, 1891, he was engaged in the pursuit of a postgraduate course in electrical and mechanical engineering at Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany, in the Charlottenburg Polytechnikum. In 1896 his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Science degree and the following year the degree of Mechanical Engineer, while from Johns Hopkins, in 1890, he received a certificate covering his two years' post-graduate electrical course, while in 189 1 the Polytechnikum granted him a certificate attesting his year's post-graduate work there. His preliminary practical experience came to him in 1892 and 1893, years spent as special apprentice in the shops of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway at Columbus, Ohio. He then went to the Vandalia shops at Terre Haute in 1893 as master car builder and rose to the position of general foreman of the car shop and eventually was made general foreman of all car and locomotive shops of that railway system. He was also a member of a private manufacturing concern conducted under the style of Prox, Burnham & Company, founders, plumbers, machinists, etc.

In December, 1898, Mr. McKeen arrived in Nebraska and at North Platte was made district foreman of the Union Pacific shops, there remaining until May, 1901. From June, 1901, until June, 1902, he was master mechanic of the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and at the latter date became superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Union Pacific at Omaha, which position he occupied until July. 1908. Since then he has been consulting engineer of motor cars for the Union Pacific and on the 1st of August, 1908, he organized and promoted the McKeen Motor Car Company of Omaha, a million-dollar corporation, of which he is the president and general manager. While chief officer of the mechanical department of the Union Pacific Railroad, he was also head of the inspection department and under his direction all the material, cars and locomotives for all the Harriman lines were inspected. He was a member of the Harriman line mechanical committee, by whom all common standard rolling stock designs were perfected. Numerous papers on mechanical and operating department subjects were prepared and read by him. During this period he was chairman of the freight car committee, composed of superintendents of motive power of all Harriman lines, and under his personal supervision all freight car designs were made. He was the late E. H. Harriman's confidential mechanical engineer with whom Mr. Harriman consulted frequently by wire, correspondence and personally in New York and en route, respecting railroad matters of great magnitude. He is one of the few men who had Mr. Harriman's unbounded confidence and Mr. Harriman's regard for his ideas, mechanically, technically, philosophically and scientifically, always made him a welcome visitor, so much so that it is quite generally known that "McKeen" enjoyed an unprecedented prestige in the eyes of that famous railroad magnate. Unquestionably his personal opinion of transportation problems has such weight that most railroad presidents, managers and officials are glad to hear and receive it. His predictions of a decade ago on many important railway subjects have developed into prophecies, as his original conception and designs of various classes of rolling stock and appliances are being rapidly copied and incorporated in numerous sections of the world, some of which are the special features of the McKeen steel gasoline motor car, such as semi-circular car roof, semicircular car rear, wedge-shaped front end, depressed center side door entrance, round window. There have been awarded to Mr. McKeen or are pending in the United States and foreign patent offices, approximately two thousand patent claims covering the McKeen gasoline motor car. Mr. McKeen commenced motor car work in 1904 and in 1905 ht completed designs for a light-weight, all-steel box (freight) car, two of which were built in the Union Pacific Omaha shops in 1906. Coincidently an all-steel light-weight, passenger coach and allsteel mail car were designed and built. The passenger coach contained several motor car features, such as semi-circular roof, semi-circular end, round windows and depressed center side entrance. The McKeen motor car is today in use by the following railroad companies : Bessemet & Lake Erie ; Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie; Galveston,, Harrisburg & San Antonio; Central New York Southern ; Morgans, Louisiana & Texas ;* Houston & Texas Central ; Arkansas Northwestern; Motley County (of Texas); Union Pacific; Alberta Great Waterways (Canada) ; United States Government (Yuma \ 'alley Railway) ; Southern Utah; and the Jucaro & ^loron of Cuba. The cars are supplied with gasoline motors. For the Queensland Government Railways of Australia narrow gauge cars were built of two hundred horse power to be run on a three-foot six-inch track. The cars were shipped knocked down, complete dismantling following their construction, but the manufacturers sent an expert to superintend their reerection in the shops of the railway company at Ipswich. The first motor car built for the Union Pacific was a single truck, four-wheel car, designed for light branch and interurban passenger service, and had seating capacity for twenty-five persons. The car was built very strong, afi'ording great safety to passengers in case of accidents or wrecks, as the strength of "the car almost entirely precludes the possibility of telescoping. In addition to its efficiency, the car is a model of construction, and with its coat of maroon and aluminum striping makes a pleasing picture. The interior finish is of oil and varnish. The line of design of the car body is similar to that of a racing yacht, inverted, the front end of car being tapered off into a sharp i)oint and the roof being rounded off from the top, presenting no flat surface to the resistance of the atmosphere; the rear of car is rounded off, avoiding the vacuum produced by square end cars. The wind resistance is thus reduced to a minimum. The upper deck and the old style sash ventilators have been done away with, and adequate ventilation is secured by means of roof ventilators, which exhaust by suction the air from inside the car, fresh air being taken in from the front of roof of car. A complete change of air can be obtained every four minutes, if desired. The water from the cyhnder jackets of the engine is run around the sides of the car, so that in cold weather the heat is radiated to the interior of the car. In warm weather this water is piped to coils immediately below the car. These two systems of coils afford a most perfect system of regulating the temperature inside the car. If car is too warm the water circulates below; if too cold, the majority of the water circulates through the interior coil. Acetylene gas lighting system is used, giving a powerful light for the headlight, and the lamps inside the car are provided with opalescent panels, producing a soft and at the same time a powerful light. The car is equipped with air brakes of the direct system, with breaking power on all four wheels. Attached to the crank shaft is an air pump which supplies and maintains one hundred pounds air pressure in two reserv^oirs of thirteen cubic feet each. Numerous tests at a speed of twenty miles per hour have shown that car stops in one hundred and twelve to one hundred and fifteen feet, without inconvenience to passengers. (Air is also used for starting the engine.) In addition to the air brake, car is also equipped with a ratchet lever hand brake. The motive power is a sixcylinder gasoline engine of one hundred horse power. The cylinders are eight by ten inches, of the upright type, placed at right angles to center line of car. The six cylinders are arranged and connected up in opposed sets of three cylinders, resulting in three power giving pulsations at each revolution of crank shaft.

Subsequently cars of four and six wheel trucks, all steel cars of fifty-five and seventy foot length and cars of two hundred and three hundred horse power engines were built for the Union Pacific and other railroads. The latest cars are hauling a standard passenger coach as trailer, giving the same capacity and supplanting the usual locomotive three car steam train.

There are some points in connection with the adoption of the McKeen motor car that are most interesting. A railroad running out of Ithaca, New York, connecting with the street car system (the electric light plant) and six miles out of Ithaca operating as a steam railroad to Auburn, until recently was in a receivership. The students of Cornell University had organized to debate the subject (with a given amount of money to expend for improvements) "What could be done with the Ithaca Short Line?" One party studied and advocated the use of steam power and equipment ; another, electric equipment ; another gasolineelectric; and still another the gasoline mechanical transmission motor cars, such as the McKeen motor car type. The gas-electric people, realizing the importance of the educational feature of this debate, sent special representatives to Cornell University with blueprints, lantern slides and sections of the gas-electric car to furnish all the argumentative and favorable data possible. A professor in mechanical engineering, a second in electrical engineering and a third in oratory constituted a board of judges, who passed on the relative merits of the debating factions : unanimous reward -was given to that faction advocating the adoption of the McKeen motor car. Cornell University enrolls something Hke six thousand students and this debate attracted a great deal of attention in and outside of the University. These judges of high authority passing favorably on McKeen equipment, two days later, the Ithaca Short Line ordered McKeen Motor Car Company equipment for their railroad.

Court proceedings, too, have passed favorable judgement upon the McKeen motor car. From the .State Journal of February 20, 1914, is taken the following: "The state railway commision in refusing to permit the Union Pacific Railroad Company to take off its motor car on the Kearney-Stapleton branch finds that while the running of the motor decreases the earnings of a steam train on the same line, it also increases the total revenues of the passenger traffic. Traveling men and the public in general have become used to the motor service and its running stimulates travel. The motor car has earned from forty-nine cents per car mile in December to seventy cents in September and the total earnings of the motor and the steam train have been increased thirty-three per cent, or an increase of fifty-two dollars and two cents each day. The decrease in the revenue of the steam train was fourteen cents per car mile. It is held by the railway commission that the saving to be made in operating expenses by taking oil the motor will not justify the reduction in service on the line. The railway commission made a thorough study of the cost of operating trains on the Rock Island railroad in the rate cases recently dismissed in the federal court, but this is the first study the commission has made of the cost of operating motor cars on railroad lines."

A decision of the Hon. George W. Allen, judge of the second judicial district of Colorado, was in part: "That the said motor cars are an important part of the rolling stock and equipment of said railroad, and necessary and essential to the convenient and economical management and operation of said railroad, and necessary and essential to be used by said Receivers in carrying out and complying with the orders of this Court appointing said Receivers in performing the duties and obligations of said railroad to the public as a common carrier of passengers and freight, and that the best interests of said estate in the hands of said Receivers require that said motor cars be retained as a part of the equip- . ment of said railroad and be used by said Receivers in the operation and maintenance thereof."

In its annual report of 191 1 the Ann Arbor Railroad Company said: "The passenger traffic of the' company is about ninety-eight per cent local, that is, it is either purely local between stations - or originates or terminates at a local station, and any growth in its earnings from passenger traffic must come from a development and increase in its local travel. This local traffic was threatened by the growth and extension of interurban electric lines into its territory, the roadbed for one trolley line between Toledo and Ann Arbor being already graded. After careful consideration of the whole question, the management concluded that the use of auto motor cars on the Ann Arbor, running like electric lines and making stops at principal road crossings, would not only increase the earnings of the company, but would prevent encroachments on its territory by trolley lines. The board authorized the purchase of five McKeen motor cars, all steel, seventy feet long, seating eighty-three passengers. The first of these cars commenced running in May, 191 1, all are now in service, and the results are more than satisfactory. They have added largely to the passenger earnings, and have developed a new class of travel which our regular trains, stopping at stations from four to eight miles apart, could not care for, namely the 'Cross Roads Travel.' From June ist to September ist, 191 1, the passenger earnings had increased twenty-two thousand dght hundred dollars, or fourteen per cent, up to August 31st, 191 1 ; the cars had been in operation three months, had run sixty thousand and ninety-nine miles, earned gross thirty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and three cents, an average of 44.5 cents per mile, at a cost of nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-six cents, or 13.5 cents per mile (including 2.1 cents per mile for repairs and superintendence), with a net earning of twenty-one thousand four hundred and four dollars and nineteen cents equal to thirty-one cents per mile fully equal to the net earnings per mile of our best passenger trains, with four cars per train, with an equipment costing three times as rnuch as the motor car. These cars are very popular with the people along the Hne and the putting on of this local service has done more to place the company and its patrons on good, friendly terms than anything else the company could have done. Incidentally, the graded roadbed of the proposed trolley line to Ann Arbor was oflfered for sale as soon as it was known the motor cars were ordered."

All this demonstrates the value and adaptability of the car which has been given to the public through the inventive genius and business ability of W. R. McKeen, who already holds one hundred and twenty-nine letters patent from the United States and foreign countries, covering inventions varying from a locomotive piston rod to a complete railroad train. It naturally follows that Mr.

McKeen is a member of the American Society of j\Iechanical Engineers, the New York Railroad Club, the Western Railroad Club, the Railway Master Mechanics Association and the Master Car lUiilders Association.

In 191 1, in Los Angeles, California, Mr. McKeen was married to Mrs. Mary L. LIull, nee Ludington. Omaha finds him not only one of the most notable and distinguished of its citizens but also a most social, genial gentleman, popular in the Omaha. Country and Athletic Clubs, in all of which he holds membership. He likewise belongs to the Commercial Club and he is a Scottish Rite Mason and an Elk. In politics he is a republican. He is an associate member of the Naval Consulting Board and is much interested in its work. He is also officiating as state director of the Mechanical Engineers of Nebraska on industrial preparedness. A volume might be written concerning Mr. McKeen's work. Suffice it to say that the world has profited by his labors and all who have studied into the situation recognize the value of his contribution to transportation. He is solving questions brought about by modern-day conditions and his answer is practical and resultant.

John J. Hanighen

Apprenticing in early life to the plumbing and steamfitting business, John J. Hanighen has in that connection steadily worked his way upward until he now controls an extensive and profitable business as the head of the John J. Hanighen Company, Incorporated, in which connection he is accorded many large and important contracts in that line. Omaha justly numbers him among its prominent and representative business men. He was born in County Mayo, Ireland, November 7, 1858, his parents being John J. and Jane (Connelly) Hanighen, both of whom were natives of the Emerald isle, in which country they were farming people. There they spent their entire lives, the father passing away in 1910, when he had reached the age of seventy-eight years, while his wife died in 191 5, at the age of eighty-three years. In their family were ten children, of whom John J. Hanighen was the third in order of birth.

He attended the schools of Ireland and afterward took up farm work on his father's place, being thus engaged until he came to America in November, 1879, when a young man of about twenty-one years. He was ambitious to make the most of his life and believed that better oportunities might be enjoyed on this side of the Atlantic. Proceeding direct to St. Louis, Missouri, he there secured employment with the firm of Kelly & Condon, then located on Fourteenth street and Washington avenue. In that connection he learned the plumber's and steamfitter's trade, continuing with that house until 1885, when he came to Omaha and embarked in business on his own account. The efficiency and value of his work were soon recognized and his patronage grew to such an extent that it was impossible for him to attend to all of the business, so that he associated others with him. In fact he has developed his interests until he is at the head of the leading firm of the kind in the city. He afterward purchased the property on which his large warehouses and offices now stand, the corner of South 14th and Jones streets, and he erected a modern building of pretentious dimensions and with railroad switch facilities. He is now recognized as the leading contractor in the building and installing of heating systems, being awarded the contracts for probably ninety-eight per cent of all the large buildings erected in Omaha. The business was incorporated under the name of the J. J. Hanighen Company in 191 1, with John J. Hanighen as the president and moving spirit. He has every reason to be proud of his successful achievement. He worked his way steadily upward from a humble position and as the years have passed he has broadened his activities until he has nO' close competitor in the volume of trade given him in Omaha.

In October, 1893. in this city, Mr. Hanighen was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Cleary, a daugliter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cleary, who were*' early and valued citizens of Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Hanighen have become parents of three sons. John J., born in Omaha, June 19, 1895, is now attending Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, where he is pursuing a special four years' course in mechanical engineering. Francis Cleary, born in 1899, will graduate from the Omaha high school with the class of 1917. Bernard, born in 1908, is attending school.

The family are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and Mr. Hanighen belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Commercial Club, the Omaha and the Country Clubs - associations which indicate something of the nature of his interests and the rules that govern his conduct. He ranks with Omaha's leading citizens and representative business men and his life displays much that is worthy of emulation. One in reading his history may well pause to reflect and consider, for it indicates the force and value of efficiency, thorouo-hness, close application and persistency of purpose. In his business life he has been a resolute and energetic worker, possessing strong executive powers, keeping his hand steadily upon the helm and being strictly conscientious in his dealings with debtor and creditor alike.

One of the. well known physicians and surgeons of South Omaha who by reason of his skill enjoys a large practice and who has the respect of his brethren of the medical fraternity is Dr. Frederick O. Beck, who was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, November 12, 1879, a son of the Rev. E..p. and Emma (Angle) Beck. The father, a native of Germany, was born in Dresd-ertT Saxony, and in young manhood came to the United States, settling first in New York, whence he afterward removed to Nebraska. He later went to Iowa as a missionary of the German Evangelical church and he still makes his home in th-at-st&teVYOsJding at the present time near Marshalltown at the age of sixty-three yearfe". ' His-wife. who was born in Iowa, is now fifty-four years of age. In their Tamily were four children.: Frederick O. ; Arthur, who is connected with the Union Bank of Union, Iowa; Eugene, living at Trenton, New Jersey; and Clara, who died w^hen two years old.

In his youthful days Dr. Beck attended the common schools of Iowa, continuing his education in the high school of Waverly, Iowa, in the Northwestern College at Naperville and the Northwestern University College of Pharmacy. He was graduated from the last named institution in 1897. tie had determined to take up the practice of medicine and surgery as a life work and accordingly he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, the medical department of the University of Illinois, and was graduated in medicine in 1905. He then located at Gary, Illinois, where he purchased the practice of Dr. H. M. Johnson, also the drug store of H. F. Buge, and he entered upon active practice, in which he successfully engaged at that point for five years. He next removed to South Omaha, wdiere he bought out the practice of the late Dr. C. ]M. Schindel. He has fully sustained the reputation of his predecessor and is well known in professional connections, having one of the largest practices of the physicians of South Omaha. He is popular with his patients as well as his professional associates, for he is always genial, courteous and obliging. He has served as county physician and as surgeon for the Swift Packing Company and the Morris Packing Company at the Union Stock Yards. He belongs to the Illinois Medical Society, the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society, the Nebraska State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

On the 2d of April, 191 2, Dr. Beck was united in marriage in San Francisco. California, to Mrs. Amy Lucelle Kenmore. He belongs to the Benevolent Pro- tective Order of Elks, the Aloose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles and he is also a member of the Seymour Lake Club and the Commercial Club. He holds to high professional standards. His interest in his chosen calling and his marked ability have gained tor him a well earned and enviable reputation.

Everett Buckingham

Everett Buckingham, vice president and general manager of the Union Stock Yards Company at Omaha, has remained in his present business connection since 1907 and has made his home in Omaha since 1880, with the exception of four years spent in Salt Lake, Utah. He was born in Lebanon, Indiana, June 7, 1858, a son of George W. and Elizabeth (Evans) Buckingham. The father was a native of Newark, Ohio, and throughout his active life w^as connected with newspaper publication. At the time of the Civil war he was a stanch supporter of the Union cause. In i860 he removed with his family to Mercer, Missouri, where he lived for two years and then went to Kingston, that state, where he remained for several years. At length he established his home at St. Joseph, Missouri, later went to Albany, that state, and eventually came to Omaha, where he passed away. His w-idow survives and is now living in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

Everett Buckingham largely acquired his education in .the schools of St. Joseph, Missouri, and in 1870, when a lad of but twelve years, started out in the business world, entering the employ of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad. He remained in that connection for a decade, or until 1880, when the road was taken over by the Union Pacific, with which he continued, advancing step by step in positions of responsibility and importance until 1907. In that year he became general manager of the Union Stock Yards Company at Omaha, which position he has since occupied, controlling the vast business interests of the company, with which he has made himself familiar both in principle and detail. He is now a director in the Stock Yards National Bank as well as vice president, director and general manager of the Union Stock Yards Company.

On the 26th of January, 1881, in St. Joseph, Alissouri, Mr. Buckingham was married to Miss Ella May Dunster and they have five children : Darlene M., the wife of O. L. Kemper, of Omaha, and the mother of three children, Everett, Susan and Lane; Helen, the wife of W. G. Hemphill, of Worland, Wyoming; Jay E., who married Norma Marshall, of Omaha, and lives in Portland, Oregon ; May (Timmie) who died at the age of fifteen years; and Robert L., now seventeen years of age.

Mr. Buckingham's military experience has come to him as a member of Company A, Fourth Regiment Missouri National Guard, and he served with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Morehead of Nebraska. Llis political allegiance is given to the democratic party and his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. He is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of the York and the Scottish Rites, and is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise identified with the Elks and he belongs to nearly every social organization of Omaha, including the Omaha, Field, Country, Seymour Lake and Commercial Clubs, while for four years he was president of the Knights of Ak-.Sar-Ben-Temple. He is undoubtedly one of the most popular of Omaha's citizens, having a host of friends, and, moreover, is one of its most forceful and resourceful business men. Under the caption, "The Master Mind," one of the local papers said of him : "Much has been written about the man who is at the head of this great commercial institution. Everett Buckingham, vice president and general manager of the Union Stock Yards, is the genial business man who guides the destinies of this vast commercial realm. His is the mind that directs the great forces that make the Nebraska market. His is the master genius that in a few years led this market from a struggling institution to the place it now occupies near the top of the markets of the country. Mr. Buckingham is an organizer and he apphes his extensive organization to the service of the shipper. His daily task is to see that the live stock men of his territory are served in the best possible manner in return for the money they pay for this service. Manager Buckingham is recognized among commercial leaders in the west and his advice is sought in many business matters of importance. His judgment is always sound and is relied upon to the utmost, his associates say. His one ambition is to place the Omaha live stock market at the head of the stock centers of the countrj'. There are plenty to say that the goal is far from impossible, that in a few more years this farm of thirty years ago will be looked to as the leader of the live stock world."

Rev. Albert Brainerd Marshall, D. D., Ll. D.

Rev. Albert Brainerd Marshall, one of the distinguished educators of the middle west, now president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Omaha, was born at Bryan, Pennsylvania, July lo, 1849, a son of John and Matilda Catherine (Findley) Marshall, the former born in Clarksburg. Pennsylvania, in 1824, while the latter was a native of Glade Run, that state. Rev. Albert B. Marshall is a representative of the seventh generation of ancestors who founded the family in America, coming from the north of Ireland and of Scotch-Irish lineage. His grandfather, Samuel Marshall, who was born in Clarksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1792, devoted his life to the occupation of farming save for the period of his service in the War of 1812 and his death occurred in 1878. In early life John Marshall became a member of the Pennsylvania militia, serving with the rank of captain. In young manhood he took up the profession of teaching and later he became a country merchant, also interested to some extent in farming. His political allegiance was given to the whig party until its dissolution, when he joined the ranks of the new republican party, which he continued to support until his death in 1886. His widow survived for ten years, passing away in 1S96.

Dr. Marshall availed himself of every opportunity that ottered for the acquirement of an education and completed his classical course by graduation from Princeton College in 1871 with the degree -Bachelor of Arts and from Princeton Seminary in 1874, at which time the Master of Arts degree was conferred upon him. Having prepared for the ministry, he at once entered upon his pastoral duties, being in charge of the Presbyterian church at Morris, Illinois, from May 12, 1875, until April 10, 1878, when he accepted a call from the church at Lisbon, Ohio, there continuing from the 8th of May, 1879, until September 20, 1887. On the 20th of September of the latter year he entered the pulpit of the Presbyterian church at East Liverpool, Ohio, and there continued until April 30, 1894. On the 26th of June of that year he took up pastoral duties in connection with the Central Presbyterian church at Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained until Alarch 28, 1903. From the 21st of April, 1903, until 1910 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Alinneapolis, Minnesota, and then accepted a call to the presidency of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Omaha. His work ni behalf of" the institution has been far-reaching and resultant. He holds to lofty ideals and has succeeded in establishing high standards of scholarship. He has, too, the ability to infuse much of his zeal and earnestness into the faculty and students, a fact which has enabled him to call forth the co-operation of the students. Under Dr. Marshall's guidance the seminary has grown steadily and has established a standard of thoroughness which makes it one of the leading denominational schools of the middle west. _ , , ,

On the I St of September, 1875, at Wellsburg, West Virginia, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Marshall and Miss Jane Belle Hervey, who passed away in September, 1909, and on the 12th of June, 191 5, in Rochester, New York, he wedded ^lary Elizabeth Hallock. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but while thoroughly versed in the questions and issues of the day and thus able to support his position by intelligent argument, he has never been ambitious to hold office or take part in political activity, his entire time and attention having been concentrated upon his duties as pastor and educator, and his intiuence has been widely and beneficially felt.