gree of Bachelor of Science. In 1877 he was admitted to
the bar and engaged at once in the active practice of the
law in Greencastle, Indiana, gaining speedy recognition and
marked success. In 1881 he was elected city attorney for
Greencastle and was twice re-elected, in 1883 and 1885, but
resigned in 1886 and removed to Cheyenne county, Kansas,
where he took an active part in the organization of that
county, and was elected its first county attorney, having
charge of its legal work in its formative state. In October,
1886, he was married to Miss Helen E. Jennings, the
accomplished daughter of L. A. Jennings, of Newcastle,
Indiana. In April, 1889, he removed to Omaha, where he has
continued in the practice of law, with steadily growing
reputation, and now numbers among his clients some of the
leading business men of the metropolitan city. Although
thoroughly devoted to his private business, Mr. Crow has
found time and means to discharge the duties which the
citizen owes to his government. He has taken an active
interest in public affairs. A strong republican, he has been
constantly active in club work, primaries, and conventions.
He was elected to the legislature of 1895, and made chairman
of the committee on finance, ways and means, a distinction
rarely conferred upon a new member. He was re-elected in
1896, and at the close of a long legislative contest was
unseated by a vote of the majority. During his service in
the present house Mr. Crow served on the committees on
judiciary, constitutional amendments, telegraph, telephones
and electric lights.
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fifty-fifth legislative district is represented in the house
by Hon. Jay H. Cronk, of Ord, Nebraska. Mr. Cronk was born
in Montague, New York, May 11, 1862, and at the age of
eleven moved with his parents to Valley county, Nebraska,
where he now lives. He was married September 11, 1882, to
Miss Linnie Timmerman, of Valley county, and they have seven
children. He has followed farming and stock raising since he
first engaged in business for himself. In 1889 Mr. Cronk
became interested in the movement which has more recently
developed into the populist propaganda, and was elected
secretary of the county alliance. He was nominated and
elected to the board of supervisors of his county and served
one year. He is secretary of Springdale irrigation district.
In 1896 he was nominated by the populist convention for
representative to the legislature and was elected by a
ON.
JOSEPH CROW, representative from Douglas county, was born
April 21, 1856, in Greencastle,
N.
CHARLES E. CURTIS was born at Wheeler, Indiana, December 20,
1864. His boyhood days were spent helping his father on the
farm and attending public school. He completed his education
at the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso. Leaving
the homestead at the age of twenty-two, he removed to
Chicago, Illinois, securing employment with Armour &
Co., and later with the Union Stock Yards & Transit
Company. In 1888 he married Miss Agnes F. Morrison, of
Englewood, Illinois. They have one child, a daughter, Mabel.
In the following year he came to Nebraska, locating at South
Omaha, where he engaged in the retail grocery business,
which he still continues. Until 1892 he voted the democratic
ticket, but in that year found it consistent with his
convictions to affiliate with the populist party, In August,
1896, he was one of the delegates chosen by the populists to
represent Nebraska at the St. Louis convention, which
nominated William J. Bryan for president. The same year he
was elected representative from the tenth district on the
fusion ticket. His popular vote, regardless of party, was
greater than any candidate had ever before received. Frank,
generous, and honest, he is re-
