UDGE ALFRED M. POST, chief justice of the supreme court of Nebraska, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1846. His paternal ancestors were of English blood, though born in New England. His father was a clergyman of the Presbyterian faith, and his mother's family were of Scotch-Irish origin. Young Post entered the Ohio University after completing the curriculum of the common schools, and graduated in 1869. The next year he was admitted to the bar in Iowa, practiced his profession in that state for four years, and served two years as United States consul. In 1883 he was appointed judge of the fourth judicial district of Nebraska, and upon the expiration of his term was elected, and was re-elected in 1887. He was nominated for supreme judge by the republican state convention of 1891, and was elected. As a trial judge he established an excellent record for promptness in ruling, accuracy of decision, and absolute impartiality in the conduct of court proceedings. As chief justice he enjoys an eminent reputation as an able jurist of the higher class.

HOMAS 0. C. HARRISON, justice of the supreme court of Nebraska, was born in New Burlington, Ohio, May 22, 1849. He became a resident of Nebraska in 1873, locating at Grand Island. He was honored with the office of county judge of Hall county in 1876 by appointment, and was afterwards twice elected to the same office by the people. He was a member of the state senate in the legislature of 1883, representing Hall and Hamilton counties. He was appointed by Governor Thayer judge of the district court for the eleventh district in 1887. At the expiration of the appointive term he was elected, and was re-elected in 1891, resigning in 1894 to assume the duties of judge of the supreme court, to which high office he had been elected in the fall of 1893. Judge Harrison is a lawyer of wide experience and high repute. He is a citizen of the strictest integrity and enjoys the confidence of both bench and bar.

ON. THEOPHILUS L. NORVAL, justice of the supreme court of Nebraska, is a native of Illinois, and was born in Fulton county August 26, 1847. In 1872 he became a resident of Nebraska, and located at Seward, then a thriving county seat town. He soon gained recognition as a successful lawyer, and established a large practice throughout the state. He was elected to the state senate from Seward county in 1879, and ranked among the ablest members of that body. In 1883 he was appointed judge of the sixth judicial district, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of judge George W. Post. At the expiration of the term, he was elected by the people, and was re-elected in 1887. His record as a trial judge was among the best in the state, and in 1889 he received the nomination of the republican party for judge of the supreme court, was elected, and resigned as district judge to take his place on the supreme bench. This high office he has held continuously since, serving one term as chief justice. Judge Norval was re-elected in 1895, and his present term will expire in January, 1902.
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UDGE FRANK IRVINE, member of the Nebraska supreme court commission, was born at Sharon, Pennsylvania, in 1858. He enjoyed good facilities for his youthful education, and entered Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1880. He afterwards took a course in law in the National University at Washington, D. C., graduating from that institution in 1883. He was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and became one of the assistants to the United States district attorney. In 1884 lawyer Irvine located in Omaha, where he practiced until 1891, when he was appointed judge of the district court by Governor Boyd, and was elected for the full term in November of the same year. He soon became known as a jurist of scholarship and eminence and was recognized by the supreme court under the act of 1893, being appointed to his present office, in which he has distinguished himself by a most creditable administration of justice.