present Clerk of the District Court, elected on
the Republican ticket.
H. A.
SCHNEIDER'S parents, Jacob and Anna Schneider, were
of German parentage, although born in Switzerland. Since
his birth, June 29, 1875, at Cedar Creek, Nebraska, he
has always been a resident of Cass County. His occupation
is that of a merchant at Cedar Creek. He is now serving
his first term as Register of Deeds. He is a member of
the Republican party.
L. A. TYSON, a
druggist by profession, is serving his second term as
Clerk of Cass County. He was born on the fifteenth of
February, 1863 in DeKalb County, Illinois. He located at
Elmwood, Nebraska, in 1866 before the organization of the
state institutions was completed. His father was a New
Yorker and his mother was born in England.
HENRY BOECK is
engaged in the furniture and undertaking business at
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and is now serving his second term
as County Coroner. He supplied all the people in
Plattsmouth with furniture of his own manufacture before
the factory system became common. He was County Coroner
for two terms, beginning with 1886. Born February 15,
1833 in Germany, where his parents still live, he came to
America in 1852, locating in Pennsylvania. Later he went
to Illinois and finally in 1857 removed to Nebraska. In
politics he is a Republican.
TURNER ZINK has
the honor of being the first Postmaster at Luella,
Nebraska. At present he is serving his second term as
Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners. He is of
American parentage and his mother died when he was a boy.
He was born September 23, 1817, in Highland County, Ohio,
from which place he removed to Illinois in 1867, to Iowa
in 1870 and to Nebraska in 1876. His politics is
Republican.
HENRY R. GERING
was born April 27, 1868 at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where he
attended High School. He is a druggist and has been a
member of the State Pharmacy Board. He has lived in
Nebraska since September of 1887. Mr. Gering has been
City Treasurer and is now serving his first term as Mayor
of Plattsmouth. He is Chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee and is Secretary of the Board of Trade.
JESSE L. ROOT
came to Nebraska in 1882. He has also lived in
Mississippi, Colorado, Illinois and Michigan. He is the
son of Charles M. and Miranda B. Root, who were living in
Tazwell County, Illinois, at the time of his birth on
November 27, 1860. He was educated in the common schools
of Michigan and Illinois. He is a practicing lawyer at
Plattsmouth and is now in his third term as County
Attorney. His legal training was received in the law
office of Judge S. M. Chapman of Plattsmouth. Mr. Root is
one of the state examiners on the Board of Examiners for
the Nebraska State Bar. He is affiliated with the
Republican party and was an alternate from this
congressional district at the last Republican national
convention.
WILLIAM D.
WHEELER was born in January of the year 1857 in
Capivale County, Mississippi. At the age of eleven he
removed to Kansas and in 1874 he came to Nebraska. His
schooling was at a high school in Kansas His former
occupation was farming. He served as Sheriff of Cass
County during two terms from 1897 to 1901 and is now
County Treasurer. He was married in 1879 and has five
children. He is affiliated with the Democratic party.
HARVEY D. TRAVIS
is a lawyer at Plattsmouth and is now County Judge of
Cass County. He was also County Attorney for four years.
He received his education at high school and at Oberlin
College. He was born on the fifteenth of June 1853 at
West Point, Ohio. From that place he removed to
Jacksonville, Florida, in 1880, and to Nebraska in 1882.
He is Democratic in politics.
J. D. McBRIDE was
born March 1, 1857, in Green County, Tennessee, whence he
moved to Missouri, then to Illinois, and finally to
Nebraska in 1885. His father, William F. McBride, was
Scotch and his mother, Amanda, was German. His residence
is at Plattsmouth. He was educated in the common schools.
For four years he was Deputy Sheriff and he is now
serving his second term as Sheriff. He is a member of the
Democratic party.
