NEGenWeb Project
Resource Center
On-Line Library
 

186

SEMI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF NEBRASKA

Picture or sketch

COUNTY HISTORY

187

been Census Enumerator and is now County Clerk. In 1897 he married Miss Grace Durkee of Lodge Pole, Nebraska, and they have two children. He is affiliated with the Republicans.

      JAMES TUCKER has been a merchant tailor in Sidney for the past ten years. His native home is in Warren County, Missouri, and the time of his birth was March 14, 1860. His father died about 1864 and he came to Omaha with his mother in 1871. He next changed his residence to Sidney, and for many years traveled as a journeyman tailor. In 1893, on the third of July, he was married to Nellie May Chapin of Oberlin, Kansas. He is allied with the Democrats.

      A. K. GREENLEE is a merchant of Sidney, Nebraska. His birthplace is in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and he was born October 25, 1860, and his father died when he was nine years old. He was educated in the Pennsylvania public schools and at the Valparaiso. Normal of Indiana. When his schooling was finished, he lived in York County for a time, before coming to Cheyenne County in 1885. He is in the mercantile business, although he is now County Treasurer. He is a member of the Republican party. Elizabeth McAllitser (sic) was his wife's maiden name and he was married in May of 1888.

      J. W. LEE is a liveryman at Sidney, Nebraska, and is now Sheriff. Previously he served as Constable for twelve years. He is a native of Ohio and was born February 14, 1870. When a child he moved to Indiana with his parents, and in 1884 to Nebraska. He has lived in Cheyenne County since 1900. Miss Cecelia Ashley was his wife's maiden name, and he was married on the sixth of Ferbuary (sic) of 1901. He has one daughter, Dorothy. He is a member of M. W. A. at Bridgeport, Nebraska.

      C. M. HADLEY is serving his first term as County Assessor, having previously been Precinct Assessor. His birth occurred at Elko, Nevada, May 14, 1875. He is the son of James S. Hadley, a carpenter. As an infant he came to Iowa with his parents and to Cheyenne County, Nebraska in 1887, where his father pre-empted land. He is a member of the Democratic party.

      C. M. WRIGHT was born July 18, 1861 at Adel, Iowa, from which state he moved to Kansas in 1883. After spending one winter in Iowa, he came to Cheyenne County in 1887. His vocation is that of a tinsmith. He has held several town offices and is now serving his second term as County Coroner. His wife was Miss Annie Young of Iowa, to whom he was married in 1883.

      W. S. DORAN is the son of Edmund Doran, a retired ranchman, who was among the earliest settlers of Cheyenne County. He was born October 28, 1879, at Sidney, Nebraska, where he has always lived with the exception of two or three years, during which time he was employed on the railroad at North Platte. In 1896 he completed his course at Sidney High School, and in 1897 was graduated from North Platte High School. He holds the office of Deputy County Treasurer, and in politics is a Republican.

      M. E. WASHBURN is a native of Van Buren County, Iowa, and he was born December 4, 1857. He moved to Cheyenne County, Nebraska in 1887 and homesteaded on the farm which he still holds. He has ranching interests and is a dealer in horses and cattle, along with his livery business. He was Constable and Marshal of Sidney before his appointment as Deputy Sheriff. In 1882 he married Miss Kittie Grafton of Iowa. He is affiliated with the Republican party.

      ROBLEY D. HARRIS was born in Zanesville, Ohio, July 26, 1848 and came to Nebraska in 1866. During the same year, he left for California where he lived for ten years. He entered the army as a member of the medical department, and for three years was in the Northwest Territory fighting the Indians under General Miles. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1880. After living for a short time in North Platte, Nebraska, he moved to Keith County, where he practiced medicine until his final removal to Sidney in 1897. He has held the offices of Coroner of Keith County for two terms. Representative in the State Legislature in 1895 and Receiver in the United States Land Office for the past seven years. He also acted as Register of the Land Office during four years of this time. He was a candidate for the nomination of Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket this year, but withdrew. In 1878 he was married to Miss Edith Cary of Ohio. He served in the Civil War and was with the command which captured Morgan in his raid through Ohio.

     F. A. GAPEN was born October 24, 1870 in Bloomington, Illinois, where he acquired his education in the city schools and in Wesleyan

Prior page

TOC

Names index
Picture or sketch

@ 2002 for the NEGenWeb Project by Pam Rietsch, Ted & Carole Miller