menced as a cowboy on the range. He has a large law library, consisting of about six hundred volumes. During 1894 and 1895 he studied law with Grimes & Wilcox, commenced practicing the next year and graduated from the Law Department of the University of Nebraska in 1899. For seven years Mr. Davis was engaged in newspaper work. He has always been a Republican and has served two terms as Police Judge and City Attorney of North Platte and at present is County Attorney of Lincoln County.

      LINCOLN CARPENTER, serving his second term as Sheriff of Lincoln County, was born May 1, 1860, at Delphos, Ohio, where he was educated and married to Diana Harch, December 23, 1881. They are the parents of four sons and two daughters. In October, 1883, he moved to Lexington, Illinois, where he remained until the spring of 1885, when he came to Geneva, Nebraska, and in 1891 located in Lincoln County. Mr. Carpenter is a Republican and has served as County Commissioner, Precinct Assessor and member of the School Board in Lincoln County.

      OSCAR W. NEALE was born on a farm in Birmingham, Ohio, December 17, 1873. He was educated in the public schools of Birmingham and Kimbalton, Ohio, and graduated from Dennison University in 1896. In 1894 he located at North Platte, taught in the graded schools there, was two years Principal of Schools at Sutherland, Nebraska, and is now serving his second term as Superintendent of Lincoln County, being affiliated with the Republican party. Mr. Neale was married July 6, 1898, to Miss Cora D. Combs of North Platte, and they have one son.

      C. F. SCHARMANN was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1867. He came to Thayer County, Nebraska, in 1878, remaining there until January, 1881, when he came to North Platte. He attended the University of Nebraska for three years, is a stenographer and bookkeeper by vocation, and is also interested in ranching. He was married July 3, 1900, to Miss Nannie S. Andrews of Steele City, Nebraska, and they have one son. Mr. Scharmann served two terms as County Treasurer, City Clerk, two terms, Councilman two terms and was Court Reporter of the Thirteenth Judicial District two and a half years. At present he is Judge of Lincoln County. In the Spanish-American 'War he enlisted in May, 1898, as Junior Major of the Third Nebraska Regiment, and was mustered out in May, 1899, as Senior Major, being the third in command. Prior to the Spanish-American War he had been Captain and Major of the Second Nebraska of the National Guard.

      E. S. DAVIS was born in Monroe County, Iowa, December 18, 1869. In 1882 his parents removed to Indianola, Iowa, where he graduated from the high school in 1887. In 1887 he went to Sidney, Iowa, worked in a hardware store until January, 1891, and came to Broken Bow, Nebraska, that same year. In 1894 moved to North Platte, where he was engaged in the hardware business until taking up the duties of Deputy Treasurer in 1900. He was married in October, 1892, at Sidney, Iowa, to Miss Clara Eskew, and they have one son. Mr. Davis is a Republican, serving his first term as County Treasurer.

      GEORGE E. PROSSER was born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 2, 1859. He resided in Pennsylvania, where his mother died; in New York, Ohio and Connecticut before coming to Lincoln County, Nebraska, in 1886. He has been in the real estate and insurance business, was educated in the public schools of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and was married to Miss Mattie Bowen of Norwalk, Ohio, June 19, 1883. He has served as Deputy County Treasurer, Deputy Clerk of the District Court and at one time Clerk in the United States Land Office at North Platte. At present he is Clerk of the District Court.

      F. R. GINN was born August 13, 1870, in Galena, Illinois, and that same year his parents moved to Perry, Iowa, remaining there until 1884, when they came to Lincoln County. After going to Honolulu and Alaska, he settled in Lincoln County in 1887. In 1892

he graduated from the college at Indianapolis, Indiana, and in 1895 was married to Miss Ada Martin of Des Moines, Iowa, and they have two sons. He is a Republican and is serving his second term as County Clerk and was also City Clerk of North Platte for three years. He is President of the Duck Brand Ranch, in which he is a large shareholder.

      WILEY MATTHEWS, a retired farmer and a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Lincoln County, was born June 27, 1842, in Morgan County, Indiana, where he lived until 1858, when he moved to Illinois. He served in Company E of the Fifth Illinois Cavalry and Company I of the 135th Illinois Infantry and was mustered out in September, 1864. He received his education in Indiana, and was married in October, 1863, to Miss Margaret Jackson, who died in January, 1870. He was again married to Miss Eliza Edwards of Coles County, Illinois. Mr. Matthews came to Nebraska in 1887 and is the father of four children.

      E. R. PLUMMER is a native of Aurora, Indiana. He was born February 14, 1854, and in 1856 his parents removed to Illinois, where he was educated and remained until 1878, when he came to York, Nebraska. He lived in Colorado three years, during which time he was (sic) He was married in 1882 to Miss O. Anna Tracy Mayor of Julesburg and Deputy County Clerk. of York County. Mr. Plummer is a Republican and is the Deputy Treasurer of Lincoln Conuty (sic). His father served in the Civil War and was severely wounded at Bull Run and Fort Donelson.

      E. B. WARNER was born in Warner, Onondaga County, New York, June 28, 1853. His father, Marshall D. Warner, was a Methodist minister. At the age of six his parents moved to Illinois and two years later went to Wisconsin, where his boyhood days were spent at Fond du Lac. He returned to New York State in 1875 and four years later came to North Platte, Nebraska. Received his education in the Fond du Lac High School and is engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. He is Past Great Sachem of the Red Men in Nebraska and has been the representative of Nebraska to the Great Order of the United States for six years. He has been Mayor of North Platte for four terms, County Coroner two terms, City Clerk two terms, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1892.

      VOORHEES LUCAS was born on a farm, July 28, 1869, at Bloomington, Indiana, where he lived until 1880, when he moved to Sheridan, Iowa, and from there he went to Custer County, Nebraska, with his father in 1886. In 1891 he came to North Platte and was employed there until 1895, when his medical education had been completed. He graduated in 1895 from the College of Medicine of the University of Nebraska, and took post-graduate work at the New York Polyclinic in 1901. Mr. Lucas worked his way through school and has been practicing at North Platte since 1897. He married Miss Susie Fraser of Kearney, Nebraska, in 1902.

      J. S. HOAGLAND is a native of New Jersey, having been born in Jersey City, February 10, 1847. He moved to Bunker Hill, Illinois, in 1857 and came to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1872, where he served as Deputy Sheriff and also Sheriff of Lancaster County, and moved to North Platte in 1884. He received his education and studied law in Illinois, and after going out of the Sheriff's office at Lincoln began practicing law, and has practiced since. In February, 1865, about the time he would have graduated, he enlisted in the 152d Illinois Infantry and served nine months. In 1868 he was married to Maria L. Waples of Madison County, Illinois, and they have two sons, W. E. and A. B. Hoagland. Politically he is a Republican, has been Judge of Lincoln County and in 1895 was a member of the State Senate. He has been the representative from Nebraska to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows since 1889.

      CHARLES P. ROSS was born July 30, 1858, in Ohio, from which State he went to Missouri and then came to Nebraska. He graduated from a private academy and a business college and received the degree of Civil Engineer at Porter College. He has been actively engaged in his profession for twenty-one years on railroad work, irrigation canals and water supply systems. He has served three terms as County Surveyor of Lincoln County and has been City Engineer of North Platte for twelve terms.

     Logan County was organized in 1885, with an area of 576 square miles. It has a population of 960, and Gandy is its county seat. The surface is made up of prairie land, the valleys of South Loup River and several small creeks and sand hills. Land has increased two-fifths in value since 1897, and the records show a sale of over 150 farms in the last two years. The soil is dark and sandy, with a clay subsoil, and cereals, vegetables and hay are its best products. One hundred and two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five acres are included in farm land, while the entire number of farm buildings is valued at $58,390. Wells vary in depth from 5 to 250 feet, according to elevation. The timber supply is made up mostly of cottonwood and box elder trees. The highest prices are paid for hay land, which brings from $15 to $18 an acre. The good pasture and water resources make stock raising a leading occupation. Logan County is divided into 15 school districts, seven of which maintain schools of six to nine months during the year. The county is unique in possessing an iron schoolhouse. There are 331 school children and the school property amounts to $7,439.

      LEW WILLIAMS was born March 12, 1854, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father, B. F. Williams, was employed as a bookkeeper. He removed from Ohio to Indiana and settled in Nebraska in 1875. Since in this state he has been in the ranching business Mr. Williams is a member of the Democratic party and has been elected Clerk of Logan County.

      FRANKLIN R. HOGEBOOM is a native of New York State, having been born in 1854 in Ghent, Columbia County. He took the degree of Bachelor of Law at Columbia College in 1877 and the next year came to Custer County, Nebraska, and in 1880 took a homestead in Logan County, being the oldest homesteader in the county. He now owns a fine ranch at the head of Loup River. Mr. Hogeboom is a member of the Republican party and has served as County Attorney, Surveyor, Postmaster and at present is the Judge of Logan County.

 

      Forty per cent of Loup County is tillable land. The most valuable land is farm land, which sells at prices ranging from $20 to $30 per acre. The Loup and Calamus Rivers, with many small streams and lakes, furnish the water supply. Alfalfa and sugar beets grow well in these valleys. Wells here are from 10 to 25 feet deep, while on the higher lands they are from 75 to 350 feet. Irrigation is being tried to some extent. There are great numbers of cattle, horses and sheep, and in 1900 the value of the county live stock was estimated at $387,844. The land is made up of rolling prairie and sand hills, and there is good pasturage everywhere. There is at present an active demand for ranches. Hay, potatoes. corn, wheat and oats are the chief products. Corn occupies 7,515 acres of land, while spring wheat covers 2,680 acres. Loup County was organized in 1883. It has a population of 1,305 people, and its county seat is Taylor. There are 234 square miles of territory not yet organized into school districts. There are twenty-four districts, which comprise twenty school buildings, seven of which are well furnished with the necessary apparatus. Eight of the school districts have terms lasting from six to nine months. The school property amounts to $6,972.50.

     W. L. JOHNSON is a native of Nebraska, having been born in Colon, Saunders County, January 24, 1872. His father came from Swe-