Populist party and has been Clerk of the District Court two terms and President of the City Council twice.

      CARL R. GOUCHER was born in Plymouth, Indiana, April 16, 1874. He removed with his parents to Orville, Ohio, later to Nashville, Michigan, and settled in Wahoo in 1889. He served as Deputy County Clerk from 1900 to 1902 and was then elected County Clerk by the People's Independent and Democratic parties.

      J. W. MENGEL was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, April 25, 1857. In 1878 he removed to Saunders County and has taught in various Nebraska towns during twenty-four years spent in school work. He is a graduate of Fremont and Lincoln Normals. In 1901 he was elected County Superintendent and reelected in 1903.

      JOHN L. SUNDEAN was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, July 14, 1874. He attended the Lincoln public schools from 1879 to 1886, and afterwards Luther Academy, Wahoo. Nebraska and Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. He also took a course at the Lincoln Business College and graduated from the Law Department of the State University in 1895. Since 1901 he has been serving as County Attorney of Saunders County.

      WILLIAM T. MAUCK was born in Gibson County, Indiana, November 13, 1859, whence he moved to Saunders County. He attended the University of Nebraska for two years and taught school for a time in Saunders County. He served as City Clerk for one term and later was elected County Recorder.

      OSCAR HANSEN was born in Saunders County, Nebraska, November 9, 1873, where he was raised on the farm and moved to Wahoo in 1892. He is a graduate of Luther Academy and Lincoln Normal College. He served as Deputy Couty (sic) Treasurer from 1895 to 1901, when he was elected County Treasurer on the Fusion ticket.

      FRANK R. SCHEEL was born April 17, 1858, in Germany, came to the United States in 1880 and settled in Nebraska, April 1, 1886. At present he is engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in Wahoo. He was married February 22, 1901, to Huldah Rocker of Wahoo. He is a member of the Democratic party and is the Coroner of Saunders County.

      CHARLES PERKY was born in Georgetown, Ohio, December 17, 1841. He served four years in the Civil War in the Seventh and 104th Ohio Infantry and became First Lieutenant of the latter regiment. His father, a minister, was chaplain of an Indiana regiment for over four years. Mr. Perky is a banker and served two terms as County Treasurer of Saunders County and City Treasurer of Wahoo. He is affiliated with the Republican party and is Mayor of Wahoo.

 

      Scott's Bluff County was organized in 1888 with an area of 755 square miles. Its present population is 2,552. Gering, the county seat, has 433 residents. There are 40.12 miles of railway extending along the course of the Platte. The surface is' composed of rolling prairie and valleys relieved by bluffs, Scott's Bluff being the highest point. Cattle, horses and sheep are grown on the ranges. The land has a dark and sandy soil with, a clay and sand subsoil of which 65 per cent is tillable. There are 179 miles of irrigtaing (sic) ditches which water 29,244 acres. Alfalfa, small grain, potatoes and vegetables are the principal crops raised on the irrigated land. The price of land is much higher than it was a few years ago. Ash, maple, box elder and cottonwood are the principal trees, and of the farm crops, corn has the largest acreage. Several years ago, sod school houses were very numerous, while now there are only three, and according to present plans, these will soon be discarded. In 1900 none of the schools had a term of more than six months and there was only one town school Now, half the districts have eight or nine months terms and there are three graded schools. Four school buildings have been recently built, and there are 1,104 children of school age in the county.

      JAMES McKINLEY is a native of Iowa, having been born in Lucas County, March 1, 1866, and lived in that state until 1885, when he came to what is now Scott's Bluff County, Nebraska. The next year he homesteaded in this county and has lived here ever since, engaging in ranching and farming. Mr. McKinley is a Democrat, has been the Assessor of Irrigation and is at present the Clerk of Scott's Bluff County.

      THOMAS PRESTON was born in Cardiff, England, November 10, 1840, and was brought up and educated in that city, becoming a civil engineer and surveyor and also cashier in a steel factory. He came to the United States in 1887 and settled in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, where he lived a year and a half, and then came to Scott's Bluff County, homesteading here in 1889. Since he has been in Scott's Bluff County he has engaged in the ranching business, and now owns a ranch comprising about five sections. He is associated with the Republican party and is the Treasurer of Scott's Bluff County.

      RUNEY CARROLL CAMPBELL was born at Des Moines, Iowa, November 17, 1858, of Scotch parentage. He came to Nebraska in the spring of 1883 and was the first settler in what is now Scott's Bluff County. He is a member of the Democratic party, was elected Sheriff of Scott's Bluff County, a strong Republican county, and was re-elected in 1903. He was first employed as a cowboy and later engaged in stock raising and farming, the latter under the Central Irrigation Canal, of which he is Director and President. Mr. Campbell is an accomplished violinist.

     E. S. De La MATTER is a descendant of the French Huguenots who came to New York in the early history of the colonies, and was born in Gardner, Illinois, June 6, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of Illinois and the Northern Indiana Normal at Valparaiso, Indiana. He came to Nebraska in 1884 and in 1886 homesteaded in what is now Scott's Bluff County. Mr. De La Matter is a Republican and has been Judge of Scott's Bluff County since 1901. He has also been Treasurer of the Gering Irrigation District, Justice of the Peace for seven years and County Commissioner six years.