Bluffs. Mr. Judson was married October 16, 1901,
to Miss Aggie E. Tompsett of Omaha, Nebraska, and settled
in Scott's Bluff County in 1902. He is affiliated with
the Republican party and is serving his second term as
Surveyor of Scott's Bluff County.
PETER McFARLANE
was born in Perthshire, Scotland, July 25, 1856, and at
the age of seventeen went to the western coast of Africa
as agent for the firm of McFarlane Bros. & Co., of
Glasgow. He remained there four years and then was
employed by the firm in Glasgow five years longer. In
1882 he came to the United States and lived at Exeter,
Nerbaska (sic), for two years, then took a homestead near
Broken Bow and settled in Scott's Bluff County in 1887.
He has a quarter section of land under irrigation and
cultivation and was at one time the Treasurer of the
Irrigation District. He has been Treasurer of the Gering
School District and is the Cashier of the Bank of
Gering.
A. KENNEDY was
born in County Tyrone, Ireland, January 5, 1842, where he
spent his youth and received his education. At the age of
twenty he came to the United States and located at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked for the firm of
Allen Kirkpatrick & Co., helping load cannon balls
during the Civil War before they had cooled. After living
in Delaware County, Iowa, for a time, he came to Madison
County, Nebraska, in 1883 and settled in 1886 in what is
now Scott's Bluff County, where he took a homestead, on
which he still lives. He was married to Miss Martha J.
Baxter of Ireland in 1870 and they have six children. Mr.
Kennedy has a quarter section of land under irrigation.
He is associated with the Republican party and has served
his constituents as Commissioner, Justice of the Peace
and is now the Assessor of Scott's Bluff County.
H. M. THORNTON
was born in Kane County, Illinois. February 29, 1854. At
the age of twenty-two he pre-empted in what is now
Scott's Bluff County and has made the county his home
since that time, where he is now engaged in the real
estate and banking business. He was educated in the
public schools of Illinois and the Business College at
Dixon, Illinois. He was married to Miss Alice Johnson of
Scott's Bluff County in 1897 and they have three
children. He has eight hundred acres of land in Scott's
Bluff County under irrigation, is affiliated with the
Republican party and was Clerk of Scott's Bluff County
for two terms. At present he is United States Court
Commissioner.
FRED A. WRIGHT
was born in Washington County, New York, February 11,
1869, his parents removing to Iowa the next year and
later to Weeping Water, Nebraska; then back to Iowa
again, and in 1892 he came to Scott's Bluff County. After
completing his preparatory education he studied law in
the office of Theodore W. Ivory of Glenwood, Iowa, and
was admitted to the bar in Nebraska in 1894. He was
married to Miss Lizzie Royer of Gering, Nebraska, in 1896
and is a member of the firm of Wright & Wright. He
was postmaster at Gering for four years and served two
years as County Attorney of Scott's Bluff County.
C. N. WRIGHT was
born in Pacific City, Iowa, November 14, 1879, where he
lived until his tenth year, when he removed with his
parents to Weeping Water, Nebraska, where he made his
home until 1892, when he came to Scott's Bluff County,
Nebraska, and homesteaded here in 1901. He studied at
Tabor College, Iowa, and Olivet College, Michigan, and
graduated from the law department of the University of
Nebraska in 1903. He is now a
