came to Nebraska and the next day organized his
first Sunday school in the state. Since that time he has
worked all over the state and parts of adjoining states,
organizing Sunday schools and aiding the needy in every
way in his power. The growth of the work necessitated
direct supervision and Mr. Kimberly was appointed state
superintendent. He believes in the words of George
Washington, "The welfare of this nation depends upon the
moral and religious instruction given its youth." and
looks with such favor upon the work being done by The
American Sunday School Union that he has frequently
refused flattering offers of positions of trust.
HENRY MOORE EATON, Deputy Commissioner of Public
Lands and Buildings, was born July 16, 1867, in
Lafayette, Indiana. When he was ten years of age his
parents removed to Davenport, Nebraska. He received his
education in the public schools and the Salina, Kansas,
Normal and the University of Kansas. Eleven years of his
life have been devoted to teaching, five years of which
were passed as an instructor in the Fremont Normal
College, having commenced teaching at the age of sixteen.
For some time he was the principal of the high school at
Davenport and for a while was the assistant cashier of
the State Bank in the same town. Mr. Eaton was appointed
to his present position in 1900 and has been elected to
the office of Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings
for the next term of two years. He was married December
25, 1899, to Susie C. Smith, of Dunlap, Iowa, and has one
son.
WILBUR FRANKLIN BRYANT, Deputy Supreme Court
Reporter, was born in Dalton, Coos County, New Hampshire,
March 21, 1851, of Irish ancestry. He received his early
education in Kimball Union Academy at Menden, New
Hampshire, and finished at Dartmouth College. He taught
school in Mississippi, returned to the North and was
admitted to the bar in Yankton, Dakota, in 1877, and soon
after located in Nebraska. He has held various offices in
Cedar and Cuming Counties, was appointed a colonel in the
state militia and for a while was the head of the State
Bureau of Insurance. He is the author of the "Life of
Louis Riel," "Letters to a Young Law Student," "Did
Virgil 'Write the Aenid?" and numerous articles and
addresses. He has been the state president of the
Catholic Knights of America, twice delegate to the
Supreme Court of this Order; was a delegate to the
Columbian Catholic Congress in 1893; is a director and
member of the finance committee of the charity
organization of the City of Lincoln. He is married and
has five children, two daughters and three sons.
CAPTAIN JACOB H.
CULVER was born in Mercer County, Ohio, in 1845, and
came with his family to Wisconsin when a child. He
received his early training in the schools of the
neighborhood, and enlisted when only sixteen as a drummer
boy in Company K, First Wisconsin Infantry. When the
colorbearer of his regiment was shot down at the battle
of Perryville, the drummer boy grasped through the
service. He was in the battles of Lookout Mountain,
Chattanooga, and in the Atlanta campaign. He took a
course in the University of Wisconsin after the war.
In
Senator
Lyman Trumbull. He began the practice of his profession
and removed to Lincoln in 1887, where he became a member
of the firm of Talbot & Bryan. He was elected to the
Fifty-second congress and began congressional life March
4, 1891, at the age of thirty, and at once became a
member of the committee on ways and means. He took an
active part in the preparation of the Wilson tariff bill
in the Fifty-third congress, and was the author of the
income tax law. His maiden speech was delivered in the
house March 16, 1892, on the free wool bill, and from
that time he was recognized as one of the advanced
thinkers and speakers of the country. On the 16th day of
August, 1893, he delivered his famous speech against the
unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman bill. Mr. Bryan closed the debate on the income
tax January 30, 1894. Although defeated for the United
States senate in 1895, he continued the leading exponent.
of the principle of bimetalism, and the following year,
at the age of thirty-six, he received the presidential
nomination of the democratic party, and was subsequently
nominated by the populists and free silver parties, being
the youngest man who ever received a presidential
nomination. He threw a personality 
into
the campaign which established his leadership with
members of his party and although defeated a second time
for the presidency in 1900, his counsel is everywhere
recognized by democratic party leaders. He is the author
of several books and the editor of "The Commoner," which
he established in 1901 and which has a circulation of
150,000 copies. During the last eight years he has also
occupied a conspicuous place on the lecture platform.
