the first President. He held that position until it was organized as the Lincoln Public Library, being one of the few who were instrumental in engineering bill through the legislature for the purpose of levying a tax for the support of libraries. Upon retiring from the Presidency he was selected Chairman of the Book Committee, and has always maintained a lively interest in this institution which forms so great a factor in the education of the people.
   Mr. Harwood was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in December, 1883. He was elected President of Lincoln National Bank on the 1st of December, 1887. He belongs to the G. A. R. and the Loyal Legion, also the A. F. & A. At., as a member of Lancaster Lodge No. 54, and Scottish Rite, 32d degree. Politically, he has always affiliated with the Republican party, but is in favor of tariff reform, and for this reason not in sympathy with his party in this contest of 1888.
   The first wife of our subject, to whom he was married May 29, 1872. was Miss Mary E., daughter of Hon. John P. Cook, of Hillsdale, Mich. Of this union there was born one child, a daughter, Helen, Oct. 17, 1874, who is now attending school at Lincoln. Mrs. Mary Harwood departed this life at Montague, Mich., in September, 1878. Mr. H., July 25, 1883, contracted a second marriage, with Miss Celia Harris, who was born at South Bend, Ind., in April, 1846, and is the daughter of George S. and Sarah (Bacon) Harris, whose family consists of ten children, and of whom Celia was the eldest. Their second child, George, was born in Brookline, Mass., Dec. 20, 1848; Ellen in Boston, Feb. 3, 1851; Charles L. in Boston, Nov. 5, 1853; Frederick L. in West Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 11, 1857; Edward K. in Boston, April 21, 1859; Sarah Butler, in Boston, July 18, 1860; John F. in Boston, Feb. 24, 1863, and Agnes, Feb. 20, 1866.
   George S. Harris, the father of Mrs. Harwood, was a native of Caldwell, N. Y., and was born March 22, 1815, to Michael and Susan (Allen) Harris, being the third in a family of five sons. He was left fatherless at the age of five years, his care and early training devolving almost wholly upon his mother. For her he cherished the strongest affection, as one who had made him what he was in after life. While still a youth he embraced the principles of Christianity, professing them before men, and made them the governing rule of his life.
   In early manhood Mr. Harris engaged in mercantile pursuits, but his desire was for a professional life, and in 1836 he entered Oberlin College with the intention of preparing for the ministry. Circumstances, however, caused him to change his purpose and led him to remove to Boston, where for many years he was actively engaged in business, most of the time in connection with railroad interests, for the promotion of which his energies and abilities were admirably adapted. In 1859 he removed to the West and was variously engaged, first as Land Commissioner for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri, and subsequently acting in the same capacity for the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in both Iowa and Nebraska.
   In the summer of 1872 Mr. Harris was a passenger on the ill-fated steamer "Metis," which was wrecked on her voyage from New York City to Providence, and was rescued after remaining several hours in the water, during which he clung to a plank. From this shock to his system he never fully recovered, and died two years later at Lincoln, June 12, 1874, at the age of fifty-nine years. Mr. Harris was a man of large ideas and a benevolent heart, who took a kindly interest in every project calculated to benefit mankind and encourage by his means and influence, as far as he was able. The dissemination of both moral and substantial good. He affiliated with the Republican party, and was a member in good standing of the Congregational Church. Socially, he belonged to the I. O. O. F.
   The mother of Mrs. Harwood was born in Southbridge, Mass., July 24, 1821, and is the daughter of Lenient and Celia (Butler) Bacon, the latter of whom is a lineal descendant of Andrew and Mary (Germaine) Sigourney, who were married at Huguenot Fort, in Oxford, Mass., about 1701. She, like her husband, is a devoted Christian and a member of the Congregational Church. She is still living, making her home in the city of Lincoln.
   The early life of Mrs. Celia Harwood was spent in Boston, where she attended its best schools, and developed into womanhood. She accompanied the

family to Hannibal, Mo, and subsequently to Burlington, Iowa, thence to Lincoln. this State, where they settled in 1872, and where she became acquainted with our subject. and was married. There have been born of her marriage with Mr. Harwood three children: Agnes, born April 12. 1884, who died when two days old; George Harris, who wits born Aug. 10, 1885, and died Feb. 10, 1887. and Mary Dorrance, who was born April 6, 1887. In June, 1882, Mr. Harwood embarked at Philadelphia on the steamer "Indiana," for a trip abroad, and after a safe voyage landed in Liverpool. He made a slow progress to London, stopping at Chester, Stratford-on-Avon, and the Birmingham manufactories. In London he was especially interested in Parliament, the Law Courts, the British Museum, the National Art Gallery, the Tower, the Kensington Gardens, and in an examination of statistics and facts in relation to the commerce and manufactures of Great Britain.
   Front London Mr. Harwood went to Paris, thence to Belgium, and made the enchanting journey up the Rhine to Switzerland. Later, he passed into Italy, visiting Milan, Venice, Florence and Rome, returning to Paris by the Mont Cenis tunnel. Revisiting London, he traveled northward into Scotland, finally embarking at the city of Glasgow upon the "Circassia," homeward hound. This trip was remarkable for happy escapes. In Switzerland, crossing the Tete-Noire, he was one of a party of three in a carriage drawn by a mule and a horse. The team ran away, throwing them all out, down it precipice of thirty feet, upon a narrow terrace, beyond which was in abyss almost unfathomable. Happily, no one was seriously hurt. On the voyage home, the "Circassia," in a dense fog off the banks of Newfoundland, suffered a collision with a sailing-vessel. Fortunately, no lives were lost, and the 'Circassia" was not badly damaged.

ERMON H. BARTELS. There is existing from the period of the pre-Norman era of English history a prophecy to the effect that no three representatives of any dynasty can occupy the throne of England consecutively with out a revolution. The remarkable exception to the fulfillment of the above is found in the present dynasty of the Guelphs, an Hanoverian family, as will be remembered. Hanover, one of the old German Duchies, has not influenced the history of England alone, but that of other European nations, and from the less regal walks of life there have come citizens of that State who are among the most successful, steady, honorable and intelligent, of the settlers of our newer country. Among them may be mentioned Hermon H. Bartels, one of Centerville's prosperous farmers, who is a resident upon section 13.
   In Hanover there lived a family, John H. Bartels and his wife, Adelheit, whose residence was situated near Hoja. Upon the 26th of January, 1848, their home was made and by the birth of a son. This son wits the object of affection's tenderest solicitude, and was reared carefully until the age when school life should begin, when he entered upon that experience. Having laid the foundation of his life in the halls of scholarly attainment, he passed to the sterner experiences of young manhood, continuing to reside with his parents until about twenty-three years of age, assisting with the various engagements of his chosen occupation of farming.
   In 1867 our subject emigrated to America, taking passage at Bremen in a sailing-vessel, which was followed by seven weeks of an experience novel, moving and exciting, at the same time not lacking in some features of ennui. He landed in New York City and proceeded direct to Mason County, Ill., where he was occupied in farming, and saw considerable prosperity as the result of his labor. In 1873 he came to Nebraska, and settled in this county upon his present property, which comprises 160 acres of excellently improved and highly cultivated fertile land.
   Two years prior to the removal to this county Mr. Bartels deserted the ranks of bachelordom and was united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Steinke, on the 19th of October, at Savannah. This lady is the daughter of Renney and Rolrock Steinke, and was born at Hanover, in 1851. She is it lady of education and culture, possessed of those attractive and amiable traits which not only attract attention and admiration from true men and women, but retain continuously their friendship. Their union has

been happily cemented by the birth of seven children, whose names are subjoined: Anne, John, Henry, Lena, Dora, Hermon and Louisa.
   Excepting only that education given him by his parents, and the faithful counsel and help of his wife, our subject has attained his present success as the result of his enthusiastic, constant effort. Mr. and Mrs. Bartels are members in good standing of the Lutheran Church, and held in high esteem. Their children are being instructed in the same religious tenets, and are developing elements of character that promise great things to come. In business circles, social and religious, our subject and family are accorded the entire confidence and regard of the community.

LEXANDER BUCHANAN is the well-known farmer and stock-raiser, whose beautiful farm of eighty acres is located on section 12, Oak township. He is a native of old Ireland. and the impulse which led him to the Western World is the same love of liberty and its institutions which is the cause of the agitation by Ireland's representatives in the Parliament at Westminster.
   Our subject is the son of Alexander Buchanan, who was born in the beginning of the present century in Ireland. In his early days he was taught the trade of a tailor, and in after days continued to work at the same. In his young manhood he was united in marriage with Susan McElwee, who presented her husband with five children, of whom four came to this country. In the year 1863 Mr. Buchanan, Sr., departed this life, when a little over sixty years of age.
   Alexander Buchanan, our subject, was born June 10, 1829, in Ireland. He received the tuition of his boyhood from the parish schoolmaster, and as early as possible he was put to farm work, and so continued at his native place until the year 1864, when the brilliant descriptions and the bright Utopian visions of the land beyond the sea led him to sever the ties that bound him to his native land and his home, and come to America. Upon landing he proceeded immediately to Nebraska, where he entered his present farm is a homestead in 1868, having in the interim worked as a carpenter in what is now the city of Lincoln. Before coming to this country he had served three years as a tailor, and was enabled to find work at once in the new town.
   Having decided to settle upon his land, our subject set to work first to frame some building which should serve the purpose of home until his present building could be erected, and also a barn and other out-buildings. Here his recent occupation did him good service, and he was speedily provided for. The property lies quite pleasantly, and contains some of the best land of the district. He was as careful and energetic in working his land as in the erection of his buildings, and has been by no means ill-rewarded.
   Our subject was united in marriage to Lulisia Paulding, Jan. 7, 1877, in Lincoln, who died but a short time after their union. Afterward, on his present farm, he was united to Mrs. Sarah Lusk, of Lincoln. The maiden name of this lady was Hyland, and she was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., in October, 1832. She is the daughter of John Hyland, a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in the year 1795. As a young man he removed to Ohio, where he married Miss Hannah Ford, and removed to Michigan. To this union there came nine children, and they were, privileged to bring seven to maturity. Of these our subject's wife was the fifth.
   During the latter part of Mr. Hyland's life he retired from active farm work, and lived at Yankee Springs near Kalamazoo, where he died in 1865, having survived his wife about twelve years. It was at this home their daughter Sarah was born, in 1832, and where she received her education, and made her home until her first marriage, when she was united with a gentleman named Delurier, and with him made her home at Ypsilanti, Mich., until the death of her husband, when she was married in the year 1856 to Mr. Lusk, and went to Iowa, and there lived for fourteen years. The result of this union was a home circle comprising six children. During her widowhood Mrs. Lusk visited Lincoln and made the acquaintance of our subject, to whom she was married in 1882.
   Mrs. Buchanan has been a resident upon the bor-

der all her life, and is perfectly familiar with its every phase. She has been always used to seeing Indians around her home, and had frequent dealings with them, but was never in any way molested, although upon several occasions her ready wit and inventiveness did her good service. Our subject and wife are both among the most prominent and at the same time devout members of the Raymond Presbyterian Church, and are among those who, by their intelligence and efficient labors. have caused Nebraska so quickly to have throughout the country so great a name for productiveness and fertility in any and every department of agriculture.
   Our subject has for several terms been a member of the local School Board, and the greater part of the time of his settlement being also School Treasurer. He has also held the office of Supervisor. Politically, our subject has always been connected intimately with the Republican party, energetic in campaigns and loyal at the polls, but his careful study of the great question of temperance as it is before the nation led him to the decision that the ground of the Prohibition party was the true one, and with the manly honesty which has characterized his whole life, he made known the change in his views, and took his stand with the Prohibitionists, with whom he is to-day, esteemed alike by men of both parties and by those who differ from him, respected for having the courage of his convictions and acting upon them.

DWIN K. YOUNG is one of the foremost of the young and enterprising farmers of the present generation, who are rapidly pushing to the front to assist their elders in sustaining the great agricultural interests of Lancaster County, and what he lacks in experience is more than made up by his energy, courage, good judgment, and ability to work. He is engaged in general farming on section 11, Lancaster Township, and his farm of 120 acres, admirably adapted to both grain and stockraising, is one of the best in this locality where good farms abound.
   Our subject is the son of the late John J. Young, who was born Aug. 25, 1820, in Susquehanna County, Pa., and was there prosperously engaged in farming for many years. He married Urainia Kingsley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roswell Kingsley, of Connecticut, who was a native of the same county as himself. and who was born on the fifth anniversary of his own birth, Aug. 25, 1825. They had a family of five children, four sons and one daughter, as follows: Hattie E.. wife of Irving Snell, of Nebraska City, Neb.; Edwin K., John R., Elmer E. and Willie K., all of Lancaster. In 1878 Mr. Young settled up his affairs in his native State and started westward to look for land. having been attracted to this State by the many glowing reports that had come to his ears concerning the marvelous fertility of the soil and the healthfulness of the climate. While looking for a suitable location he was killed, June 18, 1878, at Sutton, in Clay County, Neb., by a railway accident, and thus closed the useful and honorable career of one who had ever been a faithful citizen and a good man.
   Edwin Young, of this sketch, was born in Susquehanna County, Pa., Sept. 19, 1854, and his early years were spent on a farm in his native State. In 1878, in the fall of the year, he accompanied the other members of the family to this State, where he bought a farm. Jan. 25, 1887, the marriage of our subject with Miss Ella Maddox was celebrated. She is a daughter of Job H. and Mary A. (Brown) Maddox, of Benton County, Ind., and was born March 28, 1866. Her father was born in Ohio, Jan, 23, 1826, and her mother was born Jan. 6, 1826, They had a family of six children, of whom Mrs. Young was the youngest.
   Mr. Young is paying much attention to stock. raising, and has his farm well stocked with cattle of good grades. He has also been quite successful in raising grain. The central location of his farm, within seven miles of the city of Lincoln, being thus near good markets and accessible to the great railways that cross the continent, makes it a very valuable piece of property.
   Our subject is prompt and systematic in the management of his affairs, and is careful and considerate in his dealings with others. He has the moral, religious and material welfare of his community at heart, and earnestly uses his influence to

promote it. He is a valued member of the Baptist Church at Lincoln, and his wife is an equally valued member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lancaster. In politics, Mr. Young is an enthusiastic Republican.

ILLIAM A. CADMAN is junior member of the firm of J. Cadman & Son, dealers in buggies, wagons, road-carts, hardware and agricultural implements, No. 233 North Tenth street. They carry a stock worth about $10,000, and have an extensive and flourishing trade. Our subject is a native of Illinois, born in Jo Daviess County, May 1, 1850. He is a son of John and Frances (Bennett) Cadman, natives of Pennsylvania. His father was engaged in business in his native State as a merchant, and in 1840 he removed to Illinois, where he was prosperously engaged in the same vocation. In 1859 he came with his family to Nebraska, and located on a farm near Saltillo. This was when Nebraska was under Territorial government in the early days of its settlement, and he is, therefore, numbered among the pioneers of that first decade when the country was in a very wild state, still being considered a part of the great American Desert, so that to him and his contemporaries belongs the honor of having shown to the outside world the great possibilities that lay in the rich virgin soil of these vast prairies. He was one of the prime movers in establishing the overland wagon route. He afterward came with his family to Lincoln in early times, when it gave no indications of its present size and wealth, and he has contributed his share in promoting its growth. He is a shrewd, far-sighted man of business, and is highly respected in this community, where he is well known for his solid worth. In politics, he has long been a follower of the Republican party, and is to-day one of its sturdiest supporters. He is a prominent member of the Blue Lodge, being a Master Mason.
   Our subject belongs to that large class who have been, so to speak, the architect of their own fortunes, the so-called "self-made men" of our country. He was reared to farming pursuits and obtained a practical education that enabled him to enter successfully into business. In early life he had considerable experience of life in the wild West. On the 23d of June, 1887, our subject and his father bought out Messrs. Hovey & Peck, and established themselves in their present business, which they have already made an assured success, and from. which they derive a good income.
   Mr. Cadman was married to Miss Katy A. Burks, Oct. 16, 1878, Elder H. T. Davis, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, performing the ceremony. She was born in Missouri in 1857, and is a daughter of John M. Burks. One daughter, Florence A., has been born of this marriage, her birth taking place in December, 1880. Our subject and his wife are pleasantly situated in their comfortable, commodious residence at No. 1228 T street, and they enjoy in the highest degree the esteem and confidence of all who know them. Mr. Cadman is a young man of good personal habits, is prompt and systematic in his business methods, and has always been found trustworthy and faithful. Religiously, he is identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is an honored member, and politically, he is allied with the Republicans of Lancaster County.

AMES N. CLARK, Deputy Postmaster at Cheney, and dealer in drugs and groceries, a pleasant, affable and intelligent gentleman, was born in West Union, Ohio, June 20, 1858. His parents, Samuel E. and Sarah A. (Kirker) Clark, were natives of the same town as their son, where the father was employed at merchandising until the outbreak of the Civil War. Then, enlisting as a Union soldier in Company E, 91st Ohio Infantry, he was given a Captain's commission, and while leading his men in the battle of Cloyd Mountain, W. Va., was killed on the 9th of May, 1864. The mother is still living, and is now a resident of Creston, Iowa.
   The parental family of our subject consisted of five children, namely: Mary, William A., Esther A., James N. (our subject) and Samuel K. James was but a little lad six years of age at the time of his father's death, and continued a resident of his native village until reaching manhood. His studies

were completed in the Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and he engaged as a teacher for nine years following, after which he clerked it different places in Ohio. In March, 1885, he started for the West, and coming to this county took up his residence in Grant Precinct, of which he has since been a resident.
   Our subject, while a resident of the Buckeye State, was married in the town of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Sept. 3, 1879, to Miss Madge Tynes, who was born in Barbadoes Island, West Indies, July 11, 1861. Her parents, John B. and Margaret Tynes, were natives of Barbadoes, and are residents of Yankee Hill Precinct, this county. Our subject and his estimable wife are the parents of two sons, Arthur B. and Clarence K., who are now eight and six years old respectively. They have a neat and comfortable home, and enjoy the friendship and society of the best people of Cheney and vicinity. Mr. Clark is a member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics. supports Republican principles.

OEL NEWTON CONVERSE, M. D. The Hebrew classic hath it, that "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." One of the most startling proofs, perhaps, of the above, was the result of the War of 1776. England at that time was in the full strength of naval and military power; her arms were supreme throughout the whole of Europe; the Napoleonic power was broken at her feet, and her flag in every sea was saluted with the utmost deference and respect. The result to England was pride and haughtiness, and her counselors and king for the most part forgot that right is stronger than naval prowess and military power. Then from the Western Colonies there sounded out the answer to oppression and wrong which had been heaped upon them by the home Government-the Declaration of Independence, followed speedily by the noise of result of her ignorance England's fall, the natural result of her ignorance and haughtiness. In spite of this it is a pleasure to remember that the common people were not with their rulers in this action, and that the common people were the true nobles, who, in early days peopled this country, and have transmitted to their sons and daughters a like nobility, so much so that, under the improved conditions of our sublime, free government every man and woman, unless they give themselves over to wrong, is noble in the highest sense of the word.
   The subject of this sketch is the descendant of family patriotic in the Colonial days, and there has been transmitted to him the nobility of character and indomitable energy characteristic of his ancestors. His father, Lathrop Converse, was born in Bridport, Vt., and was the son of Jeremiah Converse, a native of Massachusetts. The latter, when a young man, was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which profession was eminently congenial to his upright character and devout spirit. Nevertheless, when the oppressor would come and devastate home and country, and the call went forth for defenders of the same, he was one of the first to respond with alacrity, and continued in the service with the full strength of patriotic manhood until disabled by a severe wound in the right shoulder. This marked him until he went to his last rest, mustered out of the army of mankind, and finished the battle of life. He breathed his last in Madison County, Ohio., in the home which he had made his, in 1814.
   When he settled in Ohio, Lathrop Converse was a young man. The long journey from Vermont was made in primitive fashion, with wagon and team, a method then full of labor and difficulty. The family were among the earliest settlers of that section, and their home, erected upon a tract of uncultivated land, was by no means pretentious. The walls of the dwelling were hewn logs, with the chinks and crevices plastered with clay; there was a stick and mud chimney, a puncheon floor, and greased paper for windowpanes. Could John Howard Payne have been acquainted with the pioneer's log cabin when he wrote "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home?" The tract of land upon which this house stood comprised 200 acres, situated in Darby Township, and was purchased at the rate of $1 per acre. Once after they had settled, the journey was made by Mr. Converse to and from Vermont on horseback, the usual mode