resentative citizens. When he came here he purchased 320 acres, and within a few months sold all except fifteen acres at an average of $80 per acre. The well-known Cushman Park forms a part of his original tract. A station on the railroad bearing his name is located within twenty rods of his home.

TEPHEN DEITCH, a very intelligent man of German birth and parentage, represents a fine property in Elk Precinct, comprising 240 acres of land on section 15. He is thorough and skillful as a farmer, and as a man and citizen possesses the elements which have secured him the esteem and confidence of all who know him. He is an extensive reader, a gentleman of good education, and keeps himself thoroughly posted upon matters of general interest. His farming operations have been carried on profitably, enabling him to provide against the winter of old age and the other vicissitudes of life.
   Our subject was born in the Province of Alsace, France, but which now belongs to Germany, on the 1st of August, 1834. He was placed in school at an early age, and after completing his studies was employed on a farm three years, then commenced an apprenticeship at the shoemaker's trade. This he followed, however, only about eighteen months, and then, not satisfied with his condition or his prospects upon his native soil, set out for America. On the 13th of December, 1852, he bade adieu to the friends of his childhood and youth, and making his way to the city of London engaged passage on board a sailing-vessel. After a voyage of nine weeks he landed in the city of New York on the 22d of February following, and thence made his way directly to Pittsburgh, Pa. From there he migrated to Clarion County, where he arrived with about $10 in his pocket.
   Our subject, however, although a stranger in a strange land, soon procured friends and employment, and followed his trade in that region three months, and then via the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers proceeded to Cincinnati, where he worked at his trade probably eighteen months. He then went into Johnson County, Ind., but returned to the Queen City in about a year and a half, and from there migrated to Kentucky. Two years later, returning to Indiana, he decided to locate in Greensboro, and opened a shop on his own account.
   Mr. Deitch carried on the business above mentioned until 1882, then disposing of his property in the Hoosier State, came to Southern Nebraska, and purchased 240 acres of his present farm. Here he commenced at the beginning to build up a homestead from the primitive soil, and it needs but a glance at his property to realize how well he has improved his time and the manner in which he has been rewarded. There are few rural homes more attractive than the Deitch farm, with its neat and substantial buildings, its generous quantity of fruit and shade trees, the well-kept fences, stock and machinery, and all the appurtenances which aid in forming the complete whole.
   About twenty-seven years ago, Jan. 1, 1861, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Rickert, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride in Greensboro, Henry Co., Ind. Mrs. Deitch was born in Lebanon County, Pa., Feb. 14, 1835, and is the daughter of Frederick and Rebecca Rickert, who were natives of Germany and of pure German stock. They spent their last years in Henry County, Ind., and Pennsylvania, respectively. Of her union with our subject there have been born five children, namely: Edmund, Frederick, Cora M., Hattie and Mabel. The eldest is twenty-two years of age and the youngest nine.
   Mr. Deitch, soon after coming to this country, began to apply himself to the study of English, in which he made good headway and became thoroughly Americanized, and in accord with the institutions of this country. He usually gives his support to the Democratic party, although meddling very little with political matters.

ROF. HENRY E. HITCHCOCK, who is occupying the chair of mathematics in the Nebraska State University, at Lincoln, is a splendid representative of the educators of this State. He is a man eminently fitted, by reason of his superior mental endowments and strength

and purity of character, for the high position to which he has been called. He is of good old New England ancestry, and was born in Vergennes, Vt., May 3, 1822. His parents, Alured and Sarah W. (Stevens) Hitchcock, were natives of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, respectively, and both of pure English descent. His father was a farmer by occupation, and after marriage settled in Vermont, where he remained until his death, which occurred in his fifty-seventh year. In 1836 his mother removed to Galesburg, Ill., where she died in 1881, at the ripe old age of ninety-one years.
   The subject of this brief biographical sketch was next to the youngest of the eight children born to his parents. His rudimentary education was received in his native State, and he afterward attended the academy at Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y. Removing to Galesburg with his mother our subject entered the preparatory department of Knox College in 1839, and was identified with that institution of learning for many years, first as student, then as tutor, and lastly as Professor. He severed his relations with Knox College in 1872, in order to accept the position which he now holds in the Nebraska State University, removing at that time with his family to Lincoln. His active connection with the university began in the second year of its organization, and when he first became one of the faculty he taught physics in addition to mathematics. He is the only remaining member of the original faculty appointed by the first Board of Regents.
   The marriage of Prof. Hitchcock with Miss Margaret Gale was solemnized at Galesburg in 1851. She is a native of Oneida County, N. Y., and a daughter of Dr. George W. Gale, founder of Knox College. and also of the city of Galesburg, Ill. This estimable lady was educated in Knox College, having been graduated in the class of '50. Prof. Hitchcock. who was graduated from the same college in 1846, was a member of the first graduating class of the college. To our subject and his wife have been born eight children, of whom the following is the record: Henry S., born Sept. 8, 1852, died Sept. 19, 1887; Harriet died in infancy; Margaret G. is the wife of Charles E. Bennett, Principal of the Latin School of Nebraska University; Sarah died at the age of three years; George G., a graduate of the Nebraska State University, is Professor of Greek in Pierre University, D. T.; Louisa J., Mary and Martha L. are at home with their parents.
   As an educator Prof. Hitchcock holds a prominent position among his professional brethren; his enthusiasm and great love for his work, as well as his peculiar gift of imparting instruction, render him an invaluable acquisition to the corps of instructors in the higher institutions of learning of the State, and he has made an indelible impress upon the minds of the youth of the present generation who have been so fortunate as to sit under. his teachings. In politics the Professor has always been a stanch Republican. He and his family are communicants of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been a member for fifty-one years, having joined at Galesburg at the formation of the church in that place.
   We are pleased to grace one of the pages of this ALBUM with the portrait of Prof. Hitchcock. Few educators in the West are more widely or favorably known and have rendered more valuable service in this important line than he.

EORGE J. FISCHER. One of the most successful and thrifty farmers of Olive Branch Precinct is the gentleman whose name stands at the head of this sketch, who is of one of those families that have come from another land and found in this country a success and prosperity,: impossible elsewhere because of the teeming, over-crowded condition of the population. His property, which comprises 240 acres of land, situated upon section 7, is one of the best situated, thoroughly cultivated and stocked farms of the district. Six years ago Mr. Fischer began with a team and $100, and to-day is worth more than $10,000.
   The father of our subject, C. L. Fischer, now dead, was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and was born about the year 1826, was reared and educated in his native district, and came to the United States when about twenty-four years of age, and located in Illinois. He was twice married, first to Miss