He was an active, self-reliant lad, and at the early age of thirteen began independently to make his own way in the world, commencing as a clerk in a general store. In 1862 and 1863 he was engaged in that capacity in a tobacco store. After the war he started out as a traveling salesman, and was thus employed the greater part of the time for sixteen years. He was very popular and made many large sales for his employers, securing their confidence by his honest dealings and careful attention to their interests. He profited much personally by his travels; being a keen observer, his views of life were enlarged, and he gained a better knowledge of our wonderful country than is often granted to many of us, as he visited twenty-seven States and three Territories. In 1882 he retired from his business as a traveling salesman and located at Sterling, Ill., where he engaged in the cigar and tobacco business until 1886. In that year he came to Lincoln and established himself in the same business, in which he has been eminently successful. He is a man of good mental calibre and is more than ordinarily well informed, being a student of good literature, and having a remarkable memory for whatever he has read, and he readily recognizes faces and names after having once seen or heard them. He is always gentlemanly and courteous in his manners, and is respected and trusted by all with whom he has business or social relations.
   Mr. Young was married, Dec. 7, 1876, to Miss J. M. Walsh, a native of Grand Rapids, Mich. She presides with true tact and hospitality over their home, and makes it attractive alike to her family and the numerous friends whom they have gathered around them since taking up their residence in this city. Two children, Stanley E. and Byron A., complete the household of our subject and his wife. The family attend the Presbyterian Church.

UGENE HALLETT was quite an early settler in Lincoln; but few of the men who were in business when he came are here at the present time. He was born in Nantucket, Mass., his father, Allan Hallett, having been born in Yarmonth, of the same State, and his father, the grandfather of our subject, as far as is known, spent his entire life in Massachusetts. The father of out subject was reared in his native town, and learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. When quite a young man, he settled in Nantucket, where he carried on his trade of carpenter and builder, and also engaged in the hardware and lumber business. In the year 1854, or 1855, he sold his interests at Nantucket and moved to Milford, in the same State, where he engaged in the manufacture of sash doors and blinds, and also as contractor and builder.
   In the year 1858 the father of our subject moved from Milford to Leavenworth, Kan., going as far as Latan, Mo., in the cars, and making the remainder of the journey by steamer. In Leavenworth he followed the trade which he had learned when young, and was a resident in that city until the time of his death, which occurred in 1866. He had married, in Nantucket, Miss Hepsabeth Rand, a daughter of Ebenezer Rand. She died at her home in Leavenworth in the year 1859. They were the parents of the following children: William A., deceased; Emeline, who is married to Thomas E. Kirkley; Eugene, our subject, and Fannie B., also deceased.
   Our subject is the third child of the family, and he lived in Nantucket until he was fifteen years old, when he moved with his parents to Milford. He had attended the public schools in the former place, and at the age of sixteen he commenced to learn the jewelry trade in Milford, where he worked at the business for one and a half years, and went to Providence, R. I., where he followed the same business for two and a half years. In the year 1858 he went with his parents to Leavenworth, and there engaged in the jewelry business, which he continued until 1871, when he came to the young and flourishing capital of Nebraska, and established himself in business. He was first situated in a small frame building on O street, between Tenth and Eleventh, streets, and removed from there to his present fine location on North Eleventh street. He has been very successful in business, and having secured the entire confidence of the people, he is enjoying a very large trade.
   In the year 1867 our subject was united in marriage with Martha J. Brown, a daughter of Hugh

Brown of Ottumwa, Iowa. They have become the parents of four children, whom we name as follows: Fred A., Maggie E., Hugh B. and Eugene W. S. Mrs. Hallett is a member of the First Christian Church, and is a lady in every respect to be admired. Mr. Hallett takes an interest in the political questions of the day, and has united his fortunes with those of the Republican party. He is a member of Lincoln Lodge No. 9, A. O. U. W., and is also a member of the Lincoln Union Club. He is carrying a very fine stock of goods, and by his honorable business transactions has raised himself to the first rank among business men. Socially, he and his wife are pleasant and affable, and enjoy the esteem of a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

R. HENRY C. DEMAREE, a very successful and rising physician and surgeon of Roca, has been identified with the various interests of Sattillo Precinct for a period of thirteen years. Besides the income from his profession, he has a good farm, comprising eighty acres of improved land on section 8. This is embellished with a handsome dwelling, which he put up in 1884, and which forms a most pleasant and inviting home. He is a gentleman public-spirited and progressive in his ideas, one who is willing to contribute of his time and means for the advancement of the interests of his communinity (sic), and in connection with his profession, has the laudable ambition of standing at the very head.
   Our subject springs from all excellent family, his father being David S., and his mother, Catherine (Irving) Demaree, the former a native of Kentucky, and the latter of Scotland, but tracing his ancestry on his father's side to Holland. The maternal great-great-grandfather of our subject emigrated to America in 1730, settling in New York State, and from him sprang the family of this country. It is hardly necessary to say that they represent some of the best people of this continent, and are prominent in the trades, the professions, and the more laborious walks of life.
   The parents of our subject, David S. and Catherine Demaree, had a family of five sons and one daughter, and spent their last years in Switzerland County, Ind., the mother dying in 1857, at the age of forty-two or forty-three years, and the father in 1863, when fifty-three years old. Henry C., our subject, was the youngest born, and first opened his eyes to the light at the old home in Switzerland County, Ind., on the 21st of November, 1846. His early studies were conducted in the common school, while he became familiar with the various employments of farm life, but when a lad eight years of age, had already decided upon the medical profession as his future calling.
   Dr. Demaree was a young man twenty years of age when he came to Nebraska. The boys had raised a mortgage of $6,000 on the homestead, which the father left at his death, and our subject started out practically without means and wholly dependent upon his own resources. He was employed as a farm laborer the first season, and then made such arrangements as admitted him into the office of Dr. William Arnold, of Brownsville, this State, under whose instructions he pursued his medical studies a year, and then became a student in the medical department of Michigan State University, at Ann Arbor. A year later he emerged from that institution to enter the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, from which he was graduated in the class of '78. At this time he had already practiced about one year, and after receiving his diploma, made his way across the Mississippi once more, and began the regular practice of his profession in the town of Roca, where he has since been located.
   Dr. Demaree was at once recognized by the people of this section as one worthy of their confidence and patronage, and his career has been onward from the start. He was united in marriage with Miss Emma L., daughter of E. L. Warner, on the 9th of September, 1884, at the home of the bride in Roca. Mrs. Demaree was born Nov. 29, 1851, in Iowa, and continued under the home roof until her marriage, acquiring a good education, and being carefully trained, as one destined to occupy a good position in society. A sketch of her parents will be found on another page in this volume. To the Doctor and his estimable wife there has been