which had so often defied volleys from the Southern musketry, being no longer invulnerable, was pierced by a dart from the quiver of the cunning little god Cupid. which was healed by his marriage to the charming and estimable young lady, Miss Hannah A. Miller. Mrs. Burcham is a daughter of John and Ann (Barkley) Miller, who were formerly residents of Kentucky, but who had settled in Hendricks County, Ind. They were the parents of ten children, six boys and four girls. Mrs. Burcham, the sixth child, was born on the 20th of July, 1843. She enjoyed the advantages of the common schools, and grew to be a cultured and refined young woman. This union has been blessed by the birth of seven children, of whom five are living, namely: Myrtle M., J. Albert, Edie H., Scott M. and Blanche B. Louril L. and Cora A. are deceased. Of the living the eldest is twenty and the youngest three years of age; Myrtle is the wife of A. J. Smith, and resides in Norton, Norton Co., Kan.; they have one child, a daughter. The other children are at home with their parents.
   Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Burcham went to Champaign County, Ill., where for five years our subject engaged successfully in farming.
   Then, concluding to move still further west, Mr. B., in 1871, started for Nebraska, driving a four horse team, his wife and children soon joining him at South Pass, coming by rail. He purchased 160 acres, his present place, which then had only a small log house, and sixty acres of the ground plowed. In 1875 Mr. Burcham purchased 120 acres and later eighty acres additional; he then sold forty of the 120 acres. He is now the owner of 320 acres of fine land; he has so improved and beautified this with buildings, including a very fine residence, that few would suspect it to be the same as that on which he began his labors about seventeen years ago.
   The farm buildings and residence of our subject are finely situated on the banks of a pleasant little stream, whose border of trees affords a grateful shade in summer and a protection from the winds of winter. The granaries, corn-cribs, barns, yards, etc., not only give evidence of thrift and prosperity, but plainly indicate the master-hand at management, planning and building. His magnificent dwelling,pronounced the finest in the county, was erected in 1882, and is provided with all modern conveniences. Mr. Burcham has given his attention considerably to the raising of fine stock, and has now a herd of 130 high-grade Short-horn cattle, besides the best of horses and other domestic animals.
   For ten years Mr. Burcham has been Treasurer of the school fund. He is a strong Republican in politics, and figures prominently in the G. A., R.. and the social circles of his community. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, and comes to the front rank in matters of general interest and importance, socially and educationally. Mrs. Burcham is a very estimable lady, and by her charming manners is thus the presiding genius of one of the most attractive homes in the county.
   The Burcham homestead gives a fine scope for the pencil of the lithographic artist, and will be acknowledged by all who look upon it as fully worthy of representation in a work treating of the important features of Lancaster County.

ILLIAM H. BURLING is classed among the able and honored members of the farming community of Lancaster County, by whose enterprise and perseverance her magnificent agricultural resources have been so finely developed. Though not among the early settlers of Nebraska, he may justly be regarded as one of its pioneers, as when he came here the country was but sparsely settled, and was still largely in a wild condition giving but little indications of its present advanced state of civilization and opulence. Mr. Burling's fine and well-cultivated farm, so pleasantly located on section 20, South Pass Precinct, shows that, notwithstanding the many hardships and discouragements that he encountered on every hand in the early years of his residence here, he has become prosperous and well-to-do.
   Our subject is a native of England, born in 1848, in Cambridgeshire, which was also the birthplace of his father, John Burling, who carried on farming on a limited scale in his native shire for a number of years. The mother of our subject was born in Wales, but was reared in England. For many years

she was the principal of a school in England, which was supported by the charity of a rich lady and gentleman. In December, on the 31st day thereof, in the year 1854, Mr. and Mrs. Burling embarked on board a vessel bound for this country, accompanied by their children. They landed in New York City, and after living there eighteen months, removed to Bureau County, Ill., where the father died at the age of fifty-nine, in 1870. He was twice married, and by his first marriage, to the mother of our subject, had six children now living, three of whom are in Nebraska, and three in Illinois, as follows: Sarah, John, Elvira, Peter, Thomas and William. He had three children by his second marriage. The mother of our subject, a gifted, intelligent woman, of a kind and firm disposition, died in 1864, at the age of fifty five. (For further parental history, see the sketch of the brother of our subject, the Hon. Thomas Burling).
   Mr. Burling received the first steps of his education in his mother's school, and after his arrival in this country, when a lad of six or seven years, he made good use of the advantages offered him in the schools of New York City, and distinguished himself as a bright student. After the removal of the family to Illinois, the educational facilities were not so good in that recently settled county, but he finished a course in the schools of Wyanet, Bureau County. When he had finished his schooling, he was called upon, at the age of sixteen, to assist in the farm work. His mother died when he was nearly seventeen years old, and his home lost its chief attraction, and after his father's second marriage, when he was eighteen, he began to work out, not leaving his father, however, until the harvests of that year were gathered in. Our subject continued to work out by the month for four years, and then, July 21, 1870, he embarked on the first passenger train ever run on the Burlington & Missouri River Railway, bound for Lincoln, Neb., as he was desirous to try for himself the independent life of a farmer on the rich virgin soil of this State. He took up a homestead on section 30 of what is now South Pass, buying out the claim of another man, and afterward "proving up" on it. He now owns a fine farm of 160 acres, on which he has made many valuable improvements, among which is noted a good orchard of ninety trees. His prosperous condition has not been attained, however, without many trials and hardships, especially during the trying times from 1874 to and including 1876, which would have daunted many a less courageous man. He was in a state of extreme poverty during those years, and suffered many reverses and losses from the start. The first loss was that of three horses, and then the failure of crops on account of drouths and grasshopper raids.
   Our subject wag married, Feb. 16, 1875, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of David and Mary (Williamson) Carter, and she faithfully shared with him the trials of their early married life, lightening them by her ready sympathy and cheerful assistance, and has increased the joys and comforts of life since they have entered upon a more prosperous period. She comes from a distinguished American family that dates its origin in this country to early Colonial times, when some of its members settled in Kentucky. Mrs. Burling's grandmother was the first white woman who slept in Knox County, Ill., of which Mrs. Burling's parents were pioneers. The wife of our subject was born there May 1, 1852, and received her education in the district schools. She came to Nebraska with her brother in 1872, who bought a farm, and she kept house for him until site resigned to preside over a home of her own. Mrs. Burling's father was three times married, her mother being his second wife, and to them were born eight children. Mr. and Mrs. Burling are the parents of five children, namely: Erastus Reese, born Feb. 27, 1876; Mary, who died at the age of one month; John E., Sarah M. and William C.
   During his many years' residence here Mr. Burling has taken it conspicuous part in the administration of public affairs, and has done much to advance the intellectual, moral and social status of South Pass. He is at present holding the office of School Director, and has served on the board for many years. He has been Road Officer for nine years, and Assessor for one year. In his political views, he strongly favors the policy of the Republican party. He is a thoroughly good man in every way; he and his excellent wife do much good in an unostentatious manner, and occupy a warm place in

the hearts of their neighbors. Mr. Burling is an active Sunday-school worker., and he deserves great credit for organizing the Sunday-school in his neighborhood, which is conducted in the schoolhouse, and has well earned for itself the appellation of the "Bee-Hive Sunday-school." It is in a very thrifty condition, has a membership of fifty pupils, the exercises are rendered very interesting, and it is indeed a power for much good in the community.

OLOMON S. SCHWAB, one of the most substantial and enterprising merchants of Lincoln, is extensively engaged in the clothing and gentlemen's furnishing goods business. He is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born March 4, 1829, being a son of Moses and Sarah (Rockner) Schwab. His father was for many years a prosperous Bavarian farmer, owning a good farm, and also dealt extensively in hops and other farm produce. Later in life he emigrated to America, in the year 1854, in company with two of his sons, and located in Baltimore, Md. Subsequently he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he died in 1878, having rounded out a good and useful life, which made him deservedly respected by all who knew him. His faithful wife died in Germany in 1850, having borne to him eleven children, eight of whom survive, five sons and three daughters.
   Solomon S. Schwab, of this biographical sketch, passed his boyhood and youth in his native land, entering school in his fifth year, and remaining there until he was fourteen years old, with the exception of four years between his seventh and eleventh years when he was under private tutors. Having thus obtained an excellent education, when his school days were over he entered a store in the capacity of a clerk, but at the expiration of six months he went to work on his father's farm, and remained under the parental roof until 1848. He was then a youth of nineteen years, of steady and industrious habits, good principles, and an ambitious desire to make his own way in the world, and deeming that he could best do this in the United States of America, he set his face toward this Mecca of so many of his countrymen, and after a voyage of several weeks landed safely in an Eastern port. He then made his way to Cleveland, Ohio, whither a sister had preceded him. He remained there until 1851, when he went to Baltimore, where he was engaged as a clerk for several years. During that time he met Miss Helene Bauer, of that city, daughter of Henry Bauer, a capitalist of Baltimore, where he had removed in 1853, and they were united in marriage in 1854. To the devoted assistance of his good wife is our subject greatly indebted for his good fortune in life. In 1855 Mr. Schwab went, to Detroit, Mich., to become managing partner the branch store of A. Schnab, a clothing merchant of Cleveland, Ohio. Our subject acted in that capacity for two years, and then took up his residence in Painesville, Ohio, where he embarked in the clothing business on his own account, conducting it very successfully for ten years. Having accumulated considerable property by his business enterprise, and needing a rest, he determined to sell out in 1865, find enjoy life with his family in a trip to Europe. Accordingly he settled up his affairs, and then traveled leisurely through Europe with his wife and children, thoroughly enjoying the many beautiful scenes through which they passed, the places of historic interest that they saw, and the visit to the old home of our subject, where he revived recollections of his youth, and renewed pleasant friendships with those of his old companions were still lingering there. On his return to the United States, Mr. Schwab established himself in business in Cleveland, Ohio, as a jobbing merchant of clothes and men's furnishing goods, entering into partnership with L. Lowman. They continued together five years, when the partnership was dissolved, but the settling up of the business required the close attention of our subject for another year. He then engaged in clothing and merchant tailoring business in Cleveland until 1878, removing in the spring of that year to the city of Lincoln. Here he engaged in general business for awhile, but now confines himself to the clothing business exclusively, and has built up a large and very profitable business, which has placed him among the moneyed men of this flourishing metropolis. His success is due entirely to his own exertions, as he began life with small means, and has worked his way up to afflu-

ence by the quiet force of persistent efforts and a constant devotion to his work.
   Although Mr. Schwab has always taken a keen interest in politics and public affairs, contributing generously to any scheme to improve the city or advance its material interests, he has never aspired to office, the demands of his business requiring all of his attention. In politics he affiliated with the Democratic party until 1860, when, in his loyalty to his adopted country, disproving the measures of the majority of the Democratic party, he became a "War Democrat," acting with the Republicans of Jeffersonian principles, with whom he was more in sympathy, until Gen. Grant's second administration, when, in 1872, he resumed his relations with the Democrats.
   Mr. Schwab has a good residence on the corner of L and Sixteenth streets, with pleasant surroundings. Four of the six children born to himself and wife died at a tender age. The two living are Sophia, the wife of Dr. A. R. Mitchell, of Lincoln, and Sara, who is a student at the State University.

OHN J. HARMS. Nebraska has among the states a name as a stock-raising State which grows increasingly fair as year succeeds year, and wherever this is true the stock-buyer is an important member of the society. One of the best known and respected of this class is J. J. Harms, the subject of this sketch, whose home is at Firth, this county. He is the son of John O. and Matilda (Radamacher) Harms, both natives of Hanover, Germany. His parents came to America in 1857. They are now living in Atchison County,. Mo. His father was born in the year 1810, and his mother two years later. The family included seven children, our subject being the sixth born. This event occurred Nov. 5, 1850, in Hanover.
   The condition of life in Germany for the youth is, in many regards, different to that in this country, and among other differences appears that of the education of young people, and lies as much in the manner and plan of teaching as the subjects entered into. When the family emigrated to America our subject was seven years of age. When he began his schooling in this country he was only able to speak his own language, but made very rapid progress in English, and with this in other subjects also. He continued at Springfield, Ill., engaged in assisting his father, until he was twenty-one years of age. In the fall of the year 1873 our subject was married to Miss Mary Aden who was born in 1851, in Menard County, Ill. This most estimable and excellent lady is of German descent.
   After marriage the young couple went to Missouri, in the spring of 1874, and remained engaged in agricultural pursuits with increasing prosperity for four years upon a rented farm, and then bought one of their own. It was on the 1st of January, 1880, when our subject came to Nebraska. From the savings of former years he now purchased a farm in Gage County comprising 240 acres, and was soon engaged most pleasantly and prosperously in the improvement and higher cultivation of the same. All his time is now fully employed in the endeavor to make his farm the best in his precinct, and to supply the various appliances and machines for the efficient working of the same. The year 1886 saw a removal to Firth. His farm is rented, all his time being devoted to the buying, selling and shipping of stock. The large business he has created and the extensive connection he has worked up are perceptible from the fact that he ships from eighty-five to 100 cars of hogs, besides other stock, each year.
   Our subject is one of the prominent members of the Live Stock Shipping Association, of Omaha, and one of its representative members in this county. He has erected a very fine frame dwelling, which is pleasantly situated in the best part of the town, and is very attractive, whether from without or within. When in Gage County our subject was one of the prominent citizens, and here in Firth he is one of the pillars of the community. Besides his property in Firth he is the owner of the Gage County property, a farm of 280 acres in South Pass Precinct, and the blacksmith shop at the same place, also a farm in Harlem County comprising 100 acres. His political opinions are along the line of the Democratic party, to which he lends his influence and gives his vote. Socially, the Order of Odd Fellows counts him among its most worthy and honorable members. He has held important offices in the

order, and has filled most creditably every chair in his lodge. Our subject is one of the most successful, popular and honored of the citizens of Firth.

AMES E. PHILPOTT. The legal profession of Nebraska is ably represented by the subject of this sketch, who began life in the town of New Providence, Clark Co., Ind., July 5,1839. When an infant of five months, his parents removed, first to Louisville, Ky., and thence to Carroll County, Ohio, where James E. was reared to manhood. His mother, Rhoda (Kelley) Philpott, died when her son James was a little lad five years of age. The father, Charles H. Philpott, survived until 1862, passing away at his home in Carroll County, Ohio.
   The early studies of the subject of this sketch were conducted in the common school, and later he became a student of the college at Hagerstown, Ohio, where he remained two years and then began the study of medicine. A year later, however, he abandoned this to take up the study of law at Carrollton, Ohio, in the office of Gen. E. R. Eckley, and was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced the practice of law at Carrollton.
   The career of our subject as an attorney received an early interruption by the outbreak of the Civil War, and he enlisted first in the three-months service, but upon getting as far as Camp Chase found there were more volunteers than were required, and he, with others, was excused and sent home. He had determined, however, to assist in the maintenance of the Union, and not long afterward re-enlisted, in Company A, 80th Ohio Infantry, and was assigned to the 17th Corps, Army of the Tennessee. He was soon called to take part in the siege of Corinth and the battle of Iuka, being at the latter wounded in the left arm by a gunshot, which necessitated his confinement in the hospital two months. He rejoined his regiment in time to participate in the battle of Port Gibson, and was subsequently at Raymond, also in the first battle of Jackson, the siege of Vicksburg, and in a number of minor engagements. His army experience covered a period of three years, during which he was commissioned on the 1st of November, 1861, as Second Lieutenant, subsequently promoted to a First Lieutenancy, and also served as Adjutant until January, 1863. Later he was commissioned Captain, and also a Colonel, but on account of the regiment being under the minimum, was not mustered in.
   In November, 1865, the war being ended, Mr. Philpott retired from the service with an honorable discharge, and resumed his law practice at Carrollton, Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1867. In April of that year he came to the new State of Nebraska, taking up his residence in Lincoln, and soon after opened a law office in partnership with Ezra Trellis, which continued three years. He next associated himself with S. J. Tuttle, and subsequently with T. J. Cantlon, later with R. E. Knight. The latter was a very able lawyer. The next partner of our subject was J. C. Johnston, a member of the State Legislature.
   Mr. Philpott, in 1872, was elected to the first State Constitutional Convention, where his judgement in relation to the important matters therewith connected, served to place him still higher in the estimation of the people of Southern Nebraska. In 1880 he was considered a fit candidate for the County Judgeship, was accordingly elected, serving his term acceptably, and since its expiration has devoted himself to his private interests and his general practice.
   The marriage of James E. Philpott and Miss Anna B. Field, sister of the present District Judge, Allen W. Field, was celebrated at the home of the bride in the city of Lincoln, Sept. 18, 1872. This union resulted in the birth of two children--Imogene M. and Charles W. Mr. Philpott is a Republican, politically, but supported Greeley in 1872. Socially, he is a Master Mason, and a member in good standing of the G. A. R.

OYLE MONTGOMERY has been engaged in agricultural pursuits on his present farm on section 22, South Pass, since 1874, his industry and perseverance have been well rewarded, as his fine farm of eighty acres, for fertility and productiveness compares with the

best in the township. John and Mary (Shatto) Montgomery, his parents, were natives respectively of Maryland and Ohio. The father went to Ohio when young and there met and married the mother of our subject. They settled in Wayne County, that State, where Mr. Montgomery was engaged in business as a carpenter. In 1844 he removed with his family to Missouri, and became a pioneer of Sullivan County. They traveled to their destination the most of the way on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, landing at New Brunswick, Mo., and then penetrated sixty miles into the interior into an entirely new country. Mr. Montgomery became the owner of 400 acres of land, and became an extensive farmer. He lived to see the country developed into a fine farming region, and was an honored and respected citizen there until the day of his death, which occurred in 1875, when he was seventy years of age. He was a man well gifted with physical and mental energy, sound common sense, and shrewd foresight. His wife, now seventy-nine years of age, still lives on the old homestead in Sullivan County, Mo. She was an important factor in her husband's prosperity, as he was often aided by her good judgment and ready helpfulness. She is the mother of nine children, eight sons and one daughter.
   Doyle Montgomery, of whom we write, was the eldest child of his parents, and he was born in Doylestown, Wayne Co., Ohio., Aug. 12, 1828. His education was conducted in the schools of his native town, and he was sixteen years of age when he left the place of his birth to accompany his parents to their new home in Missouri. He experienced with them the hard labors and privations of a pioneer life far from the centers of civilization, and many a day did he follow a breaking-plow drawn by oxen, and otherwise assist his father in preparing his land for cultivation. Markets were not very near, and the nearest gristmill was twenty-four miles away. Our subject remained in inmate of the parental home until he was twenty-one years of age, then, ambitious to do something for himself and to see more of the world, he went to work as a carpenter in Keokuk, Iowa, continuing in that city for two years. He then returned to his old home in Sullivan County, Mo., where he had resolved to manufacture lumber. He erected a sawmill at a cost of $1,500, the result of his hard earnings, but he was exceedingly unfortunate in this venture, as a freshet arose and swept the mill away; with it all his property was gone, and he had labored for naught. He did not lose his courage, however, and the strength to work with it, but he manfully set about to retrieve his lost fortunes, encouraged and assisted by the young wife whom he ha married in 1853, while his mill was being built.
   Mrs. Montgomery's maiden name was Maria Doyle, and she is a granddaughter of William Doyle, who planned and laid out Doylestown, Ohio. She was born May 11, 1834, near the town which her grandfather had founded, and grew to womanhood in the home of her birth, receiving her education in the common schools. She accompanied her parents to Missouri before her marriage. To her and her husband have been born seven children, all of whom are living, namely: Sarah J., Alice A., Florence V., Daniel, Mary U., Eleanor B. and Georgiana M. Sarah is the wife of Harry Yapp, and they have two children; Alice is the wife of David Strickland, of Lancaster County, and they have eight children; Florence married Benjamin Debord, of Lancaster County, and they have one child; Daniel married Alice Gamble; they live in Lancaster County, and have two children. Mary is the wife of James Vaughn, of Red Willow County, Neb., and they have two children; Eleanor married Milford Suigert, and they have one child; Georgiana lives at home with her parents.
   Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery commenced their wedded life in Sullivan County, Mo., and after the loss of his sawmill he fell back on his old trade of a carpenter as the best means of earning a living he was thus engaged until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when, sympathizing with the North, it was not safe for him or his family in a hostile State, so he preferred to take up his abode in a more northern latitude, and came with his wife and children to Nebraska City. He resumed the carpenter's trade there and was quite profitably engaged in it for several years. In 1874, however, he decided to turn his attention to farming, and came to Lancaster County with his family and purchased his present farm. He has erected a fair set