200 apple trees, thirty cherry trees, and a great number of plum trees.
   Mr. Fowlie was married, Sept. 13, 1874, to Miss Viola, daughter of the Rev. Jerome and Melinda (Jorden) Blackman, of Illinois, in which State Mrs. F. was born Nov. 14, 1856. Her parents moved to Nebraska when she was young. Mr. Fowlie owes to her excellent management the pleasant and comfortable home that he enjoys with her and their children, four of whom complete the family circle, as follows: Ernest, Charles, Pearly and Blanche.
   Mr. Fowlie is a well-informed man, with broad and liberal views concerning the practical questions that form the topics of the hour. He does not stay to query whether life is worth living or no, but does what he can to make it so. Through his liberality and public-spiritedness this community has been benefited in more ways than one. Especially is this true concerning the excellent school advantages that the youth of the rising generation now enjoy in the district of which he is Director, as he has distinguished himself by his labors in bringing the school to its present high standard, procuring one of the best teachers to be had, and providing in every way for the convenience and advancement of the pupils. In his political views, Mr. Fowlie is a stalwart Republican, firmly advocating the policy of his party.
   The view of the Fowlie homestead, which will be found on an adjoining page, sufficiently indicates the taste and industry of the proprietor.

BRAHAM HERTER. The subject of this sketch, who has a valuable farm finely located on section 10, is one of the most extensive agriculturists of Stockton Precinct, and has contributed largely to its farming interests, being a man energetic, enterprising and industrious, and one who takes pride in his farm, his family, and the growth and development of his adopted country. In the view of his premises which appears in this connection, is illustrated partially the results of his labors, which have been attended with prosperity.
   A native of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, our subject was born Aug. 21, 1831, and for the first eleven years of his life lived among the beautiful scenes of his native country. His parents were in moderate circumstances, and he was at an early age imbued with those habits of industry which have been the secret of his later success. When quite young he was employed in a dyeing establishment, and in April, 1855, when a man grown, resolved to seek his fortunes on another continent. Accordingly, embarking on a sailing-vessel at Havre de Grace, he arrived, after a safe voyage of seven weeks, in the city of New Orleans, whence he made his way directly to St. Clair County, Ill., taking in the city of St. Louis on his way. He was thereafter variously employed, in the meantime saving what he could of his earnings, which he later invested in a farm in St. Clair County, Ill., which he operated until the spring of 1876. Then, selling out, he came with his family to this county, and purchased 240 acres, eighty of which comprised a part of section 10, in Stockton Precinct, and the balance is on section 35, in Stevens Creek Precinct. Here he has since made his home, erecting a fine set of frame buildings, and bringing about the other improvements which invariably arrest the attention of the passing traveler. His horses and cattle give ample evidence of the care extended them, and the shipments are chiefly made to Omaha and other cities. His land has yielded generously under careful and judicious cultivation the richest crops of this section of the State.
   While a resident of St. Clair County, Ill., our subject was married, Dec. 1, 1861, in Mascoutah, to Miss Catherine Oberle, who was born in Ottenheim, the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, Jan. 21, 1835, and came to America alone in 1859, when twenty-four years old. Her parents were of pure German ancestry, and spent their last years in the Fatherland. Their household included eight children, four sons and four daughters. Two are in Germany, and the others in America. To Mr. and Mrs. Herter there have been born nine children, three only of whom are living, namely: Jacob W.; Katie C., the wife of Phillip Faulhaber, and Freder-

ick C. The deceased were named respectively: Abraham, Catherina, Abraham (2d), Ida, Anna M. and Edward. Mr. Herter on becoming a naturalized American citizen cast his lot with the Democratic party, and in religious matters the family is in sympathy with the doctrines taught by Zwingle, the bosom friend of Martin Luther.

EORGE L. ANDERTON. The subject of this notice represents a man of excellent education, cultivated tastes and good business capacities, and who until the year 1887 followed mostly the profession of a teacher. He is now pleasantly located on a good farm of eighty acres, embracing the northwest quarter of section 15, Waverly Precinct, with good buildings and the machinery required for the prosecution of agriculture after modern methods. He also owns eighty acres on section 10.
   The residence of our subject in this county dates from May, 1878. His early home was on the other side of the Atlantic, in Lancashire, England, where his birth took place June 5, 1849. His parents, James and Hannah (Lemming) Anderton, were natives of the same shire, and George L. was but six months old when they emigrated from their native land and located on Staten Island, where they resided for a period of nine years, and the father pursued his trade of printing.
   From Staten Island the Anderton family removed first to Rhode Island and next to Taunton, Mass., where the father, who had followed the trade of printer, found that block printing was superceding (sic) the old methods and his occupation was practically gone. He for a short time worked in a bleaching house, but finally resolved to take up farming in the West, and made his way to Manitowoc County, Wis., where he tilled the soil and resided until 1877. In the meantime the mother died there, about 1873. The father later returned to Massachusetts, but in a short time joined his son, our subject, in this county, and now makes his home with him.
   The parental family included eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. Alice became the wife of James Walker, and died in Waverly Precinct about 1884; Diana, Mrs. Oswold Rogerson, lives in Massachusetts; Grace married George Chatterton, and is now a resident of Wisconsin; Mary A. is the wife of Henry Berry, of Connecticut; Jennie, Mrs. Calvin P. Green, lives in Connecticut, and John in Rhode Island.
   The subject of this sketch attended school quite regularly until a youth of sixteen years, then commenced his career as a teacher. The year following he went with the family to Wisconsin, where he supplemented his education by attendance at the Normal School in Oshkosh, and thereafter taught school and farmed alternately until coming to Nebraska in 1878. For a period of nine years he occupied himself as a grocer at Waverly, and in 1887 settled upon the farm where he now resides. He had purchased the land some time previously. He put up a fine two-story residence in the spring of 1888, which is one of the best structures of the kind in this part of the county. His land, with the exception of sixty acres, is under a good state of cultivation, and everything about the premises is suggestive of comfort and plenty, the whole place presenting a most attractive picture of prosperous rural life.
   The wife of our subject, to whom he was married Sept. 28, 1879, was in her girlhood Miss Norah, daughter of W. M. and Snare Reed, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume. They are now the parents of four interesting children, three sons and a daughter--Arthur, Edgar, Grace and Bennie. Mr. Anderton is a Republican, politically, and has served as Town Treasurer and School Director.

DWARD LAUTERBACH is one of the rising young men of Nebraska, the owner of a good farm of eighty acres on section 21, with a good house and every necessary and convenient arrangement in the line of farm buildings, one who seems anxious to be in the advance, He was born upon the 26th of May, 1862, to Adam and Frederica Lauterbach, at their home in Jefferson County, Iowa. He came to this county with his