union there have been born two children: Edward S., who is on the farm, and Walter W., a student in the Commercial College at Lincoln. Mr. Hudson while a resident of Denton Precinct was elected Justice of the Peace, which position he held for a period of fifteen years. He also officiated as School Director seventeen years and still holds the position. His farm embraces 160 acres, which he has brought to a good state of cultivation and upon which he has erected all necessary buildings. It is well stocked with cattle, hogs and horses.
   Mr. Hudson, politically, is an active Democrat, and thoroughly in accord with the present administration. As a boy, he was thoughtful and studious and piously inclined. When a youth of eighteen years he began preaching in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and filled the pulpit in his native shire from that time until emigrating to America. For a period of two years he partially abandoned his pious labors. then resumed them and preached it most continuously until his appointment to his present office. He was President of the Nebraska Methodist Protestant Conference for eleven years, and President of the Board of Church Extension and the Board of trustees. He was Chaplain of the State Senate at one time, and is President of the Lancaster County Old Settlers' Association. For a period of two years he was Vice President of Lancaster County Grange. It will thus be seen that his has been an active and useful career, in which he has distinguished himself as a liberal and public-spirited citizen, ever willing to contribute of his time and means to the advancement, socially and morally, of his fellowmen. He counts his friends by the score among the people where he has lived and labored and built up the record of an honest man and a good citizen.

HILLIER, an intelligent and industrious member of the farming community of Lancaster County, is managing his farm in Saltillo Precinct with good success, has a neat and cozy home, and is in comfortable circumstances. Our subject began life at a disadvantage, being early left an orphan, and thrown on the charities of a great city. Born in St. Louis, his parents dying when he was a small child, he has no recollections of his father, and can scarcely remember his mother, who died when he was six or seven years old, leaving him and his little sister Mary (now Mrs. Bartow, of Piasa, Ill.,) alone and friendless in the world, and they fell into the hands of the city authorities. Fortunately they were adopted by kind people, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hillier, of Shipman, Ill.. taking our subject, and his sister going to live with Mr. and. Mrs. H. Kendall, of Piasa, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Hillier not only took our subject to their home, but to their hearts, as he proved to be a child of a sunny, tractable disposition, and after he went to them he never lacked a parent's care, they bringing him up as one of their own, although they had ten children in their household. He was educated in the common schools, and carefully reared to industrious and good habits. He remained with his foster-parents until he was twenty-five years old, and by his ready and active assistance partly repaid them for the care that they had bestowed upon him in his childhood. He only left their roof to enter a home of his own, being married at that time to Miss Mary Deahl, daughter of the late Andrew Deahl (for parental history see sketch of her brother, George Deahl).
   After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hillier continued to reside in Shipman, Ill., for two years. Although he worked very hard while farming in Illinois, yet Mr. Hillier was unfortunate, and at one time, through bad crops, etc., he lost $700 to $800, but he coped with his ill-luck, and manfully paid dollar for dollar of his indebtedness. On the 5th of November, 1878, he came with his family to Nebraska, hoping to do better in this rich agricultural region than he could do in his old home. He bought 160 acres of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad land, and began again at the foot of the ladder to make his way to the desired competence. His land was all wild prairie, of which a sod had never been turned. He has already brought it under good tillage, and has erected necessary farm buildings, putting up a comfortable dwelling the following February after his arrival. Notwithstanding the fact that he has met with some serious reverses, having lost three valuable horses, some cattle and other stock, yet he

is in a fair way to become prosperous. He has disposed of a part of his land at a good profit, and thus reduced the acreage of his farm to eighty acres, on which he carries on general or mixed farming and dairying.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Hillier have been born five children, namely: Nellie, Bertha, Earl, Walter and George. Nellie and Bertha were born in Illinois. The three oldest are in attendance at school, as their father is anxious to give his children good educations, and other advantages of which he was deprived in his youth. Mr. H. is a valued member of the Lutheran Church, of Roca, and as a man and a citizen, he commands the respect and esteem of all who know him. In his political beliefs he is a stanch Democrat.

AMUEL R. JACOBY. The name of this gentleman is familiar throughout Stevens Creek Precinct and the country adjacent as being one of the most careful, prosperous and thrifty farmers in this region. He has a fine estate on section 4, eighty acres of which he homesteaded in 1869. Later he added to his real estate, until he is now the owner of 400 acres, in the cultivation of which he has been very successful, producing some of the richest crops of Southern Nebraska, and realizing a handsome income. Liberal minded and public-spirited, he has been no unimportant factor in the development of Lancaster County, and has given his encouragement to every worthy enterprise. It has been the rule the world over, that a city or section of country owes its development principally to a few enterprising and courageous men who have risked their capital and labor in the hope of future good, not only to themselves but to the people around them. Among this class Mr. Jacoby has been a leading spirit of this county, and his name will be held in remembrance by generations to come.
   A modest home in White County, Ill., sheltered the infant head of our subject, and there his birth took place Nov. 8, 1823. He is of substantial stock, his great-grandfather, John Jacoby, having emigrated from Germany during the early settlement of this country, taking up his location in Northampton County, Pa., fifty miles from the then unimportant city of Philadelphia. He spent the remainder of his life in that vicinity, passing away after rearing a family of sons and daughters, who lived to do honor to his name.
   Among the above mentioned was Peter Jacoby, the grandfather of our subject, who was born, reared and married in Northampton County, Pa. He reared a family of fifteen sons and four daughters, spent his entire life in agricultural pursuits, and passed away amid years and honors. His son Henry, the father of our subject, was also born and reared to manhood in Northampton County. In common with his brothers, with the exception of Peter, who became a carpenter, he chose farming for his vocation, and when twenty-two years of age left the parental roof and emigrated to Pickaway County, Ohio. There he made the acquaintance of Miss Julia Ann, the daughter of John and Nellie (Green) Clark, and in due time they were made husband and wife. This branch of the Green family was of excellent stock, and lineal descendants of Gen. Green, of Revolutionary fame.
   After their marriage Henry Jacoby and his young wife settled on a farm in Pickaway County, Ohio, but in 1819 emigrated to White County, Ill. They were among the earliest pioneers of that region, but five years later removed to Morgan County, and about 1830 to McLean County. There the father died in 1851. The mother subsequently crossed the Mississippi, and, surviving her husband a period of thirty years, passed from earth at the home of her daughter, in Lyon County, Kan. Nine children of the parental family grew to mature years: Rebecca became the wife of William Creel, and died in McLean County, Ill.; Margaret, twin sister of our subject, and the wife of J. M. Gates, died in Livingston County, Ill., about 1866; Mary, Mrs. D. A. Dryer, died in Bloomington, Ill., in 1879; William C. died in Lyon County, Kan.; John died in Springfield, Mo., where he had been engaged in the Union army.
   Samuel R. Jacoby, our subject, developed into manhood on the farm in Illinois, and when ready to establish a home and domestic ties of his own, was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Ball, the

wedding taking place Nov. 26, 1846. Mrs. Jacoby is the daughter of Benjamin and Clarissa (Dimmick) Ball, and was born in Henry County, Ind., Oct. 14, 1828. Her father was a native of Garrard County, Ky., and her mother was born in Connecticut. Her paternal grandfather first saw light in Culpeper County, Va. He emigrated to Kentucky with Daniel Boone, on horseback, and there spent his last days. The grandmother of Mrs. Jacoby was a native of Scotland.
   Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby, in 1857, moved across the Mississippi into Ringgold County, Iowa, where our subject purchased a tract of land and carried on farming until after the outbreak of the Rebellion. Soon after the first call for troops he enlisted as a Union soldier, July 4, 1861, in Company G, 4th Iowa Infantry, and with his regiment proceeded to the front. He first encountered the fire of the enemy at Pea Ridge, and subsequently was in the battles of Jackson, Miss., Champion Hills, and the siege of Vicksburg, battles of Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and all the engagements in which his regiment participated until the expiration of his term of enlistment in 1864.
   After a brief rest Mr. Jacoby, determined to see the end, veteranized in his old company, and thereafter went with it through the Atlanta campaign, and with Gen. Sherman to the sea. After the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, he passed with the troops up through the Carolinas to Washington, being present at the grand review. He received his honorable discharge in August, 1865, being mustered out with the rank of Sergeant. He had been with his company in the smoke of twenty-two battles, besides the minor engagements always occurring, and the march to the sea. Like thousands of other soldiers whose history has been unwritten, he endured uncomplainingly his share of hardship and privation, and his greatest reward is in the knowledge that he did his duty as a man, without fear or favor, and in no expectation of reward.
   Upon laying down the accoutrements of war, Mr. Jacoby returned to the peaceful pursuits of farm life, and continued a resident of Ringgold County, Iowa, until 1869, when we find him looking around for a location in Southern Nebraska. He has had little reason to regret the removal from the Hawkeye State to one of the most fertile tracts of country on the face of the globe, and to the people of Lancaster County he has been a valued addition.
   To our subject and his estimable wife there have been born five sons, namely: Henry F., A. Lincoln, Peter C., Orin B. and Iretus W. The eldest of these is thirty-eight years old, the youngest twenty, and they are now all living. Having no daughter of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby took into their home a little motherless girl by the name of Mary M. Sherrow, whom they reared from the age of five years to womanhood, and who is now the wife of Frank Spencer, of McLean County, Ill. Mr. Jacoby cast his first Presidential vote for Clay, and remained a member of the old Whig party until the organization of the Republicans, whose principles he has from that time supported. In religion he is a Baptist, and his excellent wife has been a member of that denomination nearly half a century. On the 26th of November, 1886, they celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding, upon which occasion there were present a large company of friends and relatives, who testified to their appreciation of the excellent pair by presenting them with many tokens of affection and esteem, among them two finely upholstered rocking-chairs, given by the members of the G. A. R., of Mitchell Post No. 38, Waverly. Mirth and jollity prevailed amid the many recollections of olden times, and the contrast between the past and present was often referred to. The company upon retiring left behind them hosts of good wished and sentiments of friendship and affection for those whose faces and forms had been among them so many years, with the hope that they might he spared for years to come.
   In addition to general agriculture our subject has made a specialty of stock-raising, and has been able to exhibit some of the finest animals in this part of the country. He commenced in Nebraska with a capital of about $2,000, and is now comparatively independent. While having a reasonable and creditable solicitude for the welfare of himself and his family, he has always taken a lively interest in the development of Lancaster County, and was one of

the men instrumental in securing the right of way of the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad and the Missouri Pacific Railroad through Lancaster County and the city of Lincoln. These roads gave an impetus to the business and agricultural interests of this section, and proved at once a public blessing. No man has watched with warmer interest the development of his adopted county, and in having built up one of its finest estates, he has added largely to its prestige, socially., as well as financially.
   Henry F. Jacoby, the eldest son of our subject, and a man of more than ordinary intelligence and business capacity, was born April 9, 1850, in McLean County, Ill. Upon the outbreak of the Rebellion he was but a lad not twelve years of age, and though wide-awake and earnest, a boy having his own ideas upon matters and things, he was obliged to curb his incipient patriotism and wait until he was thirteen years old before he could become a soldier as he wished. In July, 1863, he enlisted with the 100-days men, and was sent to Tennessee with his comrades. The year following he enlisted for three years, or during the war, and served until the close. Not yet satisfied with his experience of army life, he again enlisted in the United States service, and was stationed in the South, mostly in the State of Tennessee.
   The soldiers now had little to do besides occasional drill, and young Jacoby employed his leisure time at his books, and, by the aid of some of the officers, who took a kindly interest in the ambitious lad, acquired a good education. After receiving his honorable discharge he was engaged as a clerk in the custom house at Savannah, Ga., two years, then was with Gen. Hancock as Clerk of the Engineer Corps for four years. Upon the recommendation of the late lamented Gen. Hancock he was subsequently made a member of the police force of New York City, and after six months' service in that capacity, embarked on an ocean voyage with Gens. Smith and Baldy, officiating as Steward of the vessel, and was in Constantinople during the Turkish War. This was a fine experience which he greatly enjoyed, and which was of much benefit to him. Upon returning to New York City he resumed his old position in the Police Department, where he still remains. He makes a brave and efficient officer, possessing courage and cool judgment traits which are absolutely essential in such a position. The other boys are all farmers. Peter, when seventeen years old, enlisted with Gen. Custer for three years, and during that time he was engaged on the frontier fighting the Indians.

OHN S. TEMPLE. The subject of this biography occupies a leading position among the representative men of Lancaster County, he being progressive, enterprising and public-spirited, and has built up one of the pleasantest homes within its borders. He is of excellent New England ancestry, his father having been William H. C. Temple, who was born in Claremont, N. H., and his mother, in her girlhood Miss Elmira Tenney, a native of the same place. There they settled after their marriage, remaining in the Old Granite State until about 1835, when they emigrated to Ohio and located among the pioneers of Hamilton County. After a residence there of ten years they removed to Cincinnati, where the death of the father took place in 1857. The mother later became a resident of Delhi, and passed away at the home of her niece, on the 9th of January, 1887. The parental household of our subject included nine children, of whom two by the name of William, and one, a daughter, Frances, died in childhood. The survivors were named respectively: Charles W., Henry C., Amelia, John S. (our subject), Sarah L. and Albert G. Five of these now survive. One lives in Dakota, two in Ohio, and one in Iowa.
   Our subject was born while his parents were residents of Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1837, and was six years of age when the family removed to Cincinnati. He was there reared and educated, and remained a resident of that city until a youth of nineteen years. He commenced his business career at the age of sixteen, being employed as a clerk in a wholesale paper store, and upon leaving the Buckeye State made his way to Mercer County, Ill., where he was in the employ of his uncle on a farm about four years. Thence he migrated eastward to Vincennes, Ind., and for two years was a

clerk in the employ of the O. & M. R. R. Later he purchased an eating-house at the depot in that city, and in connection with it operated a public house and restaurant (the latter known as the Depot Hotel) three years.
   While a resident of Vincennes, Ind., Mr. Temple formed the acquaintance of one of the most estimable young ladies of that city, Miss Cassandra, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Heizer) Goudy, to whom he was married Nov. 27, 1866. The father of Mrs. Temple was born in Ashland County, Ohio, and the mother was a native of Pennsylvania. After marriage they settled in Jeromeville, in Ashland County, where they lived until their removal to Vincennes, Ind. The father was a miller by occupation, and died in the latter place about 1857. The mother is still living, being now well advanced in years, and makes her home with her daughter in Vincennes, Ind.
   The parents of Mrs. Temple had a family of eight children, three of whom--Thomas, William and Mary E.--died in childhood. Those surviving are Susannah, Martha J., John F., Elijah, and Cassandra, Mrs. Temple. The latter, the youngest of the family, was, like her father, born in Ashland County. Ohio, May 4, 1848. She received careful home training from an excellent mother, and a fair education in the common school, and remained a member of the parental household until her marriage.
   Mr. Temple in 1868, with his wife and one child, left Vincennes for Knox County. Ill., locating on a farm in Knox Township, where he carried on agriculture until the spring of 1883. Then setting his face still further westward, he crossed the Mississippi, and coming to this county located at once in Grant Precinct, purchasing 160 acres of good land on section 13. He has now a neat and substantial residence, and good improvements generally, the farm buildings and machinery being fully in keeping with the requirements of the modern and progressive agriculturist. He is a man who takes pride in his farm and his family, and has an equal interest in the growth and prosperity of his community, giving liberally to worthy enterprises, and contributing his quota to those projects having for their object the general welfare of the people. The home is a model one in all its appointments, and its inmates are surrounded by all the comforts of life and many of its luxuries, enjoying also the friendship and esteem of the people about them.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Temple there have been born three children--William J., Catherine N. and Frank. The latter died in Knox County, Ill., when an interesting child of seven years. Mr. Temple is a strong temperance man, and in 1887 identified himself with the Prohibition party. Both he and his excellent wife are members in good standing of the Presbyterian Church. An idea of their home surroundings may be obtained by a glance at the view of the well-ordered homestead which will be found on another page.

ON. GEORGE BYRON LANE, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Nebraska, a distinguished citizen of Lincoln, is one of the leading educators of the day in the West. A graduate of one of the colleges in the East, where he attained high rank in scholarship, his rare talents., profound learning and great executive ability, amply qualify him for the important office that he is filling with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public, and he has made a marked improvement in the educational system of this State since he entered upon the discharge of the duties of this position.
   Mr. Lane is a native of New Hampshire, born April 2, 1843, in the town of Epping, Rockingham County, to Winthrop M. and Frances (Morrison) Lane, being the third child in order of birth of a family of ten children. He is a lineal descendant of Ralph Lane, one of three brothers who came to America from England in early Colonial times, and were among the prominent men of the day, taking an active part in political and public matters. The father of our subject was a native of New Hampshire, and the mother of Maine, both being of English ancestry.
   The boyhood and early youth of our subject were passed amid the pleasant scenes of his birthplace, where he obtained the foundation of his education in the district school. He learned the carpenter's trade of his father, and worked at it until

the breaking out of the Rebellion. At that time he had scarcely attained manhood, and, with the ardor and patriotism of youth, he was among the first to respond to the call of his country for aid in sustaining the honor of the old flag. In the spring of 1861, in company with two younger brothers, Joshua and Marcena, he enlisted in Company E, 11th New Hampshire Infantry, but was afterward transferred to the 5th New Hampshire Regiment, and was assigned to the Department of the Gulf under Gen. Banks. His brother Joshua was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg. His youngest brother, Marcena, was rejected on account of his youthfulness, but he managed to enlist, however, and was mustered into the same regiment with our subject, becoming a member of Company I, and did valiant service in many a hardly contested field, having part of his hand shot off in the second battle of the Wilderness. The rendezvous of the regiment was at Long Island, where it remained for about four weeks. The men were then placed on board of a transport and sailed for New Oleans. but encountering rough and stormy weather, the fleet was driven out to sea for many days; finally it touched at Key West, Fla., and later landed at New Orleans late in the fall. The regiment subsequently spent the winter in camp at Carrollton, La. It was then ordered up the Mississippi River to Port Hudson, and took an active part in that siege until the fall of the fort, July 5, 1863. After that the command was dispatched to Vicksburg, and thence to Cairo, Ill., where they were honorably discharged, their term of service having expired. While bravely fighting the battles of his Country Mr. Lane was twice wounded; once in the neck when his regiment was gallantly leading the charge on Ft. Hudson, another time in the foot by a spent cannon ball.
   After returning to his old home from his exciting experiences on Southern battle-fields Mr. Lane entered Dartmouth College to complete his education, and was graduated from that institution in the class of '67, receiving the degree of B. A. After graduation he went to Wisconsin, and entered upon his career as an educator by accepting the principalship of the schools at Burlington. A year and a half later he went to Vail Wert, Ohio, to assume the duties of Superintendent of Schools in that place, and retained that position until 1872. In that year he was invited to St. Louis, Mo., to become Principal of the city schools. There, as elsewhere, his services were very highly appreciated, and he left the lasting impress of his work and genius on the public school system of that city, by his introduction of superior methods of instruction. His fame as an educator had spread throughout the West, and in 1880 he was called to Omaha, Neb., as Superintendent of the city schools, which position he filled with marked ability until 1882. In 1885 he was appointed Superintendent of the State Census. He finished the duties devolving upon him while in that office in about a year, and in the fall of 1886 he was elected to his present position as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He has proved a faithful and efficient public officer, devoting all the energies of the best years of his life to the accomplishment of the work that lies before him, and bringing a wide experience and careful and thoughtful study to bear upon the important educational problems of the day.
   Mr. Lane was married, Aug. 24, 1882, to Miss Nellie P. Wood, of Omaha, Neb., the daughter of E. B. and Nellie (Parmenter) Wood. She was educated in the public schools of her native City, and her culture and rare intelligence enable her to sympathize with her husband in his work. She is a member of the Congregational Church, and is highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. To this union have been born two children--Frances and Gene. Religiously, our subject is a member of the Congregational Church; politically, he is a sound Republican.

APT. THOMAS SEWELL, formerly engaged in the mercantile business in Lincoln, where he still resides, is a man universally respected, not only for his fine military record, but as an honest man and a faithful citizen. He is of English origin, his grandfather, Thomas Sewell, having from England with his family to America, and settled at Niagara-on-the-Lake, where his last years were spent. He had served many

years as an officer in the English army. His son Thomas, the father of our subject, was a young man when he came to America from his birthplace in Lancaster, England. He had learned the "art preservative" in England, and after he came to this country he published the Niagara Reporter, a weekly paper, and in addition published numerous books and did general job printing, and continued that business until his death. At the time of the Mackenzie's rebellion, he volunteered his services and received an officer's commission, and while crossing Queenston Heights he received severe injuries, and erysipelas setting in, he died soon afterward, and his remains lie buried in the village churchyard at Niagara-on-the-Lake. The maiden name of his wife, the mother of our subject, was Caroline Mastin, a native of Lincolnshire. England. She died at her home in Canada, and her remains now repose by the side of her husband's. To them had been born four children, three of whom grew to maturity, namely: Charles H., Thomas and Jane Bishop.
   The subject of our sketch was the second child born to his parents. He was six years old when the death of his father occurred, and three years later he went to Utica, N. Y., where he served an apprenticeship to learn the trade of printer. He remained there until 1854, when he removed to Cincinnati, and worked at his trade on the Enquirer until the following year. He then proceeded westward as far as Chicago, where he procured work on the Democrat, which was then owned by the Hon. John Wentworth, and he continued to work on that paper most of the time until the breaking out of the Rebellion. Being filled with the same patriotic zeal that inspired all loyal hearts, he enlisted in 1861, in Company A, 19th Illinois Infantry, for a term of three months, and went with his regiment to Springfield. Returning to Chicago he re-enlisted for the three-years service, but was taken sick, and the regiment was mustered in during the time of his illness and left for the seat of war. The patriotic ardor of our subject was not lessened, however, and in 1862 he again re-enlisted, in Company G, 127th Illinois Infantry and was commissioned Second Lieutenant. He went South with his regiment, and took an active part in the battles in and near Vicksburg and Arkansas Post, until May 19, 1863, when he was severely wounded. As soon as he was able to travel he was sent home on a furlough, but again joined his regiment at Vicksburg, August 15 of the same year, and accompanied his comrades to Chattanooga, going via Memphis, and taking part in various engagements and skirmishes, and then proceeding to Knoxville to raise the siege. Going from the latter place to Larkinsville, Ala., his regiment went into winter quarters, remaining there until the spring of 1864. In the month of May they started on the Atlanta campaign, forming a part of the 15th Army Corps, and participated in the battle of Resaca and all the other battles from there to Atlanta, and in the siege and capture of that city. Meantime he had been acting as Captain of his company for some time; he received his promotion to that rank, and proved a wise and judicious officer. From Atlanta he marched to the sea and then went by way of the Carolinas to Richmond and on to Washington, reaching there the night before the grand review, in which he was a participant. Capt. Sewell was discharged with his regiment at Washington, and returned to Chicago, where he resumed his former employment, remaining there until 1870. At that time much was being said of the unusual advantages offered to energetic men of good business ability in the rapidly growing towns of the far Western prairies, and Capt. Sewell decided to avail himself of the opportunity to increase his finances. He fixed upon Lincoln as a desirable place for location, and started for this city, coming by rail to within eight miles of the place and the remaining distance by stage. He entered into the mercantile business, opening a grocery store on the south side of O street, between Ninth and Tenth streets. Subsequently he removed to the southeast corner of O and Eleventh streets, where he remained until his retirement from business in April, 1887. At that time he had been in the grocery trade seventeen consecutive years, and was one of the four or five merchants who went into business when he did, or were already established when he settled here. During his residence here Capt. Sewell has taken pride as well as pleasure in seeing the city develop from a village containing about 2,500 people to a populous city of

50,000 inhabitants, with handsome buildings, fine churches and schools, and one whose literary, social and religious advantages compare most favorably with any other city of like size in the Union. The surrounding country, where deer and antelope then sported, and only occasionally was a solitary dwelling to be found, is now converted into a beautiful farming region, whose well-tilled fields and commodious farmhouses please the eye and are a source of enjoyment to the owners.
   Capt. Sewell was married, in 1865, to Florence A. Brewster, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and they are the parents of one child, Agnes C. Mrs. Sewell is a valuable member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject is prominently identified with the following social organizations: He belongs to Appomattox Post No. 214, G. A. R.; is a member of the Loyal Legion; he is Past Grand Commander of K. T.; a member of Delta Lodge of Perfection No. A. A. & A. Scottish Rite, and is Venerable Master of the same, and Knight of the Court of Honor. In politics the Republican party has always found in him one of its most earliest champions.

HARLES D. JEWETT is the son of Thomas J. Jewett, who was born in December, 1807, in Utica, Oneida Co., N. Y., in which State he always made his home until his death, which occurred in June, 1880. His wife was Caroline Russell, who entered into that relation in the year 1832, and became the mother of eight children, four of whom were sons. Only three children of this family are now living: our subject; his sister Paulina, the wife of John Putnam, a farmer in Jefferson County, N. Y., and William M., a farmer at Sanford's Corner, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
   Our subject was born Oct. 20, 1840, in Jefferson County, N. Y., and continued with his parents until he was about twenty-six years of age, largely owing to the fact that his father, a Captain in the State Militia, was compelled to make frequent and long absences from home, and at such times our subject took his place upon the farm and in the family as far as he was able. Capt. Jewett was engaged in the late war, and took a prominent part in many of the engagements and battles. His services as an organizer of companies and raiser of troops led to special mention. He raised and drilled the first company of infantry of Jefferson County, which was afterward attached to the 35th New York Regiment. When he first enlisted he proceeded as far as Washington, and was compelled to return home on account of trouble with his eyes. He again enlisted and proceeded as far as Albany, and was sent back again for the same reason. He afterward enlisted in the 10th Heavy Artillery, and with his company went to Washington and remained one year, when he was taken with a severe attack of pneumonia and on that account discharged from the service.
   Upon recovery from his sickness the father of our subject was offered a commission but refused, preferring to do active service, for which, however, he was never strong enough after this sickness. During this time our subject was busy with the cares of the home and farm, and in the fall of 1865 he went through Iowa and Missouri prospecting for a desirable situation to locate and make a home, as he had decided to unite his life's interest with that of Jane C. Wiley, the maiden of his choice, a lady of education, culture and careful home training, calculated to fit her most admirably to he a true companion and helpmate. This lady was the daughter of Ezra C. and Clarissa J. (Gordonier) Wiley; their daughter Jane was born in Watertown, N. Y., in 1840. She made her home with her parents until her marriage, and their careful restraint and intelligent tuition, supplemented by the discipline of her school days and the polish received in her experience in society, all combined to produce the innumerable graces and womanly traits which made her so attractive to our subject, and which made her life such as he would always remember her with loving respect and devotion.
   In 1865 our subject went into partnership with his brother, in the flour and milling trade, and continued in the same for about six years with much success. He then proceeded to Iowa, but after looking over the country did not feel satisfied and came on to this county, and before thirty days had passed, in which he had prospected in several counties, he de-