log house covered with dirt to shelter his family, find then actively set to work to improve a farm from the virgin prairie. He had three yokes of oxen, but no horses, with which to do all his marketing and farm work. Lancaster County was then very sparsely settled, and the nearest market and depot for supplies for some time was Nebraska City, and Ashland, twenty-five miles distant, was the nearest milling point. Deer, antelope and other wild animals were plentiful, and roamed over the site of Lincoln, and Indians used to pass by the cabin of our subject to and from their hunting-grounds. At the present day, looking over the grand city that has arisen on these, broad Nebraska prairies, with its magnificent buildings and other evidences of a high civilization on every hand, one can scarcely realize that little more than a quarter of a century ago the very land on which it stands was in an almost complete state of nature, with no indications that a great metropolis was to be built up thereon by the persistent energy and enterprise of man. Mr. Carter, with characteristic foresight and sound judgment, took advantage of the great changes that have been going on, and sold all the land that once comprised his farm, and then made judicious investments of his money in other city property, so that he is now a wealthy man.
   Mr. Carter was married, in January, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Chapman, who was born in West Virginia, twelve miles from the city of Clarksburg, in 1826. Her father, Thomas Chapman, moved to Ohio in 1833, the removal being made with horses and wagons. He settled in Sandusky County, and became identified with its pioneers. Three years later he moved to Champaign County, Ohio, and lived there two or three years. After that he went to Union County, in the same State, and spent the remainder of his life there, buying a tract of timber land near the town of Essex. The maiden name of his wife, mother of Mrs. Carter, was Hannah White. She was a native of Virginia, and spent her last years in Union County, Ohio. Mrs. Carter is an admirable housewife, as she resided with her parents until her marriage, and was carefully instructed by her mother in all household duties, including a knowledge of spinning, weaving and knitting. Her happy wedded life with our subject has been blessed by the birth of ten children, as follows: Alice, James, Thomas, Jane, John, Jesse, Mary, Nora, Lulu and Rosa. Thomas and Mary died young. James bravely sacrificed his life for his country, being a soldier in an Ohio regiment in the late war, and dying while in the service. John met his death by a railway accident.
   Mr. and Mrs. Carter are true Christians, none are before them in good works and charitable deeds, and they devote much of their time to enhance the good of others. Thus they have inspired true respect in the hearts of those about them. Mr. Carter has always taken a strong interest in politics. He was a Democrat in his early years, then became a Free-Soiler, but he was afterward one of the first to join the Republican party when it was organized, and he was identified with that party for years, but is now identified with the Prohibition party, of which he has been a member since the day of his conversion.

RS. ESTHER L. WARNER came to Nebraska in 1864, while it was still a Territory and an unbroken prairie. There are few phases of pioneer life with which she is not entirely familiar, having endured hardship, privation, and the toils and sacrifices which those must undergo who take upon themselves the task of building up a homestead from the wilderness. After the lapse of twenty-four years she sees around her a well-developed country, the once wild prairie being now transformed into valuable homesteads, and the possessors in the enjoyment of those comforts and pleasures which are the attendants of modern life. The changes which have been effected were brought about by those who came here armed simply with their strong hands and brave hearts, most of them without other resources, and to whose perseverance and industry are due the happiness and ease of the later generation. Too much credit cannot be given to those who thus labored for themselves and their children, and whose industry benefits not alone their immediate households, but the community around them.
   In noting the history of those who have become

prominent as pioneers and citizens, one of the first questions which naturally occurs to the mind is their early history, and those from whom they drew their origin. The parents of our subject were Ira and Charry (Brock) Carter. The mother traced her ancestry back to England, from which her father emigrated in time to serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, entering the ranks at the early age of sixteen years. He served as a private until the struggle was ended.
   Ira Carter after his marriage, which took place in Connecticut, emigrated soon afterward with his young wife, first to Genesee County, N. Y., and thence to Summit County, Ohio, reaching the latter place about 1812. There he became the owner of a large farm, and a man of property. He only lived to be middle-aged, his death taking place on the 9th of November, 1832, at the age of forty-nine years. The mother survived her husband until 1875, dying at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Their household included six children, two sons and four daughters.
   Mrs. Warner was the fifth child of her parents, and was born in Tallmadge Township, Summit Co., Ohio, June 16, 1820. She received a very good education in common with her brothers and sisters, and taught school two terms before her first marriage. This event took place at her home in 1844, her first husband being William Griswold, who only survived four years afterward, his death taking place in 1848. Mrs. Griswold then became the wife of Amos Warner, M. D. They removed to Iowa, where Dr. Warner practiced his profession for a period of seven years. Dr. Warner's death was occasioned by his being thrown from his buggy, from the effects of which he died immediately, on the 16th of September, 1861.
   Of this latter marriage of our subject there were born three children: Haskell F., who operates the home farm; Emma E., the wife of Dr. Demaree, of Roca, and a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this work; Amos G. is a resident of Baltimore. An adopted daughter named Estella is deceased.
   Among the people with whom Mrs. Warner has lived so many years, she is a lady held in the highest esteem by both young and old, possessing those traits of character and excellent business capacities by which she has been enabled to be of value in her community, and encouraging the projects calculated for the advancement of its common interests.

LBERT EGGER is a successful farmer and stock-raiser, and is the owner of 120 acres of land on section 3, Buda Precinct, fifty acres lying in Centerville Precinct, on section 34, and also 160 acres in Rawlins County, Kan. Like all other men he possessed a hope and desire to succeed in the world, and like all other men he learned that success in life does not so much depend upon mere brilliancy as upon the willingness to wait. Success comes slowly to the majority of people, and he who would attain to it must not expect to make haste; but that it finally comes we have an apt illustration in the life of our subject.
   Mr. Egger is a native of Switzerland, the land of snowy-topped mountains, and he was born on the 14th of January, 1856. He is a son of John and Mary Egger both natives of the same country, who came to America when our subject was ten years old. They started on a sailing-vessel from Havre, and spent a long and tiresome period of sixty days on the water, after which they landed in New York City. The family came to Tazewell County, Ill., where they remained for two years, thence in the fall of 1868 to Cass County, Neb., making their home in that place until the spring of 1871. In that year the family came to Lancaster County, and the father took advantage of the generous offer of the Government to give him eighty acres of land which he located in Centerville Precinct on section 34.
   When the father of our subject came into possession of his land there had been no care spent on its cultivation, and he took it just as it was offered from the hand of Nature, and prepared to make on it a pleasant home for his family. He has not only succeeded in that desire, but has been enabled to purchase other tracts of land, so that he is now the owner of 260 acres of splendid farming land, a compliment to his industry and excellent management.
   He has erected good and convenient buildings

and in other ways has adorned his farm and added to its utility. He is now almost seventy years old, and is leading a quiet and happy life in the enjoyment of the entire confidence of his neighbors. His wife is now in her sixty-fourth year, and together they are reaping the reward of a life well spent in usefulness, surrounded by their children and their friends.
   To the parents of our subject there came a family of eleven children, nine of whom are living, and in close proximity to the home of their parents. and we name them as follows: Frederick, Arnold; Anne, wife of Frederick Boesiger; Elizabeth, wife of Peter Gensemer, of Gage County; Rosetta, wife of George Pillard; Albert; Mary, wife of Jacob Shaffer, of Cass County; Louisa, wife of Frederick Broecker, of Cass County; and Emily. Both the father and mother of this estimable family are well-known members of the Lutheran Church, the former allied to the Republican party in politics.
   Albert Egger came to this county in the year 1871, and here he has been reared to manhood amid the scenes of pioneer life, having seen the development of the country from its primitive state to the finely cultivated and well-arranged farms with their buildings, and all modern conveniences in use at the present day. He was reared in the school of agricultural life, and having become well acquainted with that occupation he has successfully followed it. He received a good common-school education in the English language, and also was well equipped with a knowledge of his native language.
   On the 25th of October, 1885, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Mary Lesoing, daughter of Frank Lesoing, of South Pass Precinct. They are the parents of two children: a little son, Leon J. F., who was born on the 15th of April, 1886, and a little daughter, Maggie, who was born on the 30th of November, 1887. As a tribute to the sterling qualities possessed by our subject, he can point with pride to his splendid farm consisting of 170 acres of land, and he has not only been successful in his chosen occupation, but has spent an active life in the endeavor to secure advantages and improvements in the community of which he is a resident. While he resided with his father in Centerville Precinct he served as Treasurer of the school district. and in politics he has earnestly advocated, the policy of the Republican party. He is yet a young man, and notwithstanding the success that has come to him thus early he has very fair prospects of rising to a position of wealth and eminence, being on the sure road to prosperity. A view of Mr. Egger's homestead and surroundings may be seen elsewhere in this volume.

EV. JOHN F. KUHLMAN, pastor of the English Lutheran Church at Roca, Neb., is one of the leading ministers of his denomination in the West. He is widely known and honored throughout the State for the good work that he has done in elevating its moral, social and religious status. He was born in 1829, in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. His parents, Henry and Elizabeth (Kruger) Kuhlman, were natives of the Kingdom of Hanover. They belonged to the lower classes, and the father supported his family by working as a day laborer. Anxious to improve his condition and to give his children better chances than he had had, he emigrated with his family to America, sailing on board the ship "Neptune," in the early part of May, 1837. On the evening of the 4th of July they were near enough to the shores of Maryland to see the fireworks displayed at Baltimore in honor of our National holiday. On the 8th of July they for the first time set foot on American soil; Somerset County, Pa., was their destination.
   The father and mother of our subject spent the remainder of their lives in this country, becoming useful and highly respected members of the community where they settled, rounding out their periods of existence far beyond the Scriptural limitations of human life, the father dying in 1871, in the eightieth year of his age, and the mother in her ninety-first year, Jan. 12, 1888, being the date of her death. The father had served in the German army and took part in the battle of Waterloo. Our subject had three brothers who died in infancy, and two who grew to maturity, namely: Henry and Arnold.
   At the age of six our subject commenced to attend a public school in his native country, but his

education was interrupted there at the age of seven by the emigration of his parents to the United States of America. Shortly after his parents had settled in Pennsylvania, he resumed his education by becoming a pupil in the common schools of that commonwealth during three months of the winter terms until he was sixteen years old, when his father sent him to learn the carpenter's trade. He worked at that until he was twenty-one, and then, ambitious to fit himself for a higher calling, he commenced to teach and to study, continuing so engaged until he was twenty-nine, when in 1858 he entered Pennsylvania College, having attended several terms at preparatory schools, and he also studied privately under the Rev. M. F. Pfaliler.
   In 1851 Rev. Mr. Kuhlman was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Smith. Their wedded life was brief indeed, as the happy and beloved wife died in 1852, leaving two children, Winfield Scott and Luther. The former is a graduate of the Medical School of Baltimore, and is now enjoying an extensive practice in his profession in Pennsylvania; he married Miss Martha Walter, and they have four children. Luther is a graduate of the Pennsylvania College and Theological School at Gettysburg, and is at present pastor of a Lutheran Church, of Frederick City, Md.; he was married to Miss Alice Warren.
   Our subject was a second time married in 1859, to Miss Rachel, daughter of Jacob and Ruth (Ogg) Rush. She was born Sept. 24, 1834, in Somerset County, Pa., the fourth of a family of twelve children. She was well educated and taught school two terms prior to her marriage. In 1881 our subject and his children were bereaved by the death of the noble wife and mother. She had ever been an influence for good to those about her, had cheerfully assisted her husband and sympathized with him in his great work, had been a tender and wise parent, and to her neighbors had always been a true friend.
   Our subject entered upon his ministerial work in Wilmore, Pa., occupying the pulpit of the Lutheran Church in that place from the spring of 1859 until the fall of 1864. At that time the Allegheny Synod was looking about for a missionary, as it had been decided to send one to the Territory of Nebraska, as soon as a suitable man could be found possessing all the qualifications necessary for carrying out the work in that new field. Our subject was finally selected as one singularly fitted for the position by the purity and uprightness of his character, his learning, strong religious faith, and great tact and ability as an organizer. He went to work with zeal as soon as he arrived in Nebraska, and following the trail of the first settlers along the Missouri River, he soon had several churches and societies organized. His first charge consisted of societies at Fontanelle, Logan Creek, West Point, Tekamah, and Columbus, with which he was connected until 1870. He visited a great many points throughout the State, established churches in Dakota County, Ponca, Dixon County, Waverly, Lancaster County, at Roca, Lancaster County, two churches in York County, a church in Red Cloud, and one in North Platte. In 1870 Mr. Kuhlman was called to the pulpit of the church at Dakota City, left vacant by the resignation of Prof. Angley, who had been offered the Chair of Natural Sciences in the University of Nebraska, and our subject was the pastor of that people until 1872. Half of the time when he has been doing pastoral work our subject has also been engaged as a missionary. He has been very successful in both departments of the church, as is testified by the strong hold that the Lutheran denomination has obtained in Nebraska. He has put the whole strength of his mind and body into his work, and his labors have been abundantly blessed by the many churches that have sprung up on these Nebraska prairies under his watchful care, and by the love and confidence of the people who have sat under his teachings. During some of these years the State was struggling for its very existence, having to contend with monetary depressions, grasshopper raids, and many other troubles too numerous to mention. But when the times were hardest and the people were almost too poor to support themselves, much less church societies and pastors, our subject nobly resumed his old calling, that of a carpenter, which he had learned in his youth, and thus kept want from his door, though at the same time he devoted his leisure to his pastoral work. The following is a list of the remaining places where he has had charge of churches, and the length of his pastorate in each:

Ponca, 1872-78; Nebraska City, 1878-82; Lavansville, 1882-85; then Roca, his present charge. He was Secretary of the first meeting of the Lutheran ministers ever held west of the Missouri River, the synod meeting at Monrovia, Atchison Co., Kan., and he preserves the documents of that meeting. Our reverend subject was also President of the Nebraska District Evangelical Lutheran Synod, convoked at Omaha in 1871. It is his distinction also to have been the first delegate from Nebraska to the General Synod convened at Baltimore in 1873, and he served as a delegate to the General Synod at Altoona, Pa. We can do but scant justice to his elevated character and to the noble work to which he has devoted the best years of his life. We can but say, as these pages have shown, that he wields a powerful influence for good not only in his church, but in society at large. in his political views he is a strong Prohibitionist.

REDERICK BERRYMAN. In this country, abounding as it does in vast and seemingly unlimited quantities of minerals, is there one among us who has not heard the expression, "down in a coal mine?" In the literal sense of the term, the riches of the earth come not to us without some effort on our part to obtain them, so there must be men, women and children, too, perhaps, who are to know no other life than that spent deep down within the bowels of the earth, digging and delving to bring these riches to light. Not alone in this country but in other countries do people spend their lives among the mining fields. England, with her abundance of coal, iron, lead and tin, affords employment to thousands in this one industry.
   In the extreme southwest of England, where the waves of the Bristol and English Channels dash against its shores, lies the county of Cornwall, the chic center of valuable tin mines. So inexhaustible does this supply of tin seem that, although the mines have been worked since the ancient Phoenicians came to trade, and the Romans to conquer on these shores, they are still a source of wealth to the inhabitants. In this part of England lived Frederick Berryman, the subject of this sketch. He was born May 7, 1836, a son of Job and Wilmot (Reynolds) Berryman. He had ten brothers and sisters, but one of whom, his sister Mary, survives with him.
   In his native country Mr. Berryman received a fair common-school education, and when a mere lad some thirteen years of age, he began working in the tin mines of Cornwall, at which employment he continued until a youth of about eighteen. In the spring of 1854 he decided to emigrate to America, for which purpose he took passage at Liverpool on a steamer, and after an ocean voyage of eleven days he landed in New York City. On his arrival he went to Cambria County, Pa., where he followed the pursuit that he had learned in his old home, for a time; thence he went to the Lake Superior copper mines, where he worked for two years. Subsequently he returned to Pennsylvania, where he again worked in the mines for several years. After this he went to Massachusetts, where he was appointed foreman over some forty men in the west end of the Hoosac Tunnel, his previous experience in mining fitting him to conduct with great credit his share of the work necessary to complete this wonderful excavation.
   Leaving Massachusetts Mr. Berryman went to Bedford County, Pa., and took charge of a fossil ore mine, remaining there some two years, after which he went to Pulaski County, Va., and the first year he was there he entered into a contract to supply the furnace in that place for one year with ore. After this he superintended the mines for some three years for the same company.
   In Pennsylvania Mr. Berryman married Eliza Hocking, also a native of England. The result of this union was twelve children, nine of whom are living, viz: Frederick, Anne, Richard, Minnie, Bertha. John, Joseph, Howard and Eddie; the three deceased being Job, Anne and John. In the spring of 1876 our subject came to this county and settled on the farm which he now owns, on section 10 of Denton Precinct. There were then but ten acres under cultivation, but by dint of energy and perseverance Mr. Berryman so improved his land that now it is a splendid farm of great value, consisting of 160 acres.
   By his labors as a tiller of the soil our subject

has surrounded himself and family with the comforts of rural life. Let us give credit where credit is due. Starting out a boy of thirteen, making his own way in the world year after year, providing for his family, and establishing for himself and his wife a home, in which their declining years may be spent in peace and happiness, free from anxious cares--is this a little work? May he not well be proud of his achievements?
   Mr. Berryman votes with the Republican party, and is a public-spirited man, doing all in his power to improve and elevate the society and country of which he is a resident. He has been a member of the School Board of his precinct for a number of years, in fact since its organization, and is now serving as Moderator.
   A lithographic view of Mr. Berryman's property may be seen on another age of this ALBUM.

REDERICK A. KORSMEYER, steam fitter and plumber, has one of the best conducted establishments of its kind in the city of Lincoln, and holds a leading position among its business men. He has a thorough understanding of the details of his calling, is prompt and reliable, thoroughly upright and honorable in his business transactions, and a man who is deservedly prosperous. He is a native of Prussia, Germany. He is doing a prosperous business.

UDSON HAGGERTY is a native of the Buckeye State, where he was born in Warren County, March 28, 1854. His father, George Haggerty, was born in the county of Sussex, N. J., Oct. 14, 1814, and was the son of Chris Haggerty, who, it is believed, spent his entire life in New Jersey. The father of our subject was reared to manhood in that State, spending his days as was common to the sons of farmers, and upon reaching manhood he was married, and removing to Ohio, settled in Warren County. His means were limited, and he operated on rented land until at length he was enabled to buy a small place, to which he subsequently added until he had a nice farm, which he finally sold, and purchased 130 acres of land in Franklin Township. He now resides in an adjoining township in that county. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Huldah Myers, was born in New Jersey, Feb. 14, 1825, and was the daughter of Robert Myers, who, it is believed, spent his entire life in New Jersey.
   Judson Haggerty is one of a family of seven children, and was reared in his native county, alternating between the district school and his father's farm until he attained his majority, and starting out in life for himself he directed his course to Tennessee, and spent the first year in farming. After a second year in that State, spent in broommaking, he returned to his native State, and was soon afterward married. After his marriage he rented a farm in Warren County, Ohio, and there labored diligently until 1881, when he turned his face toward the setting sun, and reaching Lancaster County bought a quarter-section of land in Elk Precinct, in company with his brother. At the end of two years he sold his interest in this property, and bought that on which he now resides on section 27, Middle Creek Precinct.
   Our subject was united in marriage, March 7, 1878, with Lizzie J. Kemp, and their union has been blessed by the birth of two children--Pearly and Mabel. Pearly was born in Warren County, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1880, and Mabel at the homestead in Middle Creek Precinct, March 31, 1886. Mrs. Haggerty was horn three miles from Franklin, Warren Co., Ohio, May 2, 1854, while her father, Peter Kemp, was horn either in Maryland or Pennsylvania, and her grandfather, Rev. John Kemp, removed from Pennsylvania to Butler County, Ohio, in its earliest settlement. and lived there several years. He then removed to Montgomery County, in this State, and there spent the remainder of his days. The father of Mrs. Haggerty was but a boy when his parents settled in Ohio, and he received the benefits of a good education, and was graduated from the schools of Middletown. He never adopted a profession, but upon the completion of his studies he engaged in farming, and after his marriage he settled in Warren County, where he purchased a farm of 173 acres. After a few years he sold this property and