residence so exceedingly pleasant. Words are inadequate to do justice to the matter, but the artist in the accompanying illustration does much to bring before the mind some of the beauties of this elegant home, and it will, we are assured, be welcomed in proportion as it does so. Our subject is still unmarried; his sister Priscilla has the care of their home, which lies within a half mile of the city limits. Mr. Marsden, Sr., is the only member of the family who has filled civic office. When a resident in Galena, he was Assessor for a considerable period. The family is worthily placed in the front rank of citizens of this county, and commands the highest respect and esteem. Mr. Marsden has a herd of thoroughbred Short-horns, and high-grades. The farm is most elegantly situated in the county. Twelve years ago it was purchased for $12 per acre, and now the entire tract could be sold for $100 per acre, or $64,000. This illustrates the rapid improvement of the county. In politics Mr. Marsden is a stanch Republican.

OSHUA PERRIN. Among those who came at an early day to the southern part of this county, the subject of this biography has occupied no unimportant position. He has carried on farming and milling combined, and by his industry and prudence has accumulated a good property, which he is now permitted to enjoy, sitting under his own vine and fig tree, and having about him all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life. He ranks among the honored pioneers of Southern Nebraska, and has built up one of its most desirable homesteads, working up from first principles and struggling with the soil in its earliest stages of cultivation.
   As President of the Roca Roller Milling Company, the name of Mr. Perrin is widely and favorably known throughout Saltillo Precinct and the vicinity, these mills gathering in the bulk of the patronage from the people in the southern part of the county. The farm property of our subject is located on section 9, with good buildings, improved farm machinery, and all the appurtenances for the prosecution of agriculture after the most approved methods. As a homestead it is all that could be desired in point of health, comfort and convenience, with its pure air, and fertile fields yielding for the sustenance of man those products which conduce to health of body and of mind alike.
   The history of Mr. Perrin is one of more than ordinary interest, he being the offspring of an excellent old family who have been represented in the Keystone State for three generations, and who trace their ancestry to Germany. Amos and Elizabeth (Bennett) Perrin, the parents of our subject, were natives respectively of Alleghany County, Md., and Bedford County, Pa. The paternal great-grandfather was Thomas Perrin, who, upon emigrating the Fatherland, settled near Oldtown, Md., and subsequently served in the French and Indian Wars, being in the Federal service under Gen. Washington and witnessing Braddock's defeat. Later, his son Thomas, the grandfather of our subject carried a musket in the Revolutionary War.
   After their marriage the parents of our subject located on a farm in Bedford County, Pa., where the father carried on agriculture successfully, and accumulated a fine property, which. however, he lost, being the victim of misplaced confidence in becoming a bondsman for some of his friends. In 1847, hoping to mend his broken fortune, he left Pennsylvania, with his wife and three children, our subject being the youngest, and crossed the Alleghanies into West Virginia, settling about twelve miles from the city of Wheeling. There he remained about one year, then removed to Wood County, and commenced farming near Parkersburg. On the 15th of July, 1850, he was seized with cholera and in the space of nine hours had breathed his last, at the age of fifty-three years. The mother succeeded in keeping her children together, and our subject remained with her until his marriage.
   Joshua Perrin was born June 4, 1835, in Southampton Township, Bedford Co., Pa. At the time of his father's greatest prosperity he was a mere child, too young to commence his education in school, and when he might have done this the family was in straightened circumstances, and he consequently was required to make himself useful about the home. In addition to this, upon the removal of the family to West Virginia the schools

were few and far between, our subject attending one of these institutions only about six months during his entire life. At the time of his father's death he was a boy of fifteen years, and was obliged to exert himself in assisting to keep the wolf from the door. He rented a farm which he operated for a period of eight years, and then, in 1858, went into the woods of West Virginia, and began the establishment of a home of his own. He put up a log house into which he moved his mother and sisters, and they kept house for him until the time of his marriage.
   On Christmas Day, 1856, Mr. Perrin celebrated the occasion by taking unto himself a wife and helpmate, Miss Lucinda Deem, who was born in that region, and whose parents spent their last years there. The. young people commenced life together under the roof which our subject had provided, but after the birth of two children Mrs. Perrin died, in 1861, at the age of twenty-two years. Their eldest daughter, Clarissa, died at the age of seven years; Clarinda grew up and continued with her father until her marriage, being now the wife of Ira P. Mells, of Custer County, this State; she is also the mother of two children--William J. and Bernard. Our subject was married the second time in West Virginia, Dec. 29, 1863, to Miss Sarah M., the daughter of Edward R. and Rebecca Leach. Mrs. Perrin was the seventh of a family of nine children, and was born March 3, 1839, in Marshall County, W. Va., where she received a common-school education, and continued with her parents until her marriage. In 1865 Mr. Perrin, with his mother, his wife and his children, removed to Jackson County, Ohio, where he purchased 112 acres of land, and carried on farming for a period of ten years. In 1875 he disposed of his property, and gathering together his family and his personal effects, started for the farther West. He determined to visit Southern Nebraska, and if he did not like the place, to move on to Oregon. He contemplated, if everything was favorable, settling in Lincoln, and being pleased with the looks of the country upon arriving in this county, he purchased 320 acres of land on section 9, in Saltillo Precinct, from the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company. There being no buildings upon it, he bought a little house and moved it to his premises. This sheltered the family, they making themselves as comfortable as possible until they could do better.
   Our subject now commenced in earnest his struggle with the uncultivated soil, and his experience was that of many of the other pioneers whose early career in Nebraska has received ample recognition in this work. While carrying on the cultivation of his land, he planted an orchard of 100 trees, besides the smaller fruits, and added those other embellishments to the homestead upon which the comfort and happiness of their family to such a great extent depended. He put up a barn and other out-buildings, as his means justified, enclosed his fields with good fences, and in 1876 erected a very fine frame dwelling with a stone basement, and two stories in height. Gradually he gathered a goodly assortment of live stock on his place, cattle, horses and swine, and keeps of the first mentioned usually a herd of about forty head.
   Mr. Perrin became interested in milling in 1887. In 1887 the mill at Roca was destroyed by fire, and he then purchased a half-interest in the ground upon which it stood, where he erected a fine flouring-mill 36x4O feet, and four stories in height, suppling it with a full set of the Short roller system, with a capacity of fifty barrels per day. This machinery was calculated to manufacture the best flour in the world, and approaches very nearly to what is claimed. The mill when fully completed will prove a valuable addition to the business interests of Saltillo Precinct, and due credit is given Mr. Perrin for his enterprise.
   To our subject and his estimiable wife there have been born five children, namely: William, Amos, Frank, Winfield and Charles. The eldest son is a young man of more than ordinary capacities, studious and fond of literature, and is now the editor of the Alliance Argus, in Box Butte County. He acquired an excellent education, being graduated from the University of Nebraska with honors in the class of '87. Amos and Frank are also attending this institution, the former being in the class of '92, and the latter in the class of '93; the younger sons are at home with their parents.
   Mr. Perrin is a stanch Republican, with leanings toward Prohibition, and both he and his wife are

members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Roca. He has been quite prominent in local affairs, liberal and public-spirited, and while on the building committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, also donated $500 for the erection of the buildings

AMES B. HALE. The property of this well-to-do farmer of Saltillo Precinct is finely located on section 30, and embraces 280 acres of land which was homesteaded by his father, in 1866, while Nebraska was a Territory. The latter, Amos Hale, was a native of St. Lawrence County, N. Y., and the scion of an excellent old family who traced their origin back to Sir Robert, a brother of Sir Matthew Hale, who in years gone by was the Chief Justice of England. The latter was noted for his erudition, gentleness of disposition, and his high sense of justice, which enabled him to render his decisions in a manner which reflected honor upon a long and prosperous career.
   The first representatives of the family in this country crossed the Atlantic about the year 1650. Some of them returned to England in the reign of Charles II.
   Amos Hale in early manhood was united in marriage with a very estimable lady, Miss Mary J. Major, a native of Davis County, Ind., and they settled in Lawrence County, where the father followed his profession of civil engineer and also operated as master mechanic. He was a man of more than ordinary capabilities, and arose to the position of Superintendent of the Indianapolis & Madison Railroad, which he held until resolving to seek his fortunes west of the Mississippi.
   The father of our subject upon securing the land which we have already spoken of commenced at once to make improvements, and at the time of his death five years later, had laid the foundation of a valuable homestead. He rested from his earthly labors June 6, 1871, at the age of fifty-one years. The mother is still living, and now a resident of Roca, being sixty-eight years old. Their household included nine children, three sons and six daughters. of whom James B., our subject, was the second born. He first opened his eyes to the light Oct. 25, 1847, in the town of Springville, Lawrence Co.. Ind. The educational facilities of that time and place were extremely limited, and the boy chiefly learned to plow and sow and gather in the harvest. He was a young man twenty-four years of age at the time of his father's death, but had already for a year or more been manager of the homestead. On the 25th of January, 1870, he brought a bride beneath its roof, having been married to Miss Lucy A. Sanford, the daughter of an excellent family, whose parents moved from Virginia to Indiana at an early day, and whose father, John C. Sanford, traced his ancestry directly to Gen. George Clark, of Virginia.
   John C. Sanford, the father of Mrs. Hale, was a farmer by occupation, and was married to Miss Hannah Eads, an own cousin of the celebrated civil engineer, Capt. James B. Eads, of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Sanford spent his last years in Indiana, dying at the homestead in Davis County, Dec. 1, 1877, at the age of fifty years. The mother is still living there. Mrs. Hale was the eldest of a family of five sons and four daughters, and was born Dec. 19, 1849, in Davis County, Ind. Of her union with our subject there are eight interesting children, namely: Robert M., John C., Emma Josephine, Amos Hix, Eric Edgar, Edith S., Bessie and Stuart Grant. They all continue under the home roof, and will be educated in accordance with the means and position of their parents.
   The property of Mr. Hale includes 560 acres of land, with handsome and substantial farm buildings, a tasteful dwelling, good barns, sheds and other outhouses, an orchard of 600 apple trees, the smaller fruits, and all the other appurtenances which go to make up the complete rural home. He is a man liberal and public-spirited, and while a boy became very much interested in political matters. By the reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin he became thoroughly imbued with anti-slavery doctrines. and from the first was a Lincoln man. At an earlier period he had hurrahed for Gen. John C. Fremont, and since the organization of the Republican party, in 1856, has remained one of its stanchest ad-

herents. Although it is true, having something to begin upon at the outset of his career, it has required good judgement and forethought to look after his property and increase his talents, like the wise man of Scripture. This he has done in a tenfold degree and is worthy of much credit that he has perpetuated the estate which his father inaugurated, and is adding to its value as the years pass, building up for both father and son a memorial which will descend in honor to their children. The patronymic was formerly and correctly spelled Haile, but changed to the shorter method of spelling by Amos Hale, the father of our subject, on account of his known habit of always taking the shortest and most direct cut to everything.
   The following very interesting family record of the Hale family was prepared by Andrew J. Haile, the uncle of James B., and we print as furnished: Nathaniel, Richard and Nathan Haile came from England to America about the year 1650. Richard, your great-great-great-grand father, settled in Swansea, Mass. Walter Haile, your great-great-grandfather, was born in Swansea, Nov. 16, 1707, educated for a physician, removed to Warren, R. I., where he practiced his profession. Mary Luther, wife of Walter Haile, was born June 2, 1706.
   Children of Walter Haile: Richard, born May 29, 1729; Nathaniel, Dec. 1, 1731; Anna, Dec. 23, 1734; Nathan, Oct. 23, 1736; John, April 23, 1739; Joseph, May 16, 1741; Amos, Aug. 27, 1743; James, Oct. 30, 1745; Lydia, Feb. 15, 1748; Mary, April 8, 1750; Eliza, Dec. 18, 1752. Eleven in all.
   Nathan remained on the homestead in Warren. James Haile, your great-grandfather, was born at Warren, R. I., Oct. 30, 1745, died May 8, 1808. Hannah, his wife, was born in Rehoboth, R. I., May 17, 1740, died May 15, 1812. They removed to Putney, Vt., 1772.
   Children of James Haile: Richard, born Aug. 14, 1769, died Nov. 5, 1847; Hesekiah, born Aug. 7, 1770; Mary, born Jan. 15, 1772, died in March, 1843; Nathan, born March 17, 1774; Desire, Jan. 21, 1775, died in August, 1777; Hannah, born April 20, 1776; Anna, April 18, 1779; John, Feb. 11, 1781; James, March 16, 1782. Nine in all; James, the youngest of this family, was your grandfather.
   James Halle, your grandfather, was born March 16, 1782. Tabitha Johnson, your grandmother, was born Jan. 12, 1784. They were married June 3, 1802.
   Children: Diantha Aldridge, born Jan. 28, 1804; James Bradley, Ashbel Bradford (twins), May 29, 1806; Mason Ward, March 3, 1811; Jane Porter, Aug. 5, 1814; Laura Bigelow, Feb. 22, 1816; Amos Hix (your father), March 30, 1818; Andrew Jackson, July 5, 1819; Louis Johnson, Nov. 3, 1823; Cornelia A. Wellington, Feb. 25, 1827. Ten in all.
   Diantha married Hesekiah H. Smith, Dec. 20, 1820; Laura died when thirteen months of age; Jane died in Brookville, Ind., in 1860; James B. died in Louisiana, Sept. 9, 1836. This is the uncle after whom you are named.
   James Bradley Haile, your uncle, was born May 29, 1806. Studied law in Rochester, N. Y., went to Brookville, Ind., in 1830; commenced the practice of law, and in a few years was elected Chancellor of the State. Married Catherine Jacobs, Amy. 25, 1833. James B., only child of your uncle, was born Aug. 6, 1834, died Jan. 21, 1835. Ashbel Bradford (twin brother of the above), graduated at Yale College; studied medicine. Married Mary H. May, Oct. 31, 1843. His wife was born in Savannah, Ga., June 10, 1816. Gertrude, daughter of Ashbel B. and Mary H. Haile, was born Sept. 29, 1850. Your uncle, Ashbel B., is a practicing physician in Norwich, Conn.
   Ashbel Johnson, your great-grandfather on your grandmother's side, was born May 22, 1750. Jane Porter, his wife, was born April 6, 1755, married Jan. 4, 1772.
   Children: William, born April 16, 1773; David, Feb. 6, 1775; Ebenezer, Feb. 14, 1777; Lucy, Dec. 6, 1778; Pattie, March 29, 1780; Ashbel, June 30, 1782; Tabitha (your grandmother), Jan. 12, 1784; Ezekiel, Nov. 20, 1785; Nabby, Nov 2, 1788; Samuel, Dec. 29, 1789; Polly, March 14, 1792; Ward, Nov. 20, 1793; Stephen, Feb. 3, 1796. Thirteen in all.
   This family lived in Dummerston, Vt. Your grandmother when young was a great beauty. She was noted far and wide for her beauty and splendid teeth. She was regarded as the most daring and

graceful horseback rider in all New England. She was a very intellectual woman; retained her beauty to old age; was large and fleshy.
   Andrew Jackson Haile, your uncle, was born in Gouverneur, N. Y., July 5, 1819. Married to present wife, Annie Deborah Harlan, July 29, 1848.
   Children: Willie James, born May, 30, 1851, in Kentucky; Charles Horatis, Jan. 30, 1854, in Missouri; Walter Frank, June 9, 1856, in Tennessee; Andrew Johnson, Nov. 12, 1868, in Tennessee.
   Your aunt Annie was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 30, 1832. She is of a distinguished Maryland family. Her grandfather on her father's side was at one time Governor of New Jersey; and her grandfather on her mother's side was Governor of Maryland.
   Remarks: Hesekiah Hix married Desie Carpenter, who were your great-great-grandparents on your grandfather's side in the female line. That is, your grandfather's mother's maiden name was Hix, hence your father's middle name (Hix). The correct spelling of our name is Haile. It is an English name and ought not to be corrupted. The English Hailes were always loyal to the Crown. The emigration took place during the civils and during Cromwell's usurpation.
   Charles the First, King of England, was beheaded by Cromwell's friends Jan. 30, 1649. Fearing a like fate, man of his adherents left England. Upon the restoration of Charles the Second in 1660, after Cromwell's death, many of them returned to England and were received with great favor by the King. Some had patents of nobility issued to them. Among those were some of the Hailes, our ancestors. Sir Matthew Haile, the distinguished Chief Justice of the court of King's Bench, was one of our ancestors. In English works his name is spelled Haile.
   David Haile was another who was created a noble, and the title of Lord Dalrymple conferred upon him. Haile is still a distinguished name in England. The Hailes are eminently an agricultural or a literary people. Very few ever engaged in trade or the mechanical arts. The Hailes are also a moral and religious people. There is not known an instance of a Haile ever being a drunkard or convicted of an infamous crime.
   The Hales are in entirely different stock of people. John P. Hale. of New Hampshire, Eugene Hale, of Maine, noted politicians, are no relatives of ours. I do not know why your excellent father dropped the "i" out of his name, unless it was in accordance with his known habit of taking the shortest and most direct cut to everything.
   We, the Hailes, are proud of our names and our ancestry. Let us do nothing to detract from our high position, not even so much as the dropping of a letter from our name. The compiling of these records has cost a great deal of time, trouble, correspondence, searching old records, etc. I got a part of them from your uncle, Ashbel B., of Norwich, Conn., and hunted up the balance myself. All, every name and date, are absolutely correct.
   I could write a book full of interesting matter from these records, partly from personal knowledge of persons named and from history and tradition.
   Amos Hix Haile, father of James B. Haile, was born at Gouverneur, N. Y., March 30, 1813. Mary J. Major, his wife, was born at Washington, Ind., July 10, 1820. Married Sept. 19, 1844. Children: Eliza Ann, born April 17, 1846; James Bradley., Oct. 25, 1847: Laura Etta, March 30, 1851; Robert Major, Oct. 19, 1852; a son, born and died April 14, 1855; Susan Jane, born Dec. 11, 1856; Mary Amelia, Sept. 6, 1859; Lincona Bellmont, Nov. 8, 1860; Emma L., Feb. 3, 1863. Nine in all. Eliza married to William L. Dunton, in November, 1884; at the present time on a homestead in Elbert County, Col. Laura E., married Oct. 24, 1875, to Friend Buel, one of Lancaster County's thrifty farmers and stock-growers. Susan J., married to William H. Seaverns, Oct. 13, 1881; now on a thriving homestead in Wallace County, Kan. Mary A., married to Charles E. Borg, Oct. 11, 1881. Emma L., married to James W. Rouse, Feb. 3, 1882, now living at Hiawatha, Brown Co., Kan. James W. Rouse is an excellent railroad conductor now in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Amos Hix Haile died June 6, 1871. He came to Nebraska and settled on Salt Creek, Nov. 3, 1866, while the present State was yet a Territory.
   James B. Haile was born at Springville, Ind., Oct. 25, 1847. Lucy A. Sanford, his wife, was born

at Washington, Ind., Dec. 19,1849. Married Jan. 25, 1870. Children: Robert Major, born Dec. 26, 1870; John Clark, Aug. 23, 1873; Emma Josephine, Nov. 22, 1874; Amos Hix, May 1, 1877; Eric Edgar, July 16, 1879; Edith Susan, Dec. 11, 1881; Bessie B., July 30, 1883; Stuart Grant, Oct. 22, 1885.

MOS GREENAMYRE, proprietor of the well-known South Side Fruit and Stock Farm on section 34, in Grant Precinct, has distinguished himself as one of the stirring and energetic men of this region. who started out in life dependent upon his own resources, and who, by the exercise of industry and perseverance, has, accumulated a fine property and secured for himself an enviable position among his fellow-citizens. He owns 320 acres of some of the choicest land in Lancaster County, where he has erected a fine set of farm buildings and effected the other improvements in keeping with the means and tastes of one of its leading citizens. In his operations as a stock-grower he has been especially successful, dealing mostly in Short-horn cattle, Poland-China swine and Norman horses. In horticulture he handles mostly the smaller fruits. The artist enables us to offer a clear and helpful picture, and presents a faithfully executed view of the elegant residence and fine out-buildings of this property, and also some of its immediate and picturesque surroundings.
   Our subject is the offspring of an excellent family of German extraction, his father being Solomon Greenamyre, a native of Mahoning County, Ohio. The mother, who in her girlhood was Miss Mary Best, was a native of the same county as her hushand, where she spent her entire life, and died about 1847. The father later removed to Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill., where he was a resident for a period of thirty years. In March, 1887, he came to Lincoln, this State, where his death took place about six months afterward, on the 6th of August.
   The parents of our subject had a family of two sons and six daughters, of whom Amos was the eldest. He was born in Milton, Mahoning Co., Ohio, March 17, 1840, received a good practical education in the on schools, and became familiar with farm pursuits. He lived at home with his parents until twenty-four years old, in the meantime removing with them to Bureau County, Ill., and from there, in 1880, made, his way to this county and rented a tract of land on section 34 in Grant Precinct, a part of which he subsequently became owner of. While in Illinois he formed the acquaintance of Miss Margaret Sister, and they were married in Princeton, Aug. 25, 1864.
   The wife of our subject is the daughter of George and Nancy (Perkins) Sister, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter born near Saratoga Springs, N. Y. After marriage they settled in Bureau County, Ill., among its earliest pioneers, and there the mother died in 1853. The father is still living in Bureau County, residing near Princeton. Their family consisted of four daughters and one son, and Margaret was the second child. She was born near Princeton, June 11, 1845, and continued a member of the parental household until her marriage, acquiring a fair education in the common schools, and becoming familiar with all useful domestic employments. After the model mother of Scripture, she looks well to the ways of her household and the comfort of her family, and thus fills the admirable position of a faithful and praiseworthy wife and mother.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Greenamyre there have been born twelve children, one of whom, Mary, died when three months old, in August, 1869. The eleven surviving are George W., Maggie, Myrtle, Howard, Daisy, Lilly, Solomon, Kittie, Rose, Susie and Harold. The eldest of these is twenty-three years of age and the youngest one. On the twentieth anniversary of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs, Greenamyre received at their beautiful home numbers of their friends and relatives, and the occasion was made one of general rejoicing during which they received many substantial testimonials of the estimation in which they are held by the community.
   The extensive business and farming interests of our subject prevent him from mixing very much in political affairs, but he keeps himself posted upon matters of general interest and is a strong supporter of Republican principles. Both he and his estimable wife are regular attendants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and take much interest in