mental in obtaining the location of the church at Roca, the first services having been held in a hall over a blacksmith-shop, the Rev. M. S. Melick officiating by request of our subject and a few other early settlers. Mr. Stein is at present the Superintendent of a Sunday-school of fifty pupils, and is one of the Church Trustees.
   Besides his interest in religious works our subject ranks high in political standing, belonging to the Democratic party, and having been the Judge of Elections in Saltillo Precinct ever since his arrival in Nebraska. Having successfully combated (sic) misfortune, and raised himself to a position of influence among his fellowmen by his own energy and unfailing courage, he is entitled by right to theuniversal esteem in which he is held.

LGIN E. MOTT, of Middle Creek Precinct. is a descendant of an old and representative family of the Empire State. He was born in Oxford County, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, on the 30th of June, 1849. His father, Aden Mott, was born in the same place, and Moses Mott, the father of Aden, was a native of Dutchess County, N. Y., while his father, Sears Mott, the great-grandfather of our subject, was also a native of the Empire State, from which he removed in 1811 with his wife and six children to the Dominion.
   The journey of Sears Mott on his way to Canada was made throughout the entire distance by means of a wagon and teams, which provided them with a means of locomotion by day, and served the purpose of hotel and chamber at night. They took with them one of their cows, and it was noted that while en route the cream that had been preserved, was, by the motion of the wagon as it rolled and jolted on its way, fully churned into the usual oleoginous compound. Upon arrival in Oxford County he found the common wild animals, and game of every variety in almost limitless profusion. He proceeded at once to enter a tract of timber land, and from it to hew for himself a farm and establish a homestead. He was a veritable pioneer, and his farm was 100 miles from Little York, the nearest market, where all business must needs be transacted.
   Journeying to and from this point was possible only by teams, and a week was consumed in every round trip made. Upon this property he continued to reside until his death.
   The maiden name of Mrs. Sears Mott was Mariam Tompkins. This brave lady, who so nobly shared the pioneer life of her husband in the above mentioned locality, was a native of New York. The son, Moses Mott, the grandfather of our subject, was twelve years of age when his parents removed to Oxford County. He remained upon the farm with them, and as he grew in years, strength and experience, entered with zest into all the varied engagements of their daily life. Upon the death of his father he inherited the property, and so attached was he to the old home that he continued to reside there until his death, which occurred on the 21st of December, 1885, when he was seventy-two years of age. Elizabeth Emigh, who was a native of New York State, became his wife, and presented him with a son, to whom was given the name of Aden.
   The father of our subject, Aden Mott, was reared in his native county. In its schools he received his education, and became fully conversant with all the various details and minutia of farm work. At twenty-one years of age he commenced to teach school, and continued so to do for a period of about seven years. In the year 1849 he was united in wedlock with Paulina Lossing, a native of Oxford County, who was born upon the 5th of April, 1830. The young couple settled upon a farm given them by Mr. Mott, father of the groom, and there they continued to make their home. The fate of Aden Mott is shrowded in mystery; about the year 1861 he came to the States and went South; it is supposed he enlisted, and met with the fate of War, but he has never been heard from, nor could any news regarding him be obtained.
   The father of Mrs. Aden Mott, Mr. Edmund Lossing, was a native of Dutchess County, N. Y., and was the son of Peter Lossing, who was born in the same county and State, while the father of this gentleman, John Lossing, who stands in the relation of great-great-grandfather to our subject, was born in Holland, Europe. He came to America, and settled in Dutchess County, N. Y., where the family remained until the emigration of Peter Lossing to

Canada in the year 1810; there he took a tract of Government land, made his clearing, built a log cabin, and went on with his agricultural pursuits, continuing till his death. He was a thoroughly well-educated man, and was frequently called upon by his neighbors in council upon knotty points, religious, socially and legally; papers such as contracts, deeds and wills, were usually drawn up by him on their behalf. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and a preacher of acknowledged power in that church, and enjoyed the respect and affection of all his neighbors.
   The grandfather of our subject, Edmund Lossing, was sixteen years of age when his parents moved to Oxford County. He settled upon a piece of timber land, and followed the usual course of clearing a farm, making it his home till his death. Like his parents he was a member of the Quaker community, and one of its most devout members. He was married to Sarah English, a native of Ireland, and daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Watts) English. This lady died on the homestead in 1837. The mother of our subject knew no home but her parents' residence until her marriage. At present she lives with our subject in Middle-Creek Precinct; she has been a lifelong member of the Society of Friends.
   Our subject early gave evidence of the large mental and moral power he possessed, which in the Christian atmosphere of his home and the discipline and study of the public school were carefully developed in him. In 1872 he opened a cheese factory, and in this business continued very successfully for about eight seasons. He then embarked in the manufacture of crackers, starting a factory, which he operated for one year, and at the end of that period entered into the general mercantile business in Norwich. He came to Lancaster County in 1880, and purchased 330 acres of land in Middle Creek Precinct. In 1883 he settled on his present property, to which he has since devoted his time and attention.
   Mr. Elgin Mott has been twice married, first in 1871 while living in Canada, when he was united with Maria Harris, daughter of Alvin and Margaret Harris, all natives of the Dominion. This lady died in March, 1878, leaving a daughter Jessie. The second alliance was entered into in January, 1884, the lady of his choice being Jane Murdy, who was born in Welland County, Ontario. This union has been blessed by the birth of one child, to whom has been given the name of Florence.
   For many years Mr. and Mrs. Mott have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which communion their conscientious living has gained for them a large circle of friends. Until recently our subject has been a devoted admirer of the principles of the Republican party, and has always been active and outspoken in its support. Feeling the weight, however, of the arguments of the Prohibition party, and realizing the innumerable evils caused by the use of intoxicants, he has withdrawn from the former, and is now actively engaged with the Prohibitionists.

HOMAS JENKINS. The Buckeye State has produced many remarkable men who have helped to make the history of their country, and in some instances possibly change the course of the "stream of time," in regard to some points of local, and even National history. Among these will doubtless come to mind the name of Chief Justice Waite, in the judiciary world, Hancock, of military fame, and the beloved James A. Garfield, the dutiful son, earnest scholar, enthusiastic teacher, eloquent preacher, intrepid soldier, able lawyer and martyred President.
   It were an honor, indeed. to any man to be born in a State where such men have been reared. The subject of this biography is a native of Ohio, and has done his part to the retaining of an honorable name for his State by his life, character and success. Thomas Jenkins, whose life is here sketched, was born in Miami County, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1829, and is one of the very early settlers of West Oak Precinct, where he owns upon section 21 a beautiful and well-cultivated farm. comprising 160 acres. Our subject is the son of Eli Jenkins, likewise a native of Ohio, where he was born in 1785. The usual institution provided the material for his early instruction, and after he had finished school he was sent to learn the trade of millwright, which, with

milling, became his principal occupation. Among the work done by him that may be noted is the mill at Vermilion River, Ill., which was the first mill in that district; another one built by him is that situated between Danville and Eugene. The last mill that he owned and operated, also the work of his own hand, is that between Georgetown, Ill., and Perrysville, Ind., which continued to be his home until his death, at the age of fifty-six, in the year 1841. He was married to Ruth Mendenhall, and their happiness was greatly enhanced by ten children, all of whom it was their privilege to see grow up to years of man and womanhood, and of whom three are still living. The wife, mother of our subject, died in the year 1859, at the home of our subject.
   Thomas Jenkins, the subject of this writing, while still an infant in his mother's arms, accompanied his parents upon their removal to Vermilion County, Ill., where they were among the first settlers. Their method of locomotion was somewhat primitive, but at that time quite usual. All their goods were put into two wagons, which the team pulled as best they were able over road and prairie, now smooth and now rough, and thus the journey proceeded, and with its difficulties and dangers, sunshine and shower, brightness and shadow, somewhat suggestive of the longer journey, in which we are all participants, across the level prairie of time, toward that undiscovered country, the other side the River, where, as Dante suggests, there waits a boatman to carry us o'er.
   In education our subject was somewhat more fortunate than many of his contemporaries, for he received a practical and somewhat liberal academic education at Georgetown, after he had completed the curriculum in the little log school-house, with its large open fireplace, oiled paper window, slab seats and mud floor. Schooling finished, our subject took up the profession of teaching, and from his recent experience was abundantly capable of teaching the young ideas the true method of vegetating. From this he turned his attention to the trade of wagon-maker, in company with his brother, and continued at the same until his marriage, in 1855.
   Our subject was united in marriage on the 12th of July, 1855. Their family circle comprised three children, of whom two grew to years of discretion, Charles and John C.; neither of them is married. The maiden name of the wife of our subject was Martha Caraway, who was born Nov. 17, 1824, in Greenbrier County, W. Va., and was the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Caraway. The family removed to Illinois in 1833, their daughter residing with them until her marriage. Mrs. Jenkins was called to leave her husband and family by death on the 6th of August, 1885.
   For about two years after marriage our subject continued the manufacture of wagons with his brother, then removed to Mattoon, Ill., and for a time went on with the same business, but in 1862 gave his attention to the manufacture of woolen goods at Mattoon, and also at Palestine. In this business he was very successful for a time, but the War of the Rebellion proved quite a blow to his business, and shortly before its close he had to sell out at a loss.
   In the year 1874 our subject moved West, and came to this farm, which he had purchased two years previously at $6 per acre. This was an entirely new departure from the never-ceasing clatter of machinery, and the rush of commercial life; out amid the eternal silence of the wild, unbroken prairie he began his labor; first, in the erection of a sod house, which must suffice the bold pioneer until a more substantial building can be erected. In after days, when the farm had been somewhat improved, when he had reaped the golden reward of the harvest-home, he erected the substantial and withal pretty frame building which is now his home, adding from time to time the other out-buildings of the farm. Our subject is giving considerable attention to the department of stock-raising, and is the owner of a very fine herd of Short-horns, and other stock in keeping.
   Recognizing the worth of our subject as a man and citizen, the people elected him Alderman while a resident of Mattoon. He has also for nine years been School Director in this place. Mr. Jenkins, was recently a candidate for the Legislature upon the Prohibition ticket, and the high regard in which he is held by the community is most eloquently told in the recorded fact that at the time of the

election he received every vote in his precinct, excepting five. He has been the leader of the Prohibition party in his district for a long time, and is very energetic in behalf of what he believes to be the right. He and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Jenkins has for several years been the Sunday-school Superintendent.

AMES PENNOCK WALTON was born in Chester, Meigs Co., Ohio, Dec. 3, 1847, and is the eldest child of five born to James S. and Clarissa Warner (Cutter) Walton. His brother, Ephraim Cutter, was born March 8, 1851. but died in September of the following year. William Cutter, the next child, was born April 24, 1854. Another son, Edward Payson, was born Oct. 14, 1855, and died April 18, 1864. The last child. Lucy Margaret, was born April 21, 1857, and died June 18,1861.
   James Shoemaker Walton, the father of our subject, was born at Kennett Square, near Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 13, 1817, and was the third of a family of nine children. Phoebe, the eldest, was born Nov. 15, 1812, and has been twice married. Her first husband was a Mr. Valentine; after his decease she was married to a Mr. Clarke, whom she still survives. Lydia, the second child, was born Oct. 2, 1814. and died May 25, 1849. The fourth child, Esther C., was born Jan. 24, 1819. On the 1st of January, 1850, she was, married to David C. Perry, whom she still survives. The fifth child, Joshua P., was born Aug. 3, 1822, and was married to Elizabeth Swain Jan. 1, 1847. The sixth child, Sarah, was born Aug. 24, 1824, and died April 7, 1843; Elias H., the seventh child, was born Dec. 26, 1826; he was married, Nov. 29, 1859, to Sarah E. Gibbs. and after her decease to Elizabeth Craddock. on May 14, 1868. The eighth child, Albert G., was born June 30, 1829. The youngest, William, was born Dec. 6, 1832, and died Aug. 2, 1833.
   James S. Walton, the father of our subject, spent his boyhood days at home. About 1825-30 he removed with his father to Ohio and took up his residence in the city of Cincinnati. After learning the carpenter's trade, in which he served in apprenticeship of seven years in Cincinnati. his desire to complete his education and prepare himself to preach the Gospel led him to enter Marietta College, at Marietta, Ohio. Here it was necessary for him to support himself and provide for the expenses of his education, by working at his trade during vacations, and at such times as he could spare from his studies. After completing the classical course in this college he was graduated in the class of '43, receiving the degree of A. M. In order to thoroughly prepare himself for his chosen profession, he entered Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated about the year 1845.
   Having completed the preparation for his life work, Mr. Walton immediately entered the ministry of the Gospel, and devoted his entire energies to the service of the Master whom he loved, and whose injunction to "preach the Gospel to every creature" he accepted as the guiding motive of his life. He was ordained the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Chester, Meigs Co., Ohio, where he remained several years. From here he removed to Barlow, Washington Co., Ohio, and was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at that place for some years. From there he moved to Warren, Washington Co., Ohio, and after a pastorate of about five years with the Presbyterian Church there, he removed to Pana, Christian Co., Ill., in the fall of 1858. As pastor of the Presbyterian Church at that place he continued in the Ministry until about 1865, when failing health and a partial failure of his hearing made it necessary for him to retire from the active service as a minister, in which he had been constantly engaged for about twenty years. He then moved onto a farm about two miles from Pana, where he resided until his death. Here he devoted himself to farming and fruit culture, but still gave as much time as his health would permit to the service of churches in the vicinity that were too weak to support a pastor, or to preaching in neighborhoods where there were no churches.
   While in charge of the church at Pana Rev. Walton found many young men and women anxious to secure a better education than could be obtained in the public schools at that time. To meet this demand he opened a private academy, which was conducted most successfully until the failure of

health which caused his retirement from the ministry made it necessary to relinquish this work also. In this enterprise he was greatly assisted by his wife, who was a highly educated lady, and had been a very successful teacher previous to her marriage. His political associations and sympathies were with the Republican party. He admired the keen arguments of Abraham Lincoln in favor of equal rights and equal justice for all men, North and South, white and black, and during the Presidential campaign of 1860 he drove fifty miles to hear Lincoln speak. He was a consistent advocate of anti-slavery principles, and his views and utterances on this question were based on a deep-rooted conviction that human slavery was wrong and ought to be abolished. Although of Quaker parentage and brought up under Quaker influences, he favored the vigorous prosecution of the war, and his sympathies and his prayers were always with the armies of the Union, and with the men who were striving to save the Nation's life. He was a devoted Christian, a faithful pastor and a sympathetic friend. In his social and domestic relations he exhibited the spirit of the Great Master whom he served. His death occurred Oct. 1, 1874, at Pana, and his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery near his home, among the friends whom he had served so faithfully and well, and who had learned to love him through the years of his ministrations in the Gospel in their midst.
   The wife of Rev. J. S. Walton was Miss Clarissa Warner Cutter, to whom he was married Sept. 8, 1846. She was the youngest child in a family of eleven children. The eldest, Polly, was born in Killingly, Windham Co., Conn., May 11, 1788, and died while on the journey to the State of Ohio, on the 12th of September, 1795. The second child, Nancy, was born at Killingly, Feb. 25, 1790; Charles was also born at Killingly, March 30, 1792, and died of cholera, May 24, 1849, while en route to California; the fourth child, Hesekiah, was born at Killingly, March 13, 1794, and died while on the journey to Ohio, Aug. 20, 1795. The next two children were born at Waterford, Mary, July 30, 1796, and Daniel Converse, Feb. 20, 1799. The remaining children were born at Warren, Ohio. Sarah, April 17, 1809, and was married, Jan. 20, 1829, to Henry Dawes, whom she still survives; Manasseh was born July 25, 1810, and died Oct. 2, 1822; William Barker was born July 12, 1812; Julia Perkins, the tenth child, June 24, 1815. The two last are still living. The youngest child, Clarissa Warner, the mother of our subject, was born Oct. 28, 1816, was married, Sept. 8, 1846, to Rev. James S. Walton, and died at Pana, Ill., July 8, 1874, followed by her husband within three months. Her father, Judge Ephriam Cutter, was born in Massachusetts, April 13, 1767. He married Leah Atwood, who was the mother of the first six children in his family. After her decease he married Sally Parker. In September, 1795, he removed to the new settlement at Marietta, Ohio, where he was prominently connected with public affairs until his death, July 8, 1853. His father, the great-grandfather of our subject, was the Rev. Manasseh Cutter, LL. D., a native of Connecticut, born May 13, 1742, at Thompson, near Killingly. This gentleman was a lineal descendant of James Cutter, a native of Norfolkshire, England, who came to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay about 1634.
   Dr. Manasseh Cutter was a Chaplain in the Federal army during the Revolutionary War. After the close of the war, as agent for the Ohio Company, he negotiated the purchase from Congress of the lauds northwest of the Ohio River, known as "The Ohio Company's Purchase," and "The Scioto Company's Purchase," comprising the eastern half of what is now the State of Ohio. In the interest of his associates and their descendants he prepared the sections in the celebrated ordinances of 1787, which forever prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory. It provided that no person in said Territory should ever he molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, and also for the setting aside of land in each township for the support of public schools, and for a grant of lands for the establishment of a university, and secured their inserting in the ordinance before its passage. From the provision mentioned above has grown our magnificent public school system, and our flourishing State universities.
   The mother of our subject was educated at the Young Ladies' Seminary, at Marietta, Ohio. After graduating from this institution she spent some years prior to her marriage in teaching, a portion of

the time in a Young Ladies' Seminary, at Bowling Green, Ky. After her marriage she entered heartily into the chosen life work of her husband. She aided him greatly in his duties as a pastor, and by her devoted Christian character and example added much to the efficiency of his work as a minister of the Gospel. She was untiring in her efforts to do good through the agency of the various benevolent societies connected with her church. During the War of the Rebellion her enthusiasm in the work of the Soldiers' Aid Society. at Pana, Ill., of which she was the President, caused her to give to it all the time and energy she could possibly spare from her many other duties, often at a great sacrifice of her own health and strength. But she felt amply repaid for the sacrifice by the reports that came back from hospital and field, of the suffering alleviated, the comfort given to the sick and wounded by the supplies and delicacies collected and forwarded through her efforts. She was a woman who made many and strong friends, and her death was mourned by a large circle of friends outside her own family, who felt that they had suffered a personal loss. Her body was laid away in the cemetery near her home at Pana, where two of her children were already buried, and where her husband was soon after laid beside her.
   From such a family, where noble, Christian principles and purposes controlled both thought and action, our subject came. His early life was spent under the influences and in the presence of an example calculated to inspire in his mind the love of knowledge, the appreciation of a practical Christian life inspired by the spirit of the Great Master, and a patriotic devotion to the principles of freedom and equality that he at the foundation of our Government. His early education and preparation for college were under the teaching of his parents. At sixteen years of age he entered college at Marietta, Ohio, and took up the classical course, but owing to poor health and a difficulty with his eyes, which developed rapidly toward the close of his junior year, he was compelled to abandon the remainder of his course.
   Having spent several of his vacations with engineer corps on railroad work, our subject now secured a position as a roadman in the engineering department of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad, when he was shortly after promoted to the position of transitman. He remained with this company about one year, when he became connected with the Springfield & Illinois Southeastern Railroad as a division engineer. After serving in this capacity for about one year in Southern Illinois, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Northern Division, and in the next year completed the location and most of the construction of that division. He then resigned this position and entered the employ of a construction company, and for several years was engaged in the location, construction and operation of railroads for this company.
   In January, 1875, Mr. Walton came to Lincoln, Neb., on business, and was so well pleased with the country that he decided to give up railroading and locate here, which he did early in the following spring. Shortly after he was appointed Deputy County Surveyor, and in the fall of 1875 he was elected to the office of County Surveyor, to which position he has been re-elected continuously for fourteen years. This fact speaks more plainly than words could do his fitness for the position, and the high place he has won in the esteem of his fellow citizens. In 1876 he was elected City Engineer of the city of Lincoln, Neb., and filled this position until 1881, and again from 1882 to 1885. In addition to these duties he has done considerable engineering work in different parts of the State.
   Mr. Walton's political associations and sympathies have always been with the Republican party. He firmly believes that the principles advocated by this party are those that have given our country the best government and the greatest prosperity in times past, and that these principles will be the basis for better government and a magnificent development and prosperity in the future. As a member of the Congregational Church he has received the esteem and high regard of those with whom he is associated.
   Mr. Walton was married, June 30, 1870, to Mary Annette Bailey, daughter of William D. and Mary A. (Ward) Bailey. Miss Bailey was born near Marietta, Ohio, April 17, 1849. One daughter, Mary Emerson Walton, was born to them March 25, 1872. She is at present attending the Nebraska State University, at Lincoln, and is a consistent and