his farm. Mrs. Hurst made her home with her father until her marriage with Mr. Wood, and has all her life been associated with agricultural life. She owns 160 acres of land, well improved and stocked, which her late husband obtained when a voting man. He was by trade a mechanic in the line of carpenter. He died at his home in this county on the 8th of February, 1846, at the age of forty-seven years. He was the father of seven children; two daughters, Katie A. and Katie E. are both deceased. The surviving children are named as follows: Charles W., May B., Kate A., Lizzie G. and Sylvester H. By her second marriage there are four children, one, George H., being deceased. The remaining children are named as follows: Mary C., Edwin K. and Frederick H.
   Mr. Horst still retains his membership in the Baptist Church. and is pleased to have his wife. two daughters and sons with him in that relation. Upon two occasions Mr. Hurst has been nominated for Representative of the county, but was defeated. For twenty years he held the office of Justice of the Peace. Two sons of our subject were in the Rebellion, and represented the family in its patriotic devotion. One was wounded at Nashville, and the other honorably discharged, owing to physical disability. Politically, our subject is a Democrat, and a stanch adherent of the party.

ON. FRANCIS SIM, a well-known and wealthy citizen of Otoe County, was in former days prominently identified with its pioneers. and is now one of its most prosperous farmers. Since coming here thirty-two years ago he has accumulated a large and valuable property, and the home that he has built for himself and family is one of the pleasantest in all Otoe Precinct. He was born in County Cornwall, England, May 9, 1821, and his father and grandfather, both named Philip Sim, were natives of the same county. The latter was a farmer and a miller, and spent his entire life in the place of his birth.
   The father of our subject early learned the trade of wool-comber, but did not engage in that long, but went to butchering, and later was employed in farming and milling. He remained a resident of Cornwall until 1850, and then came to America to live with his son, our subject, remaining with him in his home in Middletown, Conn., until 1856, when the son came to Nebraska, and he went to visit a nephew in Wisconsin. In the spring of 1857 he came to Nebraska to make his home with his son, and died here in 1863. The maiden name of his wife, the mother of our subject, was Elizabeth Rowe, and she was a daughter of William and June (Dorrington) Rowe. She died about 1855 in her native town, in the county of Cornwall, England. There were four children born to her and her husband, three of whom grew to maturity. Our subject and his father were the only members of the family who came to the United States.
   Francis Sim was reared in his native town, and as soon as large enough he commenced to work in his father's mill, and learned from him the trade of miller. He was a very capable and spirited young man, and being ambitious to try life in the United States, where he thought his labor would be better remunerated, and that he would thus be enabled to gain a competence and establish a comfortable home. He set sail from Falmouth, April 19, 1848, and after a voyage. of six weeks landed in New York City the following June. He made his way to Middletown, Conn., where he found employment in a factory for the manufacture of locks, hinges, etc. For three years and ten months he was thus employed by one man. He then went to work in another factory, where squares, bevels and rules were made. At the end of a year he went to work in a pump factory for a year, owned by W. and B. Douglass. After that he opened a corporation boarding-house for the Russell Manufacturing Company, and was thus employed by that company until 1856, when he concluded to start West and try to secure a home where lands were cheap.
   During his residence in Connecticut Mr. Sim had married, in 1849, Miss Sarah M. Clark becoming his wife, and to her devoted assistance he is greatly indebted for his after success. She was born in Haddam, Conn., a daughter of Daniel and Wealthy (Burr) Clark, natives of Connecticut. There were ten children born of that marriage, four of whom are now living--Philip, William, John and Charles.

Mrs. Sim departed this life April 11, 1880, leaving many friends to pay tribute to her worth.
   Mr. Sim's marriage to his present estimable wife took place Dec. 3, 1880. She was formerly Miss Eliza Manery, a native of County Down, Ireland. Her father, John Manery, was born in the same county, and her grandfather, James Manery, was born in County Armagh, Ireland, but he spent his last years in County Down. Mrs. Sim's father came to America in 1874, and settled in Thayer County, Neb., where he still resides. The maiden name of his wife was Eliza Kilpatrick, and she was likewise of County Down. Mrs. Sim came to America in 1861, and resided in Quebec, Canada, until 1873, when she came to Nebraska. and has lived here ever since. To them has been born a daughter, Elizabeth.
   When Mr. Sim came to Nebraska, in 1856, he went by steamer through Long Island Sound and up the Hudson River to Troy, N. Y., thence by rail to Buffalo, where he embarked on the lake for Detroit, from there to Chicago and St. Louis by rail, and from the latter point on a steamer to Nebraska City, where he landed September 19. He bought a squatter's claim to a tract of land on section 23 of Otoe Precinct, and he moved with his family into a log cabin standing on the place, and when the land came into the market he entered it from the Government at the land-office in Nebraska City. Since then he has been very successful, and has added to his landed estate until he now owns 575 acres of as rich and productive land as lies under the sunny skies of Nebraska. He has his land divided up into three fine farms, two of which are managed by his sons. Each of his farms is supplied with excellent and substantial frame buildings, and with all the appurtenances for conducting agriculture in the most approved manner.
   In the thirty-two years that have passed since Mr. Sim came here to seek a home, he has witnessed the wonderful growth of Nebraska from an almost absolutely wild condition, with but few inhabitants, and with deer, wild turkeys, wolves and other wild animals roaming across the boundless, uncultivated prairies, to a rich and powerful State, with magnificent farms, thriving cities, busy towns and countless beautiful homes, with scarcely a trace of its former wildness, excepting, perhaps, in the more remote portions of the State. As a man of sound wisdom, ability and honesty, Mr. Sim became conspicuous among the early settlers of this State in Territorial days, and took an active part in public affairs. In 1863 he was elected as Representative to the Territorial Council, or Legislature. In politics he is a stanch Republican.

REDERICK A. STUKENHOLTZ. Prosperous and enterprising as a farmer, highly esteemed in the community, and one of the most earnest supporters of educational and religious institutions, this gentleman is eminently worthy a place in a history of Otoe County. Moreover, he is one of its pioneers, and has done what has lain in his power to assist its onward and upward progress. He now owns 404 acres of splendid farming land, situated as follows: on section 29, sixty acres, on section 32. 160 acres, on section 31, 160 acres, and on section 35, twenty-four acres.
   The subject of our sketch is the son of Frederick G. Stukenholtz, and was born near the city of Herford, Prussia, on the 2d of October, 1831. It was his misfortune to lose his mother when he was about four years of age, her death occurring year 1835. She left seven children, who bore the names here appended: Harmon H., Henny, Annie, Mary, Casper H., Frederick A. and Sophia.
   For the first thirty-six years of his life our subject lived in Prussia, receiving a splendid home and good religious training, though his educational opportunities were very limited. His large enterprise and love of liberty could not brook the restraints of imperialism, and resulted in his coming to the Land of the Free. He sailed from Bremen Sept. 14, 1851, in company with his sister Sophia, and arrived in New York on the 4th of November, 1851. His first efforts to obtain work were made in Buffalo, where, beginning at the very bottom of the ladder, he began by cutting wood. After one year in that city he went to Lockport, Niagara County, and for two years worked upon a farm.
   While at Lockport our subject made the acquaintance of Anna M. E. Hauptman, the daughter of