America when she was seven years old, Eleven children blessed their union, of whom the following six are living: Carl, Selma, Anna, Edward, Ida and Lain. The faithful wife and devoted mother passed to her reward March 23, 1887.
   Our subject was married to his present wife July 19, 1888. Her maiden name was Dora Wendt, and she was born in Mecklenburg, Germany. She came to America with her parents, Henry and Dorothea Wendt, in 1857, and they settled in Davenport, Iowa. She was married there to John Haacker a native of Germany, and she had two children by her first marriage, Ida and Julius.
   Mr. Guenzel is classed among the most intelligent agriculturists of this community, and he well understands how to apply the best modes of cultivation to the soil so as to obtain the richest results. He is sturdy, sober, industrious man, well endowed mentally and physically, and is regarded as an upright citizen. He and his estimable wife are active members of the Lutheran Church, and contribute generously of their means to the support of the Gospel. In politics he is a Republican.

RED DAMMA, who was one of the first settlers of Osage, and also is one of the prominent and worthy representative German-American citizens, is at the same time one of the prosperous and intelligent farmers and stock-raisers of that precinct, and owns 760 acres of thoroughly improved land, 480 on section 35, and the balance in McWilliams Precinct. His parents, Henry and Katie Damma, were born in Germany. They came to America in 1843, taking Ship at Bremen. The ocean passage occupied a period of eight weeks. Then they were landed at the city of New Orleans, after which they pursued their journey up the Mississippi by steamer to St. Louis. From that city by means of wagons they went on to Franklin County, Mo., where land was purchased and a farm improved. This was the home of the family until 1856, when the father died, after a sickness of about twenty-four hours, thus closing a life of sixty years. The cause of death was cholera. His wife had died at the close of 1852, aged fifty-four years.
   The following are the names of their children: William, Minnie (deceased), Henry, Minnie (deceased), Frederick, August, Louis and Louisa.
   The subject of our sketch was born in Prussia on the 21st of March, 1837, and was thus quite young when his parents emigrated to this country. The scenes furnished by his first recollections are those of the home and its surroundings in Franklin County, Mo. He continued to reside with his parents until he was seventeen years of age, during that time imbibing the first principles of an education, and also becoming practically acquainted with the farm and farm work. Upon leaving home he went to Illinois and there worked out upon a farm. In 1859 he went to Nebraska City and had so prospered as to be able to purchase his present property of 160 acres. As most purchases of a similar nature were at the time, it was entirely without improvement, and what is to-day seen in the various departments is all the result of his work, intelligence, ambition and prosperity.
   In beginning life in this State our subject found that it was not by any means a path without obstacles, difficulties and hardships. There were many things to be put up with, experienced and overcome entirely unknown to the farmer of the present. It is to his credit that he has made the progress he has. His nearest market either for the sale of produce and stock or the purchase of supplies was Nebraska City. Every piece of lumber used upon his house and buildings he had to haul from the same place.
   It is patent that Mr. Damma is prosperous in his undertakings and successful in the operation of his farm, for since taking the original 160 acres he has purchased 320 acres in Osage, all of improved land, fenced and hedged; also 280 acres in McWilliams Precinct, so that the total acreage of his estate is 760 acres, all of improved and cultivated land. He still superintends the home farm, the remainder he rents. He is now chiefly engaged in stock-rising, and is the owner of a herd of 150 head of very fine cattle.
   Our subject has been twice married. First in 1863, in Franklin County, Mo., to Miss Christine Rhodenier. Her parents were born in Germany, but emigrated to this country, and settled in

Missouri, where they still reside. Their daughter Christine was the eldest of seven children; she was born in Germany in the year 1843, and died in Osage in the year 1869, leaving three children, viz: Louisa, George and Charles. Louisa is now married to August Butts, the well-known blacksmith of Talmage, and has two children, who bear the names Christine and Elsie.
   The second marriage of our subject was celebrated in McWilliams Precinct, on the 17th of September, 1872. He then became the husband of Miss Annie Naman, who was likewise a native of the Fatherland, where she was born on the 28th of June, 1845. Her parents, John and Minnie (Houtels) Naman, emigrated to America in 1873, and are at present living in Hendricks Precinct. where they farm eighty acres of land. Their daughter Annie was the eldest of eight children who formed their family circle. To Mr. and Mrs. Damma have been born seven children, whose names we mention as follows: Herman, Minnie, Christine, John, Katie, Caroline and Matilda.
   Our subject and wife are both members of the Lutheran Evangelical Church at Osage, and were in fact charter members of that organization and helped largely in the building of the church. There they are highly respected, as they are also in every other circle in that community. Ever since he has understood the political situation in his adopted country Mr. Damma has been allied with the Republican party and voted its ticket.
   A view of Mr. Damma's place is presented on an adjoining page.

ILLIAM T. SLOAN has been engaged in the sale of farming implements in Nebraska City since 1871, and has established a large and prosperous business in that line. He is a native of Missouri, born in the town of Otterville, Cooper County, May 11, 1834. His father, William Sloan, was born in Tennessee, and his father, Alexander Sloan, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Kanawha County, W. Va., finally removing from there to Tennessee. He was a gun-smith by trade, and during the Revolutionary War was in the employ of the Colonists. About 1800 he moved from Tennessee to Barren County, Ky., and in 1819 became an early settler,of Cooper County, in the same State. He took up a tract of timber land there, and cleared a farm, on which he made his home the remainder of his life.
   The father of our subject was reared in his native State, and went from there to Kentucky with his parents. He subsequently took up a tract of Government land in Missouri, and built a log house to shelter his family, the same in which our subject was born. It had no chimney, and his wife did her cooking by a fireplace outside. He kept sheep and raised flax, and his wife used to spin and weave all the cloth used in the family for years. There were then no railroads, no manufactories, nor any markets in that part of the country. Mr. Sloan kept stock, but all that he could sell to get cash was the fat steers, that would bring $12 apiece when driven to the Baltimore (Md.) market. There were very few wagon roads in the country at that early date, and often merchandise was packed on horseback for transportation. Mr. Sloan resided on the farm that he had developed from a wild state until his death in 1870, at the age of seventy-five. He was greatly respected in the community where he had resided for so many years, as he was a faithful, law-abiding citizen, and did his share in developing the country. The maiden name of his wife, the mother of our subject, was Jane B. Alcorn, and she was born in Kentucky about the year 1803. Her father, James A. Alcorn, moved to the Territory of Missouri, and was a pioneer of what is now known as Howard County, being one of the earliest settlers there. At that time the Indians made their home there and were very hostile, and as a protection against them the settlers built a fort, in which they resided. Whenever they went to the fields to work, they always carried their muskets, yet, in spite of this precaution, it was not infrequently the case that a settler would be found massacred. Mr. Alcorn took up a tract of land, on which he located as soon as the Indian troubles ceased. He spent most of his last years with the parents of our subject. He was a man of considerable power, and was influential and prominent in public affairs, and