his discharge from the army, in which he had served so faithfully, June 30, 1866.
   The Lieutenant after his retirement returned to his Pennsylvanian home, and visited his friends there until October, when he sought the then Territory of Nebraska to begin life anew in its invigorating climate. He came to Nebraska City, and in March, 1867, established himself in the jewelry business, buying the stock and good-will of the store. He has since added the sale of musical instruments and is doing a fine business. Our subject is a frank, unassuming man, and well endowed with those qualities that make him an important social factor of this community. He is prominently identified with the following organizations as a member: Western Star Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M.; Keystone Chapter No. 2, Royal Arch Masons; Mt. Olivet Commandery No. 2; William Baumer Post No. 24. G. A. R.; and military order of the Loyal Legion of the U. S. Commandery of Nebraska.
   Among the portraits of leading and well-known citizens of Otoe County may be found that of our subject.

DOLPH ALBRIGHT is recognized in the farming community of Belmont Precinct as one of its best citizens and most successful agriculturists. He at one time owned 500 acres of land. but deeded most of it to his son, reserving for himself eighty-five acres, which constitutes his homestead, and a very neat and comfortable one it is. His has been a career filled with industry, during which, by his excellent management and perseverance, he has accumulated a competence, surrounding himself and his family with all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life.
   The early home of our subject was in the Fatherland on the other side of the Atlantic, in the town of Gandersheim, Brunswick, where his birth took Place Feb. 16, 1833. His parents, Ludwig and Julia (Finkenstet) Albright, were natives of the same Province, and of pure German ancestry. They are now deceased. Their family consisted of seven children, of whom three are now living.
   Mr. Albright, in common with the children of his native country, was given a thorough education, and reared to manhood in his native town. In early youth he learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed for a period of twenty years. At the age of twenty-two, believing he could do better upon the soil of America than in his native Empire, he crossed the Atlantic, and was settled for a time in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he followed his trade until 1856.
   At the date above mentioned our subject, turning his face toward the Great West, crossed the Mississippi, and coming to this county located first in Nebraska City, where he followed his trade until the spring of 1870. He had in the meantime, with true German thrift and forethought, saved a snug sum of money, and invested a part of this in eighty-five acres of land in Belmont Precinct. Since that time he has made his home in this locality, fo lowing (sic) principally the pursuits of agriculture. He is accounted one of the most reliable citizens in the county, highly respected wherever known.
   Miss Louisa Schmidt became the wife of our subject in the 26th of September, 1858, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride in Nebraska City. Mrs. Albright was born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany, Oct. 19, 1837, and came to the United States in September, 1855. Of her union with our subject there have been born seven children, five of whom are living, namely: Emma, Alex, Lucy, Minnie and Mary. Emma is the wife of Theodore Wirth, a well-to-do farmer of Belmont Precinct, and the mother of two children--Anna and Olive. Lucy married Mr. Oswald Wirth, a brother of the above mentioned gentleman, who is residing in Belmont precinct. The other children are at home with their parents, and being given the education and training in keeping with their position in life. Mr. Albright has been generous with his property as regards his children, and nothing pleases him better than to see them prosperous and honored citizens.
   While a resident of Nebraska City Mr. Albright was a member of the Council for two terms, and he has also officiated as Assessor in Belmont Precinct four years. He was the Census Taker of this precinct in 1880, and that same year was also made the candidate of the Democratic party for their Representative in the State Legislature. He was

reared in the doctrines of the Lutheran Church, to which he loyally adheres, and which constituted the religious faith of his honored parents. Socially, he belongs to the I. O. O. F., and has passed all the Chairs in his lodge Nebraska City. He is a quiet, unassuming man, who invariably commands the respect of both friend and stranger.

ANIEL RIEGLE wherever known occupies a high place in the estimation of those by whom he is surrounded, and as one of the younger members of the farming community of Palmyra Precinct, active and industrious, is apparently destined to a successful future. His chief interests are centered in the homestead, comprising 160 acres on section 28, where he is giving his principal attention to stock-raising, and meeting with flattering success. He has had ample experience among the various employments of farm life, and entertains a genuine affection for the sweet-smelling soil, the growing crops and the golden harvests. With his tastes lying in this direction, and tempered by that practical application which must be connected with every enterprise successfully carried out, it is predicted for him that in the near future he will be a leading light among the business and agricultural interests lying along the western line of Otoe County.
   Winnebago County, Ill., was the early tramping ground of our subject, his birth having taken place one mile southeast of the beautiful little village of Davis, in a prairie region claimed to be the fairest in America. He first opened his eyes to the light Jan. 21, 1849, and is the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Hartzell) Riegel, who after lives of worthy industry are enjoying the fruits of their labors in a comfortable home at Davis, Ill. They are both natives of Pennsylvania, and of German ancestry. They emigrated from the Keystone State to Northern Illinois after their marriage, and at a time when the territory comprising the counties of Stephenson and Winnebago had scarcely been disturbed by the plowshare. The father secured a tract of land from the Government, and with the primitive implements at hand proceeded as best he could with the cultivation of the soil, while his family were sheltered in a small house in the prairie. As years passed by, and the country around him began to be settled up, the pioneer who was in the advance guard, uniformly keeping a little ahead of his neighbors, began to gather around him modern conveniences, and in due time the uncultivated tract of land was transformed into a valuable homestead.
   Among the other possessions of Jonathan and Elizabeth Riegle eleven children had come to bless their union, six sons and five daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch was the ninth in order of birth. They grew up intelligent and industrious, and following in the footsteps of their parents were "early to bed and early to rise," and if not becoming wealthy, became well-to-do and wise. Daniel, like his brothers and sisters, received careful home training, and at an early age imbibed those sentiments of honor and integrity which have formed the basis of a most admirable character.
   Our subject received only limited opportunities during his boyhood and youth, but made the most of them, and kept his eyes open to what was going on around him. He remained a member of the parental household, assisting in the development of the homestead until reaching manhood, and then determined to build up for himself a home beyond the Mississippi. In 1875 he had purchased 160 acres of land in Palmyra Precinct, this county, and in the spring of 1878 resolved to settle upon it, and begin the establishment of a future home. He still remains a bachelor, his domestic affairs being presided over by himself. His land has been laid out with neat and substantial fences, and he has effected all the improvements naturally suggested to the thorough and skillful agriculturist possessing modern enterprise, and ambitious to keep pace with his neighbors. He has a good residence, while the barns, sheds and corn cribs adjacent provide ample accommodation for the storage of grain and the shelter of stock. To the latter he has given particular attention, feeding and shipping each year numbers of cattle and hogs, and from which he realizes a generous income. He usually keeps a herd of seventy head of cattle and 125 head of

swine, making his purchases usually from his neighbors and his sales at Nebraska City and Omaha.
   Mr. Riegle in the multiplicity of his agricultural employments wisely takes time to keep himself posted upon matters of general interest, and although never ambitious for office, is public-spirited and liberal to the extent that he believes in "America for Americans," and protection for every man in the enjoyment of his free and equal rights. The principles of the Republican party appear to him the clearest exponent of these sentiments, and to this he accordingly gives his earnest support. He is a man who is genial and companionable in the social circle, and wherever his lot is cast invariably attracts to himself hosts of friends.

BSALOM TIPTON. The pleasant home of this gentleman lies in the part of section 31 which has recently been attached to Nebraska City Precinct and which is consequently quite valuable. Here he has 110 acres, the greater part of which he pre-empted from the Government, and to which he subsequently added, bringing the whole to a fine state of cultivation. In addition to general farming he is largely interested in fruit-growing, and has a fine apple orchard of about 500 trees in good bearing condition, and 760 cherry trees, besides the smaller fruits, several acres being devoted to these also. Among his specialties is the raspberry, of which he has 7,000 plants, 4,000 blackberry and 100 blueberry, all of which are in a flourishing and productive condition.
   Mr. Tipton has been one of the pioneers in fruit-raising in this part of the county, and keeps himself well posted upon modern methods of culture, and the new varieties which are constantly appearing. Prior to his arrival in Nebraska he had lived in Iowa and Missouri. He crossed the Missouri in the fall of 1854, and located in this county in September. He secured a warranty deed of his land as soon as it came into market, being very soon after the treaty between the Government and the Indians had been ratified. A portion of Eastern Nebraska, however, had been exempt, although Indians were numerous at that time, and the settlers were obliged to pay tribute to them to keep the peace while waiting for the lands to come into market, which was accomplished in the early part of 1856.
   Mr. Tipton was born in Holmes County, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1829, and comes of an old and highly respected family. His father, Luke Tipton, was a native of Maryland, and son of Luke, Sr., a New Englander, a farmer by occupation, and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The latter was celebrated for his fine physique, and he made a brave and daring soldier, who received the approval of his superior officers for his courage and gallantry. After the war he went South, and died in Tennessee at the advanced age of about one hundred years. A brother who served with him in the American Army afterward settled in Maryland, where he spent the remainder of his life. The Tiptons are of Welsh descent, and the first representative of the family in this country crossed the Atlantic at an early period in its history. He was a cooper by trade, and left his native soil under threat of being beheaded on account of political disaffection existing during the time of Cromwell, the same as was the great-grandfather of the President-elect, Gen. Harrison. The original Tipton was placed in a barrel for safe transportation across the Atlantic, and settled among the Alleghany Mountains, where be lived partially secluded for a long period. The records indicate that he was one hundred and five years old at the time of his death.
   Luke Tipton, Jr., the father of our subject, spent his boyhood days in his native Maryland, and had hardly got beyond these when his two brothers enlisted in the army and served in the War of 1812. Before reaching his majority he accompanied his father to Ohio, where he was married a few years later to Miss Mary Young. This lady is a native of Pennsylvania, and of Dutch ancestry. She removed with her parents to Ohio in her girlhood, where her parents died when quite well advanced in years. The young people emigrated to Iowa in 1852, and lived in that State and Missouri until the death of the father, which occurred in Mills County, Iowa, in 1871, when he was seventy-three years old. Mrs. Mary Tipton is still living, and makes her home with her son Saul, in Mills County. Al-

though eighty-seven years old, she is well preserved and active in mind and body. Both parents united with the Methodist Episcopal Church many years ago, and the father, politically, was first a Whig and then a Republican.
   Absalom Tipton, the subject of this sketch, was the fifth child and third son of a family of five sons and six daughters. He was reared and educated in Putnam and Lucas Counties, Ohio, and attained his majority in the Buckeye State. He found his bride in the West, being married in the northeastern part of Missouri near the State line, to Miss Martha N. Norris. This lady was born in LaPorte County. Ind., in 1833, and was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Brock) Norris, who spent their last days in Hamburg, Iowa. The father was a farmer by occupation, and the parents were married in Indiana. They were very excellent and worthy people, greatly respected by their community, and making it the rule of their lives to do by others as they would be done by. The mother held to the doctrines of the Baptist Church, but Mr. Norris, although a Christian man, never identified himself with any church organization.
   Mrs. Tipton was reared and educated in Indiana, whence she removed with her parents to Missouri, and under the careful training of a Christian mother imbibed those sentiments and principles by which she became possessed of all the womanly virtues. She was more than ordinarily intelligent, hospitable and kind among her neighbors, and most faithfully devoted to the interests of her family. By her union with our subject she became the mother of seven children. One of these, a daughter, Flora, died at the age of fourteen months, and twins died in infancy. Of the survivors the record is as follows: Oscar is farming in Logan County, Col., and quite prosperous; William married Mrs. Lizzie Bruner, and lives in Omaha; Cora remains at home with her father, attending to his domestic concerns and devoting herself to his comfort. She is a very intelligent young woman, possessing largely the amiable qualities of her excellent mother. Schuyler is attending school in Nebraska City. Mrs. Martha N. Tipton departed this life at the homestead, Nov. 28, 1875, deeply mourned by her family and a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Tipton identified themselves with the Methodist Protestant Church about 1858, to which our subject has since given a liberal and cheerful support. Both he and his sons are stanch Republicans, politically, and have done good service for their party in this section.

AMES WILSON. The home of this excellent old gentleman and his estimable wife is one to which their host of friends always love to repair, and at whose threshold the stranger is welcomed with equal courtesy. In their lives is illustrated the result of well spent years, and in their eyes the clear light of a good conscience and souls at peace with all the world. By years of industry and economy they have gathered around them all of the comforts and many of the luxuries of life, including the fine farm of 240 acres, which, with its buildings and other appurtenances, forms one of the most attractive features of the landscape of Russell Precinct. The estate lies on section 12, and is a credit not only to the wise management of the proprietor, but to the county at large.
   The childhood home of Mr. Wilson was many leagues from his present one, his birth having taken place in Norway, Jan. 19, 1835. His boyhood days were spent upon the farm of his father, and later he learned the trade of ship carpenter, which he followed until a man of twenty-five years. In the meantime he had received a common-school education, and was well fitted both by habits and training for the battle of life. He had as a boy been bright and thoughtful beyond his years, and at the age of thirty-three years, not being satisfied with the prospects of the future held out to him upon his native soil, he resolved to seek the New World of which he had heard so much and to which many of his countrymen were hastening. He accordingly set sail from Liverpool in the steamer "Etna," and after a stormy voyage of forty days set foot upon American soil in the city of New Yolk. Thence he proceeded by rail to St. Joseph, Mo., and not long afterward we find him in Nebraska City, Thence he proceeded to the western part of the county, and homesteaded eighty acres of land. He

and his little family were sheltered for a brief time in a small room, and he made it his first business to provide for their most urgent necessities. Around him stretched the uncultivated prairie, and in order to put up a dwelling he was obliged to haul lumber from Nebraska City, thirty miles away. His neighbors, however, had done the same, and he suffered nothing to discourage him as long as he was in the enjoyment of his health and strength.
   To Mr. Wilson, as to every individual who persistently labors and suffers himself to be dismayed by no discouragement, his industry brought its legitimate reward. The soil under his careful cultivation began to yield plenteously, and as time passed on he was enabled to erect the buildings necessary for his comfort and convenience. In due time there appeared a comfortable frame dwelling, a barn and all the other necessary outhouses, while Mr. Wilson planted groves and an orchard of 150 apple trees, besides the smaller fruits. Later he invested a portion of his surplus capital in additional land, adding eighty acres to the home farm and purchasing 160 acres on section 10. It has all been brought to a state of cultivation, and is the source of a handsome income.
   Mr. Wilson came a bachelor to this county, but in the 6th of March, 1880, was united in marriage with Miss Celestia Mills, who was born near the city of Cleveland in Summit County, Ohio, June 1, 1848. She received an excellent education, being graduated from the Peru Normal School, and taught school two years before her marriage. Her parents, Andrew and Jerusha (Dickinson) Mills, were natives of the Buckeye State and Connecticut respectively, and came here in the fall of 1869. The father purchased a quarter-section of land in Hendricks Precinct, in the southwestern corner of Otoe County, where the parents spent the remainder of their lives. The mother passed away in the fall of 1873, and the father in March, 1887. The latter was sixty-four years old. Their five children were named respectively: Celestia, Emma, Minnie, Russell and Frank. Of these all are living, residing mostly in Nebraska and Dakota.
   To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson there were born three children, one or whom. a daughter, Laura, died when five months old. Effie G. and Andrew are aged six and four years respectively. Mr. Wilson upon becoming a naturalized citizen allied himself with the Republican party, of which he has since been a uniform supporter. He has served three years in his school district, and socially, belongs to the I. O. O. F., at Weeping Water. He is a man who has been prompt to meet his obligations, made it a point always to live within his income, and one whose word is considered as good as his bond.
   Thomas Wilson, the father of our subject, was, like his son, born in Norway, and married a native of the same place. The elder Wilson was a wealthy ship builder, and he owned a farm of 500 acres in his native district. He died there at the age of sixty years, about 1855. During the invasion of Norway by England, in 1812, he did good service as a soldier in protecting his native land from a foreign foe. The mother, after the death of her husband crossed the Atlantic, and going to Salt Lake City, made her home with her daughter there until her death, which occurred Jan. 28, 1888, after she had reached the advanced age of eighty-nine years.

AVID STALL. This gentleman is widely and favorably known throughout Otoe County, in connection with his extensive business interests as a stock raiser and dealer, and enjoys quite a reputation as a farmer and thresher. His home is upon section 8 of Palmyra Precinct, where he owns 240 acres of very fine farming land, but also operates 160 acres on section 11.
   The subject of our sketch was born in Knox County, Ohio, on the 14th of March, 1836, to William and Susannah (Firebaugh) Stall. This family is of German extraction, and the original settlement was made in Pennsylvania, where the parents of our subject were married and made their first home, but removed to Ohio among the early settlers of that section of country. Our subject was the youngest of ten children born to them.
   The early days of David Stall were spent upon the home farm amid surroundings common to agricultural life. He began to work with his father when quite a little fellow and at ten years of age

received his first lessons in plowing, and began to work at the threshing-machine when but twelve years of age. True, hewas large and stout for his age, bright and intelligent, but it was undoubtedly quite an early day for a boy to begin the serious duties of life.
   Until his marriage, June 2, 1861, our-subject made his home with his parents, but at that time he was united in wedlock with Elizabeth Bechtel, and they began their new life on the farm he was born on. She was born in Ohio, in Tuscarawas County, June 14, 1834. Of this union there have been born four children, whose names are as follows: Alonzo M., William H., Elizabeth E. and Alfred L.
   Selling the Ohio farm in the year 1863, Mr. and Mrs. Stall settled in Davis County, Ind., and there Mr. Stall followed the combined occupations of farming and threshing, and owned 200 acres of land. In 1872 they came to Bennet, Neb., and purchased 400 acres, but this they sold after one year, and then came to Palmyra, in this county, where they became the owners of 400 acres of land, well situated and calculated to meet his requirements as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. He has put up several valuable improvements in the line of farm buildings, and has also erected a very fine stone residence. He is the owner of seventy head of cattle of the various varieties. The fall of 1888 was his eighteenth consecutive season as a thresher, in which he is quite expert.
   Mr. and Mrs. Stall are members in good standing of the Baptist Church at Palmyra. Our subject is a member of the Anti-Horse Thief Association of Nebraska. Politically, he is a Republican, and, although not a leader in political affairs, he is deeply interested in all current questions connected therewith.

EORGE QUIBLE. The broad acres which constitute the estate of the gentleman above named present one of the finest bodies of land in South Branch Precinct, being 380 acres in extent, upon which have been effected the modern improvements in keeping with the progress of the present day and age. A neat and substantial dwelling, with barns, outhouses, shade and fruit trees, orchards, live stock and machinery, form a picture of prosperous rural life which is delightful to contemplate.
   The leading spirit in effecting the improvements upon a tract of land which was comparatively uncultivated when he came upon it, is one of the most public-spirited citizens in his community, and while his farm indicates a vast amount of labor, he has yet found time to interest himself in the enterprises calculated for the good of his community and the building up of its educational, moral and religious interests. To these Mr. Quible has contributed liberally of his time and means, and many are the struggling but worthy projects which would have failed had he not aided them so generously. It is not to be wondered at then that he is held in the warmest regard by his fellow-citizens, and with one accord is numbered among the most useful members of his community.
   The family of our subject is of English ancestry his parents being John and Annie Quible, who were natives of England, and spent their entire lives upon the soil which gave them birth. Their family consisted of three children, of whom George was the youngest. He was born in England, Sept. 10, 1832, and when a child of five or six years, being orphaned by the death of his parents, came to America with friends who settled in Will County, Ill., where he lived with them until a youth of fifteen years. They then returned to their native country, but young Quible resolved to abide in America. He began working out by the month, and was thus occupied in Will County until the spring of 1859. He then came to Nebraska, while it was a Territory, and sojourned the first year near the then unimportant town of Nebraska City, where he engaged in farming. He next moved to another tract of land near by, operating this one year, returned to town again, and in the spring of 1866 took possession of the land which he formed into his present homestead. He first purchased 160 acres, upon which he effected various improvements, reducing the soil to a productive condition. He has an orchard of 200 trees, considerable wire fencing, and in 1880 added to his