his books and ambitious to excel. He was graduated from Nebraska College in the class of '83, taking special honors, and being the subject of much favorable comment at the time. He served as Notary Public in Nebraska City before reaching his majority. He intends in the near future taking up the study of law, which he has chosen for his life profession. He has set out upon a most promising career, one which will be watched with interest by hosts of friends. He is the scion of an excellent family, the members of which have distinguished themselves in many of the public walks of life with credit and fidelity. In the sketch of his brother, Ezra T. Campbell, M. D., on another page in this volume, is given a more extended history of the family and its antecedents, which forms a most interesting record.

EWIS LEWIS, whose portrait is given on an adjoining page, is one of the earliest pioneers of Nebraska, is numbered among its most honored citizens, and has seen much of life in the Great West. He is a man very highly esteemed by the people around him, one who is a public-spirited citizen, always willing to lend a helping hand in the carrying out of every project tending to the good of the community. His excellent partner, one who has stood by him through the storms and sunshine of many year, is a lady who has proved herself in every way suitable to be the companion of a good man. They have a large family of handsome and intelligent children, of whom they have reason to be proud.
   The property of Mr. Lewis embraces the southwest quarter of section 4, Otoe Precinct, where he has lived and labored since 1862; he first came to the precinct in April, 1855. He comes of excellent Pennsylvania stock, being the son of Enos and Elizabeth (Pinnell) Lewis, who were natives of Delaware County, that State, the father born on the very farm where the English Army was centered when Washington was at Valley Forge. Grandfather Lewis had purchased this from William Penn during the first settlement of Pennsylvania. They were Quakers in religion, and Enos Lewis traced his ancestry back to the early Colonial days, when his progenitors crossed the Atlantic from England and settled in Pennsylvania.
   The father of our subject was a farmer by occupation, spent his entire life in his native county, and died there in 1833. The mother of our subject had been married first to a Mr. Burns, but of this union there were no children. Of her marriage with Enos Lewis there were born three sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom, Wayne, was killed by being thrown from a rig when one year old. The next son, Henry, is a resident of Cloud County, Kan.; he married Miss Isabelle Frost, and is the father of seven children, namely: Henry D., Ida M., Ernest, Alfred B., John W., Edith and Wilbur, Mary, Mrs. Jackson LaTier, is a resident of Taylor County, Iowa; Esther, Mrs. John W. White, resides in West Chester, Chester Co., Pa.; Elizabeth, Mrs. Booze, a widow, is a resident of Philadelphia, Pa., and the mother of three children -- Henry, Albert and Lilly.
   The subject of this sketch was the fifth child of his parents, and was born on the old homestead, the birthplace of his father, in Delaware County, Pa., Sept. 20, 1831. He was but two years of age at the time of his father's death, and resided with his mother two years, then went to live with his aunt, Mrs. Esther Garrett, of East Goshen Township, Chester Co., Pa. He continued with her until a lad of twelve years, but lived under the same roof until sixteen. His education during those years was carried on principally three months during the winter season, but later he entered Greenwood Dell Academy, where he studied one year, and afterward attended Unionville Academy for eighteen months. In the meantime he worked two and a half years on a farm.
   In the spring of 1853 our subject set out for the West, and traveled extensively through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Later he returned to Philadelphia, Pa., but could not content himself in that region, and started once more for the West. In the fall of 1853 he went to Jackson County, Mo., and in May, 1854, started East, finally landing in Pennsylvania, in August. Mr. Lewis, no more satisfied than he had been before, after returning home, finally made one desperate effort, starting out the

third time from his native State, and determined now to stay. This time he took in Louisville, Ky., St. Louis and Independence, Mo., and remained in this vicinity until the spring of 1854. Later, returning East, he visited Baltimore, New York City, and in the latter visited the Crystal Palace. He next journeyed to Philadelphia, where he suffered an attack of cholera, but fortunately recovered, and then went to Zanesville, Ohio. From there, a month later, he pushed on westward to Iowa, this time accompanied by his brother Henry. They stopped and worked in Rome, Henry Co., Iowa, until the spring of 1855, when our subject started on foot for this county, having for his companion Edward H. Bishop. They had intended to go to California, but changed their minds and stopped in Nebraska city.
   Our subject, who had been born with the gift of prudence and economy, occupied himself on the Otoe ferry boat, which made regular trips across the Missouri. On the 11th of July, 1855, accompanied by a party, he started off on the enterprise of removing the Otoe Indians to their Blue River Reservation, and this accomplished returned to this county. In the fall of 1856 he took up a homestead claim, which he still owns, and has for a period of thirty-two years.
   The marriage of Lewis Lewis and Miss Susan Wright was celebrated at the home of the bride in Otoe Precinct, this county, in September, 1862. Mrs. Lewis was born in 1840, and is it daughter of Michael and Rosina (Atler) Wright, who were natives of Germany, and came to the United States when their daughter Susan was a child four or five years of age. In the family there were only besides herself her four older brothers--George and John, Joseph now deceased, and Michael, also dead. They lived subsequently at Nauvoo and Alton, Ill., New Orleans, La., and St. Louis, Mo., and at Nauvoo Mrs. Lewis saw the destruction of the Mormon Temple by fire. Her two brothers came first to Nebraska, and she joined them in May, 1858. The mother died in Illinois; the father served as a soldier in the Mexican War, and subsequently visited California, and has never returned. To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis there have been born eleven children, eight of whom are living, viz: Mary E., Rosina, Anna, Ella, Lewis, Jr., John, Henry and George. Three children died in infancy. Mr. Lewis voted for the State Constitution in 1866, and in politics gives his support to the Democratic party.

NDERSON L. DAVIS. The live-stock interests of Southern Nebraska constitute one of its richest sources of profit, and in this industry a large proportion of its enterprising and intelligent men are engaged. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait we give on a preceding page, for the last few years has made of this a specialty, feeding and shipping in large numbers and to this devotes one of the finest farms in Nebraska, comprising 480 acres of valuable land, including 100 acres of timber. He usually keeps 200 head of cattle and several hundred hogs. In the city of Syracuse he superintends a fine trade in farm implements, having directed a portion of his capital in this important channel. He has been a resident of Nebraska a period of thirty-two years, having arrived here in its Territorial days, on the 3d of December, 1856.
   Our subject first crossed the Mississippi when a youth of a little over twenty years of age. He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1836, and is the son of L. A. and Mary L. Thompson (nee Chamberlin) Davis. His paternal grandfather, Jesse Davis, a native of New York State, was of Welsh ancestry, and a farmer by occupation. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and marched with his regiment to Buffalo during the destruction of that city by fire. L. A. Davis, also a native of the Empire State, joined his father in the ranks of the soldiery, being then but a youth, and also saw the burning of Buffalo. The mother of our subject was his second wife, he having married and become the father of five children before his union with Mrs. Thompson. After the death of his first wife and his marriage with he latter he left the Empire State with his little family, and settled in Trumbull County, Ohio, where his death took place about 1862. His wife, Mary L., had preceded him to the silent land some years.