until reaching manhood. A few months after reaching his twenty-second year he was married, Dec. 25, 1879, to Miss Leona Dunbar, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride in Dunbar. Mrs. Reed was born Nov. 7, 1860, in Dunbar, and is the daughter of John and Anna (Watson) Dunbar, who were natives of Canada., and are now in Nebraska. They came to this county about 1856, settling in Delaware Precinct. Here Mrs. Reed was reared and educated, taking kindly to her books, and developed into a teacher, which profession she followed some time before her marriage and one term afterward. Mrs. Reed received her education at the Peru Normal School. Of her union with our subject there have been born two children; Anna Lavina, May 19, 1883, and Clarence Herbert, Feb. 17, 1887.
   Mrs. Reed is a very estimable lady, and a member of the Seventh-Day Advent Church. Mr. Reed, politically, supports the principles of the Republican party, but is in favor of prohibition. He is well known throughout the county for his enterprise, being one of its most extensive farmers and stock-raisers, handling large numbers of cattle and hogs, and keeping good horses, these latter mostly for his own use.

ROF. CHARLES W. SHERFEY has been identified with the literary and industrial interests of Nebraska City from its infancy. He is at present engaged in horticultural pursuits, raising flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, and has the best appointed greenhouse in Otoe County. He is a native of Maryland, born July 6, 1829, a son of Solomon and Catherine (McNeil) Sherfey, natives respectively of Gettysburg, Pa., and of Loudoun County, Va. Jacob Sherfey, the grandfather of our subject, lived near Gettysburg, but it is not known on which side of the State line he was born. His father, Casper Sherfey, was born about the year 1735, in Saxe Coburg Gotha, Germany, sixty miles northwest of the city of Hanover. At the age of sixteen years he came to America, and at the age of twenty-three years, 1758, he married Magdalena Deardorff, a German lady, who was born in 1738. They resided in Frederick County, Md. To them were born fifteen children, six of whom died in childhood. The nine surviving children were five sons and four daughters. Their sons were: John, who removed to Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tenn.; Abraham, removed to Virginia; Benjamin, removed to Augusta County, Va.; Jacob lived at Gettysburg, Pa.; Joshua lived in Frederick County, Md., died in Parke County, Ind. Their daughters were: Rebecca, who married Joseph Carey; Mary, who married Nicholas Oustatt; Catherine, who married John Schriver; Elizabeth, who married Jacob Carroll. Casper's son, Jacob, married Catherine Bosserman, in 1794. He was born in Frederick County, Md., March 4, 1769, and died Aug. 5, 1842. His wife was born in York County, Pa., Aug., 12, 1773, and died Aug. 4, 1844. To them were born eleven children, two of whom died in childhood, namely, Maria, aged two years, and Daniel aged four. Eight sons and one daughter grew to mature years. David was born Jan. 13, 1797, died March 31, 1861; Solomon, born Jan. 26, 1799, married Feb. 6, 1827, died May 5, 1876. Next was Jacob. John was born Jan. 23, 1805, married March 21, 1837, died Feb. 12, 187 1; Abram, born Aug. 10, 1807; Samuel, Jan. 17, 1810, married Dec. 29,1836; Joseph, born June 30, 1812, married Feb. 6, 1840, died Oct. 4, 1850. Simeon, born Feb. 7, 1814, married March 3, 1836, died Oct. 3, 1850. Hannah Sherfey Farnsworth, born Dec. 2, 1817, married Sept. 29, 1848.
   The father of our subject was reared in Pennsylvania, and in 1827 he went to Maryland and lived there until 1854. He married a Virginia lady, a daughter of John McNeil, who was, it is thought, born in Maryland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born in Ireland and came to America when a young man with an older brother. His brother soon started to return to his native land, and was never heard from afterward. Mr. McNeil settled in this country permanently, married, and it is supposed, spent his last years in Perryville, Vermillion Co., Ind. The maternal grandfather of our subject married in Virginia, moved from there to Maryland, and thence to Vermillion County, Ind., about 1835. He was numbered among the pioneers

of that. county, where he improved a farm and spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Sherfey removed from Maryland to Tippecanoe County, Ind., accompanied by his wife and four children, the removal being made with the old-fashioned covered wagon drawn by a pair of horses. They took with them their household goods, and as their route lay through a sparsely settled country, they often camped by the wayside. Mr. Sherfey became a pioneer of Tippecanoe County, engaging in the mercantile business there, and he also managed a flouring-mill. In the fall of 1837 he sold out there and moved to Burlington, Iowa. At that time Iowa formed a part of the Territory of Wisconsin. and during the winter of 1837-38 the Territorial Legislature met in Burlington. There were then but few white inhabitants in the Territory, and the greater part of the land was still owned by the Indians. He lived to see it one of the most populous and wealthy States in the Union, and as one of its pioneers he was instrumental in bringing about the great change. He established himself in the mercantile business, and he got his goods either from Cincinnati or St. Louis, Chicago then being a small, unimportant town, with no communication whatever with the West, except overland by teams. Mr. Sherfey resided in and near Burlington until his death in 1876, when that town lost one of its most honored pioneers, one who had done much to build up its mercantile interests. He was a man of marked intelligence, strict integrity, and much capability. His wife, a most estimable lady, died at the home of our subject in Nebraska City, Aug. 6, 1887, at the age of eighty-one. There were four children born to this worthy couple, all of whom are living, namely: Caroline A., widow of E. D. Rand, lives in Burlington, Iowa; Charles W.; John M., lives in Burlington; William E. lives in Council Grove, Kan.
   Charles W. Sherfey was in his fifth year when he accompanied his parents to Indiana, and he was eight years old when the family moved to Burlington, Iowa. He there attended the early schools and gained the preliminaries of a liberal education. When he was twenty years old he went to Green Castle, Ind., to enroll his name among the students of Asbury University (now DePauw University), and was graduated from there with the first honors in the class of '54. He decided to fit himself for the legal profession, and with that end in view he entered the law department of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. After completing his course there in 1856, he returned to Burlington, and in 1857 came to the Territory of Nebraska, bringing with him a printing-press, and locating in Plattsmouth, he established the Platte Valley Times, and published that paper quite successfully for one year. Then came the great financial crisis, which made it very hard to run a paper with any profit in that city, so he came to Nebraska City, where he soon began the publication of a paper called The People's Press, the forerunner of the Nebraska Press of the present day. A short time before the office was burned in 1860, he had severed his connection with the paper, and abandoning the editorial profession, had adopted that of teacher, for which action he may be considered a public benefactor, as in those early days of the settlement of the State it was very difficult to get instructors for the schools who were themselves well educated. He taught in Nebraska City almost continuously until 1879, thus incalculably raising the standard of education here, and giving this community the benefit of his superior literary attainments for nearly twenty years. In 1863 Mr. Sherfey bought six lots in the northern part of the city and built a small frame house, into which he removed with his wife. He has since bought other lots and now owns forty-four in various parts of the city, and in 1877 he erected his present residence, a commodious, comfortable frame house, very pleasantly located on a rise of ground commanding a view of the city.
   Prof. Sherfey was married in 1862 to Miss Irene, daughter of Wesley and Mary A. (Booton) Spurlock, of whom see sketch. Mrs. Sherfey was born in Iowa, in February, 1843. The pleasant wedded life of our subject and his amiable wife has been blessed by the birth of four children; the eldest, Carrie A., died when seven and one-half years old; Charles E., Irene Belle, Eulalia. Mr. and Mrs. Sherfey are valued members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and whenever opportunity offers they are among the first to extend a

helping hand to the needy or to sympathize with the sorrowing. Mr. Sherfey is an uncompromising Republican in his political views.
   The portrait of Prof. Sherfey appears in connection with this personal sketch.

ONAS SUGDEN. Among the pioneers of 1866 who resolved upon the experiment of invading the Territory of Nebraska, was the subject of this sketch, who landed in Nebraska City in the winter of that year. The early years of his life were spent as a machinist, during which he became an expert as a blacksmith and general mechanic, but upon coming to the West he necessarily changed his occupation, taking up the pursuits of agriculture. For a time, however, before securing a tract of land, he followed freighting across the plains, in the meantime homesteading the northwest quarter of section 33, Syracuse Precinct, which is included in his present homestead.
   Our subject, when taking possession of his property fashioned a dug-out in which to shelter himself, and family, and gradually began making improvements about him, although he was obliged to employ himself elsewhere in order to obtain the wherewithal for the sustenance of himself and family. As time passed on he found himself making headway, and the dug-out soon gave place to a comfortable frame residence, which later was flanked by a barn and the other out-buildings necessary to his comfort and convenience. He has steadily progressed since that time, and is now numbered among the well-to-do farmers of this region, who have been the architects of their own fortunes, and thus imbibed that spirit of self-reliance which enabled them to hew their pathway to success.
   The subject of this sketch was born in Yorkshire, England, March 7, 1834, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Sugden) Sugden, who, however, bore no relationship to each other before their marriage. The father was a farmer all his life, and the parents are still living, continuing residents upon their native soil. They are naturally well advanced in years, and come of a long-lived race. All of their children, ten in number, are also living and all in England, with the exception of our subject and one brother, who is a resident of Chase County, this State. The others were named respectively: John, Elizabeth. Mary, Robert, William, Ann, Judith and Paul.
   Jonas Sugden, when a lad of twelve years, commenced his apprenticeship as a machinist in his native town of Kiefley, at which he served nearly five years, when the firm by whom he was employed went out of business. He then commenced working as it journeyman in Bradford and Birmingham, but about 1853 or 1854, when a young man grown, he sailed for America in company with his brother John. After landing in New York City they proceeded northwestward to Minnesota, but later returned southeastward to Pennsylvania, where our subject followed his trade for a time at Erie. Later he was employed at his trade in the city of Buffalo.
   During the progress of the late Civil War Mr. Sugden was in the employ of the Pittsburgh & Erie Railroad Company, and identified himself with the Machinist and Blacksmith Union Brotherhood. On coming to Nebraska, in 1866, he followed freighting, as we have already stated. He had been married while a resident of Canada, in 1862, to Miss Jessie Bulchart, who is a native of Dundee, Scotland, and the daughter of Andrew and Jessie. Bulchart, who spent their lives in Canada. Mrs. Sugden came to America with her parents when eleven years old, locating in Upper Canada, where she was married. Of this union there have been born ten children, who were named: Elizabeth, William, Jessie, Judith. Daisy, Rudolph, Thomas, Mary, John and Paul. Elizabeth became the wife of William H. Hill, and died in Chase County, this State, in 1886; Jessie died when nineteen years old.
   Our subject and his wife have proprietorship in five farms in this county, comprising altogether 720 acres of land, besides a tree claim in Colorado. Mr. S. for many years devoted his attention chiefly to stock raising, buying. feeding and shipping. The farm residence is convenient and substantial, flanked by a good orchard covering an area of twenty acres, and including all the choice fruit trees which flourish upon the soil of Nebraska. In 1878 he established himself in the harness business at Syra-