in politics, having been sent to the State Legislature twice and serving in the Senate one term. His estimable wife is a member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

AMES HUNT. The traveler passing along the upper line of North Branch Precinct invariably has his attention attracted to the large property of this gentleman, which lies on section 7, and forms one of the finest homesteads in the locality. The farm is 518 acres in extent, and is neatly laid off into pasture and grain fields; the fences are kept in good shape, while the residence, with its adjoining buildings, is of modern style of architecture, and all amply adapted to the purposes for which they are intended. The important feature of the premises is the extreme good order prevailing at every point, and the air of thrift and enterprise which is suggestive of the supervision of one of the most progressive and intelligent farmers of the present day.
   Next in importance to the man himself is the ancestry from which he sprang. Henry Hunt, the father of our subject, was a native of Yorkshire, England, and there married Miss Elizabeth Cleminson, who was born in the same locality. They emigrated to America after their marriage, in 1829, and settled on a tract of land in Cambria County, Pa., where the father built up a good homestead, and passed away in the month of October, 1850. The mother is still living in Pennsylvania, and is now seventy-eight years old, They were the parents of seven children; Timothy L.; Robert, who died when about fifty-seven years old; William H., John I. S.; Ruth, who died when thirty years old; Susannah and James (our subject). Of these five are living, and those besides James are residents mostly of Pennsylvania.
   James Hunt was born at the parental homestead in Cambria County, Pa., Aug. 1, 1830, and continued a member of his father's household until twenty years of age. He received his education in the common schools, and when nineteen years old commenced an apprenticeship at the carpentry trade, which he followed in his native State about two and one-half years. In the spring of 1856, desiring to see something of the Great West. He crossed the Mississippi into Henry County, Iowa, but there unfortunately was taken ill with typhoid fever, and could neither proceed any further nor look around him in the Hawkeye State. This naturally induced a fit of homesickness. and soon after his recovery he returned to his mother's home.
   The spring following, however, young Hunt returned to the West, making only a brief stay, however, and then went back to Pennsylvania and was married in 1859. He purchased a tract of land in Cambria County, and soon afterward began farming. In August 1864, during the progress of the Civil War he enlisted in Company C, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry, being mustered in at Carlisle, and was, together with his regiment, assigned to the command of Gen. W. H. Bolton. He experienced some hairbreadth escapes at the battle of Petersburg, but aside from that returned home unharmed at the close of the war. Mr. Hunt now resumed his residence in Cambria County, where he continued to carry on agriculture until the spring of 1862. Then, crossing the Father of Waters once more, he came to this State, and was located for one year in Johnson County. In the fall of 1887 he purchased the land which he now owns and occupies. Upon this he has made most of the improvements which we behold to-day. His property lies on sections 7, 17 and 18, and in addition to the thorough cultivation of the soil he has planted fruit and shade trees, and divided many of his fields with beautiful hedge fences.
   On the 16th of May, 1859, occurred one of the most important events in the life of our subject, namely, his marriage with Miss Christiana B. Keefer. This lady is the daughter of Ernest and Mary M. (Baird) Keefer, both of whom were natives of Germany, and upon emigrating to the United States settled at once in Cambria County, Pa. The father was a coal miner, and being a very industrious and prudent man, accumulated a good property. He died about 1868, at the homestead which he had built up in the Keystone State. The mother is still living, and has now arrived at the advanced age of eighty years. Their children, five in number, were

named respectively: John, Christiana B., Maggie, William and Hannah. Those surviving are residents of Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
   Mrs. Hunt was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, in February, 1841. and was a little girl four years of age when she came with her parents to America. She received a common-school education, and was carefully trained by an excellent mother in all housewifely duties. Of her union with our subject there have been born nine children, namely: Henry E., Harvey M., Mary F., Elizabeth C., Sanford R., Thomas S., Bertha A., Laura E. and Mabel. Henry married Miss Myrtle Holland, and lives on a farm in South Branch Precinct. The other children are at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rockford, and Mr. H., politically, votes the straight Republican ticket. He has been a member of the School Board two terms, and is one of the most highly respected men of his community, one whose word is considered as good as his bond. The Hunt family is one of the most highly respected in this part of the county, and the homestead, a view of which appears on another page, comprises a prominent feature in its landscape.

APT. LOGAN ENYART stands conspicuously among the prominent men of Otoe County as one largely identified with its business and agricultural interests, a man public-spirited and liberal, one who has seen much of life, who distinguished himself in the army during the war, who suffered the loss of an eye in fighting for the principles he believed to be right, but who in the battle of life has evidently come out with flying colors. He is widely and favorably known throughout Nebraska, as much for his genial and hospitable disposition and broad and extended views of life as for his practical business talents, his perseverance and his energy.
   In the vicinity of Nebraska City where he makes his home, Capt. Enyart has been foremost among its leading enterprises, few of which have been carried to a successful issue independently of his countenance and encouragement. He is President of the Farmers' Bank, one of the wealthiest institutions of the State, an extensive land-owner in Otoe County, having the warrantee deed to a number of farms, and largely interested in live stock. His homestead proper is located on section 33 in Belmont Precinct, and comprises a fine tract of land in a highly cultivated condition, with modern farm buildings, fruit and shade trees, and all the appurtenances of a modern country estate. He has no family except his amiable and excellent wife, a lady highly respected in her community, and well fitted to be the companion of such a man as her husband.
   The Enyart family is of French descent, and was first represented in the United States probably during Colonial days. Its men were of stalwart frame and noble constitution, traits which our subject has inherited in a remarkable degree. In fact, he may be called a man of iron nerves, and his high courage was amply displayed during war times, when, although he suffered great loss of property, he never permitted himself to sink under his misfortunes, but rallied from the shock, commenced again the battle of life, and became again wealthy.
   A native of Monroe County, Ky., Capt. Enyart was born June 20, 1831, and is the son of Hezekiah W. and Mary (Kidwell) Enyart, who were both natives of Virginia. The paternal grandfather, John Enyart, was born in the city of Paris, France, where he was reared to manhood and married. His last years were spent in Virginia. The father of our subject left Kentucky in 1833, and removed with his family to Clay County, Mo., where they lived two years, and then changed their residence to Davis County, that State. The father was principally interested in live stock and farming, and died very suddenly, at the age of seventy-six years, upon the day of Lee's surrender, April 9, 1865. The mother survived her husband a number of years, her death taking place in Missouri, in the year 1882, at the old homestead, when she was seventy-five years old. The nine children of the parental family were named respectively: Logan, Louisa; Permelia, who died when twenty-five years old; Milton, Amanda; Josephine, who died at the age of twenty years; Albert, Hezekiah, and Mary Ann, who died when

thirty-three years old. The survivors are mostly residents of Missouri, California, Colorado and Nebraska.
   The first recollections of the Captain are of his childhood home in Davis County, Mo., where he commenced going to school in a little log cabin three months each year. His education being completed in two winters, it may therefore be called quite limited, and what he has learned he has had to learn himself. By a course of reading and observation he has always kept himself fully posted upon matters of general interest. He was reared a farmer's boy, and taught those habits of industry and principles of honor which have been the secret of his success in life. The people of that day labored early and late, and many a time young Enyart worked by the light of the stars in his Missouri home, and being willing, active and muscular, accomplished an astonishing amount.
   Our subject when twenty-three years of age was married, but not long afterward enlisted in the Confederate Army under Gov. Jackson (first call for soldiers to enlist in Missouri), becoming a member of Company C, 1st Missouri Cavalry. He was at once elected Captain of his company, and this fact indicates his popularity, as he entered the ranks without any military experience. He, however, possessed the natural abilities which secured him the confidence of his superior officers and the respect of his comrades, and that he seems to have held until the last gun was fired, and his subsequent course indicated how correct they were in their judgment. He led his company in his first engagement at Blue Mills, Mo., and was later at Lexington, where he distinguished himself and led his troops to victory. Later he was at the onset in the vicinity of Springfield, covering Price's retreat for ten days and ten nights. He fought at Pea Ridge under Gens. Van Dorn and Price, where he was twice wounded in one engagement, being struck first in the left shoulder and the second time in the forehead, but, notwithstanding, he kept upon his feet by his extraordinary will power, and never deserted his post until the conflict was ended.
   Later Capt. Enyart was transferred to Corinth, Miss., from the West, where he fought with Gen. Beauregard in all the engagements around Corinth in the spring of 1862; at Iuka, Miss., in the fall of 1862, and later under Gen. Price. In the second battle of Corinth, under Gen. Van Dorn, while still fighting, he witnessed the defeat of the army under that General, and also at Champion Hills fought in that desperately bloody battle. Capt. Enyart in this latter engagement received a very close call, a musket ball fracturing his nose and putting out his left eye. Although suffering untold agony for days, he never entered a hospital. We next find him at the siege of Vicksburg, where the entire army was captured, and our subject was an eyewitness of the surrender of Gen. Pemberton's army to Grant and of the explosion which destroyed the Confederate boats. He was soon paroled, however, and was among the first to be exchanged at Demopolis, Ala. He was transferred to the army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, at Dalton, Ga., and was with this renowned warrior in the famous retreat from Dalton to Atlanta, when every inch of ground for 110 miles was disputed with Sherman. In this retreat the most noted places at which fighting occurred were Lone Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, New Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek, and wound up with the siege of Atlanta.
   Later Capt. Enyart fought at Jonesboro, and subsequently joining the army of Gen. Hood, went back through Georgia and Tennessee, fighting at Altona, and Tilton, Ga. At the latter place the Confederates captured the 18th Iowa Regiment. Afterward they engaged in battle with the Union forces at Huntsville, Ala., Columbia and Franklin, Tenn., where blood flowed like a river, and at the latter place Capt. Enyart was again captured, Nov. 30, 1864, and taken to Johnson's Island, in the State of Ohio, where he was confined a prisoner seven months and eleven days, until June 17, 1865, when he took the oath of allegiance to the Union, the war being over, and was released in disgust with mankind, and started for the West.
   Capt. Enyart during this memorable period traveled over all the Southern States with the exception of Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland. He is pardonably proud of the fact that he was never in a hospital, and notwithstanding his wounds and extraordinary suffering attendant upon the loss of his eye, never quit the army, but fought to the

last, and was the Sir Simon Captain of his State, and certainly is amply entitled the balance of his life to the rank of Captain. In the year 1865 he made his way without a dollar in his pocket across the Mississippi to Nebraska, then a Territory. In his native State of Missouri before the war he was the owner of 1,000 acres of good land, with buildings, live stock, and all the other valuable appurtenances of a well-developed country estate. His stock was driven off and confiscated, his buildings burned and his land left waste. In Nebraska the first thing he did was to buy a yoke of oxen and a wagon on credit, which, be it said to his honor, he had no trouble in obtaining, and loading his wagon with freight for Denver, he hired a man as driver, and on the first round trip made enough to pay for his team and his expenses, and had $50 left.
   In the spring of 1866 Capt. Enyart engaged several more teams, and forming a partnership with J. W. Potter and Mont. Tremble, started with a train of thirteen wagons loaded with corn, for which they paid thirty-five cents per bushel, to Ft. Sanders. They sold this at six and a half cents per pound, and then secured a contract from the Government to remove Ft. Hollock to Ft. Sanders. This employed them a whole season, and yielded them handsome proceeds. In his travels he has been in California, Oregon (in the days of goldhunting), also over nearly all the territory down as far as Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
   Capt. Enyart now returned to Nebraska City, purchased a tract of land in Belmont Precinct, and began farming, together with raising and buying stock. It must not be supposed that these labors and journeyings were effected in an easy manner, on the contrary, Capt. Enyart endured the severest hardships, going through a wild and savage country, battling with its storms, and at intervals almost impassable roads, being obliged to accept poor fare at times, and surrounded by all the other difficulties of frontier life.
   In the year 1871 Capt. Enyart turned his attention to the cattle business in Colorado, establishing his ranch fifteen miles west of Ft. Benton, on the Arkansas River. Later, as time passed on, he acquired a cattle ranch in New Mexico, and land in other sections of the Southwest and Otoe County, Neb. He supplies stock to feeders. and in the latter part of 1888 brought up 1,300 head of cattle from his ranch in Colorado to Nebraska. In the meantime, during these years, he has given due attention to the building up of his homestead, and in his domestic life is surrounded by comfort and luxury.
   The marriage of Capt. Logan Enyart and Miss Lucy Ann Childs was celebrated at the home of the bride, in Jackson County, Mo., in 1855. Mrs. Enyart was born in Clark County, Ky., but was reared in Jackson County, Mo., to which her parents removed at an early day. She is the daughter of Christopher and Rachel Childs, who were natives of Kentucky, and whose household consisted of nine children. The parents and children are now all dead but three.
   The Captain and Mrs. Enyart were separated during the entire period of the Civil War, our subject never being able to visit his home until after the conflict was ended, and Mrs. E. could not go to him. Upon his retirement from the service she joined him in Nebraska City, and has stood by his side now for a period of thirty-three years, one of the most faithful wives and helpmates which a man could desire. The Captain generously acknowledges that his success in life is largely due to the good judgment and wise counsels of this excellent lady. She has stimulated him to every worthy effort, and been his encourager both in storm and sunshine. She is a lady held in high esteem by all who know her.
   Capt. Enyart, although born and reared a Southerner, has been largely instrumental in extinguishing the old prejudices inseparable from the vicissitudes of the war, and the fact that he has been a prominent and popular Democratic politician in a Republican county and State speaks well for the inherent traits of his character. After filling other positions of trust and responsibility, he was elected in the year 1872 to represent Otoe County in the Nebraska Legislature, and so faithfully did he discharge the duties of his office that he was re-elected in 1874. He has, been an important factor in the councils of the Democratic party in this section, frequently representing it as a delegate to the various State conventions.

   The Farmers' Bank, of Nebraska City, in which our subject is a Director, and of which he is President, was incorporated June 1, 1884, and in September, the same year, it opened for business, and is considered one of the solid institutions of the State. Its stockholders are estimated at a sum approaching $1,000,000, and it is hardly necessary to state that they are among the wealthiest and most substantial men of the county. Capt. Enyart in 1856 identified himself with the Masonic fraternity, in Missouri Lodge No. 65, now being a member of Nebraska City Lodge No. 12. This is the only organization of any society he ever belonged to.

EORGE A. STRONG. Among the farming community of South Branch Precinct the subject of this sketch occupies a good position socially and financially. He has one of the most attractive homesteads in this region, finely located on section 28, and embracing 160 acres of land. He has acquitted himself as an enterprising farmer and good business man, one largely devoted to the interests of his home and his family, living quietly and unostentatiously, and preferring the comforts of his own fireside to mingling with the busy world. Although by no means advanced in years, he served in the Union Army during the late war, and preserves a vivid recollection of many of the experiences of that terrible time, in which he endured in common with his brother soldiers the hardships and privations of army life. He belonged to the home guards.
   The parents of our subject, David B. and Betsey (Kagie) Strong, were natives respectively of New York and Pennsylvania, whence they removed in their youth with their parents to Trumbull County, Ohio, where they were married. The mother died many years ago. Both David B. Strong and his father, the paternal grandfather of our subject, are still living. The parental household included three sons and one daughter; the latter, Mary H., died when about thirteen years old. The other sons, John A. and Henry A. are living in Ohio and Wisconsin.
   George A. Strong was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, May 12, 1846, and soon after the death of his mother, which occurred when he was seven years old, began life for himself. He worked on a farm until the spring of 1862, and then, although but a youth of sixteen years, enlisted in a regiment called the Trumbull Guards, being mustered in at Gallipolls, and at the close of the war was mustered out at the same place. He had participated in several skirmishes.
   After the close of the war young Strong began an apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade, at which he worked three years in the Buckeye State. In the spring of 1868 he resolved to seek the farther West, and came to this county homesteading the quarter-section of land from which he total transformed a valuable and productive farm. He has put up most of the buildings which he now occupies, and for the last nine or ten years has operated a blacksmith-shop on his farm, which has not only been the source of a great convenience to himself, but his neighbors also. His fields are divided by beautiful hedge fences, and he has planted fruit and shade trees, having an apple orchard of 200 trees, besides the smaller fruits.
   Mr. Strong after coming to the West was married in the town of Syracuse, this county, Sept. 12, 1877, to Miss Sopha, daughter of T. J. and E. J. (James) Edwards, who were natives respectively of Kentucky and Ohio. They removed with their parents to Missouri and were married in that State, where the father for a time followed his trade of mason. In 1873 they came to this county, lived for a time in Nebraska City, and then on a farm in Fremont County, Iowa. Finally returning to Syracuse, they lived there a short time, then changed their residence to Johnson County, where they still make their home. Of their children, twelve in number, seven are living, namely: Amelia, Susan, John, Sopha, Thomas, Josephine and Frank. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Strong are residents mostly of Nebraska.
   The wife of our subject was born in De Kalb County, Mo., July 28, 1856, received a good education, and taught school four terms before her marriage. She is a very intelligent lady and a favorite in the social circles of her neighborhood. Of her union with our subject there have been

born five children, viz: M. Luella, Fred C., Susie B., J. Alta and E. Ruth. They are all at home with their parents. Mr. Strong is a Republican, "dyed in the wool," and an uncompromising Harrison and Morton man. He has been a member of the School Board of his district for the past three years, and Road Supervisor six years.

ILHELM WILHELMY. Throughout the Northwest perhaps few business men are better known than the gentleman whose biography is here presented. He is the senior partner of the firm of Wilhelmy & Overton, the popular and reliable hardware firm of Nebraska City. Our subject was born near the city of Bremen, in Germany, to Christian and Mary (Arnds) Wilhelmy, July 26, 1835.
   The parents of our subject came to this country with their only child in the year 1839, and for one year made their home in Buffalo, but at the end of that time removed to the western part of Ohio, when it was all new and undeveloped country. At the time of his death in 1862 the father was engaged in the hotel business at New Bremen, Ohio. His mother is still living, and makes her home with our subject, and has now reached the advanced age of seventy-nine years. Their family circle included in all three children, the two younger being born in this country. Of these Minnie died when eighteen months old, and Frederick F., who was spared to them, has grown up, entered into the affairs of life with an earnest purpose, and is a member of the firm of Rector, Wilhelmy & Co., wholesale hardwaremen of Omaha.
   The first recollections of our subject gather around Buffalo, N. Y., but the days of his boyhood were passed in Western Ohio, where at the time when everything was in a formative condition and pioneer life was the regular order of things, he as a youth had every opportunity to show what was in him. The schools were supported by voluntary contributions given chiefly by the German settlers of the district, and there he received initiation into the mysteries of education.
   At the age of twenty-one Mr. Wilhelmy engaged as a clerk in a general store which was located close to the Indiana and Ohio State line. Until this time he had been brought into contact with hardly any but the German settlers, but now acquired the English language, in order to successfully carry on the business he had entered into. From clerking he embarked in hotel-keeping, taking charge of his father's hotel, which he continued after the death of that parent.
   In 1864 our subject was united in wedlock with Miss Margaret Koop, who is a native of Ohio, and, the daughter of John F. and Matta (Willembroke) Koop. Her parents were among the number who had emigrated to Western Ohio and purchased their homestead direct from the Government, settling in the year 1833. They are still living and are eighty-eight and seventy-eight years of age respectively. They were the parents of ten children. Of these their daughter Margaret was the second child and only daughter.
   The subject of our sketch came to Nebraska in the spring of 1869, and at once engaged in the agricultural implement business, being one of the first in that line in Nebraska City. With an ever-increasing agricultural population around him he did well from the beginning, and it was not long before he was enabled to complete satisfactory arrangements for his family to join him. With his brother he continued engaged in the business until 1875, when he sold out his interests to his brother, and engaged with Rheindthard Ballard & Co., as traveling salesman, selling threshers, engines and other implements. In this he continued for about nine years, and during that time did business in almost every part of the North and Northwest. At the end of that time the two senior members of the firm died, and our subject was retained by those who had charge of affairs, and for two years continued engaged in settling up the business of the firm, making a total of eleven years he served this firm.
   In 1886, in company with a Mr. Draper, Mr. Wilhelmy bought out the Simson hardware business, which is still run by him. Mr. Draper in the spring of 1887 sold his business interests to Mr. Overton, and the firm's name was changed to that mentioned. The business has grown rapidly and is on a most satisfactory basis, and enjoys the rep-