ject has been ably assisted by his devoted wife, who has been ever ready to render him all assistance by her counsel and presence. She is a refined, intelligent lady, and holds the interests of her husband and family dear to her heart. Both husband and wife are consistent members of the United Brethren Church. He is at present President of the Board of Trustees of the Otterbein Chapel, of Rock Bluff Precinct. He was one of the organizers of the school district in which he lives, and has been for a long time connected with its Board of Directors. He is Republican in politics. In the fall of 1887 he was a candidate for the office of County Commissioner, but was defeated by Louis Foltz, the present incumbent. He has served as Judge of Election in his precinct, and was Constable for two years. Himself and wife take an active part in the social life of the precinct and are classed among the representative families of the county. They have had their share of the troubles and cares incident to pioneer life, and are now enjoying the fruits of their industry and enterprise. Mr. Young is one of the organizers and a Director of the Nehawka Bank, and is one of the Trustees of the Nehawka United Brethren Church. A view of his beautiful residence, with its surroundings is given in this connection.

ALVIN G. TABER occupies an honorable place among the pioneers who were active in opening up the agricultural resources of Centre Precinct, and he is now one of its prominent and successful farmers. His farm of 200 acres, 120 of which is on section 22, and the remaining eighty acres on section 23, is considered one of the best kept farms in Cass County, and is admirably adapted to raising stock, to which he devotes it principally. He has a beautiful home on section 22; the commodious, substantial residence, of a pleasing architectural design, is said to be one of the finest in all Cass County. It is nicely finished on the inside, to correspond with its external appearance, and is well and tastefully furnished.
   Mr. Taber was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., 1831. Durphy Taber, his father. was also a native of New York, born in 1797, and spent his entire life in Saratoga County. He was a shoemaker by trade, and also a tanner and currier, being quite an extensive business man. He married Miss Sally Woodard, and to them were born six children, all of whom lived to maturity, their names being, Eliza, Susan, Orris (who lives next door north of our subject's residence), Calvin, Margaret, Laura and Melinda. The father died in 1835, while yet in the prime of life, being only forty-four years of age, in the midst of a career of usefulness, and his death was regarded as a severe blow to the industrial and financial interests of his town. His widow survived him until 1864, dying in the home of our subject, at the ripe age of seventy-eight years. Peleg Taber, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Rhode Island, and the next spring after his marriage he went to Saratoga County, N. Y., which was then mostly covered by the primeval forest, and there he built up a home for himself and family, with pioneer labor, drawing the logs for the erection of a cabin without the help of a team. He eliminated a good farm from the forest depths during the latter part of the eighteenth century, and there spent the remainder of his life. He was twice married and reared a large family of children. He was a Quaker, or Friend, in his religious belief.
   Our subject lived in his native county until he was twenty-four years old, receiving in the meantime the benefit of an education at the common schools. At the age mentioned he went to Stark County, Ill., and remained there several years, prosperously engaged in farming. In 1865 he visited Nebraska for the purpose of taking up a homestead claim on eighty acres of land that forms a part of his present farm. He erected a small house, and the same fall returned to Illinois and spent the winter, closing up his affairs there preparatory to the removal to this State. In the spring of 1866 he came here with his family to locate permanently, arriving here on the 29th day of May, having driven all the way from Stark County, Ill., a distance of 420 miles. He still has the team with which he drove through, a bay team that was at that time four years old. He thinks a great deal of them, and they are now having the best of care,

having good shelter even in mild weather, and from one of them he has reared nine colts, or which he has three left. With characteristic energy, Mr. Taber immediately set to work to improve his land, planting a grove, also 200 good fruit trees, besides a variety of small fruits, put out one and one-half miles of hedge, and put the land under good tillage. In a few years he had his first 80-acre tract under good improvements, and all under cultivation but seventeen acres, and that is in tame grass. As he became more prosperous he bought another eighty, improved that, and has since added forty acres more to his land, making it a fine farm in every respect. He has erected ample and commodious farm buildings; one fine barn is 36x50, with 16-feet posts, and a stone basement. He has a large granary, 18x32x16 feet, with 16-feet posts, and large double cribs; also has a hog house, 20x30x12 feet, to protect his hogs, as he carefully cares for all of his animals. In 1887 he erected his fine residence, with a frontage of fifty-six feet, twenty-six feet in depth; and two stories in height, with an L in the rear. Mr. Taber has been exceedingly successful in raising stock. He has a fine herd of fifty-three head of cattle, mainly Shorthorns of a high grade. He has a number of hogs, of a mixed breed of Poland-China and Berkshire. He devotes most of his time, however, to horse breeding, and has several fine roadsters, besides ten work-horses of good grades, which he keeps busily employed on his farm.
   Mr. Taber and Miss Sarah Harris we united in marriage in Saratoga County, N. Y., April 26, 1855 and to them have been born six children, all of whom are living, and of them the following is recorded: Sophronia, born June 24, 1856, is now Mrs. George Michael, of Webster County, Neb.; Lydia Malvina is Mrs. Orin Pitney; Wyan married Miss Susan Fairfield, and they have one child, George, and reside in Cheyenne County, Neb.; Eliza is now Mrs. Zade; Orin, William, at home. All of the daughters live in Webster County, this State. Mrs. Michael has three children -- Sarah, Laura and Milton; Mrs. Pitney has two children -- Clyde and Floyd; Mrs. Zade has three children -- Clara, Sarah and Ertle.
   Mrs. Taber was born Feb. 6, 1833, in Warren County, N. Y. Her father, William Harris, was a physician and surgeon of Athol, that county, where he always lived, with the exception of two year's that he spent in Illinois. He died in 1883, aged seventy-two years. His wife, whose maiden name was Sophronia Flanders, survived him until 1885, when she, too, passed to the great beyond, at the age of seventy years. They were prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
   Mr. Taber is a man of move than average capacity and decision of character, and it is to such men that Cass County is indebted for her rapid progress during the last two decades to a position of prominence among her sister counties. Our subject may well be proud of the part he has taken in developing her resources, as well as of the fact that, by his own exertions, he has placed himself in the front rank among her successful farmers. His fellow townspeople regard film with feelings of the highest respect and esteem, as he is frank and warm-hearted, is a model of honest integrity, and is the soul of honor. As a good citizen should, he is interested in political affairs of the Country, and is sincerely convinced that the principles promulgated by the Republican party are the safest in dealing with public interests.
   A view of Mr. Taber's fine residence, with its surroundings, is given on another page.

LIC CHALKER COLEMAN, an honored citizen, and an enterprising lumber and coal merchant of Greenwood, was born in Miller Township, Knox Co., Ohio, on the 23d of April, 1843. His first recollections are of Ohio, where he entered the public schools when only four years of age; when he was seven years old he went with his parents to Iowa, where he lived with them and attended school until he was nineteen years old. In 1862 he joined his parents, who had preceded him two years, in Nebraska. In the autumn of 1861 he enlisted in Company F, 17th Iowa Infantry, to take part in the Civil War, which had just begun at that time. The regiment went into camp at Keokuk, from which city they went to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Mo. In 1862 they started down the Missis-