Mr. Cole has experienced many of the vicissitudes and changes of life, but he has been in the main very successful, and has prospered until he is now not only one of the wealthiest men, but one of the most highly respected citizens of the southeastern part of the State -- in fact wherever he is known he holds the perfect confidence and esteem of all with whom he comes in contact. He is interested to the extent of 200 shares in the Mexican Iron Manufacturing Company, of Murango, Mex. He is deeply interested in the religious affairs of his neighborhood, and has always led an upright, consistent Christian life. He was the first Sunday-school Superintendent, and organized the first Sunday-school in Plattsmouth. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ashland; in politics he is a straight Republican.
   A good portrait of this pioneer of Nebraska in its Territorial days is given on another page in this ALBUM.

ESSE R. McVAY, of Rock Bluff Precinct, is perhaps as fine an illustration of the self-made man as will often be found. He started out in life for himself with a capital of $5, which he was obliged to spend not long afterward for clothing. He made a practice thereafter of saving $100 a year, and at the time of his marriage had accumulated in this manner the snug sum of $1,850 in cash. This he was enabled to invest judiciously, and he is now numbered among the solid men along the eastern line of this county, who have developed its resources and brought it to its present position.
   The parents of our subject were James and Hannah (Lemasters) McVay. The paternal grandfather, John McVay, is supposed to have been a native of Pennsylvania, and married a lady who was probably, as indicated by the records, born in Pickaway County, Ohio. They were residents the most of their lives in Shelby County, that State, where their remains were laid to rest. Of their thirteen children the record is as follows; Betsey became the wife of Dimitt Cole, of whom mention is made in the sketch of W. P. Cole, elsewhere in this volume: Polly, Martha, Minerva, Hannah, Thomas, John, James, Jason, Aaron, Miller and Henry comprise the remainder of the household circle. James McVay and his estimable wife are still living, and have for many years resided on the old home farm in Shelby County, Ohio, where they settled soon after their marriage.
   After their marriage the parents of our subject took up their abode in the woods of Shelby County, Ohio, where the father cleared about forty acres, then sold out and purchased another farm of eighty-five acres, which was mostly in a state of cultivation. Upon this he erected good buildings and has since made it his home. Upon that farm the subject of this sketch was born Nov. 10, 1836, and lived there with his parents until a youth of eighteen years; then, desirous of beginning for himself in life, he began working for the farmers of his neighborhood, and was thus employed two years for the consideration of $12.75 per month. In the year 1856, leaving the Buckeye State he made his way to Shelby County, Ill., where he still pursued agriculture at an increased salary, working now for $14 per month about two and a half years.
   At the expiration of this time Mr. McVay started on horseback for a visit to his native State, and upon his arrival there commenced working on a farm in Clarke County, being the employe of Mr. William Foreman. He continued with him one year and ten days, then in the spring of 1861 going into Clinton County, operated there, still as a farm laborer, until the fall of 1862. Returning then to Illinois he worked on a farm in Shelby County until the fall of 1864. The Civil War being then in progress he entered the ranks as a member of Company D, 12th Illinois Infantry, and going to the front participated in the battle of Kingston, N. C., where he was wounded by a musket ball in the left cheek. He was confined in the hospital a short time, and upon recovering from his wound contracted typhoid fever and another disease, which kept him in the hospital until the close of the war.
   Mr. McVay received his honorable discharge July 4, 1865, and returning to the old homestead in Ohio visited with his parents two weeks, then setting out once more for the State engaged

to work on a farm in Shelby County for the sum of $30 per month. In the spring of 1866 he rented a farm of his uncle, Caldwell Russell, and the fall following purchased a half interest in a threshing machine. A year later he sold the machine and commenced working by the month again in Illinois until July 16, 1867. Then going back to Ohio, he was employed in a gristmill until the spring of 1868, when he again set his face westward, sojourning a brief time in Shelby County, Ill., and proceeding thence to Iowa City, Iowa.
   The spring of 1869 found our subject again on the soil of Illinois, working on a farm in Tazewell County for Alexander Mooberry where he remained until completing his preparations for his marriage. This most interesting event of his life occurred on the 9th of November, 1871, the maiden of his choice being Miss Lucy A. Mooberry, a sister of his employer. They remained in Illinois until September, 1872, then came to this county with a view of locating. Being pleased with the outlook, Mr. McVay purchased eighty acres of his present homestead, to which he moved with his young wife on the 11th of February, 1873. Here they have since lived. Two years later Mr. McVay purchased another eighty acres, and has now 160 acres of good land, in productive condition with a neat and substantial dwelling, an ample barn, granaries, corn cribs, an apple orchard and the smaller fruit trees, and in short all the accessories of a modern farm. The fences are mostly of wire, and the land which is not devoted to grain furnishes excellent pasture for the live stock to which Mr. McVay has given considerable attention. He at one time bought and sold land to a considerable extent, realizing good profits.
   To our subject and his estimable wife there have been born two children, a daughter and a son, Jessie M. and Lintie M. The elder was born Aug. 20, 1872, in Tazewell County, Ill., and the younger April 30, t874, in Cass County, Neb. The parents of Mrs. McVay were John and Lydia (Marion) Mooberry. The father was born in York County, Pa., and was the son of William Mooberry, who was also a native of Pennsylvania, whence he emigrated to Franklin County, Ohio, during its early settlement, and where his family was reared. The mother of Mrs. McV. was a native of Norfolk, Mass., and born in 1805. She came with her parents, Elijah and Lydia Marion, to Ohio about 1815, they settling in Franklin County, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Our subject, politically, is a solid Republican, and as a business man and citizen, ranks among the reliable and substantial men of Cass County.

EORGE HAIN, a prosperous farmer, is resident of Mt. Pleasant Precinct, where he owns a valuable farm of 160 acres on section 23. He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in December, 1850. His parents were natives of Scotland and came to America in 1849, and located in Trumbull County, Ohio, where they still reside. Mr. Hain is a purely self-made man, being obliged from his early youth to support himself by the labor of his own hands. His first employment was milling, which he followed successfully; having a strong taste for mechanical pursuits, he obtained employment as a sawyer in a sawmill, which he followed for a season, and later he was employed as stationary engineer, which pursuit was especially congenial to him, and which he followed for a long time. He has received a fair school education, to which he has added the knowledge derived by a wide experience and varied observation.
   In the autumn of 1877 Mr. Hain came to Cass County, Neb., and for the following two years he worked at farming and operated a threshing-machine. In 1879 he bought eighty acres of wild prairie land, which he proceeded to improve by plowing his land and erecting the necessary buildings for residence and protection of his stock, which he still owns. He has been very prosperous in his venture, and has purchased an additional eighty acres, which, with the original eighty, he has brought to a very high state of cultivation. It has taken years of hard, steady work for him to accomplish this result, and now, after he has attained it, it is exceedingly gratifying to him, as it is the result exclusively of his own energy and ability.
   Our subject and Jenna McCool were married

March 1, 1882. The lady is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Venango County, May 25, 1858. She is a daughter of Robert and Fietta (Shurtz) McCool. Her father died when she was about five years of age. Shortly after his death the mother removed with her children to Trumbull County, Ohio, where they settled, and where her mother still lives. One son has been born to this couple, James, July 24, 1886.
   Mr. Hain is one of those live, progressive men who are not content with living in yesterday, and following up the old routine in vogue many years ago, but on the contrary he believes in the advancement of modern ideas and modern methods. The late improved machinery for agricultural purposes is found on his farm, and all the labor-saving inventions that will assist in the household are provided for his wife, by means of which their life is not now one continual round of toil and labor, but they have many hours which they can and do devote to recreation and the advancement of social life of the neighborhood. Both himself and wife are very sociable and take a leading position in the society where they live. They are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His political allegiance is held by the Republican party.

R. MILTON M. BUTLER, a prominent physician and surgeon of Weeping Water, is one of the oldest settlers of this county, arriving in this State in the year 1870, and becoming a resident of the village three years later. A man of fine capabilities, excellent judgment and good education, he has been an important factor in the building up of the town, and has uniformly entertained a lively interest in everything connected with its welfare. He has a fine residence at the corner of Elm and G streets, and is numbered among the leading men of the place.
   Dr. Butler, a gentleman in the prime of life, was born near Greenfield, Hancock Co., Ind., Nov. 15, 1845. He there received the rudiments of his early education, and later entered Earlham College, at Richmond, where he studied for some months. Upon leaving this institution he engaged in the reading of medicine with his brother, Dr. D. W. Butler, who was then located in Dunreith, and with whom he continued a period of ten years. In the meantime he had begun the practice of his profession, but later entered upon a course of lectures at Miami College, in Ohio, and became the regular partner of his brother, with whom he practiced a number of years. On coming to Nebraska, in the fall of 1870, Dr. Butler established himself first in Plattsmouth, on the eastern line of this county, where he remained until 1873. In the month of August of that year he changed his field of operations to Weeping Water, coming to the town at a time when he had only been preceded by one other physician. There were then probably not to exceed 250 people in the place. The town now numbers probably 3,000 souls. Dr. Butler has thus watched the growth and development of one of the most enterprising cities in Southern Nebraska, and has been one of the most generous contributors to its prosperity.
   A Republican in politics, Dr. Butler, while keeping himself well posted upon current events, has been no office-seeker, although his natural capabilities have always obtained ready recognition at the hands of his fellow-citizens. He has frequently been pressed into service upon important occasions, serving as Chairman of the County Central Committee, and occupying other positions of trust. During the late election (1888) he served as a Republican elector, and takes satisfaction in the reflection that he was instrumental in the selection of the grandson of Old Tippecanoe for the future President. He was chosen President of the Electoral College of the State at the meeting of that college. He has almost uniformly been a delegate to all the conventions, County, State and National, and is always willing to serve in any capacity where he can do anything which shall result in the furtherance of the principles of which he has been an earnest adherent since old enough to reflect upon men and things and life in its various places.
   Dr. Butler became identified with the I. O. O. F. about 1872, while a resident of Plattsmouth, and is one of the warmest advocates of the principles of the order. He has filled every office in Prairie Lodge No. 25, serving as its first Presiding Officer,

and has represented it in the Grand Lodge. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America The local camp in this city was named in his honor, Butler Camp No. 748.
   At Weeping Water, Neb., on the 19th of August, 1874, occurred the marriage of our subject with Miss Stella A. Paine. This lady was born at Painesville, Ohio, July 10, 1853, and is the daughter of Hon. Henry Paine, of Lake County, Ohio. Mr. Paine was at one time a member of the State Legislature, and was otherwise prominent in public affairs, serving as County Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, and in various other official capacities. He married Miss Harriet N. Tuttle, and they became the parents of ten children, all of whom are living. Of these Mrs. Butler was next to the youngest. Her brothers and sisters are located mostly in Nebraska. Mr. Paine met his death by accident, falling from a wagon in 1868, a few days before the first election of Gen. Grant. His widow continued her resident at the old homestead in Painesville, and survived her husband a period of twenty years, her death taking place Jan. 17, 1888.
   As may be surmised, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Butler was one of the earliest settlers of Lake County, Ohio, and the founder of Painesville. He emigrated there in the pioneer days, carried on agriculture a number of years, and built up a home for himself in the wilderness, which remained the property of the Paine family for years. The town is located upon a part of the land which he took up from the Government. To Dr. and Mrs. Butler there were born four children, one of whom, Mattie R., the second child, died at the age of two years and nine months. The survivors are: Charie A., Agnes E. and Mildred Mary. These children are being given first-class advantages. The eldest, though only thirteen years of age, is very proficient in music, and they are remarkably promising.
   George W. Butler, the father of our subject, was born in Virginia, April 11, 1818, and a week later his mother died. Not long after he was doubly orphaned by the death of his father, and was assigned to a guardian, who bound him out to a farmer in Virginia. Soon after his guardian moved to Ohio. He was reared to manhood in the Buckeye State, whence he migrated to Hancock County, Ind., and was there married to Miss Martha Rawls. They became the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living, and most of whom are located in Indiana. Two of the sons are physicians of note, and one is a professor in one of the public schools of Rushville, Ind. The father belongs to the Society of Friends, and is one of the prominent men among this peaceable sect. He makes his home in Fairmount, Ind. Mrs. Martha (Rawls) Butler, the mother, was born Sept. 21, 1814, and departed this life at her home in Fairmount, Ind., May 13, 1880. She was the daughter of John Rawls, a substantial farmer of the Old Dominion.
   Dr. Butler and his estimable wife, together with his eldest daughter, are members in good standing of the Congregational Church at Weeping Water. The Doctor has always cherished a warm interest in Sunday-school work, and has always been one of the liberal supporters and pillars of the church. As it business man and citizen he is well spoken of by his fellow townsmen.

DWARD A. SACKETT, a product of the Buckeye State, and junior member of the firm of Sackett & Amerman, stands at the head of a flourishing hardware trade in Weeping Water, the house handling a heavy stock of goods in this line, and having a wide and steadily increasing patronage. Mr. Sackett is one of the leading men of the town in business as well as in social circles, and is the owner of valuable property including a fine home an Commercial street, and besides the store he occupies owns another one utilized by Flower Bros. as the city drug-store. Mr. Sackett put up a handsome residence in the summer of 1888, which, with its surroundings, is not only an ornament to the city, but combines all the comforts and conveniences of modern life.
   Edward Sackett was born July 28, 1859, at the homestead of his father, Hiram Sackett, in Tallmadge Township, Summit Co., Ohio, a homestead which comprised a tract of valuable land lying among rolling hills and fertile fields, and there spent his

boyhood and youth. His first studies were conducted in the little school-house at the "Six Corners," to which he traveled a distance of about a mile up and down the hills, and when further advanced he entered the High School at Kent, three or four miles from his home, where he completed his education. Then returning to the farm he remained there with his father until a young man of twenty-three years. Leaving Tallmadge in the spring of 1882, he turned his steps westward, and coming to Nebraska, purchased land on section 9, Weeping Water Precinct, this county, from which in its raw state he constructed a good farm. Upon this he turned the first furrow, put out trees, built fences, and during the first three years of his labors here harvested 4,000 bushels of wheat. The only year in which he put in a corn crop, the sixty acres which he devoted to this cereal yielded film 3,600 bushels. He thus secured the capital which laid the foundation of his present business.
   In the fall of 1886 Mr. Sackett sold his farm and became a member of the firm of Cole & Sackett, engaging in general merchandising on a large scale. This business was located on I street, and was conducted by our subject and his partner two and one-half years very successfully. In October, 1888, they sold out and dissolved partnership, and less than two weeks later the present firm was organized, and purchased the hardware department of Chase & Churchill's store, opening up with a fine large stock and the promise of future prosperity. Mr. Sackett was reared as it were under the wing of the Republican party, to which he still loyally adheres. He was also trained in the doctrines of the Congregational Church, of which his honored father has been for years a Deacon at Tallmadge, and upon coming to the West identified himself with the same, to which he still belongs, with his estimable wife. He is warmly interested in the religious training of the young, and has been interested in Sunday-school work for many years.
   Mr. Sackett found his bride in the West, being married Oct. 6, 1887, to Miss Nellie Monroe, of Weeping Water, and they have one child, a son, William M., born Aug. 19, 1888. Mrs. Sackett is the daughter of William J. Monroe, and was born Aug. 5, 1865, in Indiana. Of Mr. Monroe and his estimable wife a sketch will be found elsewhere in this volume.
   Hiram Sackett, the father of our subject, was also born in Tallmadge. Ohio, March 28, 1824, and up to this time has spent his entire life there. He is the son of Deacon Clark Sackett, a native of Connecticut, and one of the pioneers of Tallmadge, a man held in the highest respect by the people of Summit County; and who for many years was one of the pillars of the Congregational Church. Deacon Sackett lived to be quite aged, reared a large family, and died full of years and honors, about 1862. Hiram Sackett is still living a few miles from the farm where he was born and reared, and is worthily bearing the mantle which descended to him from his honored father, being an active member and Deacon of the same Congregational Church, officiating as Clerk, and from his youth up being otherwise foremost among its councils and deliberations. Politically, he still abides with the Republican party.
   The mother of our subject, Mrs. Eliza (Treat) Sackett, was the daughter of Richard and Amorett (Hutchins) Treat, and was also born in Tallmadge Township, a few miles from the boyhood home of her husband. They were reared in the same township, becoming members of the same church at an early period in their lives. Grandfather Treat, like Deacon Sackett, was also one of the prominent men of Tallmadge, the owner of a good property, and the father of a large and highly respected family of children. He suffered many years from inflammatory rheumatism, and passed away about 1872. His excellent wife survived him several years, and died about 1875, being found one morning in a sleep from which she never awakened. To Hiram and Eliza Sackett there were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom are living some of them not far from the homestead, where the mother and father still reside.
   Clark Sackett, Jr., an uncle of our subject, owns and occupies the old Deacon Sackett homestead, two and one-half miles west of Tallmadge Center, and which is one of the finest farms in that region. Edward Sackett, our subject, is one of the most worthy representatives of this large family, who for three generations have been landmarks in the his-

tory or the Buckeye state; and coming to Nebraska a young man, if life and health be spared, and he continues here, there is no doubt that he will leave his mark in this section of Nebraska as thoroughly as his progenitors impressed themselves upon the soil of Ohio.

ILLIAM TIGHE. The pioneer element of Mt. Pleasant Precinct is admirably represented by the gentleman whose name stands at the head of this sketch, and who is the owner of a pleasant country home on section 7. His has been a career filled with industry, and in which the exercise of diligence and perseverance has met with its natural reward. Upon coming to Nebraska he battled for many years with the difficulties of life in a new settlement, but from the struggle has emerged with flying colors. He is regarded by the people of his community as an honest man, a good citizen, and one amply worthy of representation in a work of this kind.
   The place of the birth of our subject is recorded as near the town of Toronto, Province of Ontario, Canada, and the date March 31, 1840. He is of pure Irish ancestry, being the son of John and Mary A. Tighe, who were both natives of Ireland. They emigrated to the United States after their marriage, and are now residents of this precinct. Their household consisted of seven sons and three daughters, making a large and interesting family, of whom the survivors are recorded as follows: James is married, and numbered among the well-to-do farmers of Centre Precinct, this county; June, the wife of Michael Kennedy, together with William and Edward, also resides there; Margaret married John Casey, and they are residents of Richardson County; John lives in Grand Island, this State; Charles and Joseph are residents of this State, the former in Centre Precinct, this county, and the latter in Bradshaw; Mary A., Mrs. James Carper, and Josiah S., live in Mt. Pleasant Precinct.
   The subject of this sketch was reared to man's estate in the Dominion, receiving a common-school education. He has always been a reader and has thus kept himself well posted upon passing event. He came over into the States after the close of the late Civil War, locating first in Clinton County, Iowa, where he resided a number of years and carried on farming. In the spring of 1873, leaving the Hawkeye State, he came to this county, and traded a portion of his Iowa land for the quarter-section in Mt. Pleasant Precinct which he now lives upon. He has watched the raw prairie developing from its primitive condition into beautiful homesteads and valuable farms, the erection of school buildings, and all the other indications of the advance of civilization, with that satisfaction only felt by the intelligent and progressive citizen. A man who has spent most of his time attending to his own concerns, he is nevertheless public spirited and liberal-minded, and has ever been ready to give his substantial aid to the projects calculated for the advancement of the people around him. His course has been that of a peaceable and law-abiding citizen, who has done good as he has had opportunity, and who will leave a record of which his children need never be ashamed.
   The 16th of November, 1879, witnessed the marriage of our subject with Miss Mary Quinn, who was born in Clinton County, Iowa, Sept. 22, 1856. Mrs. Tighe is the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Crowly) Quinn, who were natives of Ireland; the mother is now deceased. They emigrated to America prior to their marriage, indeed when quite young, and the parents of each settled in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Later the family emigrated first to Illinois and then to Iowa. Mrs. Tighe came to this county on a visit in the fall of 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn settled in Linn County, Kan., where they lived for a number of years. The father is now in Cass County. The parental household included eight children, six of whom are living: Ann, Mrs. William Wells; Ellen, Mrs. Thomas Murphy, and Kate, Mrs. Michael Murphy, are residents of Richardson County, Neb.; Hannah lives in Anderson County, Kan., being the wife of Thomas Hunt, who is carrying on farming; John is a resident of Mt. Pleasant Precinct, this county. Mrs. Tighe is according to age in about the middle of the group.
   Mr. and Mrs. Tighe commenced their wedded life together at the modest farm homestead in Cass