stock for five years, when he sold out and removed to Skaneateles in the same county, where he bought a house and lot. He remained there a couple of years, engaging in the tobacco trade. In 1868 he sold out and removed to Nebraska, coming by rail to Nebraska City, thence by team to Stove Creek Precinct, where he settled on a homestead on section 34, taking up eighty acres of raw land. He broke this prairie with three yoke of oxen, planting a grove of ten acres, and an orchard of 200 fine trees, set out by himself. He lived on this farm for five years, then proved up and moved to Lincoln, Neb., where he engaged in the grocery and dry-goods business, in partnership with his brother. They carried on the business for two years, losing money on account of the grasshopper plague, there being no crops, and consequently no money coming into the country.
   The appointment of head janitor in the Peru Normal School was given Mr. Clements in 1875, which necessitated the removal of his family to that place. He held this position for five years. In 1880 he determined to try farming again, having in the interim bought an addition of 160 acres, making a tract of 240 acres for cultivation.
   Once more on his farm Mr. Clements devoted his attention to general farming and the raising of hogs and cattle. In this he was very successful, and carried it on until 1886. During the two years prior to 1886 he served as County Commissioner, which occupied about one-half his time, consequently he simply superintended the operations on the farm. He served as County Commissioner, the highest and most responsible office in the county, until January, 1887. In 1886 he moved into Elmwood, where he bought eighty acres adjoining, forty of which he laid out as an addition to that town. In August, 1886, the railroad was built through the town, which gave the real-estate business in which our subject was greatly interested a great impetus.
   He has built three large store buildings on D street, besides the large building occupied by the firm of which he is the senior member, devoted to the furniture and implement trade, which he began in 1887 under the firm name of Clements & Elliott, which firm was dissolved in June, 1887, he then taking his son into partnership, under the firm name of Clements & Son. He is at present engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, and has large interests in Lincoln, the capital city. He still owns the old home farm, but rents it. After the sale of the first addition he platted and sold the other forty acres adjoining Elmwood.
   The father of our subject was George Clements, born in Somersetshire, England; his mother was Harriet Richards, also born in Somersetsbire. His father was a farmer, and came to America in 1842, settling in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he bought 400 acres of improved land, which he operated until the fall of 1864, when he moved into Marcellus, where he lived until 1888. He and his wife are now living with one of his sons on the old homestead, and have reached the advanced age of eighty years. Both are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
   Our subject is one of a family of six children: Infant brothers, Thomas and Charles, are deceased; and Thomas, the second, lives in New York State; I. N. and Ephurem G., in Lincoln, are younger. Isaac N. and E. G. served in the 122d New York Infantry during the late war. The scene of their service was laid in the Peninsula, participating in the battles of Chancellorsville, the Wilderness and Antietam. E. G. was honorably discharged at Alexandria, Va., on account of physical disability. I. N. served as hospital steward, was shot through his ankle during the battle of the Wilderness, was taken prisoner by the rebels, who amputated his leg and sent him to Libby Prison, where he remained six months a prisoner of war, when he was paroled and exchanged. Upon reaching Annapolis, Md., he was honorably discharged. He is at present Principal of the seminary at Cazenovia, N. Y.
   Mr. Clements was married in Marceline, N. Y., March 12, 1857, to Miss Sarah J. Barnett, the daughter of William and Maria Barnett. She was born in Marcellus, N. Y. Five children have been born to our subject and his wife, namely: Hattie; Sanford and Samuel, twins, deceased; Byron I. and Albert are living. Byron I. married Miss Minnie Bailey, and is the junior partner of the firm of Clements & Son. Albert is at home with his parents.
   The beautiful home of Mr. Clements is situated

on the corner of F and Second streets. The house is 32x48 feet, the finest in the town; water is supplied throughout by a system of pipes from a large reservoir tank which is filled by the operation of a large windmill, and otherwise arranged in the interior with every appliance to add to the comfort and well-being of the inmates. The lawn is nicely arranged, and taking the home both inside and out, is the most beautiful place in Cass County, and does great credit to the liberality and enterprise of the owner. But few homes in our cities are better adapted to the giving of pleasure and comfort than that of our subject.
   The citizens of Elmwood are indebted as much if not more to this gentleman than to any other for the prosperity of their town. It is owing mainly to his efforts and zeal that the Missouri Pacific Railroad was built through the town. After the two surveys had been made, neither of them going through the town, our subject, with Dr. Hobbs, C. D. Clapp, C. Alton and John Hart, formed a corporation between themselves, and after corresponding with and interviewing the Superintendent of the road, and by raising $1,200 in cash, and giving the right of way and one-half of 160 acres of the town site, they induced the company to abandon the proposed route and lay the road through Elmwood. The $1,200 was raised by subscription; the eighty acres of land donated the road was given by the five men mentioned, Mr. Clements giving one fourth, or twenty acres of the amount. The road was completed in 1886.
   In all matters pertaining to the welfare of the people among whom he lives Mr. Clements has taken and occupied a foremost position, being always on the alert to secure for himself and neighbors all and every advantage that could possibly be secured by energy and push. He has received and deserved at the hands of his fellow-citizens the most complete confidence and regard, being placed by them in many positions of trust, serving for three years as County Commissioner, which is the highest and most responsible local office within the gift of the people of the county. He is at present Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, a member of the Board of Trustees of Elmwood, and a member of the A. F. & A. M., of Plattsmouth. He is Past Chancellor of the K. of P., of Elmwood, and a valued member of the A. O. U. W., of that place. Both himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He donated the site for and contributed largely to the building of the church edifice. Always generous, large-hearted and genial. He is the ideal citizen of the West.
   In politics Mr. Clements is a strong Republican, a delegate to the State and County Conventions of that party time after time, a conscientious and conservative member of both the Grand and Petit Juries. He can rejoice in the fact of every duty well and faithfully performed.

ILLIAM HEROLD is the oldest merchant in Plattsmouth, and he has a well-kept establishment, with an extensive patronage among the best class of people. He represents both the business and public interests of the city, and is numbered among its most enterprising and substantial citizens.
   Our subject was born in Bustadt, Saxe-Weimar, Germany, and his father, Gotleib Herold, was a native of the same place. His grandfather, Frederick Herold, was born and reared in France, and served in the French army under Napoleon. He was with that great leader in the raid on Moscow, and in the subsequent terrible retreat through the winter snows. Mr. Herold proved to be so courageous and efficient a soldier that he was made an officer in the army, and he used often to be sent to Russia to buy horses. He was a great admirer of the great commander under whom he fought, and he used to tell his children many anecdotes concerning him, and also concerning the campaigns in which he himself took part. After his retirement from the army he opened a hotel one mile from the county seat of Saxe-Weimar, and was for many years profitably engaged as "mine host." He spent his declining years with the mother of our subject, dying at the ripe old age of eighty-four years.
   The father of our subject was reared in his native place, attended school in his youth and subsequently learned the trade of butcher. He owned a farm which he managed himself, besides keeping a meat

market in town. He died while yet a young man, and left a wife and four children, the names of the latter being Adam Bernhard, William, Gustave and Herman. The mother of our subject spent her whole life in her native country. Being left a widow thus early she faithfully performed the duty of rearing her children to honest and useful lives, thus making them good citizens of their adopted country, for they all came to America in after years.
   William Herold was eight years of age when his father died. He attended school quite regularly until his sixteenth year, and obtained a sound education. He then bought his time of the Government until he should be of age, and through his uncle purchased his freedom from military service, and then he and his brother Gustave set sail from Hamburg in the fall of 1849 in an American-bound vessel. They encountered high winds in mid-ocean, and the ship was driven from its course, and the provisions becoming scarce, all on board lived on rice and molasses for two weeks. At length, after a perilous voyage of sixty days, they landed in New York. They went directly to LaSalle County, Ill., and our subject found work there with a butcher, receiving $8 a month in payment for his services. At the expiration of a year he left Illinois, crossing the Mississippi to St. Louis, where he worked at the butcher's trade for one year. In 1851 he engaged to go with a man from Illinois to California, to assist him in driving a herd of cattle across the plains and mountains. They started from Independence, Mo., in the spring, and made the journey across the wild prairies of the unorganized territory now comprising Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, etc., to their destination in Marysville, arriving in October. The traveler of the present day can scarcely realize, as he speeds along over the iron rails in luxurious palace cars, that such an undertaking in those days involved many weary days and months of slow traveling across the mountainous plains and the rugged mountain passes, through a country infested by Indians (who were, perhaps, hostile), and wild animals, such as deer, elk, antelopes and buffaloes.
   Mr. Herold engaged in butchering in San Francisco for other parties, and remained there a year. We next hear of him in Drytown, Amador County, where he opened a meat-market, which he managed with great profit for two years. He then left California and returned home by the Nicaragua route to New Orleans, and thence up the Mississippi River to Muscatine, Iowa, where he took the stage for Council Bluffs. He then bought two yoke of oxen and pushed on to Omaha, which he found in an embryo state, it having just been platted, and containing only from fifteen to twenty houses. He engaged there in breaking the prairie with his teams, receiving $8 an acre for his work. All the land in Nebraska was then owned by the Government, and for sale at $1.25 an acre, and Indians still inhabited that section of the country. In the fall of 1855, he came to Plattsmouth, which he found to be an insignificant hamlet, with about fifteen houses, about half of which were log structures, and the remainder small frame buildings. He continued on west of that town and took up a timber claim one mile southwest of the present site of Louisville. After entering his claim he went to Glenwood, Iowa, and opened a general store there. In 1857 he established a branch store at Plattsmouth, and thus being one of the pioneers in the mercantile business in this city. In 1859 he sold out at Glenwood and settled on his land near Louisville, and commenced to improve a farm. In 1862 he came to Plattsmouth to engage in business, opening a general store, which is now the oldest in the city. He has prospered exceedingly, and has built up an extensive and paying trade.
   Mr. Herold was married, March 2, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth O'Neil, a native of Hocking County, Ohio, and a daughter of James and Rachel (Aubery) O'Neil, of whom see sketch. Four children have been born of this marriage, namely: James, who married Mary Clark, and is in business in Boston; Emma, who is the wife of Frank Hager, of Plattsmouth; Henry and Dora, who are at home with their parents.
   Mr. Herold is a self-made man in the truest sense of the word, owing his good fortune solely to the exercise of his own powers. His conduct in life is guided by good principles, and in all of his transactions he is found to be fair and upright. In him the Episcopal Church has a devoted member. As a good citizen he is deeply interested in the welfare

of the city whose growth he has witnessed and promoted, and as one of the Board of Councilmen for two years, has heartily entered into all schemes looking to its advancement. Politically, he is a Democrat, firmly believing that the policy of that party, if carried out, would stimulate the various industries of the United States to an unprecedented activity. Socially, he is identified with the A. F. & A. M., Plattsmouth Lodge No. 6, and the I. O. O. F., Plattsmouth Lodge No. 7.

OHN W. SHANNON, now deceased, was one of the earliest settlers of Plattsmouth, coming to this region when there was little indication of the present wealth and prosperity of this flourishing city. A native of Colborne, Northumberland County, Province of Ontario, Canada, he was born in 1821, where he was reared and received a common-school education. Upon approaching manhood he learned the trade of a tailor, at which he was occupied until 1852, then migrated over into the States, and worked at his trade in New York and Ohio for a period of seven years.
   About this time the gold excitement at Pike's Peak attracted thither a large number of men desirous of bettering their condition financially, and Mr. Shannon, joining the caravan setting thitherward made the journey overland across the plains. He at once entered the mines, and met with very good success. He afterward decided to seek another locality. In the meantime he had made the acquaintance of George Gilpin, who gave him a letter of introduction to Kit Carson, at that time Indian Agent at Taos, New Mexico, whither he repaired. He did not remain long, however, in that region, but returning east as far as the present site of Plattsmouth, concluded to locate here, and here he spent the remainder of his life.
   Mr. Shannon is a man of great energy and enterprise, and after concluding to make Plattsmouth his headquarters, gathered together teams and other equipments and commenced freighting across the plains to Denver, and other important military posts in the West. He was thus occupied until in 1864, when, settling down in Plattsmouth, he established in the livery business, and was thus occupied until in 1886. Being now near his threescore years and ten, he decided to retire from active business and accordingly sold out. His death took place Sept. 8, 1888.
   On the 2d of February, 1873, Mr. Shannon was united in marriage with Miss Martha J. Erway, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride. Mrs. Shannen was born at Three Rivers, St. Joseph Co., Mich., and is the daughter of Albert H. Erway, a native of Tompkins County, N. Y. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. S. were Charles and Susannah (Corchit) Erway. They settled in St. Joseph County during its pioneer days, and Albert H. remained with his parents, until approaching manhood, His business career commenced as a clerk in a store of general merchandise. So great was his application to his duties, honesty and integrity, that he not only made many friends, but managed his finances wisely that he was enabled to purchase the business of his employer, which he conducted afterward for a period of thirteen years.
   In 1852 Mr. Erway started for California. making the journey via the Isthmus, and landing in San Francisco on the 7th of April. He first engaged in mining on Mormon's Island. The winter following, associating himself with a partner, he purchased a stock of goods in San Francisco and established himself in business at a place called Fiddletown. and remained there until after the destruction of Sacramento by fire. He then engaged in freighting from Stockton to the mines, making his headquarters at the former place.
   In 1855 Mr. Erway returned to Michigan, and locating in Cass County, occupied himself there until in 1860. He then crossed the Father of Waters again, locating in Iowa, but a year later sought Nebraska Territory, and for a year thereafter occupied himself as a hotel-keeper. We next find him in the young city of Denver, where, however, he sojourned but a short time, but migrating farther northwest resumed his old business of freighting, transporting goods from Walla Walla to the mines in Idaho.
   In 1863 Mr. Erway again sought the Pacific Slope, and began freighting to the mountains.

Later he purchased a ranch sixteen miles below Sacramento, where he lived until 1868; then went to Nevada, and again became interested in freighting, doing an extensive business. Here, however, his usual prosperity seemed to have deserted him, as he finally lost the accumulations of years and was obliged to start anew. His perseverance and resolution, however. brought him out a victor from the struggle, and in the course of eighteen months he had accumulated $3,000. A part of this, in 1876, he invested in a ranch in Esmeralda County, the Mason Valley, where he engaged extensively in stock-raising, built a beautiful home, and there spent his last days. He closed his eyes upon earthly scenes on the 8th of March, 1886.
   Mrs. Abigail Jane (Phillips) Erway, the mother of Mrs. Shannon, was born in Kentucky. Of this union there were eight children, namely: Benjamin, James, Amanda, Emma, Mark, Martha, Edward and Charles. Mr. Shannon was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

HOMAS T. YOUNG. Among the many valuable farms which make South Bend Precinct a veritable Garden of Eden, there are none that present to the eye a finer appearance, or are under a higher state of cultivation, than the home farm occupied by the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He owns and operates a farm of 240 acres on section 32, devoting it to general farming and stock-raising. He is a native of Ohio. being born in Pickaway County, June 29, 1844, the youngest child in a family of four, having three sisters older, named Sarah J., Mary E. and Allie A. They are the children of Thomas and Sarah (Cole) Young. The father was born in Pennsylvania, and the mother in Pickaway County, Ohio. The parents lived for many years in the northern part of Ohio, when they removed to Iowa in 1852, where they settled on the land in what is now Mt. Pleasant. The father died at the present home of our subject in 1874, aged seventy-five years. The mother still lives in Greenwood, and is now eighty-two years old.
   Our subject was taken to Allen County, Ohio, by his parents, when he was eight years old; he attended the Union Schools while living in that county, and after his parents migrated with their family to Iowa, he took a course in the Iowa Wesleyan University. After leaving this school, he engaged in business in Iowa as a clerk. Not feeling satisfied with the possibilities of his position, and hoping to advance his interests favorably, he went to Colorado in 1864, where he engaged in farming in El Paso County. The results of this venture did not entirely satisfy him, and after five years, experience he came in 1869 to Eight Mile Grove Precinct, this county.
   Mr. Young was married to Miss Susie Creamer, a daughter of Cyrus and Sarah Creamer. This lady was born in Indiana, and at the age of three or four years, her parents moved to Bloomington, Ill., where they resided for several years, when they again moved, this time from Illinois to Nebraska, where they finally settled in Eight Mile Grove precinct. This lady was then about twelve years of age. She resided at home with her parents, taking her part in the various household duties pertaining to their home, attending school, and otherwise preparing herself for a life of usefulness. She has become the mother of eight children, five of whom are living, named: Eva M., Mary E., Frank T., Alice E. and Myra B. Her parents were natives of Indiana.
   Since his final settlement on his present farms Mr. Young has devoted his time and attention to the improvement of his land, and the raising of stock for the general market. The improvements which he has from time to time placed on his farm, are of the most substantial and solid nature, and built with a view of being permanent and lasting. He has good barns which are models of their class; large and roomy, they are admirably arranged for their intended use. His cattle sheds, corn cribs, granaries, and the sheds for the protection of the various farming machinery, are first class in every respect. He feels that successful farming depends largely on taking proper care of the animals and implements on a farm. He is wide-awake, pushing, and well informed in his business, possessing an eminently practical knowledge, derived from experience and observation, of all the details pertaining to farming and stock-raising.

     The fine frame residence in which our subject resides occupies a commanding location, and is one of the most tastily built residences in the precinct, is nicely furnished throughout, and contains the latest improvements for reducing the labor of housekeeping to the smallest possible amount. His wife, who is at the head of his domestic establishment, is a handsome and most excellent lady in all respects. She takes a pardonable pride in the internal arrangements of her home, which is certainly justifiable, for it reflects great credit on her judgment and artistic taste. She is genial and hospitable, which qualities make her a leading spirit in the social life of the locality. Herself and husband are earnest and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They carry their religion into their everyday life and live fully up to their conception of what a true Christian should be. Mr. Young has filled acceptably to his neighbors and with credit to himself various public offices, being elected Assessor for two terms, was also from 1871 to 1880 an active member of the School Board. He served on the Grand and Petit Juries of the county, in which latter position he discharged his duties in an impartial manner. In politics Mr. Young is a Republican.

ICOLAS YOUNG has a farm of 200 acres very pleasantly located, partly on Weeping Water Creek, on section 27, Liberty Precinct. It is well watered, well stocked, and well improved, comparing favorably in all respects with the best of the many fine farms in this section of Cass County. Our subject is a representative farmer and citizen of his precinct and county, and is eminently worthy of a place in this biographical work.
   He was born in Berlin, Germany, May 3, 1826, and was reared and educated in one of the Rhine Provinces, some fifty miles from that capital. His father, Simon Young, was a laboring man, and worked in a tobacco factory. He married a lady of the same town as himself, and they are both now deceased. He dying at the age of sixty-six and she in a the prime of life, when our subject was but six years old. They were both people whose blameless lives and honest, industrious habits gained them the respect of their neighbors. Mr. Young was a Lutheran in his religious belief, and was ever faithful to the tenets of his church. In early manhood Mr. Young, of whom we write, sought the United States of America, this Mecca of so many of his compatriots, after having plied the trade of stonemason in the Fatherland nine years, hoping to secure more profitable wages here in return for his labors. That was in the year 1854, and he made his way to St. Louis, and followed his trade in that city more or less until he came to Nebraska and turned his attention to farming in 1856. He spent the first year after his arrival in Wyoming Precinct, Otoe County, and in 1859 came to Cass County. He pre-empted eighty acres of land, and immediately entered upon the labor of improving it, and later he bought the 120 acres where he now resides, and has 200 acres of well-tilled land, provided with buildings and everything needed for successfully prosecuting his work.
   July 5, 1860, our subject took one of the most important steps of his life, in his marriage with Miss Maria Schmitz, who has ably assisted him in building up their comfortable home. She was born in Germany, Sept. 17, 1833, and is the daughter of John and Catherine (Bonsen) Schmitz, now both deceased, her father having died at a good old age, and her mother in the prime of life, when her daughter, Mrs. Young, was a child of three years. Mr. Schmitz was a tailor by trade. Mrs. Young was reared and educated in Germany, and was twenty-three years old when she came to the United States and took up her home in Nebraska. She is the mother of nine children, four of whom are dead -- John W., Andrew, Henry and Peter. The remaining children are Fred W., Simon, Anna M. and Anna Frances (twins), and Charles E., and all are at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Young are Lutherans in their religious belief, and are active in the church. Mr. Young is independent in politics, always exercising his reason in casting his ballot, and voting for those men whom he thinks will best serve the country, without regard to their political affiliations.