many firm friends. She is very intelligent and well informed, and a good conversationalist. Mr. and Mrs. Root have one of the most attractive and cozy homes in Mission Creek, and there they dispense a charming hospitality to the friend or stranger who happens beneath its roof. The following is recorded of the five children who have been born to them: Albert O. is married and farming in Marshall County, Kan.; Caroline J. is deceased; Waldo J. is engaged in the hay business in Falls City; John S. is farming in Kansas, and Charley Grant is deceased. The fine home of Mr. Root is shown in an excellent view on another page of this volume.

ILLIAM McCLINTOCK. One of the most beautiful farms in Pawnee Precinct belongs to the subject of this sketch, who took up his abode in Nebraska in June, 1856. Of Irish birth and ancestry, he was born near the city of Londonderry, in County Donegal, March 16, 1816, and was the fourth in a family of seven children, consisting of four sons and three daughters. Of these four are still living. The father, Samuel McClintock, carried on farming considerably, and was a manufacturer of linen. The mother, whose maiden name was Jane Rankin, was a native of the same locality as her husband, and both spent their entire lives upon their native soil.
   William McClintock was reared in County Donegal, receiving a common-school education, and remaining with his parents until reaching his nineteenth year. He had from his boyhood been a youth thoughtful beyond his years, and determined to become a man among men. He saw little prospect of attaining a competence in his native Ireland, and accordingly made up his mind to emigrate to America. With a limited amount of capital, he gathered together his few personal effects, and bidding adieu to the friends of his childhood embarked on a sailing-vessel at Londonderry, and landed in the city of Philadelphia nine weeks later.
   In the Quaker City our subject occupied himself at farming a number of years, and was then seized with a fit of homesickness which induced him to re-cross the Atlantic and spend a year among his friends. At the expiration of this time he came back to the United States, taking up his residence in the city of Baltimore. Later he started out for the West, and settled in Knox County, Ill., where he occupied himself at farming. In due time he met his fate in the person of Mrs. Sarah Griffee, a native of Kentucky, and they were married Sept. 30, 1852. Mrs. McClintock had accompanied her parents to Illinois when a girl eight years of age. The latter were Reuben and Libby (Atkins) Bandy, who spent their last days in Illinois.
   Mr. and Mrs. McClintock after their marriage moved across the Mississippi into Des Moines County, Iowa, and lived there eighteen months on a farm. They then decided to push farther westward, and in June, 1856, came to this county, settling on their present farm on Taylor Branch. it then bore little resemblance to its present state, being a wild, uncultivated tract upon which there had been no attempt at improvement. Mr. McClintock first purchased 160 acres, and homesteaded the quarter-section adjoining. Their first dwelling was a log cabin 14x16 feet in dimensions, in which they spent twenty years. Our subject operated in the same manner by which his brother pioneers built up their homesteads, enduring many difficulties and hardships, but in due time found himself upon solid ground and in the enjoyment of a comfortable income. He brought his land to a good state of cultivation, and finally turned his attention more exclusively to stock-raising, making a speciality of high-grade Poland-China swine, which industry has been the source of a handsome income to him.
   Seven children came to the fireside of our subject find his excellent wife, the eldest of whom, Mary J., is now the wife of Frank Monegan, of Kansas; Alexander is married; Winfield S. is living at home; Anna is the wife of Frank Barnett, of Iowa; Lena married William Benington, of Sherman County, Kan.; Alice died when very young, and Samuel died at the age of nineteen years. Mr. McC. assisted in the organization of the county, when it took all of the voting citizens to fill the offices. He has always maintained a warm interest in the pros-

perity of his adopted county, encouraging by his influence and more substantial means the various projects set on foot for its advancement.
   Both Mr. McClintock and his estimable wife are members of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and attend services at Pawnee City. He was formerly identified with the Republican party, but now votes independently, aiming to support the men whom he considers best qualified to serve the interests of the people. For a man who arrived in Nebraska with a capital of $1.50 it must be admitted that he has come out of the conflict with flying colors. Mrs. McClintock was first married to Jerett Griffee. The fine residence of Mr. McClintock is shown on another page in this ALBUM.

ON. CHAUNCEY H. NORRIS, a prominent merchant of Pawnee County, occupies a leading position among the influential and honored citizens of Table Rock, where he is engaged in the mercantile business, being an extensive dealer in dry-goods, groceries and general merchandise. He is also the possessor of a fine farm of 410 acres in Sheridan Precinct, 250 acres of it lying on section 5, and the other 160 acres of it lying on the northwest part of section 4, using the whole of it principally for pasturage and grazing, and on the place keeping about 100 head of cattle.
   Our subject was born in Canton, Ill., Jan. 17, 1836. His father, Timothy Norris, was born in New Hampshire, in April, 1806. He grew up among the rugged rocks and hills of the Granite State, living there until eighteen years of age, when, having a strong desire to see more of the world, he went to New York City, and there learned the trade of a stone-cutter. In 1833, at the time of the cholera epidemic in New York, Mr. Norris visited Ohio, staying there a few months. Then, after spending the following year in New York City, he left it permanently, in the year 1835, again going to Ohio, thence proceeding the same year to Illinois, where he settled and spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1852. The maiden name of his wife, to whom he was married in Ohio, was Emeline Turney, who survived him and came to Nebraska, dying here in 1882. She was a most estimable, woman, and a valued member of the Episcopal Church during the last years of her life, though formerly a Congregationalist. To her and her husband were born seven children, four of whom are still living.
   Chauncey H. Norris, of whom we write, was educated in the public schools of his native town, receiving good instruction in the branches taught. In 1858 he came to Nebraska, and for four months was engaged as a clerk in a store in Falls City, Richardson County, and then went back to his native State. Not being quite satisfied with his chances in Illinois, Mr. Norris came here again in 1859, and, bringing with him a stock of merchandise from St. Louis, opened a store in Table Rock, the first permanent one of the kind in the county, although two others had been operated for a short time prior to his coming. There were but few settlers here, and the trade not being sufficient to sustain the store, our subject removed to Falls City, where he remained until 1862, engaged in the same business. In November of that year he sold out his stock of goods, and enlisted in the 2d Nebraska Cavalry, to assist in protecting the frontier against the ravages of the Indians, being mustered in as First Lieutenant of Company G. His regiment, under command of Gen. Alfred Sulley, served principally along the Missouri and in Dakota, having been sent to that Territory for the purpose of punishing the Sioux Indians. Lieut. Norris was in a severe engagement in the White Stone Hills, Sept. 3, 1863, many being killed and wounded in that battle. In October the regiment was ordered to Omaha, where, his term of enlistment having expired, our subject was honorably discharged, December 14 of that year. He next engaged in buying and shipping stock, but not finding that sufficiently remunerative, in 1865 he bought a one-half interest in his old stock of goods, and continued in business, in partnership with D. R. Holt, until February, 1866, when a severe fire visited the town, and their store was burned. Mr. Norris subsequently procured the appointment of United States Agent for the Sac and Fox Indians of Iowa, with headquarters at the Great Nemaha agency,

serving acceptably as such until June, 1869, when the Quaker policy went into effect and his services were no longer needed. Our subject again entered the mercantile trade in Table Rock, opening a general store in the latter part of 1869, the only one here for three or four years, and has since carried on a flourishing trade, his establishment being the most extensive store of general merchandise in the town. He is a popular merchant, ever courteous and attentive to his customers, having the reputation of being honest and square dealing in all business transactions, and is highly esteemed for his manly and sterling character. In 1869 Mr. Norris was appointed Postmaster for Table Rock, the office then paying only $7 a quarter, and he retained it until the salary had increased to $65 a quarter. To his sagacity, enterprise and forethought much of the town's progress and present prosperity ire due, he having been prominent in forwarding all schemes for its advancement, either social, industrial or educational. He was one of the original stockholders of the Table Rock Creamery, selling his shares only recently.
   Mr. Norris rendered efficient aid in elevating the standard of the schools of the precinct, during his faithful service of nine years on the School Board, from which he retired at his own desire, refusing re-election. It was largely through the instrumentality of our subject that the Atchison & Nebraska Railway passes through here, he having assisted in procuring the right of way through Pawnee County. He has not only served with acceptance to all in local offices, but has also served with credit in State affairs. In 1884 he was elected to the State Senate, and while there formed (sic) one (sic) on the following committees: On Immigration, Public Printing, Accounts and Expenditures, and on Miscellaneous Corporations, having been Chairman of the latter. He also introduced a bill into the Senate to allow the submission of the prohibition question. In 1886 Mr. Norris was elected to the State Legislature, and also served there with distinction.
   The marriage of our subject with Miss Fannie C. Giddings, of Table Rock, was celebrated March 1, 1860. Mrs. Norris is a native of New York, born in the town of Greene. Her father, Charles W. Giddings, was born in Connecticut, and married Miss Clarissa Grilling, of Owego, N. Y., by whom he had seven children, four of whom are yet living. Mr. and Mrs. Giddings remained in New York State some years after their marriage, sad then moved to Pennsylvania, and thence came to this State in April, 1858. Mr. Giddings was one of the original settlers of Table Rock, and gave the town its name from a rock of peculiar formation which is located on the farm of Joel Harrison. He engaged in farming until his death, in December, 1879. His estimable wife survived him but a few months, dying in October, 1880. The union of our subject and his wife has been blessed to them by the birth of ten children, eight of whom are still living, namely: Charles, Clara, Sue, Frank, Royal, Horace L., Clinton C. and Lydia G. Clara married Will L. Seisin, of Omaha, and they have one child, Alwin. Sue married E. C. Phillips, of this place, and they have two children, Charles and Fanny.

EMUEL D. JORDAN. No man can justly blame the pioneer for reverting to his early life on the frontier and especially its after results with a feeling of pride and satisfaction. Too much credit cannot be given to those who persevered amid the difficulties which beset them during the first settlement of Nebraska, and none but those experiencing them can fully realize how great were the discouragements which were encountered by the first pilgrims to this region. Many of them came alone with their little family to a wild and uninhabited region while Indians still lingered around, bent upon mischief, and regarding the white invaders with no friendly eye. It seems to us that there can be no more worthy object than that which seeks to perpetuate the record of the lives of those men who, by their courage and perseverance, laid the foundation stone of Nebraska's prosperity.
   The subject of this sketch stands as a living witness of the life of the early pioneer of the Far West, having come here as early as 1855. Before proceeding further with his history it may be proper to state that he is a scion of one of the first families seeking American shores, his paternal great-grandfather having crossed the Atlantic on the "May-

flower" in 1620. He located in Maine, where he was represented subsequently by several generations. To his son Ebenezer there was born Lemuel D., Sr., the father of our subject, and to him Lemuel. Jr., the latter born in 1832. Our subject was reared among the hills of his native State. He had been deprived of a father's care when a mere babe and lived with his mother until a youth of nineteen years. Then leaving home he migrated to Lowell, Mass., in the spring of 1851, and for three months thereafter was employed in a cotton factory. We next find him in Buffalo, N. Y., where he made but a brief sojourn, then crossed Lake Erie to Toledo, Ohio, proceeded from there to Sturgis, Mich., and thence by stage to White Pigeon, Mich., where he entered the employ of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, who were engaged in extending their line to Chicago and Rock Island.
   Young Jordan was thus occupied three years, then crossing the Mississippi proceeded to Linn County, Iowa, where he had relatives. He and his cousin, Abner A. Jordan, finally concluded to cross the plains, and accordingly purchased three yoke of oxen, loaded a wagon with provisions and some tools, crossed the Missouri River on a flatboat, and thence proceeded up the Nemaha to his present location in Clay Precinct, arriving here in July, 1855, after a journey of two months. Each took up a "squatter's" claim of 160 acres, adjoining, and after the survey was made they pre-empted their land, put up a log house, and made themselves as comfortable as their circumstances would permit. The cracks in their dwelling were stopped with clay and sticks; the floor, roof and door were made of puncheon, and light was admitted through an 8x10 pane of glass which they placed in the door. The structure was essentially home made, even to the hinges and wooden latch.
   In this rude dwelling the cousins kept bachelor's hall a number of years, when Abner A. was married, and our subject lived with the young couple until he, too, found a wife and helpmate. This most important event in his life was celebrated Feb. 25, 1869, the maiden of his choice being Miss Florence Walbridge. Our subject had in the meantime put up for himself a hewed log house, and in this he was married. The nuptials were unaccompanied by the style and outlay of the present day, but it is possible that the pair were quite as happy and contented as the people of this later generation who often begin life beyond their means, and so continue until misfortune overtakes them and "their last days are worse than the first."
   Mr. Jordan had taken up another claim of 160 acres near his first, and lived there about seven years. He then returned to the old farm, where in 1882 he put up a commodious frame dwelling which he now occupies with his family, surrounded by all the comforts of life. He has added to his real estate until he is the owner of 480 broad acres. upon which he has over eight miles of all kinds of fencing. After bringing his land to a good state of cultivation he turned his attention largely to stock-raising. and usually keeps a herd of 100 Short-horn cattle, together with from twenty to twenty-five head of horses of the Black Hawk, Morgan and Norman stock. Both in horses and cattle he exhibits as fine animals as are to be found in this county. He is regarded as a first-class farmer, and has been remarkably fortunate in his investments.
   The first tax our subject paid in Pawnee County amounted to $3.70; his last was $130.80. This fact is sufficiently indicative of the manner in which his property has increased in value. His accumulations are the result of his own industry and good judgment, and his early life, though seeming hard at the time, was probably one of the best schools in which he could have been drilled, forming within him a character strong and self-reliant and admirably adapted to cope with the circumstances of his after life. The man who has earned his property dollar by dollar usually knows how to take care or it.
   Mr. Jordan cast his first Presidential vote for Grant. He is an earnest Republican politically, but has no time to spend as an office-seeker, having all he can possibly do to look after his individual affairs. He is nevertheless public-spirited and liberal, and uniformly gives his encouragement and more substantial support to the various enterprises having for their object the progress and advancement of his county.
   The parents of Mrs. Jordan were John and Jane (Malory) Walbridge, natives respectively of Vermont and Connecticut. After marriage they re-

moved to Pennsylvania, settling in Erie County, where Mrs. J. was born May 12, 1844, and where the parents spent their last days. There came to the hearthstone of Mr. and Mrs. Jordan nine children, who were named respectively: Phila M., Mina D., Ruth C., Sadie F., Bessie E., Lemuel D., Clem C., Clayton T. and Ray W. Phila died at the early age of sixteen years. She was a promising child, and in their bereavement the parents had the warm sympathy of all who knew them.

UTHER L. DAVIS, a well-known farmer ,and stock-raiser of Pawnee County, is classed among the most wide-awake and successful agriculturists of Table Rock Precinct, and his well-tilled and well-stocked farm on section 36, township 3, range 12, is considered one of the best managed and most profitable estates in this vicinity.
   Mr. Davis was born in Harrison County, Va., May 5, 1831. His father, Uriah Davis, was a native of the same State, and there married Vienna Davis, who, though bearing the same family name, was, however, no relation. To them came thirteen children, of whom nine lived to maturity. At some period of their married life, when our subject was quite young, they left their old home in Virginia and took up their abode in Ohio, living first in Union County, moving thence to Clarke County, from there to Jackson Township, Shelby County, and finally moving out of the State altogether. We next hear of them in Peoria County, Ill., they having settled near Farmington, and one year later they went to Chillicothe, in the same county. In 1854 they crossed the Mississippi River, and the father of our subject bought forty acres in Clinton County, Iowa. After improving a good farm there, in 1865 Mr. Davis again took up the march westward, and coming to Nebraska with our subject took up land for himself, and made his home here the rest of his days, dying in 1870. He was a member of the Baptist Church, was a sincere Christian, and left the precious legacy of all honest name to his children. His good wife, who was held in equal esteem with himself, died in Iowa in 1886. James and Betsy Davis, the paternal grandparents of our subject, were natives of Wales, and coming to America after marriage, settled in Virginia. They subsequently accompanied their children to Ohio, and died in Jackson Township. They reared a large family.
   Luther Davis, of this biographical notice, was very young when his parents took him from his early home in the Old Dominion to Ohio, and he was but fourteen years old when he accompanied them to Illinois. He was of age when the family went to Iowa, and he industriously worked out and earned money, which he loaned to his father to build up his home, and afterward generously gave it to him as a permanent gift, and with characteristic energy began anew to accumulate money to provide himself with the means to build up a home of his own. Sept. 28, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Purmilla Davis. Nine children have been born to them, of whom five are still living, and following is the record of their births: Lovey, born Jan. 7, 1856; Uriah F., Feb. 18, 1861; Frank, May 24, 1863; Eleazor C., June 12, 1866; Reuben J., Feb. 28, 1870. Lovey married William Higgenbottom; they live in Oregon, and have two children. Frank married Jennie, daughter of Silas Hayes. Uriah married Ella Van Horn; they have one child. The other children are living with their parents.
   Mrs. Davis was born in Champaign County, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1835, and lived in Ohio until 1853, when she moved to Iowa with her parents. Mrs. Davis' grandfather, John Davis, was born in Wales, May 1, 1754, and migrating to this country, he settled in Virginia, where he followed his trade of carpenter. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, and did gallant service in behalf of his adopted country. He died Jan. 22, 1842, at an advanced age. His son John, Mrs. Davis' father, was born in Virginia, July 24, 1793, and he married in his native State Miss Purmilla Maxon, who was born Jan. 26, 1803; their marriage occurred Oct. 26, 1818. They became the parents of twelve children. The father was a man of versatile genius, being at once a doctor of considerable skill, a practical farmer, an ordained minister in the Baptist Church of much note, and a good

cabinet-maker. He spent many years in Ohio, and thence moved to Clinton County, Iowa, and twenty-one years later to Coffey County, Ky. After that he came here and staid with his daughter for a time, and then went to Atchison County, Kan., and took up some land there and improved it. After the death of his wife in that county, June 16, 1879, at the age of seventy-four years, seven months and twenty-one days, he returned to the home of our subject, where his death occurred April 15, 1880, at the age of eighty-two years, eight months and twenty-two days. His family and that of our subject were in nowise connected although bearing the same surname. Both families have borne honorable reputations and have been well thought of since the earliest record of them.
   Mr. Davis may be denominated a pioneer of Nebraska, as he was an early settler of this part of the State. He came here in the spring of 1865, and took up some Government land under the provision of the Homestead Act, in the western part of Richardson County, one mile southeast of his present farm. On that land he turned the first furrow, and set the first trees. He also put out a good orchard, hedged and fenced his land, and made all the usual improvements for increasing the value of a good farm, including, in 1867, a fine frame house, 20x20 feet, and one and one-half stories in height, neat and well painted, and at that time the best house in the county; it is still standing. He at first paid exclusive attention to raising grain, and then went into the stock business, selling in the home market. While living on that place he helped to organize the school district, was its first Moderator, and was one of the very few who stood the expense of putting up a good frame building for a school-house, which is still standing. He hired the first teacher who taught in that district. Our subject helped Mr. Benjamin Clement to build the first bridge over the Big Muddy at Hughes, drawing the timber for it from John Shook's mill, on the Missouri River at Hillsdale, doing his share of the work in putting the bridge together. He also helped to break through the first roads in that part of the district. When he first settled on that farm Indians were in the neighborhood, and were frequent callers on him when he was at work on his place. While plowing his land antelopes and deer came near him and showed no sign of fear. In 1870 Mr. Davis disposed of his property in Richardson County, and crossing the line into this county, purchased his present farm, which was then school land. He at once erected a good dwelling, which still stands, and a fine barn, 60x30 feet, that was burned in 1885. He set out the first trees here, and planted all but twelve acres of his forest and orchard. He put a fence and hedge clear around, and also cross fenced it. His grounds are well supplied with shrubbery and evergreens, and he has a good bearing orchard. He has thus developed from the wild prairies by his persistent and well-directed labors a fine homestead, replete with all the necessary improvements. Mr. Davis is a man of decided force of character, believes in having the best of everything that money, industry and enterprise can procure, and as a result his farm is under a high state of cultivation, yielding him rich returns. His horses, of good and well-selected breeds, are animals of which the owner is proud; his cattle, high graded Durhams and Short-horns, have the best of care and compare well with other herds in the precinct, and his herd justly noted for its character, being of recorded stock, and one full-blooded, registered Durham, dropped in April, 1886, and in December, 1888, tipped the scales at 1,200 pounds, her mother being one of the finest cows in the country. His fat Poland-China hogs, of the best breed, always command a good market, and he has a this line of breeders; four of full-blood he has sold to prominent farmers as heads of herds.
   Our subject is one of the leading members of the Baptist Church, and is highly spoken of by all as a man of unimpeachable integrity, who is honorable in all of his transactions. He is an ardent advocate of temperance, and for four years has been one of the foremost leaders of the Prohibition party, in this county. He has been a delegate to many of the party conventions, among them the first State conventions held at Lincoln, also all following there and at Omaha, besides the county and district conventions, having been Chairman of the first conventions held in Pawnee County. During the late campaign he spent much of his time lecturing in

Pawnee, Richardson, Johnson and Nemaha. Counties, often speaking to large audiences, and doing much good for the cause which he has so much at heart. He has, however, avoided nomination although such an active worker. He is Central Committeeman of this precinct. While on his lecturing tour he has borne a part of the expenses himself, thus devoting both time and money to the elevation of his fellowmen. He has taken an interest in educational matters, and helped to organize the school district and to build the school-house. He has been Road Supervisor for four terms, and his fellow-citizens are greatly indebted to his energy and efficiency for the good roads on which they travel, the highways having greatly improved under his care, and all are pleased at the amount of work done and the judicious expenditure of money.
   The home of our subject is the center of a true and bounteous hospitality, and both host and hostess delight in entertaining people, giving all who enter their doors a cordial welcome. Mr. Davis, besides being a genial and pleasant conversationalist, has quite a musical talent, as have his family also, and he plays well on the horn, violin and organ, and can discourse sweet music on the most insignificant of instruments.

HOMAS H. SHANNON. The representatives and sons of the pioneer families stand next to the original tillers of the soil in point of importance. Among these in Nebraska is the subject of this memoir, who, like his father before him, carried on farming pursuits until 1879, but is now familiarly known to the people of Pawnee City as the proprietor of the Shannon House, one of the most popular and best regulated hotels in the city. Mr. Shannon is what may be called a self-made man, being among the large number of those who started in this Western country with no capital but their stout muscle and courageous hearts.
   Before proceeding further it will perhaps be well to glance at the opening years of our subject, which were spent near the town of North Salem, in Hendricks County, Ind. In that town stood the modest dwelling of his parents, where his birth took place Oct. 14, 1836. His father, Thomas R. Shannon, was born in West Virginia in 1803, and carried on farming his entire life. He married, in his native county, Miss Sarah, daughter of David Allen, who was a year older than himself, born in 1802. They lived in the Old Dominion for a time after their marriage, then, about the year 1833, migrated to Hendricks County, Ind., and settled on a tract of new land, where the father prosecuted farming until the fall of 1858.
   Indiana not effecting for Thomas R. Shannon as much as he expected in point of worldly prosperity, he resolved to cross the Mississippi and seek in a more Western country something which should prove of greater benefit to himself and family. Upon making his advent into this county he located on a tract of land in Pawnee Precinct, two miles west of the present site of Pawnee City, which was then marked only by a few rude structures called houses, and gave little indication of its future importance. The elder Shannon began with the help of his wife and elder children the improvement of 160 acres of land, and upon this he sojourned until his death, which occurred twelve years later, in the spring of 1870. The wife and mother, who had stood bravely by the side of her husband in his toils and struggles, only survived him about three years. Their family consisted of five sons: Samuel S., William A., Thomas H. (our subject), Milton A. and Greenville D.
   Young Shannon received a rather limited education in the district school, and left the parental roof when about twenty-two years old. He worked for a time in the employ of his father, and at an early date thereafter felt that he was equal to the task of taking care of a wife and family. He was accordingly married, Jan. 18, 1865, to Miss Mary S. Griffith, of Pawnee Precinct, and the daughter of John Griffith, Esq., who had removed from Bucks County, Pa., to Nebraska about 1865. Mrs. Shannon was born in November, 1841, in that county, and remained under the home roof until her marriage. Afterward our subject and his wife moved upon a farm in Pawnee Precinct, where Mr. Shannon prosecuted agriculture and stock-raising quite successfully. He first rented a tract of land, and later purchased a farm of 160 acres in Pawnee Precinct,