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which position he still retains. He has been continously (sic) connected with this bank since 1876 and it is largely due to his conservative and wise business management that the bank has prospered and become the safe financial institution which it is now known to be.
   Mr. Hopewell was united in marriage to Eva Thomason in 1878.
   Mr. Hopewell has always taken much interest in public affairs and especially in the welfare of the public schools of the district to which he has given much time, having been a member of the Board of Education from 1887, continuously, until 1903 when he resigned.

   PETER L. RORK was born June 18th. 1838, in the state of New York. At the age of five years he accompanied his parents upon their removal to Michigan, where they settled on a farm in Barry county. When Peter was ten years of age his lather died. He remained with his mother, working summers and contributing to the family support and attending the country schools in the winter. Mr. Rork takes much pride in the fact that his first vote was cast for Stephen A. Douglas in 1860. In '61 and '62 he was serving as township clerk of his township and resigned to enlist in the war of the rebellion, in May, 1862. He served until May 18. 1865.
   Mr. Rork was united in marriage August, 1, 1858, to Miss Matilda Rogers.
   Immediately upon the close of the war he gathered up his little family and started for the great west, arriving in Tekamah. July 17th, 1865, and settling on a farm in Arizona township where he and his family resided until his removal to this city in the fall of 1893 where he has since been a continuous resident.
   For six terms he has served this county as County Commissioner or Supervisor and was appointed postmaster at Tekamah, July 19. 1898, and served four years, when he resigned because of declining health. He gives all his energy and ambition to whatever work

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he undertakes and in his several public positions has always made an admirable official.

   CHARLES BRADFORD TELYEA was born January 9th, 1848, at Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York. In 1855 he became a resident of Wisconsin, in which state he resided until coming to Decatur, Burt county, Nebraska, in February, 1871. In 1876 and 1872 he filled the position of sheriff of this county and later was deputy county clerk under W. B. Roberts. For six years he served the City of Tekamah as a member of it's City Council and seven years as member of the Board of Education. Mr. Telyea has devoted his business life largely to mercantile lines and at present is with the firm of Smith Brothers in this city.
   Mr. Telyea was united in marriage December 30th, 1876 to Miss Ida W. Langren.

   WILLIAM B. BECK was born in Carlisle, Scotland, January 3d, 1834. His parents came to America when he was two years of age and located in Wyoming county, New York He grew to young manhood there and in 1849 crossed the plains and Rockies to California where he remained two years when he returned to New York state. In 1855 he was westward bound again, and in that year, located in Tekamah and soon went onto the farm near Arizona Center which was the Beck homestead for so many years.
   October 14th, 1861, he was united in marriage to Hannah Blackstone. They resided on their Arizona farm until 1882 when they removed to Tekamah. In 1885, during President Cleveland's first administration, Mr. Beck was appointed postmaster of Tekamah. He represented Burt county in the legislature in 1855 and 1856 and was a member of the state Senate in 1879 and again in 1890 and 1891.

   In 1892 the Beck family went to Wyoming and located on a stock ranch in the Big Horn Basin where he resided at the time of his death, August 18th, 1900.

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