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and after attending there for two years he entered the employ of a large general store where he started at the bottom of the ladder and, after four year's service, left his employers as head clerk in his department, to come to America. Since coming to this country he has been engaged continuously in the mercantile business.
   In 1900 Mr. Johnson came to Tekamah and entered business for himself, starting with a small stock of notions in the Masonic Building. His business has grown continuously and the store room has been enlarged four times to accommodate his increasing stock and growing trade.
   Mr. Johnson was united in marriage during the summer of 1899 to Miss Christina Olson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Swen Olson, of Admah, Washington county, who are among the oldest settlers of that locality having settled there over thirty years ago.

   DR. CHARLES A. RAVER is a Nebraska boy, having been born on his father's farm in Washington county, April 21st, 1869. He attended and graduated from the Blair High School and then attended Doane College, at Crete, Nebraska, where he took a scientific course of four years. From Doane he went to Chicago and took a three year course at Rush Medical College, graduating from there in 1897, when he took up the practice of dentistry at Tekamah. Since locating here he has taken a prominent part in matters of public interest and has served two terms as City Councilman from his ward.
   Mr. Raver was united in marriage to Miss Irma Clow, of Blair, in August. 1897.

   M. D. WILLERT was born August 24th, 1864, near Dashwood, Ontario, Canada. He remained at home with his parents on the farm until he attained the age of eighteen when he commenced learning the harness and saddlery trade at Crediton, Canada, remaining at the bench three years and then coming to the United

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States and following his trade through Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. He arrived in Nebraska in the year 1888 and worked in a number of towns of the state. In 1890 he established a harness business at Tekamah where he now has a large business.
   Mr. Willert was united in marriage to Miss May Wilson, of this city, in August, 1892.

   CLARENCE VALDER, is a Nebraskan, born in this state November 30th, 1872, in Silver Creek precinct where he lived until he attained the age of twenty-one years when he removed to Bancroft and engaged in farming. In March, 1900, he returned with his family, to Tekamah, and opened and conducted a restaurant business for three years, again returning to the farm,
   Mr. Valder was united in marriage March 6th, 1895, to Miss Ethel I. McMullen,

   A. E. THOMASON is one of the prominent attorneys of this county. He was born on a farm near Leland, LaSalle county, Ill., December 3d, 1867. Shortly afterwards his father removed to Leland, engaging in business, and here the son took advantage of the exceptional school advantages offered. At the age of thirteen he accompanied his parents upon their removal to a farm near Alta, Buena Vista county, Iowa, where he remained until nearly twenty-two years of age. At the age of fourteen or fifteen he attended the Tekamah High School and was a member of the class known as the "First Graduating Class of Tekamah," but owing to the fact that he was needed on the farm at home, left school in the early spring and did not graduate with the class. Later he entered the High School at Storm Lake, Iowa, and later a Normal School from which he received a first class certificate and entered upon the duties of country school teacher, gathering together funds with which to enter the State University of Iowa. He graduated from the University with the class of 1891, standing fifth in a class of fifty

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