Paul Bouquet, livery, Council Bluffs, born in New York in 1848. From his native State he moved successively to Ohio, Michigan, Omaha, Neb., and finally, to Council Bluffs in 1872.

He started a livery stable with eight horses. At present, he owns two livery barns, one on North Madison Street, and the other on lower Broadway.

He has a fine residence on Stutsman Street, and also a farm in Nebraska.

Mr. Bouquet is a public-spirited man; always ready to lend his aid to every legitimate enterprise.

His mother is living at Grand Island, Neb., and is sixty-five years old; his father died in Saginaw, Mich., in 1875, leaving a family of twelve children, all of whom are living except one, Martha, who died in 1880, at Flint, Mich.

Our subject was married in Council Bluffs, in 1873. He has two children--Mabel, aged five years, and Bud, who is three years old.