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Biographies
JOHN BARSBY
Attorney at law, Fairmont, was born in
Leicester, England, in 1843. Fifteen years later, he moved to Winnebago
County, Ill., where he remained until 1861, when he enlisted in the Sixth
Missouri Infantry, serving twenty-one months, when he was shot through the
right shoulder at the battle of Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, and was
discharged; re-entered the service in the fall of 1864, as Second
Lieutenant of Company B, One Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry,
serving until the close of the war, being
mustered out in July, 1865.
He
was one of the guards of honor over President Lincoln's remains in
Springfield capitol; then went on the stage as a vocalist. He removed to
Nebraska in 1868, settling in Seward County, where he followed farming for
four years, when he moved to Fairmont and followed the music business and
kept a restaurant.
In 1876, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and
served four years, at the same time studying law, being admitted to the
bar in 1878, and has followed that profession since.
He was married in
1867, in Whiteside County, Ill., to Kate E. Cummins, daughter of Judge
Cummins, now of York, Neb. They have three boys living--Macvicar W. S.,
Harry H. and Edward Centennial. Two girls deceased.
He is a member of the
Blue Lodge of A., F. & A. M., K. of H., and Past Commander of the G.
A. R.
Source:
Andreas History of Nebraska
J. A. EDNEY
Fairmont, was born in Dearborn Co.,
Ind., in 1849, where he lived until fifteen years old, when he removed
to
Lyons, Iowa, where he remained for nine years, following the hardware and
tinner's trade; from there he removed, in 1874, to Exeter, Neb., where he
engaged in the hardware and implement business, which he followed until
December, 1880, when he sold out and established agricultural implement
and carriage warehouse in Fairmont, which is running at the present time.
He was married in 1872, in Gloucester City, N. J., to Gertrude Howarth.
They have one child living, and one deceased.
Source:
Andreas History of Nebraska
G. W. JOHNSTON
M. D., was born in Parisburg, Va., in
1851.
He was educated at Henry College, Emory, Va.; lived in that State
until 1873, when he removed to Fairmont, Neb., and engaged in practice of
medicine until 1876, when he removed to California, stopping at Marysville
and Nicholas for about one year, when he returned to Fairmont and resumed
his practice, which he has
followed since, being the first permanent
physician in Fillmore County.
He graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, New York City, in 1872, with the degree of M. D.
He was married
in 1880, in Fairmont, to Miss McKelvy.
He is a member of the I. O. O. F.,
and of the Knights of Honor.
Source:
Andreas History of Nebraska
L. T. Calkins
The managing editor of the
Bulletin, was born in Barnerville, N. Y., August 2, 1852. He
attended school in Troy and Franklin during his boyhood days.
In 1870, he
removed to Burlington, Iowa. From there he went to Keokuk, Iowa, where he
was engaged as principal of one of the ward schools for nearly three
years. He then attended the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill.,
until 1874, when he returned to Burlington, and began work on the
Daily Hawkeye. He was engaged first in the business office and
then on the editorial staff. In 1878, he left the Hawkeye and removed to Fairmont, Neb.
Here he purchased the Bulletin, which
he edited until July 1, 1881, when he sold out to E. C. Sawyer, and then
purchased the Lincoln Daily Globe, which he published until the
next December, when he again returned to Fairmont and took charge of the
Bulletin as managing editor.
In 1879, he was appointed Postmaster
at Fairmont, which position he resigned in the spring of 1882.
He was
married at Burlington, Iowa, February 16, 1877.
Source:
Andreas History of Nebraska
MRS. BELLE G. BIGELOW 
Woman suffragist and
prohibitionist, born on a farm in Gilead, Mich., 16th February, 1851.
Her education was confined to the district school.
She has been from
early childhood an omnivorous reader.
Her mother died when Belle was
ten years old.
At the age of eighteen she began to teach.
In 1869 she
was married to George R. Bigelow, of Ravenna, Ohio. They removed
and settled in Geneva, Neb., being the first residents of that
place. After eight years of quiet home life, the question of the
woman suffrage amendment being brought before the people, she entered
into its advocacy.
Soon becoming known as a talker and writer on that
subject, she was elected president of the county Equal Suffrage
Association and sent as a delegate to the State convention in Omaha.
There she made her first appearance as a public speaker and her
reception encouraged a continuance of work in that line.
The next
winter, in Lincoln, she was elected to the office of State secretary
and traveled over the State in the interest of the amendment, making
effective speeches where opportunity offered and awakening much
interest in the subject. She was twice a candidate for county
superintendent of instruction on the prohibition ticket, and
represented the State in the national convention of that party held in
Indianapolis in 1888.
She has served for five years as secretary of the
Lincoln Woman's Christian Temperance Union, being a member of the
union in its infancy. She is superintendent of foreign work for the
State union, and was elected delegate to the national convention in
Boston in 1891. She is known as an interesting writer for the press on
both religious and secular topics.
She has been the mother of seven
children, four of whom are living.
American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897
Transcribed by:
Marla Snow
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