Hon. Charles L. Richards
Speaker of the House of representatives, was born at Woodstock,
McHenry County, Ill., March 21, 1856.
He was educated in the district schools until
1874, when he entered the University
of Illinois, at Champaign. From this institution he was graduated in
1878.
After leaving school, Mr. Richards
followed farming for some years, and then entered the Union College of Law at Chicago.
He was admitted to the bar, after graduating
in law, in Illinois, June,
1884.
Almost immediately afterwards he
came west, and located at Hebron, Nebraska, which place is his home at this
time, and where he has been very successful in the practice of his chosen
profession.
In 1886 he was elected
county attorney, holding the position for four years.
Although this is Mr. Richards’ first term in
the legislature, he was elected speaker after a somewhat protracted contest
during the days preceding the republican caucus. He has proved himself admirably adapted to
the place, being prompt, of great decision of character, clear-headed, and well
versed in parliamentary law. He is also
a ready and forcible speaker, and always takes a prominent part in the debates
in committee of the whole.
According to
the usual custom, the speaker is chairman of the committee on rules, but is
member of no other committee.
Biographical Sketches of the Nebraska
Legislature and National and State Officers of Nebraska
- By W. A. Howard, Page 173
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Hon.
Edgar M. Jenkins
Was born near Washburn, Woodford County, Ill.,
September 9, 1848, on a
farm.
He was educated in the common
schools, and lived on a farm until 1867, when he moved to McLean
County and engaged in the grain and lumber business.
In 1879 he came to Alexandria,
Nebraska, and opened a drug store, besides
which he spends a good deal of his time in raising fine hogs of the Poland
China breed.
Mr. Jenkins was married to
Miss Emma A. Sandham in 1872, and has one child, Euclid Foss, thirteen years of
age.
He began his political career by
serving in the legislature of 1892, as representative of the thirty-fifth
district, being one of the few republicans then in the house, and his constituents
of that district re-elected him last fall.
He is chairman of the committee on corporations, and a member of the
committees on privileges and elections and banks and currency.
Biographical Sketches of the Nebraska
Legislature and National and State Officers of Nebraska
- By W. A. Howard, Page 143
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Mrs. Kate McPhelim
Cleary 
Correspondent, born in
Richibucto, Kent county, New Brunswick, 20th August, 1863. Her
parents, James and Margaret McPhelim, were of Irish birth, the former,
with his brothers, being distinguished for intellectual ability and
business talents. They were extensively engaged in the timber business,
and in 1856 her uncle, Hon. Francis McPhelim, was Postmaster-General of
New Brunswick, and her father held the office of high sheriff of the
county.
Her father's death, in 1865, left his widow with three small
children and limited means, which she devoted to their education. Kate
was educated in the Sacred Heart Convent, St. John, N. B., and later
attended other convent schools in this country and in the old. Her pen,
which had been a source of diversion and delight to her since she was a
little girl, became, when necessity required, an easy means of
support. Her first published poem appeared when she was fourteen years
old, and from that time to the present she has written almost
continuously poetry and fiction.
On 26th February, 1884, she became the
wife of Michael T. Geary, a young lumber merchant of Hubbell, Neb. Mr.
and Mrs. Geary have kept a hospitable home, welcoming as guests many
distinguished men and women.
Mrs. Geary's stories are largely those of
adventure and incident, and are published in newspapers quite as much
as magazines. She has contributed prose and verse chiefly to the New
York "Ledger," " Belford's Magazine," the "Fireside Companion,"
"Saturday Night," "Puck," the "New York Weekly," the "Current," "Our
Continent," the Chicago "Tribune," "St. Nicholas," "Wide-Awake," and
the Detroit " Free Press."
American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol. 1, by Frances
Elizabeth Willard & Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Publ. 1897.
Transcribed by:
Marla Snow
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