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William E. Barkley, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the schools of Indiana. Ile was but seventeen months old when his father died and he was reared by his grandfather. When old enough he went onto the farm which his father had left him and for five years he engaged in the cultivation of that tract of land. Hle next turned his attention to mercantile pursuits at New- port, Indiana, conducting a store there for twelve years, and during that period he was also active in community affairs, serving for four years as township trustee, and postmaster during two terms of President Grant's administration. Ile then removed to Morgantown, Morgan county, Indiana, where he conducted a general store for six years, coming from there to Nebraska.
It was in August, 1881, that Mr. Barkley arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he engaged in merchandising. After two years he joined J. Z. Briscoe in the operation of a ranch which they owned, but after four years he returned to Lincoln and engaged in the real estate business, remaining active in that field for several years. In 1804 his son purchased the business of what is now the Lincoln Safe Deposit Company and William E. Barkley joined him in a partnership, remaining as president of the company until his death.
On the 10th of July. 1859. Mr. Barkley 4 is married to Miss Nancy E. Hart,
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a daughter of Aaron and Isabelle ( Pye) Hart, who were natives of Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, respectively. The father followed the occupation of fari- ing in his native state for a number of years and afterward removed to Ripley county, Indiana, where he turned his attention to farming and later to mer- chandising at Pennington, remaining active in that line of business until his death, which occurred in August, 1855. Ilis widow survived him for almost two decades, passing away in June, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Barkley became the parents of seven children: William E., born in 1863, who is now president of the Lincoln Safe & Trust Company: James A., born in 1809, who resided in South Africa for fourteen years and now makes his home in Lincoln; John C., whose birth occurred in 1873 and who follows farming at Gooding, Idaho ; Mary A., who was born in 1860 and died in 1864, at the age of four years; Edward, whose natal year was 1865 and who passed away in 1870; Laura E., who was born in 1877 and died ten years later ; and Robert H., whose birth occurred in 1880 and who died in 1886.
At the time of the Civil war Mr. Barkley was a member of the home militia in Indiana and was on active duty for ten days during the raid of the Confederate general, Morgan, into that state. In 1859 he became a member of the Masonic fraternity and ever exemplified in his life its beneficent spirit and purpose. He also belonged to the Sons of Temperance and the high principles of his life were further indicated in the fact that he held membership in the Christian church. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and he was ever loyal and progressive in matters of citizenship. His entire life was actuated by high principles and worthy purposes and those who knew him entertained for him the warmest regard. He left to his family not only a comfortable compe- tence but also the priceless heritage of an untarnished name.
ABRAM E. CUTTER.
Abram E. Cutter, one of the well known business men of Bethany, is pres- ident of the Rowland Lumber Company, which operates two lumber yards and a hardware store. A native of Ohio, he was born in February, 1801, of the marriage of Samuel and Christina (Stucker ) Cutter, both natives of Ohio. The father engaged in farming and stock raising in that state and died there in May, 1898. His wife survived for some time, her demise occurring in January. 1900.
Abram E. Cutter received his education in the common schools, remaining upon the home farm until 1883. when he went to Cass county, Nebraska, and purchased a tract of good land, which he cultivated until 1907. In that year he disposed of his farm and came to Bethany, Lancaster county, where he has since resided. A year or two later he bought an interest in the Rowland Lumber Company, of which he is now president and manager, while J. O. Rowland. a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, is secretary and treasurer. The company is incorporated and owns two lumber yards and a hardware business. Mr. Cutter has charge of one yard and of the hardware store and his partner manages the other yard. Dineichnad ar iseichiasoffa@ they are ever
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alert for an opportunity to increase their business and their patronage has shown a steady growth.
In October, 1887, occurred the marriage of Mr. Cutter and Miss Anna L. Mosley and they have two children: Mabel E., who was born in March, 1890, and is the wife of Dr. J. M. Packer, of Memphis, Saunders county ; and Lela, who was born in July, 1897, and is attending Cotner University.
Mr. Cutter gives his political allegiance to the democratic party, believing firmly in its principles and is never remiss in any of the duties of a good citizen. Hle is now serving as a member of the school board and is also filling the office of town treasurer. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic order and the Royal Arcanum and holdls membership in the Christian church. He is re- spected for his ability and enterprise and his personal characteristics are such that he has gained the warm friendship of those who have been closely asso- ciated with him.
DR. JAMES FRANKLIN STEVENS.
Dr. James Franklin Stevens was born in Van Buren, De Kalb county, Illinois, on the 19th of August, 1859, and is the son of Sylvester George and Mary Martha (Greene ) Stevens. His father was a native of Maine, was reared in New Hampshire and received a college education. In 1854 he was sent to Chicago by a Boston firm to establish a branch business house. His work finished he traveled by stage as far as Van Buren, then simply a postoffice, where he re- mained as tutor and school teacher until his death which occurred in 1861, when he was twenty-eight years of age. The mother, Mary M. Greene, a descendant of the distinguished Greene family of Rhode Island, was born in western New York, the home of her father, James Greene. Fler parents were among the carly pioneers in northern Illinois, to which place she was brought when a little child. This continued to be her home until the time of her death in Shabbona, Decen- ber 23, 1887.
Dr. Stevens is an only child and was but two years of age when his father died. He was reared by his mother, who notwithstanding limited financial re- sources managed to give her son the excellent educational opportunities planned by herself and husband prior to the latter's death. His early training was received in the district school. This was supplemented by an extensive disciplining in field work in nature study and drawing under the immediate supervision of Bayard T. Holmes, at that time college student and teacher. and later the professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago, Illinois. When sixteen years of age Dr. Stevens was matriculated as a prepara- tory student in the Classical Seminary of Paw Paw, Illinois. This institution, which years ago voluntarily retired because of lack of endowment, was originally chartered by a special act of legislature of the state of Illinois and for twenty-five years was a well known local institution of learning. The required per cent of scholarship, namely ninety, before a degree could be granted, would perhaps be considered rather severe.today ,In twenty-five years with an annual attendance of several hundred it granted but thirty-four degrees. In 1881 Dr. Stevens was
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graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The following atttuin he entered the medical department of the Northwestern University and upon the completion of the course received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1884. Later in life, after becoming a citizen of the new west, he entered the University of Nebraska as a graduate student in 1897, and after three years of study with Dr. A. Ross Hill, then the head of the department of Philosophy, received, in the spring of 1900, the degree of Master of Arts. During the first eight years of college life he managed to meet much of the necessary expense by his earnings as private tutor, country school teacher during summer vacations, or acting in the capacity of assistant to some professor. As he states it "The grind was hard but victorious." Immediately after leaving the school of medicine he located for practice in Shabbona, Illinois. This town was named after the old Indian chief who years before with his tribe lived on his reservation adjoining and referred to Mrs. Stevens (the mother, then a child) as "Greene's papoose." Here Dr. Stevens came into a full knowledge of what starting in life really means. At first he walked, later he purchased a limited means of conveyance and finally succeeded in securing a well ordered doctor's equipment. He remained at this point for four years, during which time his practice was largely in the surround- ing country and nearby towns. He declares that his successful beginning was due largely to the influence of his parents' friends supplemented by a warm support of his erstwhile pupils and college acquaintances.
It was during his stay in Shabbona that Dr. Stevens met Miss Lillian E. Carnahan, daughter of S. W. and Celestia Carnahan of Compton, Illinois, who was destined in the spring of 1888 to become his bride. Miss Carnahan was a brilliant student and teacher and possessed then as now a large circle of acquaint- ances and affectionate friends. The day following their marriage Dr. and Mrs. Stevens left the land of their nativity and early life and started for the new west with its limitless possibilities. Kansas City was selected as the most desirable place in which to locate, and here arrangements were made for a per- manent residence. Life in this splendid city, a rapidly enlarging business, and most excellent prospects were, however, soon doomed to blight. The peculiarly sweltering climate, together with the impure water then furnished unfiltered from the river, made such inroads upon the health of his family that it was found necessary to first spend many months in travel and recuperation and later to remove permanently to the north. Lincoln, Nebraska, was chosen as the objective point and in August, 1893, Dr and Mrs. Stevens commenced what has been a continuous residence to the present time. In 1894 a daughter, Ruth Mary Stevens, was born who after a brief and beautiful life of nine years passed away and now rests in Wyuka cemetery. This was the only child.
Dr. Stevens has practiced continuously in Lincoln since 1893, and has during this time gained an enviable place in the hearts of the people. He keeps in close touch with the advancement which is constantly being made in medical research, and his ability and progressiveness have attracted to him a very large clientele, by whom he is regarded at once as physician and friend. He emphatically believes that the genius of success is the genius of industry and that the practice of humanity is more desirable than the practice of commercialism. As a result he is an untiring worker and meets the rich aud-the poor upon the same basis. e Himself exclusively
Believing that no individual can develop largely who
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to one line of thought he is decidedly interested in affairs educational, social and civic. Ile is a member of the board of education of Lincoln and has been for many years one of the trustees of Doane College. For several years he was lecturer on the principles of medicine in the Lincoln Dental College. For four years he was dean and professor of internal medicine in the Nebraska College of Medicine which during its existence was first the Patron School and later the affiliated School of Medicine of the Nebraska Wesleyan University. For several years he was lecturer on materia medica in the medical department of the Ne- braska State University. During the past three years he has been professor of introductory medicine in the same institution, a position which he still holds. He is a member of the Lancaster County Medical Society, The Nebraska State Medical Society and The American Medical Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Nebraska State Pharmaceutical Association and the Missouri Valley Medical Association. Fle has been a member of the staff of St. Elizabeth Hospital for twenty years. His general interest in scientific research is indicated by the fact that he is a member of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a founder member of the American Anthropological Association. He also is a member of the Cooper Ornithological Union and the American Ornithological Union. He is connected with the Nebraska Historical Association and the Mississippi Valley Historical Society. Ile belongs to the Na- tional Child Labor Union and several local charities. He is a member of the Lincoln Rotary Club, the Lincoln Commercial Club and several fraternal orders, In the financial workdl he is one of the board of directors of the American Sav- ings Bank. Ilis college fraternities are Sigma Chi and Phi Rho Sigma. Polit- ically he has usually been a republican but refuses to vote for any one whom he regards unworthy. His church affiliation is with the Congregationalists. His earthly life interests are the promotion of the welfare of the community in the midst of which he lives.
IION. DON LATHROP LOVE.
Hon. Don Lathrop Love, a prominent member of the Lincoln bar, has had much to do with shaping public thought and action in this city, of which he has been mayor. He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, March 7. 1863. His father, Ilorace Love, was a farmer throughout his entire life. He was born in western New York, being a son of Leonard Love, also a native of the Empire state and a farmer by occupation. The early members of the family lived in New England, where representatives of the name settled at an early date. The mother of Don L. Love bore the maiden name of Gracia A. Ashton, and was born in New York in 1824. She was married to Horace Love near Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1848, the wedding taking place in the village of Cooksville. In 1864 they removed to Marshall county, Iowa, and four years afterward they became resi- dents of Calhoun county; Jowa, where the father died WitchUsbffedRp 1882. His wife sur- vived him until Igio, reaching the advanced age of eighty-six years, while he
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was but sixty-three years of age at the time of his demise. Both were laid to rest in the cemetery at Malvern, Iowa.
Don L. Love was the youngest of seven children, five sons and two daugh- ters, namely : Horace A., a resident of Manson, Iowa; Addie, the wife of James Churchill of Malvern, Iowa; James L., residing at Long Beach, California; Jennie, who married Robert Fowler and is now deceased : Dr. Charles A. Love, living at Atascadero, California, where he practices medicine; Melvin, who died in childhood ; and Don L., of this review.
The last named spent his boyhood upon a farm in Marshall and Calhoun counties, Iowa, and attended the district schools until he reached the age of sixteen years when he took up the profession of teaching. He devoted seven years to that calling and also attended school during that period, while in vaca- tion intervals he worked on a farm. It was during that period that he spent about four years in the Iowa State University at Iowa City, being graduated from there in 1886 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. The entire cost of his college course he met with money which he earned by teaching school. During the season of 1886-7 he was principal of the school at Garner, Iowa, and at the same time he devoted his leisure hours to the study of law. In the spring of 1887 he entered a law office in Des Moines and there continued his studies through the following summer. In September, 1887, he went to Garden City and there entered upon the practice of his profession, but there was little client- age to be gotten there for Garden City had been a boom town and the boom collapsed. After four months spent there, Mr. Love came to Lincoln, arriving here in 1888. Gradually he has worked his way upward in his profession and has become a distinctively representative member of the Lincoln bar. In more recent years he has devoted much time to official duties and to the conduct of private interests, although for about twenty-three years he was one of the active members of the Lincoln bar. For a long period he was the partner of W. T. Stevens, practicing under the firm name of Stevens & Love, and with the acces- sion of Samuel C. Cochran to the firm, the name was changed to Stevens, Love & Cochran. For a number of years they maintained a notable place as lead- ing lawyers of the capital. At the present time Mr. Love is vice president of the Lincoln State Bank and vice president of the Lincoln Trust Company, and thus he figures prominently in financial circles of the city.
On the 20th of August, 1800, occurred the marriage of Mr. Love and Miss Julia Larrabee, a daughter of late Governor William Larrabee of lowa. Mr. Love is now director of the Nebraska Art Association, belongs to several literary clubs and is a member of the Nebraska Ilistorical Society, all of which indicate the nature and breadth of his interests. In politics he has always been a repub- lican, save in 1912 when he supported Roosevelt as a progressive. In 1909 he was elected mayor of Lincoln and served for one term of two years. One of the chief planks in his platform was a "dry" city and the temperance element under his leadership won. Fle was elected and the city was dry for the first time in its history, continuing so for two years, or while he held the office. In 1911. however, the opponents of temperance won and again in 1913. Prior to serving as mayor, Mr. Love had been appointed acting county judge and for a time was upon the bench. In 1912 he was a delegate at large to the republican national convention in Chicago andGuyanedi AF RAGrosati Bhelped to organ
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ize the progressive party and nominate the New York statesman. In religious faith he adheres to Unitarian principles. He is a member of the Lincoln Com- mercial Club and of the Lincoln and Nebraska State Bar Associations. He is a man of marked ability, exerting a strongly felt influence over public thought and action, and standing at all times for those forces which work for the uplift of the individual and the betterment of the district.
EDWARD G. MAGGI:
Edward G. Maggi. attorney at law at Lincoln and chairman of the state board of pardons, is recognized as one who has been active in shaping public thought and action, especially in regard to the political interests of the state. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the Ist of February, 1872, a son of Joseph and Augustina Maggi, the former a native of Genoa and the latter of Turin, Italy. Leaving that sunny land, they came to America in young manhood and womanhood and were married in Boston, where they continued to reside until called to their final rest.
Their son, Edward G. Maggi, had the benefit of instruction in the excellent schools of Boston, being graduated from the high 'school with the class of 1892. He afterward attended the Boston University, completing a course in 1896, when he won the degree of B. O. In September, 1897, he came west to Lincoln to accept the position of principal of oratory in a private school and in 1899 he was appointed a member of the faculty of the department of oratory of the University of Nebraska. While thus engaged he devoted the hours which are usually termed leisure to the study of law, which he had previously begun, and in 1901 he received the degree of Bachelor of Law from the University of Nebraska.
Mr. Maggi became an active factor in political circles in early manhood and was a prominent worker in the campaign of George L. Sheldon for governor in 1807. After the election he was one of the first appointees of the new governor, being assigned to the position of chief clerk to the executive. He served in that position from 1897 until 1899 inclusive and in Igor he removed to Albion, Nebraska, where he remained until 1904. While in the third congressional dis- trict he was in 1903 nominated on the independent ticket as a candidate for congress and was one of the youngest men ever named in the state for the office. However, at that time he did not care to make the contest and withdrew from the campaign. In 1904 he returned to Lincoln and resumed the practice of law in this city. In 1911 he was again called to public office in his appointment to the position of chairman of the board of pardons under Governor Aldrich, who reappointed him in 1912, while in 1915 he was again appointed by Governor Morehead to serve for another term of three years. In 1916 he was appointed a member of the executive committee of the Italian Progressive League, which meets in convention in New York city in the present year. This organization is formed for the purpose of promoting the welfare of Italian emigrants to this country and for their material, and intellectual uplift. In this connection Mr. Maggi is doing important RokWieGhm& beef an earnest republican
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in his political views and his efforts for the adoption of republican principles have been far-reaching and effective.
In October, 1905, Mr. Maggi was united in marriage to Miss Grayce Koernor, a native daughter of Redwillow county, Nebraska, her birth occurring in a sod house. Her father was one of the early homesteaders of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Maggi have one child, Gretchen Victoria.
Fraternally Mr. Maggi is identified with Albion Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Albion, Nebraska ; Lincoln Chapter, R. A. M. ; Mount Moriah Commandery, No. 2, K. T .; and Sesostris Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is likewise a member of the Lincoln Commercial Club and of the Phi Gamma Delta, a Greek letter fraternity. Mr. Maggi is recognized as one of the most prominent citizens of Lincoln. Ile has closely studied political, sociological and economic questions relating to the welfare of the country and is able to speak with authority upon many vital problems, while the clearness of his reasoning and the logic of his arguments carry conviction to the minds of many.
CORNELIUS B. KELLER.
A constantly developing florist business is bringing substantial and gratifying success to Cornelius B. Keller, who now controls a very substantial trade in Lincoln. He was born in Ohio, November 27, 1859, and is a son of Cornelius and Johanna Keller, who were natives of Ireland. The mother died in 1859, six weeks after the birth of our subject. The father, who was a farmer and plasterer, came to America about 1840, landing at New York, where he remained for six months. He then went to Ohio, where he settled upon a farm which he continued to own and cultivate throughout his remaining days, his death there occurring in August, 1896.
His son, Cornelius B. Keller, was reared and educated in Ohio and remained with his father to the age of nineteen years, when he started out in life on his own account. He came to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1879, to take up nursery work, which he had previously followed in Ohio. For two years he was in the employ of a nursery man at Lincoln and then secured a position at the state asylum, having charge of the greenhouse and garden. He remained in that connection for a year but in the meantime had purchased eighty acres of land near Emerald on the installment plan. He afterward traded that farm for his present prop- erty and greenhouse and since then he has greatly enlarged his equipment until he now has six greenhouses. He has also erected a fine modern residence on his property at No. 2403 R street. In the development of his business he has met with notable success and he now ships all over the state, enjoying a large patronage. Mr. Keller also owns other residence property in Lincoln, from which he derives a good annual income. He is also a stockholder in the Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Company. His attention, however, is devoted chiefly to the cultivation of plants and flowers and there is no phase of the greenhouse business with which he is not familiar. He has closely studied the needs of flowers and plants and his broad knowledge and experience enable him to win substantial success as the years pass on ItIssof! by Microsoft ®
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