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In 1887 Dr. Everett came to Lincoln, Nebraska, and five years later began the building of the Lincoln Sanitarium, which was designed as a hydro-thera- peutics institution, but in the course of years has developed into a hospital for surgical work. The original building contained thirteen rooms, but with the growth of patronage, the building has been enlarged on three different occa- sions and now has a capacity of ninety-five beds and still is not able to accom- modate the constantly growing practice, so that in the summer of toro another story, including forty rooms, will be added to the structure. This institution was opened in 1893, at which time Dry Jerome Everett, a brother of Dr. M. 11. Everett, became a partner in the business. Microsof died in 1900. and in
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recent years Dr. M. H. Everett has practically retired, the sanitarium being now conducted by his son, Harry H., and by Dr. Oliver W. Everett, a son of Dr. Jerome Everett, Dr. Harry H. Everett acting as the surgeon and Dr. Oliver WV. Everett as the business manager.
In 1874 Dr. M. H. Everett was married to Miss Adelia llarding of Pittston. Pennsylvania, and to them were born two children, but Dr. Harry H. Everett is the only survivor. The wife and mother passed away in 1908, and Dr. Everett afterward wedded Miss Mary S. Shears of Omaha, Nebraska.
Dr. Everett is a demitted member of the Odd Fellows and he affiliates with Lincoln Lodge, No. 19. A. F. & A. M., the Royal Arch chapter, the consistory and the Mystic Shrine. In strictly professional relations he is connected with the Lancaster County, the Nebraska State and the American Medical Associations, and he is also medical director of the Midwest Life Insurance Company of Lincoln. He has attained to high professional rank, displaying marked skill in his chosen field of labor, as the result of broad study, thorough investigation and wide experience. Dr. Everett's studies have always been along scientific lines, especially geology, geochemistry, botany and biology. Since his retirement from the active practice of his profession he devotes most of his time to those studies. His opinions upon medical and surgical practice are largely accepted as authority among his professional brethren in Lincoln, and, while he is not now engaged in practice to any great extent, his colleagues and contemporaries entertain the highest respect for his opinions and attest the superior worth of his ideas when they meet him in discussion of professional problems.
FRANK C. GREEN.
Frank C. Green was for three decades a passenger conductor on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and for many years lived at Lincoln. Ile made many warm friends and his demise, which occurred November 4, 1912, was deeply regretted. He was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on the 4th of April, 1844, and was a son of Henry C. and Judith ( Crosby ) Green, natives respectively of Cavendish. Vermont, and Hebron. New Hampshire. The father conducted a blacksmith shop in the latter state for a number of years but subsequently went to Philadelphia and there engaged in the steam fitting business. Both he and his wife passed away in the Quaker City.
Frank C. Green received a good common school education at Plymouth, New Hampshire, and remained at home until he enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company A, Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, when he was not quite eighteen years of age. After remaining at the front for nine months he returned home and later accompanied his parents to Philadelphia where he engaged in steam fitting with his father. He did not find that occupation congenial, however, and entered the employ of the Boston, Concord & Montreal, now the Boston & Maine railroad, holding the position of conductor for about fiveyears yluVisst be came () Lincoln and became a brakeman on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and three months later
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was promoted to passenger conductor. He served in the latter capacity the remainder of his life, or for over thirty years, and his record was highly creditable alike to his efficiency and his conscientiousness. During his long connection with the Burlington he resided in a number of places, but in 1891 returned to Lincoln and remained here until his death on the 4th of November, 1912. Hle erected a fine home on Harwood avenue, but his widow has sold that place and is now boarding with friends in U street.
On the 16th of December, 1866, Mr. Green and Miss Sarah E. Smith were united in marriage. Her parents, Eben K. and Elizabeth ( Adams ) Smith were both born in Campton, New Hampshire, and the father engaged in farming in that state for many years. After he retired from active life, however, he made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Green, passing away in Kansas. The mother died in 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Green adopted a son. Frank Il., who is now a brakeman on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and who married Estella Lawton and has two children. Frank Robert and Vivian Virginia.
Mr. Green was a democrat in politics and in religious faith was a Methodist. Fraternally he was a Knight Templar Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and he was likewise connected with the Order of Railway Conductors. In all relations of life he measured up to high standards of manhood and those who were most intimately associated with him were his warmest friends.
WILLIAM THOMAS STEVENS.
William Thomas Stevens, attorney at law and justice of the peace at Lincoln, was born in Mount Pleasant, lowa, February 8, 1862, a son of Thomas E. and Elizabeth ( Cox) Stevens, who for many years were residents of this city, where they arrived in 1886. The father was a brickmaker by trade. He was born at McConnelsville, Ohio, May 13. 1831, and his wife's birth occurred in Canada. February 2, 1835. They were married in New London, Henry county, lowa, and after residing for many years in that state came to Lincoln, where the father passed away July 23, 1909, his wife surviving until May 18, 1912. They are survived by two sons: Charles Daniel, now living in Muskogee, Oklahoma ; and William Thomas.
The latter prepared for college in Howe's Academy at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and afterward entered the University of Des Moines, in which he spent one year. later becoming a student in the University of Iowa, where he was graduated with the class of 1885. He had also studied law at Clarinda, lowa, and in 1886 he was admitted to the bar at Lincoln. Here he has since practiced, being a well known representative of the legal profession of this city. In 1905 he was elected justice of the peace and has held the office continuously since. having been reelected five times. Before entering upon the duties of this position. which he discharges in a most prompt and capable manner, he had served for two terms as deputy county attorney. At the April, 1916, primaries he was a successful candidate forfourtizieby microsoftjen on a non- partisan ticket.
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On the 4th of January, 1911, Mr. Stevens was united in marriage to Miss Cleona Blanche Russell, by whom he has one son, William Thomas, Jr., born October 17, 1914. In politics Mr. Stevens has always been a stalwart republican and fraternally he is connected with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Elks. He is also a member of the Lincoln Commercial Club, the Lancaster County and Nebraska State Bar Associations and the Commercial Law League of America. He displays marked capability in presiding over the justice court and his deci- sions are at all times strictly fair and impartial.
MAJOR CHARLES WILSON PIERCE.
Major Charles Wilson Pierce, for many years a resident of Waverly precinct, gained prominence during his long and active life in diverse fields of activity. Enlisting in the Union army for service in the Civil war he rose to the rank of major ; as the head of the freedmen's bureau in the south during the carly recon- struction days, he so gained confidence and good will that he was chosen member of congress from Alabama ; and as a farmer and stock raiser in Nebraska and. land agent for the Burlington Railroad he was an important factor in the develop- ment of the eastern part of this state. His birth occurred in New York state. on the 7th of October, 1823, and his parents were Spooner Reed and Mary ( Wilson ) Pierce. The father was born in Massachusetts, August 2, 1802, while his parents were traveling by wagon to the Geneseo country, in New York, and the mother's birth occurred in Yates county, New York, on the 25th of August, 1801. For some time Mr. Pierce engaged in farming, but after removing to Ohio turned his attention to the milling business and subsequently was a merchant and hotel man. He passed his last years at the home of Major Pierce, and died at Havana, Mason county, Illinois, on the 6th of September, 1880. He was a member of the state militia and was always willing to cooperate in movements seeking the general good. His wife died in Lancaster county, Nebraska, while visiting her son on the IIth of June, 1874.
Major Charles Wilson Pierce, who was the oldest of their seven children who grew to maturity, received his early education in the public schools of New York and later attended an academy at Rochester, that state. When fourteen years old he began working as a farm hand for six dollars per month, but after being employed in that capacity for one summer became connected with a woolen mill in Rochester, New York. He remained there for three years and was subse- quently employed in various factories in Ohio. After his marriage he began working at the painter's trade, which he had learned in his spare time, and he took a large contract for painting for the Mad River Railroad Company in Ohio. In addition to working as a house and sign painter he engaged in buying and selling land and also in buying and selling stock and in 1855 removed to Havana, Illinois.
In 1862 he entered the Union army and was chosen first lieutenant of Com- pany B, Eighty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which company was enrolled between the 18th of July and the 22d of August, He received his commission on the 27th of August, 1862, and went to the front with his command, which
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participated in a number of important engagements. He was slightly wounded in the battle of Perryville. Kentucky, during the first year of his service, but otherwise escaped injury. In October, 1863, he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps with the rank of first lieutenant and remained with that body until the close of hostilities. For meritorious service he was made captain on the 29th of November, 1865, and for some time he was quartermaster at Camp Chase, Ohio. At the time of Lincoln's assassination he was filling the office of quartermaster at Washington, D. C., and his regiment was detailed to guard the White House. In 1866 his ability and gallantry as an officer was further recog- nized and he was promoted to the rank of major.
When the freedmen's bureau was established in Alabama, shortly after the close of the Civil war, Major Pierce was placed at its head and at once turned his attention to organizing its work. He manifested a high order of executive ability and through his tact and evident desire to serve the south as well as possible, he gained the respect and the warm regard of the southern people, although at that time there was a great deal of bitterness toward the north and most northerners. The high esteem in which he was held was indicated by the fact that he was elected to the fortieth congress from Alabama, the people assert- ing that if they had to be represented by a Yankee they preferred Major Pierce to all others. He made an excellent record in that capacity and would have been elected for a second term but refused to be a candidate. He was subsequently appointed assessor of internal revenue at Mobile, Alabama, and held that important position until 1871, when he resigned and returned to his home in Havana, Illinois. Two years previous he had visited Lancaster county. Nebraska, and had been much pleased with conditions here, and in April, 1872, he removed to this county from Illinois. He purchased a tract of unimproved land and erected thereon a temporary residence, which remained the family home for some time, his wife and children having joined him in October, 1872. He formed a partnership with General Amasa Cobb and they invested heavily in farm land, becoming owners of twelve thousand acres in Lancaster county. At length they disposed of the greater part of their holdings but Major Pierce continued to devote his time to agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his active life. with the exception of three years when he served as register of the United States land office at Lincoln. He harvested large crops annually and also engaged in stock raising extensively and was one of the men of worth of his county. Ile was also land agent for the Burlington railroad and sold thousands of acres of land for that company in the early period of the settlement of the state. lic reached the advanced age of eighty-three years, as his death occurred on the ISth of February, 1907, at Federal Point. Florida, where he was spending the winter.
Major Pierce was married on the 5th of November. 1850. to Miss Isabella M. Burton, who was born in Norwich, Vermont, on the 18th of December. 1824. and was a daughter of W. S. and Nancy ( Russell) Burton, both natives of New England. The mother was a representative of a distinguished family, being a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The father engaged in merchandising in Norwich, Vermont, and died there when comparatively a young man. Subse- quently the mother removed to Aurora, Illinois, and there she passed her last years. Mrs. Pierce was called to hier finaf fest ont rosoft AYYil, 1903. She
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had become the mother of five children, of whom three died in infancy. Florence B. resides upon the old homestead of three hundred acres and rents part of the land to others, while she personally supervises the operation of the remainder. The buildings are large and substantial and the house is a thoroughly modern farm home, being provided with electric light and with an up-to-date water system. Charles AAlbert, who was born on the 8th of December, 1860, engaged in banking in Tecumseh, Nebraska, for a number of years, but passed away on the 8th of May, 1902. He was a prominent Mason, having attained the degrees of the Knights Templar Commandery in the York Rite and the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, and being also identified with the Mystic Shrine. At the time of his death he was serving as commander in the commandery at Tecumseh. His widow and two children are living in Lincoln, where the children are attend- ing the State University.
Major Pierce was a stalwart republican and was one of the leaders of his party in Nebraska. In 1875 he served as a member of the constitutional con- vention in this state and he represented his district in the state senate for a number of terms. He was known as the father of Mitchell Post, No. 38, G. A. R., at Waverly, and was also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of which he served as commander for one year. He was made a Master Mason in an Ohio lodge in early manhood and from that time until his death took a very enthusiastic interest in the activities of the order. He held membership in Lincoln Lodge, No. 19. A. F. & A. M., at Lincoln, in Mt. Moriah Commandery. No. 4. in Consistory. No. 22, in which he had attained the thirty-second degree, in Sesostris Temple, No. 324, A. A. O. N. M. S. He was a man who was incapable of half-hearted endeavor and gave himself unsparingly to the accomplishment of any work which he had undertaken. He possessed unusual energy and his determination and enthusiasm enabled him to succeed where others would have failed. In whatever circumstances placed he gained recogni- tion as a natural leader, was held in the highest respect and moreover he had the faculty of making and retaining the warm friendship of those with whom he was intimately associated.
HON. JOHN ARTHUR MAGUIRE.
The history of Hon. John Arthur Maguire is that of one who has never subordinated the public good to personal aggrandizement nor ever shadowed the general welfare by effort to advance private interests. On the contrary he has stood for that which is most worth while to the community and the common- wealth, and has made a most creditable record in the halls of national legislation. At the present writing he is actively engaged in law practice in Lincoln. He was born on a farm in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, November 20, 1870, a son of Francis and Margaret ( Bough) Maguire in whose family were eight children-two sons and six daughters. The father, now a resident of Mitchell, South Dakota, is a man of absolute honesty, of high character-a citizen of sterling worth, interested in public affairs The mother.bwvbodiedrin sabitwas a woman of superior accomplishments of heart and mind. She was devoted to home duties and to
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her family interests and displayed pleasure and devotion in meeting every responsibility that devolved upon her. Both were educated in the district and high schools of Jo Daviess county, Illinois, and both devoted some time to the profession of teaching. Later they took a deep personal interest in the education and training of their children, believing that the home and school were the best places to prepare for life's activities and for the duties of future citizenship. Both were devout Catholics, and the children all adhered to that faith. The grandparents were all natives of Ireland, those in the paternal line coming from County Fermanagh and in the maternal line from County Cavan. The removal of the respective families from Ireland to the new world established the grand- parents of John A. Maguire in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, during their period of young manhood and womanhood.
In his youthful days, John A. Maguire accompanied his parents from Illi- nois to Dakota territory, the family settling on a government homestead near Plankinton, in what is now South Dakota. They were among the first residents of that section and suffered many of the hardships and sacrifices of pioneer life, living through the period when drought took the erops, when blizzards swept the prairies and when Indian disturbances were incidents to the settlement of the dis- triet. This family of pioneers contributed their part in the development of the new west as the immediate ancestral families had contributed their best in the settlement of northwestern Illinois. After eight years spent upon the homestead, the family removed to Mitchell, South Dakota. In the meantime John A. Maguire had attended the district schools in the winter months, while the summer seasons were devoted to farm work. Later he became a student in the South Dakota Agricultural College at Brookings, where he studied for three years, meeting his expenses by work on the college farm. Ile was afterward for a year a student in the Towa Agricultural College at Ames and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1803. He entered the University of Nebraska in 1895, completing a course in the academic department in 1808 and in the law department in 1890, and was then admitted to practice. He taught in both country and city schools during the periods of college vacations in order to help defray the expenses of his education. During his college days he took an active part in numerous activities of the school where he was a popular and prominent student.
Following his graduation Mr. Maguire was appointed chief deputy in the office of county treasurer William MeLaughlin of Lancaster county, and served during the years 1900 and 1901. In 1902 he entered upon the practice of law in Lincoln, making steady progress as he demonstrated his ability to successfully cope with intricate legal problems. In 1905 he was secretary of the democratic state committee, having served at different times as chairman and secretary of the city central committee and the county central committee of Lancaster county. In 1904 he was elected a delegate from the first congressional district to the democratic national convention in St. Louis. In 1904 he was president of the University of Nebraska Alumni Association and from 1912 to 1915 of the Uni- versity of Nebraska Association in Washington, D. C.
Mr. Maguire was called to office in 1908 when nominated for congress on the democratic ticket in the first state wide primary. He was elected to the sixty first congress by a majority of abot Microsoft In imno he was
rzym hundred over E. M. dolar. republican. who was at that time representing the district in congress.
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reelected to the sixty-second congress over William Hayward, republican, by about seven hundred majority and in 1912 was reelected to the sixty-third congress over Paul F. Clark, republican and progressive, by about seventeen hundred, but in 1914 was defeated by C. F. Reavis, republican, by a majority of about three hundred. In his canvass for congress he carried Lincoln and Lancaster counties three times. The district had been represented but once before by a democrat and for many years had averaged about five thousand republican majority. Before each election he made a thorough canvass of his district, except the last one in 1914 when congress remained in session until a few days before election and he remained at his post in the house until its-adjournment. When a candi- date, a congressman or member of political committees, he always insisted on a strict adherence to the laws regulating limitations on expenditures of moneys for political purposes in elections and strongly supported the passage of laws in congress looking toward a purification of elections. He held that political campaigns should be conducted along as honest lines as any other business.
During his service in congress Mr. Maguire had the highest record of attend- ance and votes of any man in congress and never left Washington while congress was in session except on public business. On his election to congress he dismissed all business and professional work and devoted all his time and energy to his congressional duties, the study of public problems and to the needs of his district. In his first campaign for congress he made the campaign generally along lines of his party platform and his own promises to the people of the district, and in later campaigns he made his canvass principally on his own congressional record and that of his party in power. His principal committee work in congress was on the committee of agriculture, that committee offering the means of giving the best service to his district and most nearly related to the primary industries of his district-a committee having charge of legislation and appropriations for agricultural colleges and experiment stations, weather bureau, plant and animal investigations, forests, chemistry, soils, markets, rural organization, roads, crop reports, quarantine, food and drug acts and other lines. He was looked upon in congress as one of the best informed and most effective workers for legisla- tion along these lines. He helped to shape and report most of the important legislation in congress along these lines during the past few years. He secured for his district legislation and appropriations for postoffice buildings whenever needed, including the recent extension of the Lincoln building, hog cholera elimination, corn improvement investigations, county soil surveys, geological and topographical surveys, surveys of overflow and flood streams, engineers for public roads, federal rifle range at Plattsmouth and other matters for the district. In the sixty-second congress he was also acting chairman of the com- mittee on claims. In the sixty-third congress he voted for and supported all important measures before congress including the Underwood tariff bill and income tax, the federal reserve bank act, the Federal Trade Commission and other measures regulating the trusts and big business, prohibiting interlocking directorates and watered stock in railroad and other corporations. He also supported conservation bills regulating charges and control of water power and the leasing of and control of coal and mineral lands, looking toward the develop- ment of, but at the same time protecting, the natural resources and the mines and forests and coal fields for the public for generations to come. He supported the
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principles of the workmen's compensation measure and those bills limiting the hours of labor of women and children in factories and the enactment of laws for the promotion of human welfare. Ile supported President Wilson in his adminis- tration and voted for and very generally supported the policies advocated by him and those considered by congress. On matters of parliamentary procedure and those on which he had made no promises, nor in which he was guided by plat- forms, he was classed as an independent voter. Ile was recognized as progressive in his attitude on legislative matters. During the sixty-second congress he was the democratic congressional committeeman for Nebraska. He early advocated and held fast for the reformation of house rules looking to more liberal procedure and releasing the house from the control of a few men. He refused to be bound by cancus action of party when detrimental to the people as a whole or to the people of his district. ITis sympathies are generally regarded as those of the people and he looks at all questions from that point of view. Ile is a member of several social, fraternal and political organizations and is active for educational and civic improvement. He believes that President Wilson's administration means honorable peace with all the world; end of imperialism under the flag ; diplomacy of honor, justice and wisdom ; no government partnership with big business ; warfare on lobby, special privilege, corrupt politics ; large individual opportunity and for all business ; freedom of business and revival of competition ; sound and permanent prosperity for the country ; industrial peace and a fair deal for labor : and government of, by and for the people restored, and for all these things Mr. Maguire stands. Ilis record has ever been one which bears the closest investigation and serutiny and no one doubts the honesty of his purpose nor questions the integrity of his methods.
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