his wife, of whom the following is the record: Emma Jane married the Rev. George M. Darley; Myron L., the only son is connected with the quartermaster's department in the regular army as wagonmaster in Arizona; M. Adell married James H. McLellan; Celia F. married Amsdell Sheldon; Dora married Dr. William A. Wyman; Vina M. is now a teacher in Cass County. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis gave their children good educations, and the daughters have all taught school. Mrs. Ellis, the mother of the children above mentioned, died at their home in Fond du Lac, Wis., Sept. 10, 1861, and Mr. Ellis married his present wife, L. Marilla Ward, sister of his first wife, their wedding taking place in Fond du Lac, April 20, 1864. Mr. Ellis is a man of deep, earnest nature, and his liberal education gives him a broad outlook on life, He is progressive and practical in his views, and in his social relations he is genial, hospitable and helpful. In his wedded life he has been very happy, as in his wife he finds a companion and friend, who can enter into his thoughts, and sympathize with him in his aims, and her cheerful, amiable disposition endears her to those about her, She is indeed it true "homemaker." Mr. Ellis is a pronounced Republican in his political views, becoming a member of that party on its formation. In his early days he was a Whig, and cast his first Presidential vote for Gen. W. H. Harrison, and now, forty-eight years later, has voted for the illustrious grandson of the old son of Tippecanoe, the Gen. Harrison of to-day, now President-elect. L. WOOD, editor of the Nebraska Press, was born in Iowa City, Iowa, Sept. 18, 1856. He went to Cincinnati, Ohio, when fifteen years old, to make his own way, and was connected with the Canal Elevator Company until 1878, during the latter part of the time doing some newspaper work for which he had always shown a predilection. A year was spent in Colorado in various pursuits, and two years at the State University of Iowa, from the law department of which he was graduated in 1881. During these two years he was connected with the Iowa City Republican and other papers, and contributed to Eastern periodicals. He returned to Cincinnati from another Western trip in July, 1882, and for it year did more or less work on the Commercial Gazette and the Cincinnati Enquirer, and at this time and later wrote poems and sketches for the Week (Cincinnati), the Current (Chicago), the Continent (Philadelphia), the Critic (New York), the Comet (Chicago), and other literary weeklies and minor magazines. Mr. Wood went to Leadville, Col., in April, 1883, assuming the city editorship of, the Chronicle, was then city editor of the Democrat, and for a time managing editor of both papers. In June, 1885, he bought the editorial interest in the Nebraska Daily Press, which has prospered remarkably under his management, and is to-day one of the foremost papers of the great State of Nebraska. Mr. Wood was married, Sept. 3, 1885, to Miss Jennie Hanford, of Vinton, Iowa. ENRY OLIVER McCART, of Palmyra Precinct, is operating a small farm in a very thorough and skillful manner, making a specialty of market gardening. His land lies on section 4, and embraces forty acres, which he has brought to a thorough state of cultivation. He completed, in the year 1888, it neat and substantial dwelling, and has around him all the conveniences and comforts of modern life. He raises horses, cattle and swine, also operates a boring and drilling machine, and his various interests afford him a handsome income. The offspring of most excellent ancestry, our subject is the son of Henry and Massy (Wilkins) McCart, who were born and reared in Morgan County, Tenn., where also they were married. The paternal grandfather, Robert McCart, was it native of Virginia, whence he removed to Tennessee early in life, being numbered among its pioneer settlers. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812, under the command of Gen. Jackson, and participated in the battle of New Orleans. The great-grandfather was a scion of one of the best Scotch-Irish families |