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.
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.
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.
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.