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Show A FARMER AND BUSINESS MAN Tho Active Career of the Hepuhllcan Nomlneo for Oovcrnor of Nebraska. John H Mlckcj, who hends the llc-inbllcun llc-inbllcun State ticket ns candidate for Governor, Is a mm slightly below tho medium height, of rURged build nnd kind! expression Ho Is nil lownn by birth nnd 67 jenrs of age. Asked to tell sometliliiR nbout himself he modest-1) modest-1) reilled "I wns born In 1W, near Ilurllngton, In. Sly father waa n farmer nnd I vi.it raised on n farm. My iducatlon waa obtained 111 tho enmmon schools of tho place, but wns finished oit nfter I n -turned from Iho wnr by two scirs' nt-tendance nt-tendance nt Woslesnn collego nt Mount Pleasant. Although not set nf oro I had enlisted In August. 1SCI, In mm-pnny mm-pnny D of the Eighth Iowa oavjlry. In which I served until muslercl out under un-der n general ordir In August 1SC3. My career In tho army wut fairly active. ac-tive. Our first assignment vua for scouting In central Tennessee lit tho spilngofjjil wo went through with the Sherman campalrn fiom t haltanociga to Atlanta, laying tho foundations for Shcrnnti'B famous march to the sea. In the fall nt that sear we were with Thomas In opposing Hood b ixpedltlon I to Nnihvllle, engaging the enemy at I'rankvllle nnd nt Nashville, After the war I w nt luck to Iowa, nnd then In 1S6S enmo to Nebraska, taking ta-king n. homi'stiid In Tolk lounty Before Be-fore leaving Iowa I had mirrled ln Sep. tember of 1SC7. Ms wife was Miss Ma-rlndn Ma-rlndn .MrCrny of Dos Moines, la. Of my domestic life all I need lo say la thnt I have nine children, llvo Iiojb onl four Rlrls, all iillve, threo of them married. mar-ried. I lived on m" Polk county home, steam until 1872 when I moved my residence resi-dence to Osceola having len chosm County Treasurer. They kept me In the olflco of County Treasurir for ten sears, from 1879 to 1890 and I served In the I?Rlslituro of UR1 Hut I havo never occupied any other public posl-tlons posl-tlons I nni now president of tho Osciola bank. ' I am farming n. trnct of 240 acres nnd nm engaged In Btnck-rnlslug making ma-king u spielally of fine Shorthorn breeds I was horn nnd raised n Methodist Meth-odist and have been constantly Identified Identi-fied with that church aitlvo more especially es-pecially In promoting Its educational work I nm president of the Imard of trustees of the Wesleyan university nt University Place. I bellnvo In broid nnd liberal education for nil the people I would have no sectnrlnnlsm In nny public Institution, although I believe that there Is work for the) sectarian col-Icris col-Icris outside of mil In addition to that of tho Slate unlverslts "In politics I huve nluajs been a fie. public in. In my speech he fore the con-volition con-volition I recnlled voting for Abraham Llnroln when I was only 13 yeais of age I oUKht to have explained thnt this was under a speclol act nf the Ixr-Islature Ixr-Islature of Iowa providing tint nil soldiers sol-diers In the field should bo allowed to vote without regard to nge, and their ballots pent home. I hopo to make nn aitlve campalRn nnd enlist the cn-npe-ration of every Hepuhllcan In Nebraska." Nebras-ka." -Omnba Hee. |