Charles H. Herold, of Seneca, who is at present serving his third term as county attorney of Nemaha county, is not only one of the best known officials in that county, but is also one of the most popular. He was a lad of ten when he accompanied his parents, Andrew P. and Wilhelmina Herold, to a homestead, thirteen miles north of Seneca, in 1870. He has not only been a resident of the county for over forty years, but has been actively identified in public affairs and the progress of the county for thirty-five of those years.

Mr. Herold is a native of Iowa, where his parents were living at the time of his birth, in 1860, and is descended from sturdy German ancestors. His early education was obtained in the district schools and by diligent self-study, so that by the time he was sixteen years old, he had qualified himself for teaching. He taught for eight years during the winter months, and having decided on the profession of law as his life's occupation be began reading law during his vacations in the office of Judge Rufus M. Emery, completing his reading, however, in the offices of J. E. Taylor of Seneca. He was admitted to the bar on June 9, 1880, and at once began the practice of law meeting with success from the start. While yet in his teens he began to take an active part in politics, espousing the principles and policies of the Democratic party. In 1882 he was his party's candidate for clerk of the district court but was defeated owing to a combination formed against him. In 1885 he was appointed deputy county treasurer and served as such four years during which time he was also actively identified as part owner and manager of the "Courier-Democrat," the official Democratic paper of Nemaha county. He and his father purchased the "Seneca Courier," a very strong and influential Republican paper in 1885, and not only at once changed its politics to Democratic, but also its name to the "Courier Democrat," and for the next eighteen years the paper under their able management became widely known as one of the leading Democratic weeklies of the state. Andrew P. Herold had removed to Seneca in 1876, and gave the most of his time and attention to the paper during their ownership which lasted until 1903. He continued his residence in Seneca until his death in 1908. His widow still survives at an advanced age. On July 1, 1889, Charles H. Herold con-summated the organization of the State Bank of Bern and became its cashier. This position he filled until 1895, when he disposed of his interest in the bank and returned to Seneca to give his attention to the "Courier-Democrat." In 1903 he disposed of the paper and has since given his whole attention to the practice of law. In 1885 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Lippold of Silver Creek, N. Y., and six children bless the union: Jennie, Julia, Mamie, Elsie, Andrew and Francis.

Mr. Herold was born and reared in the faith of the Catholic church. and still holds membership in the mother of all Christian denominations. Being a man of fine physique and of a genial turn, he readily makes friends wherever known. He is prominent in the councils of his party and being in the prime of life and a good mixer it is predicted by his friends that he will yet achieve greater honors in the field of politics. (Kansas Biography Part 2, Vol. III, 1912 Page: 838-839, Transcribed by: Millie Mowry)

WELLS, ABIJAH

Abijah Wells, of Seneca, is not only one of Nemaha county's early pioneers, but is also one of its leading lawyers and financiers, and the story of his life furnishes another instance of the possibilities in store for any American youth, who, with a stock of energy, push and ability, may raise himself from a humble position and become a prominent factor in the life of his community and state. He was born in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1840, a son of William R. and Betsey K. (Skinner) Wells, both of whom were born and reared in Orange county, New York. They were married in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1832, and removed from Pennsylvania to La Salle county, Illinois, in 1845. There they resided until their removal to Nemaha county, Kansas, in the spring of 1857. William R. Wells had visited Kansas in 1856, however, and after prospecting around he decided to make his future home in Nemaha county. He returned to Illinois in the fall of 1856 , in time to vote for Gen. John C. Fremont for president, and in the following spring set out with his family for the great West. In due time he located on a tract of wild land about three miles south of Seneca and set about developing a home. Soon after his arrival there he, with others, formed a town site company and laid out the town of Wheatland on a plat of land situated on the exact geographical center of Nemaha county, with the idea in view of making it the county seat. But the dream of those sturdy pioneers came to naught, as Seneca was finally made the county seat. Although a member of the Congregational church at the time of his removal to Kansas, William R. Wells became one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal church in Nemaha county and remained a consistent member of that church until his death. He was especially active in support of the free-state movement and was a man of sound judgment and strict integrity, who figured prominently in all of thelocal events of his day. He served as township trustee several terms and as justice of the peace for many years, and was a member of the first board of commissioners of Nemaha county. His death occurred in Seneca in 1893, the family having removed to the county seat in 1864. There on June 22, 1882, the parents of Abijah Wells celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and it was not until six years later that their long companionship of fifty-six years was severed by the death of the mother on July 18, 1888, the father on Dec. 16, 1893.

Abijah Wells was a lad of seventeen when he accompanied his parents to their pioneer home in Nemaha county. His boyhood and youth were spent on the farm and his earlier education was obtained in the district schools of Illinois. After his arrival in Kansas he attended Centralia College and later attended the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, being a student during the first year's work of that great institution. He decided early in life to enter the legal profession and with that end in view he entered the law office of J. E. Taylor, of Seneca, where he not only obtained a knowledge of his chosen profession, but broader ideas, a finer perception and an active public spirit grew out of his acquaintance with Blackstone and Kent. He was admitted to the Nemaha county bar in 1866 and has continuously practiced law ever since, except four years while a member of the Kansas court of appeals. His intellectual vigor and talent for facile and trenchant expression were not only of forensic value in his profession, but made the "Seneca Tribune," of which he became the editor and proprietor early in 1881, a paper of great influence politically and a profitable business property. However, in the same year, he sold it to A. J. Felt, and thereafter gave his whole attention to law, except such time spent in official duties. Politically, Mr. Wells has been an active supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party all of his life and has not only aided the party in local and state councils, but has filled many offices of honor and trust as his party's choice. His official career began in 1863 when he was selected county superintendent of education. In 1866, he was elected clerk of the district court and after holding the office one year he was elected register of deeds of Nemaha county and served one term. From 1874 to 1881 he again served as county superintendent of education. Vigorous and capable, he was indefatigable in his efforts to promote to a greater degree the efficiency of the common schools of Nemaha county. In 1896 he was elected judge of the court of appeals to represent the east division of the northern department of the Kansas court of appeals, being the only successful Republican on the state ticket that year. He served as judge of the court of appeals with distinction and honor during the life of the court and on its dissolution in 1901 he returned to Seneca, where he resumed the practice of law. He has been mayor of Seneca two terms and has served as a member of the city school board for a number of years. In religious matters Judge Wells is a Universalist of state-wide reputation and was one of the organizers of the Universalist church in Seneca in 1865. He is president of the Kansas Universalist convention and has served in that capacity for the past twenty years. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the Royal Arch and Knight Templar degrees. He has served as worshipful master of Seneca Lodge No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and as high priest of the chapter and as eminent commander of Seneca Commandery No. 41. He is also a charter member of Nemaha Lodge No. 19, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed all of the chairs and is now the only living charter member who has held his membership continuously since the organization of the lodge in 1866. He also belongs to the Knights and Ladies of Security.

On Oct. 18, 1866, Judge Wells chose for a life companion Miss Loretta C. Williams, daughter of Capt. A. W. Williams, of Sabetha, Kan., and their union has been blessed with six children who grew to maturity: Frank, of the law firm of Shartell, Keaton & Wells, of Oklahoma City, Okla., who served four years as county attorney of Nemaha county .and after his removal to Oklahoma City was selected as one of the city's commissioners to formulate the plans for a commission form of city government; Ira K., who is associated with his father in the practice of law, has served as county attorney of Nemaha county and is at present the city attorney of Seneca ; Elsie, who died while a teacher in the Seneca schools; Maud W., the wife of Robert E. Deemer, a merchant of Lincoln, Neb., and a Spanish war veteran; William A., an architect of exceptional promise and ability of Oklahoma City, whose plans for the Oklahoma county court-house were accepted strictly on merit, and who was the architect of the Colcord Building, of Oklahoma City, one of the finest office buildings in the United States; and Roland, who is located on a ranch in Sherman county, Kansas, and is extensively engaged in raising cattle.

Judge Wells began his independent career a poor boy, but by industry and determination he has risen from a modest beginning to the enjoyment of a well earned success and has accumulated a cometency. He owns valuable realty in Nemaha county and ninety acres of land within the corporate limits of Oklahoma City, which he purchased as an investment. He is vice-president of the National Bank Seneca and has varied financial interests. His career in law has Keen marked by intellectual vigor and skill, and in the business world lie has exemplified a shrewd judgment. The purely material result of Judge Wells's long career has been financial success. While attaining this end, however, his just and honorable character has gained what is of greater value-the esteem and confidence of his associates in professional, in business and in private life. He is a man of fine personal presence, a face expressive of keen intelligence, dignity and good nature. Slightly reserved in manner, he is, nevertheless, amiable and social, ever ready to assist others to success and to extend to all the fruits of his knowledge and experience. He has always commanded the admiration of those who know him. It is said of him that he never sacrifices principle for expediency, is true to every ennobling impulse, firm in the prosecution of his duty and unflinching in his struggle for success. He is a man of public spirit and every project which promises the advancement of Seneca, Nemaha county, or his state receives his prompt and cordial support. During his long and useful life in Kansas he has witnessed a wonderful change and development. In his early youth he lots killed many a buffalo and took part in Indian round-ups, but all has disappeared under the sway of civilization and the scenes of pioneer clays dwell only in memory. (Kansas Biography Part 2 Vol. III 1912 Page: 904-907 Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry.)

WILLIAMS, GEORGE W.

In point of years of residence in Seneca, George Williams is, without doubt, the oldest living pioneer settler, living in Seneca today. A review of the life of Mr. Williams takes one back to the old stage coach days; to the time of the emigrant freighting trains; to an account of the first, house built in Seneca, in which he lived when a boy of twelve years of age; the review covers the gradual settlement and development of Nemaha county, the ups and downs of a struggling community and the growth of Seneca from being merely a wide place in the great overland highway to the West into becoming one of the thriftiest and most beautiful cities of northern Kansas. Mr. Williams has seen all of this great development, and has taken an active and substantial part in the work, of creating a great county from a wilderness of prairie and wild land.

George W. Williams, capitalist and farmer, Seneca, Kans., was born in a small New Jersey village, March 18, 1848, and is a son of Henry and Mary (Getty) Williams, natives of Vermont and descendants of old New England families. The home of Mr. Williams' parents was in Burlington, Vt., but his father's work as a railroad contractor required that he make his residence in the vicinity of his employment. Henry Williams died in 1848, and his wife departed this life not long afterward. The boy, George, thus left an orphan, was given over to the care of a maiden aunt, who became his guardian and who had gone to live in New Hampshire. However, he varied his early life between the homes of a married aunt (Mrs. John E. Smith) and the maiden aunt who was his rightful guardian. He accompanied the Smith family to Seneca in 1858 and resided with them in the first house built in Seneca. his first work in the village was as "devil boy" on the first newspaper published in Nemaha county by J. P. Cone; his duties on this sheet being to ink the "molasses" rollers, and to assist in operating the old Washington hand press, with which the editions were printed. He remained a member of the staff of Mr. Cone's newspaper until his place was taken by a stronger person, and one whom the editor thought more able and competent to handle the lever of the unwieldy press. About the time his newspaper experience came to an end, his maiden aunt and guardian came west and located at Irving, Marshall county, Kansas, and he joined his aunt's family there. He remained with his guardian until he completed a course in Illinois College in 1864, and after clerking in a store at Irving for a time, he returned to Seneca and purchased an interest in a hardware store. This was in 1870, and his business venture was a success from the start. His interests have become diversified during the past forty-six years, and he has become one of the largest land owners in northern Kansas, owning thousands of acres of land in the county. Mr. Williams has erected several business buildings in Seneca, and is owner of considerable real estate in the city. He is financially interested in several banking concerns, among them being the First National Bank of Seneca, of which he has been president for over thirty years; State Bank of Belvidere, Neb., and the State Bank of Axtell, Kans., of which he is president. He is a director in several banks.

Mr. Williams has been a stockholder and director of the St. Joseph. and Grand Island Railroad Company, for the past three years. He is president of the Brown County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Morrill, Kans.

Mr. Williams was married, in 1876, to Miss Mary Moss Bryan of Kentucky, a daughter of Milton Bryan, a relative of William Jennings Bryan to Mr. and Mrs. Williams have been born six children, as follows: Raymond, third child born, killed in a railway accident in 1906; Clara, eldest child, wife of Frank Stuppy, St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. Helen-Short, living near Chehalis, Wash.; Edith, wife of Art L. Collins, president of the National Bank of Sabetha, Kans.; Rachel, at home with her . parents; Milton B., at home and assisting in looking after his father's interests, a graduate of Wisconsin University, Madison, Wis., and filling the post of assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Seneca.

Mr. Williams is allied with the Democratic party, but has never sought political preferment of any kind, although he has taken pleasure in assisting deserving friends to office and has been generally loyal to democratic principles. He is a member of the Congregational church. Despite his great success in business, agriculture and finance, Mr. Williams is the most modest of men who has devoted his entire life to hard work, kept at his tasks long hours, and even of late years, has assiduously devoted his time and energies to looking after his many interests. This modest and brief review is in keeping with the inherent modesty of the man himself. (History of Nemaha County, Kansas by Ralph Tennal, 1916, Pages 328-329)

SCOVILLE, COURTNEY C. K.

Courtney C. K. ScovilleWhen a truly able and gifted man finds his niche in the world of business and finance, his success is certain and sure. There is no miscalculation about the obviousness of his being adapted to his surroundings-a really successful individual becomes more so when he has discovered his proper line of endeavor in which to exercise inherited and developed talents. Real leaders in the various professions and business circles are both born and made -and in the making, the best attributes of the man himself are developed thoroughly and well, so that there is no half way stop in the upward climb. C. C. K. Scoville, successful financier, author and lecturer of Seneca, Kans., is one of those individuals who found his proper niche, and developed himself and his powers to the fullest extent, and. has become a leader of thought and men, and is widely known throughout his home State and the West. Endowed in the beginning with a heritage of pure American birth and ancestry, and gifted beyond the ordinary, he has risen to a high place among men. As a banker he has achieved success, and as a lecturer and orator, he has won more than ordinary renown- yet, withal, he is a modest, unassuming gentleman who loves best to assist in the development of social and civic conditions in his home city. The up building and advancement of Seneca is in his thoughts and ambitions first and foremost of all things, and he is ever ready to take the lead in all matters having for their ultimate object a better and larger city.

C. C. K. Scoville, president of the Citizens State Bank of Seneca, was born at Conneautville, Pa., September 14, 1852, and is a son of Daniel and Eunice P. B. (Kennedy) Scoville, natives of Vermont and New York respectively. On both paternal and maternal sides he is descended from old American families who trace their lineage back to pre-Revolutionary times. His grandfather was Daniel Scoville, whose father was a soldier of the Revolution and fought under Ethan Allen with the famous "Green Mountain Boys."

Mr. Scoville received his education in the public schools of Iowa and Kansas, and studied law in Seneca where the Scoville family removed in 1870. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1878, and practiced his profession for a number of years and then engaged in banking, although he has never abandoned the legal profession entirely. Since his connection with the Citizens State Bank, he has always been the recognized head of the bank. Previous to engaging in the practice of law, he taught school for eight years. While practicing his profession, he served as city attorney, and in 1900, filled the office of mayor of Seneca for a term. He organized the Scoville Exchange Bank in 1888. This concern was successful, and its activities and general scope were broadened materially in 1894, when Mr. Scoville organized the Citizens State Bank as a successor to the private bank. The capital has been increased from $30,000 to $40,000, and this bank is now one of the substantial and flourishing financial institutions of northern Kansas.

Mr. Scoville was united in marriage with Miss Mary Lincoln Bergen of Galesburg, Ill., in 1881. Two daughters were born to them, as follows: Josephine, who studied for two years in Washburn College, Topeka, and who graduated from Smith College, Northampton, Mass., is now the wife of Louis S. Treadwell, a business man of New York City, and scion of the well known Treadwell family of New York and Albany; Frances, a graduate of the Misses Gilman's Seminary for young ladies at Boston, Mass., is now the wife of Walter De Mumm, a member of the famous Rheims firm of wine manufacturers and an officer of the Royal Fusileers of the German army and a member of General von Hindenberg's staff. Lieut. De Mumm has been twice decorated by the German emperor with the iron cross for personal bravery on the battlefield.

Mrs. Scoville, who was Miss Mary Lincoln Bergen, was a daughter of George I. and Mary Bergen, of Galesburg, Ill. George I. Bergen was one of the leading business men and politicians of his State, and was widely known as an inventor and as a public man. He filled the position of internal revenue collector of the great Peoria district, for many years. He and Abraham Lincoln were close personal friends. Mrs. Scoville enjoys the great distinction of having been given the name, Lincoln, for a middle name by the great Lincoln himself. Mrs. Scoville's mother was a member of the celebrated Field family, from which sprang many of the leading men of the nation, notably Marshall Field, the great Chicago merchant. Mrs. Scoville was a graduate of the High School at Galva, Ill., going from there to the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin, Ohio, from which she graduated in vocal, piano and pipe organ courses with distinction. Mrs. Scoville is well known over Kansas for her musical and literary accomplishments and for the beauty and hospitality of her home in Seneca, where many of the leading people of Kansas and other States have been entertained.

Mr. Scoville's activities outside of his banking interests have been many and varied, and their recital exhibits a remarkable versatility on -the part of this able Kansan. He is essentially a self-made man, who has good and just right to be proud of his record, inasmuch as Seneca is rightly proud of him. He is an extensive dealer in farm mortgages, and loans on his own account and believes in keeping his capital continually working in legitimate channels of trade. He has taken an active and general interest in matters political and served his party as chairman of the county central committee during the Blaine and Logan campaign for the presidency. He is interested in his party's success, but has never been an office seeker, preferring to be a worker in the ranks and lending his moral support to such matters. He is a strong and influential supporter of civic, social and commercial enterprises for the benefit of Seneca and Nemaha county, and is president of the Seneca Business Men's Club, an organization of Seneca's business and professional men who are striving for civic and commercial betterment of the city's affairs, and are pushing public improvements to the front. For the past twelve years, he has been a director and treasurer of the Nemaha County Fair Association.

His rise in the banking world is a matter deserving of favorable comment, and he has become known throughout the State among the banking fraternity. During the years 1910 and 1911, Mr. Scoville was president of the Kansas State Bankers Association. He was one of the organizers and served as the second president of this association. During his lecturing career, which has covered a period of twelve years, he has delivered many addresses upon financial questions pertaining to banking and the legal phases of the profession of which he has made a deep study. Mr. Scoville has the reputation of being the finest and most entertaining, extemporaneous speaker in central and northern Kansas. His broad knowledge and wide reading and continuous study have equipped him especially for this phase of his versatile attainments.

Mr. and Mrs. Scoville are extensive travelers and have seen many parts of the old and new worlds. They made a sight seeing trip to Europe, and visited their daughter, Mrs. De Mumm, in 1914, and were in. London when the war between the European powers began. The success of this able gentleman under review can be ascribed to two or three things, either of which is important, and have a decided bearing upon a man's life career: He was rightly born and reared; he was imbued with an' indomitable will and a determination to rise in- the world, and was willing to make any honorable sacrifice in order to gain his end; lastly, but not least, he has enjoyed the companionship and counsel of a capable and devoted wife. While teaching school, he devoted his spare time to the study of law and equipped himself for the legal profession. While practicing law he discovered that his talents lay in the world of finance, and he determined that banking offered the best means to the attainment of a competence. (History of Nemaha County, Kansas by Ralph Tennal, 1916, Pages 329-332)

GEARY, FRANK L.

Frank L. Geary, assistant cashier of the National Bank of Seneca, Kans., was born March 29, 1880, in the city of Buffalo, New York, and is a son of William C. and Nellie R. (Rademacher) Geary, the former of whom was a native of Ohio, and the latter was a native of Holland. William C. Geary was born and reared in the Buckeye State and became a farmer in his younger days. Later he abandoned this vocation, and engaged in commercial business in Buffalo, N. Y., until 1882, at which time he returned to Ohio, and farmed until 1887, when he migrated to Illinois, where he engaged in the live stock, business with headquarters at Mattoon, Ill. He removed to Seneca, Kans., in 1890, and continued his live stock operations with considerable success, until his retirement from active business in 1900. He now resides in Frederick, Okla. William C. and Nellie R. Geary reared three children, as follows: Charles W. and Tina A., of Los Angeles, Cal., and Frank L., with whose career this review is directly concerned. The mother of the foregoing children was born in Amsterdam, Holland, January 11, 1846, and immigrated with her parents to New York.

Frank L. Geary was educated in the graded and high schools of Seneca, Kans., and studied law in the office of Judge R. M. Emery. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1901, and for five years, had a lucrative practice in partnership with Judge Emery. For the two years following he served as bookkeeper for the Seneca State Savings Bank until 1907. He spent the following seven months in Los Angeles, doing abstract work, and then returned to Seneca to accept the position of assistant cashier of the National Bank of Seneca. Mr. Geary is eminently fitted by his legal and financial training to perform the duties of his position, and has a fine reputation as a banking man. He was the first title examiner in the office of the Los Angeles Abstract and Trust Company, a very large concern doing business in the Pacific Coast city.

Mr. Geary was married, in 1903, to Miss Blanche Magill of Seneca, a daughter of J. D. Magill, former clerk of the Nemaha county district court who died in 1900, his daughter, Blanche, being appointed to fill out Mr. Magill's unexpired term. She was twice re-elected, to the office, first in 1900, and again in 1902, and served until 1905: Mr. Geary is a progressive Republican who believes that reform and purification of the party can best be accomplished by working within the rank and file of the Republican organization, a belief which is generally shared by a majority of the party at the present time. He served as city attorney of Seneca, while filling his duties in connection with the Seneca State Savings Bank, and resigned the office when he went to California. Mr. Geary is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Eastern Star, Knights and Ladies of Security, and the Knights of Pythias. (History of Nemaha County, Kansas by Ralph Tennal, 1916, Pages 332-333)

SCHREMPP, CHARLES F.

Charles F. Schrempp, lawyer, Seneca, Kans., was born in Hartington, Neb., January 17, 1887, and is a son of Adolph and Sophia (Schweker) Schrempp, natives of Baden, Germany, and Schenectady, New York, respectively. Adolph Schrempp was born in 1847, and emigrated from the fatherland to America in 1853 with his parents. The Schrempp family settled in Wisconsin where Adolph Schrempp was reared to manhood. He there married Sophia Schweker, whose parents emigrated from Schenectady, N. Y., to Madison, Wis. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Schrempp settled in Cedar county, Nebraska, and were pioneer settlers of that county, where they homesteaded a claim and developed it, later removing to Yankton, S. D. and operating a hotel. Mr. Schrempp here met the famous General Custer with whom he struck up a warm friendship which lasted until the lamentable death of the general at the Big Horn Indian massacre. After the massacre, Mr. and Mrs. Schrempp returned to Cedar county, Nebraska and again took up farming pursuits. The Schrempps lived in Cedar county until the town of Hartington, Neb., was started, and they built the first house in that city. Mr. Schrempp became a contractor and builder in Hartington until his removal to Seneca in the spring of 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Schrempp are the parents of seven children. William, employed on the staff of the Sioux City, Iowa, "Journal" Albert A., in insurance business in the office of Charles F., Seneca; Charles F., with whom this review is directly concerned, are the three sons of the family. The daughters are as follows: Anna Ottele, Sioux City, Iowa; Teresa Smith, Sanborn, Iowa; Minnie K. Schrempp, Seneca, Kans.; Frances Schrempp, Seneca, Kans.

Charles F. Schrempp was educated in the Hartington public schools and the parochial schools, graduating from the high school of his native city in 1905. He taught school for two years, and then clerked in a general store for some years and became manager of a general store until 1909. He then went to Omaha, Neb., and worked his way through Creighton University for a period of three years during which he took the night course in law and was then enabled to take the full day course for one year. He graduated from Creighton University with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913. During his period of study, he was employed in the Brandeis department store, and worked his way upward from shoe salesman to floor walker on the main floor in this great establishment, from 1909 to 1912. In the spring of that year he obtained the post of assistant librarian in the Creighton law department, and was enabled to finish his collegiate course in a more satisfactory manner.

Mr. Schrempp's original intention had been to begin the practice of his profession at Eugene, Ore., but having occasion to stop off at Seneca, he was impressed with the appearance of the city and the possibilities it presented for the practice of law, and he decided to cast his lot in this city. He was first associated with Charles Herold as deputy county attorney until March, 1915, and has built up an excellent law practice. He was a candidate for county attorney on the Democratic ticket in 1914. Mr. Schrempp has built up considerable practice in outside courts, and is fast making a reputation for himself as an able attorney, besides taking a prominent part in Democratic politics. He was retained as attorney in the Helser land case, the biggest partition suit ever filed in Nemaha county, and an incident to the settlement of an estate valued at $200,000, at this writing (1915) has completed the forcing of distribution in the secondary case in Pennsylvania, involving the personal property included in the estate.

Mr. Schrempp is a member of the Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church, and is president of the county federation of Catholic societies. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. He is the secretary of the Literary and Lyceum course committee, and is at present secretary of the Seneca Commercial Club. He is a member of the Delta Theta Phi, the National legal fraternity and was instrumental in building up the Omaha chapter. (History of Nemaha County, Kansas by Ralph Tennal, 1916, Pages 333-334