He has gained prominence since the early days as he is president of the Deuel County Bank. Frank Wolf is cashier of the Cheyenne County State Bank, at Lodgepole, which shows that the early day training was excellent. In this section house on January 10, 1881, Dora Wolf was born, the" first white child born in what is now Deuel county. She married Cyrus Brown, a native of Mercer county, Illinois, who was afterwards county clerk of Deuel county for a number of years.

She contracted lung trouble in the flu epidemic of 1918 and died in 1920.

About 1883, John O'Neil resigned as agent for the railroad and the following year, 1884, J. B. and M. A. Carmichael surveyed a tract of ground for the town site of Chappell which was filed at Sidney August 27, 1884. On September 19, they sold a number of lots, tne first of which was bought by George W. Mc- Cluskey. He purchased nine lots for a hundred and twenty dollars. They were in block seventeen. On the same day John O'Ne'l bought eight lots, namely: 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 18, in block 18, for which he paid one hundred and sixty dollars. H. A. Simpson also bought a number of lots in block 18 for a hundred and fifty-seven dollars, which gives some idea of the value of real estate in those days in a new country and new town. Thomas Farmer was also a purchaser of lots on that eventful day. The conclusion of that day's transactions. I should say, "Land office business," was the sale to Henry W. Wiemer of lot 11, block 12 for twenty dollars.