Both were in the first teachers' institute in Sioux county, and both are yet living.

They have two living daughters : one married Milo E. Wolff and they live on a ranch in Wyoming, thirty miles northwest of Harrison. Bessie, the other daughter is at home and assists on the Journal, in the news notes, the business department, and the linotype department. Both Jessie and Bessie are state normal graduates, and hold life teachers' certificates.

The compiler of these historic note- owes much to the generous use of old files, and the memory of Mr. Newlin, ami his kindly assistance in other ways.

Ed. Satterlee

The name of Ed. Satterlee stands out conspicuously in Sioux county history. He was the first "county clerk, named by the governor as special county clerk, to prepare for the first regular election of the county at its organization. He was the first post-master ofHarrison, or Bowen as ii was then called. He started the first newspaper in Harrison. lie was also the first county attorney elected at the first regular election.

I knew Satterlee as a landlord when he ran the Blaine hotel at Chadron. 1 doubt if

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there was one single knight of the grip that knew him, but that sincerely regretted the illness and permanent incapacity that made it necessary for him to retire from business.

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There are others that were active officially and otherwise in the early history of which brief mention should be made, aside from references to them in some of the stories told in this work. There was J. E. Marsteller, who came in eighteen eighty-six, when Harrison (then called Summit) was a tent town; who worked first at the carpenter trade and then for a long time was engaged in mercantile lines.