Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . m\ C/re^. AIJJINUS Governoi oC theStale of Nebraska, aiul inthat connection the recip-ient of the confidence, ad-miration and highest es-teem of tlie people, not simply ofNebraska, but wherever his most ex-cellent administration is known. If,however, it be but borne in mindthat Gov. Nance is a descendant ofa long line of noble representativesof a certain Huguenot family, whosemembers were of the stamp andstuff of which martyrs and heroestherefore persons of thought, con-viction and strength of character, it is not sur
Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . m\ C/re^. AIJJINUS Governoi oC theStale of Nebraska, aiul inthat connection the recip-ient of the confidence, ad-miration and highest es-teem of tlie people, not simply ofNebraska, but wherever his most ex-cellent administration is known. If,however, it be but borne in mindthat Gov. Nance is a descendant ofa long line of noble representativesof a certain Huguenot family, whosemembers were of the stamp andstuff of which martyrs and heroestherefore persons of thought, con-viction and strength of character, it is not surpris-ing that lie should possess the same, which underthe more happy regime of present government andliberality of opinion, should bring him into promi-nence and enable him in his high station to sustaina reputation most brilliant. The ancestors of Gov. Nance on iiis fathers sidewere of that number driven from France by thereligious intolerance and persecution that followedthe revocation of the Edict of Nantes. With manyotliers similarly situated they came to the NewWo
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