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LESTER SHADDUCK is a native of Erie county, Pa., born December 4, 1828, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Willard) Shadduck, the former of Vermont and the latter of Maine. They were early settlers in Pennsylvania. The elder Shadduck was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was educated for a Universalist minister. He was a circuit judge in an early day and died June 25, 1835, aged about sixty-two. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The mother of Lester Shadduck died in 1863. When our subject was about fourteen he began working out at $5 per month. In 1850 he went to Wisconsin on a prospecting tour, but was not favorably impressed with the country. He next visited Iowa and purchased eighty acres of land in Clinton county, that State. He returned to Pennsylvania, but in a short time set out for the West again, and located on the land he had purchased and set to work to improve it. He enlisted October 12, 1861, in the Eleventh Wisconsin regiment, Company I, and participated in the fight at Peach Orchard bluffs, Magnolia hills, Champion hills, Black River bridge and Vicksburg. He was wounded at the last-named battle on May 22, 1863, and was sent to Memphis, where he lay in the hospital for some time. He was discharged at New Orleans, June 11, 1864.

Mr. Shadduck was married October 6, 1858, to Miss Tabitha Clews, a native of England. Mrs. Shadduck departed this life on April 2, 1861, the mother of two children — Ann E. and Joseph H., both deceased. Mr. Shadduck next married, April 1, 1865, Mrs. Catherine McEwen, a native of Dublin, Ireland. Her parents were John and Catherine Johnston, who came to America in 1839, and settled in New York city, where Mr. Johnston lived for many years. He was with Col. John Astor for nine years, and died in 1887, in Columbia county, Wis. Mr. Johnston was a graduate of the National college of Dublin, Ireland.

Mr. Shadduck had the following children by his second wife — William A., born May 2, 1866; Lillie E., born December 23, 1870; Eva Rosella, born March 23, 1873.

Mr. Shadduck came to Franklin county, Nebr., August 8, 1881, and has one hundred and sixty acres of good land in a fine state of cultivation. Politically, he is a republican.