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for six years—from 1890. He now lives at Glendale, California, where he preaches occasionally. Rev. John B. Maxfield joined the Nebraska conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1861, and he was actively engaged the service of his sect, as preacher, teacher, and presiding elder until near the year of his death in 1900. Forcefulness was his characteristic quality. He held the charge at Plattsmouth at the time of his appointment. Abel B. Fuller settled at Ashland, then in Cass county, in 1863, where he kept a general merchandise store until 1867, when he became land agent for the Union Pacific and Burlington and Missouri River railroad companies and was so employed when he was appointed regent. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the twelfth and last territorial legislative assembly, in 1867, and of the same house of the second state legislature in the same year. The session of the territorial assembly ended February 18 and that of the state legislature began February 20. The members of the territorial assembly were chosen at the regular election, under the law of the territory, on October 9. 1866. The pending process of admitting the territory to statehood being then under arrest by President Johnson, provisional members of a state legislature were elected at the same time. Moreover, the Republicans nominated the same men for members of legislative bodies under the actual territorial and the prospective state regime, and this body of dual parts, sitting as a state legislature immediately following its regular territorial session, accepted the negro suffrage condition precedent to statehood imposed by the congress.
Three members of the board, Governor Butler, Furnas, soon to be governor (the ambitious political aspirations both soon to be cut down, never to rise again), and Champion S. Chase, belonged to the class commonly called professional politicians; and it is but doing Elder Maxfield justice to observe that he also seems to have shone in that class with native distinction. In his public aspect and activities Regent Chase was a ubiquitous and picturesque personage, and forceful withal. He was a paymaster in the Union
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