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ALBERT G. BLOOMFIELD is a native of Parke county, Ind., and was born March 8, 1855. At the age of eleven years he was taken by his parents to Illinois, where he was reared to farming and educated at the common school. At twenty one years of age he married Miss Anna, daughter of James Barwick, of Ohio, and this union has been blessed with six children — Dora Myrtle, Guy H., Erma L., Elma R., Elfa and Sarah Letha. Of these, Dora and Sarah Letha died young. Immediately after marriage, Mr. Bloomfield began teaching and also farming on rented land, but found that the two would not go together, and gave up teaching. He also became tired of renting, and in the fall of 1881 came to Nebraska and bought one hundred and sixty acres of railroad land in Kearney county; but about five years later, early in 1886, located a homestead of eighty acres in the northwest quarter of section 21, township 7, range 14, which adjoins his railroad land, and in 1890 he purchased eighty acres, the east half of the southeast quarter of section 23, township 7, range 14, making a total of three hundred and twenty acres. He had a small amount of money and a team, and industriously set to work to cultivate his land. For four years he lived in a dug-out, but this was replaced in 1885 by a commodious frame structure. He has been successful ever since his arrival here, has raised bountiful crops and is now very well to do. His retrospect of the inconveniences and hardships he endured and overcame after his arrival here is not an unpleasant one, and his present beautiful homestead he considers to be ample compensation for his past labor. He stands high in the esteem of his fellow-townsmen, and has served them as town clerk for four years, and also as town treasurer, and now holds the office of county supervisor — an office established in 1883. In politics he is a republican.

David Bloomfield, father of Albert G., was a farmer, and a native of Ohio, from which state he migrated to Indiana and later to Illinois. In 1883 he came to Nebraska and here he died the same year, at the age of eighty years. He had married, while a resident of Indiana, Miss Sarah, daughter of Jacob Shockey, a Baptist minister, and to this union were born six children, Albert G. being the fourth in the order of birth. Mrs. Sarah Bloomfield is now a resident of Nebraska.