[1] He married Blanche Mott, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, though most of her life was spent in Iowa.

[2] He served as a private with the 32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.

During his term, he served as the chairman of the Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses).

After that, he was appointed and subsequently elected judge of the district court of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska and served from March 9, 1899, to December 1899, when he resigned to return to the Senate, because he was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his successor, Monroe L. Hayward.

[6] He died in Los Angeles, California on January 12, 1924, and was interred in Crown Hill Cemetery at Madison, Nebraska.