tember 19, 1906; and Fern and Flora, twins, who were born July 3, 1909. The latter died when but a month old.
The parents hold membership in the Lutheran church and are people of genuine personal worth, highly esteemed throughout the community. Both belong to old and honored pioneer families of which they are worthy representatives. Mr. Erickson votes with the republican party, and in matters of citizenship his influence is always found on the side of reform and improvement, while in every relation of life he stands for justice, truth and right.
FRED C. McCALL.
Prominent among the enterprising business men of Nevada is Fred C. McCall, now filling the position of postmaster and long a well known and popular resident of this city. He was born on October 7, 1868, a son of Captain Thomas Clifton and Mary A. (Boynton) McCall, and the grandson of Samuel W. and Ann (Clifton) McCall. The great-grandfather, Thomas Clifton, served in the Revolutionary war for seven years, doing duty under General Green most of the time. He participated in the battle of Cowpens and in other important engagements. Samuel W. McCall was a soldier of the war of 1812 and was wounded in battle, a ball striking him in the arm. He was a son of another Samuel McCall who was a soldier in the American army in the war for independence. The family is of Scotch-Irish lineage and was founded in America by three brothers who were Scotchmen but came from the North of Ireland to the new world.
Captain Thomas Clifton McCall, the father of Fred McCall, was born in Ross county, Ohio, September 4, 1827, and in 1836, when a small boy, came to Iowa with his parents. The summer was passed at Burlington, after which they removed to Canton, Illinois, where they remained for ten years. In the fall of 1846 they became residents of Polk county, Iowa, where they spent about a decade. Thomas C. McCall accompanied his parents on their various removals and while living in Polk county was married, his first union being with Miss Garret. He then located at Des Moines and afterward at Sioux City and Council Bluffs, where he was engaged in the land business. In 1858 he came to Nevada, where he resided until his death, and through much of the period of his residence here he carried on a real-estate business. He was reared in the faith of the whig party and upon the organization of the republican party joined its ranks, giving to it earnest and stalwart support. He became a recognized leader in political circles in Story county and was a member of the ninth general assembly, also of the nineteenth and twentieth assemblies and was a member of the state senate, representing Boone and Story counties at the time