four years at the court house in the position of deputy auditor and at different times engaged in clerking in stores in Tipton until 1890, when he entered into partnership with W. E. Elijah, with whom he was thus associated for two years.
On the expiration of that period Mr. Burroughs came to Nevada and purchased a grocery stock, conducting the store for two years, when he sold out. He spent the winter of 1895-6 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, but in the spring returned to Nevada and purchased a furniture store, which he conducted for two and a half years. In 1898 he came to his present location, trading his furniture stock for a stock of groceries in the Ringheim block, where he carries a large and well selected line of goods, while his earnest desire to please his patrons and his honorable business methods are salient features in the success which is attending him. In addition to his grocery stock he owns three dwellings in Nevada and a farm near Crookston, Minnesota, embracing a quarter section of land.
In 1883 Mr. Burroughs was married to Miss Mary Ryder, a native of Tipton, and a daughter of Christian and Rachel Ryder. Mr. Burroughs belongs to the Masonic lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Methodist Episcopal church–associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the principles that govern his conduct. Persistent, earnest labor has brought him success, and tangible evidence of his active and well spent life is found in his business and real-estate interests in Nevada.
J. H. RIDDLESBARGER.
Prominent among the business men of Nevada is J. H. Riddlesbarger, for twenty-five years past connected with the poultry business and also actively identified with other lines. He came to Nevada from Franklin Grove, Lee county, Illinois, in 1885, and was associated with A. F. Wingert, under title of Wingert & Riddlesbarger, the firm soon becoming widely known on account of its extensive operations in poultry. In 1900, the firm consolidated with Boardman Brothers and continued the business for three years, when Mr. Wingert and Boardman Brothers retired. Mr. Riddlesbarger and C. M. Morse then purchased the Boardman Brothers packing house, the name of the firm being changed to the Nevada Poultry Company. At the close of the year Mr. Morse withdrew and C. W. Harris was admitted as a partner, the title under which the business was conducted still remaining unchanged.
The Nevada Poultry Company handles annually half a million pounds of dressed and packed poultry, which is shipped principally to eastern and European markets. The company has built up an enviable reputation on account of the excellence of its products and the reliable business principles upon which its affairs are conducted. Mr. Riddlesbarger has from the