I found this biography of Simeon Whaley in Osceola, Polk Co., Nebraska. The source reference was published about 1881. http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/andreas_ne/polk/polk-p3.html SIMEON O. WHALEY, physician and surgeon, Osceola, came to Nebraska in March, 1871, locating the 12th day of this month on a homestead on Section 18, Town 14, Range 1 west, Canada Precinct, and bears the honor of erecting the first frame building in the precinct, and with his brother, M. H. Whaley, was the first settler in the precinct, and is now the oldest resident physician in Polk County. He was born in Williams County, Ohio, October 29, 1842. He is a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, in the class of 1869-70. He is now Coroner of Polk County, and has served three terms as such; has been a member of the Board of Commissioners of Insanity since 1875. He is now United States Examining Surgeon, and has held that position for five years. He was one of the original members of the Methodist Episcopal Church society of Osceola. He is a member of the Masonic Order, and I. O. O. F., Rising Star Lodge, No. 75. He was married in 1867, to Miss Susan C. Cough, who is a native of New York. He served eighteen months as soldier in the late war of the rebellion. He moved to Osceola in 1874, and erected the third dwelling in the village. William Whalley Camas, WA USA