Cace, Nelson, lawyer and writer, was born in Wyoming county, Pa., April 22, 1845. When he was about a year old his parents removed to Lee county, Ill., where he grew to manhood. In 1866 he graduated at the Illinois State Normal School, and after teaching one year he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1869. He then came to Kansas and located at Oswego, where he began the practice of law. He was twice appointed probate judge of Labette county by Gov. St. John; served two terms as regent of the State Normal School under Gov. Humphrey; was one of the first board of trustees of the Labette county high school; was for ten years president of the Oswego board of education; was for seventeen years a trustee of Baker University, and was also a trustee of Oswego College for young women. For three years he was editor of the Oswego Independent, and he is the author of a history of Labette county. In 1872 Judge Case married Mary F. Claypool of Attica, Ind., who died in 1892, and later he married Miss Georgiana Reed, teacher of art in Baker University.