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Amelia Fontenelle Lockett
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
This lady, notice of whose death appeared in last week's Economist, was a native of Louisiana, and a direct descendant of a powerful family of the French nobility, a daughter, if we are informed correctly, of the Marquis de Fontenelle, a nobleman of great wealth and character, whose property was contiguous to the city of Marseilles, but who in all probability had sought, like many others, either health or increased fortune on the fertile shores of New France.
Frontmatter And Contents
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
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Death Of Gov. Francis Burt
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
THE DEATH OF Gov. BURT - The Omaha (Nebraska) Arrow extra, of Oct. 18th, contains the following particulars of Gov. Burt's death: Francis Burt, governor of Nebraska, died at the old Presbyterian Mission House, at Belleview, at about 3½ o'clock this morning, retaining at the last hour a realization of his situation, and surrounded by the friends who accompanied him from his Carolina home. Immediately upon his arrival in 'the territory he was confined to his bed by sickness, occasioned by the long and tedious journey hitherward, commencing, we are informed, upon reaching the limestone country bf Tennessee in his …
Otoe County In Early Days, E. H. Cowles
Otoe County In Early Days, E. H. Cowles
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Thinking a sketch of the early history of good old Otoe county would be a readable article in your columns and at the same time be appropriate to the times, I will give a few items of the many incidents that fell under my observation at an early day in the organization, settlement, and progress of the territory; more particularly that which refers to the then Pearce, but now Otoe county.
Mrs. Caroline Joy Morton
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Caroline Joy Morton was born on the 9th of August; 1833, at Hallowell, in Maine. Her father was Hiram Joy. He was of Irish descent. His ancestry, as far back as the family records in this country go, were seafaring people. They who go down to the sea in ship learn to cast out fear, and meet danger and toil and watching with steady nerve and toughened muscle. Their children have a heritage of courage and resolution, and the breath of the salt sea air is their constant stimulant. Her mother was Caroline Hayden. She, too, was reared in the …
First Female Suffragist Movement In Nebraska, Amelia Bloomer
First Female Suffragist Movement In Nebraska, Amelia Bloomer
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, Council Bluffs, Iowa, under date of Dec. 26th, 1878, furnishes the following, relating to the first female suffragist movement in Nebraska. She prefaces with this historic note:
My first visit to Omaha was July 4th, 1855. The day was being celebrated. Omaha was then a small place. The Douglas House was the only hotel. The speaker's stand was erected in front of it, across the road. The dinner table was out doors, on the east side of the street Acting Governor Thomas Cuming was the orator. Omaha was then but eight months old.
S. S. Caldwell
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
SMITH SAMUEL CALDWELL died at Omaha, .............., 1884. He was the son of a farmer in Marion, Wayne county, New York, where he was born in 1834. He was a graduate of Union College, and came to Omaha in 1859. He was a lawyer by profession, and undertook its practice here, but soon afterwards engaged in the banking business, which he successfully pursued with a high reputation as a financier for nearly a quarter of a century. He was at first in the firm of Barrons, Millard & Co.; then in the firm of Millard, Caldwell & Co.; then in …
Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume I [Complete Volume]
Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume I [Complete Volume]
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
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Relic In Possession Of The Society
Relic In Possession Of The Society
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
A list of the valuable relics the Society possesses.
Letter Of S. F. Nuckolls
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
I thank you kindly for the honor done me in your letter of the 26th ult., in behalf of the Old Settlers' Association of Otoe county, Nebraska, extending to me an invitation to deliver the annual address before your Society at the fourth reunion, to be held this present month.
I would most gladly accept your invitation, but now is the busy mining season, and I have other and pressing duties that prevent, so that I must decline this opportunity of meeting my old friends in Otoe county-the best friends that man ever had.
It was October 1, 1846, when, …
Index
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
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Autobiography Of Rev. William Hamilton, William Hamilton
Autobiography Of Rev. William Hamilton, William Hamilton
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Every old settler in Nebraska will remember "Father Hamilton," early and so long a missionary among the western Indians. I solicited his biography for this report from his own pen. The following letter in response I feel would be marred if it were changed, even in the "dotting of a single 'i' or the crossing of a 't.’” I therefore present it just as it came to me.
DECATUR, BURT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, May 22nd, 1884
Gov. Samuel W. Black
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
The following biography of ex-governor Samuel W. Black was written and furnished the Nebraska State Historical Society by his daughter.
Admission Of Nebraska Into The Union, Charles Gere
Admission Of Nebraska Into The Union, Charles Gere
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
To discuss the events of 1866 and 1867 at this time has seemed to me presumptuous. Barely a dozen years have elapsed since Nebraska turned the sharp corner from territorial dependency to state sovereignty, and, as in all sharp historical turns, there was a blaze of excitement, a bitter political contest, accompanied by more than the usual amount of bumptiousness and belligerency, of heart-burnings and jealousy, over which fourteen years may have deposited a thin layer of forgetfulness, through which a foolhardy explorer might break, to the discomfiture of himself and the revival of volcanic memories. But, pressed by your …
First White Child Born In Nebraska
First White Child Born In Nebraska
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
The following correspondence relating to the first white child born in Nebraska was published in the Omaha Herald at dates indicated therein.
Anecdotes Relating To "White Cow" Or "White Buffalo", R. W. Furnas
Anecdotes Relating To "White Cow" Or "White Buffalo", R. W. Furnas
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
NOTE.-The editor of this report was, during the life-time of “White Cow” or “White Buffalo," agent for the Omaha Indians, and familiar with the peculiar characteristics referred to by Mr. Fontenelle. A reference to two instances may not be an unpleasant digression.
I was once sent for in great haste by "White Cow," on an exceeding bitter cold day in December, the messenger stating the old Indian was about to die, and desired to make his will, appoint his successor, and such like. I went at once, and found the old man stretched out on a buffalo robe before a …
Annual Address Of President Robt. W. Furnas
Annual Address Of President Robt. W. Furnas
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
“The study of history deserves serious attention, if only for a knowledge of transactions, and inquiry into the eras when each of them happened. Yet it does not concern us so much to know that there was once such men as Alexander, Cǽsar, Aristides, or Cato, or that they lived in this or that period; that the empire of the Assyrians made way for that of the Babylonians, and the latter for that of the Medes and Persians, who were themselves subjected by the Macedonians, as those were afterward by the Romans. But it is of high concern to know …
Indian Names Of Streams And Localities, Henry Fontenelle
Indian Names Of Streams And Localities, Henry Fontenelle
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
The following Indian names of streams and localities, is furnished by Henry Fontenelle.
History Of Omaha Indians, Henry Fontenelle
History Of Omaha Indians, Henry Fontenelle
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
At request of the editor of this report the following traditional history of the Omaha Indians is furnished by Henry Fontenelle, a reliable, intelligent, educated half-blood of that tribe.
Historical Recollections In And About Otoe County
Historical Recollections In And About Otoe County
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
To James Fitche, of Nebraska City, the Society is indebted for the following recollections, reminiscences, and records. A portion are papers read before the Otoe county Old Settlers' Association, and others as furnished and published in the local newspapers.
Joel T. Griffen, L. G. Egbert
Joel T. Griffen, L. G. Egbert
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
JOEL T. GRIFFEN was born in Otsego county, New York, May 22d, 1817. His parents (Rachel Willson and Stephen Griffen) were of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, American born, his father being of Welsh descent. He carried. on a small farm, beside running a grist mill, at which on mill days all the farmers congregated for a friendly chat and to procure their monthly flour and meal. It was proverbial of him that he was never heard to utter an oath or laugh out loud. Joel was the third son in his father's family, having two brothers and two …
Historical Letters From Father De Smet, Father De Smet
Historical Letters From Father De Smet, Father De Smet
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
The following letters were written by Father De Smet, a Roman Catholic Missionary among the Northern Indians in a very early day. One was written to the St. Louis Historical Society, and the other to A. D. Jones, Secretary of the Old Settlers' Association of Omaha.
Constitution And By-Laws
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Table of Contents:
Name of the Society
Objects of the Society
Officers
Membership
Active Members
Correspondents and Honorary members
Forfeiture of Membership
Meetings of the Society
Quorum
Special Meetings
Manuscripts, Correspondence, Etc.
Seal and Diploma
Officers and Their Duties
Union of Officers in the Same Individual
Standing Committees and their Duties
Removal from Office
Initiation Fee and Annual Assessment
Revision of the List of Members
Corresponding Members
Honorary Membership
Removal of Members
Alteration in the Constitution
By-Laws:
Notices
Adjournments
Election of Corresponding and Honorary Members
New Members
Order of Business
Nomination of Special Committees
Gold At Pike’S Peak – Rush For – Stampede, A. L. Child
Gold At Pike’S Peak – Rush For – Stampede, A. L. Child
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
There is no portion of the history of the past which is not largely obscured, distorted, or absolutely falsified through the omission of unwritten portions.
We are prone to forget or fail to realize how intense the interest of the future may be in the doings of to-day. Or if we feel the importance of leaving a record we are apt to note only the fading and vanishing items of the past. To make a record of transactions and happenings of to-day, of that which everyone knows all about, seems uncalled for and useless labor.
Through this neglect important springs …
Charles Powell
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Charles Powell died at Omaha, 1884. He was born in Geneva, N.Y., on May 13, 1811, and was therefore at the time of his demise 73 years of age. He was married in 1843 to Miss Catherine M. Bacon, a lady who was a native also of New York, the wedding taking place at Jonesville, Mich. Mr. Powell came to Nebraska in 1858, and located at De Soto, to which point he transported an extensive outfit of machinery with which he started a mill, one of the first and most valuable to settlers in this territory. Two years later Mr. …
Notes Relating To Fontenelle Family, A. L. Thompson
Notes Relating To Fontenelle Family, A. L. Thompson
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
While at New Orleans during the Exposition of 1884-5, a very intelligent, well-preserved, elderly lady called at my office, Nebraska Headquarters, introducing herself as Mrs. Thompson, then of Chicago, and cousin of Henry Fontenelle. She was an exceedingly fluent and interesting conversationalist. She entered into details as to the history of the old French Fontenelle families. Before she left my office, I begged her on returning to her home, and at leisure, to furnish me in writing what information she had given me verbally during the to me pleasant hour of her visit.
The Philosophy Of Emigration, J. M. Woolworth
The Philosophy Of Emigration, J. M. Woolworth
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
It is fit that in this year of grace, 1880, and in this month of January, we should, by public exercises now held for the first time, mark a period in the history of the state.
It was in March, 1854, that the Indians, by treaty, ceded these regions to the United States, and in May, that a system of government was framed for them. In October, Francis Burt, the first governor landed on these shores. In a few weeks he died, and the work of organization devolved on Thomas B. Cuming, the secretary. On the 21st day of October …
Some Historical Data About Washington County, W. H. Woods
Some Historical Data About Washington County, W. H. Woods
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Agreeable to our promise to continue our investigations; we, last Tuesday, visited the site of the old village mentioned in Bell’s History of Washington County, page 39, as the site of an old Mormon settlement of 1845; but thought by Mr. Grenell and others to have been of much older date, and probably a farm station or outpost of either Fort Atkinson, which lay about one mile east, or Fort Calhoun, four miles south.
The Discovery Of Nebraska, James W. Savage
The Discovery Of Nebraska, James W. Savage
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
We are apt to look upon Nebraska as a young state; young in its geological formation, in its political existence, and in its historical records. For descriptions of its soil, its climate, its fruits, or its inhabitants, few have sought to look further back than the commencement of the present century, and the published memorials of its history prior to the advent of the French trappers and traders have boon thought too meagre to serve as a basis for any exact account. But hidden away in the lumber rooms of wealthy Spanish and French families, and piled on the shelves …
Rev. William Mccandlish
Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
Rev. Wm. McCandlish died at Omaha, Nebraska, August 5th, 1884. He was born in Scotland; came to America when he was seven years old. He was educated for the ministry at Washington college, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian denomination in 1837, and has been actively engaged in that service and in the bible cause from that date to the very hour of his death, having but returned from carrying a bible to a neighbor at 9:40 in the morning. He complained of coldness in his feet, lay down on his bed and passed away …