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History Of Cass County, A. L. Child Jan 1887

History Of Cass County, A. L. Child

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

In March, 1876, the U. S. Congress passed a joint resolution recommending throughout the republic a general observance of this hundredth anniversary of our national independence, and that, in addition to the usual observances, each county and town cause an historical sketch of said county or town, from its foundation to the present day, to be prepared, and that a copy of it be filed in the clerk's office of the county, as also in the office of the librarian of congress, to the intent that a complete record may thus be obtained of the progress of our institutions during …

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History Of Sarpy County, S. D. Bangs Jan 1887

History Of Sarpy County, S. D. Bangs

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

At the time that Napoleon was first consul of France, the French possessions in North America were exposed to the maritime power of Great Britain, with whom France was at war, and were really a source of weakness to the mother country from their remote situation and their liability at any moment to fall into the hands of the enemy.

In this emergency Napoleon resolved to abandon his cherished notion of colonial dependencies, which could not be protected, and entered into negotiations with the United States for their relinquishment.

In 1803 a treaty was consummated between the two countries, which …

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Forty Years Among The Indians And On The Eastern Borders Of Nebraska, Samuel Allis Jan 1887

Forty Years Among The Indians And On The Eastern Borders Of Nebraska, Samuel Allis

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

I was born in Conway, Franklin Co., Mass., Sept. 28, 1805. My parents were members of the Congregational church of that place, Rev. John Emerson, pastor.

I was dedicated to God in baptism at the age of five years, and like most in those days, raised to honor my parents. I was catechized by my mother on the Sabbath, and taught to keep it holy. I was raised to industry and good morals, for which I have been ever thankful. My educational advantages were limited, consequently, should this come before the public they will not expect much that will interest …

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John Brown In Richardson County, A. R. Keim Jan 1887

John Brown In Richardson County, A. R. Keim

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

In 1855, John Brown went to Kansas “for the sole purpose of fighting if need be for liberty." He soon had occasion to teach the "Border Ruffians" that he could strike hard blows in behalf of free homes and an enslaved race. In repeated encounters, with a handful of men, he worsted the pro-slavery forces that came against him, and his success at the battle of Black .Tack, and Ossawatomie, and Lawrence made old John Brown of Ossawatomie, one of the foremost men of Kansas. The Missouri slave holders recognized him as the most vigorous and uncompromising of all their …

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Proceedings: Secretary's Record And Reports Of Officers, Robert W. Furnas, George E. Howard, W. W. Wilson Jan 1887

Proceedings: Secretary's Record And Reports Of Officers, Robert W. Furnas, George E. Howard, W. W. Wilson

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

Annual Session, Jan. 13-14, 1885
Annual Session, Jan. 12-13, 1886
Report of the Presidext, January 12, 1886
Report of the Recording Secretary, January 12, 1886
Treasurer's Report for 1884
Treasurer's Report for 1885
Additions to the Society Library, by Geo. E. Howard, Librarian

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Sketches From Territorial History, A. G. Warner Jan 1887

Sketches From Territorial History, A. G. Warner

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

One not acquainted with the early history of this commonwealth may be startled, while looking through a file of newspapers handed down from the fifties, to see the headline, "Discovery of Gold in Nebraska." The explanation is that Pike's Peak itself was once included within the generous limits of this territory. By the act of congress, which brought into existence Kansas and Nebraska, the twin children of Douglas' ambition to do something spectacular in national politics, the boundaries of the latter territory were described as extending from the northern boundary of Kansas to the southern boundary of the British Possessions, …

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A Visit To Nebraska In 1662, James W. Savage Jan 1887

A Visit To Nebraska In 1662, James W. Savage

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

When, a few years since, a paper was read before this society,* containing some reasonable grounds for belief in the theory that Coronado, in his expedition to the mysterious kingdom of Quivira, reached the territory now embraced within the state of Nebraska, there was little foundation for an argument that the gallant and uxorious knight marched any considerable distance beyond its southern boundary. The relation of his patient and painstaking follower, Castaneda, and his own report, left him at the fortieth parallel of latitude, now the dividing line between the states of Kansas and Nebraska; and the only reason for …

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John Mcmechan, A. C. Mcmechan Jan 1887

John Mcmechan, A. C. Mcmechan

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

Died, November 3, 1883, at "Headwood," the family residence, in Otoe county, near Nebraska City, Nebraska, of the infirmities incident to old age, John McMechan, aged 83 years and 23 days. The McMechan family is of Scotch origin, and lived in Ayreshire, but being active and leading members of the" Solemn League and Covenant," was forced, by religious persecution, to leave Scotland in 1650, and settled in the county Antrim, in Ireland, near “White Abbey,” five miles from the city of Belfast.

John McMechan, the father of the subject of our sketch, was a wealthy land-owner, and the family estate …

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E. H. Rogers, Samuel Maxwell Jan 1887

E. H. Rogers, Samuel Maxwell

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

Among the pioneers of this state entitled to honorable recognition, who assisted in the formation of its laws and the founding of its institutions, was E. H. Rogers. The subject of this sketch was the second son of a Methodist minister, and was born at Litchfield, Herkimer county, New York, January 12, 1830.

We have but few incidents of his early life. The meager compensation accorded to ministers generally seems to have taught him the necessity of care in the expenditure of money, and also that true happiness does not depend upon the possession of wealth. It is worthy of …

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James Thomas Allan, Grace Allan Jan 1887

James Thomas Allan, Grace Allan

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

James Thomas Allan, the only child of James and Jean Bowman Allan, was born in Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan, Saturday September 30, 1831.

From his Scotch father he inherited a strong intellect and a tenacity of opinion, which was chastened and refined by his more sympathetic English mother, while from both he received a reverence and faith in a higher power, which in times of deepest gloom never wavered.

His education was principally in the academy of his native city. There he earned the reputation of a scholar, not only in the English branches, but also in the Greek and …

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Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume Ii Jan 1887

Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume Ii

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

A considerable portion of the historical matter contained in this volume consists of papers read at the last two annual meetings of the Society. However, in the suggestion of topics for some of these and in the selection of matter derived from other sources, the attainment of a certain degree of unity has been kept in view: by confining the discussions, so far as practicable in a publication of this character, to the territorial and earlier periods of Nebraska history.

The Society has recently come into possession of a copy of the manuscript of the late Samuel Allis, transcribed by …

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History Of Dodge County, L. J. Abbott Jan 1887

History Of Dodge County, L. J. Abbott

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

The meet to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of our national birthday. To-day, we as a nation exhibit to the world a solution of the problem that not only in numbers, in wealth, in the advancement of commercial and agricultural prosperity, in our ability to protect ourselves from both foreign and domestic enemies, but also in age, in permanency, a government "of the people, for the people, and by the people " can endure. The history of the world for the past two thousand years has been marked with the successive rise and fall of republics. Greece and Rome, Venice …

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How The Kansas-Nebraska Line Was Established, Hadley Johnson Jan 1887

How The Kansas-Nebraska Line Was Established, Hadley Johnson

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

When I received a letter from the President of your society, the Honorable Robert W. Furnas, asking me to so time a contemplated visit to Nebraska as to meet you on this occasion, although the visit had only been spoken of as likely to occur, but not positively decided on, my thoughts naturally reverted to the past; and indeed I have proved the saying to be true, at least in my own case, that in youth we are always looking forward to the future, while in old age our thoughts are more intent upon a review of the past. I …

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The Relation Of History To The Study And Practice Of Law, H. H. Wilson Jan 1887

The Relation Of History To The Study And Practice Of Law, H. H. Wilson

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

In this age of accumulated knowledge, he who would know anyone thing well must be content to remain ignorant of many others. In order to bring a limited area up to its highest state of productiveness the ordinary man must leave a vast region uncultivated. When one like Mill urges that there is time for all learning, the old as well as the new, it is well to remember that but few can bring to the task the leisure, and still fewer the mind, of a Mill. The question is ever being asked, "How can I best employ a few …

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Slavery In Nebraska, Edson P. Rich Jan 1887

Slavery In Nebraska, Edson P. Rich

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

It is curious and somewhat romantic to note, that this territory, which was for several years the battle ground of a constitutional struggle over the question of slavery, was, if we are to accept the theory so eloquently defended by Colonel Savage,* first pointed out to a modern race by one himself a bondsman; and that later, a patriotic slave, in order to save his own country from the ravages of the Spaniards. led them to this territory in search of the "seven cities of Cibola," in the land of Quivera. It had been the dream of the Spaniards to …

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The Ninth Annual Report Of The Fish Commission Of Nebraska 1887 Jan 1887

The Ninth Annual Report Of The Fish Commission Of Nebraska 1887

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Publications

No abstract provided.

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First White Child Born In Nebraska Jan 1885

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.

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Frontmatter And Contents Jan 1885

Frontmatter And Contents

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

No abstract provided.

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Joel T. Griffen, L. G. Egbert Jan 1885

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 …

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Constitution And By-Laws Jan 1885

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

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The Philosophy Of Emigration, J. M. Woolworth Jan 1885

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 …

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Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume I [Complete Volume] Jan 1885

Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume I [Complete Volume]

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

No abstract provided.

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Origin Of The Nebraska State Historical Society Jan 1885

Origin Of The Nebraska State Historical Society

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

The present historical society was organized at the time, date, and under circumstances as hereinafter indicated. Some thirty or more days prior to Sept. 25th, 1878, the following circular was signed and generally published in state papers.

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Letter Of S. F. Nuckolls Jan 1885

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, …

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Bishop Clarkson, Geo L. Miller Jan 1885

Bishop Clarkson, Geo L. Miller

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

The Rt. Rev. Robert H. Clarkson, Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska, died at his home on St. Mary's Avenue, Omaha, Monday, March 10, 1884.

The following biography of Bishop Clarkson was an editorial in the Omaha Herald, written by Dr. Geo. L. Miller, editor.

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Dr. Enos Lowe, W. W. Lowe Jan 1885

Dr. Enos Lowe, W. W. Lowe

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

DR, ENOS LOWE was born at Guilford Court House, North Carolina, May 5th, 1804. When he was about ten years of age his parents moved to the territory of Indiana, locating at the small settlement known as Bloomington, in Monroe county, the community being mostly composed of quakers, his parents being of that denomination. When a mere boy he began the study of medicine, and soon began the practice of the profession in the midst of the many vicissitudes and privations incident to anew, wild, and sparsely settled country. Little by little, however, he accumulated enough from his practice to …

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The Place Of History In Modern Education, G. E. Howard Jan 1885

The Place Of History In Modern Education, G. E. Howard

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

The following is• an abstract of an address delivered by. Prof. Howard at the opening of the winter term of the Nebraska University, at the time the Nebraska State Historical Society was in session, and by agreement before a joint session of the two organizations, to serve also as the annual address of the Historical Society.

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Autobiography Of Rev. William Hamilton, William Hamilton Jan 1885

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

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Gov. Samuel W. Black Jan 1885

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.

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S. S. Caldwell Jan 1885

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 …

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