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Historical And Political Science Association Of The University Of Nebraska, Geo. E. Howard Jan 1887

Historical And Political Science Association Of The University Of Nebraska, Geo. E. Howard

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

[A Communication from S. D. Cox, Secretary of the Association.]

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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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Early Fremont, E. H. Barnard Jan 1887

Early Fremont, E. H. Barnard

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

When in the early autumn of 1856, from the bluffs near Elkhorn City, my eye first beheld this portion of the great Platte valley, I thought I had never seen so goodly a landscape. For many miles the windings of the Elkhorn and Platte rivers were outlined by a fringe of timber, bounding the valley on either side, while the meanderings of the now classic Rawhide were as distinctly traceable by an occasional tree and clump of bushes. The sight filled me with rapture and made the blood fairly bound in my veins. In all my life I had never …

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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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Biographical Notices Of Henry Martyn Atkinson, J. L. Mitchell, Thomas B. Edwards, Sterling Perry Majors, William D. Gage, Harrison Johnson, Geo. B. Graff, Frank J. North, Maria Tiernan Murphy, Antoine Barada, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hawke, And Peter Hugus Jan 1887

Biographical Notices Of Henry Martyn Atkinson, J. L. Mitchell, Thomas B. Edwards, Sterling Perry Majors, William D. Gage, Harrison Johnson, Geo. B. Graff, Frank J. North, Maria Tiernan Murphy, Antoine Barada, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hawke, And Peter Hugus

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

Approximately 1 page each, these are unsigned, except for the final one (Peter Hugus), which is by Robt. W. Patrick.

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The Discovery Of Gold In Colorado, J. Sterling Morton Jan 1887

The Discovery Of Gold In Colorado, J. Sterling Morton

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

Since replying to your letter this A.M., in looking over a daily journal for 1859, I find recorded on the 5th day of January of that year the advent to Omaha from the Rocky mountains, of AI. Steinberger and Colonel Wynkoop, bringing the first gold from Cherry creek placers, where Denver now stands. The precious metal was in goose quills. The feather end had been cut off below the pith, right where the hollow trunk begins, and into this delicate, translucent receptacle the scale gold had been poured. There were not to exceed six quills full altogether, but there were …

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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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Index To Transactions And Reports Of The Nhs, Volume Ii Jan 1887

Index To Transactions And Reports Of The Nhs, Volume Ii

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

Index

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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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Sketch Of The First Congregational Church In Fremont, Nebraska, I. E. Heaton Jan 1887

Sketch Of The First Congregational Church In Fremont, Nebraska, I. E. Heaton

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

October 28,1856, I arrived in Fremont. Sabbath, November 2, I preached the first sermon in this vicinity. This was at the house of Seth Marvin, a mile and a half west of Fremont. No house in Fremont was sufficiently finished to contain an assembly of twenty-five. The next Sabbath we commenced a service in Fremont in the house of Robert Kittle (in a little shanty just south of the knoll on Military Avenue on which E. Abbott's house now stands). From that time Sabbath services were continued with special exceptions.

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Notes On The Early Military History Of Nebraska, Edgar S. Dudley Jan 1887

Notes On The Early Military History Of Nebraska, Edgar S. Dudley

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

At the request of the secretary of the State Historical Society, Prof. Geo. E. Howard, I undertook recently to look up the military history of the state, hoping and expecting to find in the records of the state department, and especially in the adjutant general's office, all necessary data and information. But upon examination I find that, through lack .of appropriation for its proper maintenance, and for the care of the records, etc., it fails to supply what I expected, and any effort to obtain information as to the special service of Nebraska's citizens in the late war, beyond what …

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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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On The Establishment Of An Aboreal Bureau, J. Sterling Morton Jan 1887

On The Establishment Of An Aboreal Bureau, J. Sterling Morton

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

[A letter of Hon. J. Sterling Morton to Secretary Howard, Jan. 5, 1886.]

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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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Anecdotes Relating To "White Cow" Or "White Buffalo", R. W. Furnas Jan 1885

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 …

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Amelia Fontenelle Lockett Jan 1885

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.

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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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Indian Names Of Streams And Localities, Henry Fontenelle Jan 1885

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.

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Historical Recollections In And About Otoe County Jan 1885

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.

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