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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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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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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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Historical Letters From Father De Smet, Father De Smet Jan 1885

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.

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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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Gold At Pike’S Peak – Rush For – Stampede, A. L. Child Jan 1885

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 …

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Charles Powell Jan 1885

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. …

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Mrs. Caroline Joy Morton Jan 1885

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 …

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First Female Suffragist Movement In Nebraska, Amelia Bloomer Jan 1885

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.

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Notes Relating To Fontenelle Family, A. L. Thompson Jan 1885

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.

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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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Some Historical Data About Washington County, W. H. Woods Jan 1885

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.

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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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Relic In Possession Of The Society Jan 1885

Relic In Possession Of The Society

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

A list of the valuable relics the Society possesses.

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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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Elder J. M. Young Jan 1885

Elder J. M. Young

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

Elder J.M. Young was really the founder of the city of Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska. He was born in Genesee county, New York, near Batavia, on the old Holland purchase, on November 25, 1806. In 1829, he married Alice Watson, at that time eighteen years of age, and who now survives him at the age of seventy-four. The following year he moved to Ohio and from Ohio he went to Page county, Iowa, in 1859. In 1860 he came to Nebraska and settled at Nebraska City. In 1863, near the end of the year, he came t Salt Creek …

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Index Jan 1885

Index

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

No abstract provided.

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