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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 …

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 …

Rev. Alvin G. White

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

REV. ALVIN G. WHITE died at Lincoln, Nebraska, ........., 1884. He was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, June 18, 1833. He early in life moved to New Hampshire, and was called at that time into the ministry. He was licensed as a local preacher in 1853, while in the Wesleyan University. On account of failing health he was not able to finish the college course. He moved to Illinois in 1855, and taught school for two years. In 1857 he joined the Rock River conference, and during the year was married in 1843 to Miss Ella Thompson. In 1858 he transferred …

The Organic Act

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

An act to aid and encourage the “Nebraska State Historical Society.”

Moses Stocking

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

MOSES STOCKING, of Saunders county, Nebraska, died at his residence, Friday, Sept. 30th, 1881, of paralysis. His wife, all his sons and daughters, except Mrs. White, Oregon, and Mrs. Bosworth, Colorado, were at his bedside.

The following autobiography was written by him, at the request of Geo. S. Harris, Land Commissioner B. & M. R. R.

Mrs. Mary T. Mason, Wife Of Judge O.P. Mason

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

She was born in New Hampshire, in 1836. Her maiden name was Mary I. Turner. She and Mr. Mason were married in Madison county, New York, 1854. They came to Nebraska in February, 1856, locating at Nebraska City, Otoe county. She died at same place, May 15th, 1874, aged 38 years; leaving four children, aged at that time, Jessie, 14; Grace, 10; Alice, 5; Bessie, 3. June, 1882, Jessie Mason and F. L. Harris were married, and located at Ord, Valley county, Nebraska.

Hon. John Taffe

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

HON. JOHN TAFFE died at North Platte, Nebraska, March 14, 1884, aged 57 years. He was a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was born Jan. 30, 1827. He received an academic education, and after a diligent study of the law was admitted to the bar in the city of his birth.

John Mccormick

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

JOHN MCCORMICK died at Omaha, June 2d, 1884; he was born on the 12th of September, 1822, at Johnstown, Westmoreland county, Penn. At an early age he was taken with his family to Cadiz, Ohio, and in 1856 removed to this city, engaging in the land and banking business. During the panic of '57 his business was injured, and in '59 he became the head of the grocery house which for a long time bore his name. He remained in business till 1869, when he engaged in grain, with which he had been identified up to his death. He built …

Dr. Gilbert C. Monell And Hon. Phineas W. Hitchcock, G. M. Hitchcock

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

The biographies of these two old and prominent citizens were written by Mr. G. M. Hitchcock, grandson of Dr. Monell, and son of Mr. Hitchcock.

DR. GILBERT C. MONELL was born Oct. 20th, 1816, in Montgomery, Orange county, N. Y., and was his parents' second son. As his father could afford to do so in but one case, the elder brother was alone accorded a college education, and the subject of this sketch was thrown upon his own resources at an early age with a fair common school education. He, however, at once made the resolve to acquire himself what …

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 …

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 …

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.

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

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.

The Otterbein Record January 1885, Archives

Otterbein Record

Volume 5, Number 5

Catalogue Of The Trustees, Professors, And Students Of Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia: Session Of 1885-86

Jefferson Medical College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Goodnight My Child, Franz Abt., G. Schirmer

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.439 – “Goodnight My Child”: Abt, Franz: G. Schirmer: New York: Minstrel, Ballad, Domestic: 1885: Soprano Solo Voice.

General U. S. Grant’S Victory March, J. B. Denning, J. D. Barnitz

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.403 – “General U. S. Grant’s Victory March”: J. B. Denning: J. D. Barnitz: 1885: Piano Solo.

Marching Through Georgia, Henry C. Work, S. Brainard's Sons Co.

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.758 – “Marching Through Georgia”: Henry C. Work: S. Brainard’s Sons: 1885: SATB.

Ah Tell Me Why, Mme. Rothschild, C. Renney, Oliver Ditson

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

Ah Tell Me Why: Composer Mme. Rothschild/ Lyrics by Renney, C.: Oliver Ditson: Boston: Minstrel: c.a. 1885: solo voice.

The publishing date is estimated to be 1885.

Volume 1, Number 6, January, 1885, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Dido, Ein Trauerspiel (Drama, 1885), Charlotte Von Stein

Drama and Film

No abstract provided.

Saul, Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie

Drama and Film

No abstract provided.

The Rising Sun Stove Polish.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

This little brochure is an amusing take on the "before and after" advertising theme applied to a product for scouring and blacking cast iron stoves. In the first illustration, the lady of the house has worked all day to clean her stove with an inferior product (no better than "mud) with poor result, and she takes out her frustration on her man, who has arrived home expecting a good dinner. The table is bare. "Look yere, old man! What kind o' stove blacking you call dat? Ise been rubbin' on dat stove all morning' an' it don't gib it a …

Deutsche Dichterinnen Und Schriftstellerinnen In Böhmen, Mähren Und Schlesien, Karl Weiss

Prose Nonfiction

No abstract provided.

Schriften Der Goethe-Gesellschaft (1. Band) - Briefe Von Goethes Mutter, Catharina Elisabetha Goethe

Prose Nonfiction

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 30, 1885 - May 18, 1886, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

He Told Me So / Music By J. W. Schoff; Words By Emily T. Charles, J. W. Schoff, Emily T. Charles, John F. Ellis And Co. (Washington D.C.)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

Cover: text reads Dedicated to Miss Katie N. Scott; Publisher: John F. Ellis and Co. (Washington D.C.)

Articles In Regional Newspapers, Various Newspapers

Rowan County War Collection

Articles in various newspapers in Kentucky on the Rowan County War from 1885 to 1888.