NEBRASKA HISTORY AND RECORD OF PIONEER DAYS VOL I, NO. 5, SEP 1918 Transcribed from a copy of the original publication by the submitters. Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives, January, 1998, by Ted and Carole Miller (susieque@pacbell.net). USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for presentation in any form by any other organization or individual. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. *************** NEBRASKA HISTORY AND RECORD OF PIONEER DAYS Vol. I, no. 5, Sep. 1918 (Original had no Table of Contents) Logan Fontenelle, Tribal Relations of (Chief of Omaha Indians) 1 Indian Fight on the Little Blue (7 August 1864 at Oak Grove Station, Nuckolls Co.) 1-2 First Settlements in the Republican Valley (settlement date, excerpts from diary) 2 Newspaper Department, Reorganization of the 2 Ft. Calhoun, Notable Collection from (collection of W. H. Woods) 2 French In NE (earliest settlers) 2 Letters & announcements: 2 Nebraska Reminiscences, Oregon Promises from Geo. H. Himes 2 Gen. J. H. Culver plans military history of Troop A. N. N. G., and Troop K, Third U. S. Vol. Cavalry in the 2 Spanish-American war. About Aspinwall, by R. S. Schofield of Shickley 2 Dedication of the monument at Oak Grove, by Mrs. Eva M. Follmer, of Oak Grove, NE 2 Articles being written about Nemaha Co. by J. M. Burress 2 The Boone County Old Settlers Association Mtg held 16 Aug at Albion 2 Comments of members regarding last issue 2 Membership (alphabetical list) 3-4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEBRASKA HISTORY deposed. She told me some more but AND RECORD OF PIONEER DAYS I did not take notes, thinking to ------------------------------------ go up there this summer. Published Monthly by the Nebraska "I am writing you this as you may State Historical Society possibly want to arrange to see ------------------------------------ Mrs. Henry, Sr., while here. You Editor, ADDISON E. SHELDON may not have another chance. She Associate Editors returns to Oklahoma in the late The Staffs of the Nebraska State fall. I doubt if she gets up here Historical Society and again. Legislative Reference Bureau ------------------------------------ Very truly yours, Subscription $2.00 Per Year (Mrs.) Harriet S. q All sustaining members of the MacMurphy. Nebraska State Historical Society receive Nebraska The newspaper story referred to History without further payment. by Mrs. MacMurphy follows: q Entered as second class matter, "Eugene Fontenelle and his under act of July 16, 1894 at mother, Mrs. Henry Fontenelle, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 2, 1918. motored down from Decatur the first ------------------------------------ of the week and are spending some VOLUME time with Otis Allis of Council I. SEPTEMBER, 1918 NUMBER 5 Bluffs. Mr. Allis is a son of ------------------------------------ William Allis one or the early ANNOUNCEMENT missionaries at Bellevue, in whose home Mrs. Fontenelle lived much of The June, July and August the time after the death of her numbers of the Nebraska History father, Louis Pappan, while she was have been omitted. The publication obtaining her education in the has been effected by the war mission school. Mrs. Fontenelle activities, and we ask the says she must do two things this consideration of readers on this summer while she is still able - account. visit her old-time friends, the ------- Allis's and make a trip to the THE TRIBAL RELATION OF LOGAN graves of Logan and Lucian FONTENELLE. Fontenelle, brother and father of The following letter and her husband. These graves lay side newspaper clipping deal in an by side on the brow of the wooded interesting way with persons bluffs near Bellevue, and Mrs. intimately connected with the early Fontenelle, who with her husband, history of Nebraska. The letter is Henry Fontenelle, was living in addressed to the historian of the Logan's house when his body was Historical Society and the clipping brought back from the hunt in which is from the Omaha World-Herald. he was massacred by the Sioux, is "Some time ago Mrs. Mary now almost the only person living Mitchell, Omaha Indian interpreter, who was present when Logan was visited me here (at Omaha) and buried. The event occurred a few showed me a letter which you had months after her wedding, and her written to Mrs. Henry Fontenelle in recollection of the places and all regard to some article you were that occurred is still vivid, getting out touching the right of although she has reached her Logan Fontenelle to be called chief eightieth year. Her two grandsons, of the Omaha. Henry and Cecil, are at Camp "She explained that Mrs. Henry Funston, having gone with the first Fontenelle, Sr., was in Pawnee, reserves." Oklahoma, and this letter was The article referred to by Mrs. delivered to Mrs. Henry Fontenelle, MacMurphy is a discussion of the Jr., who is Mary Mitchell's much mooted question whether Logan daughter and the wife of Eugene Fontenelle was a legitimate chief Fontenelle's son. She asked me to of the Omaha, by Melvin R. Gilmore, write you about it, and I am sorry curator of the State Historical that I have been so slow about Society of North Dakota. Dr. doing so. Gilmore's paper is printed in the "Mrs. Henry Fontenelle, Sr., forthcoming volume XIX of the came up through here to Decatur two publications of the Nebraska State or three months ago, and has now Historical Society. The editor of come down here for two duties, as the volume, in the letter adverted the enclosed story will show. She to, requested Mrs. Henry Fontenelle will be over to Council Bluffs to state the case for Logan probably the remainder of the week Fontenelle as she understands it, and then will come over here and but she neglected to do so in time with me and Mr. Glider and Mr. for full presentation with Dr. Scott, photographer, will visit the Gilmore's discussion. It should be graves; Eugene going also. She is said that Dr. Gilmore has made a getting quite feeble physically, careful and scholarly investigation but retains her mental faculties of his subject. Dr. Gilmore's remarkably. contention that according to the "I questioned Mary Mitchell, constitution or fundamental law of after reading your letter, and she the tribe descent through the male has the clearest idea of any one I line was essential to chieftainship have talked with about the is strongly adduced and supported. conditions of the time of Logan, Mrs. MacMurphy's statement that gained from the very few old people the mother of Chief Joseph still alive. I very much wish LaFlesche was a Pawnee appears to someone could go with me to be erroneous: she was of the Omaha Decatur, and gather the few things tribe. (See Twenty-seventh Annual that can be gathered from the few Report of the Bureau of American old ones still living. Ethnology, page C31.) The Christian "One thing they all agree in. name of Mr. Allis was Samuel, not Logan Fontenelle did not have to be William as printed in the newspaper adopted by the tribe. He was a clipping. member at the tribe through his ------- mother. a full blood Indian. The THE INDIAN FIGHT ON THE LITTLE tribal membership came as much BLUE. through the women as the men. You Some more details of, the have got that idea because Joe La running fight with the Indians on Flesche had to be adopted, his the Little Blue are given by John mother beiing [sic] a Pawnee. He Gilbert. overland stage driver, who was adopted by Big Elk to take the with Robert Emery occupied the box place of Big Elk's feeble son. It on the stage that day - August 7, seems that Big Elk was a relative 1864. To refresh the memory of the of Fontenelle's, too, but I cannot reader it is well to say that the remember just how. stage had left the Constable wagon "Mary Mitchell states that she train in the rear and was pressing has learned that White Elk, a on toward Oak Grove station when brother of Big Elk, should have the Indians were encountered. At been chief instead of LaFlesche, about the same time the station was and that No-Knife, son of White under siege. The story of the race Elk, was made chief after LaFlesche is told at length in volume XIX of was the Society's publications. Mr. Gilbert writes from Red Cloud about the experience of his party on the stage coach: "We all saw the Indians about the same time. They were not ahead of us; they were south of its and we were going west. They were behind a short bend in the spring branch which was South of us about 200 yards. "I think somebody asked what we would do, and I proposed that we go back to Constable's train. It was then suggested by one of the passengers that a vote be taken and everybody voted to go back. The driver, Robert Emery, then turned the team around. The Indians had not seen us until we started back on the trot when they heard the coach rattle. The Indians were looking for the coach to come down into the bottom on the traveled road, and when they saw it they gave an unearthly yell. They started to cut us off from the traveled track but missed it, as the horses were running downhill. After we got back into the traveled road some of them to the south of us were not over 50 yards off. "There was a place, it was what we called a draw, where he would have had to check up if we had crossed it where the travel did. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days ------------------------------------------------------------------------ But as the passengers were shooting A NOTABLE COLLECTION FROM FT. out of the doors, as were some of CALHOUN. us from the top of the coach, I E. E. Blackman, curator of the directed Emery to cross the draw Nebraska State Historical Society, farther north as there was an old has just returned from a visit to track that went straight across the Ft. Calhoun. He packed three large draw where it was not deep. Where boxes of material gathered by W. H. the travel crossed the draw it went Woods from the site of the old straight east and turned south in fort, and this, in connection with the bottom of the draw and then the material already in the museum, turned east again to get out. To will form a complete museum study make the turns, going as we were, of this early military post. would have tipped us over, and if This is the most valuable we had checked our speed the collection added to the museum this Indiana would have caught up with year and when properly mounted, us. There were only about eight or labeled and displayed, will be well ten Indians that could go as fast worth a careful study. as we were going. Some years ago, Mr. Woods came "The three men in the coach were to live in the village of Ft. armed with pistols. They did Calhoun and being historically considerable shooting at times. The inclined he began to investigate only effect from the shooting that the past history of his locality. I could see was that it made the He has continued the good worrk Indians swing farther away. [sic], until today the life and "I think the Indians all had death story of this interesting bows and arrows. Those that came spot is well authenticated. close to the coach had pistols or Mr. Woods has not only searched guns and carried lances. That was the records of Ft. Calhoun, but he the only bunch that had lances that has searched the site of the old I noticed. When we first saw them, fort and gathered many relics from before we turned around to go back, the historic ground. From time to they looked awful naked sitting on time Mr. Woods has sent curios to their ponies, their lances the Nebraska State Historical glistening in the sun. Society front this fort, but he "The Indians followed the coach also retained many of the road within about a quarter of a interesting things found there, mile from the wagon train where until his home became quite a they pulled off south to the timber museum where visitors enjoyed his of the Little Blue. hospitality and interesting stories "Mr. Constable and I had a about the old fort. little trouble of our own in regard ------- to letting the coach go by. His THE FRENCH IN NEBRASKA. train had stopped at the first The earliest white explorers of sight of the Indians chasing the "The Nebraska Country" were coach. The train had stopped as Frenchmen who first come about the they were going from low bottom to year 1700, via the Missouri River. high bottom or bench land. Now as I They intermarried with Nebraska had bossed the movements of the Indians and many of the descendants coach on all that trip, I naturally from these marriages are still wanted to continue to control the living. The pioneer Frenchmen gave movements of the coach. So just as their names to many streams and soon as the horses got their wind I trading posts, and they served as commanded the front driver to crowd guides to the first American his team. six yoke, over so the expeditions, under Lewis and Clark, coach could go by. He was looking Fremont and others. There are five at the Indians and did not answer or six, and perhaps more, French me. I spoke louder so everybody settlements in the state at the heard it. Mr. Constable was there present time which deserve special sitting on his horse and so were attention. The French element in all of the wagon bosses and extra the population of Nebraska is not hands in the four or five trains. large - 5,178 by the census of Instead of asking me what was 1910. These citizens of French wanted he spoke very important and origin are intensely loyal to said he was running that train, and American institutions, and just a few words passed between us. By now, when everything about France that time the women and passengers is of special interest, the story all understood what was going on of the French in Nebraska will and objected to leaving the train. doubtless be read with pleasure and My intention was to go on down the profit. This subject will receive road, which I still think would further attention in future have been all right, as the Indians publications of the Historical did not go as far east as Kiowa Society. that day, but followed the train ------- west. After the Indians left, the OREGON PROMISES NEBRASKA train drove up the Blue River to REMINISCENCES. Little Blue Station and stopped for George H. Himes, assistant dinner at about 2 p. m. The cattle secretary of the Oregon Historical were turned across the river to Society, writes: graze. There were twenty wagons "Nos. 3-4, April-May, 1918, of loaded with liquor, four mules to a 'Nebraska History and Record of wagon. The mules were turned out on Pioneer Days,' received, but badly the north side of the river close mutilated in the mails This a much by. The stagecoach followed the regretted because the useful train up to Little Blue Station publication deserves permanent with the passengers and everybody filing. Therefore, if agreeable to that was on or in the coach. you, I would like another copy. Speaking about this, right in the "I came through what is now old History of Nebraska, the women Nebraska before there was a house on the coach never got out of the in Omaha. I remember very well, coach when we got back to indeed, when I had to rustle 'right Constable's train. They objected smart' to get 'buffalo chips' for awful strong against leaving the fuel. train." "By and by, possibly, I might ------- drop you a few reminiscences, if FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN THE REPUBLICAN you think it worth while. I crossed VALLEY. the plains from Illinois in 1853." Dear Editor: - In the April-May ------- issue reference is made to the Gen. J. H. Culver writes from establishing by Royal Buck of the Milford that he hopes soon to be first colony in Red Willow county, able to furnish a brief history of in 1872. He was the president of Troop A. N. N. G., and Troop K, the Republican Valley Land Co., Third U. S. Vol. Cavalry in the organized in Nebraska City in the Spanish-American war. He says that fall of 1871, and with a party of this is the only military ten men was sent to the Republican organization from Seward county valley, and arrived at what to now that has served in any war and Red Willow county on November 20, about three hundred young men of 1871. The party was there about a Seward county served in this week, locating a town site and organization during its existence. claims, and returned to Nebraska Gen. Culver says also that Troop A City, arriving on December 9, 1871. marched over a thousand miles, The land on which the town site participated in twelve state and claims were located had just encampments, and represented in its been surveyed, and the plats had membership nearly every part of not, been made in the surveyor Seward county, notably Beaver general's office. So there was a Crossing, Pleasant Dale, Tamora, special plat made for the party, Utica, Staplehurst, Goehner, which was taken to Beatrice, and Milford, besides a small squad from filings were made. This was about Seward. January 1, 1872. ------- 1 was one of the party, and can A breezy letter is received from see no reason why the initial R. S. Schofield of Shickley, who settlement was not made in thinks the story of early days at November, 1871. There were some Aspinwall might be made more partisan county seat feelings which complete if the old settlers would might have something to do with the tell all they know. One of the dates of that period. incidents in the career of the town that he recalls is that there was a John Longnecker, ferry cable stretched across the Indianola, Nebr. river, and a government boat ran into it, knocked the cabin off and In Royal Buck's diary of the killed the pilot. If the stories expedition it appears that there could all be told, the early towns were nine persons in the party; would furnish histories of many that on the night of November 20 it tragedies and romances. camped on the west bank of Medicine ------- Creek some distance east of the Writing about the dedication of boundary between the counties of the monument at Oak Grove, Mrs. Eva Furnas and Red Willow which was M. Follmer, of Oak Grove, Nebr., established about a year later; says that the interest and that they reached Red Willow Creek enjoyment of the occasion would on the 22d: chose the site for the have been complete if Mr. Follmer proposed town of Red Willow on the could have lived to be there. He 25th; and started homeward on the had done so much work in promoting 29th. A comprehensive account of the establishment of the monument "The Beginning of Red Willow and in preserving the history of County" is printed in volume XIX of the early events of that locality, the publications of the Historical that it was the uppermost thought Society, which will soon be issued. in his mind during the last two ------- years of his life. REORGANIZATION OF THE NEWSPAPER ------- DEPARTMENT. J. M. Burress, of Nemaha county, About the year 1891 the in sending remittance for Historical Society began a membership dues, writes an systematic collection of Nebraska interesting letter about historical newspapers and other periodicals. affairs of his county. He settled This collection has been increased in the county April 1, 1856, and from year to year, and it now has prepared some articles relating comprises about five hundred to freighting days and the early distinct periodicals, which are settlement of Nemaha county. He is preserved and bound each your. This now president of the Nemaha County library of Nebraska history long Historical Society. ago outgrew the original space ------- provided for it and the plan for The Boone County Old Settlers classifying and indexing. Several Association held its annual meeting thousand volumes of these files and picnic at the Boone county fair have been placed in the Society's grounds, Albion. August 16. store room at Sixteenth and H Congressman Sloan was the principal streets. They were so crowded in speaker. The Call for the meeting the space spared for them at the was made by Garrett Van Camp, vice rooms of the Society that it was president, and F. M. Weitzel, very difficult conveniently to find secretary. particular volumes as they were ------- called for. A complete S. E. Pearson, cashier of the rearrangement of these flies has Bank of Monroe, in sending been made lately by Mr. E. E. remittance, writes that he is "glad Blackman and Miss Martha M. Turner to have the opportunity to become of the Society's staff. Each volume one of the members of the Nebraska has been labeled and placed in State Historical Society." alphabetical order, and a list of ------- all newspapers and other William A. Wolfe writes from periodicals in the collection and a Beatrice: "A wonderful lot of good diagram of the shelves have been reading in the April and May issue. made. Extravagantly rich is the least I There are now over ten thousand can comment on the good stories." bound volumes in the collection. ------- Before long a pamphlet list of the Writing from Omaha, Mrs. Harriet files will be published and S. MacMurphy says: "Very much distributed to the public. Letters interested in, your magazine, and asking for information contained in glad to have a little share." old newspapers are frequently received. The Historical Society affords the safest and most useful depository for early Nebraska newspapers, and it desires to procure all that are avallable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nebraska State Historical Society Membership Following is a list of the sustaining members of the Nebraska State Historical Society for the year 1918, corrected up to September 1. The list serves as a receipt to paying members, and notice of our growing membership. Have your neighbors interested in Nebraska history, add their names. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ahl, Henry, Louisville, DeFrance, Charles Q., Holmes, George W., Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Allen, J. P., Trenton, Devoe, Robert W., Holt, John A., Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Johnstown, Nebr. Allen. Thomas S., Dixon, Ephraim W., Honnold, A. R., Lincoln, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Scottsbluff, Nebr. Allen, William I., Dodge Nathan P., Jr., Howard, Henry, Elk Schuyler, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Creek, Nebr. Allen, William V., Dort, Edward H., Howard, Titus J., Madison, Nebr. Auburn, Nebr. Greeley, Nebr. Anderson, Charles B., Douglas, Judson B., Howarth, Walter, Crete, Nebr. Tecumseh, Nebr. Exeter. Nebr. Angle, Edward J., Dryden, John N., Howe. Herbert R., Lincoln, Nebr. Kearney, Nebr. Auburn, Nebr. Anthony, Theodore A., Duff, Mrs. Mary A., Howell, Robert B., Wausa, Nebr. Nebraska City, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Atzen, Charles B.. Duffield, Eleanor, Humpe, John H., Omaha, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Auld, James W., Red Dungan, Harry S., Cloud, Nebr. Hastings, Nebr. Jacoby, Iretus W., Ault, Mrs. Charles H., Dunn, Lee J., Lincoln, Havelock, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Nebr. Jacques, Fred A., Dunn, Nell H., Alexandria, Nebr. Bailey, Benjamin F., Hastings, Nebr. Jensen, Louis. Lincoln, Nebr. Durland, A. J., Lincoln, Nebr. Bain, James R., Snohomish, Wash. Jansen, Peter, Lincoln, Nebr. Beatrice, Nebr. Barns, C. G., Albion. Eberly, George A., Johnson, Erick, Nebr. Stanton, Nebr. Hastings, Nebr. Bartling, Frank A., Edwards, Lee W., Omaha, Johnson, Franklin E., Nebraska City, Nebr. Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Beattie, James A., Evans, Isaiah D., Johnson, Harry A., Lincoln, Nebr. Kenesaw, Nebr. Greenwood, Nebr. Belden Charles C., Evans, Robert E., Johnson, Sven 0., Omaha, Nebr. Dakota City, Nebr. Wahoo, Nebr. Bengtson, Nels A., Judson, F. W., Omaha, Lincoln, Nebr. Farley, William I., Nebr. Bentley, Samuel N., Aurora, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Faulkner, Albert 0., Kearney Commercial Berge, Louis A., Lincoln, Nebr. Club, Kearney, Nebr. Walton, Nebr. Ferguson, William H., Kearney State Normal, Bischof, Arthur A.. Lincoln, Nebr. Kearney, Nebr. Nebraska City, Nebr. Fleming, Walter, Morse Keefe, Harry L., Bixby, Ammi L., Bluff, Nebr. Walthill, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Free Public Library, Kees, John F., Filley, Blakely, C. C., Purdum, Beatrice, Nebr. Nebr. Nebr. Frees, Benjamin M., San Keifer, J. Warren, Boisseau, 0. G.. Diego, Calif. Jr., Bostwick, Nebr. Holden, Mo. Folda, Emil, Clarkson, Kelly, John H., Bosse, William H., Nebr. Gothenburg, Nebr. Meadow Grove, Nebr. Folsom, Morris W., Kennedy, James A. C., Bourke, Daniel, Manley, Lincoln, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Nebr. Furnas, Mrs. Robert W., Kennedy. John L., Boyd, Howard M., Lincoln, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Auburn, Nebr. Keriakedes, Alexander, Boyd, Robert C., Gilbert, John W., Lincoln, Nebr. Auburn, Nebr. Friend, Nebr. Keyes, Albert M., Bressler, John T., Gaines, Elbert P., Holbrook, Nebr. Wayne, Nebr. Ansley, Nebr. King, Milo D., Minden, Brewer, Luther A., Gooch, Herbert H., Nebr. Ceder Rapids, IL. Lincoln, Nebr. Kingsley, Mrs. Anna M. Boos, O. J.. Blue Hill, Goodrich, Leonard W., B., Minden, Nebr. Nebr. Fairbury, Nebr. Kinkaid, Moses P., Brogan, Francis A., Goudy, Mrs. Alice E. O'Neill, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. D., Peru, Nebr. Kloke, Robert F., Brown, Adoniram J., Grainger, Harry B., Omaha, Nebr. Geneva, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Knapp, Frank B., Brown, Elmer W., Gray, George H., Fremont, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Central City, Nebr. Knore, Frank W., Brown, Clinton M., Green, Albert L., Lincoln, Nebr. Cambridge, Nebr. Beatrice, Nebr. Koenig, E. L., Bros, Jan Stepan. Green, Joseph F.. Milford, Nebr. Schuyler, Nebr. Creighton, Nebr. Kostka, Bruno 0., Bruner, Lawrence, Green, Richard A., Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. McCook, Nebr. Krug, Frederick, Bryan, WIlliam J., Griess, Theodore, Omaha, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Harvard, Nebr. Krumbach, Anna, Buell, George E., Guenzel, Carl J., Shelby, Nebr. Murdock, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Buck, S. H., Otoe, Gund, Henry, Lincoln, Ladd, Charles F., Nebr. Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Burgess, Ward M., LaMere, Oliver, Omaha, Nebr. Hall, Mrs. Frank M., Winnebago, Nebr. Burket, Homer K., Lincoln, Nebr. Larned, William H., Lincoln, Nebr. Hall, Philip L., Haigler, Nebr. Burnham Charles E., Lincoln, Nebr. Leach, Adoniram J., Norfolk, Nebr. Hall, Harry J., Oakdale, Nebr. Burress, James M., Lincoln, Nebr. Learned, Myron L., Auburn, Nebr. Hall, Thomas L., Omaha, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Lee, Henry J., Caldwell, R. E., Haller, Frank L., Fremont, Nebr. Swanton, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Leonard, William M., Caldwell, Howard W., Hamilton, Frank T., Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Letton, Charles B., Canaday, Joseph S., Hanson, Edwin A., Lincoln, Nebr. Minden, Nebr. Decatur, Nebr. Lincoln City Library, Carpenter, Issac W., Hanson, James F., Lincoln, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Fremont, Nebr. Lind, Herman, Malmo, Cassell, Job W., Hardy, William E., Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Linkhart, Joseph W., Cattle. Blanche E., Harlan, William S., Coleridge, Nebr. Seward, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Loomis, George L., Claridge, Frederick H., Harm, William H., Fremont, Nebr. Blair, Nebr. Bloomfield, Nebr. Lowman, William M., Clark, Victor F., Harmon, Mrs. Mary S. Hastings, Nebr. Beatrice, Nebr. K., Avoca, Nebr. Lute, Harry D., Clarke, Alonzo L., Harnsberger, William Paxton, Nebr. Hastings, Nebr. A., Ashland, Nebr. Lydia Brunn Woods Clarke, Frederick W., Harpham, Charles F., Memorial Library, Omaha, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Falls City, Nebr. Colson, Burnell, Harpham, Julius C., Fremont, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. McClay, John H., Congdon. Isaac E., Harrison, Frank A., Lincoln, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. McPheely, John L., Cordeal, John F., Harrison, Willard A., Minden., Nebr. McCook, Nebr. York, Nebr. McGilton, Edmund G., Cornell, Charles H.. Hart, Charles K., Omaha, Nebr. Valentine, Nebr. Prosser, Nebr. McGinitie, Hugh L., Cowlin, John C., Omaha, Harvey, Robert, Neligh, Nebr. Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. McGiverin. Mrs. Rose Cozad, Lewis E., Haskell, John D., S., Fremont, Nebr. Malcolm, Nebr. Wakefield, Nebr. McHugh, William D., Cropsey, Daniel B., Hastings, Benjamin F., Omaha, Nebr. Fairbury, Nebr. Grant, Nebr. Maiben, Alvin R., Cross, George, Hastings, George H., College View, Nebr. Fairbury, Nebr. Crete, Nebr. Mason, H. E., Meadow Culver, Jacob H., Hawxby, Fred G., Grove, Nebr. Milford, Nebr. Auburn, Nebr. Maher, John G., Herpolshetmer, Henry, Lincoln, Nebr. Dalbey, Dwight S., Lincoln, Nebr. Marsh, William W., Beatrice, Nebr. Herzog, George A., Omaha, Nebr. Dalbey, Virginia Lewis, Harvard, Nebr. Mellor, William R., Beatrice, Nebr. Hildreth, Carson, Lincoln, Nebr. David City Public Lincoln, Nebr. Menck, Car) H., Grand Library, David City, Hinds, Charles N., Island, Nebr. Nebr. Odell, Nebr. Mickey, Oliver, Davis, Horace M., Ord, Hodgkin, Walter K., Osceola, Nebr. Nebr. O'Neill, Nebr. Miller, Ann W., Davy. Charles H., Hohl, John C., Prague, Culbertson, Nebr. Oconto, Nebr. Nebr. Miller, Emma R., West Dawes, James W., Holland, George W., Point, Nebr. Independence, Mo. Falls City, Nebr. Hollebaugh, Charles C., Kansas City, Mo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nebraska State Historical Society Membership (CONTINUED) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Miller, Francis A., Sedgwick, Samuel H., Wolfe, William A., Beatrice, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Beatrice, Nebr. Miner, Isaac W., Omaha, Shiro, Eli. Lincoln, Wood. James V., Nebr. Nebr. University Place. Miner. Josiah, Friend, Siekmann, August E., Nebr. Nebr. Aurora, Nebr. Wooster, Charles, Moore, John H., Skolil, Edward F., Silver Creek, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Comstock, Nebr. Wright, Charles R., Moore, Robert E., Sloan, Charles H., Genoa, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Geneva, Nebr. Wyckoff, W. W., York, Morgan, Alpha, Broken Smith, Charles A., Nebr. Bow. Nebr. Tilden, Nebr. Yates, Henry W., Jr., Morgan, Byron L., Smith, Ezra H., York, Omaha, Nebr. Fremont, Nebr. Nebr. Yont, Edwin C., Brock, Morsman, Edgar M., Smith, George F., Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Waterbury, Nebr. ----- Mullen, Arthur F., Smith, George 0., Jr., NEW MEMBERS Omaha, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. The new members are as Munroe, John A., Omaha, Smrha, Charles, follows: Nebr. Milligan, Nebr. Murray, Thomas, Dunbar, Snell, Novia Z., Buckley, Frank E., Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Snipes, James J., Lanigan, Thomas W., Neill, David W., Pawnee Lincoln, Nebr. Greeley, Nebr. City, Nebr. Spanogle, Mark, Vance, Mark E., Newberry Library, Bridgeport, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Chicago, Ill. Spealman, John F., Vanes, Mrs. Mark E., Newlin, John H., Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Harrison, Nebr. Squires, Edwin E., Melia, P. J., Gretna, Norfolk Public Library, Broken Bow, Nebr. Nebr. Norfolk, Nebr. Stanosheck, Thomas W., Rosicky, Miss Rose, Norval, Theophilus L., Odell, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Seward, Nebr. Stark, William L., Powell, William, Nupper, Paul, Beemer, Aurora, Nebr. Syracuse, Nebr. Nebr. Stech, F. A, Table Tuveson, Nels A., Rock, Nebr. Weston, Nebr. Olson, Nola, Leigh, Stainhart, John W., Young, David A., Nebr. Nebraska City, Nebr. Murray, Nebr. Orr, Thomas M., Omaha, Stevens, James P., Goff, John W., Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Fremont, Nebr. Osborn, John L., Stewart, Willard E., Gerrard, E. A., Lawrence, Kans. Lincoln, Nebr. Monroe,, Nebr. Stilgebouer, Forster, Sanders, William Patterson, Thomas C., G., Bartley, Nebr. Wesley, Farretson, S. North Platte, Nebr. Stuart, Mrs. Lillie A., D. Paul, Nicholas J., St. Lincoln, Nebr. Stolley. Mrs. William Paul, Nebr. Stull, William, Omaha, F., Grand Island, Pearsch, S. E., Monroe, Nebr. Nebr. Nebr. Summers, John E., Coolidge, Albert. Pember, R. H., Trenton, Omaha, Nebr. North Platte, Nebr. Nebr. Svoboda, F. J., Able, Faught, T. W., Cozad, Perkins, Elmer L., Nebr. Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Swain, James R., Wilcox, Mrs. Ida Petermichel, Julius, Greeley, Nebr. Giltner, Cozad, Nebr. Valparaiso, Nebr. Swanson, A. L.. Ong, Young, Andrew, Jr., Pierce, Charles E., Nebr. Craig, Nebr. University Place, Nebr. Sweitzer, Nelson B., Stephens, Ezra F., Pilger, Frank, Pilger, Neligh, Nebr. Nampa, Idaho. Nebr. Lonergan, Mrs. Will, Pilsbury, Lawrence B., Talbot, Adolphus R., Florence, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Hempel, Miss Theresa, Pitzer, William H., Taylor, William H., Plattsmouth, Nebr. Nebraska City, Nebr. Exeter, Nebr. Guthmann, Miss Minnie, Porter, Thomas L., Terry, Don L., Plattsmouth, Nebr. Alma, Nebr. Alexandria; Nebr. Wiltsee, Jerome, Sr., Pratt, George H., Thompson, Albert, Falls City. Nebr. Hastings, Nebr. Fullerton, Nebr. Norval, Richard S., Proudfit, Robert M., Thompson, Miss Cora A., Seward, Nebr. Friend, Nebr. Bridgeport, Nebr. Thornburn, Miss Public Library, Thompson, George E.. Jennie, Lincoln. Nebr. Fairbury, Nebr. McCook, Nebr. Piller, Reinhold E., Thorne, William E., Millerton, Nebr. Quiggle, Charles C., Bladen, Nebr. Longnecker, John, Lincoln., Nebr. Tobitt, Miss Edith, Indianola, Nebr. Quinby, Laurie J., Omaha, Nebr. McKearney, Mrs. Omaha, Nebr. Towle, John W., Omaha, Jessie, Clarinda, Nebr. Iowa. Rawls, Caries A., Townsend, Alva C., Dech, William H., Plattsmouth, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Ithaca, Nebr. Reavis, C. Frank, Falls Townsend, Clinton A., Hopewell, Henry M., City, Nebr. Page, Nebr. Tekamah, Nebr. Rector, Ode R., Trenery, Jesse T., Shallenberger. 0. P., Lincoln, Nebr. Pawnee City, Nebr. Imperial, Nebr. Redick, William A., Troup, Alexander C., Young, Mrs. Nellie H., Omaha, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. York, Nebr. Refshange, P. I., Tucker, Charles A., Gilmore, Melvin R., Hordville, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Bismarck, N. D. Renner, Carlton E.. Tully, John, Crete, Lane, Arthur W., Lincoln, Nebr. Nebr. Lincoln., Nebr. Rerucha, Leo T., Enola, Pound, Roscoe. Nebr. Vincent, C., Omaha, Cambridge, Mass. Rice, John W., Norfolk, Nebr. Bassett, Samuel C., Nebr. Vogltance. Frank I., Gibbon, Nebr. Richards. Fred H., Schuyler, Nebr. Shine, Michael A., Fremont, Nebr. Votaw, Willi am W., Plattsmouth, Nebr. Richardson, Walter W.. Lincoln, Nebr. Colby. Leonard W., Omaha, Nebr. Beatrice, Nebr. Richards, Lucian D., Walker, Hugh C., Howard, George E., Fremont, Nebr. Douglas, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Richmond, Henry. C.. Walling, Augustus H., Perin, Senator W., Omaha, Nebr. David City, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Richards, Charles L., Watts, William I., Collins, Mrs. Louisa Hebron, Nebr. Edgar, Nebr. E., Kearney, Nebr. Riley, James C., Weaver, Mrs. Martha A., Barnes, John B., Benkelman, Nebr. Falls City, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Rinaker, Samuel, Wehner, Fred E., Cedar Hayward, Mary Smith, Beatrice, Nebr. Bluffs, Nebr. Chadron, Nebr. Rine, Philip S., Well, Morris, Lincoln, Williams, Miss Mary Fremont, Nebr. Nebr. H., Kenesaw, Nebr. Roberts. Walton G., Weitzel, Frederick M., Anderson, Victor, Lincoln, Nebr. Albion, Nebr. Bridgeport, Nebr. Rose, Halleck F., Wertz, George W., Hunt, George J., Omaha, Nebr. Schuyler, Nebr. Bridgeport, Nebr. Rose, Elmer E., Central Wettling, Louis E., Colby, Leonard W., City, Nebr. Chicago, Ill. Beatrice, Nebr. Whitmore, Mrs. Ida J., Frost, Lincoln, St. Louis Mercantile Valley, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Library Association, Whitmore, William G., Paine. Bayard H., St. Louis, Mo. Valley, Nebr. Grand Island, Nebr. Sackett, Harry E., Wiggenhorn, Edwin C., Shaw, James C., Beatrice, Nebr. Ashland, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Sadilek, Frank J., Wiggins, Horace S., Malster, J. C., Wilber. Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Stromsburg, Nebr. Saunders, Charles L., Wilson, Henry D., Omaha, Nebr. Nebraska City, Nebr. Sawyer. Andrew J., Wilhelm, Charles M., Lincoln, Nebr. Omaha, Nebr. Sawyer, Mrs. Andrew J., Williams, Thomas F. A., Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Sawyer. George F.. Wilson, Miss Mary S., Western, Nebr. Nebraska City, Nebr. Schaaf, Frank E., Wilson, William C., Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebr. Schaberg, Bernard H., Wiltsee, Chauncey L., University Place, Nebr. Fullerton, Nebr. Schaufelberger, Winnett, Hudson I., Franklin, Hastings, Lincoln, Nebr. Nebr. Schaufelberger, Frederick J., Hastings, Nebr. Scherzer. James, Dorchester, Nebr. Schoettger, H. W., Arlington, Nebr. Scoutt. Mrs. Ida N., Lincoln, Nebr. Scoutt, James H., Lincoln, Nebr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Produced for NEGenWeb, 1998 by Ted & Carole Miller