Chester County PA Archives News.....Jerome Coulter, Paymaster (1879-1912) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Wanda Casella wandacasella@verizon.net May 16, 2005, 8:32 pm CCHS Surname File February 17, 1879 2/17/1879 Appointed Paymaster- We learn that Jerome Coulter, who is weel-known in West Chester, has been appointed paymaster on the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Coulter(better known as "Jerry") is a printer by trade and some two or three years ago left our borough to seek his fortune in the West. We hopr the rumor is a correct one and that he will find his new position both pleasant and profitable 3/3/1883 Mrs. Jerome Coulter, formerly of West Chester, but for some years past a resident of Omaha city, Nebraska, arrived in West Chester this morning in order to be in attendance at the funeral of her father, John O'Neill, who will be interred to-morrow in St. Agnes cemetery. 11/7/1895 Jerome K.Coulter,deputy city treasurer of Omaha, Nebraska, is in jail there on the charge of robbing the city of $30,00. He is a native of West Chester and went West and engaged in Politics several years ago. 2/18/1890 People, Things and Prices Out There Jerome K. Coulter, Deputy Comptroller of Omaha, Neb., who arrived in West Chester yesterday is visiting to-day at Marshallton his aged mother. It is fifteen years since "Jerry" (by this name he was known among the old printer boys) dropped his stick in the Republican office and left for the West. Omaha then had 20,000 people within its confines. Today she has 135,000. Then there was nothing but mud in the city. Now there are handsomely paved streets, three or four different kinds of street cars, handsome churches, hotels,etc. When Mr. Coulter went there building lots were offered at $150 which now readily sell for $8000. Whe he went there were Sioux and Pawnee Indians in the place by the hundreds. To-day there is "nary Red." he says for miles aroundOmaha there is no woodland, and not a stome as large as your finger nail. No fruit is raised in Nebraska and a fence is not known nor is a barn to be seen in that locality. herding in the county district is still the rage and no grain is housed. The best ears of corn are picked and the rest and the corn stalks burned. Cigars are 10 and 15c. each. Beer 10c per glass. the taxes are 48mills on the dollar. Licenses for keeping liquor places are $1000 per annum. There 250 places of the kind and this money goes toward keeping up the schools, which are said to the equal of any in the country. Teachers recieve from $6o to $135 per month. Mr. Soulter says Omaha drew 15,000 people within her limits last year. The weather there has been very mild this winter, but of course considerably colder than Chester County. Oysters out there are acarce and high- 60c. for a dozen fried. He will return West in a week or two. 1/24/1912 Word is requested of the present whereabouts of Jerome Coulter, once a printer in this place, but who left for the West twenty-two years ago, going to Nebraska, where he afterwards gained a county office in Omaha, but since which timw all trace of him has been lost. The word is requested by Lewis B. Coulter, now an inmate of the Veterans' home, at Napa, California, near San Francisco, where he is suffering from paralysis. In a letter to Captain Oliver B. Channell, of this place, the brother, who was a member of the 97th Regiment during the Civil War, wants to locate the brother,of whom he has had no tidings for twenty-two years. People here who remember the former printer, who worked with the American Republican, after learning his trade there. coming here from near Marshallton, are unable to tell anything which would lead to discovering his present whereabouts. It is saiid that Coulter after occupying a political office, dropped from sight in the West, but his brother is anxious to secure definite idea of what became of him after that time. 1/25/1912 Jerome Coulter, the former West Chester printer, whose whereabouts are requested by his brother, Lewis, who is in a veterans' home, near San Francisco, paralyzed and who has been trying to locate Jerome, who he had not seen for twenty-two years, is no longer in the land of the living. He died a number of years ago in Iddaho, to which State he had gone from Omaha, Nebraska. Coulter was Assistant City Treasurer in Omaha for a term and during that time the Treasurer embezzled several thousand dollars from the city fund and fled. He was captured and sent to prison for a term. After this Coulter left Omaha, going to Idaho, where his death occurred later. He was not connected with the steal from the city, but the matter weighed heavily on his mind until the day of his death. Coulter left a widow, who was Miss Catharine O'Neill, of this place, and also three sons, now young men in the employ of a Western railroad company, with which they all hold responsible positions. Some years after the death of Coulter his widow became the wife of Judge Foster, a prominent figure in political and social life in Omaha, and she still resides in that city. Coulter was a half brother of Cyrus Mann, of this place. 1/26/1912 "Jerome Coulter's father was a brother of my grandfather. So Jerome was my first cousin once removed. I do not know whether Jerome is living or not, for I have not heard from him for twenty-five years." Josiah Mann, 118 East Biddle street. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb