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JOHNSON'S
HISTORY OF NEBRASKA,
BY
HARRISON JOHNSON.
OMAHA.
OMAHA, NEB .: PUBLISHED BY HENRY GIBSON HERALD PRINTING HOUSE, 1880.
Entered according to an Act of Congress in the Year 1879, by HARRISON JOHNSON, ilD the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
Stereotyped By Henry Gibson.
1142532
DEDICATION.
To the People of the State of Nebraska:
Through whose large enterprise, indomitable energy and great liberality, in the brief space of twenty-five years, an unorgan- ized Territory has developed into a prosperous Commonwealth, that now occupies a proud and important position, politically and commercially, in the Union of States, this volume is respectfully dedicated by the author.
PREFACE.
In presenting this work to the public, the author recognizes the widespread demand throughout this country, as also in the different sections of Europe, for a more reliable and comprehensive description of the great State of Nebraska, than has yet been issued from the press. This work not only embraces a full and complete description of every County, City and Town in the State, in which the advantages and disadvantages offered to immigration are impartially set forth, but includes a reliable history of the State and the territory from which it was organized, from 1803 up to the present time. While much time and labor has been expended on the historical portions of the work, the primal object of the author has been to obtain by personal observation, correct information relative to the topography, climate, soil, productions, rainfall, temperature, water supply, amount of timbered and prairie lands, and their value per acre, educational advantages and prospects, religious privileges, character of the people, railway advantages and market facilities, and other valuable and interesting facts con- nected with a State that the moving millions, both of this country and Europe, are making the most earnest inquiry for. In a condensed, reliable and readable form this material and important information is now presented to the public.
INTRODUCTION.
Our work is done. The volume is completed, and only awaits the Introduction. The printers are clamoring for this, and only a few more lines and the History of Nebraska, on which we have spent so many anxious hours, will be in type for the use of our numerous friends and subscribers, who are found all over the State, and, indeed, all over the country. The work has been no sinecure. It covers the history of sixty-five counties, extending over a State of 80,000 square miles, and illustrates a period of time-the most eventful of the Nation's existence-of a quarter of a century. Stirring times have these been that have witnessed the throes of a mighty nation for existence, and have brought peace and quiet and life throughout our borders instead of anarchy and misrule and terror and death. The closing of the war brought many of the citizen soldiers to the broad fertile fields of this new State to claim their land privileges and make for themselves and their children a name and a home. And these have not come un- attended, but from the four quarters of the globe the swelling thousands have come to settle with those that have made their way hither from the older States; and of these there are represen- tatives from every State from Maine to Texas and from every Territory of the Rocky Mountains. More than 50,000 have come in during the present year to people the vast prairies that stretch in such wonderful extent and beauty through the eastern and middle portions of Nebraska. And the immigration has just commenced. Only some of the salient points are yet taken, and there is still room for an empire to occupy the fruitful lands that yet lie, in their virgin soil, waiting for the coming of the hus- bandman. The streams are waiting to turn the busy spindles and move the machinery that shall give bread to the millions and clothing to the masses.
Nothing in this age of wonders is so wonderful as this west- ern civilization that is measuring a score of miles every year into
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the unbroken wilderness, and making it literally " bud and blossom as the rose." Before the days of the present century are num- bered, and many think some years before, the center of wealth and power and political influence for the whole country will be in the Mississippi Valley, and Nebraska will do her full share to change this center of civilization to the banks of the Father of Waters.
It seems but yesterday that the painted savage called this State his home. He was "monarch of all he surveyed." His tepees were reared on the banks of the streams and his council- fires blazed on the sites of our cities and towns. He followed in the chase with his bow and arrow, the buffalo and deer, the antelope and the elk; and the wolf and bear followed his steps to gather up the remnants of the slaughtered buffalo and those of the moving camp. The war-whoop rang out on the clear morn- ing air, and if time had not erased nearly all their rude records, there would be strange tales of many a well fought field, of lurking foes, of savage cruelty, and, doubtless, of manly courage and magnanimity creditable to these untutored sons of Nature, whose only light was that of heathenish darkness.
This volume has been the outgrowth of a desire, not only of myself, as an individual, once an actor in all these scenes of fron- tier life, but as a cherished feeling of the people of the State, and particularly the old settlers, that a permanent record should be made of the early days. The men who left their eastern homes and came to build up a new State in the great sisterhood of States were men of no ordinary stamp. There might be, as there always are in such new settlements, mere adventurers, reckless speculators, and selfish persons, but the rank and the file, the bone and the muscle, were men who came to stay. Men who counted the cost, who measured the sacrifices, who knew that they were coming to the wilderness, to the abodes of savage life, that they would leave for a time the comforts and luxuries of civilization, that they with their wives and children in founding a new basis of civilization would endure suffering and exposure, if not actual want; but these men had the vision of to-day before them; they saw with prophetic eye the oncoming thousands; they saw the fields blos- soming for the harvest, they heard the songs of harvest home,
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they saw the smoke of rising cities, the highways of com- merce, and some of them saw the highway of nations, so long a fable to the American people, stretching up through their valleys to the everlasting mountains and on to the broad Pacifie. They saw it more clearly than Brigham Young, the Mormon prophet, saw the "Jordan " and the great lake, and the busy city, and the fruit and grain and " cattle on a thousand hills," for the people that he was leading. They believed fully in the future possibili- ties of the new commonwealth, and they determined to bear an active, generous and enterprising part in the mighty development of the coming civilization.
How well their dreams have been realized and their sacrifices been repaid may be seen by looking over this immense State, It has laid aside its territorial dependence-become one of the States of the Union. Its cities and towns crown the hill-tops and nestle by the winding streams. The iron horse not only sweeps through the State from east to west, bearing the wealth of China and Japan and the products of the Atlantic coast and the Golden Gate, but the State is gridironed with railroads that bear the mil- lions of surplus bushels of grain and herds of cattle and flocks to distant markets in the east, west and south.
The dug-out and log-cabin and modest frame house of one room have given place to the elegant mansion or the comfortable farm house, surrounded by the thousands of groves that have sprung up almost by magic all over the prairies, until Nebraska from an open prairie begins to look like a wooded country. The church spire and the school house, in true Puritan style, have be- come the institutions of freedom and progress, and they are found on every hand as the beacon lights of a free, progressive civiliza- tion; and all this has come from the rude beginnings of worship in the open air or in humble dwellings.
These tasks of the early settlers have been well performed, and uuder a pressure and through obstacles and discouragements that those who are inexperienced in frontier life and trials can neither understand nor appreciate. Many of these facts and ex- periences that would soon have been but traditions have been res- cued from oblivion in these pages. Much more could have been told by many lips that are now sealed in death, and the story of
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their trials and successes lost forever, if from the first a faithful record had been kept of the early days. And the object of this- book has been to save from oblivion as much as possible of the early history of the pioneers of each county in the State.
Of course it would not require a miracle alone but a good many miracles to give an entirely correct account of the work of a quarter of a century of busy western life. This cannot be done, and the author only hopes to approximate to the truth. His efforts have been to give a full, impartial, accurate statement of current events, and for years he has been taking notes, consulting with old settlers, gathering statistics, getting facts and incidents- and illustrations for his work. He has, as intimated in the com- mencement of the introduction, traveled thousands of miles by rail and stage, and private conveyance, and frequently through the entire Platte Valley to the Mountains. He has been brought face to face with many of the men of the early days and has gathered his information from their lips.
For the later information with regard to the Counties he has been obliged to depend in a great measure upon the reports of judicious, careful men, residents of the Counties. In most of the Counties some of the first pioneers are found who remember with more or less distinctness the occurrences of the early days, and who have a vivid recollection of their experiences in the wilder- ness. From these men the most reliable information has been received. And the author desires to make his acknowledgments, not only to these, but to numerous persons that cannot be named in various parts of the State. Some Counties and individuals have responded promptly to requests for information, while others have given no attention to the subject whatever. The author also de- sires to say that his aim has been to be wholly impartial in his history and representations, and he has not received one penny from any corporation or individual for the insertion of any article or cut in this volume.
The author has prepared with great care the statistical matter contained in the work, so as to give the reader a correct estimate of the resources and the development of all the industries of the State. Reliable information is also given of the topography of the State, its rivers, timber, minerals and all its material re-
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sources. The vast fields are spread out so that those who contem- plate settlement here may judge of the attractions, compare the localities and decide as to the best place for them to locate. That. Nebraska is destined to become one of the richest and most popu- lons States of the Union can no longer be doubted.
But this subject is almost too vast for human thought. It comprises the progress of the age and the race. But few live but would be glad to re-visit these scenes when a century, or half that time, has rolled away. When Nebraska will be numbered not by hundreds of thousands but by millions, when her cities will vie- with the largest of the olden States, when the sound of the loom and the spindle will be heard beside all her waters, when, not only the genius of agriculture, but that of manufactures, shall be de- veloped throughout the commonwealth, and when science and art shall be enthroned with their handmaids, education and religion,. and with free institutions shall be the crowning glory of a great State.
It is an inspiring thought that we, the first settlers in this. then far off country, are laying the foundations of a mighty em- pire. They should be laid broad and deep. They should be built upon virtue and truth, morality and pure religion, and with such a foundation and with such material prospects, there can be no. doubt of the future of Nebraska.
It could hardly be expected that a work of the magnitude of this-where the subject matter changes many times on a single page, and the names of cities, towns and persons occur so often, that some mistakes would not occur. We have discovered a few, which are given below:
Page.129. In Eleventh line from top, should read 100,384.08 acres, instead of 10,184,448.
Page 187. In Seventh line from top, the word pensions should be pardons.
Page 257. In Sixth line from bottom, the Germans should be two Germans.
Page 291. In Second line from bottom it should read Daniel S., instead of David S.
Page 296. In Third line from bottom, Farnam and Ninth should read Farnam and Tenth.
Page 309. In Ninth line from bottom, it should read Kuhns instead of Kountze.
Page 312. Physical culture should read physical features.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
Frontispiece - Old Trading Post, Bellevue, 1854
Late Map of Nebraska.
Union Pacific Transfer Depot. 124
State University. 140
Catholic Cathedral, Omaha. 149
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High School Building, Tekamah 241
High School Building, Plattsmouth
Old Territorial Capitol, Omaha 286
Union Pacific Headquarters, Omaha 296
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U. S. Postoffice Building, Omaha 307
Gage County Court House, Beatrice. 357
Hall County Court House, Grand Island. 371
Public School Building, Grand Island $74 Hamilton County, Court House, Aurora 380
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Public School Building, Sterling.
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Elk Creek, in the Nemaha Valley. 412
Farm View near Shelton, Buffalo County 424 Junction of North and South Forks of Platte River, Lincoln County. 432 View One Mile South west of Lincoln 450 Normal School Building, Peru 463
View near Central City, Merrick County 474
View in the Beaver Valley near Albion, Boone County. 480
Public School Building, Pawnee City 510
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Ashland High School Building .. 541
Blair High School Building, Washington County. 582
Bell Creek School Building. 584
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Grand Central Hotel, Omaha.
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I .- HISTORICAL.
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The Province of Louisiana,. 33 First settlement .. 39 Treaties with the Indians,. 40 Nebraska admitted. 41
Apportionment of House and
Council-First general election 45 Judicial Districts-Territorial Governors, .. 46
Nebraska admitted as a State, ... 47 U. S. Senators-Delegates and
Members of Congress ........ 49 Officers-Territory and State ... 50 Popular vote for Congressmen, .. 51 Popular vote for Governor, ..... 52
CHAPTER II .- INDIANS.
The Omahas and other Tribes,.
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CHAPTER III .- GEOGRAPHY-TYPOGRAPHY-MINERALS.
Geographical position,.
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Rivers. 63
Minerals, 69
CHAPTER IV .- NATURAL ADVANTAGES.
Soil,
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Agriculture,. 79 Stock Raising,. 86
CHAPTER V .- PUBLIC LANDS.
Lands received from the U. S ... 93 State University-College lands, 95
Union Pacific land grant,.
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B. && M. R. R. R. lands,.
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Common school lands,. 96
Government lands,.
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Saline lands,. 97 Homestead and timber laws,. . . 105
Penitentiary and other lands, .. 98
CHAPTER VI .- RAILROADS.
American Railways, .. . .
.. .107 Capital and funded debt, &c., ... 109 CHAPTER VII .- RAILWAYS IN NEBRASKA.
Miles of road in operation, .... . . 114 Details of Roads,. ... .. . . . 115-131
CHAPTER VIII .- CLIMATE OF NEBRASKA.
Altitude, .. 133 Rainfall, ...... 136
Temperature, .. .135
CHAPTER IX .- EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES,
Free Schools-School Revenues, 137 Normal School-Deaf and Dumb, 141
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CHAPTER X .- THE CHURCHIES.
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Church Interests, &c.,. CHAPTER XI .- MILITARY MATTERS.
First Nebraska Volunteers. .. .. 150
Curtis' Horse,
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Indian outbreak of 1864,.
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Officers of First Regiment Ne- braska Cavalry. 153 Second Regiment Neb. Cavalry . . 155
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State Militia,
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First Battalion Neb. Cavalry . . . 156
CHAPTER XII .- IMMIGRATION.
The Character of Immigration, . 163
Destination of Immigrants,. . . .. 163
Topography, 72
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CHAPTER XIII .-- POPULATION.
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Population of Nebraska by Counties,
CHAPTER XIV .- ASSESSED VALUATION.
Taxable property,. .172 State Indebtedness, .174
Farm Animals, by Counties, .. .. 173
CHAPTER XV .- THE PRESS OF NEBRASKA.
Pioneer Journalists,. 175 List of Newspapers, . . . . . . . 176
CHAPTER XVI .- NEBRASKA-1879.
Commerce,. 181
Grasshoppers, .. 183
Manufactures, 182
The people of Nebraska, ... 184
CHAPTER XVII .- ORGANIC ACT AND CONSTITUTION.
Organic Act of the Territory,. .. 187
Constitution adopted in 1875, ... 189
NEBRASKA IN COUNTIES.
PAGE,
PAGE.
Adams,
193
Jefferson,
399
Antelope,
199
Johnson,
404
Boone,.
204
Keith, ..
413
Burt,
.207
Kearney
41 ;
Butler, .
217
Knox, .
425
Buffalo,
226
Lincoln,
431
.Cass,
230
Lancaster,
436
Cedar,.
246
Madison,
451
Colfax,
250
Merrick, 466
Cuming,
254
Nemaha, 456
475
Cheyenne,
270
Nance.
478
Chase,.
273
Otoe,
481
·Custer,
273
Platte,
494
Douglas,
274
Pawnee,
502
Dodge,.
311
Pierce, .511
514
Dixon, ..
328
Phelps,
520
Dakota.
332
Richardson,
521
Dundy,.
334
Red Willow, 529
Saunders, . 533
Franklin,
340
Sarpy, .542
550
Furnas,
,346
Seward,.
.556
Gage, .
350
Sherman
.560
Greeley,
358
Stanton,.
563
Gosper,
361
Sioux, ..
566
Hall,.
363
Thayer, ...
566
Hamilton,.
375
Valley,
569
Harland, 381
Wayne,.
571
Hitchcock, 386
Washington, 574
Holt,. 389
Webster, 585
Howard,
.393
Wheeler,. 588
Hayes,
399
York,.
588
Clay,.
264
Nuckolls,
Dawson,
320
Polk,.
Fillmore,
335
Frontier, 345
Saline,.
Constitution adopted in 1866, ... 188
CITIES AND TOWNS IN NEBRASKA.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Ayr. 199
Albion, C. S ..
207
Eaton. .
425
Arapahoe. 349
Fairfield.
270
Adams
358
Florence.
309
Aurora, C. S.
379
Fremont, C. S. 319
Fairmont.
339
Fillmore. 340
Aspinwall. 464
Farmer's Valley .380
Arago 528
Fairbury, C. S. 403
Fredericksburg 425
Firth. 451
Arborville 591
Fullerton. 479
Bloomington, C. S. 343
Falls City, C. S.
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