Author: Old Settlers' Association of York County, Nebraska
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Old Settlers' Association of York Cou
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018848327
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Languages : en
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Author: Old Settlers' Association of Yo County
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330974735
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Excerpt from Old Settlers History of York County and Individual Biographies In looking up early incidents for the Old Settlers' History, to be kept in the County Judge's office of this county, the first question was, why was the County named York? I first wrote to the State Historical Society at Lincoln, but could find no reason from there. I find from A. T. Andreas' history of Nebraska, and from the help of Judge Sedgwick in investigating the Journals of the first and second Territorial Legislatures that met in 1855, that one A. D. Jones, a member of the first Territorial Legislature from Douglas county, (and by the way Omaha was the capital of Nebraska at that date) was chairman of the committee on defining the boundaries and giving names to new counties, Mr. Jones proposed to name the new counties after prominent leaders from each political party; that accounts for the name of Polk, Hamilton, Butler, Fillmore, Clay and many others. Seward county was first named Green, after a senator who afterwards joined the rebels in 1861, and the good people of Green county petitioned the legislature and had the name of their county changed to Seward. The journal of the first territorial legislature of 1855 shows that the north line of York county was the Platte river, the boundary was later changed to include its present boundary. York county was named by the legislature of 1855, long before any white man settled here. I next wrote to A. D. Jones, who seemed to have a good deal to do with laying out and naming new counties in the early day, but the letter was returned, and I learned after that Mr. Jones went to heaven ten years ago. I secured from early records the names of members of the first legislature and wrote to quite a number and some of the letters were returned uncalled for, and others were answered, stating they could remember nothing of the reason for naming York county. A party suggested that if I wrote the editor of the Bee, Mr. Rosewater, he could tell me everything, so I wrote, enclosing a stamp, and got no reply and he is a stamp ahead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Category : York County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1322

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Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Author: David L. Bristow
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496207041
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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In his day Walter Wellman (1858-1934) was one of America's most famous men. To his contemporaries, he seemed like a character from a Jules Verne novel. He led five expeditions in search of the North Pole, two by dogsled and three by dirigible airship, and in 1910 made the first attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air--which the self-styled expert on aerial warfare saw as a mission of world peace. He endured hardships, cheated death on more than one occasion, and surrounded himself with a team of assistants as eccentric and audacious as he was. In addition to his daring adventures, Wellman became a nationally known political reporter and unofficial spokesman for the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. He was not the first newspaper-sponsored adventurer, but more than any of his predecessors he turned exploration into a real-time media event, and his reputation both flourished and suffered because of it. Wellman lived during a time of rapid social and technological change, when explorers were racing to fill in the last remaining blank spots on the map and when aviation promised to fulfill humanity's greatest hopes and darkest fears. Flight to the Top of the World is a window into Wellman's time and illuminates many of its dreams and contradictions.

Author: Nebraska State Historical Society
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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