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Identifier: historyofnebrask00mort (find matches)
Title: History of Nebraska from the earliest explorations of the trans-Mississippi region
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902 Watkins, Albert, 1848-1923 Thomas, Augustus Orloff, 1863-1935 Beattie, James A., 1845- Wakeley, Arthur Cooper, 1855-
Subjects: Nebraska -- History
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Publishing and Engraving Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Dr. John E. Summers, Sr.Prominent army surgeon. Medical director depart-ment of the Platte, 1874 John Taffe Member of early legislatures and president of council
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William D. BrownMember second territorial legislature Dr. Erastus N. UpjohnVery early settler of Bellevue, Nebraska,geon during the Civil War Army sur- ANNEXATK >X TO KANSAS of South Carolina, signed the minority reportfor Ferguson, ably conducted his case on thefloor of the House. The testimony of ourwhilom councilman and capital commissioner,James C. Mitchell, tells us of the populationof Florence at that time. It was charged byChapman that a large illegal Mormon votehad been polled, and in answer to a queas to total population and the number ofMormons, Mitchell said: I think not lessthan two thousand population and not morethan one hundred actual Mormons. Thoughthe testimony was very conflicting, Mr. Wash-burne urged with great force that Chapmanspart of it was ex parte and hearsay, whileFergusons was given by actual residents andin regular form. Annexation to Kansas. The year 1859marked the culmination of sectional strife.and its last manifestation was in the attemptby the Sout
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