Past & Present of Platte County, Nebraska - Volume 1

PAST AND PRESENT

OF

PLATTE COUNTY

NEBRASKA

CONTENTS

JESUIT ENDEAVOR -- REDISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI -- LA SALLE'S UNDERTAKINGS -- HENNEPIN'S JOURNEY -- LOUISIANA UNDER FRENCH AND SPANISH RULE -- CESSION OF LOUISIANA TO THE U. S. -- DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA -- THE TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA -- THE TERRITORY OF MISSOURI -- A PERIOD OF NO GOVERNMENT -- INDIAN TRIBES AND TREATIES -- NEBRASKA AS A TERRITORY -- TRADERS AND MISSIONARIES -- THE MORMON EXODUS -- THE GOLD HUNTERS -- NEBRASKA AS SEEN IN 1856 --ERECTION OF NEBRASKA -- ORGANIZATION OF THE TERRITORY --ARRIVAL AND DEATH OF GOVERNOR BURT -- LOCATION OF THE CAPITAL -- THE ENABLING ACT -- CONSTITUTION OF 1866 --PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S VETO -- FORMAL ADMISSION OF THE STATE -- NEBRASKA AS A STATE -- COUNTIES,WITH AREAS

CONSOLIDATION OF TWO TOWN SITE COMPANIES -- THE PIONEER MILL -- WINTER OF DEEP SNOW -- SOME WHO CAME IN 1857

WHAT MANNER OF MEN THEY WERE

GOVERNMENT -- LIST OF COUNTY OFFICIALS FROM 1858 TO 1914 -- COUNTY COMMISSIONERS -- BOARD OF SUPERVISORS -- CHANGE TO SUPERVISOR DISTRICTS -- COUNTY CLERK -- TREASURER -- SHERIFF -- CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT -- REGISTER OF DEEDS -- PROBATE JUDGE -- PROSECUTING ATTORNEY -- DISTRICT ATTORNEY -- COUNTY ATTORNEY -- COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT -- SURVEYOR -- CORONER -- MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE

(FINANCIAL CONDITION OF 1859) -- FINANCIAL REPORT -- ELECTION NOTICE FOR COURTHOUSE -- PREMIUMS ON TREE PLANTING -- CERTIFICATE OF MERIT -- TOWNSHIP SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT ADOPTED

COUNTY JAIL -- THE COUNTY FARM

HIGHWAYS AND FERRIES -- FIRST FERRY -- EARLY BRIDGES -- TRANSPORTATION -- THE UNION PACIFIC REACHES COLUMBUS -- SIOUX CITY AND COLUMBUS BRANCH OF THE UNION PACIFIC -- THE FREMONT, ELKHORN AND MISSOURI VALLEY RAILROAD -- THE BURLINGTON AND MISSOURI RAILROAD

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH -- HISTORY OF CATHOLICITY IN COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA -- INDEPENDENT GERMAN EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT CONGREGATION -- FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH -- METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH -- PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH -- GERMAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH -- UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST -- REORGANIZED CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS -- ST. ANTHONY'S (POLISH) CATHOLIC CHURCH -- GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN IMMANUEL CHURCH -- THE CEMETERY

SUPERINTENDENT SPEICE'S ANNUAL REPORT -- RURAL SCHOOLS

THE COLUMBUS GOLDEN AGE -- COLUMBUS JOURNAL -- COLUMBUS REPUBLICAN -- COLUMBUS GAZETTE -- PLATTE COUNTY DEMOCRAT -- THE LEADER -- THE COLUMBUS DEMOCRAT -- THE COLUMBUS TELEGRAM -- THE NEBRASKA BIENE -- CRESTON STATESMAN -- LOOKING GLASS -- MONROE REPUBLICAN -- PLATTE CENTER SIGNAL -- THE HUMPHREY DEMOCRAT -- THE LINDSAY POST

PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE BAR

PLATTE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

SOD AND LOG HOUSES -- BREAKING OUT A FARM -- PIONEER BEDSTEADS -- SHOEMAKERS AND REPAIRERS -- EARLY TIME BLACKSMITHS -- CARPENTERS AND JOINERS -- HARVESTING WILD HAY -- BURIAL OF THE DEAD -- PRAIRIE FIRES -- THE GRASSHOPPER SCOURGE

DEATH OF LOGAN FONTENELLE -- COLUMBUS INFANTRY -- THE COLUMBUS GUARDS -- MURDEROUS INDIANS IN PLATTE COUNTY -- THE CIVIL WAR -- PROCLAMATION -- PLATTE COUNTY IN THE WAR -- SECOND NEBRASKA CAVALRY -- WILLIAM BURGESS AND THE PAWNEE RESERVATION

COLUMBUS THE BIRTHPLACE OF BUFFALO BILL'S "WILD WEST SHOW" -- FRED MATHEWS, OVERLAND STAGE DRIVER OF PIONEER DAYS

WHEN THE OFFICE SOUGHT THE MAN AND FAILED -- FIRST DISTRICT COURT IN PLATTE COUNTY -- MRS. PAT MURRAY AND THE PAWNEES -- INDIANS CREATE A PANIC AT COLUMBUS -- THE GLADDENITES -- TRAGEDY AT SHINN'S FERRY -- JOHN E. KELLY, POLITICIAN -- MUCH IN LITTLE -- HIS NAME WAS JOHN RECK

IMPRESSIONS OF COLUMBUS AFTER TWENTY YEARS ABSENCE -- COLUMBUS AND PLATTE COUNTY THEN AND NOW

FARMERS CLUB -- MARCH, 1875, COLUMBUS AS A POINT FOR OUT FITTING AND DEPARTURE FOR BLACK HILLS -- FIRST PLATTE COUNTY FAIR -- PLATTE COUNTY FAIR

SHIPMENTS OF GRAIN -- IMPROVEMENTS IN COLUMBUS -- IMMIGRATION -- REAL ESTATE -- THE LOUP FORK BRIDGE -- PLATTE RIVER BRIDGE -- BRIDGING THE PLATTE -- SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY -- SCHOOL INTERESTS -- LOUP RIVER BRIDGE TO BE FINISHED NEXT SATURDAY -- PRAIRIE FIRES -- STEARNS PRAIRIE -- LOOKING GLASS VALLEY -- THE LOUP BREAK

THE FIRST BUILDING -- COLUMBUS INCORPORATED AS A TOWN -- AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF COLUMBUS -- COLUMBUS ABSORBS A RIVAL TOWN -- BECOMES A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS -- CITY HALL -- FIRE DEPARTMENT -- FIRST ANNUAL BALL OF THE FIRE COMPANIES -- FIRE DEPARTMENT COVERS ITSELF WITH GLORY -- WATERWORKS SYSTEM -- SEWERAGE -- MUNICIPAL SEWERS -- PAVING -- ELECTRIC LIGHTS -- GAS COMPANY -- BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY -- INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE COMPANY -- MAYORS AND CLERKS FROM 1865 TO 1915 -- MAYOR -- CLERK -- COLUMBUS TOWNSHIP

POSTOFFICE -- HOSTELRIES -- AMERICAN HOTEL -- THE HAMMOND HOUSE -- THE CLOTHER HOUSE -- GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL -- THURSTON HOTEL -- THE EVANS -- AMUSEMENT PLACES -- INDUSTRIES PAST AND PRESENT -- BANKS -- THE COLUMBUS STATE BANK -- COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK -- FIRST NATIONAL BANK -- THE GERMAN NATIONAL BANK -- YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION -- AMOUNT SUBSCRIBED BY MARCH 20, 1907 -- BUSINESS MEN'S CLUB -- THE HISTORY OF THE COLUMBUS PUBLIC LIBRARY -- FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS -- GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC -- OLD SETTLERS ASSOCIATION -- PLATTE COUNTY'S THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY -- COLUMBUS MAENNERCHOR

EARLY COLUMBUS NOT DEVOID OF AMBITION

DEAD AT LAST -- REMINISCENCES OF SHELL CREEK, BY JOHN WALKER

MONROE -- SOME OF THE FIRST COMERS -- POSTOFFICE -- THE BANK OF MONROE -- CHURCHES -- THE SEED GROWING INDUSTRY AT MONROE -- VILLAGE OF OCONEE -- POSTOFFICE

HUMPHREY -- CITY HALL -- ELECTRIC LIGHTS -- WATERWORKS SYSTEM -- FIRE DEPARTMENT -- ENGINE COMPANY NO. 1 -- CHURCHES (Catholic) -- METHODIST EPISCOPAL -- PRESBYTERIAN -- GERMAN BAPTIST -- FINANCIAL -- POSTOFFICE -- OLD SETTLER RECOUNTS SOME REMINISCENCES OF EARLY DAYS -- CORNLEA -- POSTOFFICE -- FINANCIAL

ST. BERNARD -- LINDSAY -- POSTOFFICE -- FIRE DEPARTMENT -- WATER WORKS -- ELECTRIC LIGHTS -- FINANCIAL -- FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK -- CHURCHES -- HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH

PLATTE CENTER -- POSTOFFICE -- WATERWORKS -- ELECTRIC LIGHTS -- FIRE DEPARTMENT -- BANKS -- SCHOOLS -- CHURCHES

TOWN OF CRESTON -- POSTOFFICE -- SCHOOLS -- CITIZENS STATE BANK -- TOWN HALL -- WATERWORKS -- CHURCHES -- PRESBYTERIAN -- BAPTIST -- FRATERNAL ORDERS

DUNCAN -- DUNCAN INCORPORATED -- POSTOFFICE

TARNOV

BISMARK TOWNSHIP -- SHERMAN TOWNSHIP -- JOLIET TOWNSHIP -- LOUP TOWNSHIP

WOODVILLE TOWNSHIP -- HUMPHREY TOWNSHIP -- WALKER TOWNSHIP

RED RIBBON MOVEMENT -- THE FIRST PICTURE TAKER -- PARTITION OF TOWNSHIPS -- INFORMATION -- DESCRIPTION OF TOWNSHIPS

Founders of Columbus

John P. Becker

John C. Wolfel

Mrs. John C. Wolfel

Charles Bremer

John Browner

Jacob Gruter

Jacob Louis

Anthony Voll

Michael Smith

Fred Gottschalk

John Rickly

Vincent Kummer

Henry Lusche

Carl Reinke

St. Bonaventure's Church, Columbus

Interior of St. Bonaventure's Church, Columbus

A group of Columbus Churches (Presbyterian,Catholic,Congregational, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Episcopal,German Lutheran and German Evangelical)

Views in Columbus (Third Ward School, Second Ward School, High School, St. Francis Academy, Y.M.C.A.Building)

Residence of Dr. William S. Evans, Columbus

Residence of Dr. Carroll D. Evans, Columbus

An Early Day Sod Church in Nebraska

Post Office, Columbus

Union Pacific Depot, Columbus

High School, Monroe

New Steel Wagon Bridge, Monroe

Presbyterian Church, Monroe

Methodist Church, Monroe

Views of the Seed Growing Industry, Monroe

Public School and Grounds, Humphrey

St. Francis School, Humphrey

Methodist Church, Humphrey

Baptist Church, Humphrey

St. Francis Church and Monastery, Humphrey

missing illustration

Holy Family Church and School, and Sisters' Home, Lindsay

Holy Family School, Lindsay

View of Platte Center in 1888

High School, Platte Center

Bird's-Eye View of Platte Center

Farmer's State Bank, Platte Center

Street Scene in Platte Center

St. Joseph's Church, Platte Center

St. Joseph's School, Platte Center

German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bismark Township

German Evangelical Lutheran School, Bismark Township

Two Views of Flowing Well on Adolf F.Groteluschen's Farm in Sherman Township

Evangelical Zion's Church, Grand Prairie Township