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Across the Atlantic during 1883, Clement Atlee, later to become a British prime minister, was born in England. On the European continent in Italy, Benito Mussolini was born and would eventually rule his native country. This same year, 37-year-old Buffalo Bill organized his Wild West show at the Cody ranch up near North Platte, NE, and readied the operation at Omaha for its first public performance. In April, the Charles Cather family moved from Virginia to Nebraska while little Willa was just nine years old. David Wishart's family was living on their farm near Johnson Creek in southern Pawnee county, and the family of his sister Margaret Miller was living just outside Pawnee City. After 13 years of marriage, one of their sisters in Scotland and her husband were thinking of America. William and Helen Andrew decided to bring their two young sons to Nebraska, and then converted the family name to the more common Andrews. William L. Andrews had turned 11 years of age back on March 10, and younger brother George would celebrate his sixth birthday on August 9th. Little George had been given the middle name of Barkley, a variation in the spelling of his grandmother Elizabeth's family surname, Barclay. In the summer of 1883, the four members of the Andrews family arrived in Pawnee City. On Monday, December 10, William and Helen observed their 14th wedding anniversary. It was their first in the United States. |
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