What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Richardson County and its people.
This is a scanned copy on CD of the original Book published in 1917.
History
of
Richardson County,
Nebraska
Its People, Industries and Institutions
By
Lewis C. Edwards
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
Illustrated
B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc
Indianapolis, Indiana
1917
1400 pages on 1 CD
An essential resource for Genealogists
Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I — TOPOGRAPHY. GEOLOGY, ETC., OF RICHARDSON COUNTY
CHAPTER II—INDIAN HISTORY AND PREHISTORIC TIMES
CHAPTER III—SPANISH EXPLORATIONS
CHAPTER IV—EARLY SETTLEMENT AND EARLY SURVEYS
CHAPTER V—ORGANIZATION OF RICHARDSON COUNTY
CHAPTER VI—LOCATION OF COUNTY SEAT
CHAPTER VII—ROSTER OF COUNTY OFFICERS
CHAPTER VIII—ORGANIZATION OF TOWNSHIPS AND PRECINCTS
CHAPTER IX—INCORPORATION OF TOWNS AND PRECINCTS
CHAPTER X—SERIES OF FIRST EVENTS
CHAPTER XI—AGRICULTURE AND STOCKRAISING
CHAPTER XII-EARLY TRANSPORTATION. NAVIGATION AND RAILROADS
CHAPTER XIII—SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION
CHAPTER XIV—CHURCHES OF RICHARDSON COUNTY
CHAPTER XV—NEWSPAPERS OF RICHARDSON COUNTY
CHAPTER XVI—PHYSICIANS OF RICHARDSON COUNTY
CHAPTER XVII- THE BENCH AND THE BAR
CHAPTER XVIII— BANKS AND BANKING
CHAPTER XIX—MILITARY HISTORY
CHAPTER XX—FALLS CITY, THE. COUNTY SEAT
CHAPTER XXI—THE CITY OF HUMBOLDT
CHAPTER XXII—HISTORICAL SKETCH OF DAWSON
CHAPTER XXIII— DEFUNCT TOWNS OF RICHARDSON COUNTY
CHAPTER XXIV—SIDELIGHTS OF COUNTY HISTORY
CHAPTER XXV—SOME PROMINENT PIONEERS
CHAPTER XXVI—REMINISCENCES OF A WAYFARER
CHAPTER XXVII—HISTORICAL SKETCHES
CHAPTER XXVIII- MISCELLANIOUS MATTERS OF INTEREST
Biographical Index
Ahern, Allemend, Allison, Atkins, Atwood, Auxier, Ayers, Bacon, Bahr, Barlow, Bates, Bauer, Bayne, Becker, Billings, Bloom, Bobst, Bolejack, Boose, Bowers, Bowker, Boyd, Brandow, Brecht, Bucher, Burns, Butler, Cade, Campbell, Church, Clark, Colglazier, Coons, Cooper, Cornelius, Coupe, Crook, Cullen, Cummings, Cunningham, Daeschner, Davis, DeMers, Dennis, Deweese, Didier, Dorrington, Draper, Duerfeldt, Durfee, Duryea, Easley, Ebel, Eels, Eickhoff, Eis, Else, Evans, Everts, Falloon, Fankhauser, Fellers, Felt, Fenton, Fergus, Findlay, Finck, Fisher, Fonts, Franklin, Friend, Funk, Gandy, Gebhard, Gerdes, Gergens, Gerweck, Giannini, Gilbert, Gird, Gist, Goetz, Greene, Gridley, Grinstead, Gutzmer, Haeffele, Hanika, Harden, Hargrave, Harding, Harkendorff, Harrah, Harris, Harshbarger, Hasler, Hays, Heacock, Hebenstreit, Heim, Heineman, Helfenbein, Hellmann, Henderson, Herbster, Hessler, Hews, Higgins, Hill, Hillyard, Hoffman, Holland, Holt, Horn, Horton, Hustead, Hutchins, Hutchings, James, Jenne, Jones, Jorn, Judd, Kammerer, Kanaly, Kean, Keeling, Keim, Kelly, Kentopp, Kirk, Kimmel, Korner, Kors, Koso, Kotouc, Knight, Kuper, LcClere, Lewis, Leyda, Libbee, Lichty, Lietzke, Linn, Lichty, Loree, Lord, Luni, Lundy, Lyford, Lynch, McCarthy, McMahon, McMullen, Maddox, Madowse, Majerus, Mann, Marburger, Margrave, Marsh, Martin, Mathers, Maust, Mez, Miles, Mooney, Morehead, Morris, Morrison, Mosiman, Mullen, Murphy, Niemeyer, Nims, Nitzsche, Nofsger, Nolte, Norton, O’Brien, O'Connell, Ogle, O'Grady, Oswald, Overman, Page, Peek, Percival, Peters, Petersen, Phillips, Philpot, Pittock, Poilard, Porr, Power, Pribbeno, Prichard, Putnam, Ratekin, Reavis, Redwood, Relf, Revelle, Richardson, Richards, Rieschick, Rife, Riley, Ruegge, Rumbaugh, Sailors, Schneider, Schock, Scholl, Schrader, Schulenberg, Segrist, Shellenbarger, Shelly, Shildneck, Shubert, Siemering, Simanton, Skalak, Slagle, Slocum, Smith, Spickler, Spragins, Staver, Steele, Stephens, Sterns, Stettler, Stitzer, Stoltz, Strawn, Suess, Tanner, Taylor, Thornton, Tiehen, Timerman, Towle, Tynan, Uhri, Ulmer, Vandeventer, Vogele, Von Bergen, Waggener, Waggoner, Wahl, Watkins, Weaver, Weber, Weddle, Weick, Wheeler, Wiekham, Wilhite, Wilkinson, Williamson, Wilson, Wiltse, Windle, Wissinger, Wissler, Withee, Wittwer, Wixon, Wuster, Wyatt, Yutzy, Zimmermann, Zoeller,
