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1884 PATENT HOLDERS - PLATTE COUNTY, NE

The Homestead Entry Act of May 20, 1862, authorized unrestricted settlement on public lands to all settlers, requiring only residence, cultivation, and some improvement to a tract of 160 acres. Any person was eligible who was head of a family or had reached the age of 21, who was a citizen or intended to become one, and who did not own as much as 160 acres. After living on the land and farming it for six months, he could buy the homestead at $1.25 an acre. But after five continuous years, he could apply for and receive a patent or title to the 60 acres for a filing fee of $15.

Patents are deeds transferring land ownership from the U.S. Government to a buyer. A patent is the first record in a chain of title for a parcel of land.

Patents Ready.

The following is a list of patents in the U.S. land office at Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 1, 1884, for delivery in Platte county, Neb.:

Nun M Lent,
Phillip Schroeder, 2,
Edward Schaad,
L Byrnes,
M Garden,
John Hoessel,
Valentine Duschter,
Jas. Compton, Jr.,
Hans B Jessen,
Henrich Reese,
Jas. W Lockhart,
Henry G F Keuscher,
Phebe Fulton,
Augustus Kountz, 2,
John Stiener,
Hugo Schaad,
Johannes Brugger,
Edward R Jones,
Soren Anderson,
W N McCandlish,
Sonke Sonnichsin,
Joseph Wickham,
Franz Koch,
Leonard Anson,
Wm Grant,
M H White,
Thomas Sullivan,
Maurice Langen,
Jos. Borowiak,
John P Braun,
Johan Haschke,
Robt. Gentleman,
Lilla McDonald,
John Von Bergen,
Ulrich Von Bergen,
Jas. L Brown,
Dennis Regan,
J Honahan,
Dielbrich Behlem,
Matthew Lowry,
George A Linn,
Franz Schmid,
James W Lynch,
Reinhold Brandt,
Cyrus D Kazen,
Chas. O'Biddlecom,
Franz Schon,
Michael Upton,
Michael Dody,
Alex. F Simmonds,
Wilhelm Kleve,
Gustav Schon,
Lorenzo Enzminger,
John Hennessy,
Pasqua Baker,
John S Wood,
John Kubik,
Michael Doody,
Rodger Breheney,
Jas. Garlick,
Peter Reinheimer,
Wm. Routson,
Macig Buzynski,
George Minten,
Christof Kummitz,
Michael Boyle,
Wm. Loseke,
Niels Pederson,
A H Potter, 		Andrew O'Donnell,
Michael Fisher,
Frantz Wazniak,
Thomas M Olin,
T O'Neill,
August Viergutz,
Thomas Podraza,
Wm ____er,
Chas. W Resler,
Franz Fuger,
Theresa Greisen,
John Dahms,
Joseph Stewart,
D E Jones,
M W Bunker, 2,
Peter Ericson,
H S Elliott,
Henry F Bauer,
Margaret Sullivan,
Patrick Coleman,
Jas. H Milslagle,
Wm. L Armstrong,
Wm. Benson,
Hans Jakob Jensen,
Joseph Kuhnell,
N Johnson,
J C Harley, 2,
John Boss,
Hollis Buxker,
T M Arnold,
Michael Deady,
Maria North, widow,
M Burns,
Gottfried Stenzell,
Thomas Blandford,
Alva E Smith,
James H Sloane,
E B Hall,
Wm. M Arnold,
John H James,
Philip Heberling,
Carl J Carlson,
Louis Patterson,
Octaber Plant,
John Blomquist,
M A Searles,
Ole Hellicksen,
John Nelson, 2,
Patrick Gilligan,
Clark H Blecher,
Rasmus Massen,
Carl Jansen,
Frans Soderbarg,
Ole J Solberg,
Anders Anderson,
Hans N Christensen,
J H Reed,
Sam J Davidson,
Ole Abe Throneson,
Christ Petersen,
Gustav Alfred Dahlman,
John Koch,
Gustav Abrahamson,
Ed. M Southwell,
John N McClintic,
Thomas Gannon,
M Morse.

C. Hostetter, Register.

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