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NEBRASKA DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION.
President--Harvey A. Morrison
College View
Secretary--J. H. Palm
Lincoln
This association was organized in 1885 and was legalized as a state institution by the legislature of 1889. It is required to hold an annual convention, to gather statistics and diffuse knowledge on matters pertaining to practical dairying and to print and distribute an annual report of its proceedings.
APPROPRIATIONS, DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION, 1889-1921.
Years
Amount Years
Amount 1889-91
$2,000.00 1907-09
$2,000.00 1891-93
4,000.00 1909-11
2,000.00 1893-95
2,000.00 1911-13
2,000.00 1895-97
2,000.00 1913-15
3,000.00 1897-99
2,000.00 1915-17
3,500.00 1899-01
2,000.00 1917-19
5,000.00 1901-03
2,000.00 1919-21
5,000.00 1903-05
2,000.00 ......
1905-07
2,000.00 Total
$42,500.00
POULTRY ASSOCIATION.
President--C. M. Huilbert
Fairbury
Secretary--M. G. Scudder.
Central City
This association was incorporated September 26, 1892. It was legalized as a sate institution by the legislature. of 1893, and an appropriation made for its support. It is required to bold an annual meeting in January, to gather statistics and diffuse knowledge on subjects pertaining to the poultry interests of the. state, and to publish and distribute reports of its proceedings.
APPROPRIATIONS, POULTRY ASSOCIATION, 1893-1921.
Years
Amount Years
Amount 1893-95
$2,000.00 1909-11
$ 2,000.00 1895-97
2,000.00 1911-13
2,000.00 1897-99
2,000.00 1913-15
4,000.00 1899-01
2,000.00 1915-17
3,500.00 1901-03
2,000.00 1917-19
5,000.00 1903-05
2,000.00 1919-21
5,000.00 1905-07
2,000.00 ......
...... 1907-09
2,000.00 Total
$37,500.00
CORN IMPROVERS' ASSOCIATION.
President--B. C. Dunly
Kearney
Secretary-Paul Stewart
Lincoln
The legislature of 1909 legalized this society, which was organized in 1903, as a state institution and made an appropriation for its support. It is required to bold in annual convention and corn show, to gather statistics, and to publish and distribute an annual report of its proceedings.
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APPROPRIATIONS, CORN IMPROVERS' ASSOCIATION, 1911-1921.
Years
Amount 1911-13
$2,000.00
1913-15
2,000.00
1915-17
2000.00
1917-19
2:000.00
1919-21
2,000.00
Total
$10,000.00
IMPROVED LIVE STOCK BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION.
President--Charles Graff.
Bancroft
Secretary--M. B. Porson
Lincoln
Treasurer--H. J. Gramlich
Lincoln
This association was founded in 1891. Beginning with 1909, the legislature has appropriated funds for its support. It was incorporated in 1911, but is not a legalized state institution.
APPROPRIATIONS, IMPROVED LIVE STOCK BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, 1911-1921.
Years
Amount 1911-13
$2,000.00
1913-15
2,000.00
1915-17
2,000.00
1917-19
2,500.00
1919-21
2,500.00
Total
$11,000.00
NEBRASKA POTATO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.
President--P. P. Kirkpatrick
Morrill
Vice President--Jacob Pedrett
Kimball
Secretary and Treasurer--H. O. Werner
Lincoln
This association was organized in 1917. The legislature of 1919 legalized it an a state institution and appropriated $1,500 for its use.
NEBRASKA STATE IRRIGATION ASSOCIATION.
President--A. M. Mathers
Gering
1st Vice-President--M. Schumacher
Minatare
2nd Vice-President--P. A. Anderson
Hershey
Treasurer--M. Spanogle
Bridgeport
Secretary--R. H. Willis
Bridgeport
The Nebraska state irrigation association was organized in 1893. The general purpose of this organization to promote and diffuse knowledge concerning irrigation and other uses of water; to facilitate conference and deliberation among people of the state concerning irrigation and related interests; to provide means for bringing the needs of the people in respect to irrigation before the
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state and federal governments and to suggest and assist in procuring the enactment of needed changes in irrigation laws.The association holds annual sessions. Bridgeport has been chosen as the permanent seat for these sessions but in 1919, owing to the lack of hotel facilities, the session was held in Gering..
The legislature of 1919 made two appropriations amounting to $1,500 for the use of the association. This money is being used to publish the proceedings in book form.
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Salary
Secretary--A. E. Sheldon
$1,500
Historian--Albert Watkins
2,000
Librarian--Mrs. Clara S. Paine
1,200
Curator--E. Blackman
1,500
Stenographer--Leone Lehn
900
Newspaper Clerk--Martha Turner
900
On July 9, 1867, David Butler, Thomas P. Kennard and John Jay Gillespie located Lincoln, the future capital of Nebraska, upon the tract of land lying between Salt and Antelope creeks in Lancaster county, more definitely described as "the S. E. 1/4 of section 23, W. 1/2 of the N. W. 1/4 and the W. 1/2 of the S. W. 1/4 of sections 25 and 26 of township No. 10 north of range 6 east of the 6th principal meridian."
Upon the 26th day of August, 1867, a plat of the proposed city of Lincoln was filed and certified by the same commissioners and by A. D. Smith and August W. Harvey, Surveyors. Upon this plat, block 20, lying between Q and R, Ninth and Tenth streets, at the southwest corner of the present university campus. was designated "State Historical and Library Association Block." On the 26th day of August, 1867, articles of incorporation of the, state historical and library association were filed in the office of the county clerk of Lancaster county.
On the 15th of February, 1869, the state legislature by joint resolution approved the report of the three commissioners locating Lincoln and therewith the plat filed by them carrying this legend: "The following blocks are reserved for public purposes: * * * Block 29 for State Historical Library Association incorporated August 26, 1867."
This account exhibits the beginnings of the state historical society idea and the conception of a site for a future histrical (sic) building adjacent to the state university. Nothing further is of record in the years which immediately followed. The struggle for existence absorbed all the energies of the pioneers who were subduing the raw prairie soil and constantly under fire from drouth, grasshoppers, hard times and Indians. The very existence of Lincoln as the state capital was itself in jeopardy for the next eight years. "Historical Block", as it was called in these early years, was the camping ground of immigrants on their way to future homesteads.
On February 24, 1875, the state legislature passed an act donating block 22 to the city of Lincoln for market purposes only. The occasion for this act was the fact that Lincoln had just donated "Market Square," as it was then known, to the United States as a site for a post-office building and the farmers who had used that block as a market for loads of hay, wood, potatoes and other farm produce were about to be forced off by the excavation and construction of the post-office. The Lancaster county delegation in the legislature urged that nothing had ever been done by the state historical library association and that the people of Lincoln desired to accommodate the frontier farmers with a definite place for marketing their produce. Thus, at once, the state historical library association and the block dedicated to its use seemed to disappear forever.
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The next, chapter in the story of the historical society opens with a letter, dated Brownville, Nebr., August 1, 1878, and signed by Robert W. Furnas. This letter was addressed to a number of prominent citizens and asked the use of their names in calling a meeting at Lincoln during the state fair to organize a state historical society.1 Favorable responses were received and soon after a call for .such a meeting to be held at the Commercial hotel in Lincoln on the evening or. September 25, 1878, signed by twenty well known citizens, was published generally in the newspapers of that time.At this first meeting committees were appointed and an address delivered by Dr. George L. Miller. On the following day a constitution was adopted and permanent officers chosen, Robert. W. Furnas, president, and Prof. Samuel Aughey of the state university as secretary.
The society was given rooms on the university campus, where it has remained. It now occupies quarters in the university library building.
In 1916 a joint committee of the society and the university made a report on the "concentration of state library agencies and of state museums" The committee recommended that "the Nebraska state historical society awl the University of Nebraska join in an effort to secure the erection of a building for the use of both, and for the library commission and the legislative reference bureau". This recommendation was adopted by the historical society board, and agreed to by the other state library activities. A joint committee of the 1917 legislature, in a report (Senate Journal, 1917, p. 975) on the state library activities recommended the "erection by the state out of university funds at the university, of a commodious and handsome library building, to be governed and maintained by the university, and which shall house the university library, the historical society, the library commission, and such other state supported library activities as may be agreed upon."
1For an extended historical sketch of the society see the Nebraska Blue Book, 1915, p. 272.PUBLICATIONS.
Years
Number of Volume
Under Editorship of
1885
1
Robert W. Furnas.
1887
II
George E. Howard.
1892
......
Howard W. Caldwell.
1892
IV
Howard W. Caldwell.
1893
V
Howard W. Caldwell.
1894-95
VI
Howard W. Caldwell.
1899
VII
Howard W. Caldwell.
1899
VIII (William Walker and the Provisional Government of Nebraska Territory)
William E. Connelley.
1902
IX (Forty Years of Nebraska)
Thomas W. Tipton.
(Howard W. Caldwell.)1902
X
Howard W. Caldwell.
1906
XI (Nebraska Constitutional Conventions)
Addison E. Sheldon.
1907
XIII (Nebraska Constitutional Conventions)
Addison E. Sheldon.
1913
XIII (Nebraska Constitutional Conventions)
Albert Watkins.
1907
XV
C. S. Paine.
1911
XVI (Nebraska State Historical Society Collections)
Albert Watkins.
1913
XVII (Nebraska State Historical Society Collections)
Albert Watkins.
1917
XVIII (Nebraska State Historical Society Collections)
Albert Watkins.
1919-21
Nebraska History (quarterly magazine)
Addison E. Sheldon.
1920
XIX (Nebraska State Historical Society Collections)
Albert Watkins.
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APPROPRIATIONS, HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1883-1921.
Years
Appropriation for Buildings and Grounds Number Officers and Employes Salaries Office, Printing Reports Etc. Total 1883-85
......
...... ......
$1,0001
$1,000
1885-87
......
2 ......
2,500
2,500
1887-89
......
2 ......
2,500
2,500
1889-91
......
2 ......
1,000
1,000
1891-93
......
2 ......
2,500
2,500
1893-95
......
3 ......
2,000
2,000
1895-97
......
3 ......
3,000
3,000
1897-99
......
3 ......
3,500
3,500
1899-01
......
3 ......
5,000
5,000
1901-03
......
4 ......
10,000
10,000
1903-05
......
4 ......
10,000
10,000
190-5-07
......
4 ......
12,500
12,500
1907-09
$25,000
5 ......
15,000
40,000
1909-11
......
6 ......
15,000
15,000
1911-13
......
6 $10,920
8,800
19,720
1913-15
......
6 12,340
6,959
19,299
1915-17
400
6 13,540
6,500
20,440
1917-19
350
6 13,880
8,300
22,530
1919-21
700
6 16,120
6,500
23,320
Totals
$26,450
...... $66,800
$122,559
$215,809
1Salaries were paid out of current expenses from 1883 until April 1, 1911.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
- Department Commander--J. S. Hoagland.
- Senior Vice-Commander--W. S. Fuller.
- Junior Vice-Commander--T. J. Bender.
- Assistant Adjutant General--Harmon Bross.
HISTORY. The Nebraska department of the Grand army of the republic was organized June 12, 1877, with six posts and a membership of one hundred and sixty-six. It was immediately made an auxiliary of the national organization. January 31 1906, the order was incorporated. During the year 1918-1919, the Grand army headquarters of the United States were located at Lincoln with C. E. Adams as commander in chief and A. M. Trimble as adjutant-general. The roster of members in Nebraska has always well represented the civil war veterans residing in the state. As to number, the highest point was reached in 1892, when there were over eighty-five hundred names on the roster. The Nebraska division of the Grand army of the republic, with the woman's branch, the Woman's relief corps, has been very effective both as a fraternal society to promote fellowship among the veterans of the civil war, and also as a charitable organization to assist veterans or families of veterans who are in need. Since 1917 it has ably assisted in war relief work for the allied armies.
APPROPRIATIONS, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
Years Stationery, Printing, Etc. Military Records Total 1915-17
$800
$420
$1,220
1917-19
800
420
1,220
1919-21
1,200
420
1,620
Totals
$2,800
$1,260
$4,060
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