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store east of the Latta store where he conducted the business for many years. He later had as a partner, Arthur Baker. Harry Nelson and lateer (sic) Nelson & Carper handled the hardware and implement business in Murray.
     The early years of Murray were during the horse and buggy days and the livery business which has wholly vanished, was an outstanding business in all towns. Across the spring branch west of the Loughridge blacksmith shop, C. Aley & Co., in 1891, constructed a livery barn with poles and a straw roof and advertised "Livery and Drayman, good rigs at reasonable prices." This company soon disappeared and was followed by a more substantial liveryman, John Shaw, who built a frame livery barn on lot 15, south of main street. He was succeeded by John L. Young. During the 90's Don C. Rhoden built a livery barn east of the Jenkins store which still stands a wreck, north of the vi duct (sic).
     Dick Oldham was the first barber in Murray. He was followed by Dave Allen, O. P. Shrader, John Carrol, S. F. Van Horn, Harve Manners, Mac Churchill, Earl Merritt and Jeff Brendel. These barber shops were located in many sections of town.
     A day's time was consumed in hauling a wagon load of lumber a thousand feet, from Plattsmouth to any farm home in the vicinity of Fairviev.
     James Root and Tapley Faught foresaw a good future for the lumber business in Murray and soon after the railroad was completed, established the lumber yard of Root & Faught. On May 4, 1894, John Edmunds bought Faught's interest in the lumber yard and established the firm of Root & Edmunds. As a side line they handled harness and buggies. Root disposed of his interest in the firm to William C. Brown and Edmunds & Brown conducted the business for five years when they sold to W. H. Kirkendal. William Banning and George Nicklet bought the lumber yard from Kirklndal, November 15, 1915. In 1929 Mr. Nickles became the sole owner of the lumber business in Murray, having conducted this business for the past twenty-five years.
     A news item from the Plattsmouth Journal under "Murray Musings,"
     January 5, 1891, says: "Messrs Walker & Pitman could have handled 50,000 bushels of corn recently if the track over the new road had been laid." James A. Walker and D. J. Pitman leased a lot on the railroad right-of-way and erected grain elevator in 1890, while the grading was being made through the town. The Wilson Grain Co., of Nebraska City, now own and operate this elevator. In 1893, J. E. Banning and son, Charles Banning, built an elevator north of the Walker & Pitman elevator which was later sold to Mont Robb. In 1895, Good, Crabtree & Co.. put up a track loading fight which subsided within a year.
     The stock yards near the elevators was a busy place before the advent of the motor trucks and hard surfaced highways. Several thousand fat cattle and hogs were shipped annually from these yards. The midnight "Whoopee-hi-hi" of the horsemen as they drove their herd to the stock yard was a very familiar sound to all village people. The stock yards have fallen into decay and are forgotten.
     On January 23, 1892, M. J. Puddy from Chatauqoa Lake, N. Y., arrived in Murray to investigate the prospects of building a hotel and not finding the surroundings satisfactory, returned to

New York. Soon after this, the first hotel was erected by Silas Crabtree, for his sister, Mrs. Elsie Wagner, and his father, Abel Crabtree. Alex J. Graves became the owner in 1907 and in 1911, sold it to Mrs. W. J. Berger who had the building enlarged and modernized.
     William Loughridge operated the first blacksmith shop in Murray and W. DeGoff, Joe Shaw, Charley Connelly and James Loughridge followed this trade on west Main street.
     As the construction of buildings in Murray progressed, it was apparent that brick was a very essential part in all buildings and S. G. Latta with others conceived the idea of starting a brick yard. A building in which the brick were to be moulded (sic) was erected west of the elevators and Byron Scott and James Kinnamon were employed to the do the moulding (sic) and burning of the brick. They were not successful in producing satisfactory brick and Loss Graves was employed. He also failed and it was decided that the clay was not suited for brick making. The building was sold to Joseph Burton who moved it a short distance to the south onto a lot which he owned, and remodeled it into a dwelling.

THE MURRAY ACCADEMY (sic)

     Prof. J. R. Buchannan of Tarkio, Mo., came to Murray in the summer of 1895 and discussed with the citizens of Murray and the community the advisability of starting an academy in Murray. This enterprise was met with hearty approval and the Murray Academy was established with Prof. J. R. Buchannan, A. B., principal; Dr. F. J. Champney, M. D., lecturer on physiology and hygeine (sic) and a competent teacher of the pi no and organ.  Circular--1895.1896 for Murray Academy. Board of Trustees: W. J. Holmes, H. G. Todd, T. D. Buck, R. A. Young, Rev. S. S. Stewart, D. J. Pittman and S. G. Latta. Officers of the Board: Rev. S. S. Stewart, president; J. W. Edmunds, vice president; H. G. Todd, secretary and E. F. Good, treasurer.
     The course of study in the Murray Academy began in September, 1895 in the United Presbyterain (sic) Church with a good enrollment and a very successful year. Four blocks at the eastern part of the S. G. Latta farm were selected for the permanent location of the Murray Academy. A brick building at the estimated cost of $5000. walks, drives and planting of trees to beautify the grounds were planned. The necessary funds to materialize this enchanting dream could not be procured and the enterprise was dropped.
     The hail of the Modern Woodmen of America, located on lot 6, block 3 east of the Christian church, was a place of much activity from 1894 up to the date of the dissolution of the organization in Nebraska.
     The Murray creamery was organized September 26, 1900, and passed through varied ups and downs until it expired in 1908. W. E. Dull was acting president and James W. Holmes, secretary and treasurer. The building with equipment was located on lots 12. 13 and 14, in block 7. This property is now owned by Paul Richter.
     One of the most beneficial organizations in the village is the Murray Library which was incorporated February 3. 1921 with a capital stock of $10,000, with Mrs. C. M. Minford, president and Mrs. S. F. Brendel, secretary-treasurer. The small building in which it is located was purchased from W. E. Jenkins for $800. It is the hope of the library board that some

day a more inviting building may be procured
     A young man walked up and down Main street in Murray in November 1892, many in the town conjecturing what his business might be. His name was Elmer F. Good. He was from Peru, Nebraska. A month later he returned with his father, Jacob Good, who organized the Murray State Bank. It was incorporated December 8, 1892, with a capital stock of $10,000. Jacob Good was elected president, H. E. Countryman, vice president, and Elmer E. Good, cashier. The salary of the cashier was $60.00 jer (sic) month and the deposits varied from $10,000 to $12,000. June 10, 1896, the controlling interest in the bank was disposed of by Jacob Good and son to John E. Gilmore. R. G. Todd was elected president; Walter Mutz, vice president and John E. Gilmore, cashier. The Murray State Bank was dissolved November 1, 1897, but reorganized by H. B. and E. E. Finney, October 1, 1900, with a capital stock of $5,000. In February 1901, the bank was sold to James Stone of Nehawka and his son, Charles S. Stone employed as cashier. Mr. Stone on February 13, 1908, disposed of his interest in the bank to Charles Parmele, Fred L. Nutzman and W. O. Boedeker. The capital stock remained at $5,000, but the deposits advanced to $45,000. Charles C. Parmele was ejected president, Fred L. Nutzman, vice president and W. G. Boedeker, cashier. In April, 1909, the capital stock was increased to $10,000 and in 1920 to $15,000 and deposits reached $325,000. August 20. 1921, Charles C. Parmele resigned as president and W. G. Boedeker was elected to succeed him as president. In 1925 L. J. Hallas of Plattsmouth was employed as cashier. In 1932 he resigned and Charles H. Boedeker II was elected cashier. January 15, 1935 the capital stock was increased to $20,000 and on January 30, 1940, the capital stock and surplus of the Murray State Bank was $38,000.
      In an early morning hour on June 9, 1927, a very destructive fire occurred east of the Murray State Bank with an estimated loss of $35,000. The two story brick building owned by Paul Peterson of Omaha and the two frame buildings owned by B. A. Root and Wm. McDaniels were destroyed. The Nelson Hardware Store, Earl Lancaster general store, meat market, postoffice and Nailor's soft drink parlor suffered a heavy financial loss.
     River transportation was the life blood of the city of Rock Bluff and when railroads supplanted this mode of traffic, business rapidly departed from the steamboat town. General merchandise, grocery stores, pool halls and saloons all faded away and the voting place was moved to the school house in Murray. Residents of East Rock Bluff precinct came to Murray to vote. August 10, 1891, the county commissioners in session, A. C. Loder and Jacob Tritsch with Bird Critchfield, County Clerk, met and voted that Rock Bluff precinct shall be divided so as to constitute a new precinct to be known as Murray precinct and shall be bounded as follows: The boundary lines of Township 11, Range 13, east of the 6th P. M., shall constitute the boundary lines of Murray precinct." On a petition presented the County Commissioners October 6. 189!, the precinct was divided into district No. 1 and No. 2--East and West Rock Bluff precincts, with a voting place in Murray and Rock Bluffs.

THE HOME GUARDS

     During the first World War Home Guards were employed for local defense. The Murray Home Guards were organized in June 1918. The officers staff was Kingsley L. Kniss, captain: O. A. Davis, first lieutenant and Albert A Young, second lieutenant. The non-commissioned officers were first sergeant, W. S. Smith; sergeants: H. H. Baxter, Ivan Deles Dernier, Oliver Gapen, Glenn Todd; Corporals: Raymond J. Henry, J. A. Scotten, L. F. Terberry, J. H. Brown, E. S. Tutt and J. A. Root. The company had an enlistment of 68 volunteers. They were given a license to bear arms by Governor Keith Neville, June 3. 1918 and were later equipped with uniforms and insignia. An evening hour was set for drilling and military maneuvers. A message from the Defense Council of Cass county gave warning of possible sabotage in Murray and orders were received to guard the grain elevators which were then filled to capacity with wheat and corn. New guards were selected each evening and assigned to the duty of "grain elevator guards."
     That part of Murray known as Pitman's Sub-division was deeded to D. J, Pitman by H. L. Oldham, October 26, 1904. This strip of land from the Oldham farm is 183 feet wide and extends from the eighty-rod line south, to North Street. This tract was divided into eighteen lots. Trees, shrubbery and beautiful homes has made Davis street very attractive. The street was so named in honor of O. A. Davis.
     The electric line was brought into Murray by the Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., in 1918.
     Murray was incorporated March 7, 1935. A very satisfactory water system was completed in 1939 and the viaduct over the Missouir (sic) Pacific railroad was completed in 1939.

TRAGEDIES

     On the morning of July 18, 1891, Lucy Young, age 13, the daughter of Dave Young, looked forward to a beautiful day when she would ride her newly acquired pony to Murray and bring home some needed groceries. She was returning home a short distance below the Christian church when the crackling of the paper bags containing the groceries frightened the pony. Lucy was thrown form the saddle, severely kicked by the pony and died that evening at 5:15. It was on the same spot Charles Richter was coasting with a group of playmates when he was struck by an auto and killed, January 30. 1930, at 7:30 in the evening.
     While the James Conklin family were living in the cottage in the wooded cove, their son Willie, age 5, decided to explore Rock Creek and the wooded hills nearby. Becoming hungry he discovered a beautiful plant laden with red berries and ate many of them. They proved to he the deadly night shade and he succumed (sic) to their noxious effects soon after returning home.
     One of the saddest tragedies in the history of Murray occurred at an early morning hour, June 18, 1933. when an automobile from Geneva, Nebr., was driven into the side of a fast-moving south bound freight train at the railroad crossing. Mr. Lee Bailor was taking his son Robert and Lawrence Merrill to the CCC camp at Fort Crook and were accompanied by Mrs. Bailor, Edith Bailor and Miss Frances Bumgarner. Those killed instantly were Lee Bailor, age 50, Lawrence Merrill, 21, Frances Bumbarner (sic), 17, and Robert Bailor, 17, died within a

half hour, Mrs. Bailor remains an invalid from the injuries and her daughter a badly scarred face from severe lacerations made by broken glass. This accident was the prime factor in leading to the construction of the viaduct over the railroad tracks and thus eliminating any possible future catastophes (sic).

NOTABLES VISIT MURRAY

     W. J. Bryan, completing his presidentail (sic) campaign in 1896, and on his way to Plattsmouth to make his final speech, as was his custom, stopped in front of the H. L, Oldham home and delivered a short address to an assembled crowd of farmers and Murray citizens. After his talk he mingled with the crowd and later took supper in the Oldham home,
     Charles Lindbergh, while making his barnstorming tour in eastern Nebraska in the summer of 1922, stopped at Murray two days where he took up many passengers over Rock Bluff precinct and gave them a view of the apparantly (sic) flat land to the west and the Missouri river to the east.
     James W. Crabtree who was state superintendent of public schools and who became the first secretary of the National Education 1 Association at Washington, D. C., while attending the Nebraska State Normal School at Peru, spent a summer operating a hedge lopping machine in eastern Cass county. He made his headquarters in Murray. The hedge row on the west side of the Latta farm was lopped by him.
     Walter Dickinson, known on the stage as "Rube" Dickinson, an outstanding funmaker on the Orpheum circuit and known from coast to coast, spent his boyhood days near Murray and was well known by many children who attended the Murray school. A hotel porch in Kansas City, under which he was standing, weighed down with ice and snow, colapsed (sic), causing his death. He was brought to Murray and through deep drifts of snow, taken to the Eight Mile Grove cemetery and laid to rest.
     Ralph S. Holmes on June 5, 1940, was awarded the highest honors by the National Association of Manufacturers for his outstanding inventions in television. His research work is made at the Radio Corporation of America at Camden, N. J. Ralph was born in Murray and spent his boyhood days in the village.
     Miss Flora Jane Boedeker was born in Murray and has achieved distinction as a musician. After finishing the Murray school, she attended the William Woods College at Fulton, Mo., where she graduated. She spent one year in Paris, France, where she studied French and music. Returning to America she entered the Cincinnatti (sic) Conservatory of Music from which she graduated with high honors in 1940.
     The growing village of Murray was Inviting to the newspaper business and the Murray Banner brought out its first issue April 1, 1891, with J. A. Bascome, publisher and news furnished by local talent. February 3, 1893, Olmstead and Shumacher became the publishers with W. R. Olmstead, editor and W. H. McCurd, business manager for F. W. Shumacher, On March 30, 1895, the paper assumed the name of Murray Mirror with Jos. S. Brown, business manager and Everett Manshau, associate. Dr. F. J. Champney became the editor until in June when S. G. Latta assumed this duty. The Murray Mirror was again renamed The Murray Banner, September 14, 1895, with S. G. Latta, editor; J. H.

Johnson, associate editor and H. M. Wilson, manager. The last issue of the Murray Banner appeared in March 1896.
     The Murray swimming pool, owned by Frank Mrasek, operated for nine years, 1925 to 1934, was a leading attraction in the county for those seeking recreation. Due to the expense of water supply, the pool ceased to operate.
     S. G. Latta, after quitting the store at the corner, engaged in the pump and windmill business. Many of the Whizz and tailless rooster windmills he erected are still seen spinning in the breeze.
     R. W. Swearingen came to Murray in 1892 from Washington county, Pa. He was a notary public and also served many years as justice of the peace in West Rock Bluff precinct. He also operated a restaurant and confectionery store.
     B. A. Root from Eight Mile Grove, opened a drug store in the 90's which he operated over a period of fifteen years and later was followed by G. W. McCraken, also a druggist.
     The beautiful picturesque view from the crossroads was an inspiration for the pioneers to make this point a community center. Fairview did not express the enchanting scenery of the billowy hills along the timbered Rock creek and Pleasanthill was advanced as a more descriptive name. As a clean business center with churches and accredited school, Murray has been inviting to home seekers and may she so continue over the next span of life.

     The few remaining log cabins in Cass county are monuments to the hardy pioneers who were the first to build homes in the Territory of Nebraska on the rolling prairie hills out from the Missouri river.
      Entering a land unsurveyed, their cabins were built on claims with squatter's rights and they automatically organized into groups called settlements.
     The Mount Pleasant settlement was first centered at Cassville in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section five, where William D. Gage located on his claim in the summer of 1856, built a log house and in it established a store. This store and dwelling, calIed Cassville, stood two blocks south of the school house in district 15 and two miles northeast of Nehawka.
     The deputy government surveyor while sectionizing this part of Cass county in 1856, made the following notes:
     "Wm. D. Gage has a claim in the south part of Sections 4 and 5. John Murray claims the southwest quarter of Section 9. Henry Wolfe has a claim in the south part of Section 9. The northeast quarter of Section 5 is laid out for a town by the name of Mount

This Home of Rev. W. D. Gage. Early Nehawka Pioneer, as it Stands Today on the Plybon Farm North of Nehawka

Pleasant. W. D. Gage's house is west of the line between Sections 4 and 5.
     Three of the log cabins, built by the pioneers in the Mount Pleasant settlement are still intact. The cabin of Judge Mathew Hughes serves various uses on the George Sheldon farm; the Stephen Hobson cabin, west of the Senn Waddell dwelling and the Wm. D. Gage cabin stands out in the woods at the west side of the Alice Plybon farm. This log house was purchased from William Schlichtemeier by Lewis Plybon in 1894 and moved to the Plybon farm, one mile west by Dug Smith and used by him as a dwelling. It has served as a dwelling, store and postoffice.
     When the Nebraska Territory was opened for settlement, Rev. William Gage received an appointment to serve the Methodist Church in Nebraska City. He rode a circuit from Nebraska City to Rock Bluff in Cass county. Rev. Dr. Goode in December, 1854 crossed the Missouri river to Nebraska City. "The Major Downs hotel was crowded and he concluded to hunt the cabin of Pastor W. D. Gage. This was over in the brush some distance from the hotel. Night had come on arid with difficulty he found his way. He was royally entertained. This was the first quarterly meeting at Fort Kearney."
     While in Nebraska City Rev. W. D. Gage was elected the first county treasurer of Otoe County and was also selected as the first chaplain to both houses of the assembly in Omaha City in 1854.
     Gage county was named in honor of William D. Gage. The boundaries were defined by an act of the legislature and approved March 16. 1855. He was one of the Commissioners appointed to locate the county seat of Gage county.
     Fragments of glass, queensware and

rusty iron mark the place in the field where once stood the historic cabin called Cassville; on a high point which beautiful view of the rugged bluffs in Iowa and far up the Weeping water.
     Cassville was located near the territorial road "from Omaha City, by the way of the junction of the east and west forks of the Papillion creek near an old Indian village to Cedar Island in the Platte river, then via Eight Mile Grove. Cedar Bluff's Mill in Cass county and Cowell's Mill in Otoe county to Nebraska City." Another trail which passed near the door of the cabin was from Kirkpatrick's Mill (now Nehawka) to Kanosha.
     After the store had been well stocked W. D. Gage carried the following advertisement in The Wyoming Telescope, in Wyoming, Otoe county:
     "New store in Cassville, Nebraska Territory, The undersigned is now receiving and operating at Cassville a well selected and cheap assortment of goods and groceries, ready-made clothing, boots and shoes, hats and bonnets, hardware and queenesware all of which will be sold cheap for cash. Come in citizens of Cass county and you will find good bargains. Nov. 6, 1856-tf.   W. D. Gage."
     In addition to the above mentioned articles in his stock of goods was a large supply of patent medicines and one of the leading remedies advanced was for ague--chills and fever--which was one of the prevailing ailments among the first settlers. The regularity of the chills were well known by the victims as shown by an expression once made near Cassville: "Sorry, I can't help you tomorrow, that's the day I have my chill.'
      The first two precincts in Cass county were Plattsmouth and Kanosha and then Plattsmouth and Rock Bluff. On March 3, 1856, Rock Bluff was divided into two precincts described as "along the east line of Hugh Simmons, north to Plattsmouth precinct, west of this line Cassville and east to be called Kanosha. The line passed along what is now the east boundary of the East Union cemetery. The first commissioners elected from districts in Cass county were from these precincts: Jacob Vallery. Jr., from Plattsmouth; H. J. Palmer from Kanosha and W. D. Gage from Cassville precinct.
     January 9, 1856, the survey of the town site of Mount Pleasant was completed, embracing the northeast quarter of section five, which joined the Gage land on the north. The United States patent for this town site was made by president James Buchanan to the trustees of the town: W. D. Gage, David C. Brannan, Martin Prichard, Henry Adkins and Micheal Brannan. At the bottom of the plat of Mount Pleasant a description of this part of Cass county is vividly portrayed:
     "Mount Pleasant, N. T., is situated In the geographical center of Cass county at the intersection of the territorial road leading from Nebraska City to Omaha City with a road leading from Kanosha to Chester on Salt Creek to Ft. Kearney. The site is the most beautiful in Nebraska, being surrounded as far as the eye can see by the most fertile and beet farming land in the Territory, dotted with beautiful groves of timber and watered by the romantic Weeping Water and its branches which flow near the town, furnishing an abundance of water power. A saw mill and a grist mill is already in operation on the Weeping Water and a steam flooring mill is in the process of construction in the town-

site.
     "It is also the dividing line of the railroad from Burlington to Glenwood and the mouth of the Platte and when continued westward must necessarily pass through this place.
     "Building material is abundant and cheap and the best quality stone, iron ore, coal and limestone of the best quality are in great abundance, 1856."
     The Western University was by an act of the legislature incorporated on January 25, 1856, S. M, Kirkpatrick, H. C. Wolph, M. D. Case, William T. Laird, Jno. Mc F. Hagood and Mathew Hughes created a body politic and corporate by the name of The Western University, to be located near or in Cassville, Cass county, Nebraska," The Western University was given a square of land in the southwest corner of Mount Pleasant.
     The first school near Cassvllle was in the home of Ruel R. Davis, a trained school teacher. He and his family with an ox team and covered wagon started from Yadkin, county, N. C., in April, 1856, and arrived at the Milt Case log cabin near Cassville in August. The first Sunday School was conducted under a large oak tree near the Davis cabin, Judge Mathew Hughes, superintendent,
     A log school house was erected near the east boundary of the Mount Pleasant town site in 1857. Sunday School and church services were he'd here. This school house was also the polling place for this part of Cass county for many years.
     Mount Pleasant poet office was established September 20, 1858, and David C. Brannan appointee postmaster. His land claim joined Mount Pleasant on the east. His home was near the southeast corner of the town site. W. D. Gage became postmaster March 12, 1859, which office he he'd until March 17, 1865, when Mathew Hughes became postmaster. William J. Linch, who had purchased the Gage property, took the office of postmaster December 22, 1868, and lived in Cassville where he operated a country store. Andrew Pittman who purchased the farm of Brannan, east of Mt. Pleasant, was appointed postmaster August 6, 1883, which he held until January 12, 1888, when the postoffice was discontinued and mail delivered to Nehawka.
     The Mount Pleasant Methodist Church was built in 1868, on the Stephen Hobson farm due south from Cassville. It became one of the leading churches in Cass county, but when the towns of Union and Nehawka were started, churches were built in these towns which drew the membership from the Mount Pleasant church. The church building was sold and moved to where it is now used as a farm building on the George Sheldon farm.
     Rev. Gage's four small daughters were once treated to tickets to a small circus in Plattsmouth. They had seats near the ring and when the clown came by leading a beautiful horse they stopped him and asked him how he made his horse so shiny, they had a pony they wished to make pretty. He told them he used lard, but not to tell anybody. On Saturday in preparing for Sunday they gave their gentle pony a coat of lard which did make it shine. Filled with delight they stood near admiring the pony as he walked in the yard. After a short time he laid down and rolled in the dust and when he got up covered with a greasy mud they were filled with consternation but more so when their father

appeared and viewed the hideous looking animal. Several days of soap and water corrected the mistake.
     Ola Barnes, a grand daughter of W. D. Gage, was born in the log cabin in Cassville. She studied music in Paris and became one of the well known vocalists in Nebraska. She married David Campbell who was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court in 1890, and they lived in Lincoln until 1900.
     W. D. Gage was the leader of the Union Mass Convention held in Rock Bluff the 30th day of September, 1862. He served as County Judge in Cass county from 1867 to 1868. He was in the mercantile business in Plattesmouth for several years following.
     Rev. William Doolittle Gage was born in Pennsylvania, December 5, 1804, worked at the shoemaker trade until 21, when he entered the Methodist minister. (sic) He married Miss Sarah Shoonmaker of Flatbrush, N. Y. on January 1, 1832. She passed away March 26, 1862, leaving four daughters. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Bailey, on the Joseph Beardsley farm, three miles southwest of Weeping Water, November 20, 1885. Both are at rest in the beautiful Mount Pleasant cemetery in view of Cassville. His daughter wrote: When the waters of the dark river were laving his feet as he left the score of time, he called his loved ones around him and bade them farewell; with a shout of joy for the mercies of the Redeemer plunged into the turbulant (sic) waters which had no terror for him and ascended the shore on the other side to meet those gone before."

JAMES O'NEILL

     James O'Neill was one of the first settlers in Case County. He operated a ferry and first trading post in Plattsmouth. A story concerning this pioneer appears elsewhere in this book.

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