CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAPTER 1. TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS

1-73

Francis Burt

1- 2

Thomas B. Cuming

3- 8

Mark W. Izard

9-16

William A. Richardson

17-20

J. Sterling Morton

21-47

Samuel W. Black

48-55

Algernon S. Paddock

56-60

Alvin Saunders

61-73

CHAPTER II. TERRITORIAL DELEGATES

74-103

Introduction

74- 76

Napoleon B. Giddings

77- 78

Bird B. Chapman

79- 81

Fenner Ferguson

82- 85

Experience Estabrook

86- 88

Samuel G. Daily

89

J. Sterling Morton

90- 99

Phineas W. Hitchcock

100-103


CHAPTER III. STATE GOVERNORS

104-210

David Butler

104-117

William H. James

118-119

Robert W. Furnas

120-134

Silas Garber

135-140

Albinus Nance

141-147

James W. Dawes

148-159

John M. Thayer

160-175

James E. Boyd

176-201

Lorenzo Crounse

202-205

Silas A. Holcomb

206-210


CHAPTER IV. STATE SENATORS

211-385

Preliminary Historical Sketch

211-215

Thomas W. Tipton

216-266

John M. Thayer

267-278

Phineas W. Hitchcock

279-286

Algernon S. Paddock

287-304

Alvin Saunders

305-313

Charles H. Van Wyck

314-332

Charles F. Manderson

333-361

William V. Allen

362-385


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PAGE

CHAPTER V. REPRESENTATIVES

386-556

T. M. Marquett

386-389

John Taffe

390-394

Lorenzo Crounse

395-409

Frank Welch

410-413

Thomas J. Majors

414

Edward K. Valentine

415-420

Archibald J. Weaver

421-425

James Laird

426-438

Gilbert L. Laws

439-442

William J. Connell

443-448

George W. E. Dorsey

449-454

John A. McShane

455-461

William J. Bryan

462-500

William A. McKeighan

501-516

Omer M. Kem

517-528

Eugene J. Hainer

529-537

David H. Mercer

538-549

George D. Meiklejohn

550-556


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


THOMAS WESTON TIPTON. Frontispiece.

FACE PAGE

J. Sterling Morton, 1858

24

J. Sterling Morton, 1896

96

David Butler

104

R. W. Furnas

120

J. E. Boyd

176

Lorenzo Crounse

202

Silas A. Holcomb

208

Charles F. Manderson

336

William V. Allen

368

William Jennings Bryan

464

 


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PREFACE.


   After a continuous residence of thirty-three years in Nemaha County, four of which were with the celebrated First Nebraska Regiment, and eight in the United States Senate, having suffered a sudden loss of health, I found a very pleasant pastime and most genial employment in recalling the early days of Nebraska pioneering.
   My first impulse was to utter opinions of men and measures. But remembering how liable we all are to make mistakes, and being fearful of doing injustice, by omission or prejudice, to some of my associates, I determined, as far as possible, to become only the recorder of their public works and compiler of their sentiments and oratorical gems.
   My theme, Forty Years of Nebraska at Home and in Congress, brought into review fifty officials, - eight territorial governors, six delegates in Congress, ten state governors, eight United States senators, and eighteen members of the house of representatives. The number required brevity. The one million new-comers and young generation were to be instructed, and the considerate and merciful criticism invoked of the remaining fifty-eight thousand old settlers.
   I acknowledge my indebtedness to ex-governor Furnas for the use of his invaluable library, to the Illustrated History of Nebraska, and to the Congressional Globe and Record.

THE AUTHOR.

   607 Florida Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. May 30, 1894.


ERRATA.
Page 21, Note. For Joseph D. Morton read Julius Dewey Morton.
Page 55, Note. For III. read I.
Page 57, line 18. For Nebr., Territory read Nebraska Territory.

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