HOMESTEADERS IN BUFFALO COUNTY

 

A LIST OF 1,265 PERSONS TAKING HOMESTEAD AND PRE-EMPTION CLAIMSIN BUFFALO COUNTY PREVIOUS TO 1880—

ARRANGED BY TOWNSHIP AND RANGE, GIVING YEAR OF FILING ON CLAIM, THE HOMESTEADER

 

As a pioneer in the settlement of the county and state the homesteader takes first place—first rank. As a rule the homesteader was of limited means and ventured everything in the effort to establish a home. The rapidity with which the county was settled beginning in 1871 is best illustrated by a table showing the number of homestead and pre-emption claims filed upon in the county previous to the year 1880.

A table giving by years the number of homestead and pre-emption claims filed upon in Buffalo County:

1867 ..................................................    1
1870..................................................     2
1871 .................................................. 165
1872 .................................................. 177
lS73 .................................................   150
1874 .................................................. 143
1875 ..................................................   71
1876.................................................     50
1877 ..................................................   29
1878 ..............................................     268
1879 .................................................. 209
Total...............................................  1,265

The setback which not only Buffalo County but the state received in the drouth and grasshopper years of 1874, 1875 and 1876 is only half illustrated in the above table, for not only were there comparatively few newcomers, hut hundreds of those who had taken claims left the county and state, deserting their claims, which were in later years taken by others.

The rather large number of claims recorded as taken in the years 1878-79 in part accounted for by the fact that the Fort Kearney Military Reservation ten miles square and four-tenths of which was embraced within the limits of Buffalo County, was thrown open to homestead entry in 1878 under condition:

Which permitted the head of a family to homestead 160 acres, and in the years 1878-79 all these lands were filed upon in the United States Land Office, and as there were no railroad lands in the reservation, every quarter section contained a homesteader. The belief that the reservation would be thrown open to home-stead entry led interested parties (the chief promoter being Dr. J. J. Saville) to employ S. and J. Murphy, civil engineers, "living at Kearney, to survey the reservation, this about the year 1876, and at that date practically the entire reservation was taken by "squatters" who, when the lands were thrown open to homestead entry in 1878, having the first right to make entry, filed their claims in the land office.

Believing that in a history of Buffalo County the name of every person taking a homestead or pre-emption claim, in the early days, is worthy of being made a matter of record, and that to future generations it will be of interest to know who made the first settlements in the various townships of the county, the editor has copied from the United States Land Office records the names of all those taking a homestead or pre-emption claim in the county previous to the year 1880.

This list is here given by Government township and range, and in the spelling of the names great care has been taken to follow the record in the land office. It will be noticed there are some duplication of names. This is accounted for from the fact that some settlers took both a pre-emption and a homestead claim, it being legal and proper so to do.

List of persons taking homestead and pre-emption claims in Buffalo County previous to the year 1880:

PLATTE TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 8, RANGES 13 AND I4

1878—Jacob Miller, Nelson Jaco, C. E. Darling, F. C. Goodwin, Edward Broderick, A. Smith. H. S. Towers, R. H. Pember, John Stutz, Fred Donner, Henrich Brenkman, W. H. Wallace, John Nash, Wm. Moreland, Wm. J. Willars, John Hartwell, John Pember, E. Slatie, L. Morrow, Thomas Carson, Sarepta Patterson, A. Johnson, G. W. Rishel, N. Platt, M. Martin. F. A. Morgan, J. A. Combs, Sophia Holbrook. P. McBride, Silas Troop, A. A. Robinson, T. L. Grafhus, PI. Wilcox, Samuel Boyer, Charles Ernst.
1879—John Vanwey, George Stearley, J. W. Weaver, M. O. Kcssler, John W. Shahan, John T. Gilliland, T. Swenier, I. A. Matlick, W. H. Fulton, J. Kent.

SHELT0N TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 13

1870—O. E. Thompson, Andrew Buest.
1871—August Meyer. L. Worlhington. B. C. Bassett, Henry Fairchild, Robert Waters. S. C. Bassett, A. S. Craig, J. H. Darby, Ed Lovall, W. H. Sprague, James Oliver. H. C. Green, M. Stearley, H. Goss. B. F. Sammons, Ira L. Bunker, L. N. West, F. F. Blanchard. C. Putnam, Dr. I. P. George, W. H. Kelly, Theron D. Yost, J. N. Allen. B. Austin, J. M. Bayley. C. O. Childs, Kingman Fisher, J. M. Envin, J. F. McKinley, Isaac Starbuck, James Wilkie, F. B. Reider, Paul Litterman, W. H. Gray.
1872— Edward Oliver, Ephriam Oliver, Henry Dugdalc, E. M. Fargo, John Gagin, H. Stockwell, Orin Pratt, S. B. Lowell, A. D. George, Rodney George; George W. Brown, James Wilson, John Haug, Fred Haug, George Stearley, Joseph Buck, Sr., A. W. Zimmerman, J. R. George.
1873— Joseph Owen, Elizabeth Hurley, Mrs. Mary Day.
1874— Patrick Walsh, J. A. Brown, M. Breed, H. Thompson, F. J. Jcnns, L. M. Sanford, B. Ashton.
1875— Wm. Nutter, Montrose Fisher.
1876— L. D. Craven, Mrs. E. Pember.
1877— M. G. Lee.
1878— D. S. Meals, D. M. Swayze, \V. G. Devall, Mary M. Kirkpatrick, Eli Meals, B. P. Thompson, W. H. Curtis, J. O. Vanwey, George Trace, Jr., L. Vohland, W. H. Bell, N. Meals, M. W. Winchester, W. H. Mauer, J. Bishop. W. H. Ashton, J. P. Bastian, S. L. Boyer, J. B. Loury, J. J. Brown, James Wilson, H. H. Winchester.
1879— George Mortimer, J. H. Leisey, J. Miller.

SHARON TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 10, RANGE NO. 13

1871— V. Armbus, Wm. M. Craven, Albert Washburn, Geo. L. Thomas, O. B. Washburn, O. C. Hancock. Simon V. Sccley, F. D. Boardman, James Garfield, Jame E. Judd, T. D. Thacher, Lorenzo Plumb, J. W. Vance, J. A. Barnes, George Meisner, Casper Meisner, D. Fox, Henry Fieldgrove, John P. Smith, A. Barrett, Alzo Plumb, J. H. Mills, S. R. Traut.
1872— Mrs. Lois N. Ayer, E. Buno, L. Sturges, P. Ruth, R. A. Fox, Robert Goar, T. J. Taylor, J. E. Miller, C. E. S. Cooper, E. Miller, J. M. Kean, J. K. Lux, C. W. Davenport, J. C. Standley, P. McCullough, S. F. Henninger, J. J. Whittier, D. W. Johnson, R. Neil. D. Stonebarger, Mrs. E. Pember, Nathan Mills.
1873— A. Rines, C. S. Bailey, E. S. Judd, T. E. Mundle, A. D. Barnhart, John Henry, M. S. Henry, Daniel Dye.
1874— H. S. Colby, J. D. H. Koch, J. M. Devall, Geo. F. Klingst, F. A. Kappler, O. Gumprech, Isaac Willard, B. Whittaker.
1875— E. W. Bonnan, J. P. Turbell, E. M. Devall.
1876— F. W. Killner, T. F. Craig, W. S. Freeman.
1877— D. Otto, F. W. Schiemann.
1878— W. F. Koster, H. Sutter, George Conroy, John Conroy, Geo. D. Williams, C. H. Cudney, G. A. Blume, A. Hoag, W. H. Bentley, Florence E. Brown.
1879— John Lubbin, E. L. Smith, T. D. Allen.

GARDNER TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 11, RANGE NO. 13

1874— D. Barrett, A. Bromley, Wm. Barrett, S. Chandler, J. T. Badger, T. J. Smith, Saml. Urwiller.
1875— Geo. L. Gardner, Luke Barrett.
1876— Geo. K. Peck, Wm. Weeces.
1877—W. S. Elliott, Emma T. Peck, S. McCutchen, Henry Willey, G. W. Archer, C. Riddle.
1878— Max Schlund, Claus Sothmann, F. Hentz, H. Muhlbach, R. Beekman, H. Cassidy, J. H. Barrett, G. H. L. Harding, J. G. A. Muhlbach, Jas. Hutchinson, S. R. Hankins, C. C. Knapp, W. L. Lewis, L. Krenzwieser, V. E. Bush, H. Harris, J. G. Harris, Elizabeth J. Aufderhide, John Luce, Robt Taylor, F. Urwiller, Thomas Carroll, Emil Keehlcr, C. Karp, George Best, D. Scrivin, J. Urwiller, F. A. Muhlbach, W. F. Muhlbach, J. P. Curry, J. B. Wrightington, Joanna Dean, A. G. Welch, Henry Decker, J. Hendrickson, D. Riley, F. Rohrbach.
1879— Samuel Urwiller, E. Muhlbach, F. A. E. Novck, John A. Hogg, E. Riley, L. Waldron, James Cleary, George S. Post, Wm. Sprect, E. J. Stephens, J. Y. Swigart, George W. Carr, Danforth Demary, C. N. Klammer, John Stuber, R. J. Welch, Eli Campbell, P. Dooley, J. Billingsly.

CHERRY CREEK TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO.  12, RANGE NO. 13

1876—E. Locke.
1878— A. Kyne, G. M. Hankins, R. J. Hodson.
1879— A. J. Hodson, J. D. Mathews, M. Kyne, E. J. Varney.

GIBBON TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 14

(Note—The southwest quarter of section 14, town 9, range 14, in this township, known as "Boyd Ranch," was the first claim taken in the county by Joseph Boyd in 1867, and was the first piece of deeded land in Nebraska west of Hall County.)

1867—Joseph Boyd.
1871—A. F. Gibson, W. H. Kenny, W. J. Knight, Coe Killgore, Clara E. Lew, John Lloyd, C. A. Monks, \V. F. McClure, E. Northrup, A. J. Oviatt, Wm. Patterson, C. T. Silvernail, H. P. Rogers, John Lucas, Geo. H. Silvernail, Wm. Roach, John Silvernail, Jacob Booth, R. E. L. Willard, J. W. Wiggins, S. M. McDuffee, Aaron Ward, W. D. Plick, C. E. Brayton, John W. Forrest, Wm. Brady, Robert Hick, I. D. La Carre, R. Forrest. Geo. Gilmore, P. K. Drury, L. S. Hough, J. Delos Drury, S. Rosseter, Y. T. Mercer, U. A. Day. John Stern. D. R. Davis, O. A. Buzzell, Asa Fawcett, W. J. Carson, W. W. Gibson, D. P. Crable, M. D. Thomas, A. Kennedy, J. S. Chamberlain, R. S. Shiffert, L. D. George, J. Gable, T. J. Hubbard, W. N. Jackson, E. M. Hubbard, G. A. King, Saml. Mattice, R. Wallace, John Grabach.
1872— P. T. Davis, A. J. Snowdon, W. C. Drury, J. W. Berry, Mary J. Mercer, J. E. Kelsey, D. P. Ashburn, John P. Putnam, T. J. Fisher, D. B. Worley, Wm. Stem, J. A. Danncr, H. B. Mercer.
1873— J. Marsh, T. B. George, W. P. Trew, T. J. Mahoney.
1874—Ebon Bray, J. J. W. Place.
1878— A. P. Johnson, H. Lewis, R. W. Wallace, P. Crawford, A. J. Murrish, John J. Marrs. Charles Riley, Wm. Manix, John Murrish, B. M. Guiles, M. Meals, J. McWhiney, T. Pratt, A. H. Boltin, Elisabeth Baker, W. H. Chapman, W. O. Altaffer, S. M. Palmer. H. Cook, F. H. Cook, Mary A. Reis, E. S. Edwards, J. M. Applcgate. P. E. Foxworthy, Hattie B. Cook, A. Eddy.
1879— Peter DcClark, Isaac DeClark, A. L. Chase.

VALLEY TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 10, RANGE NO. 14

1871— N. W. Short, M. Gray.
1872— T. L. Mitchell, T. R. Beach, S. A. Barrett, E. Graham.
1873— W. T. Beatty, H. H. Haven, W. A. Losee, S. F. Berry, M. Oard. A. M. Campbell, George Simpkins. Samuel T. Walker.
1874— Thomas Jones, John Brennon, W. R. Wheeler.
1875—P. C. Shannon.
1876—Wm. Puttergill, S. D. Kooser.
1878— J. B. Wheeler, Geo. E. Fredericks, T. O. George, O. Knepper.
1879—R. R. Rathbon, Joseph Glaze, Wm. Trivelpiece, L. C. France, J. Kinnett, G. W. McKay, DavidRoach, G. W. Walker, N. H. Smith.

SCHNEIDER TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 11, RANGE NO. 14

1874—J. Schullcr, John Petz. F. Frederick, G. Schicm.
1875— W. Fischer, J. G. Grossen, P. Mundscheuk, A. Schucller, C. Murbe. F. A. Schmidt, C Kaubler, F. Lochr, F. L. Berbig.
1876— C. W. Grosser, T. Render, F. Winkler, G. Middleton. Robert Penson.
1877— F. A. Scheick, F. Reinhold, F. Gruenther, W. Weber.
1878—J. Lindloff, Anna Murgerl, J. Soukup, Frank Schuler, E. Gochring. W. A. Shreve, Mary Schuller, W. Freyberg, F. Guenthcr, J. H. Richardson.
1879— C. H. Dow, Elizabeth Porter, A. Burgess, S. H. Hogg. Silas Robinson. R. Gochring, W. Z. Tillson, B. F. Gardner, C. T. Frederick. A. Scheick. F. A. Weidner, F. L. Weidner, J. Schmidt, A. W. Clark. J. Weigcl, W. W. Pool, W. Freyberg, Hans Voss, T. Blaschko. Granvill Robinson, J. A. King, J. Zulauf Peter O'Brien, R. McKutchen, J. H. Vorys, T. Hodges.

GARFIELD TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 12, RANGE NO. 14

1874—Erastus Smith, H. J. Alward, Wm. Eastridge, D. Miller, W. Freel.
1876— E. Veith.
1877— J. T. Lewis.
1878— F. Stark, A. A. Hixon.
1879— J. C Stark, P. Gehrt, J. W. Mommesson, J. M. Smith, C. Uri, W. Brough, B. F. Peck, P. N. Round, C. Landers.

CENTER TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 15

Also all of town No. 8. Range No. 15, embraced in Buffalo County.
1871— George N. Smith. H. Hillficker, R. Killgore. B. F. Bengsloe. John Blanchard, A. H. Brundage. H. D. Smith, W. A. Hunter. Wm. Smith. George Hoge, George Enderly. J. H. Miller. George Flehearty. J. H. O'Neil. S. A. Mack. A. Shovel, T. M. Paddis. I. B. Wambaugh, H. Comstock. H. T. Faddis. C A. Smith. John Davis. A. W. Tabor, A. L. Ketchum, F. Moore.
1872— W. H. Killgore. J. Hillficker. J. Wood, John Mahan. T,. D. Forehand. G. M. Hively, John Hively, J. Enderiy. J. Loverin, J. N. Loverin, Mary A. Smith, A. P. Mitchell, J. Gabriel, A. B. Richardson, J. C. Pierce,. I. L. Cuttler, H. S. Guy, J. McClure, G. W. Kern, Jr., S, I. Asterheid, C. I. Asterheid, D. B. Marsh, S. Brandal, A. Row, W. S. Spooner, J. Crinyan, H. Worden, W. M. Brookover, C. Parry, J. Hively, A. Henderson. T. Garland, C. T. Weldin.
1873— J. M. Frantz, N. D. Brooks, George Grabach, A. W. Hanson, D. Bean, W. Troop, Robert Haines, A. Scott, Maria J. Sadler, Mary A. Smith, J. M. Thomas, J. Thomas, H. V. Westhoven, H. W. Morse, J. S. Harrington, J. B. Ingram, J. A. Waters, G. W. Clem, John Hoge.
1874— B. Fancette, L. Troop. J. Scott, J. Troop, E. A. Hartman, C. Lee, P. D. Keys.
1875— J. Hormel, D. Clelland, A. A. Brown.
1876— F. E. Babbitt, B. F. Vandyke, S. Van Scyoc, C. C. Black, F. Reynolds, A. H. Edwards.
1877— J. Trumbull, Wm. Schranm, L. Korecek, C. Ostcrhcid.
1878—W. T. Scott, F. J. Switz, H. Burritt, Mary A. Vance, L. M. Brigham, E. C. Calkins, M. Saville, C. A. Westervelt, A. Bessie, Samuel L. Savidge, C. E. Paist, A. B. Clark, I. Henthorn, J. Layton, J. A. Harron, J. E. Lund, M. F. Martin, S. H. MeNutt, A. D. Randall, M. O. Riley, H. J. Mack, E. Mathews, G. W. Mecum, M. M. Martin, D. Allen, J. M. Chism, R. W. Russell, S. Landis, C. D. Ayers, H. C. Sams, W. H. Salisbury, S. Wenzell D. Wcbbert, W. L. Nash, J. S. Sizer, S. J. Waldron, L. W. Zook, P. Ford, W. E. Hawley, J. Eaton, J. W. Winslow, T. T. Clelland, J. McKain, M. M. Allen, M. Henthorn, T. McBride, James Evans, Rosa Grant.
1879—W. B. McBride, B. H. Goulding, R. H. Eaton, J. Anderson, E. D. McCalve.


THORNTON TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 10, RANGE NO. 15

1873— C. A. Borders, B. Turner, F. Chisler, F. J. Weldin, M. Conners, J. C. V. Kelley, B. J. Holmes, W. S. Hall.
1874— S. S. St. John, J. M. Smith, J. Gass, N. L. Coombs, Joel Miller, N. Fellers, J. Trumbull, W. J. Neely, J. E. Holloway, F. G. Hamer, B. Strcigle, G. H. Cutting, W. G. Patterson, S. W. Thornton, E. Goodsell.
1875— G. R- Tracy, S. W. Powers, H. Stanford, J. Schutrum, P. D. Keys, J. H. Borders, D. K. Larimer, E. Cooperider.
1876— G. P. Caldwell, J. A. Waters, G. Schmid.
1878—J. Lake, George Gilming, Z. A. Weldin, L. W. Weldin, D. McCan, W. Weldin, Rebecca S. Neely, C. C. Smith, W. J. Turner, T. Spencer.
1879—Caroline M. Gilming, J. Gass, L. F. Lyberger, R. Gass, F. Gunst, W. S. Ball, T. Caton, A. Henderson, A. W. Smith, I. S. Tracy, F. W. Magee.

CEDAR TOWNSHIP—TOWN  NO. 11, RANGE NO. 15

1873—M. A. Young, I. Bates. Joseph Clayton, S. A. Marshall. S. Kinsey, E. West, E. W. Carpenter, Joseph White, S. J. Houston, J. M. Treichler, S. Higgins, J. Dance.
1874—A. St. Peter, J. McCool, J. Rink, H. Luce, J. E. Miller.
1878— W. C. Tillson, J. Mapes, C. H. George, G. Vater.
1879— A. Barker, J. Barker, G. W. Duncan, J. H. Shields, A. J. Stover,
C. W. Putnam, D. McCool, W. Bigsty, T. Hunnegbun, G. A. Tuppan.

BEAVER TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 12, RANGE NO. 15

1873— H. Hughes, J. P. Christensen.
1874— J. Armstrong.
1875— J. Nave, J. McGee.
1876— B. F. Parkhurst, H. C. Padelford.
1877— J. W. Herbough.
1878— E. Nervig, W. A. Weller, J. Michie, T. W. Smay, Robt. Hutchinson.
1879— PI. Work, W. Lee, Ole Lee, J. L. Miller, T. J. Cocking.

RIVERDALE TOWNSHIP—TOWN  NO. 9,  RANGE NO. 16

Also town No. 8, range No. 16, as embraced in Buffalo County.

1871— George E. Smith, Jas. A. Smith, W. F. Marsh, E. T. Jay, Pattie Giddings, W. W. Patterson, Mahlon White, L. S. Dickenson, J. W. Whitlock, J. O. Potter, J. F. Chace, G. S. Ball, W. S. Croy, N. Gould, A. M. White, I. White, H. Van Arman.
1872— John Henning, D. Lewis, W. Slotc, D. M. Logan, James Jenkins, I. Webb, F. L. Perkins, Joseph Scott, J. M. Winterbottom, George E. Smith, A. M. Gay, I. J. Hillman, Anna M. Smith, J. W. Leland, L. B. Fifield, D. Rowan. D. Anderson, A. Fellows, F. W. Dart, A. W. Barlow, Ashbury Collins, F. N. Colwell, C. Winterbottom, F. G. Keens, A. J. Gibson, A. Larson, H. Miller, J. C. Bunnell, L. B. Cunningham, B. C. Byrd, C. Sischo, J. F. Jones, P. Calhoon, C. Stevenson, F. Cuddebach, J. Cuddcbach, J. W. Kick, E. S. Perkins, W. G. Carson, J. B. Sammons, S. Wenzcll, C. Gould, Wm. Morse.
1873— F. R. Woods, Hannah Jay, Geo. E. Norris. J. N. Keller. J. W. Bradley, W. J. Perkins, J. G. Carson, E. P. McDonald, J. C. Bunnell, J. R. Hurst. J. Carr, A. E. Russell, J. H. Hollenbeck, E. Spencer, W. Smart, A. W. Reddish, Wm. Swartwood, W. C. Griffith, A. Ii. Connor, J. A. Smith, M. Smidt, W. S. Gregory, W. C. Turner, Max Boetsch, J. Williams, Walter Colby.
1874— J. W. Nash, C. Baumgartner, M. M. White, C. Israel, J. Fish, E. H. Wilcox, W. Hewitt, N. C. Honnold, E. L. Lull, P. Keefer, F. Reynolds, H. W. Ross.
1875— M. N. Hildebrand, J. B. Wicker, J. R. King, C. Larson, Ole Larson, B. Tucsdale, C. Abrandt, W. B. Brown, Wm. Moner, T. C. Roberts.
1876— John Ffrom, C. S. Hill, S. S. Hill, C. W, Porter, L. Wenzell, T. S. Nightengale.
1877— H. H. Magill.
1878—N. Campbell, M. Nevius, H. E. Swan, H. Lantz, D. Lowenstein, C. L. A. Klatte, Julia Haven, C. C. Black, J. S. Atwood, John Barnes, Joseph Black, E. Kleber, J. M. Feather, James Cox, W. S. Slate.
1870—J. H. Lantz, H. Lowenstcin. N. D. Bort, S. R. Black. I. J. Sommers, W. L. Nash, W. M. Guardian, M, Smith, A. J. Crossley, J. L. Seymour, A. Sheifeldt.

DIVIDE TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 10, RANGE NO. 16

1872— Wm. Willard, W. Richardson, V. O. S. Reynolds, A. D. Raymond, W. F. Piercy, J. L. Chevaux.
1873— J. F. Young, S. Herod, A. E. Thomas, G. N. McKeen, M. J. Spry, I. Neff, E. A. Cutting, W. L. Willard, G. S. Duncan, I. S. Knight, Mrs. M. B. Fox, D. Inman, D. A. Dorsey, E. W. Thomas, C. A. McConkey, J. Joseph, A. L. Spry, J. Brown, S. A. Atwood, G. L. Bakewell, C. Lewis, B. C. Sprague, J. E. Spry, S. N. Spry, D. Vance, R. H. Eaton, H. W. Collins, T. G. McLaughlin.
1874—T. J. McKee, H. Mitchell, G. Beal, H. Sievert, J. Ginther, C. Kirk. F. Siewert, F. Riesenweber, A. Davidson, F. Willoper, H. Banmgarn, S. Miller, T. Turney, J. Rilinger, A. H. Cleaveland, C. Bishop, John Swenson, J. Schutt.
1875— L. Logan, J. H. Harrison, L. N. Thomdike, D. H. Compton, J. Sommerville, Thomas Ginther, O. Neff, Wm. Hueselton, F. Weiss, A. Gartley, H. Randolph, C. Schandtz, E. Cuddebach, A. L. Hopwood, A. Avers.
1876— L. G. Walter, N. Boquet, C. Stierlen, L. Brucker, A. A. Brucker, T. Hutchinson.
1877— V. H. Barrager, Robert Scheiching.
1878— F, Hone, Lydia P. Bever, A. Stedwell, Robf. Kriittcl, F. Juhl, C. Scheiching.
1879— Emory Peck, J. W. Lalone, W. H. Pettit, D. Hamilton, B. Koeppe, M. S. Stover, H, A, Wells, K. Holmes, Xaver Hoell, F. Juhl, G. Scheiching, Wm. Stover.

RUSCO TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 11, RANGE NO. 16

1873— E. M. Holly.
1874— A. Peake, John Wilson, L. H. Johnson, J. L. Scott, L. Allen, B. D. Graham, A. M. Morse, F. Boyer, J. H. Lockard.
1875— W. H. Jordon.
1876— W. Rusco.
1877— M. p- Baker, C. Scott.
1878— J. W. Phillips, A. D. Cohvell.
1879—E. Beyer, J. A. Beyer, J. T. Field, A. O. Olsen, C. E. Field, S. A. Field, Kate M. Trott, F. M. Moore, J. Nickman.

LOUP TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 12, RANGE NO. l6

1874—H. F. Hand, J. T. Palmer, L. A. Colburn, C. B. Oakley, N. Dick, N. A. Brunce, J. Welch, H. H. Clark.
1876—E. Colburn, J. C. Carr, John Sheckler.
1878— C. F. Madsen, J. H. Booher, R. Reiter, J. J. Parks, C. A. Turner, O. Holmes, J. Pearson, I. Holmes, D. A. Parks.
1879— H. H- Smith, E. Reiter, D. A. Peterson, J. F. Hunter, W. H. Sparks, J. Unick, D. Rohrbarer, C. E. Parks, F. Scholtz.

ODESSA TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 17

Also that portion of town No. 8. range No. 17, embraced within the limits of Buffalo County.

1871—Dan A. Crowell, B. Allen Crowcll.
1S72—R. D. Gould, J. Zerk, D. Brown, E. Christianson, C. Christianson, J. F. Suplee, S. Tolefsen, R. Vails, S. W. Homer, Flora Thomas, H. Brown, J. B. Vincent, M. Fagley, H. F. Leonard, Wm. C. T. Kurth, Geo. W. Tovey, J. Ratliff, M. Homer, J. E. F. Vails, John D'. Seaman.
1873— C. S. Greenman, E. N. Lord, Geo. D. Aspinwall, George Hall, R. F. Watters, Theadore Knox, James Sturrock, A. Ream, J. E. Chidester, J. Homer, Jr.
1874— James Halliwell, D. Harpst, John T. Brown, Edward Keltner, Wm. F. Reeves, J. M. Grant, Thomas Maloney.
1875— George Jones.
1876— H. Ransom, Catherine Edwards.
1878— F. W. Niekols, J. Vails, George A. Bailey, Susan C. Hurlburt, R. D. Gould, D. Hostetlcr, H. H. Achey, Susan Grant, L. C. Skelley, Ada Grant.
1879— J. Segard, John Davis. W. Broat, Cordelia M. Waite, J. B. Neal, John Work, George T. Broughton, Wa H. McNett.

GRANT TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 10, RANGE NO. 17
1872— John Groves, J. Atkinson, Jr., Richard Bell, J. J. Roberts.
1873— M. B. Hunt, W. White, E. S. Marsh. G. L. Kough, A. M. Mudge, J. K. Sanford, W. H. Brown, G. F. Iiesselgrave, T. E. Foster, Wm. N. Brown.
1874— Wm. Grant, G. W. Coffman, A. Thompson, Lydia M. Mace, H. Coffman, J. H. Coffman.
1875— H. A. Jules, G. H. Sand, D. Halsey, Charles Wandel, C. L. Hamilton.
1876— M. Butler, A. Clark, L. Major.
1877— Katie Lander, J. W. Brewster.
1878— Daniel Holden, P. H. Esler, M. E. Lathrop, H. L. Seaman, Pat Riley.
1879— J. H. Fisher, B. L. Mushrush, H. Brown, F. C. Almy, W. J. Clark, H. B. Gilbert, J. C. Douke, Wm. M. Hoover.

SCOTT TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 11, RANGE NO. 17

1873— Benjamin Scott, John Laro.
1874— W. Hanshen, J. P. Gilmore. James A. Betts.
1878—J. J. Moore, James Broadfoot.
1879—W. W. McLea, O. H. Lowery.

SARTORIA TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 12, RANGE NO. 17

1878— B. Lee, Nels Lee, Mattie Stockdale.
1879— P. Pierce, W. Cook, C. Cook, W. J. Grant, George Pfeiffer.

ELM CREEK TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 18

Also that portion of town Ng. 8. range No. 18, embraced within Buffalo County.

1871— A. F. Fraser, T. J. Holt; D. Foot, II. Ryan.
1872— Fannie Kevins, James Tyler, W. Shrcve, R. M. Holt, M. Stout, F. Ryan, D. McAlister, VV. S. Leake, J. E. Anderson, P. Hansen, D. T. Hood, W. V. Hoge, J. McKee, J. W. Stevens.
1873—H. B. Steele, John Tyler, D. C. Bond, D. Dooley, J. Degler.
1874— C. J. Swayne, H. T. Morton, J. Meach, J. Dane, J. Ulrich, William Dawns, J. T. Shufllebarger, Wm. Sncll, F. Foster, J. DcKam, Charles Davis.
1875— L. Kocker, A. S. Leake, S. T. Wolf, A. Shufllebarger, J. Shufllebarger, Sarah J. Calkins, George Miller.
1876— G. W. House, J. P. Arndt.
1877— D. I. Brown.
1878—R. K. Potter, W. C. Shufllebarger, J. R. Churchill, M. Hurley.
1879—J. Somell, A. Straight, S. M. Tingley, H. Hobson, C. E. Holmes, L. Knapp, D. Browning, A. S. Sabin, L. P. Wells. J. Demuth, A. Jarchke, Thomas Bolan, N. O. Calkins, J. B. Wait.

LOGAN TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 10, RANGE NO. 18

1878— C. A. Willis, Ella A. Willis.
1879— Anton Ragcr.

ARMADA TOWNSHIP—TOWN NO. 11, RANGE NO. 18

1873— H. C. Harbough, A. J. Fcnnell, Wm. Carr, R. Burney, Thomas Jeffry.
1874— John Mercer, J. H. Brown, Robert Miller, Oscar Hamilton.
1875— I. Lamb, J. F. Mackey.
1877— A. L. Armstrong.
1878— Wm. M. White, G. A. Roach, H. Zarrs.
1879— J- L. Abel, R. F. Simpson, F. B. Craps, A. F. Burt, H. T. West.

HARRISON TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO.  12, RANGE NO. 18

1879—John Hurse, J. W. Cassell, E. Miles, C. Olmstead, W. N. Wright, E. A. Woodbridge, Cannute Lee.

 

 

 

Source: Buffalo County Nebraska And Its People Volume II - The S.J. Clarks Publishing Co 1916