What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Dixon County and its people.

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original Book published in 1896.

History

of

Dixon County,

Nebraska

Its Pioneers, Settlement, Growth and Development, and Its Present Condition - - Its Villages, Townships, Enterprises and Leading Citizens.

Together with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men, Incidents of Pioneer Life. Etc.

By

William Huse

Ponca, Nebraska

Press of the Daily News

Norfolk

1896

370 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

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Table of Contents

Part 1

Chapter I. Introductory
Chapter II. The organization of the territory of Nebraska
Chapter III. Particulars and experiences of first settlement of county
Chapter IV. Dixon County's progress
Chapter V. Indian scares and annoyances
Chapter VI. Courts and crimes in Dixon County in 1870
Chapter VII. Story of a rascally little railroad
Chapter VIII. The growth of the county, continued
Chapter IX. The coal discoveries, and the ups and downs of mining in Dixon County during the past 38 years
Chapter X. The building of the railroad up the Logan Valley and its great help in settling up the southern part of the county
Chapter XI. From 1883 to 1886
Chapter XII. Railroad rumblings
Chapter XIII. Assessments, population, improved land, fruit and forest trees, marriages, births and deaths, from organization of the county to the present time
Chapter XIV. Members of the legislature sent from Dixon County
Chapter XV. Ponca City - Its past and present 
Chapter XVI. Ionia and Ponca townships - Their citizens
Chapter XVII. Silver Creek, Daily, Hooker, Clark and New Castle townships and New Castle Village 
Chapter XVIII. Otter Creek, Galena Springbank and Emerson township 
Chapter XIX. Logan, Wakefield and Concord townships 

Part 2

Among the Indians 
The sacred book of the Arapahoes 
The realm of fiction, with an occasional fact thrown in 
Incidents of every day life 
An old frontiersman relates the thrilling experience of his daughter with a drove of wild beasts 
Reminiscences, and how we once ran for office 
A bull fight 
Irrepressible conflict concerning a hog trough 
A confidence game takes people in 
Prof. Perrigoue's fight with fire 
Burglars in town 
An Indian duel 
The general's jollification meeting

Biographical Surnames

Arnold, Alexander, Atkinson, Auchmoody, Armstrong, Auge, Addison, Askin, Anderson, Allen, Acres, Barrett, Buntz, Buckman, Brown, Bramble, Bigley, Bisbee, Beardshear, Bolsom, Baltzley, Barnes, Beeson, Berry, Bauer, Blecker, Bates, Biggerstaff, Barber, Beller, Bennett, Baker, Brookey, Bailey, Burdick, Burgett, Borg, Barto, Blake, Barnhill, Carstines, Clark, Carson, Cavanagh, Curry, Clark, Conner, Conrad, Cooper, Culver, Cook, Coats, Carnell, Childs, Crandall, Coleman, Cummings, Coleman, Conway, Cummings, Cady, Connery, Carder, Coleman, Clingan, Calvert, Cleveland, Cole, Chase, Crowell, Cavanaugh, Crowley, Davis, Dempsey, Daily, Dewitt, Donlin, Denton, Dorsey, Davey, Drager, Dierenfield, Douthit, Dudley, Donahue, Dougherty, Donovon, Dempster, Delaney, Duren, Demme, Delay, Ellyson, Ellis, Eames, Enders, Engle, Fuller, Freeman, Forbes, Francis, Fields, Franz, Feauto, Foulks, Flack, Finnegan, Fegley, Filley, Fenton, Gorman, Gillan, Gamble, Groth, Gray, Green, Gantt, Gibbs, Grosvenor, Gran, Gibson, Graham, Graves, Gurney, Hill, Hoese, Hotchkiss, Hughes, Harden, Hart, Hebron, Higgins, Hobbs, Howe, Hamilton, Huse, Hench, Harris, Hewett, Heald, Huddleston, Heidy, Hannant, Hillen, Hoover, Hoy, Hoskinson, Hopkins, Herrick, Harney, Harding, Hoopingarmer, Hall, Hurley, Herfel, Hamlin, Hinds, Hypse, Hall, Hooker, Isom, Jones, Johnson, Jeffrey, Jourdan, Johnson, Jenkins, Kugler, Kingsbury, Kautz, Keoppie, Krause, Koser, Kellogg, Kuhn, Kerwin, Kuntz, Lothrop, Long, LaFollette, Lockwood, Leech, Lister, Logan, Lennox, Leonard, Lesman, Malone, Maskall, Massenger, Miller, Martin, Matteson, Mahoney, Marble, MacMullen, Mannion, Mendenhall, Mallory, Mauley, Manning, Marshal, Mellon, Mikesell, Milligan, Mohr, Morehouse, Morris, Monfort, Morgan, Murtin, Murphy, Mote, Myers, McKinley, McKennas, McCarthy, McCabe, McShane, McClary, McGuirk, McGrath, McClusky, McManus, McDonald, McCleary, Newton, Norris, Nelson, O'Conner, Orr, O'Connell, O'Grady, O'Toole, Putnam, Porter, Paschal, Pfister, Pierce, Packer, Palmer, Paull, Pearson, Pomeroy, Pettit, Pearson, Payne, Powers, Park, Postlewait, Roden, Rose, Richards, Rice, Ryan, Rahn, Reynolds, Robinson, Runyan, Rumford, Ross, Roberts, Reising, Ruyter, Smith, Snyder, Stough, Scollard, Serry, Sader, Shumway, Sullenberger, Stevenson, Sheffel, Story, Sheibley, Stefani, Smathers, Spellacy, Shirner, Sencenbaugh, Shea, Sherwood, Shaw, Scott, Schram, Stark, Steffin, Sherman, Suecker, Sullivan, Sparks, Sullivan, Schouten, Stinger, Schultz, Sweeney, Schram, Stewart, Todd, Thomas, Tarsony, Tovin, Talboy, Tuttle, Thompson, Vanderbilt, West, Winston, White, Wheeler, Whitford, Waitt, Walters, Wilbur, Welty, Warner, Waterman, Williams, Ward, Wendte, Weidenfeldt, Waldron, Wright, Wallenstein, Wilson, Warnock, Wischhof