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Note: The original index does NOT include the names of people elected to membership in NSHS, nor the members reported as deceased by the "Obituary Committee" of NSHS. There may be other groups that were omitted. T&CM

Abbe, (J. G.), introduces capital removal bill: 311
Abbott, Lysle I.: 48
Adams County Old Settlers Ass'n: 256
Administration, committee on plan of: 40; report of: 42; supplemental report: 99
Admission of Nebraska: 345, 375, 397; bills for in Congress: 414, 416, 417, 420, 426-430. See Enabling act, Semicentennial, State government
Albert, Allen D., address by: 291
Albert, Isaac L.: 241, 254
Aldrich, Chester H: 241; reception given by: 279
Alexis, Joseph E.: 291
Allen, Edwin A.:396
Allison, William B.: 429
American Fur Company, trading post- at Bellevue: 215
American Historical Ass'n: 113
American Indian tribes: 205
Anderson, A. L.: 288
Anderson, David: 194, 215
Anderson, Walter L.: 29
Andrews, E. Benjamin: 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53
Annexation of South Platte section to Kansas: 308
Annual banquet: 241, 279, 294
Annual Meetings:
Thirty-first (January 13-14, 1908), 1-16: remarks by President George L. Miller: 1-8; addresses, by William Jennings Bryan: 1; Richard L. Metcalfe: 9; Jasper L. McBrien and Absalom N. Yost:
29

14; papers, by William Z. Taylor and Judge Horace E. Deemer: 16.
Thirty-second (January 12-13, 1909), 54-112: violin solo by Genevieve Fodrea, remarks by Gov. Ashton C. Shallenberger, address by George L. Miller: 54; paper by Rev. William Murphy: 56; paper by Albert Watkins: 68; illustrated lecture by Prof. Clark E. Persinger: 75; business session, 75-111; report of secretary, 75; report of treasurer: 96; report of obituary committee: 98; supplemental report of committee on plan of administration: 99; by-laws amended, letter from D. A. R. relative to marking Oregon Trail: 101; Society pledges coöperation, report of committee on marking historic sites: 102; committee to coöperate with other organizations for marking trails, new members admitted, election of officers: 111
Thirty-third (January 11, 1910), 129-161: motions as to roll call, order of business, and reading of minutes: 129, 130, 155, 156; report of acting president: 130; of secretary: 136; of treasurer: 153; election of officers: 156; motion to separate legislative reference bureau from the Society, amendment of by-laws: 157; resolution on space in building, resolution on illness of Dr. George L. Miller: 158; report of obituary committee: 159; election of members: 160.

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Thirty-third (January 9-11, 1911, see note page 241), 241-269: banquet: 241; business meeting, 241-255: report of secretary: 242; of treasurer: 250; election of officers, constitution amended: 253; election of directors, minutes approved, report of obituary committee, communications: 254; election of members, program of evening session: 255; conference of local historical societies, ethnological conference, address by Robert F. Gilder: 256; session with Nebraska Territorial Pioneers Ass'n, address by James Mooney: 259; paper by Mrs. Kittle McGrew, by Mrs. Winona S. Sawyer, piano solo by Miss Melton, history stories by Mrs. Knotts, paper by Capt. James H. Cook: 260; address by James Mooney: 268; illustrated lecture by Edgar R. Harlan: 269
Thirty-fourth January 8-10, 1912), 277-284: informal reception, program for first session: 277; meeting with Nebraska Territorial Pioneers Ass'n: 278; business meeting, 278-284: constitution amended, resolution commending heroic conduct of Mrs. Goebel, election of officers: 278; reports of secretary and treasurer: 278, 280, 284; reception by governor, banquet, conference of local historical societies and old settlers associations, meeting of Nebraska Memorial Ass'n., joint meeting of the Society and Nebraska Memorial Ass'n.: 279; papers read, addresses and Illustrated lecture: 280
Thirty-fifth (January 14-16,1913), 284- 286: business meeting: report of secretary, election of

officers, election of directors: 285; report of obituary committee, election of members, report of treasurer: 286
Thirty-sixth January 20-22 1914), 287-291: addresses, meeting of Nebraska Territorial Pioneers Ass'n: 287; business meeting: election of officers, election of directors, report of secretary: 287; report of obituary committee, paper by Melvin R. Gilmore: 290; meeting of local historical societies and old settlers 'associations: 290; papers read: 291
Thirty-seventh (January 12-14, 1915), 291-294: paper by Prof. Guernsey Jones, address by Allen D. Albert, business meeting: election of directors, election of officers, constitutional amendments presented: 291; address by president, report of obituary committee, election of members, financial statement: 292; program of evening session, conference of local historical societies, meeting of Nebraska Memorial Ass'n, banquet: 294
Thirty-eighth (January 17-19, 1916), 295-299: papers read, conference of local historical societies and old settlers associations, business meeting: report of secretary: 295; election of officers, election of directors, constitutional amendments adopted, bylaws amended, report of obituary committee: 296; election of members, financial statement: 297; report of committee on historic sites: 299
Antelope County Pioneers Association: 213, 256, 279, 290
Anthony, Henry B.: 383
Appropriations, see Budget
Archeological discovery: 211

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Archeological research in eastern Nebraska: 256
Archives removed: 285
Arnold, Joseph: 401, 403
Ashley, James Monroe: 384, 426; political career: 381 note; introduces enabling bills: 381-383; partisan reasons for so doing: 384
Attorney-general, opinion on location of Kansas capital: 324
Attorney, territorial of Nebraska, opinion on validity of legislation at Florence: 312
Avery, Samuel, 53, 112, 113, 114, 115, 118, 122, 233, 236, 237, 241, 254, 269, 271, 305, 306; address of welcome by: 162
Aylsworth. L. E.: 129
Aylsworth, W. P.: 18, 157
Babbitt, Almon W., killed by Indians: 199 note
Badge for Historical Society: 275, 281
Baily, Joseph: 385
Barbour, E. H: 301
Barnum, Guy C.: 401
Bassett, Samuel C.: 112, 213, 233, 236, 237, 239, 240, 275, 279, 295, 300, 301, 306; elected second vice president: 156, 253, 279, 285, 287, 291, 296; incident of early days related by: 194
Bates, Louis A.: 256, 295
Battle of Wounded Knee: 290
Beels, Cora A.: 294
Bell, W. Jackson: 38
Bellevue, historic buildings in, trading post: 215; celebration at: 248; aspirant for the capital: 338
Bennet, John B.: 399, 404
Berlinghof, George A.: 23, 24, 25, 34, 39, 48, 50
Bessey, Charles E.: 112, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 125, 126, 128, 271;

elected second vice president: 112
Bingham, John A., opposes admission bill: 427, 430
Bishop, H. F.: 19, 20, 22
Bissell, Thompson: 189
Black, Jeremiah S., opinion as at-
torney-general: 324
Blackbird, Alfred: 209; paper by: 295
Blackman, Elmer E.: 18, 125; remarks by: 202, 211
Blaine, James G., criticizes ejection of Stockton from senate: 372; and the Nebraska admission bill:
427; votes for it: 429
Board of directors, constitution amended relating to: 253; election of: 254, 279, 285, 287, 291, 296
Bohemians in Nebraska: 291
Bonner, James: 191
Book binding fund: 123
Boone County Old Settlers Ass'n: 279, 290
Boutwell, George S., his amendment of the Edmunds "fundamental condition": 428, 429
Bowman, W. L.: 215
Bowen, Aurelius: 185
Bowen, John S.: 185, 186
Bowen, Leavitt L.: 344
Boyd, James E.: 173, 189
Brainerd, H. A.: 288
Breen, J. J.: 290
Bribery charges investigated: 401, 402, 403, 404
Bridge across Platte River: 342
Briggs, Clinton, opposes admission: 390
Broady, Jefferson H., character and career of: 68-74
Broady, Jefferson H., Jr.: 295
Brodhead, William H.: 377
Brown, B. Gratz: 417, 418, 419, 420
Brown, Charles H., aggressive

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against admission: 390, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405
Brown, Edward P.: 301
Brown, John: 430
Bruner, Lawrence: 39
Bryan, Charles W.: 19, 20, 22, 29, 30
Bryan, William Jennings, address by: 1; member of special finance committee: 48; prize offered by: 127, 134, 144, 145
Buckalew, Charles R., votes against admission: 430
Budget: 40, 118, 233, 236, 269
Buffalo town site: 335
Building for Historical Society: design suggested, 8; procuring site for: 17, 18, 19-23, 27, 30, 31-34, 35-36; selection of architect: 23, 25; building committee, 24-25, 39; bids for construction: 47, 48, 52, 53, 124; contracts awarded: 124, 126, 128; certificates of progress: 124; vouchers: 127; warrants, 128, 238; wiring basement: 234; appropriation for: 273
Bureau of Ethnology: 202-206
Burt County, Pioneers and Old Settlers Ass'n. of: 213
Bushnell, Herbert M.: 129, 295
Butler, David: 184, 192, 389
By-laws amended: 101, 115, 157, 296
Cabanne, John B., trading post: 215, 228
Caldwell, H. W.: 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 112, 114, 115, 118, 122, 123, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 233, 236, 237, 238, 239
Calhoun county, settlement In: 332; establishment of: 333 note; name changed, ibid.; first election in: 334
California trail: 336
Callahan, Kate: 187

Campbell, Adelia, locket presented to Society: 15
Capital: bills for relocation: 309, 310, 311, 326, 336; commissioners for removal to Neapolis: 331
Carpenter, Matthew H.: 424
Cass County, archeological discoveries in: 256; changes of boundary: 333 note
Chapman, John W.: 396, 399
Chester towns: 309
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, when it reached Council Bluffs: 181
Child, Abel L.: 185
Chilvers, Thomas: 213
Christian work among Indians: 209
Civil rights bill: 348, 349
Clan Organization of the Winnebago, The: 291
Clark, Munson H.: 15 note
Clark, Paul: 156, 158; motion for separation of Legislative Reference Bureau from Society: 157
Clark, Ralph A.: 236
Clarke, James Freeman--and Chas. Sumner: 430, 431
Cobbey, J. E.: 129, 157, 279; elected a director, 254
Collections of Historical Society: 234, 274, 277, 287
Collins, H. A.: 215
Collins, Thomas J.: 187, 189
Color discrimination: 348, 352, 353, 418, 419, 426; see also Indian suffrage, negro suffrage
Combs, C. C.: 217
Committees appointed: 18, 25, 118, 123, 233, 301, 304, 306; for markIng historic sites, see Committee on historic sites; obituary, see Obituary committees; plan of administration, see Administration
Comstock, George S.: 222
Condra, George E.: 130, 158
Coney, C. S., old battle ground near Stanton: 215

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Conkling, Roscoe: 430
Constitution, first. of, Nebraska: how drafted, 347, 405, 412; charges that adoption was irregular and fraudulent: 401, 406 note, 407, 411- 412, 416; opposition in Congress to "fundamental condition": 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 368, 370, 418, 420, 421-422, 427-430
Constitution of Society, amendments, article III: 291, 296; article IV: 254; article V: 278, 291, 296; article VI: 253, 296; proposed: 17, 156
Constitutional conventions: of 1860, proposed, 377-380; of 1864: 347, 389-397, 416; of 1871 and 1875: 376
Constitutional Conventions: 234, 239, 274, 287
Constitutions, Comparison of: 57
Contract with architect of Historical society building: 50; see also Building for Historical Society
Control by Congress over admission of states: 347, 416, 419, 426, 427, 428
Cook, Harold J.: 225, 260
Cook, Captain James H., paper by: 260
Coöperation between Historical Society and State University: 300-305
Cordeal, John F.: 104, 280
Correll, E. M.: 288
Council Bluffs in Early Days: 181
Coville, Frederick V.: 271
Cowan, Edgar: 359, 367, 419, 430, impugns motives for admission: 353; attacks negro suffrage: 357; opposes Edmunds amendment: 420; sees menace to protective tariff in admission of western states: 422; votes against admission: 429
Cowin, John C.: 201
Cox, Samuel S.: 385, 423, 425

Crime against Kansas: 351 note
Crounse Lorenzo: 75, 401, 403, 405; life and character of: 162; remarks on the drafting and adoption of Nebraska's first constitution: 406 note; memorial book fund: 123, 134, 153
Crounse, Mary E Griffiths: 178
Crow Buttes: 216
Culbertson, Historic sites near: 216
Culver, J. H.: 213
Currie, Frank M.: 279, 286
Dally-Estabrook contest: 332, 334
Dakota Territory divided: 345, 433, 434
Daughters of the American Revolution, letter relating to marking Oregon Trail: 101
David A. Pease, Forty-niner: 280
Davidson, William M.: 241, 275, 279; elected director: 254; resigned from board of directors: 276
Davis, F. M.: 189
Davis, Garrett: 383, 386, 430
Dawes, (Henry L.): 427, 428, 429
Dawson, Charles J.: 279, 280
Deaf and Dumb, Institute for: 179, 183-189
DeCamp, M. A.: 256
Decker, J. H.: 344; bill for removal of capital introduced by: 309
Deed for Capitol Square, withheld: 340
Deed of part of site of Presbyterian mission building to Society: 285
Deemer, Horace E., paper by: 16
Delano, Columbus: 429
Delegates to constitutional convention of 1860, 379 note; of 1864: 396, 397 note
Directors, see Board of directors
Dixon, (James): 430; votes

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against Edmunds amendment: 420; and admission bill: 429
Doane, George W.: 377
Dodge county representatives: 15
Dodge family: 179, 180
Donations acknowledged: 16, 25, 26, 39, 77, 80, 82, 91, 125, 134, 146, 147, 248, 280, 288, 296.
Doolittle, James R., on power of Congress in making state: 346; Brown's amendment would enfranchise Indians: 354, 418; on frauds in Nebraska votes on constitution: 412; constitution of 1866 adopted without authority: 416; against Edmunds amendment: 420; sketch of, 425; votes against admission: 429, 430
Dorsey, James Owen: 204, 205
Douglas county, archeological discoveries in: 256; Association of Nebraska Pioneers: 279
Doyle, Eli R., representative from Dodge county: 15
Early American portraiture: 291
Early days in Norfolk: 294
Early railroads to the Missouri River: 189
Early Settlement of the Platte Valley, The: 194
East, Herbert A.: 156
Eastern Nebraska as an Archeological Field: 256
Edmunds, George F.: 347, 348, 349, 351, 358, 372, 415, 416, 419, 420, 421, 427, 428, 429; his amendment to the admission bill: 372, 373, 419-420; superseded by Boutwell amendment: 428, 429
Edwards, Jonathan: 256
Eighteenth Infantry, The: 294
Embossed stationery for the Society: 240
Emery, Robert, eludes Indians: 222
Employees of the Society: 116-117,

118-121, 234, 235, 236-238, 271, 294, 300
Emrich, Naomi: 291
Enabling Act for Nebraska: 347, 381, 384, 385, 388, 389, 393, 397, 416, 417
Estabrook, E., opinion on validity of laws enacted at Florence: 313
Ethnological conference: 256
Evolution of Nebraska: 248
Executive committee: 118
Expenditures of the Society: 26
Ferguson, Fenner, piano: 291; house at Bellevue: 290
Fessenden, (William Pitt): 349, 416, 420
Figurehead from battleship Nebraska: 147
Financial statements: 288, 292, 297
Finney, John: 395, 396, 397 note
Finney, William A., vote on capital removal bill: 310
First Catholic Bishop in Nebraska, The: 162
First state legislature, composition of: 408
Fitzgerald, Rev. Dennis G, paper by: 280
Fletcher, Alice C.: 205
Florence, adjournment of legislative assembly to: 312, 337; memorial for bridging the Platte: 342
Fontenelle, Logan, situation of
cabin, his influence: 193
Fodrea, Genevieve, violin solo: 54
Fort Independence: 216, 228
Fort Kearny: 218, 248, 412; reservation of site proposed: 23
Fort Lisa: 228
Fort Mitchell, site of: 219, 228
Fort Omaha: 181
Fort Robinson: 223
Foster, La Fayette S.: 349 note, 385, 386, 387, 415, 416, 420, 429, 430
Fox, George R.: 300

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Frady, Charles H.: 295
Fraud, in Rock Bluffs precinct: 411, 413
Free trade, in the west, predicted: 422, 423
Freeman, Daniel, homestead: 216, 228
French, William M. DeCoursey, aid in establishing Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb, paper by, 179
Fuller, Abel B.: 184
Furnas, Robert W., vote on capital
removal bill: 310; defense of the adjournment to Florence: 337
Garber, Silas: 189
Garfield, James A., attitude toward admission of Nebraska: 426, 429
Gates of Sheridan: 216
Gatschet, Albert S.: 204
Geisthardt, Stephen L.: 16, 18, 25, 29, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 75, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 128, 233, 234, 236, 237, 238, 275; elected treasurer: 157, 253, 279, 285; report for 1907: 17; for 1908: 96; for 1909: 153; for 1910: 250; for 1911: 278, 283; for 1912: 286
Geographical Nebraska: 433
George, B. A.: 19, 20, 22, 157
Gilder, Robert F.: 215; address by: 256
Gillespie, John: 185
Gilmore, James A.: 401
Gilmore, Melvin R.: 18, 271, 281, 290, 294
Goebel, Emma Cooper: 278, 280, 284
Good, B. F.: 306
Graff, Dr. George B.: 395
Grave, near Bridgeport: 215; near Overland Road: 217
Green, Major Albert L., paper by: 295
Green county, change of name: 333
Griggs, Nathan K.: 189

Grimes, (James W.): 349 note; opposes admission of Nebraska: 367; blocks admission measure: 383; opposes Edmunds amendment: 420; final vote on admission: 429
Gunther, Charles F.: 276
Hadley, president Yale University, opinion on negro suffrage: 431
Hainer, Eugene J.: 129, 156; donation to Society: 146
Hale, Susan B., grave of: 227
Hale, Robert S.: 428, 430
Half holiday July and August: 123
Hall, Philip L.: 305; elected treasurer: 287, 291 296
Haller, Frank L.: 291; elected director: 254, 279
Hamilton, Charles W.: 189
Hannan, W. E.: 26, 111, 147, 270
Hansen, George W.: 288, 295, 306; paper by: 277; elected director: 279, 291
Hardy, W. E.: 17, 18
Harlan, Edgar R.: 201, 202; illustrated lecture by: 269
Harlan, James: 385
Harpham, C. F.: 18, 19, 20, 157
Harris, (Ira): 416, 429
Hartley, Ellis T.: 18
Harvey, Robert: 16, 17, 18, 37, 39, 40, 41, 45, 48, 52, 53, 75, 112, 114, 115, 118, 122, 123, 125, 128, 129, 130, 201, 233, 236, 237, 239, 240, 256, 260, 269, 275, 276, 278, 279, 280, 290, 299; elected first vice president: 111, 156, 253, 279, 285, 287, 291, 296; report, acting president: 130; see also Historic sites, committee on
Hathaway, Hiram D.: 414 note Hayward, Monroe L.: 174
Healey, T. J.: 288
Hendershot, Mr.: 224
Henderson, Upton, remarks by: 211

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Hendricks, Thomas A.: 417; opposition to admission bill: 416, 430
Hildebrand, J. G. P.: 130
Historic sites: 249; committee on: 123; reports of: 102, 213, 290, 299
Historical Sketch of Southwestern Nebraska: 280
Historical Society, proposed reorganization of: 40, 41-45, 90; coöperation with State University: 300-305; see also Administration
History and historical work in Nebraska: 1-8
History of Nebraska: 208
History of the Nebraska press: 275
History of the Nebraska State Penitentiary: 213
History of the West and the Pioneers, The. 255
Hollebaugh, Charles C.: 288
Howard, (Jacob M.): 347, 349 note, 355, 370, 429; franchise not natural right, 354; against Edmunds amendment: 420
Howard County Old Settlers Historical Society: 17, 256, 279, 284, 290
Howe, Timothy 0.: 349 note, 364, 365, 366, 371, 383, 420; opposes negro suffrage condition of Nebraska's admission: 421; political and personal sketch of: 423-425
Hrbkova, Sarka: 291
Huckins, Henry. 288
Iaeger, L. J. E.: mentions place of historic interest: 216
Iiams, Sam B., 156, 157, 158, 161
In Kiowa Camps: 201
Indian Campaign of 1864, The: 234
Indian ethnology, suggestions for study of: 202-208
Indian geographical names: 280
Indian Ghost Dance, The: 201,
Indian languages in Nebraska: 206
Indian suffrage: 354, 419-420

Indian War of 1864, The: 232
Indian wars, history of: 205
Indian Wars on the Nebraska Plains: 248
Indian Woman, The: 259
Indians and Indian Life: 256
Influence of Overland Travel on the Settlement of Nebraska: 277, 278
Influence of Visualized Ideas: 269
Iowa Men in the Organization of Nebraska, The Part of: 16
Izard, Mark W., veto of capital removal bill: 310; political status:
Izard county, name changed: 333 note
Jackson, Alfred H.: 396
Jefferson county: 279
Johnson, Andrew, vetoes admission bills: 346, 417, 429; impeachment of: 348, 388; proclaims Nebraska a state: 433
Johnson, Porter C.: 213
Johnson, Reverdy: 363, 364, 365, 425; against negro suffrage condition of admission: 421, 429; warning that new western states may turn against protective tariff: 422, 423; style of debating: 423
Johnson, Thomas: 325
Jones, Guernsey: 291
Jones, Will Owen, 19, 20, 21, 22
Kansas capital, controversy over location of: 322-329
Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs railroad: 180, 182
Kansas-Nebraska act: 322, 323
Kansas-Nebraska Boundary Line: 201
Kees, John F.: 216
Kelley, (William D.): 416
Kellogg, (William): 347
Kempton, A. P.: 259
Kennard, Thomas P.: 158, 336;

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chairman committee on site for building: 19, 20, 21, 22
King, Preston: 383
Kinkaid, M. P.: 148
Kirkwood (Samuel J.): 367, 413, 429; opposes "fundamental condition"; 356, 368
Kitchen, James Butler, The Life and Character of: 9
Knotts, Mrs. Minnie P.: 194, 260; elected temporary secretary: 300
Kress, Mortimer N.: 256
Kuhns, Henry W.: 186, 187 note, 191
La Flesche, Francis: 278, 280
Lambert donation: 25
Lamere, Oliver: 291
Lamin, Amanda, grave of: 218, 228, 276
Lancaster County Old Settlers Ass'n: 213, 256, 279
Landmarks, preservation of: 228
Larsh, William P.: 213, 256
Last Battle of the Pawnee with the Sioux, The: 16
Last Buffalo Hunt of the Pawnee Indians in Nebraska, The: 295
Leach, A. J.: 213, 279
Learned, Myron L.: 157
Legislative committee: 233
Legislative Reference Bureau: 118, 150, 157, 236, 237
Legislatures, payment of members--Oregon City, Salem, Florence--336, 341; powers of: 319
Leonhardt, Dr. J. S.: 21, 22; favors placing building for Society on University campus: 19
Lett, John J.: 279, 290
Letton, Charles B.: 241, 301, 305; elected director: 279, 287
Letton, Mrs. C. B.: see Daughters of the American Revolution
Leverett, William J.: 280
Lewis and Clark expedition, distance traveled by: 366 note
Library committee: 18, 118

Life Among the Indian Tribes of the Plains: 256
Lincoln, Abraham: 346; at Council Bluffs: 179; signed Nebraska enabling bill: 388
Lincoln city council, part taken by in procuring building site: 19, 21, 32
Lincoln Commercial Club, aids in procuring building site: 17, 18, 19, 20, 30
Lincoln, in 1871: 192; created capital: 312
Liquor Traffic in Nebraska, Regulation of the: 248
Little, William A.: 389
Local historical societies and old settlers associations: 213, 256, 279, 290, 294, 295; list of: 143
Locket, presented to Society: 14
Lone Tree: 217, 228
Loomis, George L.: 48
Lowry, Hamilton B.: 157, 269, 275, 276; elected a director, 254, 285, 296
Ludi, Nelson J., 112, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 122, 125, 233, 236, 237
McBride, Joseph C,. 189
McBrien, Jasper L.: address by: 14
McCandless, Wild Bill: 280
McCreery, Mrs. George W.: 288
McGinitie, H. L.: 290
McGregor, H. B., letter relating to Buck massacre: 106
McGrew, Mrs. Kittie: 213, 256; committee report: 160; reads paper, 260
McKeith, George R.: 295
McPherson, Dr. John: 185
Mail service to Salt Lake City: 199
Majors, Sterling P., president constitutional convention 1860: 396
Manderson, Charles F.: 171, 179
Margry Papers: 208

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Markers and monuments: see Historic sites, committee on
Marquett, Turner M., first member of Congress from Nebraska: 381 note, 389
Marquette, David, 213
Martin, George W., address by: 201
Mason, Oliver P., appointed chief justice of supreme court: 389; tells how Nebraska's first constitution was formed: 406 note
Massacre Cañon: 216, 228
Maxwell, Samuel: 402
Meetings of board of directors: 1908: 16, 17, 23, 29, 37, 39, 41, 48, 51; 1909: 53, 112, 114, 117, 121, 125; 1910: 128, 233, 235, 239; 1911: 269, 275; 1912: 284; 1914: 291;
1915: 294; 1916: 300, 301, 304; 1917: 306; calls for special meetings: 28, 37, 128, 233, 235, 238, 269
Melton, Frances Virginia: 255, 260
Members, annual dues required
240, 272; death of: 282; election of: 27, 38, 40, 45, 49, 111, 113, 122, 125, 129, 160, 255, 274, 277, 281, 284, 285, 286, 291, 292, 294, 295, 297, 300; number of, 1910: 240
Memorials, location of: 229
Metcalfe, Richard L., address by: 9
Methodist Episcopal Church Historical Society of Nebraska: 213
Millard, Joseph H.: 186
Miller, George L., president: 1, 8,
16, 18, 23, 29, 37, 39, 41, 130, 177; gift to Society: 39; farewell address: 54; reëlected president, 111; excused from attendance at board meetings: 112; influences Governor Izard: 311; against adjournment of legislative assembly to Florence: 312
Miller, J. E.: 305
Miller & Paine, lessees of part of building site: 31
Minnesota-Nebraska boundary: 248

Mississippi Valley Historical Ass'n, 141, 201, 244, 271
Missouri compromise, repeal of: 375
Mitchell Pass: 221, 228
Monell, Gilbert C.: 185, 191
Mooney, James: 271; addresses by: 201, 202, 256, 259, 268
Morehead, Charles R., donation by: 125
Morgan, Edwin D.: 415, 416, 429, 430; opposes admission bill with Edmunds condition, 420
Mormon trail, proposal to mark at Florence: 276
Mormons, in Nebraska: 198; organize a government in Utah: 200
Morrill, Charles H.: 288; vote of thanks to by directors for contributions to Society: 25; proposed to withdraw collections: 272
Morrill (Justin S.): 428
Morrill (Lot M.): 349 note, 420, 429
Morris, Gouverneur: 363, 366 note
Morrissey, Andrew M.: 301, 305, 306
Morton, J. Sterling: 171, 308, 313, 395, 403, 404
Morton, Oliver P.: 185
Morton, Otoe: 48
Murphy, Rev. William, paper by: 56
Museum committee: 18, 118
National Fidelity & Casualty Co., bond: 127
Native Animals Known to the Omaha Indians: 295
Neapolis: 330, 331, 332, 333, 335
Neapolis, Near-Capital: 308
Nebraska and Minnesota Boundary: 248
Nebraska City, aspirant for the territorial capital: 331, 338
Nebraska Constitutional Conventions: 287

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Nebraska history, outline and bibliography: 248
Nebraska history stories: 260
Nebraska Memorial Ass'n: 279, 290, 294
Nebraska National Guard During a Strike: 294
Nebraska Reminiscences: 179
Nebraska State Penitentiary, History of the: 213
Nebraska State Press Ass'n: 275
Nebraska Territorial Pioneers Ass'n: 142, 277, 278, 280, 287; joint meeting with Nebraska State Historical Society: 161, 259
Nebraska Territory, Evolution of: 248
Negro suffrage: 354, 375, 415, 416, 418, 422, 428, 431, 432
Nelson, Chief Justice, opinion by: 315
Nemaha County Historical Society: 213, 256 279
New Forces in American History: 291
New York Tribune, purchase of bound volumes: 38, 85
Newspapers, binding of: 240-241, 274
Noel, Jesse: 377
North, James E.: 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 37, 39
Norton, Mrs. Charles Oliver, reads paper: 280
Norton, Daniel S., votes against admission bill: 430
Nuckolls, Houston: 377
Oak Grove tragedy: 223 note
Obituary committees: 18, 118; reports by: 98, 159, 254, 286, 290, 292, 296
O'Connor, Cornelius: 396
O'Fallon's Bluff, situation: 199 note
Officers of Society, election of: 111, 156, 253, 278, 285, 287, 291, 296
Ogden, A. L., Invocation by: 162

Old battle-ground near Stanton: 215
Omaha, early growth: 180; see Capital: bills for relocation
Omaha Barracks: 181
Omaha Indians: 209; study of their language: 204; ceremonials, customs, and organization: 20-5
Omaha Indians in Peace and War: 295
Opinion, as to proper place for sessions of legislative assembly: 313
Oregon Territory, controversy over location of capital: 314-319; irrelevant to Nebraska removal case: 316
Oregon Trail, bill providing for marking introduced in Congress: 29, 88; providing markers for in Nebraska: 101, 226; commission for, monograph in aid of authorized: 274; report on marking: 287
Oregon Trail In 1911: 278
Oregon Trail, Dr. Whitman's Work On: 280
Oto Indians, The, Their Language and Customs: 295
Overland Travel, Influence of on the Settlement of Nebraska: 278
Pacific railroad, eastern terminus: 180; location of: 377
Paddock, Algernon S.: 171, 396
Paddock, Joseph W.: 401
Paine, Clara A.: 300
Paine, Clarence S.: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 29, 37, 40, 41, 48, 53, 112, 113, 114, 115, 118, 122, 125, 128, 129, 130, 155, 233, 236, 237, 239, 269, 275, 300; elected secretary: 112, 157, 253, 279, 285, 287, 291, 296; report for 1907: 17; for 1908: 75; for 1909: 136; for 1910: 242; for 1911: 278, 280; for 1912: 285; for 1913: 287; for 1914: 292; for 1915: 295

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Palmer, Ely: 334
Palmer, Henry E.: 18, 98, 99
Passing of the Buffalo, oil painting: 276
Patrick, John: 396
Patterson, David T.: 430
Patterson, Rachel E., grave of: 109
Pawnee, The, Last Battle of with the Sioux: 16
Pawnee Indian Village Near Fremont: 248
Pawnee, sacred ceremonies of: 205
Pease, A. Vine: 280
Perkins, Clark: 306
Persinger, Clark E.: illustrated lecture by: 75
Platt, Mrs. (Elvira Gaston): 254
Platte county, returns of Calhoun county election transmitted to: 334 note
Plum Creek, Indians wreck railroad train near: 223, 229
Plum Creek massacre: 225, 229
Poland (Luke P.): 416, 420
Pollard, Isaac: 256
Poppleton, Andrew J., opposes statehood movement of 1864, 390
Population of Nebraska territory: 362; in 1860: 380; in 1864: 385,
386, 387; at time of admission: 428
Porter, John R.: 399
Powell, Major J. W., established bureau of ethnology: 203
Presbyterian mission building, part of site acquired by Society, 285
Press of Nebraska, proposed history of: 275
Program, committee on: 18, 118
Progress certificates: see Building for Historical Society
Public Archives Commission, proffered donation: 113
Public land sales, part of proceeds for support of schools: 385, 386
Publications, committee on: 18, 118

Puett (Alfred W.), vote on capital removal bill: 310
Qualifications of voters on state organization in 1860: 380
Race discrimination: 348, 384, 415, 416, 418, 419, 420, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430
Railroad Control in Nebraska, History of: 248
Raymond, Mrs. A. S.: 294
Receipts for money advanced to buy site for building: 33
Reconstruction policy: 348, 369, 425, 426, 429
Red Cloud, indicated choice of his burial place: 225
Redfield, C. E.: 189
Reed, A. A.: 294
Reed, Willis E.: 301, 306
Reeves, Mills S.: relates how bills passed at Florence were presented to the governor: 320; moves adjournment of Council to Florence: 312; favors state organization in 1860: 377
Richardson, Governor (William A.), legal place for legislative sessions: 312; treatment of bills passed at Florence: 321
Richardson, J. W., representative from Dodge county: 15
Robinson, Doane: 202; address by: 201
Rock Bluffs precinct, election fraud: 411, 412, 413
Rogers, Ellphus H.: 185
Root, Elihu, on negro suffrage: 431
Rosewater, Edward: 179, 188
Rules and regulations: 116
Rural Carrier of 1849, The; 196
Russell, William H., portrait presented: 125
Salt springs, Illusion as to value: 392

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Sand-hill section of Nebraska: 261, 262, 263
Saulsbury, Willard, votes against admission bill: 430
Saunders, Alvin, flag presented by: 249; promotes admission measure: 347, 388, 397
Saunders county, when so named: 333 note; accession of territory from Cass: ibid.
Sawyer, Andrew J.: 18, 278, 295; member of reorganization committee: 40, 42-45; of building promotion committee: 48; reports as chairman of committee on obituaries: 98, 159, 254, 290, 292, 296; presents resolution on illness of Dr. George L. Miller: 158
Sawyer, Mrs. Andrew J., paper by: 260; played on old piano: 291;
School lands: 377
Seat of government: see Capital
Secretary's reports: 17, 75, 136, 242, 278, 280, 285, 287, 292, 295
Selleck, William A.: 29, 30
Semicentennial of admission of Nebraska: 294, 295, 296
Semi-Precious Stones of Webster, Nuckolls and Franklin Counties, Nebraska, The: 280
Seward county: 213; when so named: 333 note
Shallenberger, Ashton C.: 54, 112, 113, 115, 117, 118, 120, 148, 234, 236, 237, 238
Shambaugh, Benjamin P.: 201, 232; address by: 255
Shawnee Manual Labor School, session of legislative assembly at: 323 note
Shawnee Mission: 323
Sheen, John K.: paper by: 196
Sheldon, Addison E.: 18, 41, 48, 53, 54, 118, 120, 236; member building committee: 39; elected superintendent: 306

Sheldon, George L.: 23, 52; accepts building site: 36
Sherman, John: 348, 349 note, 360, 361, 362, 373; journey through Nebraska: 360 note
Shine, Rev. Michael A.: 211; paper by: 162
Sioux, The Last Battle of the Pawnee with: 16
Sioux county, historical site in: 229
Sitting Bull, Some Side Lights on the Character of: 201
Smith, Louis R.: 161
Smithsonian Institution: 203
Soldier vote at Fort Kearny, 1866: 412
Sons of the American Revolution, National Society of the: 287
South Omaha Pioneers Historical Society: 290
Special meeting of Historical Society: 161- 232
Spratlin, William H.: 395
Stanley, Henry M., in Omaha: 191
Stanton County, when so named: 333 note
State historian: 26
State House at Lincoln: 192
State military institute, proposed: 23
State government, struggle for in Nebraska: 376-381, 388-414, 432; expense of deprecated: 390, 392, 394; motives for in 1860: 376, 377, 380; in 1864: 353, 367, 368, 370, 384, 386, 387, 388, 390, 398, 400, 415; submission of question in 1860 and 1864: 389
States, creation of: 346, 347, 358
Steam wagon road, proposal to mark initial point: 284
Stearly, Samuel, story of fording the Platte river in 1869: 194
Steinhart, John W.: 118, 160
Stewart, John M.: 19

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Stockton, John P., ejection from U. S. Senate: 371-372 note
Stratton, T. A., loan of relies: 26
Strong, associate justice, opinion in Oregon capital case: 315, 317
Sumner, Charles: 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 357, 358, 383; Opposes admission bill: 415, 416; originator of "fundamental condition": 418; its democratic form: 419; yields to the Edmunds autocratic form: 420; and to the Boutwell compromise: 429; characterized: 430; light of events clouds his wisdom: 431
Superintendent of Society, office invalid: 114, 115; office recreated: 291, 296; vacancy in: 300, 304; filled: 306
Sustaining members: 240, 272
Sutton, John P., paper by: 294
Swedes in Nebraska: 291
Swiss place names: 204
Systematic Nebraska Ethnologic investigation: 268
Taffe, John: 376; second member of federal House of Representatives from Nebraska: 382 note
Talbot: W. H.: 185
Taxation, for state government: 392, 398
Taxes, for paving adjacent to building site: 272
Taylor, Harry G., paper by: 278
Taylor, William H.: 377
Taylor, William Z., paper by: 16; proposal to mark Pawnee-Sioux battle-field: 216
Templeton, Charlotte: 18
Territorial conventions: Union, 1864: 392 394; Democratic, 1864: 394-395
Thayer, John M.: 347, 414, 433
Thomas, A. O., recommended for superintendent: 306
Thorn, James: 401, 402

Thruston, Rogers, C. B.: 287
Tihen, J. Henry, elected director:. 286, 296
Tipton, Thomas W.: 347
Tobitt, Edith: 18
Toombs (Robert): 350; remarks on the assault on Sumner: 351 note
Tragedy of the Oregon Trail, A: 277
Trailing Texas Long-horn Cattle Through Nebraska: 260
Treasurer's reports: 17, 96, 153, 250, 278, 283, 286
Trumbull, Lyman, 349 note, 385; opposes enabling bill: 383, 386; exposes Wade's inconsistency: 421
Tufts, James: 377
Tzschuck, Bruno: 189
U. S. attorney-general, opinion on Kansas capital location: 324
U. S. Senate, debate on admission of Nebraska: 345
U. S. senators, direct election of: 66
Ulmer, E. J.: 278
Union Pacific railroad, bill for abolition of bridge tolls: 171; for pro rata freight charges: 171; connections at Omaha: 180
University male quartette: 294
University Place high school orchestra: 277, 278
Vail, A. J.: 279
Vallandigham, (Clement L.), op- poses enabling bill: 382
Valley County Old Settlers Association: 279
Van Wyck, Charles H., joint debate in campaign of 1892: 171, 172
Varner, Lorin A.: 23, 27, 29, 40
Wade, Benjamin F.: 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 365, 356, 362, 368, 370, 373, 383, 385, 387, 415, 417, 419, 420, 421, 425; introduces bills

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for admission: 414, 417; characterized: 425
Wake, Charles: 18, 19
Wake, Rev. Richard, paper by: 213
Wakeley, Judge Eleazer, paper by: 162
Walker, H. C.: 215
Wallace, George G.: 290
Walther, Charles F.: 396
Ware, Eugene F.: 201, 233, 234; address by: 232
Warner, M. M.: 213
Washburne, Elihu B.: 430
Watkins, Albert, 146, 234, 237, 271, 274, 275, 276, 281; historical articles by: 217-248. How Nebraska Was Brought Into the Union: 375; Jefferson H. Broady-An Appreciation: 68; Neapolis, Near-Capital: 308
Watterson, Henry, opinion on negro suffrage: 431
Wattles, Gurdon W.: 306; elected a director: 291
Waugh, M. J.: 157
Webster, John Lee: 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239, 240, 241, 269, 271 275, 277, 278, 279, 287, 292, 294: 306, 345; elected president: 156, 253, 279, 285, 287, 291, 296; address, Senate Debate On Admissions: 345
Wedding journey across Platte River in 1869: 194
Weston. Jefferson B.: 396

Wiggins-Babcock Accounting Company: 288, 292, 297
Wiggins, Horace S: 269, 271, 274, 275, 276, 305; examination of accounts by: 95, 98, 152, 278; elected a director: 254, 287
Williamson, John W.: 295
Williamson, S. Z.: 290
Wilson, (Henry): 383, 418, 419, 420
Wilson, James F.: 426, 429; believed fundamental condition invalid: 427
Wilson, H. H.: 40, 45
Windham, Robert B.: 295
Wolfe, Thomas: 295
Wolfe, W. A.: 296
Woman suffrage: 429
Women of Territorial Nebraska, The: 260
Women's 'Work in Nebraska: 260
Woolworth, James M., against state government: 395; on Rock Bluffs fraud: 408
Work of Historical Society, division of- 120
Wright, William: 349 note; 372 note
Wyer, Malcolm G.: 301
Yates, Richard: 349 note, 352
York Blank Book Company: 239, 240
York County Old Settlers Association: 279, 290
Yost. Absalom N.: 112, 141

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