History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . unty clerk, NealJ. Sharp, after canvassing the returns, declared the Pawnee city site dulyelected as the seat of justice (county seat) for Pawnee county. This pointwas then called Enon (Bibical reference.) Notwithstanding the certificate had been issued by Mr. Sharp in favorof Pawnee city, the Hon. Judge John C. Miller, probate judge of Richard-son county, when the matter was brought properly before him, declared suchcertificate null and void; that no choice had been legally made, and thereforeordered that a new
History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . unty clerk, NealJ. Sharp, after canvassing the returns, declared the Pawnee city site dulyelected as the seat of justice (county seat) for Pawnee county. This pointwas then called Enon (Bibical reference.) Notwithstanding the certificate had been issued by Mr. Sharp in favorof Pawnee city, the Hon. Judge John C. Miller, probate judge of Richard-son county, when the matter was brought properly before him, declared suchcertificate null and void; that no choice had been legally made, and thereforeordered that a new election be held on the 4th day of November, 1856. Atthis latter election Pawnee city, the present county seat, was chosen. Allaccounts agree that the first white men who were ever on what is now thepresent site of Pawnee city, formerly a part of Richardson county, wereJames OLoughlan, Charles McDonald and Arthur McDonald. These menhad settled at Salem in this county and visited the site on July 20, over the ground from a point of vantage, they espied a large body. MAS-SAU-QUIT, CHIEF OF SAC AND FOX INDIANAS AT XKMAHA FALLS, 1S5G-7-S.
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