. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . now IdahoTerritory, and in the actnamed Mr. Gilbert ProbateJudge of the new county, inwhich capacity he held thefirst legally constituted courtin that section of the practicinghis professionthere he was largely interestedin placer mining, in connec-tion with Mike Murphy, wellleniembered by all early set-tleis in Omaha as a brother olMis. Cuming,
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . now IdahoTerritory, and in the actnamed Mr. Gilbert ProbateJudge of the new county, inwhich capacity he held thefirst legally constituted courtin that section of the practicinghis professionthere he was largely interestedin placer mining, in connec-tion with Mike Murphy, wellleniembered by all early set-tleis in Omaha as a brother olMis. Cuming, wife of the lateGorernor T. B. Cuming, andof Mr. Frank Murphy, now[iicsident of the MerchantsNational Bank of Omaha. In1867 Mr. Gilbert left the Ter-utory and went to Chicago,where he engaged in the com-mission business as a memberof the firm of Gilbert, Wol-cott & Co., in which he wasinterested until 1873, the firmmeantime passing through thegreat Chicago Fire in 1869 he returned to Omaha,In 1S76 he fuimed i piitULibhip with Mr. B. E. B. Kennedy, which associationNeinorThayei one of the Fiie and Police Commissioners provided for by the newif the Legislature. Upon this Board of four Commissioners, with the Mayor as a. member, ex-officio, has devolved the 1 i duty of establishing a metropolitan police 1 for the city of Omaha At the second session of the Legislature, in the winter of 185 5-56, the opponents ofOmaha rallied in full force with a determination to remove the capital to Douglas City,a mythical point. The real intention, however, was to remove it to Bellevue. The move-ment included a large number of South Platte men headed by J. Sterling Morton, ColonelSarpy and Secretary Cuming. The plan, however, was defeated. Another attempt at capi-tal removal was made at the next session, in the winter of 1S56-57. Plouglas City wasagain to be made the capital. It \\-as to be located about where the present capital,Lincoln, was fixed. Fully two-thirds of the Legislature wer
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