History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . ?4 ?>^ . ^ J^u OLD AUrHEK JUST NOKTH OF AlU^IIKU. FIRST rOUXTV SEAT OF lUCHAUDSON COITNTY. o o 53 O1—I. CHAPTER Sketch of Dawson. By William Fenton. At the annual old settlers picnic it had long been one of the standardjokes to encourage Uncles Wilson Maddox, Jesse Crook and Wade Whit-ney to assert their respective claims to the distinction of being the first whitesettlers of Richardson county. The matter was finally compromised on thepart of the Old Settlers Association by voting
History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . ?4 ?>^ . ^ J^u OLD AUrHEK JUST NOKTH OF AlU^IIKU. FIRST rOUXTV SEAT OF lUCHAUDSON COITNTY. o o 53 O1—I. CHAPTER Sketch of Dawson. By William Fenton. At the annual old settlers picnic it had long been one of the standardjokes to encourage Uncles Wilson Maddox, Jesse Crook and Wade Whit-ney to assert their respective claims to the distinction of being the first whitesettlers of Richardson county. The matter was finally compromised on thepart of the Old Settlers Association by voting a gold spade to Uncle WilsonMaddox, and when later on the floods on the Nemaha began to make troublefor the farmers. Uncle Wilson was called to explain why he dug the channelof the river so crooked, he explained that Uncle Jesse Crook, as chainman,had been sampling so much hard cider along the route that he was respon-sible for the crooks that are causing a later generation hundreds of thou-sands of dollars to straighten out. It would be inviting the discussion of as a debatable question as thatof the famous one of i6 to i, to assume to say who was the first settlerof Grant precinct, but the ar
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