. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . he frame l)uildings put u]) were the influx of 1884 came H. M. Sullivan, now district judge, A. , who was subsequently commissioner of public lands and buildings,and Fred G. Waite, a brilliant young lawyer from Chicago. This seasonCounty Treasurer Talbot and County Superintendent Amsberry moved theirfamilies to town and each put up a residence. Of the new enterprises startedin 1884, the i)rincii)al were: Holland & McDonald, hardware and inqilements;the Broken Bow Times, bv
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . he frame l)uildings put u]) were the influx of 1884 came H. M. Sullivan, now district judge, A. , who was subsequently commissioner of public lands and buildings,and Fred G. Waite, a brilliant young lawyer from Chicago. This seasonCounty Treasurer Talbot and County Superintendent Amsberry moved theirfamilies to town and each put up a residence. Of the new enterprises startedin 1884, the i)rincii)al were: Holland & McDonald, hardware and inqilements;the Broken Bow Times, bv Trefren «& Meseraull; Kloman «& Arnold, bank; AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 201 Moore & Wright, real estate. The viUage was incorporated that spring and thefirst officers appointed were Isaac Merchant, president; J. S. Kirkpatrick, JesseGandy and D. M. Amsberry, trustees, and E. P. Campbell, city attorney. Thefirst officers elected were: Isaac Merchant, U. A. Graham, D. M. Amsberryand J. S. Kirkpatrick, trustees; H. M. Sullivan, attoruey; E. P. Campbell, Baptist Church, Broken Bow. In 1886 the town received another substantial lift that came as a sur-prise by the arrival of R. O. Phillips, president of the Lincoln Townsite Com-pany. He bought a half section of land adjoining the town on the north, atbig figures, and it resulted in corner lots going sky high. This was soon fol-lowed by the B. & M. surveyors up the Muddy valley, who included BrokenBow in their line of survey. Not only townsite speculators and business menrushed in to secure desirable town property, but within a few mouths home-steaders had filed on all the desirable farming land in the vicinity. Amongthose who preceded the locomotive, or came soon after its arrival in thatyear, were: Freisheimer & Haeberle, druggists; S. B. Thompson & House,and B. S. Lilly, real estate agents; C. B. Hayes, boots and shoes; J. C. Bowen,grocer; Hans Dierks, lumber; Bogue & Sherwood, lumber; the Chicago Lum-
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