HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG3879.AM: John C. Bruce, 1868-1956
Correspondence: 1900-1901
Laurel, Cedar County, Nebraska: Land Agent
Size: One folder
BACKGROUND NOTE
Born at Postville, Iowa, on May 3, 1868, John Charles Bruce spent much of his life as a land and real estate agent living in Laurel, Nebraska. He married Amelia Ulm at Norfolk, Nebraska, on January 31, 1893. John C. Bruce died on January 2, 1956. He is buried in the Laurel Cemetery at Laurel, Nebraska.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection consists of one folder containing correspondence received by John C. Bruce. The letters date from 1900-1901. The bulk of the letters come from J.Q. Adams, president of the Adams & Floete Company, Western Lands, of Chicago, Illinois. Other correspondents include Irving Welch of the Charles Mix Land Company, Platte, South Dakota, and Henry Harding, manager of the German American Land Company at Sioux City, Iowa. The material in this collection relates to John Charles Bruce’s activities as a land agent and contains material relative to the social and economic history of both Nebraska and South Dakota.
INVENTORY
Correspondence, 1900-1901
Subject headings:
Adams & Floete Company (Chicago, Ill.)
Bruce, John Charles, 1868-1956
Charles Mix Land Company (Platte, S.D.)
German American Land Company (Sioux City, Iowa)
Land sales — Nebraska
Land sales — South Dakota
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