HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG1109.AM: John Irwin, 1805-1893
Papers: 1857-1893
Otoe County, Nebraska
Size: One folder
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The collection contains primarily land transaction records for John Irwin of Otoe County, Nebraska. The land covered by the collection was bought and sold in Lancaster, Otoe, and Douglas Counties in the late 1850s to early 1860s. One letter, dated April 13, 1869, is written by Thomas P. Kennard to Irwin concerning the sale of 80 acres of land in Lincoln, Nebraska. Another letter, dated March 11, 1893, is written to Elijah D. Marnell from J. Sterling Morton from the Department of Agriculture in Washington DC concerning the employment of Sadie Hawley in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Subject headings:
Bell, Francis
Hail, Matilda (Jones), 1811-1893
Hail, William B., 1811-1888
Hawley, Sadie
Kennard, Thomas Perkins, 1828-1920
Lancaster County (Nebraska) — History
Land sales — Nebraska Lincoln (Nebraska) — History
Lull, John B., 1816-1907
Marnell, Elijah D., 1854-1932
Morton, Julius Sterling, 1832-1902
Nebraska City (Nebraska) — History
Revised TMM 04-23-2008