HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG1293.AM: Nahum Luther Packard, 1851-1943
Letter: 1905
Size: One item
BACKGROUND NOTE
Nahum Luther Packard was born in Massachusetts on December 31, 1851. According to census records, Packard was working as a school teacher in Spring Green, Wisconsin, in 1870. By 1900 Packard was married to Mary Luella Williams and serving as a congregational minister in Iowa. The couple had four children, Jessie, Alice, Helen and Lawrence. By 1910 the Packards had moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1920 the Packards lived in Wahoo, Nebraska. The 1930 census shows that Nahum Luther Packard and his wife had moved to California. Nahum Luther Packard died at Kern, California, on May 29, 1943.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The collection consists of one item, an eight page letter written by Nahum Luther Packard of Palisade, Nebraska, to Professor J.H. Terry, Madison, Wisconsin. Dated April 11, 1905, the letter describes various experiences of Packard in Nebraska, as well as information about his children. Some of the subjects discussed include agricultural practices, education and missionary work.
INVENTORY
Letter, April 11, 1905
Subject headings:
Agriculture — Nebraska
Clergy — Nebraska
Education — Nebraska
Missionaries — Nebraska
Packard, Nahum Luther, 1851-1943
Religion — Nebraska
Revised TMM 03-28-2018
