October 29, 2022

John Dunbar, 1821-1903 [RG0966.AM]

HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID

RG0966.AM:  John Dunbar, 1821-1903

Papers:  1862-1913; mostly 1871-1873
Dunbar, Otoe County, Nebraska:  School board member
Size:  One folder

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of legal papers (1871-1873), financial records, board minutes, and organizational papers for the establishment of a school building for Otoe County, Nebraska, School District No. 75. There is also a brief history of the Otoe County schools dating back to 1862. Most of the papers are signed by John Dunbar, who was on the school board in the 1870s. Also included are a list of school teachers from 1862-1871 and a 1913 invitation to the laying of the corner stone for the new Dunbar High School building in Dunbar, Otoe County, Nebraska.

ADDITIONAL OR RELATED MATERIALS

See the Library collection for:

Smith, Dunbar W., Dunbar pedigree : descendants of the Thomas Dunbar family who sailed from Ireland to the new world in 1829, Calimesa, Calif.: D.W. Smith, c.1996.

 

Subject headings:

Bischof & Zimmerer (Nebraska City, Nebraska)
Dunbar, John, 1821-1903
Dunbar (Nebraska) — History
Dunbar (Nebraska) High School
Education — Nebraska — Otoe County
Garrow, Alexander, 1843-1912
High schools — Nebraska — Dunbar
Otoe County (Nebraska) — History
School buildings — Nebraska — Otoe County
Schools — Nebraska — Otoe County
Westbrook, Benjamin Franklin, 1838-1908
Wilson, John


Revised TMM       05-09-2008

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