First Territorial Legislature
The convening of the Unicameral this week brings to mind the first territorial legislature, which met at Omaha from January 16 to March 16, 1855. The territory had been ...
Thomas B. Cuming
What We Found
Cuming City
Cuming City was an early Washington County town named for Thomas B. Cuming, acting governor of Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1858. The site was ...
Francis Burt
Francis Burt, a native of Pendleton, South Carolina, served very briefly in 1854 as the first governor of Nebraska Territory. (President Franklin Pierce had first ...
Nebraska Census
In 1854 the first census takers in Nebraska were fanning out across the territory to get the first accurate count of the state's citizens. The returns, carefully ...
Christmas with the Cumings
The Omaha Evening Bee, December 24, 1906, included a short reminiscence of several holiday celebrations in territorial Nebraska."
"Margaret Cuming, widow of Thomas B. ...
Flashback Friday: Hiram P. Bennet and Nebraska’s First Territorial Legislature
Thomas B. Cuming, secretary of Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1858. James W. Savage and John T. Bell, History of the City of Omaha, Nebraska (New York, ...
Celebrating the Holidays with the Cumings
Thomas B. Cuming. NSHS RG2411-1134
Omaha in 1854 was a village without churches and social organizations, but Margaret Cuming, widow of Thomas B. Cuming, who was ...
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