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Was It Doc Freeman First Homesteader Name Debated
Beatrice Nebraska AP reports on Doc Freeman famed as the first homesteader under the 1862 Homestead Act. The piece traces Freeman’s entry No.1 at Brownville and his claim near Beatrice, amid decades of dispute over who truly pioneered free land settlement. It notes Roosevelt’s 1936 Homestead National Monument and the broad spread of homesteaders across the Great Plains.
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Beatrice
Neb
Daniel Freeman
Freeman
Kansas
Brownville Land Office
Bill W. Dean Beatrice
Doc Freeman
Cub Creek
Missus
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Frontier
J Brownville
Thomas Hart
Benton
Andrew Johnson
Horace
Nebraska City
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Garu
William Young
Isha Grow
Pennsylvania
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Franklin Roosevelt
Old Freeman Place
Joe Saunders
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Brownville
Missouri
St. Louis
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Segarra
Homestead
Alaska