Pioneer Fischer family helped settle Cheyenne County in 1880s
Clark Fuller recounts Ervin Fischer’s family memory of George and John Fischer moving from New Jersey to near Sidney Nebraska in 1884 85. The brothers filed land near the Colorado line and kept penny ledgers detailing purchases such as lumber horses and a sod corn wagon load, with early neighbors Frank Hand Jelinek and the Treinen family nearby.
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Clark Fuller
Ervin Fischer
John Fischer
George Fischer
Cheyenne County
John
Highland
George
Sidney
Frank Rihn
Gurley
Bob Fischer
Erwin
John Fisher
Fishers
Frank Hand
Jelinek
Fischer Brothers
Colorado Line
Colorado
Ervin
Robert
Treinens
Echoes of early Cheyenne County settlers and crafts
The record recalls the Peetzes Mahrs Ruttners and Andy Greenlee among early Cheyenne County arrivals in the 1880s and 1890s. It highlights Greenlee organizing the first district and teaching at 25 dollars a month, Garman teaching, janitorial duties, and music from a shack school. It notes German speaking families enforcing English at home, grasshopper swarms, crop losses, and turnip sales. John Fischer walked miles for work, raised poultry, kept a muzzle loader, later swapped to a carbine, and hosted dances with Garman and John. Arthur Rowan and Ervin Fischer carried on local crafts and drapery work, with Fischer’s late 19th-century wine and vinegar ventures and craft legacy enduring in Nebraska and Sidney.
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Peetzes
Mahrs
Ruttners
Andy Greenlee
Joe
Nelson
Cheyenne County
Garman
John
George
Fischers
John Fischer
Sidney
Illinois
US Cavalry
Ervin
Great
Midwest
Addison Sheldon
Schottisce
Nebraska
Erwin
Frank Rowan
Gurley
Arthur Rowan
Young Fischer
Art Rowan
Fischer
Ervin Fischer
What is Right About America Bicentennial Essay
Mrs Lexie Gard of Sidney writes an editor note in a bicentennial piece. She frames Father Time speaking before offering her view on Americas virtues including freedom speech and religion, sharing wealth, humanitarian aid, and international programs. The piece cites Eisenhower and Tocqueville on Americas greatness tied to goodness.
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Lexie Gard
Sidney
Father Time
America
United States
United States of America
Peace Corps
Dwight Eisenhower
Alexis de Tocqueville
What’s right with U S told in essays
A student voice extols American freedoms and identity. The piece praises religious choice, free travel, and government representation, urging respect for inalienable rights and pride in a diverse, faith grounded nation. It contrasts freedom with misplaced criticism and emphasizes the nation itself as the core right.
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America
Notable quotes by Einstein Blaine on freedom and birthdays
Notable quotes highlighting individual labor in freedom by Albert Einstein and James G Blaine. Einstein extols collective achievement born of freedom while Blaine notes the United States’ celebrated birthday as a defining national identity.
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Albert Einstein
United States
James G Blaine
Lexington Plum Creek Massacre as Oregon Trail threat
In 1864 Plum Creek site near Lexington saw early August Indian raids by Cheyennes Arapahoes and Brules along the Oregon Trail. A telegraph warning saved many settlers. Frank Morton and 10 drivers plus a cook were killed by Oglala Sioux led by Red Cloud. Mrs Morton and a child were abducted but later released. Panic spurred eastward migration. by 1868 rail workers were killed near Overton.
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Lexington
Oregon Trail
Plum Creek
Fort Kearny
Julesburg
Colo
Frank Morton
Red Cloud
Millionaires Flourish Around Turn of the Century
The era saw about 4000 millionaires nationwide with 1100 in New York. An Astor family member notes a man with a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich, signaling era wealth perceptions.
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New York
Freedom and Liberty Quotes Highlight Civic Involvement
Excerpts emphasize courage, public service, and national foundations. Public figures urge active citizenship and dedication to freedom. Quotes reference self reliance, collective action, and Nebraska Bicentennial involvement as ongoing duties.
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Harold J Laski
John F. Kennedy
Patrick Henry
Don Searcy
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