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Nebraska Pioneers

Hawley, Hitchcock and Wilbur

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John Hawley (1830 - 1895)
Born in Hawleyville, Connecticut, Hawley moved with his parents to Carthage, Illinois, in 1833. He attended the public schools and Jacksonville College, Jacksonville, Illinois. He studied law. ...
Joseph Hawley (1824 - d.)
Ruben Wilbur (1825 - 1898)
Ancestor of the U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur (also twice awarded a Pulitzer Prize in poetry). Reuben Henry Wilbur, born in Chatham, New York in 1825, spent his early life as a merchant and a mil...
Phineas Hitchcock, U.S. Senator (1831 - 1881)
Born to Gad Hitchcock and Nancy Prime of New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York on November 30, 1831. At 16 he attended the Great Barrington Academy in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Subsequently...

Settlers in Nebraska before statehood: March 1, 1867

Algernon Sidney Paddock 1830-1897, a Republican secretary of Nebraska Territory and U.S. Senator from Nebraska after statehood.
Phineas Hitchcock 1831-1881, a Delegate and a Senator from Nebraska.
Augustus Hall 1814-1861, chief justice of the Nebraska Territory.
Ruben Henry Wilbur 1825-1896, Mayor of Omaha, 1877-79. Brother-in-law of Phineas Hitchcock.

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