Precinct "B" (Township 12 North, Range 3 East)
Seward County, Nebraska
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History of "B" in History of Seward County, Nebraska by W. W. Cox, 1888The following article is from W. W. Cox, History of Seward County, Nebraska, 1888, Chapter VI, page 113:
[Surnames: HICKMAN, McVAINE, POORE, QUILLON, TIMBLIN]
"B" PRECINCT.
The ten first settlers in "B" precinct, or town twelve north, range three east, were as follows:John D. Hickman, in 1867; William, Joseph, Andrew, Henry, and Wesley Hickman, Thomas Poore, and Duncan McVaine, in 1868; John Quillon and F. M. Timblin, in 1869.
The first school-house (a sod house) was built in the fall of 1869, and the school was taught by F. M. Timblin during the following winter. The teacher was paid by subscription.
A literary club and debating society was formed, and the settlers often met for mental culture and entertainment. Herewith we append the instructive letter of F. M. Timblin, and also a communication taken from the first number of the Atlas.
In 1887 the F., E. & M. V. railroad was built through the precinct, and a station located at "B," which is rapidly coming to the front as a business point. They now have a good depot, a grain elevator, a lumber yard, two stores, and several dwellings, and it bids fairly to become quite an important village. The new church is nearly complete, of which we give the history elsewhere.
The precinct has six miles of railroad, has on the census rolls 571 inhabitants with 112 farms, which rank among the best, and has five school-houses, all good frame buildings. The farmers are most universally prosperous.
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