Thomas Henry Tibbles papers

Crook, George, 1829-1890

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Crook was born to Thomas and Elizabeth Matthews Crook on a farm near Taylorsville, Montgomery County, Ohio (near Dayton). Nominated to the United States Military Academy by Congressman Robert Schenck, he graduated in 1852, ranking near the bottom of his class. He was assigned to the 4th U.S. infantry as brevet second lieutenant, serving in California, 1852–61. He served in Oregon and northern California, alternately protecting or fighting against several Native American tribes. He commanded t...

Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922

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Thomas Edward Watson was born in Columbia County near Thomson, Georgia on September 5, 1856. He attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and during that time taught school for two years before he was admitted to the bar in 1875. Watson began practicing law in Thomson, Georgia in 1876, where he was also a farmer. Watson began his political career by winning election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1882, where he served for one term. In 1888, Watson was appointed the presidential el...

Tibbles, Thomas Henry, 1840-1928

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Standing Bear, Ponca chief

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By 1789, when Juan Baptiste Munier acquired trading rights with the Ponca, they had villages along the Niobrara River near its mouth, and ranged as far east as present-day Ponca, Nebraska, at the mouth of Aowa Creek. A smallpox epidemic had reduced their numbers from approximately 800 to 100 at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1807. When Standing Bear was born circa 1829, the Ponca traditionally raised maize, vegetables, and fruit trees in these sites during the summer. They rang...

Tibbles, Susette La Flesche, 1854-1903

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Susette La Flesche Tibbles was an Omaha author, lecturer, and advocate for Native American rights. She was also known as Bright Eyes, the English translation of her Omaha name, which has been variously transliterated as Inshta Theamba, Inshta Theumba, and Inshata Theumba. She was born in 1854 on Omaha lands. (The Omaha Reservation is now located mostly in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri River, with some areas in western Iowa, U.S.) Her parents were Joseph La Flesche (Iron Eye), chief of the Om...

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Just before his death, he gained national attention for attacking the te...

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