Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports
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Date of this Version
1885
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, Council Bluffs, Iowa, under date of Dec. 26th, 1878, furnishes the following, relating to the first female suffragist movement in Nebraska. She prefaces with this historic note:
My first visit to Omaha was July 4th, 1855. The day was being celebrated. Omaha was then a small place. The Douglas House was the only hotel. The speaker's stand was erected in front of it, across the road. The dinner table was out doors, on the east side of the street Acting Governor Thomas Cuming was the orator. Omaha was then but eight months old.
Comments
Published in Transactions and Reports of the Nebraska State Historical Society, Volume I (Lincoln, NE 1885).