WARRICK
CUMING CITY., Nebraska
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| A. S. (Amasa) WARWICK, farmer, Section 27, post office Blair, is a native of
Clearfield County, Pa. Born August 10, 1824; came to Indiana in 1846; followed
farming there till 1856, when he came to Nebraska and settled in this locality;
he now owns about 500 acres of land, about 300 of which are improved; he built
the first farm house in the locality, and did the first farming in this
district; he represented this county in the Legislature one term; was married in
1848 to Sarah A. Betts. Born in Scott County, Kentucky, 1823; moved to Indiana
with her father in 1834, her mother being dead. They have eight children-- four
sons and four daughters. [source]
Father A. S. Warrick (Warwick)
Cuming City http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/cuming_city.htm Cuming City was an early
Washington County town named for Thomas B. Cuming, acting governor of
Nebraska Territory from 1854 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1858. The site was
claimed by P. G. Cooper and two others in September 1854, but no settlement
was made until the next spring, when a site was mapped and surveyed. Cuming City, like many other
western towns, had lofty ambitions. A ferry charter was granted to Cooper in
January 1856, and in the same month the territorial legislature incorporated
Washington College, located it at Cuming City, and appointed a board of
eight trustees: B. R. Folsom, James C. Mitchell, T. B. Cuming, Mark W.
Izard, P. G. Cooper, William B. Hail, John C. Campbell, and J. B. Radford.
Two newspapers, the Nebraska Pioneer and the Cuming City Star, both
Democratic, were published. Samuel Warrick, an early
settler in the Cuming City area, first reached the town on April 15, 1857.
Warrick and his father, originally from Indiana, started from Indianapolis
and then proceeded by rail, steamboat, stage, and on foot toward their goal
in Nebraska Territory. Warrick later recalled that he did little farming for
the first year after he settled in the Cuming City vicinity. "We planted a
little sod corn, some potatoes, and made much preparation for the coming
year, getting out logs from along the river for house and barn, and hunted
with muzzle loading rifles and shot guns, also doing some fishing. . . . In
the spring of '58 I sowed the first wheat here. It was sown on the
Lippincott farm, then owned by P. G. Cooper, and helped to harvest the same.
All this kind of work was done without any machinery except the plow until
the year of 1861 . . . . "The season of '59 I commenced
farming for myself on a small scale and working for others when I could, our
population having more than doubled by 1860. March 21, 1861, I was married
to Amanda Stewart, having my farm improved to the extent of twenty acres
plowed, a little log house, one horse, one cow, a hoe, spade and single
shovel plow." Warrick concluded his reminiscences by stating, "Owing to this
healthful climate I have been able to each year farm from one acre to 200,
and eat three square meals a day, providing I was where I could get themand
today I hold the championship for wood chopping among those of my age, being
73 years young." |
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| Lincoln D. Warrick
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-- Son, Isaiah C. Warrick b. Dec 2, 1856 Indiana d. Jan 7 1885 Near Blair Photo on page 124 of Carr's History of Washington County |
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-- Son, Theodore Warrick |
| SAMUEL WARRICK, Section 27, post office Blair, is a native of Wayne County, Ind. In the spring of 1857 he came to Washington County, where he has since resided; he owns 360 acres of land, 200 of which are improved; married in 1861 to Miss Amanda J. Stewart, a native of Indiana. They have six children--one son and five daughters. [source] | |