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Title: History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Edwards, Lewis C
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Publisher: Indianapolis : B.F. Bowen
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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-. When the territorial supremecourt passed out of existence by reason of the admission of the state to theUnion, the United States district court for Nebraska was created, and ElmerS. Dundy, an associate justice of the supreme court of the territory, was ap-pointed by the president to the position of United States district judge for thedistrict of Nebraska, this territory including all the territory within the con-fines of the newly-created state. Judge Dundy held the position until hisdeath in 1896. JUDGK ELMER S. DUNDY. Elmer S. Dundy was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, on March 5, 1830,and died on October 28. 1896. in the state of Nebraska, where he had long-been a dominant and useful figure. His forbears came from Germanvin the early part of the seventeenth century and settled in eastern Pennsyl-vania and Maryland. The boyhood of Elmer S. Dundy was spent on his
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X JUDGE ELMER S. DUNDY. RTCIIARDSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 453 fathers farm in Ohio and in 1850 the family remo^•ed to Clearfield county,Pennsylvania. Here young Dundy taught school for a numher of terms andbecame principal of the schools of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. He studied lawwhile teaching and was admitted to the bar of his home county in 1853.He came to Nebraska in 1857 and after remaining- at Nebraska City for ashort time he took up his residence in Archer, the first county seat of Rich-ardson county. Mr. Dundy removed to the new town of Falls City, when itwas laid out and lived there until his death. He served as a member of theCouncil of the Territorial Assembly in 1859 and was re-elected a memberof the Legislature in i860. He continued to practice his profession at FallsCity until 1863, in which year he was appointed associate justice of thesupreme court of Nebraska by President Lincoln. His district at that timecovered nearly one-half of the organized counties of Nebraska and

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