Patents are deeds transferring land ownership from the U.S. Government to a buyer. A patent is the first record in a chain of title for a parcel of land.
Patents Ready.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb., March 29, 1880.Patents to lands in Platte county, Neb., have been received at this office for the persons named below. The final certificate in each case must be surrendered before the patent can be delivered.
M. B. HOXIE, Register. Melchior Jenni, Henry Englebart, John Johnson, Clarence A. Newman, William Wurdemann, Michael Sheedy, Patrick S. Griffin, Hinrich Friedrich Lubker, Henry Barjenbruch, Heinrich Wilke, Jos. Wickham, Julius Hembd, Herman Pieper, Edward Schaad, Elisha D. Judkins, Rody Sheedy, George Henggeler, Phillippe Schroeder, Herman Wurdeman, Orphan Children of Metta Maria Iverson, Gottlieb Krause, Leontine Anson, Frank Anson, John Dorsch, Christian Yeiter, D. Brunken, Henry Herchenhan, Sarelda Ellis, John F. Schroeder, Julius Hoth, William H. Morkert, Nicolas Adamy, Rudolf Jenni, Samuel W. W. Wilson, Alexander T. Simmons, John Quinn, Edward Roberts, Katherine M. Ahrens, Sarah A. Cunningham, Babara Spoerry, Margaret Cleary, Rudolph Kummer, John Treacy, James Hanna, Edward T. Graham, Michael Konahan, Frank Mielenz, Charles O. Moore, John M. Alderson, John Henry Hellbusch, Bernard Caffery, John Macken, Hugh Gibson, John Eisenman, John Geiser, Paul Klas, Gottlieb Lemp, Nicholas Blaser, William Bacon, Gerhard Gronenthal, Robert A. Taylor, John Hoffman, John Hennessey, Virgil D. Baldwin, Augustus Smith, John Smith, Philip Walker, Dyer W. Olin, John J. Macken, Thomas M. Olin, Samuel Connelly, Albert Rose, William Truelove, William Matson, Sarah Ducey, Chas. D. Tyler, Nils Munson, Peter D. Ceder, John C. Whiteaker, John H. Gogan, David J. Jones, Lars Peterson, Thos. Barnes, George W. McCormick, John Jackson, Joseph Apgar, Herman Bakenhus, Heinrich Robert, Laurence Byrnes, James W. Lockhart, Edward R. Jones, Henry G.F. Kenacher, Phebe Fulton, Mun. M. Lent, John H. Meyer, Wilhelm Schmitz, Silas H. Tucker, Augustus Kountze, Cinthia Rose, Augustus Kountz, Michael Deady, Joseph H. Watts, Michael Dody, Martin Mager, Michael Upton, Charles O. Beddlecom, Cyrus D. Kzen, Reinhold Brandt, William Routson, Friedrich Plagemann, Patrick Morressey, Wilhelm Krause, Peter Reinheimer, Henry Rehbuck, Michael Reagon, E. T. McGehee, Wm. Grant, Lars Spuet, Jacob Jernberg, Patrick Delaney, Johannes Jaun, James Collins, Chas. Alson, Jacob Sebudin, Heinrich Haake.
[The Journal - April 7, 1880]
Patents. Have been received for the following named persons, at U.S. Land Office, Grand Island, Neb.:
John N. McClintick, Wm. J. Wynand, Mary A. Hill, John F. Cole, Carel Stoan, Forsten Nilsson, Peter Nilsson, John Peter Braun, John Braun, Wm. A. Alderson, Lormon Porter, Freidrich Mahlach, Johan Stickel, Adam Rollman, Gottlieb Strikel, James Baker, Frederick Peterson, Josiah E. Howland, David Blank, Thomas Thomazin, Solomon Dickenson, Wm. W. Sloan, James M. Adams, William Cornwell, John Gogan, Melissa A. Howland, Jethro Howland, John Eyman, Frederick Gerbes, Zubulon McAldin, heirs of Charles Losey, Issac L. Shaffer, Daniel Macken, Wm. T. Sibley, Ferdinand Ripp.
No patents received for proofs made later than March 18, 1879.
[The Journal - August 11, 1880]
Patents. The following patents for lands in Platte county have just been received at U.S. Land Office at Grand Island, Neb., viz.:
Lois Sisson, Hans Christensen, Henry Guiles, H A Saunders, J H Reed, Wm Connelly, H Chapman, Jas Fey, John Sullivan, Pat Ducey, Jas Ducey, S Finton, Mary Davis, David Davis, Ed Welch, W L Armstrong, W M Arnold, E B Hall, W J Thurston, W Becklem, Chas Walker, John Boss, A G Quinn, A Rowe, R Breheny, J H Sloane, R N Leach, G Barlero, C Carney, R Nichelson, A Jaretzky, F Lemp, R Kurth, E F Russell, F P_tter, G J Kuper, J Weber, K H Beyer, D Brooks, J. Kruger, H W Hagert, P McNamara, F English, J Bodmer, C Kohlrust, F Wendt, Maria Fluckiger, T Sullivan, P F Shaw, L Anson, A Iverson, S Sonnechson, N O Berlin, T K Matson, S J Wheeler, P J Schmitz, E Ahrens, J Karlinn, F Seims, J Kalb, H Ludtke, B W Ellis, P Brennan, H Hossel, H Heitzmann, J H Littlemann, G W Cleveland, G C Cleveland, A Austin, G Loseke, W Mead, A O'Donnell, F A Henny, John Hintz, A Walkinshaw, John Mullen, H P Sisson, A Nelson, Jas Kiernan, H Tessendorf, O Plant, J Welsh, John Burke, F L Sisson, W H Allison, I A Allison, J A Fulton, J J Nichols, John Anderson.
[The Journal - October 24, 1880]