Nemaha County, Nebraska #271362

During the summer of 1856 the Nemaha Valley bank was established with Alexander Hallam as cashier and S. H. Riddle as president. And then it was fondly dreamed that a railroad could be secured if the enterprising citizens would but get up and howl in good earnest, and the road that was to be was named the North Missouri 8: Brownville R. R Yet many years passed, and many of those who were hope ful that they would soon hear the snort of the iron horse, passed on to the land beyond the river be fore the arrival of a railroad. Of those who were active men and women in the days of Brownville's earliest history but very few are still living. Some ofthem went west when the gold fields of Colorado promised a rich harvest. Some of them witnessed the growth of the city so long as it continued to grow, but sought other fields when there were signs of decay, but a very large number of them sleep in Walnut Grove cemetery and know not of the changes time has wrought.