This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1088.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Are you familiar with the names Fielding Bradshaw or Wm. H. Bradshaw? From "Johnson's History of Nebraska": The first settlements were made in June, 1866 by a small party from Illinois, consisting of --- Wm. H. Bradshaw --- who located near the mouth of the North Fork of the Elkhorn on the ground now occupied by the town of Norfolk. January 21, 1868, the first election for County Officers was held, which resulsted as follows: -- Fielding Bradshaw, Sheriff --"