This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Streight, Uray, Peterson, Egenberger, Amison, Dovey, more Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/35.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, August 31, 1916 CAME TO PLATTSMOUTH WHEN ONLY THIRTEEN YEARS OLD O.M. STREIGHT, another pioneer of experience, came to Plattsmouth with his father, from Montgomery county, Iowa, in 1857, when he was 13 years of age. He calls to mind that the leading hotel was a three-story frame building called the City hotel, situated on the ground now occupied by the Plattsmouth hotel. It was run by Mrs. URAY, who was the mother of Mrs. J.C. PETERSON. He attended school in a frame building occupying the ground where EGENBERGER’s saloon now is. At this time Plattsmouth was a greater outfitting point for the west than Omaha. It had some live business firms, among them being AMISON and DOVEY, TOOTLE and HANNA, STAUD and ANDERSON, SIMPSON, MICKELWAITE and SHARP. During the years 1865, 1866, and 1867, Mr. Streight was engaged in driving teams across the plains to Denver and the mountains for the freighters and had many varied experiences with frontiersmen while thus engaged. He has seen Plattsmouth grow from a frontier town into a pretentious modern! city, and does not regret having cast his lot with the early pioneers here.