Illustrated History of Nebraska: A History of Nebraska from the ..., Volume 3, By Julius Sterling Morton, pages 506-507:

PADDOCK, MAJOR JOSEPH W., deceased, came to Omaha, Neb., September 24, 1854. He was chief clerk of the first house of representatives which opened January 16, 1855, and also the first clerk of the first district court, Judge Fenner Ferguson presiding. Mr. Paddock was a member of the Nebraska territorial legislature in the sessions of 1857 and 1866. He was sent by the people of Omaha as a commissioner to Washington to obtain an appropriation for the new capitol building. He was commissioned by Governor Saunders as captain of Company K, 1st Nebraska infantry, and served four months, when in November, 1861, he was detailed on staff duty. In 1862 he was appointed adjutant general on the staff of General Steele. At the close of the war, he became secretary and a member of the Western Transportation Company, engaging in moving freight from the end of the Union Pacific to the mountains. For many years he was claim agent for the Union Pacific railroad. In 1891 he was appointed by President Harrison a director of the Union Pacific railroad, representing the United States government on the board. He served one term as county commissioner of Douglas county to fill a vacancy in 1891, and was elected for another term.

Major Paddock was born at Massina, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and was a son of William S. and Wealthy (Porter) Paddock, the latter a daughter of Reverend Mr. Porter of the Presbyterian church. He was a cousin of Senator A. S. Paddock, of Beatrice. Major Paddock married, in 1858, Miss Susie Mack, a sister of Mrs. A. S. Paddock, and a daughter of Daniel Mack, born in Harpursfield, N. Y., and Lucretia Perry, daughter of William Perry, a pioneer of St. Lawrence county, N. Y.

Major and Mrs. Paddock were the parents of two children: Benjamin S., of Rocky Ford, Colo., and Emma, widow of W. E. Annin, of Washington, D. C. The Paddock home consisted of a splendid farm of 340 acres just west of Omaha in Douglas county, which was known as Paddock grove. Mr. Paddock died at Omaha, January 17, 1895. Mrs. Paddock survives her husband and resides at Rocky Ford, Colo.

From the book "History of Omaha from the Pioneer Days to the Present Time," by Alfred Rasmus Sorenson. Gibson, Miller & Richardson, Printers, 1889. Page 266.

Published in the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor, Maine
13 Jan 1895, Sun • Page 3