Portrait and Biographical Album, Otoe and Cass Counties Nebraska, (Chapman Bros 1889) pp. 956-7
GEORGE W. MAYFIELD. The Louisville Observer was established by the subject of this sketch in 1883, and he is still its editor and proprietor. He has made of it a newsy local sheet, and impregnated it with his own uncompromising Republican principles. It is issued every Friday, and has become an institution quite indispensable to the people along the northern line of the county.
The city of Bloomington, Ind., claims Mr. Mayfield as one of its natives, his birth taking place Aug. 22, 1827 (1838). His father, Leroy Mayfield, was a native of Kentucky, and married Miss Martha Basket, of South (North?) Carolina. The maternal grandfather, William Basket, was a native of the same State, and spent his last years in Indiana. Leroy Mayfield removed from the Blue Glass regions to Indiana during its pioneer days, locating near the present city of Bloomington when it was a small village. Here our subject was reared, and received his education in the common schools. In 1855 he drifted westward to Nebraska Territory, a single man, and taking up his abode near the present city of Plattsmouth when it was a hamlet of a few houses, employed himself working on a farm.
The same year of his arrival here young Mayfield engaged in border warfare with the Indians, under the command of Gov. Thayer, proceeding up the Loup and Elkhorn Rivers to protect the settlers from the threatened outbreak of the savages. He was thus occupied three months, during which time he took part in two or three skirmishes with no very serious results. Upon returning to this county he stationed himself at Plattsmouth, and later assisted in the establishment of the Republican of Weeping Water, with which he was connected about one year. From that time until 1883 he was occupied at Weeping Water as above stated, then coming to Louisville he started the Observer, of which he is making a success.
Our subject found his bride in this county, being married, in 1858, to Miss Emeline Todd, a native of Nebraska, and the daughter of Jefferson and Mary E. Todd. This union resulted in the birth of eight children, who are located as follows: Clarence G. is engaged in farming in Louisville Precinct; Eugene is editor of the South Omaha Times; Winnie is the wife of Frank Secord, agent of the Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha; Albert U. is publisher of the Elmwood Echo; Leroy J. assists his father in the publication of the Louisville Observer; Valentine, Georgia and Oland are at home with their parents.
Contributor: MH (48562403)
GEORGE W. MAYFIELD. The Louisville Observer was established by the subject of this sketch in 1883, and he is still its editor and proprietor. He has made of it a newsy local sheet, and impregnated it with his own uncompromising Republican principles. It is issued every Friday, and has become an institution quite indispensable to the people along the northern line of the county.
The city of Bloomington, Ind., claims Mr. Mayfield as one of its natives, his birth taking place Aug. 22, 1827 (1838). His father, Leroy Mayfield, was a native of Kentucky, and married Miss Martha Basket, of South (North?) Carolina. The maternal grandfather, William Basket, was a native of the same State, and spent his last years in Indiana. Leroy Mayfield removed from the Blue Glass regions to Indiana during its pioneer days, locating near the present city of Bloomington when it was a small village. Here our subject was reared, and received his education in the common schools. In 1855 he drifted westward to Nebraska Territory, a single man, and taking up his abode near the present city of Plattsmouth when it was a hamlet of a few houses, employed himself working on a farm.
The same year of his arrival here young Mayfield engaged in border warfare with the Indians, under the command of Gov. Thayer, proceeding up the Loup and Elkhorn Rivers to protect the settlers from the threatened outbreak of the savages. He was thus occupied three months, during which time he took part in two or three skirmishes with no very serious results. Upon returning to this county he stationed himself at Plattsmouth, and later assisted in the establishment of the Republican of Weeping Water, with which he was connected about one year. From that time until 1883 he was occupied at Weeping Water as above stated, then coming to Louisville he started the Observer, of which he is making a success.
Our subject found his bride in this county, being married, in 1858, to Miss Emeline Todd, a native of Nebraska, and the daughter of Jefferson and Mary E. Todd. This union resulted in the birth of eight children, who are located as follows: Clarence G. is engaged in farming in Louisville Precinct; Eugene is editor of the South Omaha Times; Winnie is the wife of Frank Secord, agent of the Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha; Albert U. is publisher of the Elmwood Echo; Leroy J. assists his father in the publication of the Louisville Observer; Valentine, Georgia and Oland are at home with their parents.
Contributor: MH (48562403)
Portrait and Biographical Album, Otoe and Cass Counties Nebraska, (Chapman Bros 1889) pp. 956-7
GEORGE W. MAYFIELD. The Louisville Observer was established by the subject of this sketch in 1883, and he is still its editor and proprietor. He has made of it a newsy local sheet, and impregnated it with his own uncompromising Republican principles. It is issued every Friday, and has become an institution quite indispensable to the people along the northern line of the county.
The city of Bloomington, Ind., claims Mr. Mayfield as one of its natives, his birth taking place Aug. 22, 1827 (1838). His father, Leroy Mayfield, was a native of Kentucky, and married Miss Martha Basket, of South (North?) Carolina. The maternal grandfather, William Basket, was a native of the same State, and spent his last years in Indiana. Leroy Mayfield removed from the Blue Glass regions to Indiana during its pioneer days, locating near the present city of Bloomington when it was a small village. Here our subject was reared, and received his education in the common schools. In 1855 he drifted westward to Nebraska Territory, a single man, and taking up his abode near the present city of Plattsmouth when it was a hamlet of a few houses, employed himself working on a farm.
The same year of his arrival here young Mayfield engaged in border warfare with the Indians, under the command of Gov. Thayer, proceeding up the Loup and Elkhorn Rivers to protect the settlers from the threatened outbreak of the savages. He was thus occupied three months, during which time he took part in two or three skirmishes with no very serious results. Upon returning to this county he stationed himself at Plattsmouth, and later assisted in the establishment of the Republican of Weeping Water, with which he was connected about one year. From that time until 1883 he was occupied at Weeping Water as above stated, then coming to Louisville he started the Observer, of which he is making a success.
Our subject found his bride in this county, being married, in 1858, to Miss Emeline Todd, a native of Nebraska, and the daughter of Jefferson and Mary E. Todd. This union resulted in the birth of eight children, who are located as follows: Clarence G. is engaged in farming in Louisville Precinct; Eugene is editor of the South Omaha Times; Winnie is the wife of Frank Secord, agent of the Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha; Albert U. is publisher of the Elmwood Echo; Leroy J. assists his father in the publication of the Louisville Observer; Valentine, Georgia and Oland are at home with their parents.
Contributor: MH (48562403)
GEORGE W. MAYFIELD. The Louisville Observer was established by the subject of this sketch in 1883, and he is still its editor and proprietor. He has made of it a newsy local sheet, and impregnated it with his own uncompromising Republican principles. It is issued every Friday, and has become an institution quite indispensable to the people along the northern line of the county.
The city of Bloomington, Ind., claims Mr. Mayfield as one of its natives, his birth taking place Aug. 22, 1827 (1838). His father, Leroy Mayfield, was a native of Kentucky, and married Miss Martha Basket, of South (North?) Carolina. The maternal grandfather, William Basket, was a native of the same State, and spent his last years in Indiana. Leroy Mayfield removed from the Blue Glass regions to Indiana during its pioneer days, locating near the present city of Bloomington when it was a small village. Here our subject was reared, and received his education in the common schools. In 1855 he drifted westward to Nebraska Territory, a single man, and taking up his abode near the present city of Plattsmouth when it was a hamlet of a few houses, employed himself working on a farm.
The same year of his arrival here young Mayfield engaged in border warfare with the Indians, under the command of Gov. Thayer, proceeding up the Loup and Elkhorn Rivers to protect the settlers from the threatened outbreak of the savages. He was thus occupied three months, during which time he took part in two or three skirmishes with no very serious results. Upon returning to this county he stationed himself at Plattsmouth, and later assisted in the establishment of the Republican of Weeping Water, with which he was connected about one year. From that time until 1883 he was occupied at Weeping Water as above stated, then coming to Louisville he started the Observer, of which he is making a success.
Our subject found his bride in this county, being married, in 1858, to Miss Emeline Todd, a native of Nebraska, and the daughter of Jefferson and Mary E. Todd. This union resulted in the birth of eight children, who are located as follows: Clarence G. is engaged in farming in Louisville Precinct; Eugene is editor of the South Omaha Times; Winnie is the wife of Frank Secord, agent of the Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha; Albert U. is publisher of the Elmwood Echo; Leroy J. assists his father in the publication of the Louisville Observer; Valentine, Georgia and Oland are at home with their parents.
Contributor: MH (48562403)
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