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From: "Alice" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Cozad
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:00:27 -0600
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Bob, I can't tell you much about the Ohio town...but I understand the
founder was the same one who founded Cozad Nebraska..I also recall that the
father moved around alot.....I actuallly got interested as I live in
Nebraska and it is such a neat story ...Mari Sandoz..author of the novel
"Son of a Gamblin Man" is a Nebraska author....Yes, somewhere I read that
the artist Mary Cassatt (different spelling same family I understand) is a
cousin to Robert Henri.. ...Their is a lot more on line that I recall
reading when the story first peaked my interest...Do some googling and I
know you will find lots on the story...Try googling Cozad Nebraska also...I
haven't gotten their yet but I understand they have a museum their that has
lots on the story. Also try Mari Sandoz and the title of the book....It
might keep you busy all night :-)
By the way....I am researching the RIGHTMIRE family who lived in Hunterdon
County New Jersey but could not help getting involved in telling this...one
of my favorite Nebraska History stories.......Alice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Lefler" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Cozad


> Boy! That is a crazy story! I had heard that one of our Cossart was in
> Atlantic City and there was this huge and crazy property dispute and
public
> demonstration there, but that is all I know. However, I was not under
the
> impression that he came from Nebraska! There is also a problem because I
> have understood that one branch went to Philadelphia and became
successfull
> business people, that included Mary Casat and her brother(?) who was a
VP of
> the Pennsylvania Railroad. He had something to do with the construction
of
> Pennsylvania Station in NYC and so his statue was in the station;
however,
> when they tore the station down a few years ago, the statue was moved to
> that Railroad Museum outside Lancaster,Pa, where I saw it a few years
ago.
> This same Cossart name was given to a town of Cosad,South
Carolinia,(near
> the NC border) when the Railroad was built down through there and towns
were
> placed at intervals along the way and given the names of railroad
> executives. However, the problem seems to be that some one or people
dispute
> these things saying the one or the other is a different family! Crazy! A
> fellow in SC told me that Cosad,SC, was named after a Southern General
in
> the Civil war and not for some fool Yankee family!! And there is a
dispute
> over the railroad exec.: Now there is also a Cossart line that involves
a
> descendent who was a member of the Pennsylvania Committee of
Correspondance
> before the Am Rev. I don't know much on that either.. I do have a lot of
> material on Henri however, but I see he is Not(?) related to the George
who
> settled in Ohio? As he was born in Cinci.?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alice" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:19 PM
> Subject: [NJHUNTER] Cozad
>
>
>> This is the url for the Museum of Nebraska Art...or Mona...and it tells
>> the story of the Cozad family
>> http://monet.unk.edu/mona/pioneer/henri/henri.html and Robert Henri
>> who is actually a member of the Cozad family....
>>
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