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Excerpt from Recollections of the Army Life of My Mother and Father: A Chronological Account My Mother, the former Nelsie Patrick Hughes, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, which is situated on the banks of the Missouri River. My maternal grandfather, of Welsh ancestry, came to Nebraska from Virginia in 1856. A graduate of Georgetown Academy, he had entered the banking field and later established himself with the Nebraska National Bank in Omaha. One of the pioneers of Omaha, he was beloved by everyone. Mention of him is made in "The History of Omaha" by Alfred Sorenson. My maternal grandmother, Margaret Berlin, of Dutch and Irish descent, first came to Nebraska when her family moved from Pittsburgh (East Liberty), Pennsylvania, to farm near Irvington, Nebraska, a few miles west of Omaha. Margaret Berlin had a clever and industrious uncle, Nelson Patrick, who had made money in stocks, bonds, and railroads and had investments around Omaha, among them the beautiful piece of property which, after his death, became the famous Happy Hollow Golf Club and is now the fashionable girls' school, Brownell Hall. The spacious home he built there - the home that has seen so many gay parties and distinguished visitors - was eventually the scene of my mother's wedding. My grandfather and grandmother met in Omaha's Lutheran Church, which they both attended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.