Silas Garber
{{short description|American politician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Silas Garber
|image = Silas Garber published 1913.jpg
|order1 = 3rd
|office1 = Governor of Nebraska
|term_start1 = January 11, 1875
|term_end1 = January 9, 1879
|lieutenant1 = Othman A. Abbott (1877–79)
|predecessor1 = Robert Wilkinson Furnas
|successor1 = Albinus Nance
|office2 = Member of the Nebraska House of Representatives
|term2= 1872
|birth_date = {{birth date|1833|9|21}}
|birth_place = Logan County, Ohio
|death_date = {{death date and age|1905|1|12|1833|9|21}}
|death_place = Red Cloud, Nebraska
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Silas Garber (September 21, 1833 – January 12, 1905) was the founder of Red Cloud, Nebraska and was also the third governor of Nebraska.
Garber was born in Logan County, Ohio. He moved to Clayton County, Iowa when he was seventeen and started farming. He was married to Rosella Dana, and then to Lyra C. Wheeler.{{cite web|title=Silas Garber|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|access-date=September 16, 2012}} His wife was the inspiration for Willa Cather's A Lost Lady; deemed "smutty for its time," this caused tension between the Garber and Cather families.{{cite news |title=Danekas brings experience to Legislature |publisher=The Daily Nebraskan |date=November 28, 1979 |page=6}}
Career
At the start of the Civil War, Garber joined the 3rd Missouri Regiment on October 3, 1862. He later transferred to Co. D, 27th Iowa Infantry, with a promotion to captain on April 13, 1863. He was mustered out of the Army on August 8, 1865.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} He left the Midwest and moved to California where he engaged in livestock trading.{{cite book|title=Silas Garber|date = January 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWkP0DM_upwC&pg=PA92|publisher=The Encyclopedia of Nebraska|isbn = 9780403098347|access-date=September 16, 2012}}
Garber returned to the Midwest in 1870. He settled in Webster County, Nebraska, and in 1872, he laid out the town site of Red Cloud. Garber served as probate judge of Webster County, and in 1872 he was elected to the Nebraska House of Representatives. In 1873 he became Register of the U.S. Land Office in Lincoln. He received the Republican nomination, and in 1874, Garber became the fourth (third elected) Governor of Nebraska. He served on the University of Nebraska board of regents from 1875 to 1876.{{cite web|title=Silas Garber|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|access-date=September 16, 2012}} After re-election and serving out his second term, Garber returned to Red Cloud.
Death
Silas Garber died in Red Cloud, Nebraska, after a long illness. He is interred at Red Cloud Cemetery, Red Cloud, Nebraska.{{cite web|title=Silas Garber|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_nebraska/col2-content/main-content-list/title_garber_silas.html|publisher=National Governors Association|access-date=September 16, 2012}}
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|7267534}}
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061202055149/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/public/state_governors/garber.pdf Silas Garber papers]}} at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html The Political Graveyard]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=rWkP0DM_upwC&dq=nebraska+governor+Robert+Wilkinson+Furnas&pg=PA92 The Encyclopedia of Nebraska]
- [http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_nebraska/col2-content/main-content-list/title_garber_silas.html National Governors Association]
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Category:Republican Party governors of Nebraska
Category:People from Logan County, Ohio
Category:People of Missouri in the American Civil War
Category:People of Iowa in the American Civil War
Category:People from Red Cloud, Nebraska
Category:Republican Party members of the Nebraska House of Representatives
Category:American city founders