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Nebraska Authors

Melville Beveridge Cox True

AKA: Published as M.B.C. True

Born 1838-01-22 Franklin County, ME (USA)

M.B.C. True was a Civil War veteran and a prominent Nebraska lawyer and newspaper editor and educator. He wrote several civics books widely used in early Nebraska schools, including A Manual of the History and Civil Government of the State of Nebraska, 1885, History and Civics of Nebraska, 1892, and Our Republic: A Text Book upon the Civil Government of the United States. (with John Dickenson), 1888. There is a long biographical sketch of him in Vol. 3 of J. Sterling Morton's History of Nebraska.

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Author Of

  • Nonfiction

Keywords

Civics; Nebraska Constitution; Law and Lawyers

Occupation

Lawyer

Bibliography

A Manual of the History and Civil Government of the State of Nebraska. 1885.
History and Civics of Nebraska. 1892.
Our Republic: A Text Book upon the Civil Government of the United States. (with John Dickenson), 1888.

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