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Nebraska County Countdown - 72 Chase County - Imperial, Cowboys, And The Lincoln Highway

Chase County was named after Champion S. Chase, who served as mayor of Omaha for seven years and was Nebraska’s first Attorney General. This seems to me to be a weak name for a county. Maybe they should have named it “Champion County” instead, then they could have perhaps have all the Jackmans from Grant move to their county and had a completely different future.

Chase County was separated from Hayes County by the Nebraska legislature on February 27, 1873, although the county was not organized until 1886.

Check this from Wikipedia:

It was once said that, excluding ranch owners, their wives, and their cooks, at the time Chase County was organized it was populated entirely by cowboys.