JOHN BROWN’S CAVE—CABIN—MUSEUM, AND 
THE JOHN HENRY KAGI MEMORIAL 
Location—Twentieth Street on Highway No. 2 , Nebraska City 
John Henry Kagi was born March 15, 1835, at Bristolville, Ohio, his 
mother died when he was three years old. His father, Abraham "N. 
Kagy, with his younger daughter Mary, preempted a claim in 1853 on 
Camp Creek in Otoe County, Nebraska. John Henry Kagi accompanied 
his older sister Mrs. Allen B. Mayhew (Bartara Kagy) and her hus¬ 
band to Nebraska in 1855, he taught school and studied law in Nebraska 
City and was admitted to the bar at the age of 21. 
Arriving at Topeka, Kansas, July 4, 1856, John Henry Kagi encoun¬ 
tered the conditions then existing in the Territory of Kansas. In the 
months of intimacy that followed the meeting of John Brown and John 
Henry Kagi, there is not one discordant note. 
John Henry Kagi was a regular correspondent for the Washington 
National Era, and the New York Evening Post. He was a writer for the 
Kansas Tribune at Topeka and the Lawrence Republican. He wrote a 
good deal for the Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Leader and the New York 
Tribune. 
History tells of these men in the Battle of Osawatomie, August 30, 
1856. The massacre at Pottawattomie. An attack on pro-slavery men 
at Black Jack. “I will carry the war into Africa,” declared John Brown. 
Ex-Judge Rush Elmore, a United States Judge armed with bludgeon 
and revolver struck Kagi over the head and shot him in the breast and 
arm. The Judge dodged behind a pillar, Kagi with revolver in hand shot 
Elmore in the groin, laid him low. 
At the Convention of John Brown and his followers held May 8, 1858, 
in Chatham, Canada, John Brown was elected Commander in Chief, and 
John Henry Kagi Secretary of War. 
John Henry Kagi and Aaron D. Stevens led the march and were the 
first of John Brown’s 19 men to cross the bridge to Harper’s Ferry the 
night of October 16, 1859. 
Kagi was killed at Harper’s Ferry and Brown was hung. John Henry 
Kagi is buried with John Brown on the Joi n Brown Homestead near 
Lake Placid, New York. 
Allen B. Mayhew. in 1862. operated a of nrqirip schooners. He 
was killed by the Indians near Salt Lake City, Utah. 
The two sisters of John Henry Kagi, Mary (Mrs. John Davis), and 
Barbara (Mrs. Allen B. Mayhew, remarried Bradway), are buried in 
Camp Creek Cemetery in Otoe County, Nebraska. 
These premises will be open to the public this summer. Read the 
book, “John Henry Kagy and the Old Log Cabin Home,” written, copy¬ 
righted, and for sale by Edward D. Bartling, Nebraska City, Nebraska. 
Postpaid, 40 cents. 
FRED QETGEN, Proprietor 
1506 CENTRAL AVENUE 
OPEN DAY & NIGHT 
jjnve into Hie uardens tor yard service. 
The yard is beautifully landscaped and is an ideal 
place to spend an evening. Meet your friends at 
“The Gardens.” 
Sandwiches Lun 
Meals 
Prompt and Efficient Service 
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Ganger*; Service Station 
16t,h Street and Central Avenue 
EASY TO DRIVE IN 
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GOODYEAR TIRES AND BATTERIES 
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DARLING TRANSFER 
COMPANY 
V/AREHOUSE AND DEPOT 
1500 Central Avenue 
Service to 
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Nebraska City, Nebr. 
Represents the 
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Nebraska City 
BONDED WAREHOUSE 
We have license to store seeds 
and grain from the Nebraska 
State Railway Commission. 
Limited Elevator Storage 
