Chester County PA Archives News.....Jerome Coulter, Paymaster (1879-1912)
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CCHS Surname File February 17, 1879
2/17/1879
Appointed Paymaster- We learn that Jerome Coulter, who is weel-known in West 
Chester, has been appointed paymaster on the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. 
Coulter(better known as "Jerry") is a printer by trade and some two or three 
years ago left our borough to seek his fortune in the West. We hopr the rumor 
is a correct one and that he will find his new position both pleasant and 
profitable

3/3/1883
Mrs. Jerome Coulter, formerly of West Chester, but for some years past a 
resident of Omaha city, Nebraska, arrived in West Chester this morning in 
order to be in attendance at the funeral of her father, John O'Neill, who will 
be interred to-morrow in St. Agnes cemetery.

11/7/1895
Jerome K.Coulter,deputy city treasurer of Omaha, Nebraska, is in jail there on 
the charge of robbing the city of $30,00. He is a native of West Chester and 
went West and engaged in Politics several years ago.

2/18/1890
People, Things and Prices Out There
     Jerome K. Coulter, Deputy Comptroller of Omaha, Neb., who arrived in West 
Chester yesterday is visiting to-day at Marshallton his aged mother. It is 
fifteen years since "Jerry" (by this name he was known among the old printer 
boys) dropped his stick in the Republican office and left for the West. Omaha 
then had 20,000 people within its confines. Today she has 135,000. Then there 
was nothing but mud in the city. Now there are handsomely paved streets, three 
or four different kinds of street cars, handsome churches, hotels,etc. When 
Mr. Coulter went there building lots were offered at $150 which now readily 
sell for $8000. Whe he went there were Sioux and Pawnee Indians in the place 
by the hundreds. To-day there is "nary Red." he says for miles aroundOmaha 
there is no woodland, and not a stome as large as your finger nail. No fruit 
is raised in Nebraska and a fence is not known nor is a barn to be seen in 
that locality. herding in the county district is still the rage and no grain 
is housed. The best ears of corn are picked and the rest and the corn stalks 
burned. Cigars are 10 and 15c. each. Beer 10c per glass. the taxes are 48mills 
on the dollar. Licenses for keeping liquor places are $1000 per annum. There 
250 places of  the kind and this money goes toward keeping up the schools, 
which are said to the equal of any in the country. Teachers recieve from $6o 
to $135 per month. Mr. Soulter says Omaha drew 15,000 people within her limits 
last year. The weather there has been very mild this winter, but of course 
considerably colder than Chester County. Oysters out there are acarce and high-
60c. for a dozen fried. He will return West in a week or two.

1/24/1912
Word is requested of the present whereabouts of Jerome Coulter, once a printer 
in this place, but who left for the West twenty-two years ago, going to 
Nebraska, where he afterwards gained a county office in Omaha, but since which 
timw all trace of him has been lost. The word is requested by Lewis B. 
Coulter, now an inmate of the Veterans' home, at Napa, California, near San 
Francisco, where he is suffering from paralysis.
     In a letter to Captain Oliver B. Channell, of this place, the brother, 
who was a member of the 97th Regiment during the Civil War, wants to locate 
the brother,of whom he has had no tidings for twenty-two years. People here 
who remember the former printer, who worked with the American Republican, 
after learning his trade there. coming here from near Marshallton, are unable 
to tell anything which would lead to discovering his present whereabouts. It 
is saiid that Coulter after occupying a political office, dropped from sight 
in the West, but his brother is anxious to secure definite idea of what became 
of him after that time.

1/25/1912
Jerome Coulter, the former West Chester printer, whose whereabouts are 
requested by his brother, Lewis, who is in a veterans' home, near San 
Francisco, paralyzed and who has been trying to locate Jerome, who he had not 
seen for twenty-two years, is no longer in the land of the living. He died a 
number of years ago in Iddaho, to which State he had gone from Omaha, 
Nebraska. Coulter was Assistant City Treasurer in Omaha for a term and during 
that time the Treasurer embezzled several thousand dollars from the city fund 
and fled. He was captured and sent to prison for a term. After this Coulter 
left Omaha, going to Idaho, where his death occurred later. He was not 
connected with the steal from the city, but the matter weighed heavily on his 
mind until the day of his death.
     Coulter left a widow, who was Miss Catharine O'Neill, of this place, and 
also three sons, now young men in the employ of a Western railroad company, 
with which they all hold responsible positions. Some years after the death of 
Coulter his widow became the wife of Judge Foster, a prominent figure in 
political and social life in Omaha, and she still resides in that city. 
Coulter was a half brother of Cyrus Mann, of this place.

1/26/1912
"Jerome Coulter's father was a brother of my grandfather. So Jerome was my 
first cousin once removed. I do not know whether Jerome is living or not, for 
I have not heard from him for twenty-five years." Josiah Mann, 118 East Biddle 
street. 

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