Nevada History Lecture – How Nevada Achieved Statehood (Special Nevada Day Program)
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October 30 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$6.00
Nevada History Lecture
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
5:30 to 6:30pm
Title of Talk: How Nevada Achieved Statehood: How Did It Do and What Was Its Legacy? (Special Nevada Day Program)
Speaker: Jeff Kintop, former state Archivist, and Vice Chair, Nevada Judicial Historical Society
Early Carson City Street. NHS CC-00335.
Summary of Talk
A special Nevada Day program that explains the complexities about becoming a state.
Nevada achieved statehood October 31, 1864, when President Abraham Lincoln sent his famous telegram proclaiming Nevada to be a state. Achieve means “to succeed at reaching or accomplishing (a goal, result, etc.) especially through effort.” The major complaint of Nevada Territory’s residents was that the federal officials appointed to rule over their state were incompetent and corrupt.
It was a new beginning for the new state. Nevadans got to elect all of their new state officers and begin a new government under the new state constitution. There was a lot to do. Many of the newly elected officers had never done this before. The new state was broke. Regardless of what you read about all the riches of the Comstock Lode, the new state had no money in the treasury and bundle of territorial bonds no one would buy.
Just how did the new state fare in its own selection of state officials. Who were they? What did they do? And most importantly, what was the legacy they left for future Nevada?
Jeff Kintop, historian
Speaker Bio
Jeff Kintop has worked in Nevada History for 44 years. He retired from the Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records in 2018, where he worked for 35 years, starting as an Archives Assistant and retiring as Administrator of the Division.
As newspaper reporter Guy Clifton once wrote in 2013, “A funny thing happened to Jeff Kintop on his career path back to his native Minnesota. He fell in love with Nevada, and the rest, quite literally, is history. Kintop, the Nevada state archivist, moved to Reno in 1979 to work on a grant-funded history education project at the University of Nevada, Reno.” The grant funding ran out he took a part time job the Nevada State Archives.
Over the years he served as Nevada’s representative to the Library and Archives Preservation Institute, Nevada Governor’s Conference on the Future of Libraries, White House Conference on the Future of Libraries, the Society of American Archivists Preservation Management Institute, and the Archives Leadership Institute. He has written or contributed to numerous books, reports, and articles on Nevada history, historical research, and archival programs. He has also written or directed more than twenty federal, state, and private grants for historical and archival projects.
He holds a Master of Arts in History and is an ACA Certified Archivist. He Kintop served as staff to the State Historical Records Advisory Board 1991-2008, Chair 2009-2016, and Ex-Officio Secretary 2016-2018. He served on and was chair of the State Board on Geographic Names and is now Deputy Coordinator/Co-Chair of NVSHRAB and President of the Nevada Judicial History Society.
Make sure to arrive early as we have limited seating available in our Event Space. Don’t forget, we provide free, temporary parking permits to make it easier to visit NHS!
