Editing Holt County, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Holt County was created by an act of the [[Nebraska Territory]] Legislature in 1862, and was organized in 1876.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc|title=Nebraska Place-Names|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Lilian Linder|publisher=University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism|location=Lincoln|date=1925|page=74|access-date=December 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/holt/holt-p1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031113191652/http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/holt/holt-p1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 13, 2003|title=Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska|last=Andreas|first=A. T.|date=1882|website=The Kansas Collection|access-date=December 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nacone.org/webpages/counties/countywebs/holt.html|title=Holt County|publisher=Nebraska Association of County Officials|access-date=December 15, 2014}}</ref> It is named for [[Joseph Holt]] of Kentucky, who was [[United States Postmaster General|postmaster general]] and [[United States Secretary of War|secretary of war]] under [[President of the United States|President]] [[James Buchanan]]. It shares its name with [[Holt County, Missouri]], though it is named for a different Holt.