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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13JH_john-wesley-nichols_Omaha-NE.html
John Wesley Nichols was born January 28, 1839, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, to Samuel and Katharine Maxwell Nichols. Little is known of his early years. In 1860 he married Sarah Elizabeth Dearborn, also born in Crawford County.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13JF_william-davis-brown_Omaha-NE.html
William Brown is credited as Omaha's founder (although not its first settler). He operated a Missouri River ferry from Council Bluffs and was a principal in the company that first developed the Omaha townsite.
Mr. Brown came west as a young man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13IF_alfred-sorenson_Omaha-NE.html
Alfred Sorenson, the doyen of Omaha newspapermen, was a picturesque figure familiar around Omaha. His varied career led him to seek the offices of U.S. Senator twice and Congressman once. He was unsuccessful all three times, but remarked that he d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ID_james-g-megeath_Omaha-NE.html
Born in Virginia in 1824, James Megeath was the eldest of 10 children. By age 20, he had become a cattle and sheep trader. Struck by gold fever, he went to Calaveras County, California, in 1851, operating a general merchantise store for three year…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13HQ_johan-and-sophia-ahmanson_Omaha-NE.html
Johan Ahmanson was born on April 7, 1827, in Smaland, Sweden. At age six he was taken to live with a farmer, for whom he worked until age eighteen. He became a master bookbinder and emigrated to Denmark in 1849. There he was recruited by the Mormo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13HK_andrew-jackson-poppleton_Omaha-NE.html
Andrew was born on July 25, 1830, in Oakland County, Michigan, one of seven children, and was reared on a farm. His father, William, had served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Andrew attended the University of Michigan, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13GI_presidents-house_Omaha-NE.html
In August 1905, the Fort Omaha post was reestablished with a new mission. The War Department designated Fort Omaha as a place of instruction for the technical duties in connection with the Signal Corps of the Army. With this change, the War Depart…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13GH_history-of-fort-omaha_Omaha-NE.html
As a result of a major confrontation from 1866-1868 between the U.S. Army and the Lakota (Sioux), the U.S. government signed a treaty agreeing that the Army would abandon several posts along the Bozeman Trail. By this time, the Union Pacific had a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13GG_fort-omaha-officers-row_Omaha-NE.html
Built in 1906, Fort Omaha's "Officers Row" typifies the architecture appropriate for officers' residences on an army post in the early 20th century. Large and impressively formal, the houses lack elaborate exterior decoration characteristic of res…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13GE_general-crooks-headquarters-at-fort-omaha_Omaha-NE.html
Upon the recommendation of Lt. General William T. Sherman, in 1866 the Adjutant General's office created the Department of the Platte which included present-day Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and a portion of southeastern Idaho. As departm…