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In 1984, the growing community acquired 11 acres (4.5 ha) and two houses in the Ponca Hills area north of Omaha, Nebraska. This became the Bellwether Contemplative Formation Center, referred to as "Bellwether". Over the course of the next 25 years, Bellwether grew to be a 75 acres (30 ha) Contemplative Formation Center, which currently has two ...
There she married her first husband, wool trader Leslie Lynch King Sr. of Omaha, Nebraska, on September 7, 1912. She met him while she was in college, as he was the charming brother of her roommate. [1] The couple returned to Omaha, King's home. They lived at first with his parents at their Victorian mansion at 3202 Woolworth Avenue.
Adjoining the site is the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center, a regional center of the Nebraska State Historical Society founded in 1995. It provides conservation services for historic and artistic works. The Center also contains a small exhibit of Ford memorabilia. Both conservation and exhibit are available by appointment only. [4]
Omaha was established in 1871 as a stop along the Springfield and Illinois South Eastern Railway. A baggage master working for the railroad, Henry Pearce, named the settlement for Omaha, Nebraska, where he had previously worked as a baggage master. After an initial attempt at incorporation failed in 1875, Omaha successfully incorporated in 1888 ...
Rose Blumkin (née Gorelick; December 3, 1893 – August 9, 1998) was an American businesswoman who founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937. [1] Businessman Warren Buffett said of her, "One question I always ask myself in appraising a business is how I would like, assuming I had ample capital and skilled personnel, to compete with it.
Logan Fontenelle was born at Fort Atkinson, Nebraska Territory on May 6, 1825. [2] [3] He was the oldest son of four born to Me-um-bane, a daughter of the Omaha principal chief Big Elk (1770–1846/1853), and her husband Lucien Fontenelle, a French-American fur trader from New Orleans.
The Omaha order of the Good Shepherd Sisters began in 1894 when Bishop Richard Scannell requested their services for the struggling youth in the Nebraska community. Mother Mary of St. Bernard from St. Louis, Illinois and four other sisters accepted the challenge.
Susan La Flesche Picotte (June 17, 1865 – September 18, 1915) [1] was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe.She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree. [2]