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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 ...
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.
Sheehan led capital campaigns to raise funds for archdiocesan improvements, including a $4.5 million refurbishment of the St. James Center. [26] His final campaign had a goal of $25 million to build Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha and take care of other capital needs in the archdiocese. [27] Sheehan retired in 1993.
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]
The St. Margaret Mary Church is a parish of the Catholic Church in Omaha, Nebraska, part of the Archdiocese of Omaha.The limestone church with High Gothic bell tower is prominently situated on a ridge overlooking Elmwood Creek along the original route of the Lincoln Highway, today known as U.S. Route 6 in the Fairacres Historic District.
First woman physician in Omaha, mother-in-law of A.D. Jones, mother of Jesse Reeves Matthew Ricketts: 1858 1917 Physician First African American to graduate from University of Nebraska College of Medicine, and first to join Nebraska Legislature Edward Rosewater: January 21, 1841 August 30]], 1906 Newspaper editor Founder and editor of the Omaha Bee
Malcolm X’s assassination may have been more consequential to the movement than King’s and on par with the losses of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and his brother Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 ...
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.