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This marked the first time since its creation in 1922 that a member of the Eggleston or Wright families was not in total control of the company. Wright Brand Foods, now part of the Tyson Foods family, is the largest bacon and ham producer in the Southwest, with 746 employees, distribution to 30 states, and sales between $100M - $250M.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana is an 1871 novel by the American author Edward Eggleston.The novel originated from a series of stories written for Hearth and Home, a periodical edited by Eggleston, [1] and was based on the experiences of his brother, George Cary Eggleston, who had been a schoolteacher in Indiana. [2]
The community was founded in 1887 as Olax, [5] but the original name conflicted with another Nebraska location, so it was renamed to Oconto. The exact source of the name has been debated, some hold Oconto was the name of a pioneer settler, while others believe the town was named after Oconto, Wisconsin. [6] Oconto was incorporated in 1906. [1]
Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana on December 10, 1837, to Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. [2] The author George Cary Eggleston was his brother. As a child, he was too ill to regularly attend school, so his education was primarily provided by his father. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1856. [3]
Frank Phillips was born on November 28, 1873, [1] in Scotia, Nebraska where his parents Lucinda and Lewis Franklin Phillips, the county's first magistrate, had a farm. [2] The family moved in 1874 to a small farm in rural southwest Iowa after a swarm of grasshoppers wrecked havoc on the farming region of Scotia. [3]
InterNorth Inc. was a large energy company headquartered at the Northern Natural Gas Building in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States, specializing in natural gas pipelines but also a force in the plastics industry, coal and petroleum exploration and production. It was a predecessor to Enron Corporation.
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
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