SELECT BIOGRAPHIES; SOUTH OMAHA, DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEBRASKA

From "History of the City of Omaha Nebraska and South Omaha," by James 
W. Savage, John T. Bell and Consul W. Butterfield; Munsel & Company, 
New York and Chicago (1894). Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives,
April, 1998, by Diane Korten (korten@ne.uswest.net). 
  

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                        SOME SOUTH OMAHA BIOGRAPHIES
                                  

                               J. C. Carroll

     Among the early settlers of South Omaha is J. C. Carroll, who was
     born at Ardee, County Louth, Ireland and came to Milwaukee with
     his father at an early age. He spent his youth in Wisconsin and
     Iowa and in 1880 visited Ireland for a year. Later he spent some
     years in the Rocky Mountains where he bought buffalo robes and
     firs. In August, 1885, he reached South Omaha and started the
     second store in the town. A few months later he opened the first
     general merchandize store in the young city. At the end of three
     years, he went out of commercial business and invested largely in
     real estate. Mr. Carroll was married August 17, 1886 to Mrs.
     Josephine Egan (nee Josephine Godola), widow of Michael J. Egan,
     and daughter of John Godola, who came to Omaha in 1857 and was a
     pioneer merchant in that city.

                                  

                               John A. Flynn

     John A. Flynn came from Ireland in 1874 and settled in Omaha in
     1882. He married Hanna Begley who was born at 35th and F Streets
     in 1864. John Flynn & Company were clothiers and men's outfitters
     opening in South Omaha in 1890.

                                  

                               Jacob Jaskalek

     Jacob Jaskalek is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. He came to Omaha
     in 1880 and worked at the cigar trade until he opened a small
     factory and retail store in South Omaha on December 15, 1887,
     where he made cigars alone. By 1894, his business had grown to
     thirteen employees and turned out four hundred and seventy-five
     cigars annually.

                                  

                                J. H. Bulla

     J. H. Bulla was weighmaster at the stockyards and a member of the
     board of education, a place to which he was elected in April
     1891, receiving the largest vote of any of the four candidates
     running. In April 1892, he was elected councilman-at-large
     receiving the largest vote out of a total of twelve candidates in
     the field. Mr. Bulla was born at Albany, Gentry County, Missouri,
     and located in South Omaha in October 1887.

                                  

                        George and George N. Oberne

     The Oberne Rendering Works was owned by George and George N.
     Oberne, pioneer packers, establishing the business at the
     beginning of the stock yards in South Omaha. The principal
     business of this establishment was rendering rough tallow and
     slaughtering on commission. W. H. Looker has been connected with
     the firm as manager since 1890. He is a native of Pennsylvania
     and has been in Nebraska since 1879.

                                  

                            Sir Thomas J. Lipton

     Sir Thomas J. Lipton, Scottish tea merchant, sportsman and bon
     vivant, had a brief and graphic stay in South Omaha. Lord Lipton
     was lured by free rent into a new plant near the stock yards in
     1886. His purpose was the slaughter and preparation of light hogs
     greatly desired by Britons. That year corn was 15 cents a bushel
     and farmer-feeders, at that low rate, preferred to feed and
     fatten their animals. Lord Lipton got few light hogs and in
     disgust sold out to Armour-Cudahy the next year. He described in
     his memoirs a meeting at the Stock Yards Exchange and said of the
     cloak room: Pistols were lying about all over the place. It
     reminded me of an arsenal.
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     Most of the above are a sampling of the South Omaha biographies
     from: History of the City of Omaha Nebraska and South Omaha, by
     James W. Savage, John T. Bell and Consul W. Butterfield; Munsel &
     Company, New York and Chicago, 1894.