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Easterseals (U.S.) President Nixon with Peter Helteme, 1971 Easter Seal Child and family. Easterseals (formerly known as Easter Seals; [1] founded in 1919 as the National Society for Crippled Children) [2] is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit providing disability services, with additional support areas serving veterans and military families ...
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs to ...
Heinrich "Hein" Severloh, also known as the Beast of Omaha, (23 June 1923 – 14 January 2006) was a soldier in the German 352nd Infantry Division stationed in Normandy in 1944. Severloh became notable for a memoir he published in the German language WN 62 – Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach Normandie, 6. Juni 1944 [a], in 2000 and translated into ...
Maui, Hawaii USA. Occupation. Businessman (Entrepreneur) Eugene Freedman (March 9, 1925 – February 19, 2008) (a.k.a. Gene Freedman, Gene-san) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is widely known as the founder of the Enesco Corporation, the worldwide distributor for Precious Moments porcelain figurines between 1997 and 2005.
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] She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment ...
The first recorded instance of a black person in the Omaha area occurred in 1804. "York" was a slave belonging to William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. [2]The presence of several black people, probably slaves, was recorded in the area comprising North Omaha today when Major Stephen H. Long's expedition arrived at Fort Lisa in September 1819.
The Webster Telephone Exchange Building is the current location of the Great Plains Black History Museum. The Grand Court of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition was located in Kountze Place on the current site of Kountze Park in North Omaha. The USS Hazard is a National Historic Landmark located in Freedom Park.
1871 Name of the post office changed from "Omaha City" to "Omaha." 1871 The first meat packing establishment in Omaha opened by David Cook. 1872 The first train crossed the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge. 1872 First observation of Arbor Day in Nebraska. 1872 The Omaha Public Library was opened.