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Fred Funke, builder of the Funke Opera House, James Ledwith, proprietor of the Ledwith Block at P and Eleventh, and J. L. Mc- Connell, have contributed to the material prosperity of the city.
W. H. B. Stout is one of the largest building contractors of the State, and has handled very extensive business interests during the past seventeen years. He was elected a member of the State Legis- lature in 1868, from Blair, took the contract to build the State Peni- tentiary in 1870, in connection with J. M. Jamison, and removed to Lincoln in 1871. In 1877 he became the lessee of the State Peni- tentiary for six years. He built the Burlington passenger depot, the county jail, and the present State Capitol, completing the latter on the first of the present year. He has been interested in other large building contracts, and is now engaged in making paving brick and laying the same on the streets of Lincoln, Stout & Buckstaff having contracts for several districts. Probably no man has done more for Lincoln than W. H. B. Stout.
Gran. Ensign is a pioneer business man, having been in the livery and transfer business here since 1869, and been very successful. His interests have grown from a small shed back of the Atwood House on Ninth street, to the large brick structure at 215 to 221 South Eleventh.
Raymond Bros. & Co., wholesale grocers, established in Lincoln in 1872, and have been among our leading business men ever since. The firm consists of I. M. and A. S. Raymond, and G. H. Clark. They have done more to push Lincoln trade into new territory, and protect Lincoln's interests against railroad discriminations, than any other firm. They are now leading capitalists of the city, and prom- inent in pushing its interests. Their large house at O and Eighth, does an immense jobbing trade.
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In this connection should be mentioned Plummer, Perry & Co., wholesale grocers, at 109-113 North Ninth street. This firm is com- pored of Eli Plummer, R. A. Perry, and John Fitzgerald, and is very popular and successful. The gentlemen composing this firm are among the most liberal and enterprising in Lincoln, always ready to. contribute aid to the success of the city. Mr. Plummer is a leading member of the Board of Trade.
HI. P. Lau & Co., wholesale grocers, in the Clarke Block, on the- corner of Eighth and P' streets, do a growing wholesale jobbing trade, and deserve an honorable place in the list of our large business houses. Mr. Lau is a leading capitalist of our city.
No jobbing house has been more successful, all things considered, than the wholesale grocery of Hargreaves Bros., on the southwest cor- ner of O and Eighth streets. The firm is composed of A. E. and W. B. Hargreaves, and their business was begun in 1874, with a capital of $28. Now they have a large brick block there, and do an exten- sive business. They are among the most enterprising of our citizens in protecting the welfare of the city.
J. A. Buckstaff, Secretary and Treasurer of the Badger Lumber Company, is one of the foremost business men of Lincoln. He con- duets a large lumber trade, is engaged in manufacturing paving brick, and is connected with extensive paving contracts. He is ever liberal and enterprising in aiding to build the city.
L. W. Billingsley is a pioneer attorney of the city, has built up a large practice, and is now senior member of the law firm of Billings- ley & Woodward. His elegant brick block at 210 South Eleventh street is one of the fine structures of the city. He has been promi- nently connected with the business and growth of the city for twenty years, having served in the City Council repeatedly.
C. E. Montgomery, whose business block adjoins the Billingsley block, at the corner of Eleventh and N streets, is one of our most en- terprising citizens. Examples of his help in building up Lincoln are seen in his block just referred to, Odell's restaurant next east, and the elegant livery stable crected at a cost of $16,000 on M street, south side, between Eleventh and Twelfth.
T. H. Hyde, of the Lincoln News Company, is a pioneer in the city, and no one loves to lend encouragement to the city's growth better than he.
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Messrs. C. H. Gere and H. D. Hathaway, of the State Journal, have been closely identified with nearly every important step in the city's development, almost from its location, and deserve great credit for their work in giving Lincoln one of the best newspapers west of Chi- cago.
Amasa Cobb assisted to found the First National Bank, and has al- ways been an useful citizen. He is now a member of the State Su- preme Court.
John R. Clark, President of the First National Bank, and Secretary of the State Journal Company, is an useful and enterprising citizen, who has extended a helping hand to nearly all important public en- terprises for the benefit of the city.
T. M. Marquett has practiced law in Lancaster and Lincoln for twenty-six years, though for the first few years a resident of Platts- mouth. He has always been a man of broad views in matters of pub- lic interest, and has worthily earned a leading position in the city as one of its best, wisest, and most useful citizens, an able lawyer and orator, and a man of great public experience.
John H. Ames, is one of the pioneers, an able lawyer, and a man who has been conspicuous in pushing the city.
N. S. Harwood is a prominent financier, capitalist, and attorney of the city, and a leading citizen.
R. H. Oakley, now President of the Board of Trade, has proven a very strong man in that position, and through his energy, tact, and wisdom, the board is in the best business condition it ever has been in, and its work for the prosperity of the city has been most commendable.
T. W. Lowrey is a very extensive grain dealer, a capitalist, and an enterprising citizen, always ready to help in pushing the city's welfare. He is a prominent member of the Board of Trade.
H. J. Walsh has been identified with the city's business interests from an early day. He built the Academy of Music block, at the southwest corner of O and Eleventh streets, in company with Israel Putnam, in 1873 and 1882. He is prominently connected with the Lincoln Gas Company, and has been, almost from its organization, a leading stockholder. He has been a member of the City Council, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Asylum for the Blind He was one of the trustees of the city of Lincoln when the corpora- tion was organized, in 1869.
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. 7. Briscoe is one of the most liberal citizens of Lincoln, and one of the most useful men in both business and general progress. The successful founding of the Christian College owes much to his liber- ality, courage, wisdom, and industry. He gave the institution $25,000. He has been a member of the City Council, and is always a generous and useful worker for the city's interest, both material and moral.
Frank 1. Sheldon has helped greatly in building the city, having been a founder of the street railway service. He erected during 1887-8 the elegant block on the southwest corner of N and Eleventh, the block adjoining the Windsor Hotel on the south, and his elegant res- idence at Fourteenth and R streets. He ranks among our most enter- prising business men.
W. W. Wilson has from the beginning been a faithful worker for the good of the capital city. He, with W. H. B. Stout and T. F. Barnes, built the City Block, on the northwest corner of N and Eleventh streets.
T. F. Barnes, builder of the Windsor Hotel, is a man of nerve, such as it takes to found a city. His energy is witnessed in the brick walls of more than one block.
John R. Webster's enterprise is to some degree witnessed in the Webster Block, north of Temple Hall, on South Eleventh. He has been an industrious builder of the city for many years.
J. H. MeMurtry has had few if any superiors as an energetic, conrageous citizen in developing the progress of Lincoln, where he has lived for seventeen years. He has ever been ready with means, counsel, and labor, to advertise the city's merits, push home enter- prise, and has not feared to cast his fortunes with the city. He erected the brick block where the county offices and court rooms now are, on the west side of South Eleventh, near M. His faith in and work for Lincoln has been rewarded in the development of extensive property interests within and without the limits of the place.
C. C. and L. C. Burr have erected a splendid monument to their industry and business courage in the magnificent Burr Block, at the northeast corner of O and Twelfth streets. Architecturally this is, perhaps, the handsomest building in Nebraska, being six stories in height exclusive of the basement, of rustic-stone finish, and beanti- fully designed in every detail.
S. B. Pound was one of the very carliest merchants on the site of
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this city, and he became one of its earliest attorneys, and until recently was a very popular District Judge. He has ever been a respected and excellent citizen since the foundation of the city.
J. R. and L. C. Richards are among the city's leading capitalists, and their prominence as builders of the city is marked by the elegant block which bears their name at the northeast corner of O and Elev- enth streets.
A. D. Kitchen is a prominent contributor to the city's growth, be- ing now engaged in building two or three fine brick blocks on O street, between Ffteenth and Sixteenth. He has lent a helping hand in de- veloping Lincoln in many other respects.
J. C. McBride has been a courageous and energetic citizen in the city's interests for years, having been liberal with means and ready with other assistance and encouragement. He has been postmaster of the city, twice a member of the Legislature, and prominently identified with the work of the Board of Trade. He has a fine brick block at the northeast corner of P and Twelfth streets.
Dr. Latta is now completing an elegant block of red sand-stone at 129 South Eleventh. When done it will be one of the finest in the city. It is in room four of this block that this history of Lincoln was written.
John Zehrung has been an active citizen, his brick block at 1213 and 1219 O street being an evidence of his substantial work as a builder of the city.
O. P. Mason and C. O. Whedon are a firm of attorneys about as widely known as any in Nebraska. Judge Mason was on the su- preme bench in 1866, and was a distinguished Secretary of the State Board of Transportation, previous to the present year, for two years. C. O. Whedon was a member of the House of the State Legislature during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth sessions, and has held various public positions in the city. Both men have been active and influential citizens throughout much of the city's history.
A genuinely earnest builder of the financial, moral, and intellectual features of the city's prosperity, is C. C. Munson. He is a worker with purse, hand, and heart, for the general good. He is building up a large wholesale lumber and lime trade, is helping to erect the Chris- tian University, is a director in the German National Bank, and an active worker in the Board of Trade.
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Prominent, carnest, and valuable, workers for the city's develop- ment, in the present Board of Trade, are: Joseph Boehmer, C. J. Ernst. Mason Gregg, M. L. Trester, A. H. Weir, C. T. Brown, C. A. Atkinson, and C. W. Mosher.
C. H. Hutchins has erected two fine brick blocks in the past two years, one on Ninth near N, and the other on O near Fifteenth.
Dr. W. G. Hontz has proven himself a valuable and enterprising citizen and builder of the city.
W. R. Kelley, John Doolittle, Hon. E. P. Roggen, A. Hurlbut, H. H. Dean, John Burks, J. H. Harley, and John J. Gillilan, have all shown enterprise and energy, and have done good service as city builders.
J. E. Utt, who, as the very able Secretary of the Board of Trade during 1887-8 was mainly instrumental in securing equitable freight tariff's for Lincoln from Pacific Coast points, rendered the city and State a great and lasting service. He is now interested in the paper mill located in the southwest part of the city.
John Morrison, who was the earliest tailor in the city, except Chris- tian F. Damrow, having been here since 1869, is still doing a good business at 121 North Eleventh. He is one of the popular pioneers.
Few men have had more genuine success than H. H. Schaberg. Beginning as a blacksmith, with his industry and persistent attention to business, in a little shop on the southeast corner of Eleventh and P streets, in 1869, he has hammered his way up to the possession of the brick block on that corner, the presidency of the German National Bank, and a place among the large capitalists of the city. His success shows what men can do in Lincoln who work and use their oppor- tunities.
John B. Wright has been a citizen of Lincoln for fourteen years, having originally come from Rochester, New York, where he was born in 1847. He is one of the largest dealers in grain in this city or State, being interested in forty-two different elevators in Nebraska and Kansas. He makes a specialty of handling flax seed. He has enlarged and improved his big elevator at M and Eighth streets this season, preparatory to opening the immense fall business he will have to manage. He has ever been an active citizen of Lincoln. He was elected Mayor of the city both in 1880 and 1881, and was a member of the House of the State Legislature of the Nineteenth session in
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1883. He is now a leading member of the Board of Trade, and did good work in placing the board upon the excellent working basis on which it now stands.
H. W. Hardy, now editor of the New Republic, has been twice Mayor of the city, but is most distinguished as the Lincoln William Lloyd Garrison, fighting in favor of temperance, morals, and the im- provement of the social welfare of men. He is an uncompromising warrior for the principles of purity and progress, and is the best known character in Nebraska in that work, except alone the late John B. Finch.
Elder P. W. Howe, Chaplain of the State penitentiary and City Missionary, is the executive officer of the City Relief and aid Society, an organization designed to help and protect the weak, needy, and helpless, especially women and children. He is doing a noble work, having followed this line of benevolent service for nine years in New York city, and nearly as many in Lincoln.
Albert Watkins, for nearly four years past, has been postmaster of Lincoln, and a public-spirited citizen. General Victor Vifquain, hav- ing founded the Daily State Democrat in 1879, Mr. Watkins bought it in 1882 and continued its editor until appointed postmaster, in No- vember, 1885, though Mr. Vifquain bought an interest in 1884. The paper passed into the hands of J. D. Calhoun in August of 1886, who conducted it successfully for two years.
Palmer Way was probably the first tinner of Lincoln, and one of the first hardware men. He has been a business man of the city for twenty-two years.
R. C. Ontealt, cashier of the Capital National Bank, is the oldest banker of Lincoln, Nelson C. Brock excepted. He first entered the bank of Sweet & Brock, in 1870, and has been continuously connected with the banking business in the city ever since. He is one of the best posted financiers of Lincoln.
Hundreds of other men might be named, whose influence and wealth have, for varying periods of years, been used toward making Lincoln what she is to-day; but enough have been given to show that Lin- coln's growth has been, in part at least, the result of the faith in her future held by her citizens. Future years will undoubtedly show a continuation of the wonderful progress made by the city in the past twenty-two years. Such, at least, are the signs of the times.
ERRATUM -On page 151, under cut of Sweet's Block, read "Northeast corner of O and Tenth."
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