. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . es, gaining, as is so oftenthe case, health and slitngthfrom the hardships and e\posures incident to the situa-tion. This expedition led tohis cmpliiyment in the con-struction of the Pacific Telegraph, in which arduous andhazardous work he continueduntil the completion of thLline. Returning to Oimli iin December, 1S61, aftei thissecond experience of riam^life,
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . es, gaining, as is so oftenthe case, health and slitngthfrom the hardships and e\posures incident to the situa-tion. This expedition led tohis cmpliiyment in the con-struction of the Pacific Telegraph, in which arduous andhazardous work he continueduntil the completion of thLline. Returning to Oimli iin December, 1S61, aftei thissecond experience of riam^life, Mr. Brown was not )et •ready to engage in the pi attice of his profession, butentered the store of hisbrothers as a clerk, and thuscontinued employed untilOctol^er, 1862, when he waselected Prosecuting AttorneyforDouglas county, to filla vacancy occasioned by the resignation of George HON. 11. I. Gilbert. During his in- Constitution. In 1876, he was elected to the State .Senate, and re elected in 1S78, and again in iShe has devoted himself to tlie practice of his profession. Thus, for twenty-five years, Mr. Brownsionally and , with the great progress of the city of Omaha and the State of Nebraska.]. s prepared for college at Willistonig Williams College, he graduated)6o was admitted to the New Yorkcumbency of this office hesecured the conviction ofCyrus Tator, who was thefirst man legally executed inthe Territory of 1S63, Mr. Brown was re-elected, and in 1864 he waselected a member of theConstitutional Convention,and in the fall of the sameyear a member of the Legisla-ture. In 1S65, he was electedan alderman of Omaha, andin 1867, its Mayor, being theninth Chief Magistrate of thecit). At thit time the Mayorwas e\ ollicio Judge of theCity Cmut, and during histeim of one year. MayorBlown tiled over four thous-md cases. On entering? llice he found the city indtlit $6o,OQO; on leaving it, paid, andhue WIS a t ish balance of
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