. 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 . Three years later Mifrom the West, came and entered ahomestead near life of a farmer was,however, not to taste, so in 1872he went to Fremont andengaged as a clerk in thehardware store of II. In August 1S73, heopened a hardwarestore as C. A. Fried & Co.,Fremont; but a couple ofyears later he and joined fortunes a
. 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 . Three years later Mifrom the West, came and entered ahomestead near life of a farmer was,however, not to taste, so in 1872he went to Fremont andengaged as a clerk in thehardware store of II. In August 1S73, heopened a hardwarestore as C. A. Fried & Co.,Fremont; but a couple ofyears later he and joined fortunes andthe firm became H. & Co, wholesale andretail hardware businessat Fremont. In 1880 thebusiness had grown tosuch proportions and thedevelopment of Omahaand Nebraska had beenso great that the firm ofLee & Fried sought herethe better location whichOmaha afforded. MarchI, 1S80, they opened onDouglas street the estab-lishment which has sincegrown to be one of the largest in the West. In ^^j. j^^.^ carl a. fried. September of that year the properly the wholesale and jobbing center of the upper Missouri valley. His loss to the cwhich he was held being generally Mrs. Fried and their family of se\en childt. • age of nineteen. He located at .^ndover,service in the army of the Tennessee. AtI, 1866 he married Mary, the daughter ofFried, encouraged by the glowing reportsfirm became Lee, Fried &Co., and thus it becameidentified with :-. Fried was one ofOmahas best citizens andhis untimely death atGlenwood Springs, Colo.,August 16, 1887, whitherhe had gone in search olhealth, was deeply de-]ilored by the businesscommunity. He was anuntiring, energetic man ofgreat business ability,courteous to all, and amm of 1 igh motives. Asa kating member of theOmihTTni d of Trade heill 111 ^tl 1 enterprises I I liii hunig the com- II uiiil\ s advancement1 1 Ihespieidof inform- line iiLcining its re- 1 cU) He had faith in •^ Omaha and was untiring m his de\ otion to the
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