. 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 . as surveyed, platted. the office, and was the mes-senger to carry the publicfunds to Iowa City for this time Nebraska be-longed to the Pawnees,Omahas and other Indiantribes, and Jesse Lowe, look-ing across the river one day,pointed to the present site ofOmaha and said to his com-panions: There is the placefor a great city, and in timethere will be o
. 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 . as surveyed, platted. the office, and was the mes-senger to carry the publicfunds to Iowa City for this time Nebraska be-longed to the Pawnees,Omahas and other Indiantribes, and Jesse Lowe, look-ing across the river one day,pointed to the present site ofOmaha and said to his com-panions: There is the placefor a great city, and in timethere will be one there. Whyshould we not begin it ?His friends assented, and onJuly 3, 1853, they crossed theriver in a skiff, Jesse Loweand Jesse Williams having towade part of the way, andlocated their claims. JesseLowe took up a quarter-sec-tion ol land about the westernend of Cuming street (towhich he subsequently added5 by purchase three other quar-;? ter-scctions, making in all640 acres), and within a weekhad a man with a mule teamat work upon his Ranche,which he subsequently calledOak Grove Farm. In 1854,the Indian title to the landhaving been extinguished byd fairly begun, the name of its former Indian owners being given to it by THE LA-fE JESSE Lowe, and a claim club was organized May 28, of which Mr. Lowe was a member. This club built a small house on wheels,which was moved from one claim to another, and served as the home of each claimant in turn during the necessary periods of personaloccupancy required by law. The old claimhouse found its last resting place on Ninth street, and is now the flat-roofed portion ofthe one-story house, 413 South Ninth street, across the alley on the south side of the Cozzens Hotel. At the time Mr. Lowe settledin Omaha he had, as a result of his former business enterprises and savings, what were considerable means for those days, and heestablished himself in the real estate business, which he continued until his death. He had also the excl
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