. 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 . to learn the tin and coppersmithtrade. When his four years of apprenticeship ended, he left Ohio for the West, and for about six years he tried his fortune in small business enterprises in Indi-ana, Illinois, Missouri andIowa, finally locating atKanesville (now CouncilBluffs), in the latter State,in August, 1850, wherehe started the tinwareand stove business.
. 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 . to learn the tin and coppersmithtrade. When his four years of apprenticeship ended, he left Ohio for the West, and for about six years he tried his fortune in small business enterprises in Indi-ana, Illinois, Missouri andIowa, finally locating atKanesville (now CouncilBluffs), in the latter State,in August, 1850, wherehe started the tinwareand stove business. Therude beginnings of thosedays, architecturally, forma strong contrast withthe present. Mr. Rogerestore was built of cotton-wood logs, with a pun-cheon floor of hewn logs,and window sash made byhand from basswood 1854 a town was lo-cated on the west side ofthe Missouri river, oppo-site Kanesville; it was sur-veyed, platted, and, accord-ing to Western custom, wascalled a city — Omaha City— before a house was June of the next year,1855, Mr. Rogers cast in hisfortunes with Omaha byslatting here a branch ofhis tinware and stove busi-ness, again in a Cottonwoodbuilding. His purchase of66x132 feet on lower Farn-. MILTON ROGERS. am street, for $150, woulddoubtless now be valued atnearly as nrany thousanddollars. After a time hesold 44 feet of his groundfor the same price that hehad given for the whole,showing that real estate inOmaha began to ad-vance about as soon as itwas changed from acres tolots. On this lot now standsthe fine building of theBee Publishing January, 1862, bought 22x132 feeton the corner of Farnamand Fourteenth streets, for$1,150, and built a one-story frame building, cov-ering the lot, which loca-tion has ever since remainedhis business home, he hav-ing removed from CouncilBluffs in 1861. Later, hejoined with other propertyowners in building a three-story brick block, extend-ing to Thirteenth street, andoccupied his new s
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