. 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 . cific coast, and met with the ups and downs of an adventurers life. He finallyreturned to the East, and it was considered a great spent some considerable timetions of Tenn- essee, Iowa and Colorado. In1865 he drifted to that time Omaha was at-tracting considerable atten-tion, owing to the building otthe Union Pacific looking the city ov
. 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 . cific coast, and met with the ups and downs of an adventurers life. He finallyreturned to the East, and it was considered a great spent some considerable timetions of Tenn- essee, Iowa and Colorado. In1865 he drifted to that time Omaha was at-tracting considerable atten-tion, owing to the building otthe Union Pacific looking the city overcarefully, he came to the con-clusion that it was destinedto become a great commercialcenter at no distant day, andhe invested all his money,amounting to less than twothousand dollars, in the furni-ture business. Soon afteropening his establishment heassociated with himself L. Stone as a firm has built up a busi-ness in the furniture linesecond to none in the UnitedStates. They began businessin a small frame building onFarnam street, and have re-mained at the same locationever since. Their Farnamstreet display building, whichwas erected upon the site ofthe old frame shell, was thefirst four-story structure in. CHARLES H. DEWEY. enterprise. It is yet one ofthe largest buildings in thecity. Adjoining their Far-nam street store they have afive-story warehouse, frontingon Harney street, and in ad-dition to this they have twoother extensive warehouses onTenth and Eleventh Dewey, in 1S70, went toEurope to recuperate hishealth. He made an exten-sive tour of the Continent, andbecame imbued with a greatdesire of travel and sight-seeing. This desire he hassince gratified, and the con-sequence is that he has seensince 1870 nearly every placeon the face of the globe worthvisiting. During his visit toEurope he was in Paris whenthe Franco-German war brokeout, and he remained therefor some time after, watchingthe stirring events with a deepinterest. In 1878 Mr
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