"Gate City"
"Quiet place above all others upon a stream*"
First City Folks
Jesse Lowe, promoter
Alf. D. Jones, surveyor
J. E. Johnson, merchant
blacksmith, and editor
Robert B. Whitted, farmer
Mr. Seeley, carpenter
William Clancey, grocer
Jeffrey brothers, millers
URL is empty for Harrison Johnson, expressman
J. C. Reeves, expressman
James Hickey, expressman
Ben Leonard, fiddler
Mr. Gaylord, carpenter
Mr. Dodd, grocer
C. H. Downs, speculator
A. R. Gilmore, office seeker
William P. Snowden,
auctioneer
O. B. Sheldon, blacksmith
J. W. Paddock, carpenter
William Gray, carpenter
John Withnell, bricklayer
A. J. Poppleton, attorney
George L. Miller, physician
Lorin Miller, surveyor
J. G. McGeath, merchant
A. B. Moore, speculator
O. D. Richardson, attorney
URL is empty for and some few others
Omaha Timeline
• 1854 (August): Nebraska opened for settlement, first house built.
• 1855 (July): approximately 40 homes, 150-200 inhabitants.
• 1856: population is approximately 1,000 -1,800 inhabitants.
• 1859 (June): population is approximately 4,000 inhabitants.