Excerpt from Omaha and Omaha Men

I became a resident of Omaha in 1870 and lived here for many years. Here I was married, here our four children were born and here one of them died. After an absence of a number of years, and having sold a newspaper business in Oregon and thus being footloose, I concluded to return to Omaha and publish something of a history of the city I first saw as a boy and when it was a very small community. I found that an exhaustive history of Omaha and Douglas County had just been published by an eastern firm and that my old friend, Attorney Ed. F. Morearty, had recently had published an interesting story of Omaha covering the period of his residence here, from 1880, and hence I modified my plan and concluded to publish a booklet of modest size and at a modest price. I have endeavored to cover the ground in a concise manner and trust that what I have to say will be found of general interest and that it may prove to be of historical value to some extent.

In Washington County when I was a boy I knew a man who did quite a business in making wine out of wild grapes gathered on the Elkhorn river. His selling price was a dollar a gallon and when one of the neighbors told him that he could well afford to sell it for less he said: "One gallon one dollar, one dollar one gallon. That is easy to remember. I am not much on figures and if I should charge 85 cents a gallon, for instance, I would get all balled up in making change." So with this publication: One booklet one dollar, one dollar one booklet.

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