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REDICK AVE.
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John I.
Redick came to Omaha in 1856 as an attorney. He was an investor
in the Grand Central Hotel and in railroads, and built the Redick
Opera House. As head of the presidential Nebraska delegation in
Baltimore, he nominated Lincoln for a second term, and later did the
same for Grant in Philadelphia. The title of “Judge” was bestowed on
him by Grant, who appointed him U.S. Judge for New Mexico in 1876.
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REDMAN AVE.
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Joseph Redman, an 1856 settler, was a city council member in
1878 when a controversy raged over the granting of a contract for
building a waterworks. He was also member of Omaha’s first Board of
Education, and a deputy assessor. |
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LIZZIE ROBINSON
AVE.
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Lizzie Robinson rose from birth as a slave to national influence
in the ministry of the Church of God in Christ. She helped develop
the women's ministry and other groups of the COIC. In 1916 she and
her husband Edward founded the first Church of God in Christ in
Nebraska, a “mother” church of what
became the largest African Pentecostal denomination in the world. |
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RUGGLES ST.
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An 1855
graduate of West Point, General George D. Ruggles was
commander of Fort Kearney at the beginning of the Civil War. In 1875
he was a member of a delegation led by General George Crook,
Commander of the Department of the Platte, escorting President Grant
from Des Moines to Omaha. |
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ST. MARY'S AVE.
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An
institution called the St. Mary’s Convent was once in the vicinity;
the convent is long gone, but the name remains. The street runs at
an angle because Harrison Johnson used it as a short cut to get to
and from Omaha City to his southwest homestead. |
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SADDLE CREEK
RD.
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The story is that a saddle fell
off a wagon while crossing the creek that then flowed in the area.
When a road was established, it became known as Saddle Creek Road. |
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SAHLER ST.
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John
Hoornbeek Sahler, an early settler, was one of two
representatives sent to Washington D.C. to lobby, unsuccessfully,
for certain legislation on behalf of Omaha. He was a police judge of
Omaha in 1868. |
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SARATOGA ST.
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Saratoga
Street takes its name from the old Saratoga town and precinct on the
north side between Omaha and Florence. |
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SAUNDERS ST.
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Alvin Saunders was
appointed by President Lincoln to be territorial governor of
Nebraska in 1861 and reappointed him in 1865. Following a term as a
United Senator for Nebraska, he entered the business world of
banking, real estate and railroads. He was an original stockholder
of the Omaha Smelting Company. Saunders chaired the committee that
went to Washington, D.C., to press for the Union Pacific Bridge to
be built at Omaha. As president of the Board of Regents of Omaha
High School, he was involved in the building of the High School that
replaced the Territorial Capitol Building. |
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SEWARD ST.
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Seward Street has two
possible namesakes: William H. Seward, President Lincoln’s
Secretary of State, or H. L. Seward, Omaha city marshal in
1871. |
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SHERMAN ST.
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General William T.
Sherman, after a career of successes and failures, became
Commander in Chief of the Army after General Grant’s retirement. He
was popular in Omaha during the building of the union Pacific
Railroad. |
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A. V. SORENSEN
PARKWAY
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Omaha
businessman Axel Vergman Sorensen chaired the fifteen-member
delegate convention in 1956 that wrote the city’s current governing
charter. He later commented, “It was the worst job he ever had.”
Mayor of Omaha from 1965 to1969, he did not run for re-election.
Race riots in the summer of 1966 and during George
Wallace's visit in 1968, signaled the racial problems dividing the
population. The street is frequently misspelled 'Sorenson.' |
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SPAULDING ST.
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S. K. Spaulding
was a physician who was a member of the Douglas County Medical
Society, the Omaha Medical Society, and the faculty of the John A.
Creighton Medical College. He was also a member of the Manufacturers
and Consumers Association and a president of the School Board. |
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STONE AVE.
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E. L. Stone,
with Charles E. Dewey, founded an Omaha furniture and carpet
business. It started as a small local company and spread across the
continent to the Pacific coast. He was an organizer and stockholder
of the Omaha Motor Railway Company. |
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ARTHUR C. STORZ
EXPRESSWAY
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German immigrant Gottlieb Storz’s brewery began operations in 1884.
Following Gottlieb's death in 1938, son Arthur C. Storz
carried on the business until market changes forced closure in
1972. Arthur introduced a product for women in 1953 called “Storzette.”
His “orchid of beer” had a pink orchid on a smaller can, was
“less bitter”
and had fewer calories. However, the queen-size beers failed to
attract a following. Arthur went on to play an important role in
promoting aviation locally and nationally. |
