donated by the ferry company, on Thirteenth street, between Farnam and Douglas, the site now being covered by the Omaha National Bank. The Episcopalian congregation of Trinity church was organized by Rev. G. W. Watson in 1856, and in 1859 a small brick church was built on the southwest corner of Farnam and Ninth streets, on ground leased for ten years. The building ever since 1869 has been used as a beer-hall under the name of the Tivoli.
     Very few of the old landmarks remain to mark the pioneer period. The steady march of improvement has swept them out of sight and replaced them with stately structures of modern design. When the United States Bank tore down its old building at the southwest corner of Farnam and Twelfth streets, in the spring of 1887 and erected on the site a five-story structure,

BROWNELL HALL.

      [Brownell Hall, a seminary for young ladies, is incorporated under a board of fifteen trustees, of which the Bishop of Nebraska is ex-officio president. The school was opened in the northern part of the city, but was removed to the corner of Sixteenth and Jones streets in 1867, where buildings were erected and occupied for twenty years, the school steadily growing in public confidence and increasing in usefulness under the rectorship and management, for the last twelve years, of the Rev. Robert Doherty, S. T. D. The progress of the school, as well as the city, at length demanded a more suitable location and enlarged accommodations, and a beautiful site was chosen on South Tenth street, in a natural grove of fine forest trees, the gift of Mr. H. Kountze, and the new Hall was begun in 1886, and occupied in January, 1887. The building is plain, but of imposing appearance, owing to its size; is composed of two wings connected by a central building, somewhat after the ground plan of the Capitol at Washington, each of these structures being 100x40 feet, with three stories, an elevated, basement sub-basement and attic. This great building is lighted, heated, finished and furnished according to the latest and most approved plans for educational institutions of this character. It has bath rooms, with hot and cold water, on each floor; electric bells, gongs and speaking tubes connect the most distant parts of the building; three huge boilers furnish steam, which gives to every room in the building a genial warmth in the coldest weather; all rooms are perfectly ventilated, and the furniture and finishing throughout are of the most beautiful varieties of our native woods, oiled, polished or varnished. In addition to the spacious recitation rooms, there is a recreation room, an oratory and gymnasium, furnishing ample opportunities for needed and healthful exercise. Altogether it is a thoroughly appointed school and elegant Christian home, and with its enlarged facilities its usefulness is practically without limit as a training school for young ladies in the West, while its success reflects great credit upon its projectors and steadfast friends, its manager and teachers, the city of Omaha and State of Nebraska.]

it destroyed the pioneer brick building of Omaha. This historic house was built in 1855-56 by several members of the old Nebraska Ferry Company. The frame residence now standing on the southwest corner of Dodge and Eighteenth streets was built by Secretary Cuming in 1856. General Lowe's brick dwelling, at the southwest corner of Harney and Sixteenth streets, was erected by the late Dr. Lowe in 1857. Governor John M. Thayer built the brick house at the

[Eleazer Wakeley was born in Homer, Cortlandt county, New York, in 1822. His parents were natives of Connecticut, possessing in a marked degree the intelligence and virtues of New England people. He migrated with his parents to Erie county in the same State and in 1836 removed with them to Elyria, a pretty town in Northern Ohio. There under the tuition of Prof. John P. Cowles, a distinguished scholar and linguist, he completed his education. He took a three years reading of the law and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1844. In the fall of the following year his inclination led him to follow the course of civilization and he came West. Locating at Whitewater, in Southern Wisconsin, he practiced his profession in the Circuit and Supreme Courts, until 1857. In the meantime Mr. Wakeley was elected a representative to the Territorial Legislature in 1847, and was State Senator from Walworth county from 1851 to 1855. He took a prominent part in the work of the Legislature, and among his colleagues were men then and afterwards distinguished in the State. In January, 1857, without solicitation he was offered and accepted the appointinent by President Franklin Pierce as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, and was assigned to the third district, comprising Washington and organized counties north of it to the line, and all the unorganized territory to the west	JUDGE ELEAZER WAKELEY.	and north of this, comprising an area of about 350,000 miles. Judge Wakeley resided in Washington county and in Omaha during his term, being re-appointed by President Buchanan. A few months after President Lincoln's inauguration he returned to Wisconsin, resuming the law at Madison where he built up a highly successful practice. In 1863 he ran for Attorney-General on the Democratic State ticket, and in 1866-67 represented the capitol district in the Legislature. Judge Wakeley became so impressed with Omaha during his stay here that he returned and took up his permanent residence in this city in 1867. Abstaining from politics he engaged in all active and laborious practice of his profession until 1883. He served in the Constitutional Convention of 1871. In 1883 at the urgent and unanimous request of the bar of Douglas county he was appointed one of the District Judges by
Governor Dawes, and the same autumn was elected unanimously on the ticket with Judge Neville for four years. At the recent election as a candidate on the non-partisan ticket he received 4,700 majority. As a judicial officer, Judge Wakeley has no superior. He is regarded as a leader in his profession and as especially fitted for the position of magistrate. His profound erudition, legal acumen, deep learning, fair and impartial tone of mind and clear intuition of right and wrong have served him so well on the bench that he is universally spoken of as the "Just Judge." His private life is of the most exemplary character. Of unblemished integrity and strict morality, his career has been such as to commend it to all young men as an example. Judge Wakeley's domestic life has been a happy one. He was married in 1854 to Miss Sabina S. Comstock at Whitewater, Wisconsin, and the union has resulted in six children, four young men grown to manhood and two daughters. He is largely of a domestic nature. The bent of his mind has been more professional than political. He has always resided where his party has been in the minority, and although a Democrat is not an aggressive nor an intolerant one.]

Richardson. It was opened in elegant style by M. W. Keith, and was in those days the finest and largest hotel west of Chicago. It proved too great an enterprise for Omaha, however,

      [The Millard Hotel is a model of comfort and elegance, the result of the combined skill and judgment of its proprietors, Messrs. Markel & Swobe. It occupies the full half-square at the corner of Thirteenth and Douglas streets and is a fine five story building, with an attractive frontage on both streets of pressed brick and stone. It is one of the features of Omaha, and no place in the city offers a better starting point for tourists and visitors than the Millard. When the Grand Central Hotel was burned, Omaha was left without a first class hotel at the very time when one was most needed. The want did not remain long unfilled, for a syndicate of enterprising capitalists was soon formed to build the Millard. This syndicate was formed of Messrs. J. E. Markel, Thomas Swobe, Samuel Shears, J. H. Millard and George Giacomini. They purchased the ground and commenced excavations in May, 1881. The

MILLARD HOTEL.

house was named the Millard in honor of one of the owners and the highly esteemed and influential family of that name. It was opened to the public in July, 1882, when but four stories were finished, the house containing but 130 rooms at the time. Within sixty days the other story was added, and up to the present time two further additions have been made, one of twenty-two feet on the east and another containing forty additional rooms to the rear. The house now contains over two hundred rooms fitted with the finest furniture of any hotel in the State. The two capacious public parlors are luxurious in their elegance and some of the choicest rooms are furnished with a lavish disregard of expense. The Millard, in every department, is admirably appointed and possesses all the modern improvements and conveniences that serve to make hotel life pleasant. There is absolutely no danger from fire. It is not only equipped with Benner's patent stand pipes and fire escapes, but has six fire walls running through and through the building. The kitchens and boiler rooms have been made absolutely fire-proof and the balance of the house is heated by steam. A full force of night employes are trained for an emergency and the danger from the most dreaded of all calamities -- hotel fires -- is reduced to the very minimum. The house has one of the coziest office lobbies in the world and this, with down floor arrangements for the comfort of male guests, makes the Millard the strong favorite it is with the traveling public. The improvements that were made last summer comprised, among other items, one of $10,000 for plumbing, and the house has now the most approved and complete lavatory and sanitary arrangement in the West. Every particle of water used is filtered and purified, a genuine blessing to one familiar with the consistency of Missouri river mud at certain seasons of the year. The Millard is a favorite with local societies and political committees and has long been the headquarters of the Republican State Central Committee. Special quarters are provided by the management for the accommodation of committees, a room being reserved for such gatherings and fitted up solely for that purpose. The present owners, Messrs Markel & Swobe, have been identified with the Millard from the first. Mr. Giacomini first disposed of his share to the remaining four; then Shears, Markel and Swobe purchased Mr. Millard's interest, and in 1886, Mr. Shears disposed of his stock to the two remaining partners. These gentlemen have the most extensive hotel experience and business in the West, having also, as the Pacific Hotel Company, control of eighteen hotels on the line of the Union Pacific Railway, the excellence of which anyone who has traveled over that road can testify. The Millard is under the direct management of Frank McDonald, a gentleman of the highest social qualities and deservedly popular with the guests. A. B. Davenport has held the position of head clerk since the house opened, a most gratifying testimonial of the regard and confidence of the public and his employers. The same can be said of Mr. C. C. Hulett, the cashier, who has occupied the position ever since five months after the hotel was opened. J. E. Strong is key clerk and Frank Watson does the honors to the belated traveler and night guests. The culinary department is under the management of O. N. Davenport, a steward who has made the Millard famous throughout the West.]