[Mr. M. A. Upton, who is one of Omaha's leading real estate men, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 24, 1847. At an early age he came west and engaged in various occupations.During the past seventeen years he has lived in Council Bluffs and

Omaha. While a resident of Council Bluffs he was for several years the cashier of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway in that city. He next filled, for quite a term, the position of freight and ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. At a later date he became secretary and treasurer of the Transfer Stockyards Company, of which W. A. Paxton was president. When the Union Stockyards Company of South Omaha was organized, he was appointed secretary of the corporation and also of the South Omaha Land Company. Mr. Upton had great faith in these enterprises, when others considered them rather visionary. By judicious and original methods in advertising, he at once brought South Omaha into prominence, and thus disposed of a large amount of property for the land company, and induced the permanent investment of capital in lands and in enterprises. The result is well

known to everybody. South Omaha in less than four years has become a city of nearly 7,000 people. It is the third packing center and live stock market in the Union. Among the enterprises that have made the city, are the packing houses of Hammond, Fowler, Armour, Swift and others. It is safe to say that within three years South Omaha will be a city of 25,000 people. Mr. Upton has contributed largely in various ways to the wonderful results that have been accomplished in South Omaha. He is now engaged in the real estate business in Omaha, and is ranked among the most enterprising and successful men in that line. His reliability and integrity are unquestioned. He believes in the liberal but honest use of printer's ink, and knows from experience that wonders can be achieved by judicious advertising. He abhors all "wild-cat" schemes and promises that cannot be strictly carried out.]

charter, and a bitter fight ensued as to the location of the bridge, but the location where the bridge now stands was finally agreed upon. Omaha voted $250,000 in bonds in consideration that it should have the main transfer depots, general offices, machine shops, etc. Council Bluffs voted $200,000 in bonds on the same condition, but the company accepted Omaha's proposition. The bridge was completed March 25, 1873. A new bridge, having double track, a wagon

bridge and a walk for pedestrians, has replaced the old bridge, the work of construction having recently been completed. It is a much more substantial bridge than the old one was, and was

continental line. The construction of branch lines has greatly aided its revenues, and if remedial legislation can be secured from Congress, as it is hoped, its future will be well secured. The most important of its branch lines is the Oregon Short Line, which, in connection with the Oregon and Navigation Road, recently acquired by Iease, gives the Union Pacific its own continuous line from Omaha to Portland, on the Pacific coast. The development of the

country by the Union Pacific can be most easily demonstrated by citing a few figures. In

1876 the tonnage handled by the road at Omaha and Council Bluffs, was 1,259,894,897 pounds. Ten years later in 1886, the tonnage handled at the two cities amounted to 4,324,709,483, an increase of 243 per cent., Omaha handling considerably over one-half of the total amount. The Union Pacific now owns 4,575 miles of road, and controls 1422 additional miles, all operated from Omaha. Its lines tap the richest agricultural and mineral lands in the world, covering a vast region which is being rapidly developed, increasing the fruitage which Omaha exacts as tribute. The head-

quarters and main shops of the road are located here, and the number of its employes reaches over 2,000. It is indeed a great Omaha institution.
     In 1869, prominent business men of Omaha organized the Omaha and Northwestern Railroad, with James E. Boyd, president, and constructed the road to Herman. It proved an important feeder to Omaha and remains so, though it has since become a part of the (continue to main text - skipping biographies)

Eighth Connecticut volunteers. After serving with that regiment a year and a half, he left it and entered the regular army. During the war his first service was with Gen. Burnside in the North Carolina expedition and he was at the capture of Roanoake, etc. Later he was with Gen. Grant in the army of the Potomac at Spottsylvania, the Wilderness, etc. He first came to Omaha in 1866 as aide on the staff of Philip St. George Cooke, at which time the Department of the Platte was created. Later he was detailed by President Grant to take charge of Indians, and was assigned to duty under the Department of the Interior at the Yankton Indian Agency. After a year's service there he asked to be placed on waiting orders, with a view to leaving the service and resigned his captain's commission in the regular army, December 31, 1870, and went to Ohio where he engaged in business. On March 1, 1874, Mr. Broatch came to Omaha and established himself in the heavy hardware business, which he has successfully conducted ever since. He has been an active and public spirited citizen, taking an interest in all movements calculated to promote the material progress of Omaha. He has for years been a member of the board for the improvement of the Missouri river, is a member of the Omaha Board of Trade and of the Omaha Freight Bureau. He was a member of the school board in 1878-9 and was elected to the State Legislature in 1880 for two years. In June, 1887, he was elected Mayor of Omaha under the amended charter to serve until January, 1890. As such he is ex-officio president of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, which body was provided for in the new charter to give to the city a system of metropolitan police.

The inauguration of new systems in city government and the enlargement of its powers necessarily involve much labor and wise discretion on the part of those charged with official responsibility, and Mr. Broatch has applied himself to his new duties with a zeal that cannot be questioned.]

     [C. S. Goodrich was born in Warren, Warren county, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1842. As a boy he learned the printer's trade, and came to Omaha with his parents April 6, 1860. Here he worked at the case on the Weekly Republican and later on the Omaha Nebraskian. When the Daily Telegraph was started, of which Henry Z. Curtis, a son of the late Major General Curtis, was editor, Mr. Goodrich worked at the case upon it with C. W. Sherman, the present editor of the Plattsmouth Journal. The Telegraph was announced to be published simultaneously in Omaha and Council Bluffs and four hundred copies were printed daily, two hundred of which were sent by a boy on a pony across the river for distribution there. Mr. Curtis was afterwards killed during the Kansas troubles by Quantrell in the Lawrence massacre. During the Indian scare under Gov. Alvin Saunders' administration, Mr. Goodrich was a captain of a militia company raised for home protection, and he admits that more women and children were scared by the militia men than by the Indians, who never came near the town. Mr. Goodrich was engaged in mercantile pursuits for twenty years in Omaha previous to 1887, when he retired. In 1885 he was elected to the city council for two years, and in June, 1887, under the new charter, he was elected city comptroller to serve until January, 1890, being the only candidate on the Democratic general ticket elected. Like others of the pioneers of Omaha, Mr. Goodrich has seen the little village grow to be a great and flourishing city, and the State in its Marvelous development, keep pace with it.