Omaha Illustrated

OMAHA ILLUSTRATED.

Smith, M. Hellman, Aaron Cahn, William Sexauer, the Demarests, John Horbach, G. M. Mills,* George T. Mills, Henry Pundt, Vincent Burkley, Mrs. Frank Coffman,* the Patricks, F. A.

HILLCREST RESIDENCE OF W. J. CONNELL.		Schneider, Joseph F. Sheely, John M. Sheely, John R. Porter, Harry P. Deuel, John R. Meredith,* Dr. J. P. Peck,* the Roeders, Edwin Loveland,* Fred Davis, John McCormick,* Josiah S. McCormick, George W. Hanan, Sr.,* the Homan family, Fred Court, Peter Hugus,* Eb Dallow, P. W. Hitchcock,* A. S. Paddock, John Yerger, Sterrit M. Curran,* George Silvester, Byron Reed, John Campbell,* E. L. Eaton, J. W. Tousley, Rev. W. N. McCandlish,* Joel T. Griffin,* Fred Drexel, Joseph Red-
man, David Harpster, Henry Grebe, Charles Karbach, Frank Murphy, James T. Allan,* E. A. Allen, Major George Armstrong, Clinton Briggs,* General John M. Thayer, the Dees, Mrs.
W. W. Wyman, Mrs. T. B. Cuming, Mrs. W. D. Brown and family, Mrs. Jesse Lowe and family, F. L. Reef, Levi Kennard, G. A. McCoy,* Charles Powell, Ignace Scherb and brother, the Shull family, J. S. Gibson, the Barkers, Wiley Dixon, John I. Redick, the Yates family, D. Sullivan, Thomas Riley, John Riley, Frank Dellone, Fred Dellone, James M. Winship, W. A. Gwyer, W. H. S. Hughes, B. E. B. Kennedy, the Hartmans, James E. Boyd, William A. Paxton, George W. Doane, Frank Kleffner, A. N. Frick, D. Whitney, E. B. Chandler, the Medlocks,	RESIDENCE OF J. W. GRIFFITH.
Father Curtis,* Peter Malone, Michael and Jerry Linahan, Paul and A. J. Harmon, Charles P. Birkett, Jerry Mahoney, Edward F. Tennery, D. S. Parmalee, John Lutz, E. V. Smith,

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OMAHA ILLUSTRATED.

[Hon. George W. Lininger was born in Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1834. When a boy of eleven his parents removed to Peru, Illinois; his education was only such as could be obtained in the common schools of Pennsylvania and Illinois in those early days. He began business for himself at Peru, at the age of twenty, by buying an interest in a stove and tinware store with $200. His business prospered until 1868, when he sold out and removed to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where, with E. L. Shugart, he engaged in the agricultural machinery and implement business. In 1872 he removed to Omaha. About a year later he bought out his partner and continued the business alone until 1879, when be sold out and took his family abroad. They made a com-

	plete tour of Great Britain, the Continent, Egypt and the Holy Land. Returning, he organized the Lininger & Metcalf Company, now the largest dealers in agricultural machinery in the United States. In 1885 he again went abroad with his wife, this time visiting the northern countries of Denmark, Sweden, etc., and Russia, Turkey, Greece and others. Mr. Lininger has been active in the public service as member of the City Council and Board of Trade, and is now a member of the State Senate. In 1856 he began his Masonic career, and is now one of the most prominent Masons in the country, having heId the highest offices in the order in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska and is now the Representative of the Grand Lodge of England to the Grand Lodge of this State, and possesses the most complete Masonic library in the country, especially in the earliest

RESIDENCE AND ART COLLECTION OF HON. G. W. LININGER.

recorded proceedings of the English Grand Lodge. It was Mr. Lininger's desire to study Masonry as it exists in the countries of Europe which first took him abroad, and the pursuit of those studies led him into the domain of Art, the result of which has been by far the most extensive and valuable collection of art works in painting, statuary, carving, metal, etc., to be found in the State. Mr. Lininger claims that he has in his collection something illustrative of the arts in every country in the world where art exists, and without doubt the result of his labors in this direction will be the future establishment of an Art Gallery in Omaha that would do credit to any of our Eastern cities. The two illustrations in this work, showing interior views of Mr. Lininger's parlors, give a faint idea of his art collection, but it must be seen and carefully studied in order to fully appreciate it, and, like all enthusiasts in art, Mr. Lininger is always happy to exhibit his treasures.]

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OMAHA ILLUSTRATED.

Samuel R. Brown, Randall Brown, J. J. Brown, William F. Sweesy, A. J. Simpson, Silas A. Strickland,* Pat and Michael Connolly, Thomas O'Connor, J. W. Van Nostrand, Arthur N. Ferguson, Patrick Dinan, M. Lavin, Patrick McDonough, George I. Gilbert, Milton Rogers, Martin Dunham, Thomas Martin, Joseph Fox, Dr. William McClelland,* W. J. Kennedy, John

INTERIOR VIEW, G. W. LININGER'S RESIDENCE.

Kennedy, John Kennelly, John Petty, the Forbes family, Henry Livesey, Thomas Swift, Luke McDermott, the Lehmer family, E. F. Cook, Charles Turner, Charles M. Anmock,* Fred Kumpf, J. C. Wilcox, E. S. Seymour, Mrs. C. W. Koenig, the Misses McCheane, Charles Childs, Frederick Krug, B. P. Knight, James McArdle.

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