Charles Edwin Bessey was born to Adnah and Margaret Bessey in a log house on a farm in Milton, Ohio in 1845. The Bessey family was deeply religious. Bessy’s father provided most of his early education, and by the time he was seventeen, Bessey had earned his teaching license.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Bess Streeter Aldrich was born in 1881 to a pioneer family in Cedar Falls, Iowa. A writer since early childhood, she won a writing contest at age fourteen and another at seventeen. After graduating from Iowa State Normal School (now the University of Northern Iowa), she taught school in Marshalltown, Iowa, and in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Alvin Saunders Johnson
Alvin Saunders Johnson gained national and international fame as an economist, educator, humanitarian, social activist, writer, and editor. Born in 1874, he grew up on a farm near Homer, Nebraska where he learned the importance of hard work and having goals in life.
Nebraska Farm Bureau
The Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation organized in 1917 with the goal of working for the betterment of Nebraska agriculture. By 1919, the group had successfully lobbied for passage of a bill in the Nebraska Legislature establishing a Game and Fish Substation in Dundy County for a cost of $15,000. It was the first of many bills the organization would follow in the next one hundred years.
Nebraska Environmental Trust
The Nebraska Environmental Trust was created by the Nebraska Legislature in 1992 for the purposes of environmental conservation and restoration. The Trust has provided over $200 million in grants to all 93 counties across the state, using revenue from the Nebraska Lottery.
First National Bank
Since 1857, First National Bank has been dedicated to doing what’s right for our customers, employees, shareholders and the communities we serve.
Hutchens Family
Lela and Derrel Hutchens after they eloped in 1931. Married for 70 years, Lela could always bring a smile to Derrel’s face.
The Seacrest Family
The two founding members of the Joe R. Seacrest Family were Joseph “Joe R.” (1920-1995) and Beatrice “Mike” (1920- ) Seacrest. Joe R. was a newspaper man in Lincoln and in four other Nebraska cities, North Platte, Scottsbluff, Lexington and Sidney. Members of the Seacrest Family owned and operated the Lincoln Journal newspaper from 1887 to 1995.