Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
Real Estate Firms.

r.. c. Peters q Co. Zee building.
This firm Is composed of r. c. Peters |
and NJ. D. Cameron and is rated one |
OF the most reliable of Omaha, doing a |
general investment. loan. bond, real es- |
tate, insurance and rental business. The |
business was founded by Mr.. r. c. Peters |
in West Point Neb in 1856. In 1897 Mr.. |
Peters removed to Omaha. At that time |
he had out investments for eastern clients
amounting to more than s2.O0O0OO Since
| removing to Omaha the business in every
department has steadily grown until now
the firm has outstanding investments for
| eastern and local clients amounting to
| more than 100000 A number of the
present investors have been clients of the
firm since Mr.. Peters first started the
| business in West Point. 1t is a matter of
much satisfaction to the firm to be able
to say that no investor ever lost a dollar
of either principal or interest on funds
placed through this firm, nor has any in
| weston up TO this time ever taken an acre
Of land under foreclosure.
Mr.. Cameron was formerly located in
Schuyler, Neb., where he was actively en-
gagged in the farm loan and investment
business, being the local representative of
Mr. Peters and also of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance company. After he
| became associated with Mr. Peters three
| years ago he removed to Omaha.
The real estate department is in direct
charge of Mr.. Nelson A. Buck. with Mr.
II. c. Freedman and Mr.. George Marshall
rs statesmen.
The rental department is in charge of
Mr.. J. H Mithen, with Mr.. Ellery Hesse
as his assistant. The firm has charge of
large amount of property in this city and
have been rental agents for the Bee build
The insurance and pond departments are
in charge of Mr.. H. A. Cameron. The
business of these departments has grown
rapidly since Mr.. Cameron took charge of
the same.
The firm is actively engaged in the plac-
ing of farm loans in eastern Nebraska,
western Iowa and northwestern Missouri,
and solicits business from agents in this
territory.
They also handle school and municipal
bonds and give careful attention to offer
ings of this class OF securities.
They solicit the care and management
of property in this city and insurance in
all its forms
This firm also carries at all times invest
ments suitable for local parties.
w. A. Paxton. 500 Ware Block.
Few men in Omaha have their names
|
cessful commercial enterprises than w. A.
, Paxton. Mr.. Paxton has been a resident
of the city for nearly half a century
and is one of it's best known men. His
character, in its aggressiveness, faith in
the west and nerve in undertaking new
ventures, is a fine type of the section of
the country he has done so much to de-
velop
In the early Cos, with a partner, he
launched the wholesale grocery business of
the Paxton & Gallagher company. He is
still president of this firm, which has had
remarkable success and is now one of the
largest of its kind in the vets, its trade
extending clear to the Pacific coast
Mr.. Paxton is president, a stakeholder
. | and a founder of the Union Stock Yards
. company, one of the greatest of local en-
i. terprises. He is one of the founders and
:. an officer of the large Paxton & Vierling
! Iron works and is a director and stock
. | holder in the First National bank.
BY no means insignificant among his
interests are those affecting real estate
: He owns large ranches in the state and is
: at the head of big ranching and cattle
. companies. He built the Paxton block, a
six-story Office building and one of the
. finest of it's kind in Omaha, and was one
of the promoters and lent his financial aiC
; in the building of the Paxton hotel at Four
9 teenth and Farnam streets Among the
large land companies he is interested IL
is the South Omaha Land company.
Mr. Paxton owns some choice building
property throughout the city and has
"a fine residence on South Twenty-ffth ave
~ nue., near Farnam. He has plans of
,s wide scope ahead for lettering the city
"a which he hopes to carry out within tn
In next few years in furthering his policy o
always standing in the forefront OF tn
IN progress of Omaha.
he Alfred @. Kennedy First Nationa
I'd Bank Building.
te The real estate and insurance bushes
"a carried on by Mr.. Kennedy was establishe
= in conjunction with his father. the lat
- Howard Kennedy, for many years secre
tary of the land department of the Unto
- Pacific railroad.
- Mr.. Kennedy has charge OF the Oman
= property Of the Northwestern Mutual Lit
% Insurance company and OF the Sout
. Omaha Land company. and makes the car
~ OF property a speciality. No real estat
p man in Omaha has a better reputation fc
conservatism and strict accountability
"a business dealings.
ub Omaha Real Estate Auction COmpan,
e. The Omaha Real Estate Auction con
A pany is firm which promotes the idea
en- selling city property and farms at auctic
nd in order to get quick returns and the be
We possible prices. The experience of Il
OF concern has been a very successful OF
II and the volume OF business has grow
It's constantly. The chief factors In the bus
IS ness are ]. w. Peters. formerly cashi
VI OF the City Savings bank; c. F. Calhou
OF a banker Of Springfield. Neb.. and ].
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ie' pillion. Neb.
a Reed Bros, ITO Farnam Street.
A new real estate firm OF old real esta
X men Is that of Reed Bros. II being cor
on posed OF Lewis S. Reed. president OF q
m Equitable Trust company and cashier
ub the Nebraska National bank; Harry
lie Reed. county assessor; Alex c. Reed. 7
ia Gently with the land department OF q
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