| SIX FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM NEBRASKA | | | | unknown. |
| STERLING MORTON was Secretary of Agriculture | | | | WILELLA SIEBERT CATHER (Willa Cather) was born |
| under President Grover Cleveland . He was born in | | | | in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia. In 1884, she and her |
| Adams, Jefferson County, New York on April 22, 1832. | | | | family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. This is where |
| and raised in Detroit. After graduating from the | | | | she spent the remainder of her childhood. The town |
| University of Michigan in 1854 he and his wife, Caroline, | | | | was made famous in her writings that include “The |
| moved to Nebraska-before it was even organized as | | | | Prairie Trilogy”, “My Antonia”, & “The |
| a territory, and staked out a claim in Nebraska City. | | | | Song of the Lark” |
| He became the editor of the Nebraska City News. In | | | | Cather was elected to the Nebraska Hall of Fame, |
| 1858, President Buchanan appointed him Secretary of | | | | and in 1986 she was inducted into the National Cowgirl |
| the Nebraska Territory, an office he held until 1861. | | | | Museum and Hall of Fame. She died on April 24, |
| He was also acting governor from 1858-1859. He | | | | 1947, in New York City. She was 73. |
| was an agriculturalist who enjoyed instructing people in | | | | EDWIN ELIJAH PERKINS was born on January |
| the newest techniques of farming and forestry. One | | | | 8, 1889 in Lewis, Iowa. His family moved to Nebraska |
| significant thing he accomplished was the founding of | | | | in 1893. As a child of eleven he started experimenting |
| Arbor Day. He was well-known in Nebraska for his | | | | with different products. By the 1920s, he had a line of |
| political, agricultural and literary activities. From there | | | | about 125 items that could be sold door-to-door and by |
| he was appointed as Secretary of Agriculture. | | | | mail. Of all these, the product he is best known for |
| Morton is a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame. | | | | was his invention of Kool-Aid in 1927, in Hastings, |
| His son Joy Morton was the founder of the Morton | | | | Nebraska. It became a household name and it made |
| Salt Company. Sterling’s love for forest and field | | | | him a rich man. He died in 1961, after a long illness, at |
| and farm was passed on to his son Joy, who made a | | | | the age of 72. |
| living history museum out of his 1700 acre estate with | | | | JOHN WILLIAM CARSON was born in Corning, |
| over 4,000 types of trees, shrubs and other woody | | | | Iowa on October 23, 1925. When he was eight years |
| plants. The mission of this enterprise was to | | | | old, the family moved to Norfolk, Nebraska where he |
| encourage the planting of trees and promote the love | | | | grew up. He started college, but left after a year to |
| of nature. Morton passed away on April 27, 1902, at | | | | join the Navy in 1943. He began performing on radio |
| the age of 70. | | | | and television in Omaha. He hosted several shows |
| SUSAN LaFLESCHE PICOTTE was the first | | | | before beginning The Tonight Show in 1962. He kept |
| American Indian woman to become a doctor in the | | | | that job for 30 years until 1992. |
| United States. She was born on the Omaha | | | | He died of complications from emphysema on January |
| Reservation on June 17, 1865. She went to school | | | | 25, 2005, at the age of 79. |
| in Nebraska until she was fourteen and then went to | | | | WARREN EDWARD BUFFET , American investor, |
| New Jersey where she attended the Elizabeth Institute | | | | businessman, and philanthropist was born in Omaha, |
| for Young Ladies. She then taught at the Quaker | | | | Nebraska on August 30, 1930. He is considered one |
| Mission School on the reservation for a couple of | | | | of the most successful investors in history. He is the |
| years. She eventually went back East to attend the | | | | primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, |
| Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, | | | | and Forbes ranked him the richest man in the world. |
| graduating in 1889 at the top of the class. She did her | | | | His estimated net worth is approximately $62 billion. In |
| internship in Philadelphia and then went back to | | | | 2009, after he donated billions of his wealth to charity |
| Nebraska to provide health care for her people on the | | | | he was only the second richest man in the U.S., |
| government boarding school there. In 1913, she | | | | outranked only by Bill Gates. Buffet is called the |
| opened up a hospital in Walthill, Nebraska. She died | | | | Oracle of Omaha or the Sage of Omaha. |
| on September 18, 1915, at the age of 50, cause | | | | |