Edward Creighton

(1820-1874) lived in Omaha. Contractor, banker, philanthropist, pioneered construction of telegraph lines in the Midwest and Southwest, was instrumental in completing the first transcontinental line from Omaha to San Francisco in 1861, organized first national bank in Nebraska Territory, co-founded with his brother John the Creighton University, incorporated in 1879 by the Jesuit Order. Consult J. R. Johnson, Representative Nebraskans (Johnsen Publishing, 1954) 55-59 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, May 21, 1978, pp 14-15 and American National Biography, Vol 5 (1999) 719-720.

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