Edward Rosewater

(1841-1906) lived in Omaha. Journalist, politician, founded the Omaha Daily Bee in 1871, which by 1900 was considered the leading Republican newspaper in the Midwest, and supported progressive ideas such as creation of a school board for Omaha's schools, direct election of senators, editorials dedicated to the rights of the common man, and adoption of improved methods of publication; credited for success of Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha in 1898, was twice an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands March 10, 1985, pp. 10-11 and Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol 14 (Keter, 1996) 303 and American National Biography, Vol 18 (1999) 896-897.

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