Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha

Viaduct deck, Omaha livestock market offices to left. - South Omaha Union Stock Yards, "O" Street Viaduct, "O" Street Spanning Hog Pens; South Omaha Terminal Railway Company Tracks and Union Pacific Railroad Tracks, Omaha, Douglas County, NE

The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was a 90-year-old company first founded in South Omaha, Nebraska in 1878 by John A. Smiley. After being moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and dissolved within a year, the company was reorganized and moved to South Omaha in 1883.[1] Six local businessmen responded to a request by Wyoming cattle baron Alexander Swan showing interest in a livestock market closer than the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, Illinois.[2] The Company's Union Stockyards in South Omaha were once a fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards.[3] The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was bought out in 1973.

  1. ^ Larsen, L. and Cottrell, B. (1997) The Gate City: A History of Omaha. University of Nebraska Press. p. 72
  2. ^ (nd) William A. Paxton Archived August 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Nebraska Department of Education. Retrieved 6/21/07.
  3. ^ Graham, J. (1999) "Omaha stockyards packing it in." Archived April 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Chicago Tribune. 3/28/99. Retrieved 6/23/07.