NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG1534.AM: John F. Wuerth, 1863-1942
Ledger: 1890s
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska: Grocer
Size: One volume
BACKGROUND NOTE
Born in Germany in 1863, John F. Wuerth immigrated to the United States in 1880. He ran a grocery store in Omaha, Nebraska, from the early 1890s until about 1915 when he moved to Thurston County to take up farming. John’s wife, Anna, died on May 15, 1940. John F. Wuerth died at his home in Thurston, Nebraska, on December 31, 1942. He was cremated at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection consists of one volume, a ledger kept by John F. Wuerth. Wuerth ran a grocery store at 1722 South 20th Street, Omaha, Nebraska, from 1892-1897. Account entries in the ledger are not dated by year, but they appear to be from this time period. Wuerth’s daughter later used the ledger as a scrapbook, so she pasted over a number of the ledger pages.
INVENTORY
Ledger, 1890s
Subject headings:
Grocery trade — Nebraska — Omaha
Omaha (Neb.) — Businesses
Wuerth, John F., 1863-1942
Revised TMM 07-29-2020; 12-31-2024
