Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska

The Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska are a long-standing ethnic group in the city with important economic, social, and political ties.

[2] In 1871, a committee of Swedes came from Illinois to determine whether the Nebraska prairie was suitable for Swedish settlement and farming.

Josie McCullough, who grew up in the Near North Side during the late 1800s, wrote, "In that neighborhood Swedish, Bohemian, Italian, Irish and Negro children all contributed to the process of Americanization.

In 1922 the Trinity Lutheran Church at 30th Street and Redick Avenue in the Miller Park neighborhood of North Omaha was founded.

The Immanuel congregation merged with its daughter, Zion, under the name Augustana Swedish Evangelical Lutheran in a building constructed at 36th and Lafayette Avenue near the Bemis Park neighborhood.

In December 1890, the association completed construction of a hospital located at 36th and Meredith Streets in North Omaha.

The Auditorium housed a number of fraternities, including the Order of Vasa, the Vikings, Good Templars, and others.

Anna Truedsdotter Hansen (1851-1922) was born in Hässleholm Municipality - with her German husband she brought six children up in Omaha in the 1890s, of whom Louis P. Hansen was a familiar cigar maker. A grandnephew on the Swedish side was Stanley M. Truhlsen .