Abstract
The History of the Diocese of Omaha from its beginning in 1859 to 1910 has been written by the Very Reverend James Aherne and can be found in the Catholic Encyclopedia, XI. The aim of this thesis is to supplement what has already been written. By 1910, Bishop Scannell had served nearly twenty years as Bishop of Omaha. To complete the story up to the Administration of the Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel, D.D., 1928, bits of information were gathered from newspaper files, The World Herald. The Catholic Daily Tribune. and especially The True Voice. Personal interviews were held with several clergymen of the diocese, and statistics were gathered from the Catholic Official Directories, found in the Omaha Diocesan Library.