Eileen Wirth
This intriguing presentation is based on Wirth’s book of the same title, profiling the women who used their influence to build Omaha.
Description
Omaha’s first female tycoon will probably never make the local Business Hall of Fame because she made her fortune in the world’s oldest profession. But Anna Wilson, Omaha’s most famous madam, invested her profits from her downtown brothel in real estate then left them to charity.
She’s one of many women leaders profiled by Wirth, who describes how Omaha’s women not only founded or co-founded top businesses like Nebraska Furniture Mart (Rose Blumkin) and Mutual of Omaha (Mabel Criss) but how wealthy widows invested their money in starting signature local institutions such as Creighton University and Joslyn Art Museum. This intriguing presentation is based on Wirth’s book of the same title.
Eileen Wirth
Title: Professor of Journalism Emeritus, Creighton University
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (402) 659-5457
City: Omaha
