sentences:  Six local businessmen, including William A. Paxton, Herman Kountze and John A. Creighton, formed the Union Stockyards on December 1, 1883 and purchased of land.At that same point the businessmen formed the South Omaha Land Company, platting the city of South Omaha that same year over the remaining .The City of Omaha annexed South Omaha in 1915.