sentences:  It was named after John H. Kellom, an early educator who arrived in Omaha in 1857 and was on the first Omaha Board of Education in 1859.Kellom was on the Board of Trustees for Omaha High School, and throughout his career in Omaha worked as a teacher, a principal, and the first superintendent of schools in the city.According to author Tillie Olsen, in the 1920s the school hosted a number of classes for adult immigrants in the neighborhood.