 In 1879, the Union Pacific Railroad built a line joining Beatrice to Marysville, Kansas.By 1890, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad had also run tracks through Beatrice.The former international foods conglomerate, Beatrice Foods, (now a part of ConAgra Foods) was founded in Beatrice in 1894 as The Beatrice Creamery Company, by George Everett Haskell and William W. Bosworth.