1875 A. T. Andreas Atlas
1880 Dubuque County History
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Eugene Anderson
Sanford A. Atherton
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Dickson Beatty
F. E. Behrens
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John D. Bush
Edward Butler
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Bernhard Claus, Jr.
Frank W. Coates
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Hugh Corrance
Patrick F. Cunningham
Mell H. Cushing
Peter Dawson
John Driscoll
Charles Henry Eighmey
Jesse P. Farley
George Fengler
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Albert Gasser
Henry Gehrig
A. P. Gibbs
Theodor Goerdt
John R. Goldthorp
Honorable Julius Graves
Charles H. Gregoire
Ezra Gregory
Daniel Hallahan
Nicholas Hansen
Honorable Thomas Hardie
Henry Henkels
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Asa Horr, M. D.
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Edward R. Jackson, M. D.
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Henry J. Jecklin
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Paul Lattner
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Thomas Lochner
Christian Loetscher
Norton J. Loomis
Delos E. Lyon
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W. A. Manhart
George Marshall
M. H. Martin
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Benjamin McCluer, M. D.
Susan Ann McCraney
A. S. McDermott
James and Martha McGee
James McGrath
M. F. McNamara
Jacob Michel
Charles Miller
Adam Mink
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James Mullin
Dorrance Dixon Myers
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J. J. E. Norman
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Bernard J. O'Neill
John P. Page
Frank Paley
John Palmer
Rev. Frederick William Pape
Thomas Phillips
Joseph Platz
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George Salot
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Joseph Schemmel
George Schmitt
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John F. Sloan
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Ralph Spensley
Daniel Stallard
J. Peter Stendebach
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Oren Stuart, M. D.
James Sweeney
John Tibey
Paul Traut
Matthew Tschirgi
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Chester H. Walker
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F. W. Wieland
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BERNHARD CLAUS, JR., a prominent agriculturist of Jefferson Township, Dubuque County, is the eldest son of Bernhard and Catharine (Sleighter) Claus, and was born in Alsace, France, August 8, 1822. Coming to America, the family embarked on the sailing-vessel "Osborne," and after a voyage of twenty-eight days landed in New York City. A short time afterward they went to Buffalo and their unsuccessfully sought work for ten days, after which they proceeded to Columbus, Ohio. Near that city the father purchased eighty acres of farming land, which he utilized in the usual way by raising cereals until he died.

Our subject now having arrived at an accountable age, and feeling able to "paddle his own canoe" through the world, left for Dubuque, Iowa, where he secured a position as teamster. He was thus employed for three years, after which he went to the Chippewa River in Wisconsin as a surveyor in the employ of the Government. Three months later he returned to Dubuque, where he has since remained.

Mr. Claus invested all of his hard-earned savings in a piece of Iowa's best farming land, on which he built one of those old-fashioned log cabins, then so common, but now seldom seen. His, however, still stands, and was at one time quite skillfully and artistically decorated with the horns and skins of thirteen deer which he had killed during the first year that he lived un his farm.

Mr. Claus was married to Effie Fisher April 2, 1850. There were four children by this marriage, as follows: Margaret, William, George and Willheminia, the two daughters being deceased. The wife and mother died in 1855 and afterward Mr. Claus married Catherine Sliger. Seven children blessed their union, namely: Mary, Rosie, Catherine, Carline, Bernhard, Jr., Anna and Creasence. Our subject owns one hundred and forty-five acres of the best farming land in this section. He is very popular and highly esteemed by all that know him. He built the first Catholic Church in Jefferson Township and is noted for his liberality.

Politically Mr. Claus is an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party, and on that ticket was elected School Director, which position he has held for thirteen years. He also was Trustee for eight years. He is always to be found in the front rank of all enterprises tending to benefit the immediate community and the country at large. He is industrious and energetic and always honorable in his dealings with his fellow men. He is a self-made man, having carved out his own fortune and reached his present prosperity entirely through his own unaided efforts.