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Biographies of early residents (pre-1900) of Dubuque County are welcome. Submit them to the Webmaster. 1875 Biographies - A. T. Andreas Atlas 1880 Biographies - 1880 Dubuque County History Honorable William B. Allison - Attorney; Colonel during Civil War who helped raise troops; member of House and Senate.August 31, 2001 Eugene Anderson - Civil engineer and surveyor. Sanford A. Atherton - General manager of Dubuque Omnibus Company. George F. Atkins - Wholesale and retail dealer in tobacco and smoking supplies. Honorable Isaac W. Baldwin - State Senator; editor and proprietor of Cascade Pioneer newspaper; Justice of the Peace in White Water Twp.; first mayor of Cascade. Charles Starr Barre - Editor of the News-Letter of DyersvilleConfederate. Frederick Christian Bauman - He founded Zwingle (population of 94 in 1990) and the German Reformed Church in Jackson county, along with his father-in-law, Daniel Cort. Frederick was the church's first minister and served as such for 54 years. [Zwingle borders Dubuque County.] August 6, 2001 Dickson Beatty Robert Bell - Wealthy pioneer farmer of Dodge Twp. John E. Bilbrough - Artist with a studio at southwest corner of Main and Eight Streets. Henry Bockenstedt - Farmer in Dubuque and Delaware Counties. John Bomacke - Prosperous general agriculturist and horticulturist of Jefferson Twp.; Trustee; Supervisor; School Director. Honorable Richard Bonson - Miner and mercantilist; State Inspector of Banks; State Legislator; lived at Burnage Villa near Dubuque. General Caleb Hoskins Booth - First Mayor of Dubuque in 1841; Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the Dubuque and Sioux City Raiload Company; inventor of Booth's Improved Dredge Pump; operated lead mines. Nicholas Bray, M. D. - Oculist, aurist, and physician. William Bray, M. D. - General medical practice at 864 Locust. John D. Bush - Tanner; pork packing business; twice elected Mayor of Dubuque. Edward Butler - Farmer in Center Twp. Cascade Biographies September 20, 2001 Dr. Rodolphus Clark - Dentist; Director of Dubuque National Bank and Beaver Valley Bank of Parkerburg, Iowa; Bernard Claus, Jr. - Farmer in Jefferson Twp.; township trustee. Frank W. Coates - Businessman in real estate;
loan and insurance agent. Joseph Cook - Farmer in Jefferson Twp. Reverend Mark Cooney - President of St. Joseph's Catholic College (now Loras College). Hugh Corrance - Dealer in groceries; Director of Dubuque Building & Loan Association and Smedley Manufacturing Company; prominent Presbyterian. Honorable James Cushing - President of Northwestern Vinegar Works; Mayor of Dubuque 1875-1876. Mell H. Cushing - Proprietor of the North Star Livery Stable; dealer in undertaking goods; Third Ward Alderman. John Driscoll Samuel H. Ensign - Farmer in section 9, Taylor Twp. Jesse P. Farley - President of Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company; railroad and steamboat interests; city alderman. George Fengler - Owner of Eagle Point Lime Works of Dubuque; member of Company A, Twenty-first Iowa Infantry; appointed United States Surveyor of Customs in 1889; city council member. Revrend F. X. Feurerstein - Pastor of St. Mary's Church in Cascade. Peter Freymann - Merchant, hotel keeper, and Director of the German State Bank in Dyersville. Mrs. Catherine Fries - Widow of Peter Fries, successful agriculturalist in Jefferson Twp. Albert Gasser - Manufacturer of paving and building brick (furnished brick used in Dubuque County Courthouse, the Norwegian Plow Works, the Bishop Kennedy Buklding); aided in organization of the concetration Ore Company of Dubuque and the East Dubuque Smelting Company; stockholder in Dubuque Casket Company and Turbine Wheel and Mill Company. Henry Gehrig - Proprietor and lessee of the Jefferson House. Andrew Gibbs - Attorney-at-law; Secretary of Dubuque Board of Trade 1894. Theodor Goerdt - Farmer in New Wine Twp.; school director. John R. Goldthorp - Pioneer farmer. Honorable Julius K. Graves - Banker; Civil War quartermaster; Dubuque mayor; state legislator; president of three railroad companies. August 31, 2001 Charles H. Gregoire - Produce dealer; investments in real estate and mining. Ezra Gregory - Company H, Twenty-first Iowa Infantry (Union); farmer. Joseph J. Grigg - Contractor and builder; stockholder in Dubuque Pressed Brick Company and Key City Fire Insurance Company. Honorable Moses M. Ham - Postmaster; became proprietor and editor-in-chief of the Herald. Nicholas Hansen - Partner in Hansen & Linehan, wholesale dealers in groceries and steamboat supplies. Honorable Thomas Hardie - Representative in Iowa General Assembly; member of Board of Regents of the Iowa State University; Fourth Ward Alderman. Fridolin Heer - Senior member of F. Heer & Sons, architects and builders; member of Dubuque Sharp Shooters. Reverend George William Heer - Rector of St. Xavier's Catholic Church in Dyersville. Henry Henkels - Road Supervisor, Constable, School Board member, Trustee of the Mosalem Township. September 29, 2001 Fred Henker - Member of Hammel, Henker & Co., proprietors of the Key City Flouring Mill. Rev. James Hill - Chaplain in the Civil War, James Hill was a Baptist minister. August 31, 2001 Nancy R. Hill, M. D. - Volunteer at Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C. during Civil War; opened medical office in Dubuque specializing in diseases of women and children; DAR descendant. August 31, 2001 M. M. Hoffman - Undertaker and embalmer; county Coroner; President of Iowa State Undertakers' Association. Asa Horr, M. D. - Chief of Medical Staff of Mercy Hospital; also a botanist, geologist and astronomer. James Howie - President of Dubuque Pressed Brick Company; contractor and builder; Mason. Edward R. Jackson, M. D. - 1848 - 1883; Physician and surgeon. Henry J. Jecklin - Dairy farmer in Dubuque Township. Reverend Clement Johannes - Pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church; supervised erection of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum. Evan E. Jones - Contractor and builder; President of Dubuque Ore Concentration Company; stockholder in Dubuque Turbine Wheel Company, Dubuque Boot and Shoe Company, and Dubuque Wooden Ware Company. General George Wallace Jones - Lawyer; Clerk of U. S. District Court at Ste. Genevieve, Mo.; served in Black Hawk War; Chief Justice at Mineral Point, Michigan Territory. John Kantlehner - Farmer in Jefferson Twp. Joseph K. Kaufmann - Stone mason and contractor; Vice President of James Cushing & Sons Company, which manufactured vinegar. Nicholas Kaufmann - Contractor and builder; one of the founders of the German Catholic newspaper, Luxemburger Gazette. James Kelly - Mercantile dealer in books, stationery and periodicals (Kelly & Sons). Robert Kennedy - Farmer in Washington Twp.; Justice of the Peace in Buncombe. Peter Kiene, Sr. - Real estate, insurance, and loan agent; President of Dubuque Rubber and Belting Company; helped organize German Benevolent Society. John Kleinschmidt - Real estate developer; helped develop sewer and water systems in city. F. H. Klostermann - Farmer in New Wine Twp.; Justice of the Peace 1892. A. R. Knight - Jeweler, senior member of A. R. Knight & Co. Frederick M. Knoll - Supervisor; assessor; Justice of the Peace; state legislator. Henry Kortenkamp - Farmer in New Wine Twp. William P. Large - Established W. P. Large & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes; Director and Vice-President of Second National Bank, Dubuque Cattle Company, and Linwood Cemetery Association. Paul Lattner - Worthington businessman; partner with brothers in steam sawmill business; notary public. Honorable Wendelin Lattner - Merchant and owner of Worthington Creamery; state legislator in 1874. Thomas Lochner - Farmer in Peru Twp.; school director and Justice of the Peace. Christian Loetscher - General manager of Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, which made sashes, doors, and blinds. Delos E. Lyon - Lawyer with office at Fifth and Main Streets. George Marshall - Enterprising farmer of hogs, cattle, horses, and orchards; school board member. Honorable James McCann - State Legislator; Dubuque County Sheriff; President and General Manager of Excelsior Brass Works. Benjamin McCluer, M. D. - Surgeon of 9th Iowa Infantry; noted physician. Susan Ann McCraney - First white child born in Dubuque County. A. S. McDermott - Dealer in agricultural equipment; patented the McDermott Cultivator in 1871. James and Martha (Anderson) McGee - (Iowa township - 1836) Scientist who studied the regions glacial past; founded the National Geographic Society; conducted cancer research. James McGrath - Freight Agent for Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad. Frank Mescher - Farmer in section 6, New Wine Twp. Jacob Michel - Merchant; shoemaker. Charles Miller - Farmer in section 23, Jefferson Twp. Adam Mink - Senior member of Mink & Royce, wholesale dealers in wood and coal. George Mollart - Farmer near Durango. William J. Morgans - Company E, Fifth Iowa Cavalry (Union); miner. James Mullin - Lived in Dubuque Twp.; farmer. Dorrance Dixon Myers - President of Dubuque National Bank; senior member of Myers, Tice & Co., wholesale dealers in cigars and tobacco at 322 Main St.; stockholder and director of Cascade Bank, German State Bank of Dyersville, State Bank of Onawa, IA, and Sheldon Bank of Sheldon, IA. John Newman - J. Newman & Son, manufacturer of carriages, buggies and wagons. Nicholas P. Nicks - Contractor and builder; fifth ward alderman. Frederick R. Nitzsche, M. D. - Physician and surgeon. J. J. E. Norman - 1815 - 1872; Loras College professor; Dubuque County Superintendent of Schools. August 14, 2001 Reverend F. W. Oberbroekling - Pastor of Luxemburg parish; instrumental in building Holy Trinity Church at Luxemburg. Honorable Peter Olinger - Mayor 1894; city alderman; livery business John P. Page - Proprietor of the Page House (restaurant, saloon, hotel); owned a farm. Frank Paley - Local dairy business. John Palmer - Early settler; farmer; owned lead mines. Reverend Frederick William Pape - Pastor at St. Boniface Catholic Church, New Vienna. Joseph Platz - Stone mason; built lime kiln at Eagle Point. Andrew Rahe - Wealthy farmer in New Vienna Twp. Honorable James Rowan - Capitalist in grain business, real estate, lead mining; state legislator 1887. Reverend William Otis Ruston, D. D. - Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church; connected with the New York City Mission for forty years; published "A History of the Presbytery of Dubuque." Reverend Roger Ryan - Pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church. George Salot - Real estate and insurance age and abstracter of titles of Dubuque; City Recorder; Deputy Sheriff. Colonel C. J. W. Saunders - Mayor of Dubuque; city alderman; three terms on Soldiers' Relief Commision of Dubuque County. John Sauser, Jr. - Leading farmer; Trustee of Cascade Twp.; Road Supervisor. Joseph Schemmel - Built a woolen factory near New Vienna; Postmaster in New Wine Twp.; Justice of the Peace; County Supervisor. George Schindler - Wealthy farmer and stock raiser in New Wine Twp. George Schmitt - Farmer in Center Twp.; township clerk; township assessor; county supervisor. Calvin Scripture, Jr. - Farmer in Dubuque Twp.; blacksmith. Christopher Schromen - Owner of Dubuque Show Case Works; engaged in silvering and re-silvering mirrors. William J. Shoup - Respected Iowa educator. Joseph Simones - 1846 - 1893; Entrepreneur, dry goods store, major stockholder in Iowa Coffin Company. John F. Sloan - Farmer. C. A. Smith - Editor and proprietor of the Dyersville Commercial. Samuel J. Southwell - Owner of zinc mines with Joseph Trueb. Johanna (Baker) Specht - Wife of John Specht; Specht's Ferry, Potosia September 29, 2001 Ralph Spensley - Farmer in Dubuque Twp. Daniel Stallard - Dyersville businessman; Company E of Twenty-first Iowa Infantry. J. Peter Stendebach - Real estate, loan and insurance agent. DeWitt Clinton Stewart - Member of Board of Supervisors; farmer;school district treasurer. Honorable William G. Stewart - Banker; member of Board of Supervisors; State Senator; Dubuque County Treasurer; various business connections (Dubuque Harbor Company, Iowa & Northern Railroad, Dubuque County Bank). Charles I. Stillman - Contractor and builder. Ignatz Summer - Proprietor of large carriage and plow manufactory; painter and decorator. James Sweeney - Prosperous farmer. John Tibey - Contractor of stone work and owner of a stone quarry. Paul Traut - County Treasurer; President of German Trust and Savings Bank; helped consolidate four breweries (Dubuque Malting Company); School Board President. John Trexler - J. & A. M. Trexler, groceries; Third Ward Councilman. Matthew Tschirigi - Established first brewery in Iowa; owned considerable real estate. Honorable Christian Anton Voelker - Mayor of Dubuque 1887; President of Key City Fire Insurance Company; founded Iowa Mutual Building and Loan Association. Chester H. Walker - Prosperous farmer and stock raiser. William Watson, M. D. - General medical practice; Surgeon of the Eleventh Iowa Infantry; President of Iowa State Medical Society in 1868. Jacob Weidenbacher - Head of importing and whlesale liquor house of J. Weidenbacher & Co. of Dyersville. F. W. Wieland, M. D. - General medical practice; Second Vice-president of Iowa Public Health Association; city physician. Honorable Thomas S. Wilson - Lawyer; Iowa Supreme Court Judge. Louis Witter - Leading contractor; carpenter. Jacob Zollicoffer - Early settler and farmer in Dubuque Twp. |
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