1875 A. T. Andreas Atlas
1880 Dubuque County History
Honorable William B. Allison
Eugene Anderson
Sanford A. Atherton
Honorable Isaac W. Baldwin
Dickson Beatty
F. E. Behrens
Henry Bockenstedt
John Bomacke
General Caleb Hoskins Booth
Nicholas Bray, M. D.
William Bray, M. D.
Edward Brown
John D. Bush
Edward Butler
Cascade Biographies
Dr. Rodolphus Clark
Bernhard Claus, Jr.
Frank W. Coates
Honorable Dennis Nelson Cooley
Reverend Mark Cooney
Hugh Corrance
Patrick F. Cunningham
Mell H. Cushing
Peter Dawson
John Driscoll
Charles Henry Eighmey
Jesse P. Farley
George Fengler
Mrs. Catherine Fries
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
Rev. James Hill
Nancy R. Hill, M. D.
Asa Horr, M. D.
James Howie
Edward R. Jackson, M. D.
Francis Jaeger
Henry J. Jecklin
Reverend Clement Johannes
Evan E. Jones
General George Wallace Jones
John Kantlehner
Joseph K. Kaufmann
James Kelly
John Kleinschmidt
F. H. Klostermann
A. R. Knight
Honorable Frederick M. Knoll
Paul Lattner
Honorable Wendelin Lattner
Thomas Lochner
Christian Loetscher
Norton J. Loomis
Delos E. Lyon
J. E. Maguire, M. D.
W. A. Manhart
George Marshall
M. H. Martin
Honorable James McCann
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
George Mollart
William J. Morgans
James Mullin
Dorrance Dixon Myers
Nicholas P. Nicks
Frederick R. Nitzsche, M. D.
J. J. E. Norman
Honorable Peter Olinger
Bernard J. O'Neill
John P. Page
Frank Paley
John Palmer
Rev. Frederick William Pape
Thomas Phillips
Joseph Platz
Andrew Rahe
Honorable James Rowan
Reverend Roger Ryan
George Salot
Colonel C. J. W. Saunders
John Sauser, Jr.
Joseph Schemmel
George Schmitt
Short Biographies
Joseph Simones
John F. Sloan
Charles F. Smyth
Johanna (Baker) Specht
Ralph Spensley
Daniel Stallard
J. Peter Stendebach
Honorable William W. Stewart
Oren Stuart, M. D.
James Sweeney
John Tibey
Paul Traut
Matthew Tschirgi
Hon. Christian Anton Voelker
Chester H. Walker
William Watson, M. D.
F. W. Wieland
Louis Witter
Jacob Zollicoffer

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GEN. CALEB HOSKINS BOOTH, who was the first Mayor of Dubuque, having been elected to that position in 1841, is one of the most noted and also successful men in this portion of the state. He is Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Company. Having been connected with it most of the time since 1856, Secretary and Treasurer of the Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railway Company, and he helped to organize the Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge Company in 1868, being now Secretary of that company. He is also Secretary and Treasurer of the Iowa Land & Loan Company, and was general manager of the Dubuque & Dakota Railroad until it was sold. His influence and means have been used in the promotion of many other industries In this region, and his advice is frequently sought on important financial matters. Booth's addition to this city, originally comprising about fifty-two acres, was purchased by a company from the city at a cost of $200,000. The General subsequently bought the encumbrances on the property and became sole owner, and managed to payoff all of this large amount and meet all his obligations. Of this property he has still about thirty-two acres left, and this he is improving by raising the grade above high water. The owner of this land gave the Ice Harbor to the city, and has sold a portion of this tract to the Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad.

General Booth is perhaps most widely known as far as his enterprises are concerned, as the inventor of Booth's Improved Dredge Pump, which is used in filling low lands and swamps, and thus redeeming large tracts of land hitherto useless. In the Engineering News and American Railway Journal of March 26, 1892, a very minute and complete description of this pump and system was given. By means of powerful air and suction pumps built in co-operation with the engines on the boat, light material from the depth of fifty feet can be conveyed to the banks. This method has proven very practical and valuable on rivers like the Upper Mississippi, where the soft sandy banks are constantly filling the riverbed. When in operation the suction pipes lie on the bottom, and the material is drawn in and conveyed to tile surface to be dumped at any reasonable distance. The movement and direction of the suction pipe are under control of the engineer by machinery driven by the pump shaft. The dredge can be utilized for removing islands or sand-bars that hinder navigation, and it is believed it would be useful in gold hunting, where deposits; of the metal are washed by the mountain streams into the bed of rivers on a level. It would seem that the dredge, which has been very successful, would be of great saving in Government operations, and the right to use it should be owned by the Government.

The paternal grandfather of the General was John Booth, who was a member of a Quaker family. The father, Joseph, who was born in the Keystone State, was a successful agriculturist, and was originally of English descent. His death occurred at the age of forty-two years, and of his seven children, three sons and four daughters, our subject is the only survivor. The mother was before her marriage Martha Hoskins, and she too was of English ancestry.

The birth of our subject occurred in Chester, Pa., December 26, 1814. The town was then a place of only twenty-five hundred inhabitants, but is now a large manufacturing and shipbuilding center. He obtained a good education in the excellent schools, and in 1836, believing that he could better his fortune by going west, he came to Dubuque, and was soon actively interested in its various industries and the upbuilding of the place. He was married in May 1838, to Miss Henriette Eyre, and they became the parents of two children: Anna. Who was graduated from the seminary in Media, Pa., and is now the wife of O. M. Parsons, Vice-President of the Goes Lithographing Company of Chicago; and S. Edward, who was educated at a military school in Tennessee, and was a prominent young business man in the milling trade. He died in 1877, leaving a wife and two children.

General Booth was for years senior partner in the firm of Booth, Carter & Co., who were engaged in operating lead mines, and which connection was dissolved about 1880. Mr. Booth succeeded to the business and is one of the very few who have been prosperous in this line. In his many and varied ventures he has shown good business ability, excellent judgment and enterprise, and his efforts have almost without exception been blessed with success. In politics he is a strong, supporter of the Republican Party, and in 1872 was elected to the Legislature and helped to place Allison again in the Senate. Fraternally our subject is a Mason of the thirty-third degree.