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
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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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JOHN BOMACKE, a prosperous general agriculturist and horticulturist of Jefferson Township, Dubuque County, Iowa, was born in Hanover, Germany, December 4, 1830. He is the son of Jacob Bomacke, who was a tailor for the French army during the Revolutionary War of 1816. Our subject immigrated to the United States in the year 1845, and landed at Baltimore, Md., a stranger in a strange land. He remained but a short time in that city when he mustered up sufficient courage to venture out in the then wild west; he left on a canal boat headed for St. Louis, deciding to make the better or worse of his venture. St. Louis proving no more satisfactory than Baltimore, he left for Dubuque, Iowa, but remained here only a short time when he went on to Jefferson Township, in the same county, there hiring out to a brother-in-law and receiving a very small compensation for his services.

It was about this time that the California gold fever was the predominating topic of the day, and by carefully saving his hard earned wages, our subject was enabled to venture with many others into the “Land of Gold." April 4, 1849, he commenced his search for that precious metal, remaining at this occupation until 1852, when he gave up mining and visited New York City, stopping there but six days; then returning to Dubuque he there bought four hundred and eighty acres or land. This he improved, but as there was more land than he could conveniently handle, he disposed of all except the one hundred and sixty-three acres on which he now resides.

The marriage of Mr. Bomacke was celebrated May 12,1853, when he took Miss Josephine Wook for his companion for life. She is the daughter of one of the oldest settlers in this county. Our subject and his wife have had the following children: John, Martha, Mary, Anna, Sarah, Charles H., Max M., Edward, Clara, Frank and Louis A.

Our subject was Trustee of Jefferson Township for ten years, Supervisor for one year and School Director for one year. He is an ardent member of the Catholic Church and is noted for his generosity, as he has donated quite liberally toward the erection of several churches. In his political belief, he is a Democrat in National issues, but is independent in local politics. He has been an incumbent of one or more township offices for over ten years. In business and public work earnest, upright, faithful and energetic, our subject has not only won financial success and gained a competence, but has secured the universal esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens.