1875 A. T. Andreas Atlas
1880 Dubuque County History
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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
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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
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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
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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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JESSE P. FARLEY, who died May 8,1894, was President of the Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, and was long a prominent citizen of Dubuque. he was held in the highest regard throughout the community and left to his family the priceless heritage of an untarnished name. A native of Tennessee, he was born April 2, 1813, and four years later was taken by his parents to St. Louis. At the age of fourteen he started for Galena, Ill., on the steamboat "Indiana," and when he had arrived at his destination he began working in the mines as a smelter, being thus employed until 1833. That year witnessed his arrival in Dubuque. He bought and obtained employment in the grocery and general store belonging to John Johnson, with whom he remained for several years.

The business career of Mr. Farley was one of success. He started out in life with no capital save a pair of willing hands and a young man's bright hope of the future. His sterling worth and strict integrity soon won him the confidence and esteem of all with whom he was brought in contact and he became one of the leading merchants of the city. He first opened a grocery store and his trade so rapidly increased that after a few years he was at the head of the wholesale dry-goods firm of Farley, Norris & Co. He also embarked in other enterprises as his financial resources increased and was connected with many leading industries of the city. He was a member of the wholesale grocery firm of Farley, James & Co., and of Farley & Christman, wholesale dealers in hardware, and Farley, Rouse & Co., dealers in heavy machinery. He established all these enterprises a few years after locating in Dubuque and all proved most profitable, so that Mr. Farley became one of the wealthy citizens of the community.

In 1850 he established a line of steamboats between St. Paul and St. Louis, and thereby Dubuque became the most important city on the Mississippi between those places. He was also prominently connected with railroad interests, wishing to provide better shipping facilities. In the financial panic of 1857 he lost much of his property, but, undaunted, set to work to retrieve his lost possessions. After being interested in railroads for a time he returned to Dubuque and organized the mammoth sash and door manufacturing concern of Farley, Loetscher & Co., of which he was the heaviest stockholder and president until his death.

Mr. Farley was married in Galena in 1833 to Miss Mary P. Johnson, daughter of his first partner in Dubuque. She died in 1844 leaving four children, Charles W., John P., George W. and Francis A. In 1845 he wedded Mary L. Johnson, a niece of his first wife, and their children are Harry G., Edwin B., Jesse K., Fred H. and Warren C.

Mr. Farley was a public-spirited and progressive citizen and did all in his power to advance the best interests of this community. On several occasions he served as City Alderman and was also Mayor for three terms, but he never sought political preferment, and desired rather to give his entire time and attention to his business interests and the enjoyment of the home circle. He was one of the most faithful and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he gave the lot on which the church was built and long served as Trustee of the church. His life was honorable and upright in every way and he did much for the uplifting of humanity. He was a strong advocate of temperance principles. and vice in every form was unknown to him. The poor and needy found in him a benefactor, and those who worked for him found him a just and honorable employer to his friends he was ever faithful and true, and to his family he was a loving and tender husband and father. In his death Dubuque lost one of its best citizens, for a noble life was thus ended. He became a Republican on the organization of that party.