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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SANFORD A. ATHERTON, General Manager of the Dubuque Omnibus Company, is a native of the Green Mountain State, his birth having occurred in Glover, Orleans County, on the 4th of September 1839. His father, Sanford Atherton, was also born in that state, was a physician by profession and died in his twenty-seventh year. He married Abigail Richardson, whose death occurred in Glover in 1861. In the family were only two children, Areannah, who resides in Barton, Vt., and Sanford A., of this sketch.

Our subject spent the first sixteen years of his life in the county of his nativity, during which time he attended the district school and the Orleans Liberal Institute. He then started out to fight life's battle. He began earning his livelihood by working as an engineer and molder in Keene, N. H., but in 1861, he laid aside business cares to enter the service of his country, then engaged in Civil War. He joined Company A, Second New Hampshire Infantry, known as the Cheshire Light Guards, was sent to the front and with his regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac under the command of General Hooker. He took part in the hard fought battle of Bull Run, the siege of Yorktown and the battle of Williamsburg, Va., where on account of disability he was sent to the hospital and while there he was discharged on a surgeon's certificate, in September, 1862.

Mr. Atherton then returned to Keene, N. H., where he remained for two years, after which he removed to Hinsdale, N. H. Later he set up a steam mill engine at Arlington, Vt., where lie was engaged in business for a time. It was during his residence there that he met and married Miss Helen L. Everest, daughter of Edward Everest, who for many years engaged in merchandising. They have two children, a daughter and son, Maylon E., who is now the wife of Frank G. Wild, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Allen R., who is with his father.

In 1866 Mr. Atherton came to Dubuque, where for eighteen months he followed the molder's trade. He then engaged in the manufacture of barrels and other articles made in a cooper shop, built up an extensive business along that line and to its management devoted his energies until 1880, when he sold out. In October, 1880, Mr. Atherton was made Manager and Treasurer of the Dubuque Omnibus Company. Its President was John H. Waller, who held that position until his death, which Occurred in August 1891, and in February 1892, J. A. Early was made President. This company has a contract for carrying the United States mails from the post office to the various railroads, and are doing a large business, the enterprise proving a profitable one. They employ about twenty men and have from forty to forty-five horses. They also have a fine funeral outfit including a hearse. Their barn is 70x75 feet and three stories in height, and has an addition 30x40 feet in the rear.

In politics, Mr. Atherton is a stalwart Republican, and takes a leading part in county and state polities. Socially, he is connected with various civic societies, being a member of Dubuque Lodge No.3, A. F. & A. M.; Hyde Clark Post No. 78, G. A. R; Apollo Lodge No. 41, K. P. The Ancient Order of United Workmen; Ironwood Camp, M. W. A.; and Uniformed Rank of the Knights of Pythias. Both Mr. and Mrs. Atherton hold membership with the Congregational Church, and have a pleasant home located at No. 145 Chestnut Street. Mr. Atherton is a successful business man and in life's battle has come off victorious. As a citizen he manifests the same loyalty and fidelity to duty which characterized his career when on southern battlefields he followed the Old Flag that now floats triumphantly over an undivided nation.