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
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Nicholas Bray, M. D.
William Bray, M. D.
Edward Brown
John D. Bush
Edward Butler
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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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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
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Chester H. Walker
William Watson, M. D.
F. W. Wieland
Louis Witter
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W. A. MANHART, Among the large number of thorough and practical business men of which Dubuque boasts our subject is known as being one of the foremost and influential. He was born in Mosalem Township, Dubuque County, March 14, 1861, and is a son of Joseph and Angeline (Haberstacker) Manhart. His father was a native of Switzerland, born May 12, 1820, and came to the United States in 1852. When he first arrived in this country he landed in New York City but stayed there only a short time when he left for what was then "the west," St. Louis. Within a few miles of that city he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of choice improved land, which he worked for two years and then sold. He then removed to Dubuque and bought a home and engaged at his trade, that of a carpenter. This he continued for three years when he traded his home for one hundred and sixty acres of farm land, on which he has made his home ever since. He has meantime prospered and has increased the size of the farm to two hundred acres.

To him and his estimable wife were born six children, as follows: Gertrude, Joseph, our subject, Bertha, Angeline, and Lena deceased. He gave his children the best education that he was able and always did right well that which he believed to be his duty. He is a Roman Catholic.

Our subject lived with his parents until 1878, when he started out to encounter the trials, hardships and joys of this world for himself. He engaged himself to a farmer and worked with him for eight months, when he left that position and went to work for another farmer, doing grubbing and carpentering, remaining in this position for five years, but finally left to go to Minnesota, where, as in his native state, he engaged in farming and carpentering. He remained there for two years when he came back to Dubuque, Iowa; by close economy and good business methods he has saved enough money to make himself independent and to educate himself at the Bayless Business College. He bought a saloon, which he ran successfully, and later sold it at a large profit; he bought a grocery and hotel which he ran for eleven years, when he sold them, also at a large profit and erected the handsome Hotel Paris, of which he is one of the proprietors. He is also in the wholesale cigar and liquor business, and being a good business manager, honest and reliable, he conducts the business he is connected with so as to be of profit financially and also place him high in the esteem of all who know him.

W. A. Manhart was united in marriage with Miss Lena Noel, and they have been blessed with the birth of one child, a bright little girl, Maudie, who is four years old. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and is an independent voter, casting his ballot where he believes it will do the most good for the community.