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FERGUSON BROTHERS AND VOGEL

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FERGUSON BROTHERS AND VOGEL. A. K. and George G. Ferguson and E. W. Vogel established their business in 1878. The company was a general plumbing and steam heating business and handled pumps, brass and iron goods, gas fixtures, globes, rubber hose and tile pipe for sewerage. They also provided a line of marbelized, slate and wooden mantels in addition to tiles for floors and hearths.

The firm with a trade area of Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Nebraska employed twenty workmen. By 1887 their products had been used in the DUBUQUE CUSTOM HOUSE AND POST OFFICE and the the passenger depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company.

The 1886-87 Dubuque City Directory listed 86 to 98 8th Street.

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Source:

The Industries of Dubuque: Her Relations as a Trade Center, Dubuque: J. M. Elster and Company, Publishers, 1887, p. 74