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[[Image:rhombergtc.png|right|thumb|250px|Trade card.]]RHOMBERG, Alphons Leopold (Dubuque, IA, Nov. 2, 1857- Dubuque, IA, Aug. 3, 1936). The eldest son of [[RHOMBERG, Joseph A.|Joseph A. RHOMBERG]], Alphons was educated in Dubuque and Europe. For one year he was in charge of a Park County, Colorado, silver mine before returning to Dubuque. He entered the wine business and produced an artificial champagne from 1879 to 1881.
In 1884 Rhomberg left Dubuque for Texas where he served as general superintendent of the Austin and Northwestern Railroad which was partially owned by his father. Rhomberg remained in Texas until 1895 buying and selling land. He platted the county seats of Stonewall and Kent counties.
Rhomberg returned to Dubuque and joined his father in operating the [[DUBUQUE STREET RAILWAY COMPANY]] until it was sold. He became one of the organizers of the [[DUBUQUE-WISCONSIN BRIDGE]] company in 1900. Rhomberg later served as secretary treasurer and was until 1907 the president of the company. In March 1910, Rhomberg became president of the [[DUBUQUE STAR BREWING COMPANY]].
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Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, '''History of Dubuque County, Iowa'''. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 536
Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, '''History of Dubuque County, Iowa'''. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 536

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RHOMBERG, Titus E. (Dubuque, IA, Mar. 18, 1865--Dubuque, IA, 1945). The youngest son of Joseph Andrew and Catherina Rhomberg, Titus E. was educated in the public and parochial schools of Dubuque and ST. JOSEPH COLLEGE. He left there to attend Canisius College, at Buffalo, New York.

Rhomberg went abroad and for five years studied in the Royal Saxon School of Mines, Freiburg, Saxony. In 1891 he returned to Dubuque and later went to Argentine, Kansas as assayer and chemist for the Kansas City Smelting & Refining Company. He remained a short time because of ill health, and then came back to Dubuque, where after recuperating he became associated with the DUBUQUE STREET RAILWAY COMPANY, controlled by his father until it was sold.

In 1899 Mr. Rhomberg acquired by purchase an interest in the IOWA COFFIN COMPANY and was also a director of CITIZENS' STATE BANK (THE).

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Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 536

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