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[[File:pleinsandbeachad.jpg|300px|thumb|left|1865 advertisement.]]PLEINS & BEACH. Dubuque's first soap and candle factory was constructed in 1850 in a small wooden building at South Locust and Bluff. [[BEACH, James|James BEACH]] joined the business in 1856 by purchasing the interest of [[FARLEY, | [[File:pleinsandbeachad.jpg|300px|thumb|left|1865 advertisement.]]PLEINS & BEACH. Dubuque's first soap and candle factory was constructed in 1850 in a small wooden building at South Locust and Bluff. [[BEACH, James|James BEACH]] joined the business in 1856 by purchasing the interest of [[FARLEY, Jesse P.|Jesse P. FARLEY]]. At that time the candle business was dropped and the company name was changed from F. M. Pleins and Company to Pleins & Beach Soap Factory. Pleins sold out to Beach in 1857. (1) | ||
The 1858-1859 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed Dodge at the foot of Bluff. | The 1858-1859 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed Dodge at the foot of Bluff. | ||
Revision as of 22:37, 12 May 2018
PLEINS & BEACH. Dubuque's first soap and candle factory was constructed in 1850 in a small wooden building at South Locust and Bluff. James BEACH joined the business in 1856 by purchasing the interest of Jesse P. FARLEY. At that time the candle business was dropped and the company name was changed from F. M. Pleins and Company to Pleins & Beach Soap Factory. Pleins sold out to Beach in 1857. (1)
The 1858-1859 Dubuque City Directory listed Dodge at the foot of Bluff.
The 1859-1860 through 1868-69 Dubuque City Directory listed the corner of Locust and Dodge.
The 1870-1871 Dubuque City Directory gave the address of this business as the west side of Locust south of Dodge.
The 1873-74 through 1880 Dubuque City Directory listed the corner of Locust and Dodge.
In 1873 the Dubuque Herald announced that F. M. PLEINS was the first to receive letters of patent on soap making from the Patent Office in Washington, D. C. (2) Pleins moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where he opened another soap manufacturing plant as a branch of the Dubuque firm. This new business, however, was destroyed by fire. (3)
See: DUBUQUE LARD-OIL, SOAP, AND CANDLE FACTORY
See: JAMES BEACH AND SONS
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Source:
1. Kruse, Len. "Soapmaking Had an Interesting Dubuque Run Before Being Washed Up," Telegraph Herald, May 18, 1991, p. 13
2. "Patent Soap," Dubuque Herald, August 2, 1873, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18730802&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
3. "F. M. Pleins," The Herald, June 22, 1894, p. 4