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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, James P.|James 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)
[[File:pleinsandbeachad.jpg|300px|thumb|left|1865 advertisement.]]PLEINS & BEACH. [[F. M. PLEINS & CO.]], Dubuque's first soap and candle manufacturing company was constructed in 1850 in a small wooden building at South Locust and Bluff by [[PLEINS, F. M.|F. M. PLEINS]]. After [[FARLEY, Jesse P.|Jesse P. FARLEY]] purchased an interest in the company, it was renamed the [[DUBUQUE LARD-OIL, SOAP, AND CANDLE FACTORY]].


The 1858-1859 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed Dodge at the foot of Bluff.
In 1858 [[BEACH, James|James Beach]] joined the business by purchasing the interest of [[FARLEY, Jesse P.|Jesse P. FARLEY]]. The company was renamed Pleins & Beach.  In 1859 Beach purchased the interest of his partner. The company eventually became [[JAMES BEACH AND SONS]]


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 1858-1859 '''Dubuque City Directory''' listed Dodge at the foot of Bluff.
 
The 1873-74 through 1880 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed the corner of Locust and Dodge.
 
In 1873 the ''Dubuque Herald'' announced that [[PLEINS, F. M.|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]]


The 1859-1860 through 1880 '''Dubuque City Directory''' listed the corner of Locust and Dodge.
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1. Kruse, Len. "Soapmaking Had an Interesting Dubuque Run Before Being Washed Up," ''Telegraph Herald'', May 18, 1991, p. 13
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


[[Category: Soap and Candle Factories]]
[[Category: Soap and Candle Factories]]

Latest revision as of 04:34, 25 February 2020

1865 advertisement.

PLEINS & BEACH. F. M. PLEINS & CO., Dubuque's first soap and candle manufacturing company was constructed in 1850 in a small wooden building at South Locust and Bluff by F. M. PLEINS. After Jesse P. FARLEY purchased an interest in the company, it was renamed the DUBUQUE LARD-OIL, SOAP, AND CANDLE FACTORY.

In 1858 James Beach joined the business by purchasing the interest of Jesse P. FARLEY. The company was renamed Pleins & Beach. In 1859 Beach purchased the interest of his partner. The company eventually became JAMES BEACH AND SONS


The 1858-1859 Dubuque City Directory listed Dodge at the foot of Bluff.

The 1859-1860 through 1880 Dubuque City Directory listed the corner of Locust and Dodge. ---

Source:

1. Kruse, Len. "Soapmaking Had an Interesting Dubuque Run Before Being Washed Up," Telegraph Herald, May 18, 1991, p. 13

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