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18 July 2008
- 01:2601:26, 18 July 2008 diff hist +8 BYRNE, Robert No edit summary
- 01:2501:25, 18 July 2008 diff hist −1 CABLE CAR SQUARE No edit summary
- 01:2401:24, 18 July 2008 diff hist +833 N CABLE CAR SQUARE New page: CABLE CAR SQUARE. Charming Dubuque business district of unique shops located along Bluff Street between Third and Fifth STREETS at the foot of the FOURTH STREET ELEVATOR. Featuring...
- 01:2201:22, 18 July 2008 diff hist +566 N C. W. ROBINSON COMPANY New page: C. W. ROBINSON COMPANY. Lumber mill in Dubuque established in 1875. Located at Main and Railroad Avenue, the company had yards covering an estimated ten acres. It operated only a cutting m...
- 01:2001:20, 18 July 2008 diff hist +253 N C. W. CHAPMAN LUMBER COMPANY New page: C. W. CHAPMAN LUMBER COMPANY. Local firm that reopened the mills of the KNAPP-STOUT LUMBER COMPANY, keeping hundreds of workers employed. Capitalized with $100,000 in 1901, the company...
- 01:1801:18, 18 July 2008 diff hist +16 BYRNE, John No edit summary
- 01:1701:17, 18 July 2008 diff hist −12 BYRNE, John No edit summary
- 01:1601:16, 18 July 2008 diff hist +397 N BYRNE, John New page: BYRNE, John. (Dubuque, IA, Jan. 7, 1859—May 24, 1914). Contractor. The second son of Thomas Byrne, he partnered with James Saul (which see) in many Dubuque construct...
- 01:1401:14, 18 July 2008 diff hist +447 N BYRNE, Thomas New page: BYRNE, Thomas. (Dublin, Ireland, 1929—Dubuque, IA, Nov. 29, 1909). Stonemason and contractor. Arrived in Dubuque in the late 1850s and became a contractor responsible for erecting su...
- 01:1301:13, 18 July 2008 diff hist +796 N BYRNE, Thomas Edward New page: BYRNE, Thomas Edward. (Dubuque, IA, Dec. 6 1890—April 14, 1958). Contractor. Byrne worked on such building projects as street paving, house foundations, curbs and sidewalks, sewer and...
- 01:1001:10, 18 July 2008 diff hist +624 N BYRNE, Robert New page: BYRNE, Robert. (Dubuque, IA, May 22, 1930- ). Author. Byrne has written or compiled 23 books, including seven novels, two of which were set in Dubuque: Memories of a Non-Jewish Childhood ...
- 00:4800:48, 18 July 2008 diff hist 0 BUTTON INDUSTRY No edit summary
- 00:4700:47, 18 July 2008 diff hist +2,851 N BUTTON INDUSTRY New page: BUTTON INDUSTRY. From the late 1890s until World War II, the manufacture of buttons from MISSISSIPPI RIVER clamshells was a flourishing enterprise in eastern Iowa. Brought to this regi...
- 00:4300:43, 18 July 2008 diff hist +894 N BUTLER SERVICES COMPANY New page: BUTLER SERVICES COMPANY. One of the nation's leading poultry insurers. Butler Services specialized in poultry insurance since its founding in 1978 when Peter D. Butler purchased the busine...