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22 July 2008

• 03:4303:43, 22 July 2008 diff hist +841 N IOWA SPECIAL OLYMPICS WINTER GAMES New page: IOWA SPECIAL OLYMPICS WINTER GAMES. Annual athletic competition for the mentally handicapped. In 1991 the sixth annual event was held in January at SUNDOWN with 206 competitors. Starte...
• 03:4203:42, 22 July 2008 diff hist +420 N IOWA PACIFIC MILL New page: IOWA PACIFIC MILL. Local flourmill established by Joseph A. RHOMBERG in the renovated site of his distillery in 1873. The mill featured the best coopering departmen...
• 03:4103:41, 22 July 2008 diff hist +274 N IOWA NEWS New page: IOWA NEWS. Successor to the ''DuBUQUE VISITOR''. The first issue of the Iowa News appeared on Saturday, June 3, 1837, after the DuBuque Visitor had been purchased from William H. Turner (i...
• 03:4003:40, 22 July 2008 diff hist +404 N IOWA JOURNAL OF EDUCATION New page: IOWA JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. Early publication for educators edited by R. R. Gilbert and W. I. Gilbert of Dubuque. In the March 1854 issue, seventeen prominent teachers and friends of educat...
• 03:3803:38, 22 July 2008 diff hist +365 N IOWA IRON WORKS New page: IOWA IRON WORKS. Major participant in Dubuque's BOAT BUILDING. The Iowa Iron Works was founded in 1852 as the iron foundry and machine shop of Rouse, Dean and Company on the corner of...
• 03:3303:33, 22 July 2008 diff hist +389 N IOWA BREWERY New page: IOWA BREWERY. Local brewery established at 2327 and 2329 Couler Avenue. Founded in 1855 by Titus SCHMID, B. Scherr, and F. Beck as Titus Schmid and Company, the firm oper...
• 03:3103:31, 22 July 2008 diff hist +1,648 N INTRILIGATOR, William New page: INTRILIGATOR, William. (Santa Monica, CA-- ). Music Director, DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. In 2008, Intriligator was in his eighth season as the Music Director of the Dubuque Symphony...
• 03:3003:30, 22 July 2008 diff hist +1,530 N INTERSTATE POWER COMPANY New page: INTERSTATE POWER COMPANY. Dubuque-based utility. Interstate celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 18, 1975. The company began as early as 1913 when a group of Chicago financiers began c...
• 03:2903:29, 22 July 2008 diff hist +1,685 N INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE New page: INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE. A style of construction identified by its lack of ornamentation, flat roof, smooth walls, and windows that appear to be continuations of the wall because they a...
• 03:2603:26, 22 July 2008 diff hist +5,012 N INTEGRATION New page: INTEGRATION. Action generally associated with bringing different racial groups together. On May 4,1990, the Dubuque Human Rights Commission asked a broad-based community group to develop a...
• 03:2203:22, 22 July 2008 diff hist +812 N INHALATION THERAPY TECHNICIANS SCHOOL New page: INHALATION THERAPY TECHNICIANS SCHOOL. Medical training offered for the first time in the State of Iowa by MERCY HEALTH CENTER in 1970. Inhalation therapy is the treatment of a disease...
• 03:2003:20, 22 July 2008 diff hist +538 N ILG, Paul New page: ILG, Paul. (Germany, May 3, 1853-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 9, 1923). County engineer. Ilg, schooled in Germany, was the chief engineer of the Wurtenburg railway before immigrating to America in 1...
• 03:1903:19, 22 July 2008 diff hist +1,383 N ICE TRAINS New page: ICE TRAINS. Bizarre plan of winter transportation along the MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Announced on November 15, 1849, before railroads reached Chicago, two "Locomotive Ice Trains" were schedu...
• 03:1803:18, 22 July 2008 diff hist +627 N ICE PALACE New page: ICE PALACE. First ice structure of its kind in Iowa. On February 3, 1888, Joseph A. RHOMBERG unveiled an illuminated building constructed from blocks of ICE. With s...
• 03:1603:16, 22 July 2008 diff hist −2 ICE HARBOR No edit summary
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• 03:0903:09, 22 July 2008 diff hist +4,953 N ICE HARBOR New page: ICE HARBOR. Winter refuge for boats and important site of manufacturing. Early commercial development of Dubuque was hampered by physical barriers to STEAMBOATS. The western bank of th...
• 03:0503:05, 22 July 2008 diff hist +4 ICE BOAT No edit summary
• 03:0503:05, 22 July 2008 diff hist +1,651 N ICE BOAT New page: ICE BOAT. Third attempt at designing a winter navigation craft for use on ICE. Following attempts to construct a STEAM SLEIGH or ICE TRAIN, Nonnan Wiard, an inventor from Janesvill...
• 03:0203:02, 22 July 2008 diff hist +989 N HYDROELECTRICITY New page: HYDROELECTRICITY. The generation of electric power from energy provided by flowing water. With the construction of Lock and Dam 11 at Dubuque in the 1930s, the possibility of using the fac...
• 03:0103:01, 22 July 2008 diff hist +885 N HYDRANT PAINTING New page: HYDRANT PAINTING. Special activity of Dubuque's celebration of the Bicentennial. The top winners of the contest, promoted in 1975 by the Dubuque Beautification Committee and the Dubuque Bi...
• 03:0003:00, 22 July 2008 diff hist +471 N HUNTOON, Donald Fraser New page: HUNTOON, Donald Fraser. (Elkhorn, WI--Dubuque, IA, Oct. 25, 1975). Cable car official. From 1926 to 1928, Huntoon organized and operated the Laude and Huntoon Bus Line, the first to operat...
• 02:5902:59, 22 July 2008 diff hist +445 N HUMKE SCHOOL New page: HUMKE SCHOOL. Vintage one-room rural school built in 1883 and now displayed at the HAM HOUSE. Vacant in Center Township west of the city since school reorganization in 1960, the scho...
• 02:5702:57, 22 July 2008 diff hist +1,732 N HUDSON, Peggy Lynn New page: HUDSON, Peggy Lynn. (Colorado Springs, CO- ). Bank officer. In 1991 Hudson was the Advertising and Promotions Officer, FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Hudson was responsible for directing all ba...
• 02:5602:56, 22 July 2008 diff hist +4 HOUTZ, James No edit summary
• 02:5502:55, 22 July 2008 diff hist +691 N HOUTZ, James New page: HOUTZ, James. (Sioux City, IA-- ). Founder CYCARE SYSTEMS, INC. In August 1967, Houtz founded Computer Consulting Services in Dubuque. With the goal of establishing Dubuque County’...
• 02:5402:54, 22 July 2008 diff hist +4 HOULIHAN, Dennis No edit summary
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• 02:5202:52, 22 July 2008 diff hist +21 HOULIHAN, Dennis No edit summary
• 02:5202:52, 22 July 2008 diff hist +1,265 N HOULIHAN, Dennis New page: HOULIHAN, Dennis. (Harper's Ferry, IA- ). Investment counselor. Houlihan served in local political leadership positions and chaired the Airport Commission. Coming to Dubuque in 1968 to att...

21 July 2008

• 23:3323:33, 21 July 2008 diff hist +2,537 N HOTELS (early) New page: HOTELS (early). A LOG CABIN near SAINT RAPHAEL'S CATHEDRAL was Dubuque's first hotel. The owner rented several rooms to guests. Early Dubuque was the site of many of the 'West's" f...
• 23:3123:31, 21 July 2008 diff hist +556 N HOTDOGS New page: HOTDOGS. A national taste-treat, fifty million hotdogs are eaten in the United States daily. One of the nation's major producers of hotdogs was FDL FOODS, INC. in Dubuque. The company ...
• 23:2823:28, 21 July 2008 diff hist +457 N HORSESHOE BLUFF New page: HORSESHOE BLUFF. First bluff south of the JULIEN DUBUQUE MONUMENT. The climactic battle between the SAUK and FOX against the DAKOTA for possession of lands west of the MISS...
• 23:2623:26, 21 July 2008 diff hist +1,644 N HORSE RACING New page: HORSE RACING. Exciting sport enjoyed year round in Dubuque. On Christmas Day 1846, a horse race with four-horse sleighs was reported to have occurred across the ice on the [[MISSISSIPPI RI...
• 23:2523:25, 21 July 2008 diff hist +34 N WEATHER FORECASTING New page: WEATHER FORECASTING. See: Asa Horr
• 23:2423:24, 21 July 2008 diff hist +1,207 N HORR, Asa New page: HORR, Asa. (Worthington, OH, Sept. 2, 1817--Dubuque, IA, June 2,1896). Dubuque's first weatherman. In 1847 Horr settled in Dubuque where he developed the Iowa Institute of Science and Arts...
• 23:2223:22, 21 July 2008 diff hist +314 N HOPPE, Fred New page: HOPPE, Fred. (Burscheidt, Germany, Mar. 3, 1836--Unknown). Director, Iowa Conservatory of Music. Following the CIVIL WAR, Hoppe taught music in Dubuque and founded the Iowa Conservator...
• 23:2123:21, 21 July 2008 diff hist +668 N HOPKINS, William New page: HOPKINS, William. (Glasgow, Scotland--Dubuque, IA, 1902). Master ship builder. Hopkins, perhaps more than any other person, led Dubuque to become the premier BOAT BUILDING center on th...
• 23:2023:20, 21 July 2008 diff hist +663 N HOPE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH New page: HOPE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH. Members of the Dubuque congregation began meeting together in 1979 to write their constitution, elect a body to govern, and find a place to worship. The gym...
• 23:1923:19, 21 July 2008 diff hist +1,080 N HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL New page: HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Named in honor of Herbert Hoover, first President of the United States born west of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVE]R (West Branch, Iowa). At its dedication ceremony on No...
• 23:1523:15, 21 July 2008 diff hist +1,527 N HONEY WAR New page: HONEY WAR. Dispute arising from a 1839 boundary dispute between Iowa and Missouri. Arguments concerning the boundary line between the state of Missouri and Territory of Iowa led to flarin...
• 23:1323:13, 21 July 2008 diff hist +583 N HOME ELECTRIC COMPANY New page: HOME ELECTRIC COMPANY. Incorporated in 1899 to provide ELECTRIC POWER to Dubuque, the company purchased the franchise owned by the DUBUQUE LIGHT AND TRACTION COMPANY. The directors...
• 23:1123:11, 21 July 2008 diff hist +1,473 N HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH New page: HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH. Started in 1937 as a home mission of the Iowa District of the American Lutheran Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church held its first services in the home of it...
• 23:1023:10, 21 July 2008 diff hist +1,490 N HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL New page: HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL. On December 5, 1910, eighty-three students of SACRED HEART SCHOOL transferred to the new Holy Trinity School. Classes were held on the first and second fl...
• 23:0523:05, 21 July 2008 diff hist +2,733 N HOLY GHOST SCHOOL New page: HOLY GHOST SCHOOL. During the early years of Holy Ghost parish, the first building constructed was a combination church, school and convent. Classes were first held on January 4, 1897, wit...
• 22:5522:55, 21 July 2008 diff hist +412 N HOLLAND, Mary Ann New page: HOLLAND, Mary Ann. (Dubuque, IA- ). Wife of Lee Holland, hostage of Iranian militants. Holland (Mary Ann Connolly) met her future husband while both worked at a local restaurant. He was a ...
• 20:4520:45, 21 July 2008 diff hist +494 N HOFFMANN, Mabel New page: HOFFMANN, Mabel (Mrs. Alois). (Dubuque, IA--Dubuque, IA, May 11, 1982). Charter member, Mary's Day Committee. Hoffmann, the former co-owner of Hoffmann-Tierney Mortuary, served as a member...
• 20:4420:44, 21 July 2008 diff hist +294 N HOFFMANN, Herbert New page: HOFFMANN, Herbert. (Dubuque, IA, Aug. 2, 1893--Dubuque, IA, Nov. 24, 1956). Attorney. Hoffmann was a senior member of Kenline, Roedell and Hoffmann, one of lowa' s oldest law firms. He ser...
• 20:4320:43, 21 July 2008 diff hist +717 N HOFFMANN, Alois New page: HOFFMANN, Alois. (Dubuque, IA-Dubuque, IA, July 21,1982). Founder, Federal Discount Corporation. Hoffmann, owner of the Hoffmann Mortuary for over fifty-six years prior to his retirement, ...