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25 July 2008

• 16:0116:01, 25 July 2008 diff hist +324 N RHOMBERG, Alphonse L. New page: RHOMBERG, Alphonse L. (Austria, June 15, 1843--Unknown). Wholesale dealer in wine and liquor. Rhomberg came to Dubuque and joined his brother Frank. They entered the wine and liquor busine...
• 15:5815:58, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,666 N REYNOLDS, Rex New page: REYNOLDS, Rex. (Ashland, KY, Apr. 27,1929- ). Architect of Dubuque's TELEVISION franchise with Teleprompter, Inc. Reynolds' efforts in crafting the franchise led to his receiving the C...
• 15:5615:56, 25 July 2008 diff hist −1 REYNOLDS, JoAnn No edit summary
• 15:5615:56, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,094 N REYNOLDS, JoAnn New page: REYNOLDS, JoAnn. (Dyersville, IA- ). Dubuque County Recorder. Reynolds was appointed recorder on July 10, 1981, to fill the unexpired term of Mathias ROHNER who retire...
• 15:5515:55, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,516 N REYNOLDS, Joseph "Diamond Jo" New page: REYNOLDS, Joseph "Diamond Jo" (Fallsburg, NY, 1819--Congress, AZ, Feb., 1891). Steamboat company owner. Feeling that he had been unfairly treated by river shippers, Reynolds began buildin...
• 15:5415:54, 25 July 2008 diff hist +294 N REVOLUTIONARY WAR New page: REVOLUTIONARY WAR. War fought for independence. Iowa's only casualty was Jean Marie CARDINAL. The single military action fought in what today is Iowa occurred when...
• 15:5315:53, 25 July 2008 diff hist +484 N RETTENBERGER, Wendelin New page: RETTENBERGER, Wendelin. (Stauffen Bavaria, Germany, Mar. 30, 1899-Dubuque, IA, Aug. 11, 1987). Park superintendent. Rettenberger worked for the Dubuque Park Department from 1924 to 1952. I...
• 15:5115:51, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,102 N RESURRECTION SCHOOL New page: RESURRECTION SCHOOL. The first faculty at St. Philomena's School was all lay personnel. With the direction of Father O'Reilly of Saint Raphael's, a parochial school was built through volun...
• 15:4115:41, 25 July 2008 diff hist +439 N REILLY, Robert C. New page: REILLY, Robert C. (Dubuque, IA, Aug. 5, 1904--Dubuque, IA, Nov. 2, 1968). State representative. Reilly served as a member of the House of Representatives from Dubuque County beginning in 1...
• 15:3915:39, 25 July 2008 diff hist +347 N REGAN, Patrick New page: REGAN, Patrick. (Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, Oct. 28, 1832-Dubuque, IA, Apr. 4, 1909). Company founder. Regan with fourteen others organized the [[DUBUQUE CABINET MAKERS' ASSOCIATION...
• 15:3715:37, 25 July 2008 diff hist +492 N REBMAN, William New page: REBMAN, William. (Lancaster Co., PA, Oct. 20, 1821--Dubuque, IA, Oct. 13, 1889). Contractor. Rebman supervised the construction of Sanford Block, the first block of businesses in Dubuque n...
• 15:3615:36, 25 July 2008 diff hist +778 N REALEMON New page: REALEMON. Popular reconstituted lemon juice offering uniform acidity, easy-to-measure quantities, and no squeezing. The product was developed by Irvin Schwartzberg, an immigrant from Engla...
• 15:3415:34, 25 July 2008 diff hist +455 N RAYMOND, George Newcomb New page: RAYMOND, George Newcomb. (Sherburn Falls, NY, May12,1833-Dubuque, IA, Feb.l0,1917).City recorder. Raymond came to Dubuque in 1859 and became one of the region's best-known wholesalers and ...
• 15:3315:33, 25 July 2008 diff hist +492 N RATH, Johann Christian Frederick New page: RATH, Johann Christian Frederick. (Hanover, Germany, May I, 1811-Unknown). Cabinetmaker, farmer, and gardener. Rath came to Dubuque in 1851 and bought a great deal of land along Wilde Stre...
• 15:3115:31, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,053 N RATH, George John New page: RATH, George John. (Wuerttemberg, Germany, Dec. 21, 1821--Dubuque, IA, Jan. 17,1906). Founder, Rath Packing Company. In 1849 Rath moved to Dubuque where he formed a partnership with J. H. ...
• 15:3015:30, 25 July 2008 diff hist +2 RATH, George C. No edit summary
• 15:2915:29, 25 July 2008 diff hist +491 N RATH, George C. New page: RATH, George C. (Dubuque, IA, Apr. 5, 1851-Unknown). Owner, Rath and Company. Rath, a son of RATH, George John|George John RATH]], purchased the Dubuque meat packing operation from his bro...
• 15:2815:28, 25 July 2008 diff hist +405 N RANDALL, Leroy D. New page: RANDALL, Leroy D. (Washington Co., NY, Sept. 25, 1818-Dubuque, IA, June 17, 1891). Wholesale dealer in leather and saddlery hardware. The oldest dealer in leather and saddlery hardware wes...
• 15:2715:27, 25 July 2008 diff hist +463 N RANDALL, Job Sherman New page: RANDALL, Job Sherman.(Washington Co., NY, 1816-Aug., 1891). Dealer in lumber and lumber products. In association with Christopher PELAN, Randall bought Dubuque's fir...
• 15:2415:24, 25 July 2008 diff hist +40 N RALPH New page: RALPH (Case of). See: MONTGOMERY, Ralph.
• 15:1015:10, 25 July 2008 diff hist +47 N RAILROAD BRIDGE New page: RAILROAD BRIDGE: See: DUBUQUE & DUNLEITH BRIDGE
• 15:0915:09, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,156 N RAGUE, John Francis New page: RAGUE, John Francis. (Scotch Plains, NI, 1799--Dubuque, IA, Sept. 24, 1877). Architect. Often considered the most significant architect in Dubuque history, Rague designed the [[DUBUQUE COU...
• 15:0615:06, 25 July 2008 diff hist +549 N RAGBRAI New page: RAGBRAI. Marathon annual bicycle ride. Sponsored by the ''Des Moines Register'', the "Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa," has been acclaimed the largest bicycling event of ...
• 04:0804:08, 25 July 2008 diff hist +3,926 N RAFTING New page: RAFTING. Process of floating large masses of logs downstream to sawmills. The first rafting on the MISSISSIPPI RIVER was done by LEAD miners who constructed platforms from logs to floa...
• 04:0504:05, 25 July 2008 diff hist +341 N RAESLE, John New page: RAESLE, John. (Dubuque, IA, Feb. 28, 1859--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 17, 1915). POLICE chief. Raesle served in the Dubuque police department for nearly thirty-five years. Beginning as a patrol...
• 04:0404:04, 25 July 2008 diff hist +4 RADIO No edit summary
• 04:0104:01, 25 July 2008 diff hist +5,903 N RADIO New page: RADIO. Pioneering broadcast media. A Wireless Association existed in Dubuque in 1917 with Clifford Patch as general manager. In 1920 Patch, in cooperation with other wireless operators, ac...
• 03:5703:57, 25 July 2008 diff hist +761 N RADBOURNE, Charles Gardner New page: RADBOURNE, Charles Gardner. (Rochester, NY, Dec. 11, 1854-Bloomington, IL, Feb. 5, 1897). Baseball Hall of Fame member. Radbourne, called the "greatest of all nineteenth century pitchers,"...
• 03:5703:57, 25 July 2008 diff hist +645 N RABE, William New page: RABE, William. (Dwight, IL, Feb. 12, 1906--Dubuque, IA, Oct. 14, 1989). Vice-President, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local I5O-A. Rabe, retired from the [[DUBUQUE...
• 03:5303:53, 25 July 2008 diff hist +2 RABE, David No edit summary
• 03:5203:52, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1 RABE, David No edit summary
• 03:5203:52, 25 July 2008 diff hist +912 N RABE, David New page: RABE, David. (Dubuque, IA, Mar. 10,1940- ). Playwright. Rabe graduated from LORAS COLLEGE with degrees in English and psychology. His first play ''The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel'...
• 03:4203:42, 25 July 2008 diff hist +2,144 N FARLEY, Jesse P. New page: FARLEY, Jesse P. (Tennessee, Apr. 2, 1813--Dubuque, IA, May 8,1894). MAYOR. Farley came to Dubuque in 1832, but did not permanently settle here until 1833 after making a contract to bu...
• 03:3803:38, 25 July 2008 diff hist +963 N TWAIN, Mark New page: TWAIN, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). (Florida, MO, Nov. 30, 1835-Redding, CT, Apr. 21, 1910). Author and humorist. In 1882 Twain visited Dubuque, twenty-one years after his days as a r...
• 03:3703:37, 25 July 2008 diff hist +354 N TURCK, Solomon New page: TURCK, Solomon. (St. Louis, MO-New York, NY, Jan. 30, 1907). MAYOR. Turck held the office of mayor in 1868 and again in 1872 before resigning to accept the presidency of the Laflin-Ran...
• 03:3603:36, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1 TULLY, Thomas No edit summary
• 03:3503:35, 25 July 2008 diff hist +3,710 N TULLY, Thomas New page: TULLY, Thomas. (Dubuque, IA- ). [MAYOR]], 1978. Tully was elected to a four-year term to the Dubuque City Council in November 1975. He led successful efforts to initiate a rolling five-yea...
• 03:3303:33, 25 July 2008 diff hist +480 N TULLY, Catherine New page: TULLY, Catherine. (Dubuque, IA--Dubuque, IA, Dec. 12, 1974). Nursing supervisor-instructor. Tully served as supervisor-instructor of nursing at the School of Nursing for [[MERCY MEDICAL CE...
• 03:3103:31, 25 July 2008 diff hist −11 TRUEBLOOD, Terry No edit summary
• 03:3003:30, 25 July 2008 diff hist +599 N TRUEBLOOD, Terry New page: TRUEBLOOD, Terry. (Lyons, CO- ). Recreation director. Trueblood was appointed recreation director in 1982 when the park and recreation departments were combined by the City Council. He rep...
• 03:2903:29, 25 July 2008 diff hist +26 N TROLLEYS New page: TROLLEYS. See: STREETCARS.
• 03:2803:28, 25 July 2008 diff hist +532 N TRILOG, INC. New page: TRILOG, INC. In 1990 the first major company to locate in Dubuque in three years. A division of Cigna Corp., Trilog was a Hartford, Connecticut, based insurance service company that came t...
• 03:2803:28, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,027 N TRI-COLLEGES New page: TRI-COLLEGES. On October 10, 1989, on the twentieth anniversary of the Tri-College consortium of the UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE, [[LORAS COLLEGE], and CLARKE COLLEGE, the Tri-Colleges r...
• 03:2503:25, 25 July 2008 diff hist +711 N TREDWAY, Harry Ennis New page: TREDWAY, Harry Ennis. (Dubuque, IA, June 30, 1861-Florlssant, MO, Nov. 12,1944).President, John Ernsdorff Iron Company. Tredway began business in association with his father, [[TREDWAY, Al...
• 03:2403:24, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,181 N TREDWAY, Alfred New page: TREDWAY, Alfred. (NewYork, NY,Aug.11, 1817--Dubuque, IA, Nov., 1897). Hardware dealer. Tredway and H. A. Rouse were instrumental in the founding of the IOWA IRON WORKS. Tredway remained in...
• 03:2203:22, 25 July 2008 diff hist +910 N TRAUT, Paul New page: TRAUT, Paul. (Dubuque, IA, June 27, 1851--Dubuque, IA, May 23, 1898). Dubuque County Treasurer. Traut was elected City Treasurer of Dubuque in 1880 and won re-election three times. In 1889...
• 03:2103:21, 25 July 2008 diff hist +713 N TRAUT, George E. New page: TRAUT, George E. (Rickardsville, IA-Dubuque, IA, Nov. 23, 1977). Second district director of the Iowa Association of Veteran Affairs. Traut, a deacon of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH and...
• 03:1903:19, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,484 N TRAUSCH BAKING COMPANY New page: TRAUSCH BAKING COMPANY. One of Dubuque's first bakeries to make a complete line of baked goods. The company unveiled Iowa's first donut-making machine on February 6, 1929. Trausch Baking...
• 03:1503:15, 25 July 2008 diff hist +469 N CLEWELL, Robert W. New page: CLEWELL, Robert W. (Dubuque, IA, Dubuque, IA, July 8, 1986). Attorney. An original partner in the Dubuque law firm of Clewell, Cooney and Fuerste, Clewell practiced law for Sixty-five year...
• 03:0903:09, 25 July 2008 diff hist +1,539 N CLEMENS, William Sr. New page: CLEMENS, William Sr. (North Washington, IA, Feb. 28, 1892-Dubuque, IA, Feb. 25, 1966). President, TRAUSCH BAKING COMPANY. Clemens, president of the Trausch Baking Company until his ret...