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GREATER DUBUQUE ASSOCIATION
GREATER DUBUQUE ASSOCIATION. The Greater Dubuque Association was founded in 1909 by business and professional men. At the first meeting's gathering elected Dorrance Dixon MYERS, chairman and appointed a committee of five to nominate fifteen directors and develop articles for the guidance of the directors in organizing the association.
At the second meeting on November 18, 1909 the goal of the organization and the articles were read.
The board of directors included Lester C. BISSELL, James BEACH, H. H. Blish, J. T. Carr, Anthony ., Peter KIENE, William LAWTHER, Sr., George Mclean, Thomas J. MULGREW, Dorrance D. Myers, Frank J. PIEKENBROCK, John J. ROSHEK, Titus E. RHOMBERG, Peter J. SEIPPEL, and Christian Anton VOELKER.
See: DUBUQUE INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
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Source:
"Live Booster Club a Fact," Telegraph-Herald, November 19, 1909, p. 1