The history of Dubuque County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., Part 103

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PETER KLAUER, manufacturer of galvanized iron cornices, tin roofs, and dealer in hot-air furnaces, stoves and house-furnishing goods, No. 1236 Iowa street, Dubuque ; is a native of Nassau, Germany, and was born Nov. 28, 1842; his parents came to this country in 1855, and came the same year to Iowa and located in Dubuque; he grew up and learned his trade here ; in 1870, he engaged in business in his pres· nt location, and has built up a good trade ; he gives special attention to the manufacture of galvanized iron cornices and tin roofs. Mr. Klauer is President of the Alphonsus Society and the Shooting Club. In 1865, Mr. Klauer was united in marriage to Miss Annie B. Buechler, a native of Chillicothe, Ohio ; they have had seven children, five of whom survive-Amelia, Angeline, Willie, Gertie, Rosa.

CHARLES E. KLEIS, manufacturer of soda and mineral water, and dealer in cider, corner Ninth and White streets, Dubuque ; was born in Baden, Germany, May 11, 1827 ; he emigrated to America in 1848; he came to St. Louis, where he learned his business ; in 1857, he came to Galena, and carried on business there, and, in April, 1863, he came to Dubuque and engaged in his present business, and since then has carried on the largest business of the kind in the city; he belongs to the I. O. O. F., the Turners' Society and the Sharpshooters. In 1862, he married Miss Caroline Foell, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany; she died in 1870, leaving three children- William, Ida and Christian E. In 1871, he married Miss Paulina Foell, a native of this country ; they have five children-Caroline, Otto, Herman, John and Harry.

A. R. KNIGHTS, of the firm of A. R. Knights & Co., dealers in jewelry, silverware and diamonds, No. 708 Main street, Dubuque ; is a native of Wardsborough, Vt., and was born in 1850 ; when 16 years of age, he came to Chicago, in 1866, and entered the employ of Giles Brothers, in the works of the United States Clock Co .; remained there two years, and, in 1868, came to Dubuque, and was connected with the

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jewelry house of E. A. Giles for ten years, until December, 1878, when he formed a copartnership with his cousin, F. H. Knights, of Peoria, Ill. They have unusual facil- ities in the selection and purchase of their goods, and have already taken a leading position in their business and are building up a good trade.

W. J. KNIGHT, attorney at law, of the firm of Griffith & Knight, corner of Main & Fifth streets ; is a native of Ireland and was born March 3, 1838 ; he came to America in 1872, and the same year came to Dubuque and received his education here ; he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1857 ; after being admitted, he associated with his present partner, J. M. Griffith, Esq., and began the practice of law in the same building in which they are now located. They are the oldest legal firm in the profes- sion, having continuously practiced law here over twenty-two years without change of firm name. Mr. Knight has been elected Mayor of Dubuque three times ; he was one of the Code Commissioners to codify the laws of the State. He was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Cantillon, from this city. They have five children, three sons and two daughters.

FRED. KNOERNSCHILD, proprietor of New Jefferson House, No. 524 Clay street, Dubuque ; was born in Prussia, Germany, April 10, 1840 ; he grew up there and served in the French war in 1870 and 1871 ; lie came to this country in 1871, and came to Dubuque the same year. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and to the United Workmen. He married Christiana Froelich, a native of Germany, in 1860; she died in 1876, leaving one son-Christ John; in 1877, he married Eliza Weitz, she is a native of Germany. She married John Knoernschild, a native of Germany, in 1860. He bought the New Jefferson House in 1871, and was its proprietor until his death, which occurred in 1874 ; he left three children-Albert, Edward and Paulina. Mr. and Mrs. Knoernschild have one daughter-Clara.

W. H. KNOWLTON, Chief Engineer of the Dubuque & Dakota R. R .; residence 41 Seventh street ; is a native of Knowltonville, Canada, and was born April 20, 1847 ; he entered Cedar Valley Seminary, taking an engineering course, and graduated from that institution ; came to Dubuque in 1870, and was connected with the River R. R. until 1872, and, for a short time, was engineer of the Dubuque & Dunleith Bridge Co. He was elected special City Engineer, and, in 1873, was elected City Engineer, and held that office four years, and then became connected with the Illinois Central R. R. until 1878, when he was appointed to his present position as Chief Engineer and Roadmaster of the Dubuque & Dakota R. R. In 1874, Mr. Knowlton was united in marriage to Miss Mary Frances Cumings, a native of this city; they have one daugh- . ter-Mary Frances, and one son-Warren Cumings.

T. F. KOEPFLI, dealer in groceries and provisions, 264 Main street ; is a native of Switzerland, and was born Dec. 25, 1829; he emigrated to America in 1838, and came to Dubuque in October, 1844, and entered a store as clerk, located on what is known as Democratic Corner; in 1852, he engaged in business for himself in the grocery trade, and has carried on the business since then except two years, a longer time than any other grocery dealer in Dubuque. In 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Minna Bentson, from St. Louis ; she came here in 1837 ; they have two chil- dren, sons -- Albert C. and Adolph, both in the store with their father.

R. KOHAUS, music publisher and dealer in pianos and organs, and all kinds of musical instruments, No. 820 Main street, Dubuque; is a native of Germany, and was born in the Kingdom of Prussia April 24, 1837 ; he came to the United States in 1858, and to Iowa the same year, and located in Dubuque; he established his pres- ent business in 1871, and is the principal music dealer in the city, and has built up a good trade ; he also sells the Wheeler & Wilson and the White Sewing Machines. He belongs to the Knights of Honor. In 1866, Mr. Kohaus married Miss H. M. Jones, a native of Manchester, England ; they have one son-Edward L.

R. KOLCK, dealer in notions and furnishing goods and trimmings, corner of Main and Seventh streets, Dubuque ; is a native of Germany; and was born in Dul- men, Westphalia, April 26, 1849; he came to the United States in 1870, and came to Dubuque the same year; he entered the wholesale house of Glover & Smock, and

JOSEPH OGILBY. (DECEASED) DUBUQUE.

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remained with that firm five years ; then he engaged in his present business and has built up a good trade. In April, 1875, Mr. Kolek was united in marriage to Miss Mary Kley, of this city ; they have two children-William and Martha.

CHARLES G. KRETSCHMER, Principal of the Fifth Ward School, residence 1434 Clay street, Dubuque ; is a native of Prussia, Germany, and was born Jan. 19, 1822; he grew up to manhood and received his education there ; he came . to America in 1849; engaged in teaching in St. Louis four years, and came to Dubuque in 1853 ; engaged in teaching a private school and continued until 1859, when he was elected Principal of the Fifth Ward School, and since then has held that position for a period of twenty-one years, a greater length of time than any other teacher in the State, who has held the same position in the same school. Mr. Kretschmer is a member of the I. O. O. F, for many years, and has been officially and prominently connected with the order ; he has been Grand Master of the State, and Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge of the United States, at Philadelphia, in 1876, and also at Baltimore, in 1877, and declined a renomination to the same position. In 1854, Prof. Kretschmer was united in marriage to Miss Annie Fengler, a native of Germany ; they have six children-Eugenia, engaged in teaching ; Frank G., in the office of the Dubuque Times ; Sylvia, Herbert, Fred and William.

C. KUTTLER, wholesale dealer in fresh fish, No. 212 High street, Dubuque ; is a native of Germany, and was born June 13, 1844; his parents emigrated to Amer- ica in 1851; they came West to Wisconsin, and he grew up to manhood there ; he came to Dubuque in 1863, and engaged in his present business ; he has carried on the business for sixteen years, and is the largest dealer in Dubuque, and ships east to Spring- field and Decatur, Ill., and as far south as Atchison, Kan .; has built up a large trade. He married Miss Rosina Pfuffer, a native of Sherrill's Mound, Dubuque Co., Dec. 18, 1866; she died May 31, 1877, leaving two children-Charlie and Emma. In the spring of 1879, he married Miss Annie Reaser, from this city ; they have one daughter -Annie. Mr. Kuttler belongs to Julien Lodge, I. O. O. F., and, also, is a member of Iowa Lodge, No. 11, A. O. U. W.

BERNARD LAGEN, proprietor of the omnibus line, 550 Locust street, Dubuque ; is a native of Lancaster Co. Penn., and was born Oct. 3, 1840 ; his parents came West to Dubuque in 1848, and he grew up to manhood here, and learned the trade of blacksmith, and afterward engaged in the livery business; he established an omnibus line, the only one in the city, runs six omnibuses and does a large trade. He was united in marriage, May 1, 1866, to Miss Mary A. Fitzpatrick, a native of New York State; they have six children-Hope D., Mary, Vincent A., Leroy, Ignatus and Bernhart.

EDWARD LANGWORTHY, Dubuque; was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Aug. 3, 1808, and was the fourth son of Dr. Stephen Langworthy, whose history and that of his family is given in this work. The family having settled at Diamond Grove (near Jacksonville, Ill.), in the spring of 1821, on a farm, the boys Lucius H. and Edward worked and made fence, plowed and cultivated the land, raised corn and wheat, and made a comfortable living for them all until the spring of 1827, when, finding they could leave them in tolerable circumstances, they determined to seek their fortunes in the far-off load mines of Galena, accordingly on the 24th day of May, 1827, they left in a lumber wagon for Quincy, on the Mississippi River, and there took a steamer bound for the land of lead. A forty-mile voyage to the rapids ended their steamboat travel for that trip, as the lower rapids could not be crossed by stcamer. After a few days' stay at old Fort Edwards, nearly opposite Keokuk, in company with Moses Meeker, John Hough, John Potts, Barney Gray, Maj. Downey (of the U. S. Army) and a Frenchman, having procured a " broque " or large skiff, they literally worked their passage up as far as Rock Island, rowing, pulling, cordeling and bush- whacking along in the broiling sun of June. At Rock Island they remained three days waiting for a keel-boat, which was fitting out for the remainder of the voyage, and while there visited numerous camps of Winnebago Indians-the first ever seen by the party. Having arrived at Galena (then the only town north of the rapids and west of

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Lake Michigan, containing six stores, a smelting furnace, a United States lead agency, and, perhaps, fifty dwellings), they commenced mining near Buncombe, and made a living at it, although much time was lost in watching for the hostile Winnebagoes, who never came. They continued mining in different parts of the lead mines (with various success) up to 1832-the year of the Black Hawk war, when he enlisted as a volunteer for the war, and passed that summer hunting for Indians part of the time, and for mineral the balance. When Black Hawk was taken prisoner, and the Indians were no more to be feared, the miners hastened across the Mississippi River and took possession of the Dubuque mines. Edward Langworthy and his brother James L. took possession of the lead found by them two years before, and built a furnace and dwelling-house, and made over one hundred thousand pounds of lead ; the house stood at the head of the hollow near Mineral street, Dubuque, and was built in September, 1832-the first in the State of Iowa. In November of that year, an order from the War Department brought the soldiers from Prairie du Chien, and they left and lived all winter on the island (opposite) in the Mississippi River. It was the mildest winter ever known in this country. In the following April they returned to their cabins and claims. Mr. Langworthy built his first dwelling-house in 1837, on the corner of White and Fourteenth streets, Dubuque, a two-story brick house still occupied; and the next, on the corner of Alpine and Third streets, in which the family now reside. He has also built many stores and dwelling- houses, and has contributed greatly to the growth and business of the city, and is still engaged in many ways advancing its interests. He has held many positions of trust and honor in the city, county and State, having filled honestly and to the best of his ability the offices of Town Trustee, County Commissioner, a member of the Legislature three sessions, also a member of the Constitutional Convention, and Alderman of the city of Dubuque several years. He has been engaged at various times in many kinds of business, but chiefly in real estate and banking, and, from 1854 to this time, more or less in banking, having been one of the firm of J. L. Langworthy & Bros., for seven years, passing through the trying financial panic of 1857-58, and paying in full all its indebtedness, since which time he has been connected with the First National Bank of Dubuque, as a stockholder and director, and has always enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all with whom his large means and varied transactions have brought him in contact, and his happiest reflections are-that no one can say he has wronged him or injured him in any way by word or deed. As a business man, Mr. Langworthy has been foremost in all his city's interests; has aided by his time and means all the railroads Dubuque has, and many more projected ones; has been in steamboating and running ferries; assisted in the establishment of many manufactories, street railways and roads ; has added miles of streets to the city, and helped to improve many of them ; was one of the working founders of its perfect system of public schools, and worked long and diligently in their early days of trial, using his own means and credit to further their foundation, and has lived to see them the pride of the city. Mr. Langworthy was mar- ried Aug. 13, 1935, to Miss Paulina Reeder, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and had four children, three daughters, two living (Fannie and Pauline), and one deceased ; Mary and one son (Reeder) living.

JAMES L. LANGWORTHY (deceased). A tall, dark-haired, black-eyed, fine-looking, carefully dressed gentleman was the subject of our sketch. James L. Lang- worthy was the son of Dr. Stephen Langworthy, and was born in Windsor, Vt., on the 20th of January, 1800; before he was out of his teens, his father removed to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and soon pushed. his way to Erie Co., Penn., then scarcely less than a wildernesss; he had inherited Puritan hardihood and enterprise ; he possessed a constitution which nothing could break down, and, though a pioneer with his father in Western Pennsylvania, he longed to start out in life for himself, and seek his fortune in the Far West; 1819 found Mr. Langworthy in Edwardsville, Ill .; soon after, Jamcs went to St. Louis, where he engaged in a saw-mill, and remained about three years; at the expiration of this period, induced by rumors of a rich mineral country lying to the north, he started in September, 1823, for the Galena lead mines : he performed the journey on horseback ; he was some thirteen days on the trip, traveling by aid of the

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compass, swimming more than a dozen rivers, camping out nights, and subsisting upon such provisions as he brought with him from St. Louis. Galena was then a place con- taining four or five houses, with a few shanties, all occupied by miners; the Sacs and Foxes owned this region at that time, and, of course, scores of them visited Galena daily ; Mr. Langworthy soon engaged in mining, and took pains to make friendly acquaintances among the Indians, and, in the course of the year, visited their village at the mouth of the Catfish Creek; suspicious as the Indians were, and jealous as they were of the encroachments of the pale-faces (having driven Julien Dubuque's followers away twenty years before), they allowed their new acquaintance to examine the places from which they obtained the lead ; however, they would not allow him to mine in their hills, although afterward (he having settled in Galena as a merchant, at the same time being interested in smelting and mining at Buncombe, a few miles northeast of Galena), they allowed him to explore this section of the country for three weeks, and he traversed the whole district between Maquoketa and the Turkey River, with two Indians, who acted as guides ; this, we believe, was in 1829; at that time, he crossed the Mississippi from where Dunleith is, in a canoe, his horse swimming at its side, and landed first on an island, which was the foundation of the present Jonas street levee ; the ground upon which the business and largest portion of Dubuque now is, was a prairie, with not a sign of human habitation upon it; he first crossed the prairies to the Maquoketa, at which place the village of Cascade has grown up; he followed that river down its valley, and then turning north, explored a great portion of the agricultural lands for a week or two; then went back to Galena. But two years previous to this, Mr. Lang- worthy turned his friendly relations with the Indians to good account for the Government, as, in the autumn of 1827, he was employed by the Government to visit the different bands of Winnebago, Sac and Fox Indians, for the pur- pose of moving them West, at the Portage, near the Wisconsin River, to form a treaty with the United States. He was accompanied by Gen. Henry Dodge, who afterward represented Wisconsin in the Senate. The Indians assembled, and a treaty was made which secured to the Government all Northwestern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. The region of the Dubuque lead mines was then neutral ground between the Sac, Fox and Sioux Indians, and was a border of Indian warfare. The Government was, at the time, anxious to obtain possession of all the lead mines in this region, and had consummated a treaty with Black Hawk, Keokuk and other Sac and Fox chiefs, by which the Indians agreed to transfer the title to all the lands south of the Wisconsin, and east of the Mississippi, River. In June, 1830, Mr. James L. Langworthy and his brother Lucius, with some others, came to this section and commenced mining ; the first act resembling civil legislation within the limits of Iowa was done at Dubuque, at the time Mr. Langworthy crossed the river with a company of his fellow-miners, and, by permission of the Indians, was allowed to dig for mineral ; a Government agent was, at the time, enforcing some necessary regulations in reference to the mines on the east side of the river; the necessity for some rules was apparent to the Government explorers at Dubuque ; the miners accordingly met by the side of a cottonwood drift-log stranded on the shore, to prepare such regulations as might be deemed expedient. The original of the following document is still preserved; it was written by Mr. Langworthy, upon a sheet of coarse, unruled paper, laid upon the old log around which were assembled the voters, who at that time little thought that in twenty-five years the prairie before them would be occupied by a city of 15,000 inhab- itants :

DUBUQUE MINES, June 17, 1830.

We, a committee, having been chosen to draft certain rules and regulations, by which we, as miners, will be governed ; and, having duly considered the subject, do unanimously agree that we will be governed by the regulations on the east side of the Mississippi River, with the following exceptions, to wit :

ARTICLE I .- That each and every man shall hold two hundred yards square of ground by working said ground one day in six.

ART. II .- We further agree, that there shall be chosen by the majority of the miners present, a person who shall hold this article, and who shall grant letters of arbitration, on application

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being made, and that said letter arbitration shall be obligatory on the parties concerned so applying.

To the above, we the undersigned subscribe.

J. L. LANGWORTHY, H. F. LANDER, JAMES MCPHEETERS, SAMUEL H. SCOLES. E. M. URN.

There was great excitement at this time in regard to securing the best claims on mineral lands. Mr. L. showed his usual good sense and keen foresight by taking pos- session, with his brother Lucius, of what is known as Langworthy Hollow. He erected his cabin a few hours in advance of all others. In a few months, the two brothers obtained 300,000 pounds of lead. The Indian treaty was not confirmed, and the Government gave orders to remove the miners from their claims. Mr. Langworthy removed to an island near the west shore of the Mississippi River, and spent the winter in a tent beside his piles of lead. The next year, the encroachments of the whites near Rock Island, led to the Black Hawk war, which culminated in 1832. The Indians drove the whites away from their mining operations hereabouts, and Mr. Langworthy joined the volunteer force under command of Gen. Dodge, and rendered valuable service as a scout. He served through the whole campaign and participated in the battle of Bad Axe, which terminated the war. Black Hawk became a prisoner of war, and was taken by Mr. Langworthy to Rock Island to arrange a new treaty. Mr. Langworthy was retained in the public service for some six weeks by Gen. Winfield Scott, after most of the volunteers had been disbanded. His intimate knowledge of the country made his services in making up a history of the campaign and in furnishing a knowledge of the condition and resources of the country very valuable ..

After the Black Hawk war, in June, 1833, all Eastern Iowa was thrown open to settlement, and Mr. Langworthy again took possession of his claim. In October of the same year, Mr. Langworthy assisted to build the first schoolhouse erected in Iowa. In 1836, Mr. Langworthy built the second brick house erected in Dubuque. It was on the corner of Iowa and Twelfth streets. It was looked upon at that time as a palatial residence, and was considered a great ornament to the village. In 1840, Mr. Langworthy married Agnes Milne, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland ; he lived in " the big brick house" until about 1850, when he removed on the bluff at the head of Third street. About thirty years ago his remaining brothers, Edward and Solon, came to Dubuque, and the four broth- ers entered into a copartnership, which consisted in mining, mercantile banking and real- estate business until all retired from business in 1862, James being always considered " the head of the family." By energy and perseverance, Mr. Langworthy amassed a large fortune, and was for a long time head of the wealthiest firms in Iowa. As recently as 1855-56, the firm of E. L. Langworthy & Bros. paid one-twelfth of the entire tax of Dubuque.

In 1846, he made a voyage to Europe with his family and spent six months in visit- ing different parts of Great Britain and adjacent islands. Mr. Langworthy aided in founding Dubuque before there was a mile of railroad in New York. He saw the first steamer on the Mississippi, and lived to see Dubuque, the first settlement, become the metropolis of a State. His death occurred suddenly, at Monticello, where he had gone for a visit, on the 14th of March, 1865, in the 65th year of his age. He left a wife, one son, three daughters, three orphan nieces and one nephew, belonging to his wife, whom he had raised with the same kindness and advantages as his own children had received. His biography, from his early manhood to the day of his death, is the history of our city, and a sketch of his life is of interest to every citizen of Dubuque. One trait in Mr. Langworthy's character was worthy of all commendation, his word was as good as his bond. When he made an engagement of any kind he met it as fully as though he stood pledged over his own signature. He was extremely frank and out- spoken, and seldom took pains to conceal his opinion on any subject. Always patriotic, always identified with any movement that was designed to advance the interest of our city and State, yet he never took an active position in politics, although always calling himself a strong " free-trade Democrat." Under a contract with the United States

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Agent, he laid out and made the military road running from Dubuque to Iowa City, a work of the greatest importance to both Dubuque and the country through which it runs. He was most essentially the architect of his own fortune. He explored more mineral lands and probably raised more minerals than any other man in the Northwest.

LUCIUS HART LANGWORTHY (deceased). At Hopkinton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in 1807, was born Lucius Hart, third son of Dr. Stephen Lang- worthy ; his life has been so full of adventure, peril and daring, that it seems like a page from romances of bygone times. One may picture him as a veritable modern Jason, whose golden fleece was shrined in fields as yet untrodden by the white man's foot. Following the changing fortunes of his father's family, we see him emigrating from Western New York to Western Pennsylvania, and from there setting out on his long and wearisome journey to the Far West. It is difficult for us, familiar with the luxury of modern travel and of rapid progress, to comprehend entirely the admirable endurance, indomitable courage and dauntless enterprise of such a man. A mere strip- ling, we watch him passing sturdily through new lands-beyond the comforts of home and of civilization. We find him grappling with the dangers of Indian warfare, and wresting from the stern heart of the wilderness itself name, fortune and security. In the flush of vigorous youth, patiently, unselfishly, working with his brothers, to assist in the support of a large family ; a little later, not yet 18 years of age, adding to his slender resources by teaching school ; always and everywhere a keen and ambitious, a shrewd, yet tender, man. But life on a farm or in scattered Western villages had too little opportunity to offer such stirring souls. Rumors of great fortunes in the distant lead mines came to his ears. His elder brother had already gone to Galena, then a mere mining village ; and for that point Lucius, with his brother Edward, set out. Hard work and privation were familiar companions, but still Lucius felt that his fortunes were soon to be assured. But at this moment the Winnebago war broke out, and the young miner hastened to join a company under Gen. Dodge. His mining operations had been carried on at different points successfully, but, the war having ended, vague whispers were afloat, that still richer lands lay just beyond the Mississippi. Iowa was at this time unborn-not a foot of its soil belonged to the whites. Its Indian owners jealously guarded it from intrusion. At the spot where Dubuque now stands was the village of Little Fox. A bitter inter-tribal war sprung up, and the Indians fled from their homes. In June, 1830, nearly three years before any settlement in any other part of Iowa, James and Lucius, swimming their horses by their canoe, crossed the broad river, and stood for the first time on its western shore. Other adventurers followed, and the two brothers soon struck a rich lead. Only a few facts can in these limits be gleaned from the eventful life of Lucius Langworthy. He built the first frame house in the State of Iowa ; a stately edifice, indeed, among the humble cabins ; and, in an article entitled, " A Vision," published in the earliest newspaper, he first used the word, " Iowa," a name afterward given to the State. Not a few smiled at the fancy of a writer in an obscure mining town, who could venture to predict a great population for " the future State of Iowa." He also served in the Black Hawk war until its close. Was the first Sheriff of Dubuque County, when Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota were a part of the Territory of Michigan. In the fall of 1833, he helped to build the first schoolhouse in Iowa, and was ever the generous friend of schools and churches. He was elected a member of the Territorial Legislature of Wisconsin, meeting at Bur- lington. In 1835, he married Mary Frances Reeder, of Cincinnati, who died at the early age of 22, leaving two sons, one of whom still lives. In April, 1842, he married Valeria A. Bemis, of Maryland. She still survives, having borne him six children, all of whom are living save one. Lucius Langworthy was a man of much foresight. He was keenly alive to everything which could build up a city. He was one of the special delegates sent to Washington to procure a grant for the Pacific Railroad, of which he was one of the original incorporators. Largely interested in railroad facilities in his own State, he was President of the " South-Western," and liberally advanced its inter- ests. As a citizen, his hand was ever open to aid the material prosperity of Dubuque. With a mind intense and practical, he possessed also rare literary ability and poetic

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The history of Dubuque County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., Part 103

Author: Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Number of Pages: 964

Author:
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical
Number of Pages: 964