Dubuc Visits Dubuque Of His Kinsman

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The Telegraph-Herald   Thursday March 23, 1950 (Photo Omitted Due to Poor Quality) Guy Francois Dubuc (center), a great-great-grandnephew of Julien Dubuque, visited the city Wednesday and Thursday. He is shown chatting with two members of the Dubuque, County Historical society, John Rider Wallis (left) and Horace S. Poole as he examines “Antique Dubuque,” the book […]

IULIEN DUBUQUE WAS ROMANTIC

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The Telegraph-Herald and Times – Journal  Sunday August 24, 1930   IULIEN DUBUQUE WAS ROMANTIC DID HE MARRY FOR LOVE OR MONEY? MANY OPINIONS LOVED “ROSE 0F QUEEN”? Handsome Stranger Tells Dubuque of Girl Who Waited There is more than one legend about the romance of Julien Dubuque, the intrepid little French explorer, the “Little White Cloud” of […]

FRENCHMAN OWNS PART OF DUBUQUE?

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The Telegraph-Herald   Tuesday January 26, 1926 FRENCHMAN OWNS PART OF DUBUQUE? SO HE SALYS IN LETTER ADDRESSED TO “HONORABLE GOVERNOR.” HEIR OF ONE LAGOULE, MISSIONARY But No One Here Has Record of Him, So City’s Probably Safe.   Paul Bonvallet, who lives in Paris, France, thinks that he has a claim to a part of […]

“DU BUQUE” CONSIDERED RIGHT FRENCH SPELLING

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The Telegraph-Herald DUBUQUE, IOWA SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1925 “DU BUQUE” CONSIDERED RIGHT FRENCH SPELLING POPULAR ERROR PREVALENT IN ALL OLD DOCUMENTS NOW BEING PRESERVED AT  LIBRARY. .  SIGNATURE  OF JULIEN DUBUQUE SHOWS CORRECT SPELLING  INDIANS CONTROLLED TERRITORY AFTER DEATH OF DUBUQUE AND SPELLING WAS MOSTLY  GUESSWORK.   A popular error in the spelling of the […]

Dubuque Plans to Celebrate Centenary of  Death of Julien Dubuque

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The Telegraph-Herald  Sunday February 27, 1910 Dubuque Plans to Celebrate Centenary of  Death of City’s Founder; Date is March 24th History of the French Canadian Who Was Iowa’s First Settler Reads           Like Romance—His Enterprise Was Boundless and Like the Modern                  Financier Sentiment Never Stood in the Way of a Business Transaction In March 24 […]

THREE IN DUBUQUE’S TOMB

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The Dubuque Daily Herald  Saturday December 9, 1899 THREE IN DUBUQUE’S TOMB. Joseph Tesson, a Full Blooded Indian Here From the Tama Agency.  CAME TO ATTEND FEDERAL COURT.  Is the Government Interpretor of the Indian Agency—His Story of the Troubles at the Agency.  “Lelah-Pu-Kachee’s” case came before Judge Shiras Friday, bringing to the city Indian Agent […]

DUBUQUE’S HEIR

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The Dubuque Daily Herald  Tuesday January 31, 1899 DUBUQUE’S HEIR.  MRS. ADELINI CHANDLER, OF BELLEVILLE HAS THAT DISTINCTION.  Mrs. Chandler is Now Ninety-two Years Old—Chicago Tribune Contains An Extended Writeup About the Descendant of the Founder of Our City.   Sunday’s Chicago Tribune contains an extended article of a woman who, it is said, is a […]