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[" of many fine horses.- from her we learn that h~ is nn ' excessively. waving his b'andker,(:blef, . as. 1 twenty ~les' ride hither modest and retiring ·man, one who would e:x- S!ckles; espying - ~-i~; ·:wen_~_ ~~ ·d by .- liis-goo·d~-ebeei and temporize an errand to London to··avoid-mak- ptstols. ___ ., ·; · -:--'"-- -.... _ ·: ,.-:~-, , --- .- ·--:

ing a speech t\t Liverpool. _ He is a - ~an of The rilurder'·s frierids ·"say that g, • Mr~ P. came out with few words, but of a ·fertile pen. He Is the his wife for yruLrs ; .. had-lavished tt ~. n pursuit of .lurs; in 1 1. . - •ter h i t ·ber,-gratifying _her)enst and gr·

-. . on y Lvt~g romance. wrl w om we am .o .,.;o s;..,-r..n· -..,-,. they--wrife 'known to') ·By spcculating,._-:"He hns· read-fully, and aiTnst rufhis work!fMtrke thmr ...., vv _, _ ~'-'. _ . ,

1 f ft 1.· · · · - · j he got~- the money-Is a--my~tery. :lett ty · 0 ·- mt\hmg· " an appeara_n_c.Q~ : -- --· · ·, · ~ - - . / i ~ the other hand, it is - ~aid that -Si various ~ays-. oven - ~by -. SPm:N~-EtEc;mNs.:..ArelectioTCirr-New love his wife'in a .way that en·t ignifi~an~ -· ~aif ,of jour- Ha-mpshire _for--the --ciroice·o'fS~te"offi~~-l}d chastity ·o~ her part.,__~r_. to .veri; mt-y to another.· · .. .. , . ~ Members ofCongrcss,_w:iUbe held ~~morrow· vi~~~i.ng, .as you must. kn~w; )ecorah by a _road lead· The State · election in Connecticut· will be ablo-women aroJo one aoother, Back" bluff, from ·'Yhich held April 4th ; in Rhode Island April -. 6th ; surprised to lea~n .~thaL..Mci...J d· view of West Decorah and in Virginia ~ay .26th. -·. ·: , with coiiderrinathm ·rroni' her· o·" countr'\•, The rrospect · ·- · ·~ - _-_ -_ . -_-: . - certainly~ thenraro feattires_iu l

ol ' .r . ·:----- ··--JonN HANCOCK'S HOUSE.-A bllfJS nend-- ,\.' • - n -· ' ilL iS ' ' ' t --.dreme;=and . .,.,-wE?=long=t<r- . X -- .- =->;==-·-· ~-=---0=-m·-==-~~~--. ..:.:_r ___ __ m-: W__u}.o . 0116-:"-U.t: - ~ -:W ' . ' . us~ -= ·- · : _ ·--: --n ~ -- · · --- ., , _ mg -m-the:,Leg1slature ' - of~-M-a.sSacbusetts -ap-~ -able,~after ·provmg ~a~seto -hcr®

n~or,_ · · - -----: · -.-· ·-"'~----_- ~lii'o1)tiatin-g-$100i>Oo-f~e· 'me-an_d~e again, .·of:~e~rayJ_ unmrt, spreading-fair. , . . ·' · · • . -.. : - . . • mour into what __ she must have ; ron atu1~nd_~us f?C_k~' ----'--- --.:.~ -~"~t~~~-_!_~I!N. HANC~CK, ,wtth tl.1e v1e~~!- ~b-o..bloodj~ands . . _ ·· · l~~~~~!~~e~~~: · . conver~mg the hous_e I_nto_ a m.~nswn fo~ the . But_if ~t [)e·true ~4at Mr. Bu\

· · th T · k · :· Go.vernor. n has ruready·.passed the Senato, ·m Mr. Stckle's · hoqM''R .feW n pon ~ .. ur .ey r~ve~ a· and w'iu pr~b~blv pass the. House . . - : - . the~. encounter~ _and .. purp?sely . e ofWmneshtekcountJ:, · . .. . _ · · .. . Key upon the corner unttl the •r is Q_c_grge W.· Sco~eld, Nonru-wEsTE~N ·F ~R~lEn.-· Tho Februnry . borld's arrival, ho_iS most s,evc~ . ntN ow-York. --. R . - · . ·. · · . . . demned, for h!l had _not ·_ Yf . . S1 ou __ ---~.T- · --- .---- , . :-number of thts ex~llent--Agrtcultural Jour- cnlio-n·, ·and, haa·-liitherto been ·.t Lr 1~c~nsm, and came nalh~ b~en placed. upon our table.· n· ts ro- all part~os, _ ., _, ---·,· .- __ _ .. · - --. :rl~ IS a br~'\fe back- plete -wfth .:. useful ' and - interesting -!!latter;· c-· Tlie -~ve· children-of-Mr.LKey tO les-s thanhal(_n dozer: treating upori'thc sCienco·of agriculture. The ·one_ -clu.ld,, _and ¥.r .. B~chans hich, he has found .scr_. ·Nartl,we~·tern Farmer is pnblish~d~:··mont~ eq

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' ·.· • . . . ·- • ~-·J ~t 1e on.ly pe;sons to e p~ti _ m.a by _.Messrs. Mu~LER & B~YToN, of tlus-Clty, _The ktlled 1s boyond p1ty; the t ; Office, · tho ·firs·t in the

·ct}litno·r~wo ·or three ~~ ..... . , .....

nt one mtlo south. Tho.

at $1 per annum. .. public cnroor in a better .:way tll · · · · · orally expected. · . .

. 'AN ' .OLD :SETT~~~~GONE.:....:. We aro euile<i' . Such nffafrs us this are useful · n Wf\rning, but Nf disclosing; in

n.wver, whoso drug store upon this afternoon· to rocord tho death of one the dovelopmants that will·follo' on tho 6th of .thi~ I_Rgnth, _of our·. old citizens, Mr. MICHAEL .O'BRIEN, -n.o~s and corruptioi~· '!hich fester co of tho Howard county. who . depa~ted this lifo on : Suud~y. nidr~g,· c1t1~. Thore 1s eVll m scandal,

- - . • - - -- - about soven o'~l9~t.-nft.er·a. bi-iof but pf\_rnfnl good in humility;· ., -· . ~ . l.id out in>August,-1855, illnoss. · Mr~ O'BRIEN is spoken of by those ,_ SA~l~_EL F. BuTTERWORTH~ wl_1, t four year~ old~_>Whon- --personally acq~aintod - with. hitn·, ns b'eing n od with boing accossory .· to· th(

too, the county wa~L1l - _·gentleman possosMing all thos{dlner qualities KEY by SICKLES, publisho~ a .}on, partia_l_ry surveyed. · A which constlttita----a· · m~.:::a:.. Iiberal, ~ind and .cation, in . whicn~ho-details :his at ted . in the . county,. in generom-bear¥ gentlemil~ . · with tho nffnir. ,· _ T_ho folloWing~is Orego~ _Grove, an([ru~ --~By- his-countrymen .. and-thoso .... who , bavo. _part pf. 1t: . . · . • · · _ . , lrlancLtliiougll-~he-r~gh~ boon-ass'ooitlt'e(f-wiih~him in· , a m . 'On . ontn:I~ Library -'

-,, the soeial -circles . of li fc, · he_. ; has cvor ' · · :- _ ®1dghe 1~t~.rdm~ mtehtha t K(

·- 'k fi - ·i·d· -ed - "'~ .... · -1 · · -d- · .· . . passed t 10 ous.e- urmg e m_orn 1a~. - something h o .. _ our cons _ ;!_'t _ .a . gent oman, an . at;l pnwa.ve~.!~g_ -a · short timo' 81~ce _wnved , h1s -: ~ and ali' excellent district . f~elfd Uftliepoor ·and Ii _eedy._·~ ·J.>eaoo _be_to~the. c:throo .. tlmBs...as. a signal.- : .· · :,:_ ~~. '.·: ;litf_sc~o~al'S;~~ught - ~Y ashe8 o.£. ~u~ d~partoo.-feii~~~<il~~l1·.: . . : · .<· ·7- '_. ·. · "'~U~./~ ~~-o~.!~.a.-~~o~,,c.~~~th~·

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AI D ' EiT" Tho Tt·cnsurcr of Du buquo County ' J • one P(1t1·ick O'Brie11 1 a modellJemocrat of 1 Acco -==·::= the Irish school, has recently been discover· I donMk , Editor ed to ben dcfaulte1· to the tunc ofttos,ooo. , tho M. =-=·.:.= -Cedar Valley Time1. 1

\ on I nsf A. The editor of tho Yn.11tJy Time1 portrays \rettthe

nn ignorance and. malvolcncc beyond any- ! impnJ-;s 1859. II thing we have ev('r seen, in uscrting tho ! gcnero ;. .. 22 above ·a11 truth. Michael O'Brie11 was one : Yilllt w. on IIcr- 1 of the 'first settlers in lown, and always 1 r('ccivc 1ttcre•h exhibited n Rpirit of enterprise and energy I about 1 ·of l,lund that wns commendable; and bo always had I of tll lllCilCC • C

the contl Joncc of the peoplo w1th whom estiml\ he nssodateJ, nntl was alway8 considered n : aUlong.

-the oil· vnlul\blc mnn in Dubuque; nnd naw, that minist• ·in Linn he iH dead nnd buried, it is certainly a

mcnn thing to give publicity to the above when thero Is no truth in it, merely (or " town t

.re duly little pG!iticnl game. When .Ur. O'Brien paper. • =~-'= -- rcl!igned the office' of County '.J:reaaurer be-lion. cause of hia ill health, it was atatctl by ell thatthe be held at lhl!l Capitol,

we lun 'fhe ca cd by 1

the al some of ~he Dubuque papers tbn.t he was a dcfnultcr to the amount of tlOS,OQOt but stTccts

!nate candl· upon further examination this statement in a ft 1';:,:~~~~~ wns found false. Wo copy tho following Mr. R1

from the E~pru8 & Herald which will John I lhe partya1 npb Df on shol\' the feding of those who best knew ened h

r every 100 him. ·or State tn Anothca·of the early pioneers of Dubuque

additional

Lion of the pa.st ycau ~s.

·e c!peelnlly 1eld for tho

T:\:MSON, Ex. Com.

ou at thi's subscrip· .o for ono oo.ts, po· &c. Our hey will not w:.it that may

nc of the ~duce the oensions. 1d of less­lerations. too lnrgo ising we ne of the lied with ·as neces­,r permn· . afford to :ry week, mount to lOW costs

ha2 po.~scd from earth into thnt mysterious future which is veiled from hnmnn •;ision, and which can only bo perceived by the eye of Faith throu~h the medium of Divine revelation. .Mr. 0 Brien, whose demise is nnuonnccd in the paragraph preceding these remark~, was born at a. little town named 'l'!Miew, in the county of Waterford, Ire· land, in tho month of September, 1808.­Uc emigrated to the United States in the year 1831, JUaking his abode for a short time in the State of Now York. ~'rom thence we went to Kentucky, where, hear­ing of a prospect of bettering hill condition in tho mining region of Dubuque, be came hither in the year 18lH. Like most of the early scttlerl!, he engaged in mining, which occupation he folloft·ed for acveral years. In 184:4 he wn.s elected a member Of the first Constitutional Convention of Iowa, and in 18U be was aleded a member or the first General Assembly.

After his term of senice expired, be "'"s elected County Clerk of Dubuque county, In which capacity ho sencd two years.­In 1851 he was elected County Treasurer which officll he filled for seven years, and which ho resigned in September last, on ac· count, as he snid himself, of tbc increased duties and responsibilities imposecl upon the Trensuer by recent legislation.

For thirteen years wu he the servant of the people of this county in. the literal sense of the term, performing for many of them, nets of kindness nnd service out of the line of his duty, which no one l'lse could so well perfarm, owing to his almost porfcct kno,vl­edge of county ntl'airs, _____ . ._. __

tirst 1

aforcsll exting· wntcr, puttin1 unildir were s: the str and st positcrl Aside I the ere in g.

.ANo· last, tl on Sco; town, togeth• was b1 honest, him is

ar nnd sb bery, i1 to our to the delay. made 1: their g1 wccnn succee1 until l for no

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O'BRIEN, Michael. (County Waterford, Ireland, Sept. , 1803-DUBUQUE COUNTY, lA, Mar. 6, 1859). County treasurer and recorder. Coming to the United St(!tes in 1831, O'Brien moved to DUBUQUE in 1834 where he engaged in MIN IN G and became politically active. In 1 844, he served as an elected member of the Constitutional- Convention in Iowa and was also elected to the first general assembly from January 1 ,

- 1 846, to December 31 ,- 1 84 7,- when he- returned to Dubuque and local politics. In 1 848, he was elected County Clerk and served one term from January 1 , 1849, to December 31, 1850. O'Brien was elected County Treasurer and County Recorder in 1851 and served from January 1, 1852, until September 1858, when he resigned.

O'CONNOR, Bernard "Bernie." (Council Bluffs, lA­). Coach. In 1997, O'Connor was named the National Tennis Coach of the Year by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association. In thirty-eight years at WAHLERT HIGH SCHOOL, O'Connor coached three girls and three boys to state singles titles. Several students won doubles titles. In all, O'Connor coached seventeen state champions and runners-up.

O'CONNOR, Charles E. (DUBUQUE, !A-Dubuque, lA, Jan. 30, 1985). Attorney. O'Connor, hearing of­ficer with the Federal Trade Commission during World War II, served as legal counsel to the War Crimes Com­mission in Dachau, Munich, and Frankfurt, Germany. Following the war, he served with the Displaced Per­son Commission before returning to the United States. He worked with the House of Representatives Small Business Committee until he retired in 1 97 5.

O'CONNOR, Francis J. (New Hampton, lA, Mar. 16, 1916-DUBUQUE, lA, Mar. 21, 1990). Attorney. Assistant DUBUQUE COUNTY Attorney from 1942 to 1 943 and chairperson of the Iowa Supreme Court's grievance committee, O'Connor served as legal coun­sel to the ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE for forty­seven years. In recognition of his service, Pope John Paul II awarded him the designation of Knight of St. Gregory in 1983.

O'CONNOR, Frank Aloysius. (Independence, lA, Aug. 2, 1875-DUBUQUE, lA, June 21, 1954). Attorney. Active in the Democratic Party, O'Connor served in the Iowa Legislature as a representative of Chickasaw County from 1906 to 1912. He was a delegate-at­large and chairman of the Iowa delegation at the Chi­cago Democratic convention in 1932, and in 1 940 placed the name of Henry Wallace into nomination for vice-president. During World War I, O'Connor was a member of the Iowa Governor's Council of Defense and, in 1934, began service as a general counsel for the Farm Credit Administration. As the agency's gen-

eral agent, a position he held until 1937, O'Connor was responsible for the entire Farm Credit Adminis­tration. In Dubuque, O'Connor served as a director for the ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE. He was also a member of the Board of Regents for LORAS COL­LEGE, president of the Dubuque Chamber of Com­merce, and director of Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

O'CONNOR, Verni. (Elkport, lA, June 18, 1899-DYERSVILLE, lA, Aug. 12 , 1947). President. O'Connor served as the president of the Buttermaker's Association in northern Iowa for three terms and as its secretary for two terms. In Dyersville, he operated the Farmer's Golden Star Creamery.

O'DONNELL, Frederick. (Unknown-DUBUQUE, lA, Sept. 9, 1925). Mayor. O'Donnell served as the mayor of Dubuque in 1883 and was then elected to the state legislature. He was nominated to a district court judge­ship in 1892 and served fifteen years before retiring . (See: Appendix: Mayors)

O'DONNELL, T.J. (New Diggings, WI, May 13, 1872-DUBUQUE, lA, May 27, 1961 ). State representative. A graduate of BAYLESS BUSINESS COLLEGE, O'Donnell was employed in Dubuque machine shops until 1905. He was then in the wholesale liquor busi­ness until January 1 , 1 91 6. O'Donnell was elected to the Iowa House from 1 91 7 to 1 9 2 7 and was a mem­ber of the Highway Commission from 1927 to 1933.

O'DOWD, Clarence T. (DUBUQUE, !A-Dubuque, lA, Nov. 21, 1982). College administrator. A graduate of LORAS COLLEGE, O'Dowd returned to the college in 1939 as its assistant business manager. Promoted to business manager in 1952, he was named vice­president of business in 1957 and treasurer in 1958.

OETH, Arthur H. (DUBUQUE, lA, Sept. 9, 1912-Dubuque, lA, June 24, 1997). Home builder. Until his retirement in 197 4, Oeth managed the Credit Bureau of Dubuque in addition to being a home builder and developer in the area for twenty-five years.

OETH, Robert. (DUBUQUE, lA, Oct. 6, 1921 -Des Moines, lA, Nov. 24, 1989). Attorney. Oeth, a g'radu­ate of the Drake University College of Law, began the practice of law in Dubuque in October 1 949 . He served as a state representative from January 1, 1951, until December 31, 1 952. Oeth subsequently served as County Attorney from January 1, 1953, through De­cember 31 , 1962. Hepracticed law in Des Moines until his retirement in 1989.