The Telegraph-Herald July 8, 2012 History Quirk Julien was a clerk So you think you know Julien Dubuque? This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the city’s founder, who was born Jan. 10, 1762, in Trois Rivieres, Quebec. An exhibit at the Dubuque County Historical Society’s Old Jail Museum explores the […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday August 31, 1958 Julien Dubuque First White Settler in Iowa Appearance of a suave French-Canadian with a propensity for getting along well with the Indians launched development of the present site of Dubuque in 1788. Julien Dubuque built up a fur trading, farming and lead mining business on the site during a period […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday October 29, 1950 Relics Being Sent Here From Julien’s Birthplace Some relics from Julien Dubuque’s home town of St. Pierre les Becquets, Canada, are on their way to Dubuque. John Rider Wallis, director of the Dubuque County Historical society, has received a letter saying so from Guy F. Dubuc, Montreal businessman who visited […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]