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SKEMP, Charles W.
SKEMP, Charles W. (County Dorset, England, Sept. 1, 1848--Dubuque, IA, May 20, 1942). Skemp's father moved with his family to the United States in 1859, locating in Chicago, and in 1876 he moved to Dubuque. Charles W. Skemp, at the age of fourteen, began learning the masonry trade under his father's instruction. From that time until 1897 worked as a journeyman.
Skemp operated extensively as a contractor on such projects as the Mercy Hospital, Presbyterian Seminary, Lawther's candy factory, one part of the Fourteenth Street, ST. JOSEPH COLLEGE, Couler Avenue school house, Burlington freight house, an addition for the McDonald Manufacturing Company at Thirteenth street, ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH, an addition to the orphan's home north of Linwood, the power house at FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE), an addition for the CARR, RYDER, AND ADAMS COMPANY, and many residences.
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Source:
Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 608
Hellert, Susan. "Old Settlers Connected to the Present," Telegraph Herald, Sept. 24, 2002, p. 13. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0JtdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ylwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6346,5100156&dq=dubuque+brewing+and+malting+company&hl=en