https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=GEHRIG%2C_JosephGEHRIG, Joseph - Revision history2026-04-25T03:19:39ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.1https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=171705&oldid=prevRandylyon at 23:23, 7 November 20212021-11-07T23:23:20Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:23, 7 November 2021</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Family History: http</del>://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wc.rootsweb</del>.ancestry.com/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cgi</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bin</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ftm109&id=I07694</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ancestry.com--https</ins>://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.ancestry.com/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">family</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tree/person/tree/69748188/person</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">202045723348/facts</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885). Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885). Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l25">Line 25:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 25:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Business Leader]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Business Leader]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Politician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Politician]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category: Ancestry]]</ins></div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=162846&oldid=prevRandylyon at 20:23, 12 June 20202020-06-12T20:23:55Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:23, 12 June 2020</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">GEHRIGMON</del>.png|left|thumb|250px|Cemetery Marker.]] Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gmarker</ins>.png|left|thumb|250px|Cemetery Marker.]] Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=162845&oldid=prevRandylyon at 20:23, 12 June 20202020-06-12T20:23:33Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:23, 12 June 2020</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:GEHRIGMON.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg</del>|left|thumb|250px|Cemetery Marker.]] Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:GEHRIGMON.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">png</ins>|left|thumb|250px|Cemetery Marker.]] Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=162843&oldid=prevRandylyon at 20:22, 12 June 20202020-06-12T20:22:54Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:22, 12 June 2020</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:GEHRIGMON.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Cemetery Marker.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}</del>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:GEHRIGMON.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Cemetery Marker.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=162842&oldid=prevRandylyon at 20:22, 12 June 20202020-06-12T20:22:26Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:22, 12 June 2020</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:GEHRIGMON.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Cemetery Marker.}</ins>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE)]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=128880&oldid=prevRandylyon at 02:39, 31 December 20152015-12-31T02:39:28Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:39, 31 December 2015</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885). Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885). Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With success, he returned to Dubuque and bought property at the corner of 7th and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Main</del>. The land contained a mound, described by [[LANGWORTHY, Lucius Hart|Lucius Hart LANGWORTHY]] as "immense." In 1852 during the grading of 7th Street, the mound, which extended into the proposed roadway, was leveled. It was at this time and during the excavation for the hotel, that the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered along with Native American artifacts proving the mound was created for burial purposes. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With success, he returned to Dubuque and bought property at the corner of 7th and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">White</ins>. The land contained a mound, described by [[LANGWORTHY, Lucius Hart|Lucius Hart LANGWORTHY]] as "immense." In 1852 during the grading of 7th Street, the mound, which extended into the proposed roadway, was leveled. It was at this time and during the excavation for the hotel, that the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered along with Native American artifacts proving the mound was created for burial purposes. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=128864&oldid=prevRandylyon at 22:56, 30 December 20152015-12-30T22:56:31Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:56, 30 December 2015</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large with four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained an estimated forty guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, and an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom" on the first floor. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, which may have come from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. (1)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a Democrat. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally in 2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=128863&oldid=prevRandylyon at 22:56, 30 December 20152015-12-30T22:56:11Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:56, 30 December 2015</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With success, he returned to Dubuque and bought property at the corner of 7th and Main. The land contained a mound, described by [[LANGWORTHY, Lucius Hart|Lucius Hart LANGWORTHY]] as "immense." In 1852 during the grading of 7th Street, the mound, which extended into the proposed roadway, was leveled. It was at this time and during the excavation for the hotel, that the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered along with Native American artifacts proving the mound was created for burial purposes. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With success, he returned to Dubuque and bought property at the corner of 7th and Main. The land contained a mound, described by [[LANGWORTHY, Lucius Hart|Lucius Hart LANGWORTHY]] as "immense." In 1852 during the grading of 7th Street, the mound, which extended into the proposed roadway, was leveled. It was at this time and during the excavation for the hotel, that the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered along with Native American artifacts proving the mound was created for burial purposes. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>very large four stories<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>topped by a cupola. The hotel contained <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">almost 40 </del>guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while the 1st floor contained </del>an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" </del>Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and it is very possible that the bricks came </del>from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig began building his hotel in 1854 with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley, on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th and 7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was very large <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </ins>four stories topped by a cupola. The hotel contained <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an estimated forty </ins>guest rooms on the upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" on the first floor</ins>. Gehrig's hotel was constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which may have come </ins>from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(1)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">democrat</del>. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its closing </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">approximately 1918</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who opened it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Democrat</ins>. Gehrig and, later, his son [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] who was born in the hotel and Henry's wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it closed around 1918. (2) The building was renovated many times and saw use as [[SANITARY MILK COMPANY]] and finally </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2015 as [[SMOKESTACK (THE]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l14">Line 14:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1. The Smokestack Website: http://www.smokestackdbq.com/#!history/c24ml</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2. Ibid.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oldt, Franklin T., '''The History of Dubuque County, Iowa''', Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880, p. 792-793 </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oldt, Franklin T., '''The History of Dubuque County, Iowa''', Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880, p. 792-793 </div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=128862&oldid=prevRandylyon at 22:48, 30 December 20152015-12-30T22:48:58Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:48, 30 December 2015</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Family History: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ftm109&id=I07694</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Family History: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ftm109&id=I07694</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885). Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. With success, he returned to Dubuque bought property, and erected the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]]</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885). Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1852, during the excavation for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his </del>hotel, the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The construction of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jefferson House </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">completed </del>in 1854, and the hotel was opened <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">public</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The successful business venture </del>later <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was taken over by </del>[[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, one of Joseph</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">four sons</del>. Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">With success, he returned to Dubuque and bought property at the corner of 7th and Main. The land contained a mound, described by [[LANGWORTHY, Lucius Hart|Lucius Hart LANGWORTHY]] as "immense." </ins>In 1852 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">during the grading of 7th Street</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the mound, which extended into the proposed roadway, was leveled. It was at this time and </ins>during the excavation for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>hotel, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </ins>the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">along with Native American artifacts proving </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mound </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">created for burial purposes. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gehrig began building his hotel </ins>in 1854 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a stable and several connected outbuildings to accommodate laundry facilities and more. His brother-in-law, [[KIENE, Peter|Peter KIENE]] had already built [[HARMONY HALL]] across the alley</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on Clay Street, now Central Avenue, between 6th </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">7th. Completed in 1856, Gehrig's hotel was a very large four stories, topped by a cupola. The hotel contained almost 40 guest rooms on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">upper two floors, parlors on the 2nd floor, while the 1st floor contained an office, saloon, dining room, kitchen and "washroom." Gehrig's </ins>hotel was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">constructed primarily of brick, three courses thick, and it is very possible that the bricks came from his brother-in-law Peter Kiene's brick manufacturing company. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gehrig rented his hotel building to another person who </ins>opened <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it as the Adams House in 1856. Gehrig resumed operations of the hotel in 1858 or 1859 and renamed it </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[JEFFERSON HOUSE]], in honor of Thomas Jefferson as Gehrig was himself a democrat</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gehrig and, </ins>later<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, his son </ins>[[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who was born in the hotel and Henry</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wife Mary, operated the Jefferson House nearly until its closing in approximately 1918</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GEHRIG,_Joseph&diff=127973&oldid=prevRandylyon at 21:56, 19 December 20152015-12-19T21:56:04Z<p></p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<col class="diff-marker" />
<col class="diff-content" />
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en">
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:56, 19 December 2015</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Family History: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ftm109&id=I07694</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Family History: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ftm109&id=I07694</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819-Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885)<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Owner, [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]] Hotel</del>. Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849. With success, he returned to Dubuque bought property, and erected <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his hotel</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gehrig.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]GEHRIG, Joseph. (Canton, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dec. 26, 1819<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>-Dubuque, IA, Apr. 13, 1885). Gehrig came to Dubuque in 1844 and worked in P. E. Lorimier's stone quarry for fifty cents a day. He earned an additional thirty cents chopping wood. Lured by the desire for [[GOLD]], Gehrig left for California in 1849. With success, he returned to Dubuque bought property, and erected <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the [[JEFFERSON HOUSE]]</ins>. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1852, during the excavation for his hotel, the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered. The construction of the Jefferson House was completed in 1854, and the hotel was opened to the public. The successful business venture later was taken over by [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]], one of Joseph's four sons. Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1852, during the excavation for his hotel, the body of [[O'CONNOR, Patrick|Patrick O'CONNOR]] was discovered. The construction of the Jefferson House was completed in 1854, and the hotel was opened to the public. The successful business venture later was taken over by [[GEHRIG, Henry|Henry GEHRIG]], one of Joseph's four sons. Gehrig served on the city council during the administrations of Turck and Graves.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l14">Line 14:</td>
<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Business Leader]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Business Leader]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category: Politician]]</ins></div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyon