CUBBAGE, W. P.

CUBBAGE

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 18:27:26

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P.
Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

W. P. Cubbage, (retired), residence, Ninth avenue; is a native of Kent Co., Del., and was born Sept. 12, 1812; he was brought up and lived there until 1837, when he stared for the West; he walked all the way through the State of Pennsylvania, and came up the river as far as Galena; he landed there April 17, 1837; he arrived there without money or friends, without education and experience; but he says he had something, and that was the "bilious fever"; in 1840, he came to Jackson Co., Iowa, and made a claim in Washington Township, and began making a farm; he was one of the earliest settlers in that county; he returned to Galena, and, after clerking in a store two years, he started in business for himself with a cash capital of $93; he remained there thirteen years, and came, in 1855, to Jackson Co., and was engaged in mercantile business and farming, and carried on a brick-yard, and remained there until 1868, when he sold his property and retired from active business, and removed to Clinton, and since then has resided here. He is Vice President of the Fourth street Building Association, and has held the office of Assessor. Mr. Cubbage owes his success
in life to his own efforts. He has been married three times; he has four daughters, two of whom are married.