S. A. Atherton

ATHERTON, EVEREST

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/18/2015 at 21:57:42

S. A. ATHERTON, manager of the Key City Barrel Co., Iowa street, between Second and Third streets, Dubuque: is a native of Orleans Co., Vt. and was born Sept. 4, 1839; he grew up to manhood there; when the war broke out he enlisted in Co. A, 2d N.H.V.I.; he was in the first battle of Bull Run and Williamsburg. He served in the service about two years, then returned, and, in 1865, was united in marriage, in Vermont, to Miss Helen L. Everest; the following year, he came West to Dubuque, and reached here June 19, 1866; in 1868, he engaged in coopering business. The present company was organized in March 1878; they do a very large business, employing about fifty to one hundred men, with a capacity for manufacturing 2,000 barrels per week; they have two stave factories, one here and one in Wisconsin, where they make their own barrel staves. Mr. Atherton is connected with the Knights of Pythias, the I.O.O.F. and the Order of Workmen.