Dubuque has an Enoch Arden Case

MASON, EDSON

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Date: 4/4/2014 at 18:26:48

Dubuque has an Enoch Arden Case
In 1863 Ralph Mason went to the war from that city, and at Corinth was wounded and reported killed. He was taken prisoner and held in the dungeons of the south until the close of the war. On his way home he reached St. Louis, where he was persuaded to go across the plains, and in Washington territory he accumulated quite a sum of money. On the 1st of May he concluded to come back in search of his wife, and arriving in Dubuque a few days ago he learned that after properly mourning him as dead, she married a man named Edson, and is now living near Elkader. Not wishing to disturb any such domestic arrangement, Ralph started next day for California. So says the (Dubuque) Times.

~The West Union Republican Gazette
West Union, Fayette co. Iowa
July 15, 1870