Joseph Singer died 1861

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Date: 1/2/2021 at 18:37:24

The Dubuque Herald- May 15, 1861

ANOTHER EARLY SETTLOR GONE- One after another the early settlors disappear from our midst. The last one who departed this life was Joseph Singer who died at his residence on Couler Avenue on the 28th of April in the 54th year of his age. He came to Dubuque in 1833 and has lived here ever since. He was known as an industrious man, and it is said that long continuous and severe hard labor was the cause if his death. He had not accumulated much property, like many others of the early settlors, and did not occupy so prominent a position in society but he was highly esteemed, by those who knew him best for his upright dealings and high sense of honor in all his business transactions. He left a wife in belated circumstances, considering the present deprecated of the value of the real estate he owned – and also two small children. Thus pass every year one or more of the early pioneers, who through hardship and priva-ons twenty-five and thirty years ago to the boundary of civilization and laid the foundations of our nourishing city and prosperous State. Honor to their memory.