JAMES E. BURKE

BURKE

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

BURKE, JAMES E., retired; born in Ireland; came to Ohio in 1836; in 1843, he removed to Wood Co., W. Va.; lived there until 1849, and in May, 1849, he came to Keokuk having visited this place and decided to locate here in April of the same year; in Ohio, he was engaged in the contracting business; the first seven years of his residence in Keokuk, he was engaged in mercantile business; he afterward engaged in steamboating, which he continued for about four years; he afterward returned to mercantile business, which he continued until 1865, since which time he has not been engaged in active business.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879