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TEWKSBURY, J. R.

TEWKSBURY, GRUBB

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/18/2019 at 14:05:10

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

TEWKSBURY, J. R., photograph artist; born in New Hampshire, near Concord, May 17, 1831 ; his parents, who were from Tewksbury, England, removed to Western New York, where he was brought up ; he came to Iowa in 1854 ; in April, 1856, he opened the first railroad ticket office in Keokuk ; he held the position of General Western. Agent of the C, B. & Q. R. R., for six years ; went across the plains to Idaho and Montana ; was engaged in fruit culture in Southern Illinois ; was in business in New York City ; then returned to Iowa and was engaged in photographing at Farmington for eight years, and established the business here in the fall of 1875. He married Miss E. Carrie Grubb May 27, 1856 ; she is a native of McConnellsville, Morgan Co., Ohio ; her father, Walter Grubb, came to Iowa in 1841. and was an old settler ; he was Postmaster at Farmington for many years.

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

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879


 

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