Ferguson, G. H.

FERGUSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/18/2008 at 13:55:22

G. H. Ferguson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.23, Council Bluffs)
G. H. Ferguson, hotel, Council Bluffs, is a native of Vermont, born in 1853, and is a son of G. W. Ferguson. In 1864, he came to Dubuque, Iowa, where he lived until 1870, when he moved to Floyd County, Iowa. He remained there one year, then moved to Osage, Iowa, where he stayed four years, running the Dunton House; then removed to Waterloo, Iowa, where he ran an omnibus and transfer line for two years. He began hotel business in 1876, at the Pacific House, under the firm name of Ferguson & Son. It is the leading hotel of Council Bluffs, and was built thirty years ago. The hotel contains about seventy fine rooms, and about thirty servants are employed in the house. The arrivals average seventy per day, and there are, besides, many regular boarders at the hotel. A fine bar and billiard hall in connection with the house is conducted by N. L. Hall, while the barber shop is run by Fritz Bernhardie, who employs two assistants. September 10, 1878, Mr. Ferguson married Miss Anna B. Peregoy, of Baltimore, sister of J. W. Peregoy, of the well-known firm of Peregoy & Moore.