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BURLINGTON CITY RESIDENTS 1879
transcribed by Richard Harrison
SURNAME |
GIVEN NAME |
ADDRESS |
OCCUPATION/BIOGRAPHY/NOTES |
| Pain | Wm W. | 1118 South | Carpenter |
| Palm | John | 520 Jefferson
res. 161 S. Adams | Cabinet-mkr. |
| Palmer | Luke | 303 6th | Capitalist |
| Palmer | Luke Jr. | cor. Main & Jefferson
res. 303 S. 6th | Attorney |
| Palmmer | M. M. | 906 Maple st. | Drug store. Born in Madison Co., Ill., Oct. 7, 1842. Enlisted, Ausust 1862, in Co. F, 83d Ill.V. I.; served till the close of the war; mustered out July 5, 1865; was in all the battles of his regiment; he served most of the time as druggist of the regiment. Came to Burlington, March, 1876. Married, Sept. 19, 1871, Florence Everett; she was born in Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 14, 1850; they have one child Walter E., born Oct. 4, 1875. Members of the Baptist Church; Republican. |
| Parkins | Chas. E. | res. Dill, cor. of White | Vice-President and Superintendent C.B.&Q. R.R. |
| Parmeter | A. M. | 549 S. 8th | Engineer |
| Parr | Wm. | res. 509 S. 3d | Supt. Burlington Mfg. Co. |
| Parsons | Albion | 927 Jefferson | Clerk |
| Parsons | C. B. | 309 & 311 Jefferson
res. Starr, cor. Spray | Dry goods |
| Parsons | F. T. | | With T. W. Barhydt & Co.; born in York Co., Me., June 27, 1832; came to Burlington in 1852; Mr. Parsons was engaged in banking business here for fourteen years; afterward carried on lumber business for twelve years; while in the banking business, he was connected with the Old State Bank and its predecessors; Cashier of the Branch of the State Bank; subsequently held same position with the National State Bank; he is now serving second term as Alderman; he is also Treasurer of University. |
| Parsons | T. L. | res. 422 Jefferson, cor. 5th | Capitalist |
| Parsons | W. W. | 214 N. 3d
res. 205 S. Pond | Homeopathic phys. |
| Passmore | W. W. | 1118 10th | |
| Patchen | Dr. G. H. | | Born in Schuyler Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1845; moved to Wisconsin with his parents when 10 years of age. He entered Monmouth College in 1862, and graduated in 1866; immediately after, he began the study of medicine under his father, U. R. Patchen, then residing in Burlington; during the winter of 1866 and 1867, he attended a course of lectures in Chicago; also in New York, from 1867-68, where he graduated in March, 1868; he returned to Burlington, and at once began practice, and has been very successful as a homeopathic physician. For three years, he was Secretary of the former Society of Homeopathic Physicians of Iowa, lately known as the Hahnemann Medieal Association of Iowa. The Doctor is a member in good standing of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the Western Academy of Homeopathy. On Oct. 26, 1875, he was married to Laura A. Spencer, oldest daughter of Richard Spencer, Esq , of Burlington; they have one daughter Jessie L. Mr. and Mrs. Patchen are both members of the Congregational Church. |
| Patterson | Chas. T. | Summer st. car station| Clerk | |
| Paule | Mrs. C. | | Owns a vineyard and vegetable garden on the extension of S. Main st.; she was born in Germany July 17, 1827. Married Philip J. Paule Feb. 14, 1849; he was born May 1, 1822, at Wurtemberg, Germany; they came to America and to Burlington May 13, 1853; he bought a farm and followed farming till 1808, then purchased and moved on the place that his family still occupy; Mr. Paule died Aug. 3, 1809. He and his wife were members of the Evangelical Zion Church. They have eight children Christina R.. Mary U., Paulina P., Louisa, Philip J., Anna P., Charles C., Emma R. |
| Payne | A. C. | 1301 13th | Carpenter |
| Peabody | Samuel | Union Depot
res. Henry, cor. of Division | Police |
| Pearce | John S. | 622 Jefferson | Plumber and gas-fitter. Also agent for the Pneumatic gas-machine. Born in England May 29, 1816; came to America with his parents in 1818, and to Burlington in 1855; in 1861, was elected Justice of the Peace. He married, in 1840, Anna M. Hewitt; they have two children George H. and Anna H. |
| Peasley | D. W. | nw cor. of Marshall & Valley | |
| Peasley | James C. | | President of the National State Bank of Burlington, was born in Henderson Co., III., on the 30th of March, 1840; his father, Francis J. C. Peasley, was one of the first settlers of Illinois, having emigrated from Lower Canada in 1835; he removed to Burlington in 1842, and died there ten years later; James C. attended Illinois College, at Jacksonville; having a decided preference for a business career, did not wait to graduate, but left school in 1800, and not long after secured a situation in the Des Moines County Savings Bank; in ' 1864, he received the appointment of Assistant Treasurer of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad Company, where he remained until the spring of 1806, when he became Cashier of the National State Bank, at that time under the Presidency of F. W. Brooks; after the death of Mr. Brooks, in the spring of 1869. Mr. E. D. Rand was elected President, and he was succeeded by Mr. Peasley in the spring of 1871. Mr. Peasley married on the 10th of October, 1866, Miss Louisa S. Green, of Lawrenceville, N.J. Mr. Peasley is a Republican. |
| Peele | Vincent | res. 615 Pine | |
| Pefferman | Wm. | 603 S. Main | Capitalist |
| Pegan | Leonidas | 626 Foster | Commercial agent |
| Peich | F. W. | 920 S. Boundary | Organ-builder |
| Penny | J. W. | 917 Jefferson | Grain-buyer |
| Penrose | Wm. | | Dealer in farm machinery. Born in Morgan Co., Ohio, Nov. 7, 1834; he lived in Ohio until 1868, when he came to Burlington; engaged in present business ever since he came here. Mr. Penrose married Olivia Thompson June 9, 1858; she was born in Columbiana Co., O., March 11, 1839; they have five children James R., Rebecca L., John T., Mary L. and Wm, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Penrose are members of the Presbyterian Church. |
| Perkins | Albert A. | 314 N. Main
res. 1228 Smith | China and glass ware |
| Peterman | J. M. | Board of Trade | Manager billiard-hall |
| Peterson | Andrew | res. 417 Marshall | Clerk |
| Peterson | Frank | 116 S. Gunnison | Cabinet-maker |
| Peterson | Nels | 321 N. Front | Proprietor Burlington House |
| Peterson | P. G. | 405 Valley | Manufacturer and refinisher of straw goods and dealer in plaster blocks. Born in Norway, May 14, 1845; came to the U. S. in 1866. Mr. Peterson was connected with several railway companies as civil engineer; among others, the Lake Superior & Mississippi, Northern Pacific, and Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota Companies. He was for four years in straw goods business in Chicago and Milwaukee; he came from Milwaukee to Burlington in February, 1876; engaged in present business ever since he came here. Mr. Peterson married Lizzie Foreman Jan. 7, 1875; she was born in Wisconsin; they have two children Guild, born Oct. 19, 1875, and Anna, Nov. 19, 1877. |
| Phelps | Chas. H. | res. 935 N. 5th | District Judge |
| Phelps | Frank | | Born in Middlebury, Vt., a little village under the shallow of the Green Mountains, where he passed his childhood and youth. He received a classical education, and graduated at Union College in 1854; in 1855, he sought the Western wilds. One pleasant summer morning, in 1857, he went to the office of the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye to carry a message; the proprietor, Clark Dunham, asked him to write an item of a runaway on Jefferson street; he wrote it, and Mr. Dunham offered him a position on the paper; under that good man (whose memory he holds in affection), he tried to learn the newspaper trade. In 1857, he went to Louisiana, and spent a pleasant year among the planters of Rapides, as a school-teacher. During the war, he was a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department of the regular army; after this unpleasantness had been settled (together with the bills, which lasted for three years after the war), he returned to civil and newspaper life; he was for a season, the editor of the Toledo (Ohio) Times; returning to Burlington, he returned to his first-love, the Hawk-Eye; after laboring for a time there, he established the Burlington Daily, which, after a year of hard work and fun, fell among thorns. Mr. Phelps is now the city editor of the Burlington Gazette; he has the honor of age in Burlington newspaper work, no other person connected with Burlington journalism, having started in the newspaper world at the time that he commenced it with his good friend, Clark Dunham. |
| Phillips | M. W. | 201 Jefferson
res. 531 S. 10th | Hats, caps, etc. |
| Pierson | A. G. | res. fair grounds | Farmer |
| Pierson | J. L. | res. 501 Pond, cor. of Amelia | Sec. and Treas. Burlington Lumber Manufacturing Co. |
| Pierson | John | res. Agency road | Farmer |
| Pierson | Johnson | 119 S. Marshall | Postal clerk |
| Pietsch | Ferdinand | 1425 Osborn
res. same | Dry goods |
| Pilger | Jacob | res. Sunny Side | |
| Pilger | L. W. | res. 1015 N. 10th | |
| Pilger | T. L. | res. 715 N. 6th | Retired |
| Pilger | Wm. | | Of the firm of Pilger Bros., wholesale grocers, was born in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 15, 1845; when an infant, his parents removed to Burlington. In his business career he was first in the harness trade, later a commercial traveler, and has been engaged in his present business since Feb. 1, 1873; the trade of the firm of Pilger Bros, is chiefly in Iowa, Northern Missouri and Western Illinois, though it also extends into Kansas and Nebraska. Their average sales are $260,000 per annum. |
| Pilger Brothers | 209 N. Main | Wholesale grocers |
| Pilling | A. H. | 304 S. Boundary | Physician |
| Pilling | W. E. | office 312 Jefferson
res. 304 S. Boundary | Attorney at law |
| Pollock, Granger & Chittenden | 102 3d | Furniture, etc. |
| Pond & Co. | 827 Jefferson | Butter, eggs, etc. |
| Poor | Cornelius L. | | Attorney at law. Born in Allegheny Tp., Venango Co., Penn., May 13,1845, and lived there until May, 1875. He was educated at the State Normal Institute, at Edinboro, Erie Co., Penn., and admitted to the bar at Franklin, Penn., September, 1874, and has been in practice ever since. He has been City Solicitor since April, 1878. |
| Poor & Millspaugh | 312 Jefferson | Attorneys at law |
| Poppe | Ewald | res. cor. 7th& Walnut | Teacher high school |
| Poppe | Max E. | res. cor. 7th and Walnut | |
| Potter | T. J. | Central Block
res. 400 S. 8th | Div. Supt. C.B.&Q. and B.&M. |
| Power | Hon. John C.. | | Attorney at law. Born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio; previous to his coming to Burlington, in 1856, he resided ten years in Cincinnati. His first business in the West was farming. In May, 1863, he enlisted in Co. D, 8th I. V. C.; he was mustered in as 2d Lieutenant, and mustered out as Captain, in 1865. In the fall of 1862, he was admitted to the bar, and three years later was elected County Judge, which position he held until Jan. 1, 1869, when he resigned, having been elected Circuit Judge in the fall of 1868. He held that position for four years, and, since 1873, has been engaged in the practice of his profession. |
| Prenzler & Aithof | 214 Washington | Wholesale liquor dlrs. |
| Price | J. W. | 1013 3d | |
| Price & Henry | 320 N. 3d | Druggists |
| Prugh | Isaac | 700 N. Main | Undertaker |
| Purdy | Hiram | | Wholesale liquor merchant. Born at White Plains, Westchester Co., N.Y., Sept. 12, 1814; when 5 years of age, his parents moved to New York City; the first business he engaged in was the manufacture of sash, show-cases, etc., in the Bowery, New York, in 1835, which he continued until 1857; he originated the first metal show-case about the year 1844, he was also the projector of the first street- railway. During his residence in the metropolis of America, he took an active interest in all political issues, and his influence was largely felt in elections, both municipal and national. He came to Burlington in 1857, and engaged in his present business in 1860. Mr. Purdy's remarkable inventive genius is well known and conceded by experts, a large number of valuable and useful inventions being the result of his labors in that direction, among whieh may be mentioned a patent process for guaging liquor; an improvement patented for distilling purposes, another for odorizing; he is also the patentee of a Steam Boiler, Cyclone principle, a Cyclone Heater, Grain-Car Doors, Cattle-Bar for stock-cars, Fruit-Jars, etc. The Cyclone Heater deserves more than a passing mention. It combines the gas and smoke burning principles, making it fuel-saving and desirable on account of cleanliness and increased heating qualities. The arrangement of the apparatus is simple, not liable to get out of order, and adapted to every form of heating apparatus now in use, and to every condition where artificial heat is required. |
| Putnam | James | 116 Market
res. 705 N. 5th | President Iowa & Mo. Land Co. |
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