The following is an article that was printed in 1872 in the Times.  It goes like this:
DUBUQUE HISTORY
Editors of the Times
      I was glad to read in THE TIMES of the 6th instant an historical paper written about 30 years ago by Lucius H. Langworthy who died in 1865.  This paper revives early recollections, and it may be pardonable for one who has made some researches in the early history of the west to note a few corrections of and make a few additions to the statement thus published form date 1848. (appears to be)
   Julian Dubuque was not the discoverer of the lead ore in the Upper Mississippi mining region.  The discovery was first made near Galena, Illinois by the French explorer M. Le Seur in the year 1700 and 88 years before Dubuque obtained from the Sauk and Fox Indians the privilege of working the mines near the city that now bears his name.  Dubuque remained here as a smelter and trader for 22 years, until the time of his death in 1810.  He was the only white man who had a legal right to work mines on the west side of the Mississippi river before June 1833.  His Indian grant was confirmed, in 1779, by Baron Carondelet, then Governor of the Spanish province of Louisiana, to which all the county west of the Mississippi then belonged.
   Such was the influence of Dubuque over the Indian, that they would permit no other traders of traffic with them during his lifetime, and only occasionally for 20 years afterward.  The country west of the river became a part of the public domain of the United States in 1803, but no effort was made to develop what is now Iowa until after the Blackhawk war of 1832, when, by treaty, the Indian title was extinguished to the eastern one-third of our State.  Of course all the miners from 1830 to 1833 were trespassers on the public lands, and though some of them complained of the military authority used to keep good faith with the Indians, they could but know and acknowledge that the government dealt leniently with them.  These who were here in the winter of 1832-3 were treated by Col. (since President) Taylor and his officers with all the forbearance they could expect.  For the appearance of obeying orders one wagon, conveying ore contrary to orders, was  broken up.  It belonged to H.T. Camp.  A part of the roof was removed from the house of Thomas McCraney.  It stood on the site of the present Lorimier House.  The soldiers then returned to Fort Crawford (Prairie du Chien) and Mr. McCraney did not remove.  A few retired to the cast side of the river and others wintered in huts on the islands.
   Mr. Langworthy mentions the names of four of the lead mining explorers in Dubuque mines in 1830, beside himself and his brother James.  Among those who came and remained from a few days to a few weeks in that year were:
Wm. S. Andeson                                    Jas. Curran
Lemuel Cook                                            John Campbell
John Daugherty                                      Milton Dickerson
Fred Dixon                                                H. L. Dodge
Wm. Dowell                                             J.R. Ewing
Pleasant Ewing                                        Jas. Gilmore
Thos. Gray                                               Jas. Hillis
Thos. Humes                                           A. Hurd
Mathias Ham                                            Jas. Hurd
J. B. Gordan                                              Benj. Kilbourn
R. Lamont                                                S. Lemon
R.S. Lewis                                               _____Lovett
J. McCabe                                               Jas. McPheeters
R. Murphy                                              H. Ogan
P. O'Mara                                                J. O'Mara
John O'Regan                                        John Paul
H. Redman                                             Owen Riley
W.H. Smith                                            S. Streeter
T. Streeter                                              E.M. Urn
W.B. Whitesides                                  A.R. Whitesides
Isaac Whittaker                                     J. Woolley
H.B.Phillips                                             Jesse Yount
E. McB Whitesides                               A. McNear
   The first act resembling legislation in Iowa was at a meeting of miners, June 17, 1830, held around an old stranded cottonwood log, at the place of the present steamboat levee.  Mining regulations were then adopted as reported by the committee, consisting of J. L. Lang worthy, H.F. Landau, J. McPheeters, Samuel H. Scales and E. M. Urn.  By common consent Dr. Francis Jarrot was authorized to issue papers for arbitrating mining difficulties.
   In 1819 a man by the name of Reed spent a winter here, partly in cutting 100 cords of wood on what is now Seventh street levee, for smelting purposes, for John W. Shull, trader, whose trading house was on the island opposite the mouth of Catfish Creek.
   The oldest living Indian trader among us is Gen. Geo. W. Jones who opened a wagon road six miles, from Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin, to Jordan's ferry, now Dunleith, in 1828, to convey the ore bought from the Indians then working the old Dubuque mines, to his trading post and smelting furnace.
   As a contrast between fifty years ago and now, it may be said the Capt. Morgan, with a few dragoons passed across Iowa from Council Bluffs to the hill five miles west of Dubuque in 1820.  There he beheld what is now Dubuque City and Julian township, covered with so many thousands of buffaloes passing southward, that he remained in camp three days before daring to venture to cross over to the Fox village at the mouth of Catfish creek, now occupied by the saw mill and lumber yard of E.R. Lumbert & Co.
   A thousand and more facts as to the reminiscences of Julian Dubuque and of the early history of our city and county have been collected and compiled and are now ready for publication as a part of the history of our city and State.
                                                                                                                                    OCCIDENT
Dubuque, April 6th, 1872
 

July 23, 1933     Dubuque Telegraph Herald
DUBUQUE COUNTY BEFORE 1880
 Editors Note: Herewith the history of Dubuque County, word for word, before 1880, taken from an old county history, published by the Western Historical company, at Chicago, author's name unknown, believed to be in possession of but few residents.  Clip these stories day by day and by Aug. 8. when Dubuque begins celebration of her one hundredth anniversary, you should be in possession of a complete county history of your own.

   Freighted with the debris torn from the hillsides, it struck all  impediments in its way with gigantic force, snapping the bands of steel which, held the railroad bridge together, and severing their connections as if they had been gossamer threads, and with an a  ful leap and roar crushed out the heart and life of the peaceful valley.  It was an agonizing moment of battle between life and death, in which the irresistible torrent, the play of the lightning and peals of thunder conspired to drown the wails and cries which went up from the hearts of perishing humanity unheard.  Death rode the storm to victory as life flickered for a moment and expired beneath the waves, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers went down to death locked in each other's embrace.  No mind can picture that awful agony in the brief moment; no pen can describe it, or linner trace, the mysteries of ways which are not man's, but the dispensations of Providence.
   The inmates of the saloon building were Joseph Becker, the proprietor; his wife and two children; Charles Thimmesch, the bartender; James Peace, a gardner, who, with his family, were returning to Dubuque when the storm broke and sought refuge in the house; William Bradbury, William Burke,Harry Adams, Lambert Kenkels, John Harker and Martin C. Carey-of whom but Thimmisch, Kenkels, Adams and Carey escaped.
   The home of John Klassen was swept away, and the inmates, consisting of the father, mother, Christian, Lena, Lizzie, Maggie and John, went out with the tide, and none, save John, who was recovered from the wreck, survived to tell whither it carried them.
                                                    Saw Home Swept Away
Martin C. Carey, in Becker's saloon, saw the lights moving in his house nearby, but beyond his reach.  In an instant, the light became extinguished, and with it all hope in the heart of the husband and father.  He knew that his home was gone; soon he, too, was battling for life,  only to be saved to learn that his wife and children had gone the way of all flesh.  The wife, Elizabeth, and children, Frank and Lizzie, were among the dead.
   Thomas Blenkiron settled there a year previous, and maintained one of the two stories in the place.  He resided, with his wife and cousin, Oliver Blenkiron, over the store, with whom also was his wife's sister, Miss Hoskins, who was their guest during the Fourth.  Becoming alarmed,  Mr. Blenkiron aroused his with and sister, and insisted upon their endeavoring to reach a place of safety from the storm.  They proceeded through the water in the direction of Dubuque, he assisting them, returning after they had reached dry ground with a promise to follow if the danger increased.  This was the last seen of him until his body, with that of his son, was recovered when the flood had subsided.
   Peter Knapp, an industrious and thriving mechanic, owning nearly all the buildings lining the street, lived in the market-house with his wife and six children.  The house was torn from its foundation and swept in the flood and with it, himself, his wife and three children.
   Charles W. Kingsley kept the only hotel in the place, which he opened in May, 1876, coming from California.  With him was his wife, on the fatal night, there being no guests.  The wife was taken, the husband left.
                                                 Family Saved on Roof
Gustave Hern's store and post office went down in the general ruin.  By superhuman efforts, he succeeded in getting his wife and four children upon the roof, and, by clinging to the rafters, all were saved.
   Those who were known to have been lost were:  Peter Kapp,  Mrs. Peter Kapp, Mathias Kapp,  Mary Kapp, Joseph Kapp,  John Kapp, Peter Kapp (Second), Nicholas Kapp, Mrs. Elizabeth Carey; Jane, Frank and Lizzie Carey; Henry Mary, Albert, Alec and Peter Becker, of one family, and Henry, Mary and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Becker, another family; Lucy Bowers, William Bradbury, Richard  Burke, Thomas and Oliver Blenkiron, Mr. and Mrs. John Klassen, with Christian, Lizzie, Maggie, Mary and Lena Klassen; Mrs. Kingsley, Mr. and Mrs. James Pearce, Lena and Ida Pearce, Minnie Bowers and the two Brown children, a total of forty-two victims.
   When the storm subsided and during Thursday, these bodies were recovered and prepared for burial.  About 11 o'clock of that day the funeral services began, on the ground, over such of the bodies as it had been decided to bury at Rockdale.  Others were taken to Key West for Burial, but the larger number were conveyed to Dubuque.
                                              A Sorrowful Scene
   At St. Mary's church, a sorrowful scene was presented in the afternoon.  Five of the Kapp family, who were victims of the disaster, and six members of the Klassen family, rested upon their heirs, side by side, while Father Johannes delivered an eloquent and impressive funeral sermon, most vividly depicting the horrid manner in which their lives paid tribute to the fury of the relentless storm.  The funeral was largely attended, and an immense procession followed their remains to the German Catholic cemetery.
   The family of Mr. Peters was buried from the residence of Mr. Sage, on Fourteenth street, the Rev. Mr. Seymour, of the Episcopal church, officiating.  During the impressive service, scalding tears of sincere sorrow dripped from the cheeks of those present, and, at the conclusion of the minister's discourse, the remains were interred in Linwood cemetery.
   The fatherless and motherless children who survived were taken charge of by relatives, and the calamity, with all of it horrible concomitants, was numbered with the things that were.  The search was continued through Friday, resulting in the finding of the bodies of Frank Bowers and Lizzie Becker, who were laid to rest without the formality of an inquest.  On Saturday, Peter Becker, Lena Klassen and Richard Burke's bodies were discovered at the mouth of the Catfish and buried in Rockdale cemetery, which, it is believed were all who perished.                               (To Be Continued)