JOHN LOONEY

Linwood Cemetery
Dubuque County, Iowa
Uploaded 6/28/2012 by
mstillie1952 [Email]


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JOHN LOONEY
BORN
AUG. 11, 1806
DIED
SEP. 18, 1891

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Posted on Jan-9-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
JOHN S. LOONEY, residence 1370 Iowa street; is a native of Smith Co., Tenn., and was born Aug. 11, 1806; when 12 years of age, he went to Kaskaskia, Ill., and lived there when Illinois became a State; he grew up to manhood there; he helped to survey the land where Springfield and Jacksonville are now located; in October, 1827, he came to the lead mining region, and passed by where Dubuque Con't.

Posted on Jan-9-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
now stands, on the steamer Red Rover; he returned to Kaskaskia in 1835; he again came to Galena, and afterward came to Dubuque; engaged in mining; in 1859, he went out to the mountains and returned in 1861; he went to Minnesota and lived there until 1867, then returned to Dubuque. Mr. Looney is perhaps the only person now here who passed by this place as early as 1827. In 1828, he married Con't.

Posted on Jan-9-2014 by CHERYL MOONEN
Miss Margaret White, a native of Randolph Co. Ill.; she died in October 1874; they had ten children, seven are living- Corrydon, Abraham, Matilda, Elizabeth V., Margaret, Eliza and Ella. “The History of Dubuque County" http://members.tripod.com/~Doreen_3/DBBIOAB.htm

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