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Celebrates 88 th Birthday Today |Dubuque wy just beginning to develop es city when Mrs. Elisabeth Zugenbuehler, shown in the photograph, was born on the farm ofher parents near Sherrill, one of tha then few thriving settlements ofthe county. Today Mrs. Zugenbueh-ler, one of the oldest native born residents of the county, is celebrating the eighty-eighth anniversary of her birth. The photograph was taken a few days ago in her room at 1029 White street where she hasmade her home since an injury, suffered nearly two years ago, made moving about difficult for her.Mrs. Zugenbuehler was ’wrn Dec. 15, 1847. Her parents were'the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blosch who had settled on a farm near Sherrill about two years before Mr*. Zugenbuehl-er’s birth. Her father was a native of Switssrland and her mother native of Germany.August 18, 1869 she was married to the late Tofly Zugenbuehler, long a well known resident of Dubuque, and since that time she made her home in Dubuque. Mrs. Zugenbuehler is the oldest living member of her family. She has one son, John living In Chicago. Three sons and three daughters have died. They were Joseph, Fred, Henry, Clara and Mayme Zugenbuehler and Mrs.taGrace Kern, She has six living grandchildren. Mrs. Zugenbuehler has three brothers living, Conrad Blosch, Zwingle; Valentine Blosch, Los Angeles, and Edward Blosch, Freeport, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, Fargo.
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Dec 15, 1935
Page 13
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