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Celebrates 88 th Birthday TodayDubuque wu just beginning to develop as a city when Mrs. Elisabeth Zugenbuehler, shown in the photograph, was born on the farm of her parents near Sherrill, one of the then few thriving settlements of the 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 at1029 White street where she hasmad© her horn© since an injury, suffered nearly two years ago, mademoving about difficult for her,Mrs. Zugenbuehler was born 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 Mrs. Zugenbuehl-er’s birth. Her father was a native of Switserland and her mother a 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.Grace 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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