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Illinois- 1904. The island was named for Lieutenant 

 John Campbell who commanded the United States 

 troops. 



JULIAN DUBUQUE: On the river end of a high bluff 

 two miles below the city named after him, is a large, 

 high stone tower which encloses and marks the tomb of 

 Julian Dubuque. 



In A History of the People of Iowa, pages thirty-six, 

 thirty-seven and sixty-seven, Cyrenus Cole tells us that 

 Dubuque was the most picturesque figure in the early 

 history of Iowa. He was a well educated French-Cana- 

 dian from Quebec. In 1785, when twenty-three years 

 of age, he crossed the Mississippi and made friends 

 with the Fox Indians under Kettle Chief and secured 

 their title to a tract of land with twenty-one miles front- 

 age on the river and extending back nine miles. He 

 proceeded to develop the lead mines in his tract and 

 built a smelting furnace at the mouth of Catfish creek 

 just above where the tomb stands. He opened up a big 

 trade with the indians and miners and by 1800 was 

 about the best customer Saint Louis merchants had in 

 the upper country. 



Doing a large business over a large territory he made 

 many losses and at the time of his death in March, 18 10, 

 all his lands were mortgaged to Chouteau of Saint 

 Louis. 



When the United States courts invalidated Du- 

 buque's title from the Fox chief, and Carondelet, the 

 Spanish Governor-general at Saint Louis, Chouteau 

 was a big loser of all his advances to keep Dubuque 

 going. 



FATHER JAMES MARQUETTE: In recent years the 

 people of Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, with some 

 help from the C. M. & St. P. Railway erected a noble 



