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JAMES HANNIBAL SHIELDS was born near Bowling
Green, Missouri, May 8, 1840; he died at Dubuque, Iowa, September
30, 1914. He received his early education in the schools of Dubuque,
was prepared for college at Alfred Academy in western New York and
spent some time in Union College, Schenectady. He studied law in the
office of John B. Henderson, of St. Louis, and was admitted to the
bar in Dubuque County in 1862. He was elected city attorney of
Dubuque in 1863 and served two terms. In 1882 he was elected
district attorney and held that office for four years. In 1889 he
was elected senator and served in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
General Assemblies. In the last twenty years he withdrew almost
entirely from politics and the practice of law, confining his
attention to the real estate business.
~Annals of Iowa, Vol XII, Notable Deaths, pg 392
MICHAEL F. McCULLOUGH was born at Holy Cross, Dubuque county,
Iowa, July 28, 1854, and died at Dubuque, December 20, 1913. He
received a common school education and followed the avocation of
farmer and stock buyer. He was elected representative in 1910 and
re-elected in 1912, serving in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth
General Assemblies.
~Annals of Iowa, Vol XII, Notable Deaths, pg 393
THOMAS FRANCIS NOLAN was born in Ireland, December 17, 1838;
he died at Dubuque, Iowa, June 26, 1915. At the age of eight years
he emigrated with his parents to America and settled in
Philadelphia, Pa., where they remained three years. At the end of
that time they removed to Iowa, and to a farm in Dubuque county. Mr.
Nolan engaged in farming and successfully followed that pursuit in
Dubuque county for the remainder of his life. He served as
representative from Dubuque county in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-sixth
Extra and Twenty-seventh General Assemblies and as senator in the
Twenty-eighth General Assembly, in which he was a member of the
committees on agriculture, labor and mines and mining.
~Annals of Iowa, Vol XII, Notable Deaths, pg 551
JOHN A. COUSINS was born in what is now Dubuque County, Iowa,
but which was then Dubuque County, Wisconsin Territory, on April 15,
1837, and died at his home in New Hartford, Butler County, Iowa,
March 12, 1918. He attended common school and, later, Epworth
Seminary. Farming was his vocation in early life. In 1865 he removed
to Grundy County, continuing farming. In 1873 he removed to New
Hartford and engaged in hardware, lumber and implement business,
continuing this until 1900. He was also interested in banking at New
Hartford and Plainfield. In 1908 he was elected representative and
re-elected two years later, serving in the Thirty-third and
Thirty-fourth General Assemblies.
~Annals of Iowa, Vol XII, Notable Deaths, pg 560
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