New Vienna was settled by Germans with assistance from the Emperor of Austria. It was founded in 1843.
St. Boniface Catholic Church was established for the local families that established New Vienna. This church is notable for its late 19th-century William Schuelke pipe organ, one of the few original remaining Schuelke Organs. Except for an electric blower, it has been basically unaltered since installation.
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The history of Dubuque County, Iowa1880 · page 381Read the page →
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Some settlements were made in Vernon and Taylor Townships, and a colony was established at New Vienna by Germans, where schoolhouses, blacksmithshops, grocery stores, a mill, tavern, church and other buildings were put up. The colonists belonged chiefly to the Catholic denomination, and were a frugal, industrious people.
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and at first worshiped in a frame house near the bridge on Main street, under the ministrations of Rev. Fr. Langfelz. who, after five months, departed and the congregation was supplied from New Vienna. Soon a brick church was erected and in 1862 Rev. Fr. Kortenkamp became pastor and the congregation again became a separate parish. Among the first members were the families of Stoeckel, Schindler, Goerdt. Schultz, Holscher, Steger. Christoph, Henry, Burkle, Reittenger, Kramer, Stoeckl, Stockerl and others.
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University. He then taught for a time in the public schools of Delaware county, Iowa, later entering the Chicago Homeopathic College and graduating therefrom in 1890 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Until 1896 he practiced his profession at New Vienna, Dubuque county, then returned to Chicago and took a one year's course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1900 he spent a number of months in Europe, doing hospital work. He located for eleven years at Dyersville and then took a post-graduate course
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