The Crowley Family of Scott County, Iowa

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J. W. Crowley

J. W. Crowley ⚭ Augusta Keuhl

childrenHelen G. Crowley · Walter L. Crowley · Raymond J. Crowley · Frances R. Crowley · Emmett A. Crowley

Source: History of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa (1910)

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Railway construction superintendent/contractor in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa.
Worked on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
Joined Flynn & Williams Construction Co. 1887.
Superintendent of steel-department construction in Moline, Illinois 1896.
Davenport board of local improvements inspector of construction 1897.
Superintendent of construction and bridge work for Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern Railway until 1900.
Organized Crowley & Diehn Construction Co. (president), reorganized April 1902 as the People's Construction Co. Father worked on railway construction after coming from New Jersey to the Mississippi valley, died after ill health.
Mother living at age 82.
Catholic.
Member of the Elks, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters, Hibernians, Modern Woodmen of America, Woodmen of the World, and Knights of Father Matthew.
Wife Augusta Keuhl of German parentage.

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