Alphons Rhomberg

As printed in 1911

Alphons L. Rhomberg, president of the Dubuque Star Brewing Company, and a man whose career has been intimately interwoven with the commercial interests of Dubuque, is a native of this city, his birth occurring November 2, 1857, an the eldest of four sons born to the old pioneer, Joseph A. Rhomberg, and wife, Catherina, appropriate mention of whom is made elsewhere in this publication. Alphons Rhomberg received his early education in the public and parochial schools of Dubuque, and later entered the Christian Brothers' College, now known as the Sacred Heart College, at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He then went abroad and pursued his studies in the institution known as Stella Matutina, at Feldkirch, Austria, after which he returned to America and for a year had charge of a silver mine in Park county, Colorado. He then came back to Dubuque and established himself in the wholesale wine business on Main street, manufacturing also an artificial champagne, from 1879 to 1881. In 1884 he journeyed south to Texas and for three years occupied the position of general superintendent of the Austin & Northwestern railroad, built and partly-owned by his father. In 1887 this road was sold to the Houston & Texas' Central Railway Company, but Mr. Rhomberg remained in Texas until 1895, engaged in the buying and selling of Texas land. He platted Aspermont, from which the name Rhomberg is derived, and which town is the county seat of Stonewall county, and also laid out the village of Clairemont, the county seat of Kent county. Upon his subsequent return to Dubuque Mr. Rhomberg associated himself with his father in the management of the Dubuque Street Railway, remaining thus until it was sold by them. In 1900 he became one of the organizers of the Eagle Point bridge, which crosses the Mississippi river to Wisconsin, and until 1907 was president of same. In March, 1910, he became president of the Dubuque Star Brewing Company, and has since been thus connected. In religious views Mr. Rhomberg is of the Roman Catholic faith, being a member of St. Mary's church, and socially is identified with the Dubuque Club. He is residing with his mother in the old Rhomberg homestead on West Seventh street.

As printed in History of Dubuque County, Iowa; being a general survey of Dubuque County history, including a history of the city of Dubuque and special account of districts throughout the county, from the earliest (1911). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.