Emil Kiene

As printed in 1911

Emil Kiene, proprietor of the Dubuque Rubber & Belting Company, with offices and warehouse at 422 Main street, Dubuque, was born in this city October 12, 1869, the son of Peter Kiene, St., appropriate mention of whom is made elsewhere in this publication. He received his scholastic training in the local ward and high schools, leaving the latter in his seventeenth year. He then entered the concern of which he is now head, which was founded by his father and brother Paul, and thoroughly mastered the details' of the rubber and belting business. In 1900 he bought out all interests in the company and has since conducted it alone. Aside from this he is interested in various other local enterprises. He is a member of the Dubuque Club and the Masonic fraternity, in which order he has attained the rank of Knight Templar. To his marriage with Miss Allye K. Knight, solemnized in Dubuque March 22, 1897, two daughters and two sons have been born, named Mabel A., Watkins K., Martha A. and George, all attending Fulton school in Dubuque. Mrs. Kiene is the daughter of the late W. J. and Mary Knight, the father at that time being district attorney for the Illinois Central Railroad Company. He died in February, 1908, preceded by his wife in 1888, and both are buried in Key West cemetery. Mr. Kiene and family reside at 73 Broadway, the home in which he was born.

Arthur D. Schiek, of the Dubuque Advertising Company, with offices in the Bank and Insurance building, Dubuque, is a native of Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and the son of Peter W. and Mary A. (Daniels) Schiek, who were of German and Scotch descent, respectively. The paternal grandfather came to America in 1820, and the mother's people have been residents of this country for many generations. Peter W. Schiek served the Union cause during the struggle between the North and South and was honorably discharged at the conclusion of the war with the rank of corporal in the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company D, which regiment under Generals Hancock, Howard, Sedgwick and others participated in most of the famous battles of the war, among them, 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, first and second Spottsylvania, Gettysburg and Appomattox. Arthur Daniels, a brother of Mrs. Schiek, also participated in the Civil war as a northern soldier, acting as secretary and aide de camp to General Sibley during the Indian uprising in Minnesota and Dakota and afterwards was sent south to Memphis, Tennessee, where he died from the fever. Arthur D. Schiek was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in his nineteenth year graduated from high school there. Shortly thereaxtei he entered the Pillsbury Flour Mills, serving a three and a half years' apprenticeship to the miller's trade, and then removed to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as a representative for the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, remaining in that territory about a year. He was then transferred to Dubuque, Iowa, where he continued his connection with the above named concern some two and a half years. In 1903 he established himself in the advertising business, with offices in the Bank and Insurance building, and has since been thus successfully engaged. On June 28, 1899, in Minneapolis, Mr. Schiek was united in marriage with IMiss Ora B. Harter, daughter of H. D. and Marietta Harter. Her father was a decorative painter for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road and was accidentally killed on August 24, 1908, in a train collision. Mrs. Harter is yet living and resides in Minneapolis. To Mr. and Mrs. Schiek two daughters have been born, as follows: Dorothy M., September 7, 1903, attending Lincoln School, and [name withheld], born June 28, 1907. The family are communicants of the First Congregational church.

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.