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Permanent LinkRepresentative Christian Anton Voelker View All Years
CHRISTIAN A. VOELKER, SR., was born at Hoekenheim, Baden, Germany, August 16, 1850, and died in Dubuque, Iowa, August 13, 1925. When he was four months old his parents, Leopold and Magdelena Voelker, immigrated to America and located in Dubuque. He was educated in Trinity Parochial School, now St. Mary’s. He learned the chair making trade but in 1873 established a dry goods and clothing store. In 1890 he entered the insurance business, and later, real estate, in which he attained great success. About 1915 he caused to be organized the Voelker Realty Company, of which he was president. He was also interested in many other of the large business concerns of the city. In 1886 he was elected mayor of Dubuque and served two years, and in 1896 was elected representative and served in the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, declining further political service.