CORIELL, JULIAN D.

CORIELL, HESSER

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

MADISON TOWNSHIP
(P. O. FORT MADISON)

CORIELL, JULIAN D., grocer; born in Dubuque in March, 1840 ; when 10 years of age, his parents came to Ft. Madison, where he was brought up ; his father was one of the Government Commissioners who laid out this city. Julian enlisted July, 1861,7th Reg. Iowa Inf., Co. D ; served eighteen months ; afterward served two years in the Navy ; after the war, he was engaged in the book and stationery business ; he went to Montana, thence to California ; remained eight years on the Pacific coast. He was in the Government Survey establishing the boundary line between Washington Territory and Idaho ; he held the office of Deputy Sheriff of Stevens Co., Washington Territory ; Mr. Coriell has a rare collection of old books, the best in Lee Co., some of them being of great age. He married Miss Jane Hesser, daughter of Fred Hesser, Esq., of this city, in December, 1876.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879