Jackson-Dubuque County IA Archives Biographies.....Schenk, Capt. John 
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Source: Bellevue Leader
Author: Dubuque Times

Bellevue Leader, Bellevue, Iowa, January 2, 1902

Captain John Schenk

The Dubuque Times says: Capt. John Schenk of Gordon’s Ferry was in the city 
Friday on business. He has been a resident of that place for about sixty 
years. Capt. Schenk has made a record in a way that would be considered 
hazardous. He has been the first man for at least fifty years to cross the ice 
after the freezing up of the river in the fall and the last to cross it in the 
spring. He has had many narrow escapes from a watery grave and on several 
occasions he broke in with his team, but always managed to get out all right. 
He does all his trading in Galena and takes a short cut in winter by crossing 
on the ice. County Auditor Weimer, who as a boy, knew the captain well, says 
he is a man of great nerve and that such a little thing as breaking through 
the ice, does not even jar him.


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