store in Galena during the 1830s Joseph Russell Jones (1823–1909), politician, lawyer, merchant; became so successful that he built the Belvedere Mansion, the largest house in Galena, in 1857; U.S. Marshall for the Northern District; Minister Resident to Belgium; Collector of the Port of Chicago Lora Josephine Knight (1864-1945), philanthropist; born in Galena H. H. Kohlsaat (1853–1924), Chicago newspaper publisher; friend and adviser to five U.S. presidents Heinrich Lienhard (1822–1903), lived in Galena for a few months before emigrating to California; his writings are an important historical source for the history of the California Trail and Sutter's Fort in California 1846–1850 James D. Lynch (1839–1872), minister, first black Mississippi Secretary of State George Frederick Magoun (1821–1896), educator, taught school in Galena 1844–46; first president of Iowa College (1865–1885) and a founding trustee; a liberal president, permitting the teaching of evolution despite his personal disagreement with Darwin's work; after his retirement as college president, took a professorship in Mental and Moral Science at Iowa College (1884–1890) Father Samuel Mazzuchelli (1806–1864), Italian Catholic missionary and architect; designed, built, founded, and was pastor (1835–1843) of St. Michael's Church; designed and built St. Mary's Church in Galena (1860), among many others built in the tri-state area; architect of the first Jo Daviess County Courthouse (1839) and Old Market Town Hall (1845); declared venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1993, the first step to becoming a saint Robert H. McClellan (1823–1902), practiced law in Galena for most of his adult life; elected as a Republican to a term in the Illinois House of Representatives (1860–1862) and two terms in the Illinois Senate (1876–1880); edited the Galena Gazette; president of the Bank of Galena William Douglas McHugh (1859–1923), born in Galena and practiced law there, 1883–1888; general counsel to International Harvester Corporation in Chicago 1920–1923 Thomas McKnight (1787–1865), arrived in Galena as a miner and was appointed land receiver for the United States Land Office in Galena; served in the first Wisconsin Territorial Council in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature; opened the first smelt furnace business in Dubuque, Iowa; unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Iowa in 1846 Herman Melville (1819–1891), lived in Galena during the summer of 1840; his uncle was a prominent citizen in Galena in the 1840s Richard L. Murphy (1875–1936), senator from Iowa (1933–1936); began his journalism career at age 15 as a reporter for the Galena Gazette newspaper, 1890–1892 Charles Sreeve Peterson