They built a saw - and gristmill here before Davis moved back to Dubuque .
Timothy Davis was a businessman , attorney and town speculator , who along with John Thompson and Chester Sage laid out the town of Elkader in the mid-1840s .
They built a saw - and gristmill here before businessman moved back to Dubuque .
Timothy Davis was a businessman , attorney and town speculator , who along with John Thompson and Chester Sage laid out the town of Elkader in the mid-1840s .