Emanuel Leybig

LEYBIG, MILLER, SHIRER

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/23/2002 at 22:58:21

Emanuel Leybig resides on section 13, where he settled in the fall of 1857. He purchased his farm of unimproved land of Joseph Miller, in June, 1856. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1827; his father, Jacob Leybig, was a native of Somerset county, that state, dying there in his eighty-seventh year. Mr. Leybig came to Chickasaw county, Iowa, in the spring of 1856. His first wife was Rebecca Shirer, a native of Ohio. She died in 1880. His present wife was a half sister of his first wife. He has eight children by his first marriage – Mary E., Eliza J., Christiana, Jacob V., Carrie, Emma, Elizabeth and Ida. His farm contains 106 ½ acres.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 551