LANDER, H. C.

LANDER, PATTERSON, ROGERS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 21:04:54

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

LANDER, H. C, keeper of city prison ; born in Pickaway Co., Ohio, in 1832 ; came to Keokuk in 1851 ; engaged in the bakery business until 1854; then went on the survey of the Keokuk & Des Moines Ry. ; continued in that business a short time, and went in the Post Office under Col. Wm. Patterson, remained there until 1 856 ; from 1856 to 1860, he was foreman of Patterson & Timberman's slaughtering house; in 1860, Mr. Lander met with an accident in the mill of Paul & Hyatt, which laid him up for one year; from 1861 until 1862, he was wharf master ; then went into the army as sutler of the 25th Mo. V. I. ; came back in 1866, and started a restaurant ; kept it until 1870; then was elected keeper of city prison ; has held the position since, except one year, when he served as Justice of the Peace. Married Miss Mary L. Rogers in 1854, of Clinton, Ohio ; Mrs. Lander is the daughter of J. M. Rogers, a well-known old settler, who came here in 1846 (now living in Warren Co., this State) ; they have one child—Wm. H., born in 1855. Mr. L. is President of the Young America Fire Department, also, one of the charter members of the Free-for-all Church ; belongs to the choir ; Mrs. L. is a member of the M. E. Church. Mr. Lander is a Republican.

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

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879