READER, L. B.

READER, GELANDER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/30/2019 at 14:56:58

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

READER, L. B. , manufacturer and dealer in cigars and tobacco ; was born in Montgomery Co., Penn., April 5, 1846 ; he was brought up in Pennsylvania, and came to Iowa in 1868 ; lived in Clinton two years, then in Cedar Rapids; came here in 1872; in 1875, he engaged in the cigar and tobacco business, and has built up a good trade. He married Miss Matilda Gelander in October, 1872; she was born in Virginia and was raised here ; they have one daughter— Lottie.

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

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879