Reimers, Julius

REIMERS, STELCKE

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/25/2006 at 11:50:52

REIMERS, JULIUS

Julius Reimers, thrifty farmer of Richland township, Lyon county, was born in Germany July 13, 1863, and while still in the prime of life has won for himself a most creditable standing in the land of his adoption. His father, Jerome Reimers, was a lifelong farmer in the Fatherland, and there he died full of years and of honor.

The subject of this narrative grew up and attended common school in his German home. When he was sixteen he began work for himself, learning the carpenter trade at which he became very proficient. In 1882 he crossed the ocean seeking a larger life for himself, and greater opportunity for industry and courage, which he knew was to be found in the land of freedom under the starry banNer. He landed at New York, and came straight through to Clinton county, Iowa, where he found employment for a time as a carpenter. Ten years later he removed to Lyon county, where he bought a farm and entered at once upon its cultivation. Here he has since remained and by good management and untiring work has become prosperous.

Mr. Reimers was married June 2, 1885, to Miss Helena Stelcke, a native of Germany, where she was born October 14, 1867. To this marriage have come four children: Clara, Emma, Linda and Edna. Linda died in 1892. The youngest child was born in Lyon county, the others in Ida county.

Mr. Reimers is like his brother, a Democrat, but devotes his attention very closely to his farming operations. While his farm is not large according to the expansive west, it comprises one hundred and twenty-two acres, and has a fine set of farm buildings. It is under thorough cultivation, and presents every evidence of most careful management. It has a farm grove, which Mr. Reimers set out himself, and which is a charming feature of the landscape, being both sightly and useful.

Source: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Lyon County, Iowa. Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach Sec’y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905

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