Leonard E. Likens (1886)

LIKENS, HAMMOCK, HAMMACK, HOLIWELL

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Winterset Madisonian - August 12, 1886
Winterset, Iowa
page 4

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From the Amador, Cal., SENTINEL, we learn of the murder of a former citizen of this county, Mr. Leonard E. Likens. For about ten years he had been engaged at the Keystone mines. His nephew, Frank Hammack, who was foreman of the mills, discovered him insensible in one of the rooms of the mill, where he had been chloroformed by burglars and struck on the head with a billet of wood, from the effects of which he afterwards died. Mr. Likens was a son-in-law of old Mr. Hammock, of Scott township, in this county, and brother-in-law of Geo. Holiwell, of the same township. In 1866-67 Mr. Likens was a farmer in Douglas township, and in the summer and fall of 1868 he kept a bakery and restaurant on the southeast corner of the square, and was burned out when the old wooden buildings that formerly stood there, were burned.