Leimberer, Jacob

LEIMBERER, LOWELL

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:45:35

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

LEIMBERER, JACOB—Jefferson Twp—pg 968. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 2, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born December 27, 1820, in Germany, where, after completing his education, he engaged in tilling the soil till he came to America in 1853, stopping in Chicago the following winter. Then in the spring of 1854 he moved with his family to Muscatine county, Iowa, where he engaged as laborer and in farming until 1859, when he came to this county and settled where he now lives and owns two hundred and sixty acres of well-improved land in this and Tama county. Mr. Leimberer was married in 1849, in Germany, to Miss T. Lowell, a native of the same country; aged twenty-four. They have three children living: oldest son, M. (aged twenty-nine; married and lives in Jefferson), Emiline (aged seventeen), Wesley (aged fourteen); have buried four children.