Joseph Wiedemeier, farmer, Grant Township, was born in Westpfahlen, Germany, in September, 1844. He was reared to farm work, and when twenty-five years of age was united in marriage with Miss Veronika Thieleke. In 1870 they came to America, and first located in Carroll City, where they resided one year. Mr. Wiedemeier worked on the railroad the first year. He bought eighty acres of land of the Iowa Railroad Land Company, and in 1871 settled upon the same. He has added to his first purchase until he now owns 284 acres of as good land as can be found in Carroll County. It is all in a good state of cultivation and well improved. He has a good house, a commodious barn for grain and stock, and a native grove of two and a half acres. Mr. and Mrs. Wiedemeier are the parents of six children — Joseph, Anton, Mary, Matilda, Josephine and Veronike. In politics Mr. Wiedemeier is a Democrat. Religiously, he belongs to the Catholic church. In 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Wiedemeier visited Germany and spent three months in their native land.

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