Friederich C.H. Reimer was a
young man with very limited financial resources when
he established his home in Clayton County, more than
forty years ago, and the tangible results of his
earnest and honest endeavors are now shown forth in
his ownership of one of the well-improved and
valuable farms of the county.
He born in Germany, on the
25th of April, 1841, and is a son of John and Mary
(Meyer) Reimer, who passed their entire lives in
their native land, the subject of this review being
their only child.
Friederich C.H. Reimer was
reared and educated in his German fatherland and was
twenty nine years of age when he immigrated to
America. He passed the first five years in the state
of Illinois and then came to Iowa and established his
permanent home in Clayton county. He remained about
one year in the village of Elkport and then purchased
one hundred and sixty acres of land in Section 1,
Lodomillo township, from which he has developed
within the passing years his present valuable landed
estate of two hundred and twenty acres, the entire
property being improved according to the best modern
ideas, with its buildings of substantial order and
with everything about the place giving certain
evidence of thrift and prosperity.
Mr. Reimer has been
distinctly one of the world's productive workers but
he has not hedged himself in with the ambition for
personal advancement but has been loyal and liberal
as a citizen and taken deep interest in community
affairs of a public nature. His political allegiance
is given to the Democratic party, he served three
years as township trustee, and for nineteen years he
was retained in the position of road supervisor. He
is affiliated with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen
and both he and his wife became communicants of the
German Lutheran church when they were young, their
earnest Christian faith having been shown in kindly
thoughts and deeds and Mrs Reimer having been held in
affectionate regard by all who came within the sphere
of her gentle influence.
On the 13th of September,
1870, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Reimer to
Miss Fredrica C. Daunenfeldt, who likewise was born
in Germany, and the supreme loss and bereavement in
his life came when his loved wife and helpmeet was
summoned to the life eternal, her death having
occurred on the 26th March, 1900.
Of the five children the
first, William, died in childhood; Charles is a
prosperous farmer of Lodomillo township and
Friederich in Delaware county; Paul remains at the
paternal home has the active management of the farm,
and George now lives in the state of Montana.
source: History of
Clayton County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical
Times Down to the Present; by Realto E. Price,
Vol. II; pg. 344
-OCR scanned by S. Ferrall
