DALE W. KREMER.

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         Among the agriculturists of Wapello township, Louisa county, who are numbered among the substantial farmers and representative citizens and who have achieved success and surrounded themselves with prosperity by their own exertions and persevering efforts, is Dale W. Kremer, whose birth occurred in this county on the 14th of September, 1861. His parents, W. S. and Elizabeth E. (Whicher) Kremer, have for many years been residents of Wapello, Iowa, where the father has continuously been connected with public affairs for an extensive period. He has served as mayor of the city and in various other . . .

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. . . important offices, and is now acting as county surveyor of Louisa county, which position he has filled for fifty-four years, an unparalleled record in this county.

         During the period of his boyhood and youth Dale W. Kremer was afforded such educational advantages as was possible in the early ‘70s, which he utilized to the best possible advantage. He attended the public school until he was fifteen years of age, when he entered the high school at Wapello, from which institution he was graduated in due course of time. Three winters were then spent in study at Howe Academy, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, after which he took up the profession of teaching and was thus engaged in the schools of Louisa county for three years. He proved a capable and successful teacher, clearly and readily imparting to others the knowledge which he had himself acquired, but feeling that he might find a more congenial and profitable field along agricultural lines he retired from that profession to enter farming pursuits. Purchasing a tract of eighty acres from his father he has since given his attention to its development and improvement, in which undertaking he has prospered. He gives careful attention to the cultivation of his fields, raising the various grains and cereals best adapted to soil and climate, and also devotes considerable time to his stock-raising interests, in which he makes a specialty of White Wyandotte chickens.

         On the 13th of September, 1886, Mr. Kremer was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Jamison, who was born in Newport, Iowa, a daughter of J. W. and Rachel Jamison. This union has been blessed with two children, namely: Clara Pearl, who married John A. Vogelgesang of Burlington, Iowa; and Nellie M., residing at home.

         The parents are members of the Christian church, and Mr. Kremer gives his support to the republican party. Although he served as assessor for three years by appointment he is not a politician in the usually accepted sense of office seeking. However he has ever remained loyal to the best interests of the community in which he makes his home and has manifested those qualities which stand for honorable manhood and desirable citizenship. He is a man of high moral character, industrious, enterprising and honest, and is numbered among the intellectual and substantial residents of Wapello township.