CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
DEMAIN LEDWICH.
Demain Ledwich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ledwich. was educated in the city schools of Harlan and in the Harlan high school. Mr. Ledwich early exhibited fine talent as a business man, accountant and bookkeeper, receiving his training in the pioneer lumber yard of his father, Thomas Ledwich, at Harlan. Later he went to the city of Omaha, where he became the head of a verv large wholesale and retail lumber yard which he yet owns and manages. He has been very successful in his business, which he follows steadily and with a broad view of its future.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 558.
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