HERMAN D. REIMERS.
Herman D. Reimers, a native of Rock Island county, Illinois, born on January 1, 1877, who owns eighty acres of land in Audubon township, may rightly be said to own one of the best-improved farms in all Audubon county. Mr. Reimers' farm is thoroughly fenced with hog-tight woven wire fence and, altogether, there has been placed on the farm more than eight hundred rods of this fence.
A man who has made a remarkable success of farming, Herman D. Reimers is a son of Claus and Maggie (Dutlef) Reimers, both natives of Holstein, Germany, who came to the United States in 1871 and who, after landing at New York city, came direct to Rock Island county, Illinois, where they lived until 1882. At this time they came to Audubon county, Iowa, where they lived until 1895, when the father gave each of his sons eighty acres of land and removed to Adair, Iowa, where he now lives. His wife, the mother of Herman D. Reimers, died in November, 1913. There were five boys in the Reimers family who lived to maturity and three daughters died in childhood. The sons are, August, of Audubon township; John, of Moline, Illinois; William, of Sedgwick county, Kansas; Amos, of Adair county, and Herman D., the subject of this sketch.
After having lived at home with his parents until they left the farm, Herman D. Reimers began working out and, after a few years, was married and settled on the farm which his father gave him. It was partially improved, having a good house and a few other small buildings. In 1914 he built a large barn, forty-eight by thirty-two by twenty feet, and aside from these dimensions, the farm has a large basement, and is one of the best in Audubon township. It was built at a cost of about twelve hundred dollars.
On January 23, 1900, Mr. Reimers was married to Kate Wahe, who was born on August 25, 1882, in Rock Island county, Illinois, and is the daughter of John and Marguerite (Meeder) Wahe, also natives of Holstein, Germany, the former of whom came to the United States in 1873, eight months before the remainder of the family. The father came first in order to earn money to pay the passages of his wife and one child, one other child having died a few days before sailing time. After landing in New York city, they came direct to Rock Island county, Illinois, where they lived until about 1887, when they moved to Adams county, Nebraska. After living here for about seven years, they came to Audubon county and located near Exira, where they lived for five years; subsequently, they moved to Adair county.
Mr. and Mrs. Reimers are the parents of three children: Laura, born February 5, 1902; Lillian, August 25, 1905, and Elmer, July 14, 1911.
Although Mr. Reimers is a Republican nominally, he is a Socialist in principle, and leans very strongly toward the socialization of all industries. He is one of the best informed men of Audubon township, especially in matters of politics. The Reimers family are members of St. John's Lutheran church.
Herman D. Reimers has proved a valuable citizen in the community where he lives. He is endowed with a natural capacity for leadership and is a man whose counsel and advice are sought freely on many questions. Naturally, he is a man of upright and honorable character.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 766-767.
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