CHARLES NEIMEYER
Charles Neimeyer is a native of Butler county, Ohio, being born in 1858 and is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Art) Neimeyer, natives of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. They were married in Pennsylvania, after which they immediately removed to Ohio, going all the way in a one-horse wagon. Here Jacob Neimeyer embarked in the gunsmith business which he followed until 1850, when he went to California, going by way of Cape Horn. Here he was engaged in the mines, where he succeeded in accumulating a magnificent fortune. He remained in California about a year, when he returned to Ohio and built a saw-mill and purchased land for the lumber upon it. The land increased vastly in value, and he afterwards sold it for a nice speculation, which brought $36,500. la 1861 he went to Pennsylvania, where he purchased one hundred acres of land in Bucks county. Here he found mineral, for which he was afterwards offered $350,000. He remained at this place about three years, accumulating property estimated at one million dollars. In 1865 he went to the oil regions and in 1866, settled at Georgetown, Kentucky, where he again found mineral, but which did not prove successful. He lost everything he had on account of the company abandoning him. He then returned to Ohio and in 1869 came to Atlantic where he engaged at his trade--that of gunsmith--which he followed until his death, which occurred July, 16, 1884. Charles Neimeyer was educated in the district school, not having the advantages of an academic education. He came with his parents to Atlantic in 1869, where he has since remained. He was married July 16, 1883, to Verde McDermott, a daughter of J. B. McDermott, a native of Ohio, who resides in Benton township. Mr. Neimeyer is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows and politically is a staunch Republican. Mr. Neimeyer is a young man of marked business ability, and is fast gaining a competency.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 872.
