Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Neuer, Leopold 1829 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

LEOPOLD NEUER. This gentleman has been a resident of Joliet since 1873, and 
ranks among her successful citizens. He owns productive property and is 
largely interested in building and loan stock. He is a son of George and 
Walpurga Neuer, and was born in Bavaria, Germany, June 8, 1829. In his native 
land he followed the trade of a wagon-maker, but during the last six years of 
his life in Germany the hard-ships and privations of a soldier were his 
portion, his time being spent in the army. On the 24th of February, 1857, he 
landed in New York, drawn thither by glowing accounts of the possibilities 
offered in the New World and thoroughly tired of the rigors and contracted 
opportunities of the old. Going directly to Chicago, Mr. Neuer took up his 
trade of wagon-making, but after three months went to Manistee, Mich., and 
worked in a sawmill. Returning to Chicago he succeeded in spending what money 
he had accumulated, after which his next move was to go upon a farm, where he 
remained until after the breaking out of the Civil War. Moved by patriotic 
impulses which strongly contrasted with the feelings which were his when he 
entered the military service of the Fatherland, he enlisted November 1, 1862, 
in the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry. After eleven months spent with that 
command he re-enlisted as a member of Battery D, First Illinois Artillery. 
With this command he remained nineteen months, making a good record as a 
soldier, his previous discipline in the German army being of avail in giving 
him a vivid understanding of orders and a readiness in fulfilling them which a 
raw recruit would scarcely have. Wherever his battery was engaged there he was 
found always ready for duty. After the war was over Mr. Neuer returned to 
Chicago, where in 1865, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Eichorn. He opened 
a saloon in Madison, Cook County, but in a few years took up his abode in 
Joliet. He belongs to Bartelson Post, No. 6, G. A. R., to the Sharp-shooter's 
organization, and to the Kreiger-Verein or German Soldier Society.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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