Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Niemeyer, H W 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

H. W. Niemeyer, a leading and influential citizen of the village of Crete, is 
serving as its president, in which connection he displays a public-spirited 
and active interest in its welfare and substantial development. He has also 
figured prominently in business circles here as a contractor and builder. He 
was born in Hanover, Germany, October 28, 1851, a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. 
Niemeyer, who were likewise natives of the fatherland, whence they emigrated 
to the new world when their son, H. W. Niemeyer, was a little lad of five 
summers. Mr. Niemeyer settled in Will county about four miles east of Crete. 
He was a carpenter by trade and followed that pursuit in connection with 
farming. His death occurred, however, in the village of Crete when he was 
seventy-three years of age. H. W. Niemeyer, the eldest of the family of ten 
children, learned the carpenter's trade under the direction of his father. In 
1877 he removed to Peoria, Illinois, where he followed carpentering for a few 
years, after which he returned to Crete and for seven years was manager of the 
Crete Manufacturing Company, the output of which was sash, doors and blinds. 
This factory, however, was burned in 1895 and for a short time Mr. Niemeyer 
was salesman for a Chicago house engaged in manufacturing similar products. 
Three years ago the firm of Niemeyer & Luecke was formed. They did a general 
contracting and building business, including both frame and brick structures, 
and many of the finest residences and business houses in Crete and the 
surrounding country stand as monuments to their thrift, enterprise and 
handiwork. About March 1, 1907, this partnership was dissolved. In 1874 
occurred the marriage of Mr. Niemeyer and Miss Bertha Knabe, a native of 
Saxony, Germany, who came to Will county when a year old. Mr. and Mrs. 
Niemeyer have eight children, of whom six are living, Rose and Minnie being 
both deceased. Those who still survive are Bertha the wife of William Reckow, 
living in Steger, Illinois; Mrs. Anna Teifke, of Will county; Mary, the wife 
of Julius Reckow; Amanda, who is clerking at Chicago Heights; Clara, a 
teacher; and Walter, at home. The family occupy a beautiful residence on North 
Main street which was built by Mr. Niemeyer three years ago. He is a member of 
the German Lutheran church, in which faith the family have been reared. In 
politics he is a stalwart republican, giving firm and unfaltering support to 
the principles of his party. He was a member of the village board for twelve 
years and president one term during that time, and he is now serving for the 
second term as president of the village. His interest in the public-welfare is 
manifest by his support of all those measures and movements which tend to 
promote general improvement here, and he has exercised his official 
prerogatives so that they have been an element for the good of the village.

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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