Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Remick, John H. 1830 - 
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 JOHN H. REMICK, one of the prominent residents of the village of Dassel, and a
leading pioneer of the county of McLeod, was born in Painesville, Ohio, August 26,
1830. His father died when he was quite young, and the family was broken up, and for
a time he was an inmate of the household of his grandfather. When about thirteen he
commenced life by hiring out at whatever he could find to do, and at sixteen began
to learn the blacksmith’s trade. In the spring of 1863 he determined to seek a new
home in the growing West and carve out his own fortune, and came to Minnesota and
settled at Hutchinson, McLeod county, in May of that year. Eeturning to Ohio the
next fall, he, in company with S. A. Bunting, purchased a drove of fifteen horses,
which were shipped by boat to Milwaukee, from which port they drove to this country,
selling what they could on the way. Closing out the balance on his arrival at
Hutchinson, he returned to the “Buckeye State” for his family, and returned the same
fall and took up a homestead of 160 acres of land on section 20, Hutchinson
township, McLeod county, and commenced its improvement. There he remained, quietly
engaged in agricultural pursuits, until 1877, and by diligence and industry had
increased his farm to 300 acres. -He sold this place and personal property, about
1879, for $4,700. In 1877 he came to Dassel, this county, and commenced running the
Dassel House, and continued to cater to the wants of the traveling public until
1882. During the summer of that year ho engaged in his old trade of blacksmith, but
on the 1st of January, 1883, went into the saloon business in the village, with J.
S. Larson. The February following their place was destroyed by fire, with a loss of
$2,500, only part of which was insured. In company with J. S. Larson and William
Gallagher, he then commenced the erection of a new hotel, the new Dassel House, the
old one having been burned. On the completion of this hotel, which is of brick and
cost some $4,500, he again opened a saloon, and remained in that business until
1886, when he closed it out, and since that time has given his attention to the
cultivation of a farm which he bought in 1881. This contains some forty acres, and
adjoins the town site. He is also engaged in the letting of livery rigs.

   Among the leading prohibitionists of the county, there is none who is better
known than Mr. Remick, who, being thoroughly acquainted with the traffic in liquor,
knows its evil, and is quite active in the movement looking to its suppression.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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