Bio of REEMS, Samuel, Wright Co., MN
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437   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

Samuel Reems, a pioneer of Frankfort township, was born in Pennsylvania, 
son of George Reems. George Reems came of an early colonial family. He 
served in the Revolutionary War under George Washington and Anthony Wayne,
often trudging bare-footed and starving through the snow in order that 
liberty might reign throughout the colonies. He lived in the thirteenth 
house erected in the city of Philadelphia. From George Reems and his two 
brothers, Uriah and Benjamin, are supposed to have descended all the Reems 
families now found in the United States. Samuel Reems came from what is 
now West Virginia in 1854, and took a claim of 160 acres in Frankfort 
township, on the banks of the Crow river, several miles from where it 
empties into the Mississippi river. At that time the Indians ranged the 
country, and the first spring he was here they made sugar from the sap of 
the maples on his place. He erected a log cabin, brought supplies from St. 
Paul on his back, put in his first corn and potatoes in the virgin sod with 
an ax, and gradually cleared the land. He died in 1892 at the age of 103 
years, seven months and three days. The mother had died at Montrose, this 
county, in 1854, when the family was on its way here to settle. Samuel 
Reems was married in West Virginia to Nancy Dorcy, a native of Connecticut, 
and nine children were born: Samuel, Virginia, Catherine, George, James, 
William, Stephen, Sarah Ann and Joseph.  Three of these sons were veterans 
of the Civil War.  Joseph and Sarah Ann were twins.