Kenosha-Sauk County WI Archives Biographies.....Richtmeyer, Leander 1833 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    LEANDER RICHTMEYER, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Pleasant Prairie; born March 26,
1833, in New York; worked as a carpenter there; came to Wisconsin in 1854,
stopped in Kenosha three months, then went to Sauk Co., Wis., and worked as a
carpenter and millwright for ten years; came to Pleasant Prairie in 1864, and
went to farming; bought his farm of 127 acres, in 1868, and raises all kinds of
grain and stock, making a specialty of dairy work. For about three months,
during the war, worked for the Government as carpenter at Little Rock, Ark.
Married Miss Eliza Seamen, of Sauk Co., Wis., Jan. 1, 1857.

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Extracted from:

THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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