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Title: A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Fremont County (Iowa) -- Biography Mills County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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onroecounty, where he remained until 1870. whenhe came to Mills county, and in 1874 lo-cated on section 13, ^^hite Cloud township,where he now resides. )Mr. Salyers was married, May 26, 1853,to Melissa Z. Copeland, a native of Indiana.There were born to them five children, ofwhom four are now li\-ing,—George M.,James M., AMlliam S. and Robert F. Mr.Salyers has lived in Iowa forty-four years.In politics his parents were Democrats, buthe first voted the Know Nothing ticket andhas been a prominent Republican ever since. ANDREW BERKHEIMER. Among the honored and highly respectedcitizens of Mills county, who have for manyyears been identified with its agricultural in-terests and ha\-e met with success in theirchosen calling is Andrew Berkheimer. Hewas born in York county, Pennsylvania,on the 17th of March, 1832. his parents be-ing George and Lydia Berkheimer. Theyalso were natives of the Keystone state,where they spent their entire lives, the fa-ther dying when about se\enty years of age.
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MR. AND MRS. ANDREW BERKHEIMER f TR¥ YJT TORrPUBLIC LIBRART A>., ■.;. - -f • A ;•< U i BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 499 and his wife passins^ awa) :il the age ofsixtv-se\en. Thev were farniiiii^ pec^ple anden.joxed the high regard of all who knewthem, owinij to their manv excellencies ofcharacter. (^ur subject was reared in the mannerof most farmer boys of his day, aiding inthe cultivation of the fields and other farmwork, and attending the district schools nearhis boyhood home. In 184^. at the age ofseventeen years, .Mr. Ikrkheimer left the pa-ternal roof and went to Michigan, drivinga team from his old home t) St. Josephcounty, that state. In the same year he lo-cated in Kalamazoo county, wliere he madeh.is home for four years, being engaged inagricultural pursuits, lie then made a tourth.rough the west, visiting Illinois and Iowa.1)ut returned to Michigan, and did not locate))ermanentl) in this state until 1S3S. whenhe took u\) liis residence in Mills county.He purchased sixt

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