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Leander B. Remick

Leander B. Rcmick, a successful and enterprising citizen of Jefferson, Iowa, was born in Maine in 1834 and is a son of Francis and Mary (Boardman) Remick. the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Maine. During his boyhood days the father accompanied his parents on their removal to the Pine Tree state, where he cleared and improved the homestead. By trade he was a ship carpenter and followed that occupation in early life but later devoted his attention to farming. Being industrious and frugal in his habits, success attended his well directed efforts to secure a competence and he never went in debt, owing no man a dollar. He attended the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife was an earnest member. He was a man of strong convictions, but charitably inclined, and was an ardent whig in politics. After a useful and well spent life he passed away at the age of seventy-four years, and his wife died in 1870 at the age of seventy-two years. She was a representative of a noted family, of which George Dana was a missionary, and she was the mother of seven children.

Leander B. Remick was reared to agricultural pursuits, his father owning a good, well stocked farm, and in the country schools he began his education, later pursuing a high-school course in his native place - West Mills, Maine. During his residence in the east he continued to engage in farming but after his removal to Illinois established a store in Prairie Center, which he conducted for two years. In 1875 he came to Iowa and located in Jefferson, having traded for four hundred acres of land in Dawson township, Greene county. Besides this property he owned another farm one mile east of Jefferson, on which he located after living in the city for two years and remained three years. He then returned to Jefferson, where he has since made his home and is now living retired, enjoying in well earned ease the fruits of former toil. A practical and progressive business man, he met with signal success in all his undertakings and is today the owner of some valuable property, including a section of land in Oklahoma. He was one of the organizers of the Jefferson Savings Bank, of which he is now a director and vice president. and in business circles he occupies an enviable position.

In 1859 Mr. Remick was married to Miss Helen Day, of Maine, who died in 1870, leaving no children. and in 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Mott, who was born in New York state in 1844 and was the sixth in order of birth in a family of ten children, her parents being Ebenezer B. and Susan (Marsh) Mott, also natives of New York. The father was of English descent and a farmer by occupation. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Remick have been born six children: Nellie B., wife of Charles White, assistant cashier of the Jefferson Savings Bank; Ralph, deceased; Mary, who is engaged in teaching in the Jefferson high school; Leander, deceased; Fay and Taine, at home.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Remick hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and are highly respected by all who know them. He also affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a staunch supporter of the republican party. While a resident of Illinois he filled the oflices of justice of the peace and constable and has always been found true to every trust reposed in him whether public or private.

Transcribed from "Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead,"
by E. B. Stillman assisted by an Advisory Board consisting of Paul E. Stillman, Gillum S. Toliver,
Benjamin F. Osborn, Mahlon Head, P. A. Smith and Lee B. Kinsey, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907.

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