WI BIO - Kenosha Co - RICHTMEYER, Leander

History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western 
Historical, 1879, p 706

Leander RICHTMEYER, farmer, Section 17, Pleasant Prairie Township, Kenosha 
County, Wisconsin, P.O. Pleasant Prairie, was born 26 March 1833 in New York, 
where he worked as a carpenter. He came to Wisconsin in 1854, stopped in 
Kenosha for three months, then went to Sauk County, Wisconsin, and worked as 
a carpenter and millwright for ten years. For about three months during the 
[Civil] War, he worked for the Government as a carpenter at Little Rock 
[Pulaski County], Arkansas.

On 01 January 1857 he [Leander RICHTMEYER] married Miss Eliza SEAMEN of Sauk 
County, Wisconsin, and in 1864 came to Pleasant Prairie and commenced 
farming. In 1868 Leander RICHTMEYER bought his farm of 127 acres, on which 
he raises all kinds of grain and stock, making a specialty of dairy work.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly