Wilmer Sheeder.

As printed in 1907

WILMER SHEEDER..

W'ihnen Sheeder, proprietor of the Oakdale Stock Farm, and the youngest member of the family of William Sheeder, was born in Guthrie county, August 27, 1869. No history of this county would be complete without extended mention (-if William Sheeder, the father, who is spoken of at length on another page of this work in connection with the sketches of his sons, George and Joseph Sheeder. He came from Pennsylvania, his native state, to Iowa at an early day in the development and upbuilding of the county and became closely associated with its agricultural progress and while promoting his individual prosperity, also added to the general welfare by bringing vast sections of the land under cultivation and reclaiming the wild prairie for the use of the white race. He entered land from the government at the time of his arrival here and as the years passed and his crops and stock brought him good financial returns he kept adding to his property until at his death he was one of the most extensive landowners of the state, his possessions aggregating over forty-seven hundred acres of land in Guthrie County. He died on the 19th of January, 1900, having for more than two years survived his wife, who passed away on the 5th of October, 1897.

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As printed in Past and present of Guthrie County, Iowa : together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead (1907). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.