Notes for Sebastian Schleicher
The following text (relation to known Schleicher unknown...may be son of Sebastian) is found in the book, "The Annals of Iowa, A Historical Quarterly, Vol. 16, 3rd Series, edited by Edgar R. Harlan, Curator, published by the Historical Department of Iowa, Des Moines, 1927-1929 (State Historical Society of Iowa):
Joseph Martin Schleicher was born in Baden, Germany, March 19, 1839, and died at the home of a daughter at Algona, Iowa, April 6, 1927. Burial was at Humboldt. He immigrated to America, locating in Ohio, in 1850, and removed to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1854. He enlisted in Company E, Fifth Iowa Calvary, September 2, 1861, and was mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, as third sergeant August 11, 1865. He removed to Humboldt County in 1867 and the next year homesteaded in Wacousta Township. He helped organize the Grand Army postes at Livermore and Dakota City, was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County in 1882, and was elected representative in 1887 and served in the Twenty-second General Assembly.
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