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Isaac Wimmer, a farmer of Lamar Township, and the owner of 240 acres of fertile land, has been a resident of Barton County since 1882. He was born in Union County, Ind., in 1827, and is a son of William and Sarah (Templeton) Wimmer, both Virginians, who emigrated to Indiana in 1818, being among the early settlers of Union County. Later they went to Miami County, where the father died in June, 1888, at the advanced age of ninety-four years, having been a soldier in the War of 1812. He took an active interest in politics, and was first a Whig, and then became a Republican. He and wife were members of the Dunkard Church. After the death of his wife, which occurred in 1858, he married again, his second wife being Nancy Carr, who died in 1881. He reared a family of eight children by his first wife, all of whom are now living: Fleming, who is a farmer of Adair County, Iowa; James, a farmer of Miami County, Ind.; Hannah, wife of Lewis Phillips, of Miami County, Ind.; John, a carpenter of Somerset, Ind.; Sarah, now Mrs. Keller, of Wabash, Ind.; Isaac; William P., who resides in Grant County, Ind.; and Mary, wife of Morris Chris, of Miami County, Ind. Isaac Wimmer was reared on a farm, and at the age of twenty-one years went to Somerset, Ind., and began working at the carpenter’s trade, which he followed until 1855, when he bought a farm of 160 acres in Miami County, which he improved, and there made his home till 1859, when he sold it and bought 160 acres in Grant County, which he also sold in 1882. Since that time he has resided in Barton County on his present farm. He is a Republican in his political opinions, and is a member of the I. O. O. F. Miss Malinda Minnick became his wife in 1852. She was born in Wayne County, Ind., and by Mr. Wimmer became the mother of seven children: James M., who is now a clerk in the War Department at Washton, D. C; Frances Adaline, wife of William M. McGrew, M. D., of La Fontaine, Ind.; William, in Colorado; Winfield Scott, a merchant of Neosho Rapids, Kan.; Isaac Newton, a farmer of the county; Oliver P., and George Glenn.