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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 521]

  JACOB LAUER is one of the well-known early settlers of the county,
  having settled in Pilot Township in 1867.  He was born in Miami
  County, Ohio, ten miles northwest of Troy, May 14, 1839.  His father,
  JOSEPH LAUER, was a native of Germany; he was left an orphan at an
  early age, and was brought to Pennsylvania in his youth, and grew to
  manhood in that State; he was married to CATHERINE SMITH, a native of
  Germany, who was also reared in Pennsylvania.  She died in Sacramento,
  California.  JOSEPH LAUER is still living in Oregon at the advanced
  age of ninety years.  JACOB LAUER passed the first ten years of his
  life in his native county.  The family then removed to Mitchell County,
  Iowa, where he lived until 1866.  Not being thoroughly satisfied with
  his location he took a trip through Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, and
  spent the winter of 1866 in Council Bluffs.  In the spring of 1867 he
  took a homestead of eighty acres on which he now resides; he owns 216
  acres upon which he has made many improvements; he has a comfortable
  residence, a good barn, and a fine grove; he devotes himself to general
  farming.  Mr. LAUER was married January 28, 1863, to Miss ANNA MARIE
  MOLYNEUX, one of the early settlers of the county.  By this union were
  born ten children: ELLIS C., ANNA E., CHARLES, ROBERT, HENRY J., JACOB
  and CORA are living; FREDDIE, DORA and an infant are deceased.  Mr.
  LAUER is a stanch adherent to the principles of the Republican party.
  He and his wife are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
  and are among the most respected residents of the county.

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