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Eugene Lemenager, farmer. L'Erable, was born in Belgium, October 8, 1839, and sailed from Antwerp, in company with his father and two sisters, on the steamship Belgian Constitution, March 12, 1857, and after a stormy passage of twenty-two days landed in New-York. He at once came west, and rejoined his brother in this townships, and proceeded to farming, in which he has been eminently successful, now owning a splendid farm of 320 acres He has a handsome farm house, which was erected at a cost of $2,600, the main building being 20x30 feet, and the L 20 x 20, all two stories high, with piazza around the south and east sides,
The farm buildings are good, and a grove a of 2,000 trees and orchard of 200 trees, adds greatly to the appearance of the homestead. September 23, 1862, he was married in L'Erable, to Miss Antoinette Aucremanne, and has a family of six children, four boys and two girls. In 1879 Mr. Lemenager visited Belgium, and found quite a change had occurred there during the twenty-three years he had been absent, and met an old neighbor there who was ninety-two years old.

Source : Beckwith, H. W. : History of Iroquois County : together with Historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources; Chicago: H.H. Hill and Co., 1880, c1879, 1219 pgs.