Otto Leifer

(Photo from the Gallemore collection courtesy of the Green River Valley Museum) Otto Leifer

 
(Photo from the Gallemore collection courtesy of the Green River Valley Museum)
Mrs. Delia Sollars Leifer

Otto Leifer married Delia M. Sollars of Winchester, Virginia, which is close to where he had grown up, in March of 1887.  They ranched for eight years, then, due to Mrs. Leifer's failing health, sold out to James Mickelson, who had been ranching on LaBarge Creek, and moved to Salt Lake City where they built a beautiful home at 122 North Street.  It was a two story brick home with a wrought iron fence and a carriage barn in the back.  Otto was involved with real estate and Nevada mines.  He was president of the Ben Hur Gold Mining Company.  Mrs. Leifer died July 7, 1902.

  (Photo from the Gallemore collection courtesy of the Green River Valley Museum) Oriana Sullivan Leifer  

Otto then married Oriana Sullivan of White Cloud, Kansas, whom he had met while she was visiting relatives at Fontenelle.  Suzanne Gallemore was a great-niece of Oriana.  In October of 1903 Otto Leifer died of a sudden heart attack and was buried in Schuyler, Nebraska, next to Delia and her parents.

   

Sources:

Otto Leifer's personal papers housed at the GRVM More Tales of the Seeds-Ke-Dee, p. 121-124