Carriage House Plans: Nims And Tires

Thursday 3 January 2013

Nims And Tires

The subject of this sketch, D. B. Nims, is a prominent resident of Deer Creek township, Mills county, Iowa, and is one of the proprietors of the well known stock farm of Cedar Lawn, whose products are celebrated all over the United States. Mr. Nims was born in 1845, near Princeton, Bureau county, Illinois, and was the son of Eli B. and Emily C. (Brainard) Nims. He was reared on the farm, received a good common-school education and entered into farming and stock-raising in Mills county, Iowa, in 1874, in connection with his brother, John W. Nims.Since locating at this place Mr. Nims has bent every energy toward making Cedar Lawn a model stock farm, and his success has been most encouraging. He is a man of penetration and good judgment, who had educated himself thoroughly on the lines of his chosen business and understands it in every detail. His reading is extensive, and every work of merit that is published concerning stock and agriculture finds its way to his already fine library. He and his brother in 1876 originated and developed the Legal Tender Yellow Dent seed corn, since which time they have obtained the first prize medal and diploma for it at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, in 1898, and the Paris Exposition in 1900. They re also extensively and successfully engaged in the raising of Poland China hogs, which they first put upon the market in 1889.