This is a photo of Cheim before his departure for the United States in 1878.

 
 He spent between ten and twenty years in Iowa before going to Pennsylvania and then New York where he married, had four children and spent the rest of his life.

 

In the United States he began working as a peddler, traveling a route around Iowa and buying goods in Chicago.  He was traveling by horse and buggy and was a boarder before he could afford his own apartment in Des Moines, Iowa. At first he primarily sold collars and cuffs.  In New York he became a manufacturer of hoop skirts. He passed away in 1932.