Biographical Sketch of Valentine Anderes, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Valentine Anderes, a native of St. Gall, Switzerland, was born in 1838,
the youngest of the eleven children born to Sebastian and Mary Ann
(Mader) Anderes, the former of whom was a successful farmer.  Valentine
Anderes was educated in the common schools of his native country, and
reared on a farm until ten years of age, when his parents died and he 
was thrown upon his own resources.  He worked in cotton factories for
the following four years, when he went to St. Gall to learn the lock-
smith's trade, which he followed until seventeen years of age.  He next
engaged in railroading for six years, being employed as fireman and as
engineer on the Union Swiss Railroad, until, on account of ill health,
he was forced to give up that work.  He kept a hotel in St. Gall until
1869, when he came to the United States, settling at Gray's Summit, 
Mo., where he engaged in peddling goods until 1871, when he opened a
store, which he conducted about two and one-half years, or until Decem-
ber, 1873, when he lost about $5,000 by fire.  He subsequently engaged
in farming for four years, peddled goods one year, opened store again
in 1879, and met with good success.  In 1881 he purchased another farm
near Pacific, which he kept improving until about three months ago,
when he opened the Continental Hotel, in Pacific, under the firm name
of V. Anderes & Sons.  He was married, in 1861, to Miss Elizabeth
Baumgartner, a native of Switzerland, who died in 1882, having been
divorced from Mr. Anderes in December, 1872.  They had five children:
Emil, Frederic, Bertha, Frida and Ida.  In April, 1873, Mr. Anderes 
married Miss Ida Vallmer, a native of Franklin County, of German de-
cent.  Six children blessed this union, viz.: Otto, Walter (deceased),
Valentia, Edgar, Henry (deceased) and Blanche.  Mr. Anderes is a member
of the Catholic Church.  He is independent in politics, but Democratic
in principle.

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