Biographical Sketch of August Boeger, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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August Boeger, dealer in general merchandise at Berger since January,
1887, is a native of Germany, born in 1848, and the son of Simon and
Frederica (Schierenberg) Boeger, who came to the United States about
1856, locating in Osage County, Mo., where the father died about 1858.
He was a farmer and served as a soldier in his native country.  The
mother is still living in Osage County, and is about seventy-five 
years old.  Our subject received the rudiments of an education in the
common schools and finished at St. Louis.  He then began clerking in 
a wholesale grocery in St. Louis, and in 1877 began business upon his
own responsibility.  He engaged in merchandising in Osage County, and
in 1884 went to St. Louis, where he became partner of the St. Louis
Hardware and Cutlery Company, acted as secretary for the said firm
until 1887, when he returned to Berger, and is at present carrying a 
large stock of general merchandise, one that would compare favorably
with any in a city of several thousand inhabitants.  In the year 1872
he married Miss Dora Klinge and by her became the father of four chil-
dren, all sons: George, Louis, Henry and Charley.  Mr. Boeger was 
postmaster at Boeger Store, in Osage County, for several years.  He 
is a Republican in politics, and his first presidential vote was cast
for U. S. Grant.  He and wife are members of the Evangelical Church.

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