Biographical Sketch of Henry J. Buhr, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Henry J. Buhr, manufacturer of wagons, carriages, buggies and farming
implements and all kinds of repairing at Washington, Mo., was born in
Franklin County, Mo., in 1835, and is a son of John H. Buhr and Maria
Elizabeth Buhr, born Holtmeyer.  The father was born in Hanover, Ger-
many, the 18th of December, 1800.  His wife was born in Hanover, Ger-
many, the 15th of April, 1801, and in 1833 immigrated to America, and
settled three miles south of Washington, in Franklin County, Mo.  He
followed agricultural pursuits, and owned 130 acres of land.  His wife
died March 26, 1848, and she was the mother of six children, and after
her death the father married Miss Katie M. Brunsmann, and she is the 
mother of seven children.  The father died June 26, 1865.  Our subject
was the third child by the first marriage.  He was reared and grew to
manhood on the farm, and when twenty years of age, in 1855, commenced
to learn the wagon maker's trade.  He worked one year in Washington,
after which he went to St. Louis, and, after working there one year,
returned to Washington and worked for three years longer, and in 1860
worked on the farm, and in St. Louis at his trade in 1861.  He estab-
lished a shop on his own responsibility, and has since continued at 
the same trade.  He has made on an average about fifteen vehicles per
annum, besides doing general repairing.  June 1, 1865, he married Miss 
Katie Placke, a native of Franklin County, Mo., born in 1837.  To this
marriage were born six children: Josephina M. (Mrs. Gustav Filla),
Cecilia A., William F., Agatha M., Henry F. and Vincent F.  Politically
Mr. Buhr is a Democrat, and he and family are members of the Catholic
Church.

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