Biographical Sketch of William Meyer, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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William H. Meyer, a farmer, and a son of John H. and Mary C. (Brameyer)
Meyer, was born in Prussia, Germany, in the year 1848.  His father was
born in Westphalia, Germany, in 1816 and while growing up learned the
stone mason's trade, which he followed while in the old country.  Upon
reaching his majority he married Miss Mary E. Brameyer, who bore him 
six children, four sons and two daughters.  She was also born in West-
phalia in 1817.  In 1859 they came to America, settled on a farm in
Franklin County, and here they have since resided.  The father is a 
stanch Republican, served in the Home Guards during the war, and he 
and wife are members of the Evangelical Church.  William H., at the
age of twelve, came with his parents to America.  They landed at New
Orleans, came up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, and from there to
Franklin County.  While growing up he received an education in both
English and German.  In 1874 he married Miss Sophia D. Bente, who was
born in Franklin County, Mo., in 1856, and who bore him one child,
John (deceased).  Mrs. Meyer died in 1875, and the following year he
married Miss Kate Krenning, a native of St. Louis, born in 1856. This
union resulted in the birth of four children, viz.: Wilhelmine, Eddie 
Frank, Charles Henry and Henry Oscar.  Soon after his second marriage
Mr. Meyer settled on the place where he is now living, which consists
of 125 acres, the greater part of which he has made by his own in-
dustry and good management.  For twenty-seven years he has lived in 
this county, and is a wide-awake young farmer, and an honest, upright
citizen.  He is a stanch Republican in politics, and he and wife are
members of the Lutheran Church.

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