Biographical Sketch of Charles Roedder, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Charles Roedder, blacksmith and farmer, is a native of Prussia, born in
1838, and the son of William and Kate (Kauffman) Roedder, who spent
their entire lives in their native country.  Our subject received a 
fair education, and at the age of seventeen learned the blacksmith's
trade and from twenty-one to twenty-four served in the army.  In 1864 
he came to the United States, and immediately proceeded to Franklin 
County, where he has a brother living.  He remained the first two years
at Beaufort, then located where he now lives, eight miles southwest of
New Haven, where he has a good home.  A few years prior to his leaving
his native country he was married to Miss Louisa, daughter of Fred and
Louisa Scheffels, and eleven children, nine of whom are living, were
born to this union: Charles, Dora, Gusta, William, Louis, August, 
Louisa, Eddie and Adolph.  Mr. Roedder took his first citizen's papers
in 1865, and his second two years later.  He holds a policy on his life
from the German Life Insurance Company, of New York.  He is a Republic-
an in politics, and cast his first vote for Gen. Grant.  He and wife
are both members of the Lutheran Church.

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