Biographical Sketch of Joseph J. Roth, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Joseph J. Roth, blacksmith and wagon-maker, Spring Bluff, was born in
Highland County, Ill., in 1847 and is the youngest of three children
born to Sebastian Roth and wife, who both died with cholera, in 1849,
and our subject remembers very little of his parentage.  His godfather,
Joseph Hoffman, took care of the little fellow until he was eight years
of age, when he was bound to Gabriel Oestrich, a brick mason.  He re-
ceived a good common school education, and at the age of seventeen en-
listed in the Union army, Company K, Tenth Illinois Infantry, and ser-
ved throughout the war, participating in Sherman's raid through the 
South.  At the close of the war he returned to Illinois and learned the
trade of blacksmith and wagon-maker, under Stephen Schwartz.  In High-
land, Ill., in 1872 he married Emelia, daughter of Charles F. Erxleben,
and by this union there were six children, only three of whom are liv-
ing, viz.: Otto J., Mathilda J. and Aminda E. He immigrated to Missouri
in the fall of 1878, and settled at his present homestead, at Spring
Bluff, on a farm of sixty acres, but is still following his trade.  He
is a worthy member of the holy Catholic Church, to which he lends 
cheerful aid.  In politics he is a Democrat.

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