Biographical Sketch of Christ Schmidt, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Christ Schmidt, brick and stone mason and contractor of Washington, Mo.
was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1837, the son of John Schmidt, and one
of a family of eight children.  He grew to manhood on a farm, and at 
the age of twenty commenced learning the stone mason's trade.  In 1865
he left his home and crossed the ocean to the United States, where for
the first six months he worked in Chicago, after which he came to Wash-
ington, Mo., and has since been working at his trade.  In 1881 Mr. Sch-
midt and Mr. Rusche purchased two acres of land, and commenced the man-
ufacture of brick, and made 500,000.  Owing to too much business they
were compelled to give it up, and accordingly they leased their yard to
Joseph Barber and F. Forster for five years and in 1887, leased it 
again for five years.  Mr. Schmidt is a first class workman and very
reliable.  In 1872 he married Miss Augusta Vendt, who was born in Fran-
klin County, Mo.  She died in 1874, and the following year our subject
married Miss Louise Meyer, daughter of Frederick Meyer.  She was born
in Germany, in 1854, and by her marriage became the mother of seven
children: Minnie, Oswald, Emil, Tillie, Martha, Arthur and Lena.  Poli-
tically, he is very conservative, but rather favors the Republican 
party.  He and wife are members of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church.

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