Biographical Sketch of Julius H. Schweer, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Julius H. Schweer, a prominent merchant of Shotwell, was born in Frank-
lin County, Mo., in 1862, and is the sixth of ten children born to John 
H. and Catherine E. (Hortsmann) Schweer, natives of Germany. The father
came to the United States in 1838, and settled in Franklin County, Mo.,
where he married and reared his family.  Julius H. Schweer graduated 
from Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, in St. Louis, in 1882, and
in the fall of the same year embarked in the mercantile business on his
own account at Shotwell, with a stock of goods valued at about $4,000;
his business has increased at least fifty per cent since the first year
and he now has a splendid trade; is a rising young merchant of good 
business ability, and enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know
him.  He was appointed postmaster of Shotwell, October 31, 1887.  On
September 29, 1887, he married Miss Dora, daughter of John F. Roedder,
of Beaufort, this county.  Mr. Schweer is a stanch Republican in poli-
tics.

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