Biographical Sketch of George Tamm, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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George Tamm, boot and shoe dealer, of Washington, Mo., is the son of
John and Marie (Heiser) Tamm, and was born in Frishborn, Hessen Darm-
stadt, Germany, in 1824.  The father was a farmer by occupation.  He 
died in 1880.  He was married three times, his second wife being the
mother of our subject.  She died in 1834.  She was the mother of five
children, George being the youngest.  He was educated in Germany, 
attending school until fourteen years of age.  He then began serving
an apprenticeship to learn the shoemaker's trade, and worked at this
for three years, afterward working in various portions of his native
country as a journeyman for ten years.  In 1852 he immigrated to Amer-
ica, and located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked for two years.
He then went to Indianapolis, Ind., and after remaining there one 
year, in 1855 came to Washington, and engaged in business on his own
responsibility.  In 1856 he married Miss Caroline Mittler, who was 
born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1837, and who bore him four children: Ida,
wife of Christopher Hackenjos; Charles, shoemaker and worker in his
father's store; George, student in St. Louis Medical College, and
Adolph, in L. Muench's drug store, in Washington.  For the past ten
years Mr. Tamm has abandoned the bench and devotes his time to the
store exclusively.  He is the oldest boot and shoe man in Washington,
having been in business here for the past thirty-two years.  He is a
Republican in his political views, but is very conservative.  He is a
member of the ancient order of I. O. O. F., and an honest, upright
citizen.

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