Biographical Sketch of Louis F. Ziegenmeyer, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Louis F. Ziegenmeyer, a farmer of Lyon Township, is a native of Duke-
shire, Brunswick, Germany, born in 1840, and is the youngest of seven
children born to F. and Henrietta (Schmidt) Ziegenmeyer, natives of
Germany, who were both born in 1798.  The parents were married in 1827,
and spent their entire lives in their native country, the mother dying
in 1859 and the father in 1860.  For more than fifty years Mr. Ziegen-
meyer was a teacher in the public schools, being a fine German and 
Latin scholar.  Louis F. Ziegenmeyer was reared at home, and received
his education in the town of Wolfenbuettel, where he received special
instruction for the profession of teaching.  When eighteen years of age
he came to the United States, where he was employed on a farm until 
1860, when he went to Wisconsin, from there to Minnesota, and in 1863
returned to St. Louis, where he was employed as a teacher until 1865.
He then returned to Franklin County, and with a brother purchased a 
farm near Washington, on which he resided until 1881, he then sold out
and purchased his present farm of 130 acres of well improved land,
eight miles southwest of Washington, it being one of the oldest farms
in the county.  During his residence near Washington, Mr. Ziegenmeyer
taught the Campbellton public school four years.  In 1867 he married
Miss Emily, daughter of Henry and Christina Borchard, natives of Germ-
any.  They have seven children: Anna, Otto, Emily, Louisa, Pauline,
Louis and Silvia.  Mr. Ziegenmeyer is giving his children a good 
English and German education.  In political preference he is a Repub-
lican, whose first presidential vote was cast for Grant.

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