Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Eppler - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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Jonathan Eppler, a farmer of Empire Township, Andrew County, MO., was
born in this county October 2, 1840.  He is the son of Henry and
Elizabeth (Clark) Eppler.  The father was born in Sevierville, TN.,
December 6, 1808, and is the son of Jonathan Eppler, a native of
Virginia, of German lineage.  He removed from East Tennessee in 1821,
and first settled in Randolph County, MO., but later became a citizen
of Andrew County, with the history of which his life has been 
identified.  He is now in an advanced age, and resides in Empire
Township.  Our subject was reared on the farm.  After securing a
common school and academic education, he attended, for two terms, the
Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa.  On December 17, 1869, he 
wedded Jemina F. Courtney, daughter of Alfred H. Courtney.  After his
marriage he began his present occupation, in which he has been very
successful.  He owns a fertile and well-improved farm of 186 acres.  In
1861 he served for six months in the Missouri State militia, and for
three months in the Enrolled militia.  In January, 1865, he enlisted
as a private in the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry,
and was mustered out of service in January of the following year at
Savannah, GA.  After the war he returned home, and later spent one year
on the plains.  He then located in Missouri.  He has held various 
political views.  He was a Republican for a number of years after the
close of the Civil War, and later was an advocate of the Greenback
party, for which party, in 1882, he was a candidate for representative
from his county.  At present he is an adherent of the United Labor party.