Clark County MO Archives Biographies.....Schuster, John G January 23 1824 - January 30 1889
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John G. Schuster was born in Germany, in 1824.  His father, John F. Schuster, 
was a native of Germany, as was also his mother, whose maiden name was 
Neuschwander.  The parents were married in Germany, and here the father 
followed the weaver's trade, in connection with farming, in the hamlet of 
Heutingsheim, for a number of years.  From there they moved to Erdmannhausen, 
where the father died in 1832.  He was a member of the Lutheran Church.  The 
mother afterward married, and in 1837 she and her husband and four children 
immigrated to the United States, and settled in Adams County, Ohio.  Here her 
husband died in 1884.  No children were born to this last union.  The Children 
by her first marriage had grown up, married, and had homes of their own.  The 
mother, after her second husband's death, made her home with her son, living 
with him until her death, which occurred January 20, 1887.  She was formerly a 
member of the Lutheran State Church of Germany, but after coming to the United 
States joined the German Methodist Church.  Our subject, while yet in his 
teens, left his home in Adams County, Ohio, and began as an apprentice to a 
wood turner.  He was engaged in this business for five years before he became 
proficient in his trade, making but very little money.  He then moved to 
Maysville, Ky., where he obtained a clerkship under Cutter & Gray, a wholesale 
grocery house, where he remained five years, during which period he was united 
in marriage to Miss Magdalenna Bruner, a native of Germany, and the daughter 
of Frank Bruner, also a native of Germany.  At the end of the five years' 
clerkship, our subject and brother crossed the Ohio River, and started a 
sawmill in Adams County.  Believing that farming would be a better means of 
making money, they sold the mill, purchased a farm in the same county, and 
began tilling the soil.  This occupation he followed a short time, and then 
moved to Spencer County, Ind., and from there to St. Louis, where he resumed 
his trade.  He next engaged in the furniture business, but was forced to seek 
other employment, and as he possessed considerable natural ability, he 
obtained a position as engineer in Warsaw.  This position he held for seven 
years, when in 1865, he immigrated to Clark County, Mo.  Of the ten children 
born to his marriage only six are now living: George J., J. W., Benjamin, 
Amelia, Frank and Edwin.  After coming to Clark County, our subject purchased 
a farm upon which he has ever since resided.  He is an honorable citizen, a 
good neighbor, and an enterprising farmer, owning a splendid farm of 160 
acres, all well stocked and improved.  In polities he has been a Republican 
since the death of the Whig party.  He and his wife are members of the German 
Methodist Church.



Additional Comments:
History of Lewis, Clark, Knox, and Scotland Counties, Missouri
The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  © 1887
Page: 954 – 955
Biographical Appendix Clark County

The Schuster are buried in Little Zion/German Cemetery Union Township, Section 
7

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