Biographical Sketch of Edward J. Alberswerth, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Edward J. Alberswerth, a native farmer of Boeuf Township, and the elder
of the two sons of Franz and Frederica (Fleer) Alberswerth, was born in
1859.  Franz Alberswerth, a native of Hanover, Germany, born in 1836,
was brought to the United States by his parents, Henry and Margaret Al-
berswerth, when but three years old.  They located in Franklin County,
six miles south of Berger Station, where they spent the remainder of
their lives, and where Franz, the father of Edward J., still resides. 
He is one of the well-to-do pioneer farmers of the county, where he has 
led an industrious, though uneventful life.  He has been twice married,
his first wife being the mother of our subject, by whom he had two 
children, Edward J. and Arnold F.  Mrs. Alberswerth died in 1862, and 
in 1864 Mr. Alberswerth married Miss Annie Fleer, a sister of his first
wife, and both natives of Germany.  By the latter union there were nine
children, six of whom are living: George H., Augusta, Lena, Emma, Frank 
and Louis.  Politically Mr. Alberswerth has been a life-long Republican.
He and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Edward J. Alberswerth studied German and English in the public schools,
and spent two years at the Central Wesleyan College at Warrenton, after
which he taught successfully three terms of school.  Since then he has 
been engaged in farming, and has recently purchased 200 acres of land,
about ten miles south of Hermann, Gasconade County, where he intends
making his future home in the pursuit of agriculture.  He is an indus-
trious and rising young man, and bids fair to become one of the fore-
most farmers of Gasconade County.  He adheres to the same political
views as his father.

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