Biographical Sketch of Rev. William F. Goessling, Franklin County, MO

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

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Rev. William F. Goessling, stated supply of the German Presbyterian
Church, Bethlehem Congregation, Franklin County, Mo., was born in
Prussia, March 7, 1836 and is the son of Henry C. and Mariah
(Schroeder) Goessling, both natives of Prussia.  They emigrated to
America in 1852, and located in St. Louis, Mo.  Here the father was
employed in the sugar refinery for a number of years, and died in
that city in 1860.  The mother is still a resident of St. Louis.
William attended the common schools of his native country, and came
to the United States with his parents.  He was married in 1859 to
Louisa Young, who was born in Hanover, Germany, January 20, 1840,
and is the daughter of John H. Young.  She came with her parents to
America in 1843, and for a while located in St. Louis, Mo., but
later removed to Jefferson County, Mo.  To the union of our subject
and wife were born ten children, all living: William F. is a citizen
of St. Louis, where he is proprietor of the Union Box Factory.
Charles F. is employed in a wholesale stove house in Chicago.  Lizzie
makes her home with Charles F., in Chicago.  Fred and Henry are in 
the employ of their brother William, in St. Louis.  Louis, Joannah,
Sarah, Clara and Helena, the younger children, make their home with
their parents.  Mr. Goessling joined the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church in 1866, and four years later began preaching in St. Louis.  
He was ordained in Steelville, the county seat of Crawford County,
Mo., in 1876, while still a resident of St. Louis.  He was then a
pastor of the German Cumberland Presbyterian Church in St. Louis for
about twelve years.  He received a call in 1883 from Bethlehem Con-
gregation, and came to his present charge August 15, of that year.

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