Biographical Sketch of John Schiller, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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John Schiller, the subject of this sketch, was born in Bavaria, Germany
May 20, 1833, and is the son of John H. and Elizabeth (Stahlmann) Sch-
iller, both natives of Bavaria.  They immigrated to America in August,
1839, and in the spring of 1840 reached St. Louis, Mo.  They removed 
the same spring to Franklin County, and located on the farm where our
subject now resides, two miles west of Union, in Township 43, Range 1
West.  The father was a farmer by occupation, and died in 1880.  The
mother died in 1869.  To them were born five children, of whom John was
the youngest.  He grew to manhood on the farm, and secured but a limit-
ed education in attending the private and subscription schools, his
attendance being only after he was fifteen years of age. He has follow-
ed farming as his life work, and now owns and cultivates a farm of 291
acres.  During the late war he served as a home guard for a short time,
and next was a member of the militia, and as such served throughout the
war.  He was elected justice of the peace of Union Township in 1880, 
and served until 1886. Mr. Schiller was married in 1855 to Dina Kriege,
a native of Prussia, born December 18, 1834, and the daughter of Ernst
and Elizabeth (Wehr) Griege (?), who were also natives of Prussia, and 
who immigrated to America in 1839.  They located in Franklin County,
Mo., where the father died in 1870, and the mother about five years 
later.  To Mr. Schiller and wife ten children have been born, seven of
whom are living.

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