Biographical Sketch of Ernst Walter, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Ernst Walter, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Suhl, Germany, in
1834, the fifth in the family of thirteen children born to John B. and
Mary (Barthold) Walter; the former, a farmer by occupation, was drowned
while en route to St. Louis, Mo., from Germany via New Orleans.  He was
about forty-five years of age.  Mrs. Mary Walter died October 29, 1887,
aged eighty-two years.  Ernst Walter immigrated to the United States 
with his parents in 1846, landed at New Orleans, and settled first in
St. Louis, removing the following year to a farm near Glencoe, St. 
Louis Co., Mo., where he remained until 1854, being then nineteen years
of age.  He then in company with others, went across the plains to Cal-
ifornia, the journey occupying five months and two weeks; they located
at Placerville, El Dorado County, where Mr. Walters engaged in mining
until 1858, when he returned home by the way of the Isthmus of Panama
and New York City.  That winter he purcased and moved to his present
farm, which consists of 175 acres of well improved land.  He was marri-
ed in the spring of 1860 to Miss Caroline Sandfos, who came to this
country in 1846, first settled in St. Louis, and later removed to a 
farm on Wild Horse Creek, same county.  John Sandfos served in the War
of 1812, participating in the battle of Waterloo.  Mr. and Mrs. Walter 
are the parents of nine children: Charles W., John E., Amelia H., 
Frank, Louisa J., Anna M., Lizzie S., James B. and Elsie Nellie.  Mr.
Walter, who is a Republican in politics, is a member of the G. A. R.
He enlisted for service in the late war, in September, 1862, was wound-
ed in the right hand at Ringgold, Ga., and was discharged at Nashville,
Tenn., in June, 1865.

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