Biographical Sketch of Richard W. Zierlein, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Richard W. Zierlein, D. D. S., of Washington, is a native of St. Louis,
Mo., born April 3, 1839 and is a son of Henry L. and Henrietta L.
(Eshback) Zierlein, natives of Berlin, Prussia, born December 26, 1799
and April 8, 1810, respectively.  The father was a hardware merchant by
occupation.  He married in 1829, and the following year immigrated to
America, settled in St. Louis, and was one of the first German merch-
ants in the city.  He died October, 1864.  The Zierlein family are of
old ancestry of Prussia, and have their coat of arms.  The mother of 
our subject is now living, and is a resident of Washington, where she 
has lived for the past twenty-three years.  She is the mother of four
children: Dr. Richard W., Clara V. (wife of Ernst Wattenberg, wholesale
hop dealer and importer in New York City), Robert F. and Emily E. 
Richard W. received his literary education in St. Louis.  After clerk-
ing in a hardware store a short time, in 1856 he commenced studying his
profession, dentistry, his preceptor being Dr. Henry McKellops, of St.
Louis, with whom he remained five years, during which time he took half
a year's course in Pope's Medical College, and afterward a full course
in St. Louis Dental College, graduating as Doctor of Dental Surgery. 
Dr. Zierlein commenced his practice in St. Louis in 1862, and in 1864
went on a traveling expedition through England, Germany and France, be-
ing absent eighteen months.  He returned in the end of 1865, and loca-
ted in Washington, where he has continued without interruption, and 
where he has met with exceedingly good success.  In 1866 he married 
Miss Kate Patchin, a native of St. Louis.  She died October, 1879 and
in October, 1883 he married Miss Laura Cheatham, a native of Franklin
County, Mo., who bore him two children: Clara Frances and Alice Edwina.
The Doctor is a Democrat in politics, was chairman of the Democratic 
Central committee of Franklin County four years, and is one of the 
leaders of that party in the county.  He is a Master Mason and a member
of the A. O. U. W., a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his wife 
of the Baptist.  He is a great lover of geology, having the largest
private collection of any man in the State.  His specimens are from 
all parts of the world and are very valuable.

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