Biographical Sketch of Philipp Apprill, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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Philipp Apprill, resident and farmer of Roark Township, is the son of
Joseph and Barbara (Schmidt) Apprill, both natives of Alsace, France,
the former born in 1786, and the latter three years later.  The father
was a farmer and grain dealer, and lived to be sixty-one years old. 
The mother died at the age of eighty, and both passed their entire
lives in their native country.  Eight children were born to their 
marriage, of whom two sons and three daughters came to America.  The
youngest member of the family was Philipp, who was born in Alsace,
France, in 1834, and received a common education.  While growing up 
he learned the cooper trade, and after coming to America, in 1853, 
worked at his trade in Buffalo, until 1854, but went from there to
Ripley County, Ind., and in 1860 came to Gasconade County, Mo., where
three years later, he married Miss Margaret Vogel, who was born in
Switzerland in 1841.  By her were born seven children, four sons and
three daughters.  Mrs. Apprill died in 1880.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Apprill
were members of the Catholic Church, and he is a Democrat in politics.
He has a fine farm of 218 acres, and as a farmer has ever been accus-
tomed to sow wheat.

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