Biographical Sketch of William Barner, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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William Barner, one of the early settlers and influential citizens of
Gasconade County, was born in Prussia, in 1816, and is the son of 
William and Christine (Bredemeyer) Barner, both natives of Prussia,
and both born in the year 1789.  The father was a shoemaker by trade,
though, after coming to America, he followed farming.  They remained
in the old country until 1845, when they came to America and settled
in Missouri, Franklin County, where both died, he in 1874, and she in
1848.  He took an active part in the war against France in 1813. Both
parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In their 
family were three sons and three daughters, all of whom were born in
Prussia, Germany.  William Jr., the second child, also learned the
shoemaker's trade, to which he devoted his time until he came to the
United States.  In 1843 he married Christine Ohlemeyer, also a native
of Prussia, born in 1824, and they too came to America in 1853, loca-
ting in Roark Township, on the farm they still own.  To their marriage
were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, of whom three
were born in Germany, and six in Gasconade County.  Mr. Barner has
farmed since coming to this country, and now owns 133 acres of good
land.  He and family are members of the Evangelical Church, and he is
Republican in his political belief.  For thirty-five years he has been
a resident of this county, and is accounted a good farmer, and an hon-
est, upright citizen.  The Barner family is one long established and
well known in Gasconade County.

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