Biographical Sketch of Charles F. Spery, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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Charles F. Spery, proprietor of the Hermann Machine Works, was born in
Germany, July 17, 1858.  His father, Joseph Spery, of St. Louis, came
to the United States from Germany in 1844, and was back to his birth-
place several different times.  It was while he and wife were on one of
these visits that Charles was born.  The father lived in Philadelphia,
Penn., twelve years, working at his trade of watch-case maker.  In 1864
he settled on a farm near Hermann, where Charles was reared and educa-
ted.  The father is now living in St. Louis.  Our subject followed 
farming.  In his twentieth year he built a small steam yacht of his own
without experience or assistance, which proved so successful that he
obtained a position as pilot and engineer on the river.  In his twenty-
fifth year he went into the sawmill and lumber business, on the Gascon-
ade River, but soon after failing health caused him to sell his boat
and sawmill.  He then went to Philadelphia, to learn the machinist
trade, where his parents then lived.  In March, 1885 he established the
machine shop business.  He repairs machinery of all kinds, and is also
engaged in manufacturing.  April 18, 1888 he added to his business a
foundry for all kinds of castings.  March 3, 1882 he married Miss Mat-
ilda Metzler, who bore him one child, now deceased.  Mrs. Spery was the
daughter of Ferdinand Metzler.  She died September 9, 1884.  In 1887,
May 10, Mr. Spery married Miss Rosa Kraemer, daughter of Frederich
Kraemer, of Chamois, Osage County, Mo.  She was born in Hermann.  Mr. 
Spery is a Knight of Labor, a member of the fire company, and also a 
member of the Lutheran Church.

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