Biographical Sketch of August Spohrer, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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August Spohrer was born in Richland Township, Gasconade County, Mo., in
1852, and is the youngest child born to Frank and Katharine (Fischer)
Spohrer, natives of Baden, Germany.  They came to Gasconade County in
1852, and settled on Gasconade River, Richland Township, where the 
father died in 1865, and the mother previous to this, in 1855.  The
father followed agricultural pursuits, and was an excellent farmer.
August remained with his father until his death, after which he lived
with his brother.  He attended the common schools in his neighborhood a
short time, and at St. Louis six months.  He worked on a farm near Des
Moines, Iowa, in 1872 and in 1873 moved to Leavenworth, Kas., on a 
stock farm.  January 22, 1875 he married Cordelia, daughter of Eli and
Detitia Dennis, formerly of Tennessee, where Mrs. Spohrer was born in
1855, in Grainger County.  They came to Gasconade and Osage Counties in
1858.  Six children were born to Mr. Spohrer's marriage, four of whom
are living: Dora, Mary, William and Oscar.  Mr. Spohrer has since lived
on his farm sixteen miles west of Hermann, on Gasconade River, which
consists of 140 acres of valuable land.  He is an excellent farmer and
stock raiser, and makes a specialty of breeding thoroughbred, short
horned cattle, and Poland-China and Berkshire hogs.  He is a Republican
in politics, his first vote being for Hayes in 1876.  He is a member of
the A. O. U. W.  His brother, William Albert Spohrer, who died March 
28, 1881, was a single man.  He served three years in the Union army,
in Company C, Fourth Missouri Cavalry, first under Gen. Fremont, and
operated in Tennessee, Alabama, etc., and was mounted orderly when dis-
charged.  Only three children, two sons and one daughter, of his 
father's family are now living, and all in Richland Township; the 
daughter, Mrs. Louisa Bohl, the sons, Louis and August Spohrer.

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