Biographical Sketch of John M. Schaumburg, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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John M. Schaumburg, one of the old and prominent settlers of Gasconade
County, was born in 1822, in Hesse Cassel, Germany, and is the son of
Henry and Catherine (Schaefer) Schaumburg, both also natives of Hesse
Cassel.  The father was a farmer and an inn keeper, and for about 
twenty-five years burgomaster of his native village.  He lived to be
sixty-five years of age and she seventy-four.  Their family consisted
of seven sons, of whom five came to America.  John M. grew to manhood
on the farm, and in 1847 came to America, and has made Gasconade County
his home ever since.  In 1848 he married Miss Christina Humburg, who 
was born in Hesse Cassel, in 1825, and came to Gasconade County with 
her parents, Jacob and Anna C. Humburg, in 1867.  To this marriage were
born nine children, five sons and four daughters.  During the war Mr.
Schaumburg served in the Home Guards.  He is a Republican in politics,
and both he and wife are members of the Methodist Church.  He has a 
fine farm of 205 acres, and has been a resident of the county for forty
one years.  He had a fair start in life but by hard work has kept add-
ing to his property until he now ons his fine farm.

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