Biographical Sketch of Henry Euler, Jefferson County, Missouri

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

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Henry Euler, late a retired miller and capitalist of De Soto, was born
in Germany in 1830, and was the eldest of thirteen children born to
Christopher and Wilhelomena (Gestenberg) Euler; the former, a miller by
trade, was born in 1801 and died in 1874; the latter was born in 1815,
and after her husband's death, in 1875, came to America, and resided
with her son, Henry, until her death, in 1880.  When quite young, Henry 
Euler was put to work in his father's mill, and after his sixteenth 
year worked in various mills in the cities of Germany.  In 1851 he em-
barked for America, settling in Philadelphia, where he followed his
trade only a few months, and then removed to Rockport, Ind., and pur-
chased a saw and gristmill, which mill the floods swept away in 1854;
he then went to St. Louis, Mo., and in 1861 married Miss Mary Bourn,
who was born in Germany in 1843, and came to America in 1858.  Six 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Euler: Emma, wife of Arthur Stearns,
a machinist of East St. Louis; August, Sophia, Anna, Carrie (who died
in 1860, aged two years and ten months) and Mary.  During the war Mr.
Euler established a grocery store in St. Louis, which his wife conduc-
ted, while he continued to work in the mill.  In 1865 he bought a 
gristmill in De Soto, which in 1869, he traded for 360 acres of land
near Frumet.  The same year he erected a gristmill in De Soto, at a
cost of about $18,000 including the dam, which he built one and one-
half miles above the town; this mill he successfully conducted until 
1883, when it was consumed by fire.  In 1880 he built a mill in Scott
county at a cost of about $9,000, which he disposed of about six months
after the burning of the other mill.  Mr. Euler subsequently traveled a
great deal on account of his health.  In 1885 he returned and spent
several months at his native place in Germany, and in October, 1887,
went to California, where, five months after, he died, at Pasadena, Los
Angeles County.  His remains were brought back to De Soto March 10, 
1888, and the following day he was buried by the Masonic fraternity, of
which he was a member.  Mr. Eulers left a widow and five children to
mourn his loss.  For over twenty years he was one of the enterprising
business men of De Soto; he was highly esteemed, and his honesty and
integrity were never questioned.  He owned eleven houses and thirteen
lots, two business houses on Main Street, and his own dwelling house in
De Soto.  His family are members of the Lutheran Church.

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