Biographical Sketch of Conrad Weissgerber, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Conrad Weissgerber was born in Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, June 19, 1821
being the son of Adam and Catharine Weissgerber, both natives of Ger-
many.  He was a burgomaster and prominent man, both in church and state.
He was a soldier under the English Government for sixteen years, and
fought in Spain.  He died at the age of seventy-two.  His mother died 
in 1841.  They had seven children, all of whom grew to maturity, two of
whom are living in Germany.  Conrad Weissgerber came to this country in
the spring of 1847, at the age of twenty-four years.  He landed at New
Orleans, and worked at cabinet making for about eight years.  He then 
went to Warren county, Mo., where he stayed for two years, and then 
went to Davenport, Iowa, where he met with great losses, through a
cyclone striking the town.  He then went to Chicago, where he was marr-
ied on the 26th of July, 1856, to Miss Theresa Doffeller, a native also
of Germany, by whom he became the father of four children, of whom only
one is living, his son George, who is in Baton Rouge, La., engaged in
farming.  Mr. Weissgerber now moved to Baton Rouge, La., where he, 
together with his brother Christian, opened a confectionery business,
but the war breaking out soon after, they went back to Chicago, where
Mrs. Weissgerber died in 1864.  In 1865 Mr. Weissgerber took for his
second wife Miss Emma Kunze, a native of Germany, who came to this 
country at the age of fifteen.  This marriage resulted in the birth of
four children, of whom three are living: Lena, Otto and Theresa.  In 
1866 he came to Laclede county, where he followed farming in Hooker
township.  He is the owner of a large tract of land, and is one of the
representative farmers of the county.  He is a member of the Lutheran
Church, and is an honest, upright citizen.  He moved to Lebanon in
1888, where he now resides.

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