Biographical Sketch of Emil F. Ninas, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Emil F. Ninas, marshal, P. O. Concordia.  Was born in Prussia, March 12,
1842.  At the age of ten, he came with his parents to the United States,
stopping at Milwaukee, Wis., where the family lived for five years; he
there completing his education, begun in Germany.  He attended a German
Academy at Sac City.  In 1857, he left there and came to Missouri, and
stopped near Hannibal, where he worked on a farm for one year, at the end
of which he came to Lexington where he remained for another year.  From
here he went to the German settlement near Cook's store.  In 1867, he was
married to Matilda Stinkle, daughter of H. D. Stinkle.  By this union he
has one child, Henry.  His wife dying, he afterwards married Mary Knoch,
a native of Pennsylvania.  They have three children: Elenora, Laura and
Arthur.  Mr. Ninas is the proprietor of the city hotel, and being a 
genial man and an excellent landlord, his house is well patronized.  In
1861, he enlisted in Company D, 2nd Missouri Infantry for three months.
At the expiration of that time he re-enlisted in same regiment, Col. F.
Schaffer, in which he held the rank of sergent of Company E.  He was
engaged in the following battles: Pea Ridge, Corinth, Perryville, Stone
River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Franklin, Nashville and in all of the
engagements of Sherman's command, while on the "march to the sea."  At
the battle of chickamauga he was slightly wounded in the right side, 
which, however, proved not to be serious.  Mr. Ninas has a good record
as a soldier, and a reputation as a private citizen of which any one may
be proud.

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