Biographical Sketch of Rev. H. P. Wille, 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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Rev. H. P. Wille, P. O. Concordia.  Was born December 18, 1843, in
Hamburg, Germany, and came to this country with his parents when only
three months old.  They landed at New York city, and moved to Wisconsin,
near Milwaukee, where he was raised and educated.  He was educated for
the ministry, partly in Buffalo, N. Y. and partly at St. Louis, Mo.,
where together he spent four years.  He first engaged in teaching in
New York, then went to California to preach in 1870, where he stayed 
four years.  In the fall of 1874 he came to the Cross church near Con-
cordia, in this county, of which he is now pastor.

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