Biographical Sketch of H.H. Wrinkle, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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H.H. Wrinkle, one of the leading merchants of Richland, carries a
stock of general merchandise, including dry goods, hardware, etc.,
to the value of about $8,000, his annual sales averaging about
$30,000.  Mr. Wrinkle first engaged in merchandising October 1, 1879,
the firm being known as Wallace Bros. & Co.  It was afterward known
as Evington & Co., and since August, 1885, Mr. Wrinkle has conducted
the business alone and with remarkable success.  He was born in Knox
County, East Tenn., February 4, 1852, and is the youngest but one of
eight children born to John and Sophia Wrinkle.  The father was born
in Tennessee in August, 1806, where he spent his entire life and died
in 1881; he was a well-to-do farmer, and a member of the Baptist
Chrch for many years.  He was a son of John Wrinkle, a native of
Germany, who came to the United States with his parents and settled 
in Virginia at an early day, whence the family removed to Knox
County, Tenn., their home for three generations.  The mother of our
subject was also a native of Tennessee, and was born about 1813; she
is still living in Knox County.  H.H. Wrinkle was reared on a farm
and attended the common schools until about seventeen years of age, 
after which he spent two years at the University of Nashville.  He
taught school near his home two years, and in 1878 went to Lebanon,
MO., where for one year he was employed as clerk for Wallace Bros.,
with whom he was afterward in partnership, as above stated.  In 1879
Mr. Wrinkle married Fannie E., daughter of James Anderson Gass, of
Tennessee.  Mrs. Wrinkle, who is a member of the Methodist Church,
South, died February 11, 1886, leaving three children.  In April, 
1888, Mr. Wrinkle married Lizzie Knerr, a native of York County, Penn.
Her parents were John and Julia Knerr, who were born in Berks County
and York County, Penn., in 1824 and 1806, respectively, and afterward
removed to York County, Penn., where the father died in 1881 and the
mother in 1884.  Mr. Wrinkle is a member of the Methodist Church,
and his wife of the Presbyterian.  Politically he is a Republican.

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