Biographical Sketch of Albert T. Fengler, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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Albert T. Fengler, dealer in groceries and bakery supplies, was born
in Breslau, Silisia, Prussia, Germany, March 8, 1843, being the son of
Ernest and Emelia Fengler, who came to America in 1848, and settled at
Dubuque, Iowa, where their son, Albert T., grew to manhood, and after-
ward enlisted in the Federal Army, Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-
fourth Volunteer Infantry, 1862-63; served about eight months, when he
received an honorable discharge.  He then went into the Government's
employ as clerk in the quarter-master's department, and served in that
capacity until cessation of hostilities.  Leaving this business, he 
was engaged for some time upon various interests in the Government's
employ, and traveled quite extensively through the South, but princi-
pally in Mississippi and Louisiana.  He then returned to Debuque, but
came to Cabool in 1882, where he has since been engaged in merchandis-
ing.  He built his present store, 60 x 20, in 1884, and is a stock-
holder in the Blankenship Springs Improvement Company.  He is a charter
member of the G. A. R., Pardee Post No. 352, at Cabool.  He was reared
in the Lutheran faith.  He was one of five sons, Richard, Emil, George,
Albert and Trangott, and three daughters born to his parents; one son
Emil, died on the battlefield of Chickamauga as a soldier of the 
Chicago & Galena Union Railway Regiment Illinois Volunteers.  The 
father, Ernest Fengler, died a worthy Union soldier in the hospital at
Evansville, Ind.

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