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C. H. Tiemann was born in Hanover, Germany, about 1831, and is the son of Kasper and Engel (Weankars) Tiemann, who were also natives of Hanover, Germany, where the father died. The mother came to St. Louis, and died in that city. Their family consisted of five children, the second being our subject. He received a very limited education, and in early manhood hired out as a shepherd boy, receiving a certain percent of the flock as wages. Having thus accumulated $200, and fearing he would have to serve in the army, he paid his own fare and that of a companion in the same situation, and sailed for the United States. Arriving in New York, in 1854, they found their means practically exhausted but pushed on for St. Louis, and after enduring every hard ship found themselves, in 1855, in Washington, Franklin County, Mo. By working on the streets, on the river and on the railroad he made a start, and from that he has gradually advanced until he is now one of the first taxpayers of his township. In 1864 he married Mrs. Anna (Schuerkamp) Stork, who was born in the year 1842. After marriage they moved to St. Louis, where he teamed for two years. In 1866 he returned to Franklin County, and settled on the farm where he now lives, and which consists of 304 acres of land. During the war he served a short time in the enrolled militia. Mrs. Tiemann had one child, Gustav Stock, by her first marriage, and ten children by her second. They are named as follows: Fritz, Gottlieb, Henry Louis, Eddie, Herman, Anna, Ida, Adolph and Matilda. Mr. Tiemann is a Republican in politics, and all the family are members of the Evangelical Church.