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Edward Schumacher, farmer, of Boeuf Township, is a native of St. Louis, born in 1857, and is a son of Christian and Mary (Peper) Schumacher, natives of Germany, born in 1824 and 1829, respectively. They immigrated to the United States in 1842, were married in St. Louis, and there were engaged in the grocery business till about 1873, when they came to Franklin County, Mo., remaining only till 1878. Returning then to St. Louis, they again resumed the wholesale and retail grocery business. The father served a short time in the late war but was honorably discharged on account of ill health. Edward was reared and educated in St. Louis, and accompanied his parents to Franklin County, where he was married in 1878 to Miss Caroline Gerding, a native of Boeuf Township, Franklin Co., Mo., born in 1858, and the daughter of Christian H. and Louisa Gerding, natives of Germany, born about 1826 and 1827, respectively. They came to the United States when young, were married in Franklin County about 1852, and settled about three miles south of New Haven, where they remained until 1887. They then removed to Warren County, where the father is engaged in merchandising. To Mr. Schumacher and wife were born three children: Laura L. M., Charley E. C. W. and Amelia C. L. After marriage our subject immediately located on his father’s farm, three miles south of New Haven, and is now the owner of 116 acres of well-improved land. Mr. Schumacher is a man of good education and fine business ability, and in a short time would have graduated from a St. Louis commercial college, but was taken sick and had the misfortune to lose his hearing. He is a Republican in politics, casting his first presidential vote for J. A. Garfield. He and wife are members of the Evangelical Church.