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Louis F. Ziegenmeyer, a farmer of Lyon Township, is a native of Dukeshire, Brunswick, Germany, born in 1840, and is the youngest of seven children born to F. and Henrietta (Schmidt) Ziegenmeyer, natives of Germany, who were both born in 1799. The parents were married in 1827, and spent their entire lives in their native country, the mother dying in 1859 and the father in 1860. For more than fifty years Mr. Ziegenmeyer was a teacher in the public schools, being a fine German and Latin scholar. Louis F. Ziegenmeyer was reared at home, and received his education in the town of Wolfenbuettel, where he received special instruction for the profession of teaching. When eighteen years of age he came to the United States, where he was employed on a farm until 1860, when he went to Wisconsin, from there to Minnesota, and in 1863 returned to St. Louis, where he was employed as a teacher until 1865. He then returned to Franklin County, and with a brother purchased a farm near Washington, on which he resided until 1881; he then sold out and purchased his present farm of 130 acres of well-improved land, eight miles southwest of Washington, it being one of the oldest farms in the county. During his residence near Washington Mr. Ziegenmeyer taught the Campbellton public school four years. In 1867 he married Miss Emily, daughter of Henry and Christina Borchard, natives of Germany. They have seven children: Anna, Otto, Emily, Louisa, Pauline, Louis and Silvia. Mr. Ziegenmeyer is giving his children a good English and German education. In political preference he is a Republican, whose first presidential vote was cast for Grant.