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Below is a family biography included in The History of Gasconade County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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August Spohrer was born in Richland Township, Gasconade County, Mo., in 1852, and is the youngest child born to Frank and Katharine (Fischer) Spohrer, natives of Baden, Germany. They came to Gasconade County in 1852, and settled on Gasconade River, Richland Township, where the father died in 1865, and the mother previous to this, in 1855. The father followed agricultural pursuits, and was an excellent farmer. August remained with his father until his death, after which he lived with his brother. He attended the common schools in his neighborhood a short time, and at St. Louis six months. He worked on a farm near Des Moines, Iowa, in 1872, and in 1878 moved from Leavenworth, Kas., on a stock farm. January 22, 1875, he married Cordelia, daughter of Eli and Letitia Dennis, formerly of Tennessee, where Mrs. Spohrer was born in 1855, in Grainger County. They came to Gasconade and Osage Counties in 1858. Six children were born to Mr. Spohrer’s marriage, four of whom are living: Dora, Mary, William and Oscar. Mr. Spohrer has since lived on his farm sixteen miles west of Hermann, on Gasconade River, which consists of 140 acres of valuable land. He is an excellent farmer and stock-raiser, and makes a specialty of breeding thoroughbred, short-horned cattle, and Poland-China and Berkshire hogs. He is a Republican in politics, his first vote being for Hayes in 1876. He is a member of the A.O.U.W. His brother, William Albert Spohrer, who died March 28, 1881, was a single man. He served three years in the Union army, in Company C, Fourth Missouri Cavalry, first under Gen. Fremont, and operated in Tennessee, Alabama, etc., and was mounted orderly when discharged. Only three children—two sons and one daughter—of his father’s family are now living, and all in Richland Township; the daughter, Mrs. Louisa Bohl, the sons, Louis and August Spohrer.
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