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Dr. G. A. Spreckelmeyer, present county coroner, and one of the successful practitioners in the community, is a native of Franklin County, Mo., born February 10, 1857. His parents, Dr. F. and Charlotta (Miller) Spreckelmeyer, were of German nativity. The former immigrated to America in 1835, locating at Dundee, Franklin Co., Mo., where he practiced his profession for a long time, next moving to within three miles of Berger, his present place of residence. He was born September 1, 1812, and his wife’s birth occurred in 1885; she followed her husband to America in 1849. The subject of this sketch was brought up to an agricultural experience until his fifteenth year, then entering upon a course at Wesleyan College, at Warrenton, Mo., where he remained for two years. Following this he was engaged in teaching school two years, and upon commencing his professional study entered the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, in 1876, from which institution he was graduated after a thorough course, March 5, 1879. Soon after he chose a location at Lange’s Store, three miles south of Morrison, where he has continued to enjoy a lucrative practice until the present. His time is also taken up largely in the work attendant upon the duties of coroner. Dr. Spreckelmeyer was married, in 1874, to Mary E. Lange, whose birth occurred at Fort Madison, Iowa, December 8, 1854. To this union a son and daughter have been born.