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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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Vincent Mueller, blacksmith of Morrison, was born in 1848, and is a native of Baden, Germany. His parents, Matthew and Anna M. (Roesch) Mueller, were natives of Baden, where they spent their lives on a farm. Of their family of ten children only two ever came to this country. While growing up Vincent learned the blacksmith’s trade, at which he has worked all his life. At the age of twenty-one he sailed for America, and after spending a short time in New York found his way to Gasconade County, Mo., where he again resumed his trade in the southern part of the county, until 1882, at which date he moved to Morrison, and where he has since had a good business. In 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss Pauline Gronert, a native of Prussia, Germany, who bore him eight children, three sons and five daughters. All the family are members of the Catholic Church, and are respected and esteemed citizens. Their eldest son, Henry, is learning the trade of his father. Mr. Mueller is a Democrat, politically, is a member of the C. K. & A., being president of the lodge at Morrison.
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