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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883.  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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C. T. HEGWER, farmer and stock-raiser; post-office Bower’s Mills; was born in Schlesien, Germany, June 8, 1833. His parents, Carl B. and Mary Hegwer, were also natives of Germany. When six years of age our subject immigrated with his parents to America, sailing from Hamburgh, and after a voyage of about seven weeks arrived at New York City, and came west immediately to Wisconsin, locating on a farm near Milwaukee. There young Hegwer grew to manhood, receiving a fair education in the common schools. In the spring of 1857 he moved to Kansas, and for nineteen years engaged there in agricultural pursuits. He then went to Oregon, but a month later returned and came to Missouri, locating in Lawrence county on Spring River. He purchased his present farm in March, 1882, and shortly after took possession. Mr. Hegwer was married in Grafton, Wis., Nov. 26, 1856, to Miss Wilhelmina, daughter of Samuel and Charlotte Foy, also natives of Germany. From this union there have been eleven children: Carl, born Aug. 22, 1857, and died in September, 1857; one died in infancy in 1859; Louisa, born June 17, 1860; Frank, born March 7, 1862; August, born April 30, 1884; Edward, born Feb. 5, 1866; Reinholdt, born Aug. 23, 1868; Rosena, born May 26, 1870; Henry, born June 13, 1873; Charles’ born Jan. 3, 1876, and died June 19, 1876; and Helena, born Sept. 10, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Hegwer are members of the Lutheran Church. They have an excellent farm of 348 acres, 200 of which are well improved, under good fence, large residence, barn, orchard, etc., in fact all the requisites of a comfortable home. Mr. Hegwer is a man of integrity and good business qualifications. He is a practical farmer, which, coupled with his industry, cannot fail to make a success.

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