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GUSTAVUS SCHREIBER, a native of Herford, Prussia, and a son of August and Albertine Schreiber, was born October 2, 1839, and was reared to manhood and educated in his native city. Having secured a thorough education, he obtained a position, when fifteen years old, as clerk in the transportation and banking house at Minden, Prussia, where he remained four years, and where he acquired so valuable a knowledge of business as to have been of great service to him in after years. He was afterward employed as traveling salesman for wholesale hardware dealers in his native country, but thinking to better his future in the United States, he immigrated to this country in 1865, and going direct to Evansville, Ind., found employment as book-keeper in a wholesale saddle and harness house. In 1866 he accepted a clerkship in the office of the Auditor of Vanderburg County, that he might the better familiarize himself with the English language. He served in the Auditor’s and Clerk’s offices for some time, and also as Deputy Assessor of the county. In 1868 he wedded Babetta Kuechler, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and in July of the same year engaged in merchandising at Inglefield. In 1869 he became interested with a brother-in-law in a grocery in Buckskin, Gibson County, but in January, 1871, he removed to Boonville, which has since been his home. He here has identified himself with all that exerted an influence toward the welfare of Warrick County, and has also connected himself with several secret and benevolent organizations. To him and wife six children have been born, only these three yet living: Theodore, Gustavus and Adolphine. In politics Mr. Schreiber has always advocated the best interests of the Democratic party, of which he is a warm supporter. In 1882 he was elected Auditor of Warrick County, a position he has filled to the satisfaction of his constituents and honor to himself.