My Genealogy Hound

George Tamm, boot and shoe dealer, of Washington, Mo., is the son of John and Marie (Heiser) Tamm, and was born in Frishborn, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, in 1824. The father was a farmer by occupation. He died in 1880. He was married three times, his second wife being the mother of our subject. She died in 1834. She was the mother of five children, George being the youngest. He was educated in Germany, attending school until fourteen years of age. He then began serving an apprenticeship to learn the shoemaker’s trade, and worked at this for three years, afterward working in various portions of his native country as a journeyman for ten years. In 1852 he immigrated to America, and located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked for two years. He then went to Indianapolis, Ind, and after remaining there one year, in 1855 came to Washington, and engaged in business on his own responsibility. In 1856 he married Miss Caroline Mittler, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1837, and who bore him four children: Ida, wife of Christopher Hackenjos; Charles, shoemaker and worker in his father’s store; George, student in St. Louis Medical College, and Adolph, in L. Muench’s drug store, in Washington. For the past ten years Mr. Tamm has abandoned the bench and devotes his time to the store exclusively. He is the oldest boot and shoe man in Washington, having been in business here for the past thirty-two years. He is a Republican in his political views, but is very conservative. He is a member of the ancient order of I. O. O. F., and an honest, upright citizen.