Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

J.H. CRAMER, grocer, Beardstown; was born in Beardstown, 
March 29, 1859; son of Jacob H. and Charlotte (Trampe) 
Cramer.  Jacob H. Cramer, subject's father, was born in 
Germany, Oct. 5, 1823; he was a carpenter by trade.  In St. 
Louis, Mo., March 8, 1851, he married Charlotte Trampe; he 
died in Beardstown, May 7, 1872; he had nine children. J. 
Edward, at Portland, Oregon; Engelbert, a farmer, in this 
county; Amelia M.M. (deceased), Julius Henry (subject), 
Adelia M., Charles William, Henry (deceased), Katie, and 
Bertha (deceased).  The subject of this sketch received his 
education in Beardstown, and at the age of 14 years began 
learning the cigar-maker's trade with Henry Dettmer, 
serving one and one-half years in Beardstown, and one year 
in Meredosia; then worked as journeyman at various places 
for one and one-half years; also engaged in farming with 
his brother, in this county, for a short time.  He then 
worked in a flouring mill at River Falls, Wis., sixteen 
months, and in the fall of 1880, returned to Beardstown, 
where he worked as core-maker in a foundry, until the fall 
of 1881, when he built his present store, at the corner of 
Fourth and State streets, on a part of his father's estate, 
where he has since carried on the grocery and provision 
business.

Cramer Trampe Dettmer
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Germany MO OR WI