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

WERNER STEUERNAGEL, merchant; Beardstown; was born in 
Altenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Dec. 10, 1837; and in 
1854, he came to the United States with is parents, who 
settled at Wheeling, W. Va. In 1855, he engaged as cabin 
boy on an Ohio River steamboat, and followed that 
occupation over two years; he then conducted a restaurant 
in Jacksonville, Ill., for five years, and in 1862 came to 
Beardstown, and engaged in business. In 1864, he opened a 
grocery store, which was burned in September, that year, 
but late in the same year he again started in business; in 
1868, he formed a partnership with J. L. Black, with whom 
he continued in business six years, then bought out Mr. 
Black's interest, and has since carried on the business 
alone. He has occupied the same site on State street since 
1868; the building is brick, two stories high, the lower 
story containing a general stock of groceries, glass, 
queensware, wooden and willow-ware. In Jacksonville, Ill., 
in 1859, he married Margaret Kelly, of New York.

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