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

PETER VOLLMERR, grocer; Chandlerville; was born in Hanover, 
Germany, Aug. 6, 1848, to Peter and Margaret (Klinck) 
Vollmerr; he was born in Germany, where he followed the 
occupation of a farmer, dying in 1881, aged eighty years. 
His wife, the mother of our subject, was also a native of 
Germany, where she died when Peter was an infant. They were 
the parents of six boys and one girl, our subject being the 
only one in America. He left his home when he was twenty 
years of age, and landed in New York, Dec. 14, 1868; then 
went to Charleston, South Carolina, where he remained two 
years. In 1870 he came to Chandlerville, where he engaged 
as a farm hand for about four years, when he built a fine 
brick block, and started in the grocery business, where he 
also conducts a bakery. He has met with good success, 
having commenced poor, and is now among the leading 
business men of Chandlerville. He was married in Cass 
County in 1876, to Miss Lettie Durring, a native of 
Germany, who is the mother of two children: Alice and John. 
He and wife are members of the German Lutheran Church; and 
he is a Democrat.

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