Dr. G. A. Humpert was born in St. Louis on the 20th of May, 1861, and is the only son of Henry and Anna Mary (Heine) Humpert, the mother being an indirect descendant of the great poet, Henry Heine. Both parents were born in Germany, and immigrated to America about 1852 and located in St. Louis, where the father was engaged in milling until his mills were consumed by fire, in 1880. He then turned his attention to wine and fruit culture, which he has continued up to the present time. His son, Dr. G. A. Humpert, was reared and educated in St. Louis, and at the age of twenty began the study of medicine, and in 1884 graduated from the St. Louis Medical College. He first entered upon his practice at Beloit, Wis., where he remained over a year; thence he went to New York to attend the post-graduates polyclinics, but in consequence of a severe attack of insomnia he was obliged to quit both study and practice for several years; he therefore came back to his home in St. Louis, where he remained until the fall of 1887, when he took another post-graduate course in the St. Louis Medical College; thence he came to Jefferson City, where he is now located, and actively engaged in the practice of medicine. He has a large practice among the Germans and the surrounding country.

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History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries, and Osage Counties, Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing Company (1889).