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

ALEXANDER LAMMERS, merchant, Beardstown; son of William and 
Mary (Hutmacher) Lammers, was born in Burgsteinport, 
Prussia, May 28, 1809.  At the age of fourteen, he was 
apprenticed to the trade of carpenter and builder, at which 
he worked several years in his native country, and in 1836, 
he came to the United States.  He first settled in New 
York, then in Cleveland, and then in Indiana; after which 
he went to Mississippi, working at his business, and from 
there to the mines at Galena, Ills., and Wisconsin.  He 
first visited Beardstown in 1842, but settled there in 
1849, and opened a general merchandising business, where he 
has been ever since, himself and two sons conducting the 
same.  Mr. Lammers has built a large number of business and 
private buildings in Beardstown, and has been a stockholder 
in the Cass County Bank since it organization.  In 1850, he 
married Miss Eleonora Christianer, of Beardstown, a native 
of Germany; and one son and two daughters were born from 
this marriage; one daughter living, wife of John Listman.  
Mrs. Lammers died June 5, 1855.  Dec. 24, 1855 he married 
Anna Maria Eleonora Gersmeyer, of Beardstown, a native of 
Germany, who bore five children, one of whom died; those 
living are: Augusta, Alexander, Bertha, and Frank.  Mrs. 
Lammers died Aug. 2, 1849.

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