Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

OTTO SCHNEIDER, grocer, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, was born in 1840,
and was brought to America in 1843 by his parents, who settled in
Louisville.  There Otto was educated, and at the age of seventeen began
to learn the painter's trade.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Fourth
Kentucky Cavalry; served three years and four months, when he was
transferred to the Fourteenth United States Infantry, and was connected
with the army of the Cumberland until the fall of Atlanta, and was then
with Sherman until the close of the war.  He was wounded in the leg at
Missionary Ridge, and in the side at the take of Fort McAllister.  He was
with the Fourteenth until the close of the war as second-lieutenant, and
afterward joined the V.R. corps as first-lieutenant and served until
March, 1866, when he was mustered out at Annapolis.  Upon the return of
Mr. Schneider to his home he worked at his trade, then went West, where he
followed the same four years, and then returned to Louisville, where he
has been engaged in his present business for fifteen years.  He is a
member of the G.A.R.

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