ANDREW SCHMITT, merchant and farmer; P. O. Dickeyville; son of Michael and Margaret Schmitt; was born in the village of Zeuthern, Baden, Germany, Jan. 25, 1832; he came to the United States in September, 1852, landing at New York; thence he went to Newark, N. J., where he worked as a clerk in a store; the next year, he visited a sister in St. Louis; from there went to Menomonee, Dunn Co., and worked for Knapp, Stout & Co., at lumbering and in their store; remained with them until the spring of 1857, when he came to Dunleith and commenced business for himself as a merchant; the same year he started a branch store in Jamestown, and, in 1860, he opened another branch in Dickeyville; soon afterward, he moved to Dickeyville and discontinued his other two stores, and is still engaged in general merchandise; he built the hotel in Dickeyville, and owned it for many years; he is also engaged in farming, and owns about 600 acres; has a fine vineyard; deals in stock, and has a fire insurance agency. He has been notary Public and Postmaster in Dickeyville since 1861; was elected Justice of the Peace the same year; Chairman of the Board for the town of Paris in 1862-64; Town Treasurer in 1865, and successively ever since to the same office. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also an Odd Fellow. Is a Republican in politics; in religion, a Catholic. He was married June 11, 1856, in Menomonee, to Miss Christina Scheppele, from Baden, Germany; they had four children - Louisa, now Mrs. May, of Jamestown, born June 11, 1858; John A., born May 28, 1860; Rosa, born Jan. 8, 1868; Christian F., born Feb. 12, 1870; having lost his wife in 1872, he was married July 13, 1874, to Miss Elizabeth Schmeltz; they have two children - Barbara, born Sept. 22, 1875, and Joseph George, born Feb. 22, 1880. His mother, at that time a widow, came in 1854 with the rest of her family, and settled in St. Louis, where she died Sept. 11, 1857. His brother, Maximilian, resides in St. Louis, and carries on a manufactory for plows and also a carriage factory; his sister Katharina (Mrs. Gaus), also lives in St. Louis, and owns several large business blocks, also the Iron Mountain Hotel. His sister Josephine (Mrs. Kastner) resides in St. Genevieve, Mo.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.