Learned the tinner's trade with his father, sold out to Charles Prather in 1898, then dealer in real estate.
Married Mary I. Vandeventer of Versailles, Illinois, May 9, 1876.
Daughter Minnie married Granville Boyer, telegraph operator at Manchester.
Prominent Republican county leader and committeeman.
Descended from an old German family traced to 1688 at Altenburg, Germany.
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