This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BREUER, WISHMYER Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cl.2ADI/824 Message Board Post: C. Henry Breuer, residing on section 27, Clay Township, was born in Des Moines County, Iowa, the date of his birth being November 13, 1848. His father, Frederick Breuer, was a native of Prussia, Germany, born in the province of Westphalia. He immigrated to America in the year 1843, and settled in Des Moines County, where he engaged in farming and also worked for a time at his trade, he being a blacksmith, residing in that county till his death. Our subject was reared in his native county and educated in the common schools. He was brought up on a farm, and has made farming his principal avocation through life, which he has followed successfully. He was married in 1868 to Miss Mary Wishmyer, a daughter of the late Frederick Wishmyer. Ten children have been born to this union, of whom the following survive-George, Amelia, Susan, Olga, Pearley, Sarah and an infant son. Mr. Breuer has been a resident of Clay Township since the fall of 1870, when he located on an unimproved! tract of land, which is still his home, although his land is now under a high state of cultivation, with good residence and farm buildings. He has always been an industrious and enterprising citizen, and by his own untiring efforts has acquired a good farm, containing 240 acres of land, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising. As a citizen he stands high in the community in which he resides, and has filled with credit the offices of constable, township assessor, road supervisor, and has also served as school director. He is a member of the German Evangelical church. Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties P-434/435 Interstate Publishing Co Chicago 1886