Biographical Sketch of George Griesel, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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George Griesel, farmer and miller at Climax Springs, Mo., was born in
Germany in 1826, and is a son of Adam and Anna E. (Sharp) Griesel, who
were also Germans, born in 1774 and 1789, and died in 1840 and 1867,
respectively.  The father was a farmer, and served as justice of the
peace and city appraiser, and was captain of a company of Home Guards
in his native land.  He was in the war from the time he was sixteen 
until he was thirty-two years of age, with Napoleon Bonaparte, and was
at the battle of Waterloo, under command of Gen. Blucher.  Five of his
six children came to America, but only two are now living, George and
Jacob, of Sacramento, California.  The grandparents, Jacob and Anna E.
Sharp, were also Germans.  George Griesel received a good education in
his native land, and in his boyhood days learned the millwright's 
trade.  When twenty years old he was mustered into the army, and was
discharged at the age of thirty, having participated in the war between
Germany and Denmark in 1850-53.  In 1854 he was married in his native
land to Catherine E. Leidheiser, who was born in 1834, and is a daugh-
ter of John A. and Ann E. (Tibmar) Leidheiser, who were tillers of the
soil, and the parents of eleven children, three of whom crossed the
ocean to America, and four are yet living: John A., Conrad, Martha E.
and Catherine (Mrs. Griesel).  Mr. and Mrs. Griesel are the parents of
the following family: Anna E. (Darnell), Sophia C., Lou, John A., 
William A., George K., Mary M., Antulf and Della May.  Since 1859 Mr.
Griesel has been a resident of Camden county, Mo., and was first 
engaged in operating the mill for Mr. Arnholdt, but when it was burned
during the war he rented land and engaged in farming, and since 1867
has resided on his present farm, and has been occupied in milling.  He
is a Republican in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for
Abraham Lincoln in 1860.  He and wife belong to the Lutheran Church.

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