Biographical Sketch of Rev. C. Schoemaker, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Rev. C. Schoemaker.  The subject of the following sketch, pastor of the
German Baptist church of Concordia, is a native of Holland, born in 1818.
Was raised and educated there.  In 1846 he crossed the Atlantic and came
directly to St. Louis, where he lived six years and where he obtained his
theological education.  He preached four years in St. Louis, during which
time he assisted his congregation in their project of building a church.
He then went to Buffalo, New York, and occupied the pulpit of the German
Baptist church there for nine years.  From there he went to Muscatine,
Iowa, where he remained eleven years; at the close of which period he 
came to Lafayette county and settled near Concordia, where he now re-
sides.  He has been married three times, the last time in Iowa, to Miss
Dora Nyenhouse, a native of Holland.  Seven children were born to them,
six sons and one daughter, all living.  He has two children by his second
wife.  Postoffice, Concordia.

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