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Samuel Bierer

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Samuel Bierer

Birth
Death
11 Jan 1940 (aged 82)
Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA
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Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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The following information has been gleaned from the book, "ANNALS OF BROWN COUNTY" written by Grant Harrington, where you can find it in its entirety starting on page 510:

Samuel Bierer, the head of the mercantile firm of Bierer, Shadel & Co., was raised in Brown County and for twenty-five years he has been connected with the business interests of the town of Hiawatha. He is a son of Col. and Mrs. Everard Bierer, of Hiawatha, and was born in Uniontown, Pa. in August 1857. The family came to Brown County in 1865 and settled on a farm a mile and a half east of Hiawatha. Here Mr. Bierer grew to manhood, working on the farm summers and attending school winters. He rounded out his education with a course at the Lawrence Business College, and in the fall of 1877 entered the employ of S. Hesselberger & Co., Hiawatha merchants . . . Mr. Bierer was married October 20, 1881, to Miss Alfaretta M. Harpster, of Hiawatha. They have a family of six children, four daughters and two sons, Mary, Ida, Marguerite, Samuel Jr., Bion, and Alfaretta . . . Both Mr. and Mrs. Bierer are active and influential workers in the First Congregational Church of this city, and for a number of years, Mr. Bierer has been one of the deacons of the chruch.
The following information has been gleaned from the book, "ANNALS OF BROWN COUNTY" written by Grant Harrington, where you can find it in its entirety starting on page 510:

Samuel Bierer, the head of the mercantile firm of Bierer, Shadel & Co., was raised in Brown County and for twenty-five years he has been connected with the business interests of the town of Hiawatha. He is a son of Col. and Mrs. Everard Bierer, of Hiawatha, and was born in Uniontown, Pa. in August 1857. The family came to Brown County in 1865 and settled on a farm a mile and a half east of Hiawatha. Here Mr. Bierer grew to manhood, working on the farm summers and attending school winters. He rounded out his education with a course at the Lawrence Business College, and in the fall of 1877 entered the employ of S. Hesselberger & Co., Hiawatha merchants . . . Mr. Bierer was married October 20, 1881, to Miss Alfaretta M. Harpster, of Hiawatha. They have a family of six children, four daughters and two sons, Mary, Ida, Marguerite, Samuel Jr., Bion, and Alfaretta . . . Both Mr. and Mrs. Bierer are active and influential workers in the First Congregational Church of this city, and for a number of years, Mr. Bierer has been one of the deacons of the chruch.


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