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.
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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