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- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), pages 3-4, 10-11.
Herman Adolph Meinershagen, son of Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen and Maria Wilhelmine Brinkmann, was born on 4 July 1844 in Warren County, Missouri.
- [S137] Thomas Lee Scribner, Genealogical research.
Herman Adolph Meinershagen; born 4 July 1884. Thomas Scribner cites The Herman Meinershagen Family, an unpublished manuscript by Esther Meinershagen; and also information from Herman's great grand-daughter, Margie Ida Katherine (Nolte) Scribner.
- [S118] St. Charles County Genealogical Society, Femme Osage United Church of Christ, Femme Osage, Missouri: Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (St. Charles, Missouri: St. Charles County Genealogical Society, no date), p.15.
"Hermann Adolf Meinerzhagen," son of Wilhelm and Wilhelmine (Brinkmann) Meinerzhagen, Warren County; baptized 20 August 1844. Page 278 of the church records.
- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), page 10.
"Herman was a wagon maker in Warren County. Farmed north of Higginsville after 1872."
- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), pages 3-4, 10-11.
Herman Adolph died on 9 February 1900. "Herman died at the home of his sister Mrs. H. A. Schoppenhorst near Peers, Mo. He had been visiting relatives in Warren County. He is buried at Higginsville."
- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), pages 10-11.
Herman Adolph died 9 February 1900. "Herman died at the home of his sister Mrs. H. A. Schoppenhorst near Peers, Mo. He had been visiting relatives in Warren County. He is buried at Higginsville."
- [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), page 347.
The Heinrich A. Schoppenhorst Family. Wilhelm Meinershagen (1816-1903) and Wilhelmina Maria nee Brinkman (1823-1895); married.
- [S118] St. Charles County Genealogical Society, Femme Osage United Church of Christ, Femme Osage, Missouri: Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (St. Charles, Missouri: St. Charles County Genealogical Society, no date), pages 34, 42.
Marriage register. Friederich Wilhelm Meinershagen and Maria Wilhelmina Brinckmann were married on 17 February 1841.
- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), p. 3.
Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen and Maria Wilhelmine Brinkmann were married 17 February 1841. "Married by the Reverend H. Garlechs [sic] of Femme Osage United Church of Christ [sic], they lived in Warren County before moving to Lafayette County in 1882."
- [S225] William Young, Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1910), Volume 2, page 606.
Biographical sketch of Benjamin Meinershagen. "...on February 17, 1841, in St. Charles county, he [William F. Meinershagen] married Mary W. Brinkman [sic]." "They were the parents of five sons and two daughters,...."
- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), pages 3, 10.
Herman Adolph Meinershagen and Henriette Johanna Frederika Reineke; married 30 January 1868. No place given.
- [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), p.250.
Hermann Adolph Meinershagen and Henrietta Johanna Friederika Reineke; married 30 January 1868. Karl Meinershagen and Mina Jäger are recorded as the witnesses.
- [S156] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen Revisited (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1998), page 8.
"[Herman Adolph (1844-1900)] and his wife had three sons; his wife died November 1, 1874 following the birth of the third. He remarried Amelia Elize Eichmeyer at Hopewell in 1875 and reared eight more children to adulthood." This total of 11 children falls one short of the list of 12 children Fred H. Meinershagen lists as offspring in his The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785-May 22, 1870, published in 1973.
- [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), pages 10-11.
Herman Adolph Meinershagen and Amalia Elize Eichmeyer; married 26 August 1875. "They were married at the home of the bride's father by the minister of Hopewell (Methodist) Academy at Hopewell [Warren County, Missouri]."
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