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Joseph Gattermeir, miller at Olean, was born in Austria, on the Danube, in 1848, and is the eldest in a family of seven children born to Mathias and Annie (Wienkler) Gattermeir. In 1855 Mr. and Mrs. Gattermeir emigrated to the United States and settled in Morgan County, where they purchased and entered 200 acres of partially improved land. Since his admission to citizenship, Mr. Gattermeir has voted with the Republican party, and is quite active in politics. He and wife are now living on the old homestead, seven miles west of Versailles. Joseph Gattermeir was reared to farm labor until fourteen years of age, when he went to work for Brown Bros., at Cave Mills, Morgan County, to learn the trade of wool carding, and there followed the same for five years. He was then apprenticed to August Zwanzig to learn the milling business, which he followed for nine years. July 8, 1877, Mr. Gattermeir was united in marriage to Miss Cassandria Zwanzig, a native of Illinois, and daughter of August and Margaret (Fuhr) Zwanzig. In 1879 Joseph Zwanzig went to Platte City, Mo., and engaged with Metzger & Co., millers, with whom he continued for a short time. He then followed the carpenter’s trade for a short time, and then went to Colorado, where he remained from May to November of 1880, engaged in the saw-mill business; was also engaged in mining. February 20, 1881, Mr. Gattermeir formed a partnership with Edwin and Bernhardt Zwanzig, and bought the property known as Goodman’s Mills, near Olean. They remodeled the building, put in new buhrs, and in the summer of 1887 they changed to the roller system, fitting in two double sets of 15-inch rollers. These gentlemen are doing good work for the farmers, and have acquired a very favorable reputation. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Gattermeir were born five children, viz.: Bernhard M., Henry E., Margaret Anna, Allie J. and Almon G., the last two being twins, and were born July 3, 1885.