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Below is a family biography included in The History of Morgan County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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G. B. and C. H. Frisch, proprietors of the Buffalo Mills, were born in Missouri, November 12, 1854, and September 7, 1857, respectively, being the sons of Herman and Amelia (Smith) Frisch, who came to Missouri about 1850. The two brothers remained with and assisted their father until the latter’s death, and then began doing for themselves, and are now the owners of 600 acres of land in Morgan and Benton Counties, eighty of which are under cultivation, and the rest in timber land. They have a fine flouring-mill on their property, which was erected in 1880, and is two and a half stories high, and is 26x36 feet. It is run by water power, the water being collected in a reservoir, which is fed by springs about 150 yards above the mill, and furnishes a volume of some 150 cubic feet of water per minute, the volume not being affected by rains. An overshot wheel, having a diameter of sixteen feet, makes nine revolutions to the minute, and the grinding capacity is about thirty barrels per day. They have one set of buhrs for grinding wheat, and one for corn; two sets of elevators, two reel chests, and one smutter. Both brothers support the Republican party, and are men of energy and brains. C. H. Frisch was married December 9, 1880, to Mary Frisch, by whom he has three children: Clarence, born May 6, 1883; Zora, born in November, 1884; Leo, born in March, 1887, and one child that died in infancy. Anna Feineman became the wife of G. B. Frisch on the 12th of April, 1882, and they have now four children: Herman, born January 23, 1883; Laurence, born October 24, 1884; Walter, born September 24, 1886, and Alice, born August 24, 1888.

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This family biography is one of 120 biographies included in The History of Morgan County, Missouri published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Morgan County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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