Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

JOHN F. PAPPMEIER, jeweler, Beardstown; was born in 
Hanover, Germany, Jan. 13, 1830, and came to this country 
with his parents when four years of age, settling in the 
fall of 1833, on a farm near Beardstown where, three years 
later, Peter Pappmeier, the father, died. Mrs. Pappmeier 
afterward married John F. Heinkel, who raised our subject, 
and who worked on the farm till twenty-one years of age, 
when he came to Beardstown and served three years at the 
jewelry trade, but his sight failing, he went back to the 
farm. In the meantime his stepfather and his mother had 
both died. In 1856, he commenced repairing watches, and 
keeping a small stock of jewelry, and although located six 
blocks from the business center, such has been the quality 
of his work, that he has been exceedingly successful. In 
1876, he built a fine brick store and residence; keeps 
constantly employed three persons, and carrying a large 
stock of clocks, watches, jewelry, silverware, etc. In 1851 
he married Miss Eliza, daughter of Clamor Tiemeyer, of 
Beardstown Precinct, and he has two sons and two daughters: 
John A., H. Lewis, Katie E., wife of John H. Hagener; and 
Eida. One son and two daughters are dead. He owns two fine 
farms, and is also interested in the culture of bees, 
having an apiary containing 130 swarms.

Pappmeier Heinkel Tiemeyer Hagener
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