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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: KLOSTERMEYER, Frederick G.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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September 21, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 362-363
FREDERICK G. KLOSTERMEYER, who is engaged in the drug business at Charleston,
W. Va., where he is a representative citizen, was born May 28, 1875, at
Manetta, 0., and is a son of Henry J. and Anna (Fluscher) Kiostermeyer.
The parents of Mr. Klostermeyer were born and reared at Bremen, Germany,
where they subsequently married. After the birth of two of their children,
they decided to emigrate to America and in 1865 set out on a sailing vessel
which subsequently safely landed them at Castle Garden, New York. Their
objective point was Marietta, Ohio, and there Henry j. Klostermeyer followed
his trade, that of carpenter, and also his profession as architect. There are
yet many substantial and stately buildings standing at Marietta which are
testimonials of his skill and ability. His death occurred in 1907 when he was
eighty years of age. He cast his vote with the Democratic party. His widow
died March 2, 1911, being in her seventy-seventh year, and had continued to
make her home at Marietta. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, as was her husband. They had eight children, namely: Mary, who is the
wife of Prof. George Lennon, a well known musician in Philadelphia, Boston,
and London, England; Anna, who is the wife of A. E. Price, an attorney at law
at Athens, Ohio; Louise, who is the wife of E. C. Hun-singer, who is in the
wholesale cigar business at Chicago; Augusta, who is the wife of W. D.
Bedillion, who is manager of a glass plant at Marietta, Ohio; Henry D., who
resides in Ohio, and married Isabella Sylvester; Frederick G., the direct
subject of this sketch; Wilhelmina, who is the wife of Howard Paul Taylor, of
Indianapolis, Ind.; and one son who was acci-dentally drowned in the
Muskingum River.
Frederick G. Klostermeyer was educated in the public schools of Washington
County, Ohio, and when he had made his choice of profession, entered the
Northern Ohio University at Ada, where he was graduated in pharmacy in the
class of 1895. In 1896 he came to Charleston and for four years served as a
drug clerk and then purchased the interest of George Ort and has continued to
conduct a first class dry store ever since, and enjoys the full confidence of
the public in every way.
On February 14, 1900, Mr. Klostermeyer was married to Miss Carrie L. Wooton,
who was born in 1876, in Kentucky and was educated in Huntington, Cabell
County, W. Va. They have one son, Howard R., who was born January 29, I904.
Mrs. Klostermeyer is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. In politics
Mr. Klostermeyer is a Republican. He is a Mason, of advanced standing,
belonging to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery at Charleston, and to
Beni-Keedem Temple, Mystic Shrine.
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