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     Mertz's Grocery and Saloon
                        1878

Frank Schmitt ran multiple businesses at this location in the 1870's. He was born in Baden Germany in 1824. According to the 1880 Federal Census, he was a widower with six children: Mary, Frank, Margareth, Alice, Anna, and Joseph. He died in 1887.
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German Village Remembrances
(what came before)