Martin Scherer
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
Rev. Martin Scherer, of New Hamburg, Scott Co., Mo., was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1830. He was reared and educated in his native State, and in 1854 came to America as a Catholic missionary. He was first located at La Porte, Ind., and remained nine years, when he came to New Hamburg, Mo. His church membership at the latter place now numbers 200 or more. He also has charge of the schools of his district, two at New Hamburg containing about one hundred pupils, one in Scherer's settlement, and Cheney's school. The last two contain about twenty or thirty pupils each. Both the church and the schools are in a prosperous condition. The church building was destroyed by fire in 1863, but in 1866 and 1867 was replaced by a magnificent stone structure, costing about $40,000. Father Scherer is an earnest, active Christian worker, and his services to the people of New Hamburg and vicinity, are invaluable.
Submitted by Connie Perkins
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