Education
There he added two years at a German school to his scant education.
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John Gabriel Woerner
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Although he had become an American citizen on July 12, 1847, his sympathy with the revolutionists took him to Germany in 1848.
Missouri's railroad policy for many years was influenced by a committee report that he prepared (Scharf, post, I, 695).
Reforms he proposed to conserve estates against numerous fees and expenses, brought him national notice.
Chief among his non-legal writings was Die Sclavin (1891), an abolitionist drama, which began a popular career on the German stage of the Middle West in 1874 in St. Louis.
In his last year he published a novel of Missouri before the Civil War, with characters from life and a philosophical tone, The Rebel's Daughter: a Story of Love, Politics and War (1899).
Associated with Carl Schurz, Henry C. Brokmeyer, William T. Harris, Joseph Keppler, Emil Preetorius and George Engelmann [qq. v. ]
, he was a participant coworker in the St. Louis Movement in philosophy and education.
He died at home of paralysis.
[W. F. Woerner, J. Gabriel Woerner (1912); A. J. D. Stewart, The Hist.
of the Bench and Bar of Mo. (1898); W. B. Stevens, Centennial Hist.
of Mo. (1921), vol.
IV; J. T. Scharf, Hist.
of St. Louis City and County (1883), vol.
I; H. L. Conard, Encyc.
of the Hist.
of Mo. (1901), vol.
VI; Mo.
Hist.
Rev. , Oct. 1920, p. 116, Jan. 1931, p. 213, July 1931, pp. 613-15; Mo.
Hist.
Soc.
Colls. , vol.
V (1928), pp. 265-66; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 21, 1900. ]
Religion
He was also a founder of the St. Louis Philosophical Society.
Politics
Returning to St. Louis after two years, he purchased the Tribune and, changing its politics from Whig to Democratic, threw it behind Thomas H. Benton [q. v. ].
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When he was seven, his parents emigrated to Philadelphia, where the boy worked in a bakery.
His wife died in 1898 survived by four of their five children.
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- Emilie
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- Emilie
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In 1852 he sold the newspaper, began to study law, and, on Nov. 16, married Emilie, the daughter of Friedrich Plass, and a native of East Friesland, Hanover, Germany.
In 1852 he sold the newspaper, began to study law, and, on Nov. 16, married Emilie, the daughter of Friedrich Plass, and a native of East Friesland, Hanover, Germany.
Woerner, John Gabriel, (Apr. 28, 1826 - Jan. 20, 1900), Germany 1826 1900 Male Author Jurist probate judge and author, was born in M"hringen, Württemberg, Germany, the youngest of fourteen children of Elizabeth (Ulmer) and Christian Woerner, a poor but well-born carpenter.
