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Steines Cemetery

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Location	:	Pacific, Franklin County, USA
Description	:	The Washington (Missouri) Historical Society lists Steines cemetery in Boles Township, Franklin Co., Missouri. This agrees with the death certificates and census records of the Frederick and Bertha Steines family, which locates it a few miles north of Pacific in the area formerly known as Oakfield. Frederick Steines was a famous educator who ran the Oakfield Academy just north of Pacific for many years: From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1888. "Frederick Steines, one of the most celebrated educators of Missouri, was born December 4, 1802, in Rettwig-on-the-Ruhr, Germany. At the age of sixteen... Read More	The Washington (Missouri) Historical Society lists Steines cemetery in Boles Township, Franklin Co., Missouri. This agrees with the death certificates and census records of the Frederick and Bertha Steines family, which locates it a few miles north of Pacific in the area formerly known as Oakfield. Frederick Steines was a famous educator who ran the Oakfield Academy just north of Pacific for many years: From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1888. "Frederick Steines, one of the most celebrated educators of Missouri, was born December 4, 1802, in Rettwig-on-the-Ruhr, Germany. At the age of sixteen he began teaching, which occupation he followed at Lohderf, Solinger, near Eberfeld, until he left his native country for the United States, and landed at Baltimore, June 4, 1834, at the head of the Solinger-Geselschaft. From Baltimore he went to St. Louis, arriving there July 2, of the same year, where in 1837, he organized the "St. Louis Germany Academy," which was incorporated February 6, 1837 and was the first German-America institution of learning in the West. Later, Prof. Steines founded the Oakfield Academy, in Franklin County, which he kept up until 1869, after which he taught in the public schools five years, thus completing his fifty years of duty in the schoolroom. He is considered the pioneer English and German educator west of the Mississippi River. About 500 students have been educated at Oakfield Academy, in attendance from Missouri and four or five adjacent States. The building is 25 x 40 feet, and one and one-half stories high. Among his pupils who have become distinguished are Charles Nordhoff, Henry Weinheimer, Fred T. Ledergerber, Conrad Faith, Eugene Papin, Henry F. Harrington and William J. Lemp. Prof. Steines was married January 1, 1835, to Miss Bertha Herminghaus, and January 1, 1885 his gold wedding anniversary was celebrated. He has three sons and two daughters living. He lost his first wife and all his children by her from cholera in 1834, shortly after his arrival in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Steines are members of the Evangelical Church. Politically, he is a Republican, and has served seven years as justice of the peace of his township. He was a lieutenant in the German regular army, and served in the Missouri Home Guards during the late war. He was a son of John Frederick William and Anna Catherine (Unterlehberg) Steines, natives of Kettwig, Germany, the former of whom was a manufacturer and dealer in boots and shoes; he was also a captain in the army under Frederick the Great, and with his wife and two sons, Peter and Herman, came to this country in 1834, settling near where our subject now resides. Prof. Steines is a Master Mason, having take the first degree in his native country, in 1825. He is now about eighty five years of age, and his wife, who is still living is sixty-nine years of age." Another short biography is from the State Historical Society of Missouri: Cunningham, Norma Steines, The Letters of Frederick Steines (1802-1890), 1834-1840, 1999: http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/2364.html "Frederick Steines was born 4 December 1802 in Kettwig, a town on the Ruhr River in Rhenish Prussia, Germany. His parents were Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Steines, a leather dealer and shoemaker, and Anna Catharine Unterlehberg Steines. Frederick Steines excelled in school and began teaching at age fourteen while he was still a student. At eighteen he succeeded his late brother as a teacher in Neu Loehdorf, near Düsseldorf. With the exception of one year in the military, Steines taught in Neu Loehdorf from 1820 to 1834. He married Maria Gerdraute Broech on 7 October 1824. The couple had four children: Theresa Auguste (b. 1826), Friedrich Ernst (b. 1828), Ida Euphrosina (b. 1831), and Lebrecht Gotthilf (b. 1833). Angered and frustrated by military and school authorities in his native land, Steines helped organize the Solingen Emigration Society. The group of 153 men, women, and children set sail for the United States on 17 April 1834. The party arrived in Baltimore in early June. Traveling by train, wagon, and steamboat, the immigrants reached St. Louis on July 2. They endured the arduous journey remarkably well, but within a week after arriving in St. Louis—then a haven for disease because of insufficient sanitation—Steines lost his wife and three of his four children to cholera. By the end of that year his last child was dead, as were his brother Peter and sister-in-law Hannchen. Steines became the guardian of their child Otto. Steines purchased a farm along Tavern Creek in Franklin County, near the Missouri River. His parents lived nearby, as did his brother Hermann, who immigrated to Missouri in 1833. Steines married 16-year-old Bertha Herminghaus on 1 January 1835. After becoming engrossed in farming, he returned to teaching in early 1837 when a new German public school opened in St. Louis. After becoming seriously ill in 1838 however, he returned to the country permanently. In 1839 he established Oakfield Academy on his estate in Franklin County. The school remained in operation until 1869, and Steines taught for five more years in the public schools. Besides schoolmaster he held several other titles during his long life, including Justice of the Peace and postmaster of Oakfield. He died at his home 24 April 1890. Bertha, his wife of more than fifty-five years, died 22 July 1892. A more detailed biography of Frederick Steines is available in William G. Bek's series "The Followers of Duden," which appeared in several volumes of the Missouri Historical Review beginning in October 1919. A brief Steines autobiography through age 27 is in MHR, Vol. XIV, Nos. 3-4, 447-458."

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