societies. March 24, 1842, he was married to Miss Anna Dorothea Hopke, at Bridgeton, His living children are. George Henry William, connected with the St. Louis Transit Company; Edward Frederick, agent of the Wabash Railroad Company, at Bridgeton; Frederick August, Jr., prosecuting attorney of St. Louis County; William Henry, a practicing physician at Bridgeton, and Anna Louise, who resides with her brother at the old homestead in Bridgeton. Mr. Heidorn was a member of the German Lutheran Church.

Heim, Frederick, was born September 16, 1826, in Bregenz, Tyrol, Austria, son of Wunnibald and Mary A. (Osterly) Heim, who were the parents of a family of nine sons and three daughters. The elder Heim was a prosperous rope manufacturer and farmer of the Tyrol, and his sons and daughters were well reared and received good, practica! educations. The sons then served a term of years as apprentices to the rope-maker's trade in Europe, and subsequently in St. Louis. Frederick and Ferdinand also learned and worked at the baker's trade before coming to this country. They arrived in the United States in the year 1850, and came at once to St. Louis, which has ever since been their home, and in which they have come to be recognized as capable and honorable men in business affairs and worthy citizens. For some years after coming to St. Louis, Frederick worked with his five brothers in their own rope factory in that city, but in 1855 they engaged in the dairy business, which they continued for ten years thereafter. In 1865 he disposed of his dairy interests and then turned his attention to the lumber trade, becoming a wholesale and retail dealer in that commodity. Establishing a lumber yard at the corner of Fourteenth Street and Russell Avenue, he has since handled at that place several millions of feet of lumber each year, and for over thirty years he has been a successful and extensive dealer in all kinds of building material. For the success which has attended his enterprise as a business man he is indebted to his own energy, tact, courtesy, sagacity, and his ability to make and retain friends. Some of the earliest and most valued friends of the brothers in the city were men who have since gained unusual distinction in the business world, and Samuel

Cupples and Francis Saler were among those who showed appreciation of their pluck and energy and gave them kindly encouragement and assistance in their earliest business ventures. Ferdinand and Michael Heim, two brothers of Frederick, both gained great prominence in later years as the owners of large brewing plants in East St. Louis and Kansas City. Joseph, John and G. F. Heim were also associated at one time with their three other brothers in business in St. Louis, and all were worthy and useful citizens. During the Civil War all the brothers were members of the Union organization of Home Guards, which rendered valuable services to the State and the general government. In politics Mr. Heim has been independent since the war period, while his religious affiliations are with the Catholic Church. He is a rational churchman of that faith, and active at all times in advancing its interests, and is a member also of the Catholic Knights of America. He is much of a student, as well as a business man, and devotes his leisure time to the study of astronomy, astrology, theosophy, and the occult sciences.

Heim, Joseph J., manufacturer, was born in 1860, in St. Louis County, Missouri, on a farm adjoining that of General Grant. His parents were Ferdinand and Elizabeth Heim. The father was a native of Wolfort, Austria, and came to America in 1850, when twenty-one years of age. For some years he made rope by hand for Samuel C. Cupples, at St. Louis, Missouri, at the same time carrying on a dairy business which was principally managed by his wife. From 1860 to 1869 he lived at French Village, Illinois, on the road between Belleville and East St. Louis. He there kept a tavern, known as the Yellow House, in its day the most famous stage-line roadhouse in Southern Illinois, where he frequently entertained the most noted men of the time as they traversed this great central highway, before the railway era. In 1869 he removed to East St. Louis, where he kept a similar house. He here set up a hand brewery, producing about fifty gallons per day, which he made. solely for his own guests. His brew became favorably known in the neighborhood, and in order to supply the demands of other tavern-keepers he increased his manufacturing facilities from time to time. In 1871 he

set up an ox treadmill, which was replaced two years later with a three-horse power. In 1875 he set up the first steam brewing plant, and it is a matter of interest that when he retired from the business many years later, the original engine was retained in the family, and is now kept as a relic in the Heim brewery, at Kansas City. In 1875 Mr. Heim associated with himself his brother Michael, and the partnership was continued until the death of the latter named, in 1883. In 1881 the East St. Louis business was incorporated under the name of the Heim Brewing Company, and was continued until 1890, when it was sold for $350,000 to an English syndicate. During his business career Mr. Heim twice lost his brewery property by fire; he was without insurance, and the restoration of his fortunes was solely due to his indefatigable industry and undaunted resolution. In 1884 he visited Kansas City, and being desirous of establishing in business his three sons, now grown to manhood, he purchased the small brewery plant then operated by Frank Kump. Joseph J., the oldest of the sons, was placed in charge, while the father assumed no part of the business direction, but maintained a paternal interest and advised freely with his sons until his death. His wife died in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1893. From that time, his most constant residence was in California, where he owned a large amount of property. His death occurred in 1895, at East St. Louis, Illinois. He was a self-made man, remarkably energetic and industrious, strictly honorable in all his dealings, and possessed of the highest qualifications, both executive and advisory. The son, Joseph J. Heim, was educated in the district schools of St. Clair County, Illinois. At an early age he began his life work in his father's brewery, and acquired an intimate knowledge of every detail of the brewing art, and also learned the quiet methodical business methods which characterized the parent. His subsequent career affords assurance that he inherited those sterling traits of character which distinguished the parent, and which are in no manner the result of education or fortuitous circumstances. At the inception of the Ferd. Heim Brewing Company, in 1884, he was elected president and treasurer, and now occupies the position of president. To his masterly management is largely due the marvelous development of the Heim establish

ment, one of the most important among the great industries of Kansas City. Beginning with an annual output of 12,000 barrels, the product rose to 130,577 barrels in 1900. The brewery is the largest west of St. Louis, represents a valuation of $2,500,000, and affords employment to 250 men, most of them with dependent families. In May, 1900, an extensive amusement park was laid out by the Heim Brothers adjacent to their manufacturing plant. In 1899 was completed the East Side electric line, a double track street railway, extending from the business center of Kansas City to and beyond the brewery property. Mr. J. J. Heim was president at the organization of the operating company, and yet occupies that position. He is an active member of the Commercial Club and of the Manufacturers' Association; in the latter body he occupies the position of second vice president. He was married in 1886 to Miss Hettie Hinze, daughter of Frederick Hinze, an early settler and well-to-do citizen of St. Clair County, Illinois. Born of this marriage was a daughter, Gertrude, who has completed a liberal education, and is now in Europe studying music and continental languages, for which accomplishments she has developed special talent. Associated in business with Mr. Heim are his brothers, Ferdinand Heim and Michael G. Heim. Ferdinand Heim was born in St. Louis County, Missouri, and was educated at the Irving Park Military School, Chicago, Illinois. He became connected with the Ferd. Heim Brewing Company in 1891, and is the present secretary. He married Miss Cracentia Auchter, and a daughter, Elizabeth, has been born of this marriage. Michael G. Heim was born at French Village, St. Clair County, Illinois, and was educated in the Poughkeepsie (New York) Military Academy. His connection with the Ferd. Heim Brewing Company dates from 1892, and he is now superintendent. He married Miss Olympia I. Droz, of East St. Louis, Illinois, and has two children, Mabel and Joseph Heim.

Heitkamp, Frederick Joseph, was born in Hanover, Germany, February 10, 1813, and died in St. Louis, December 27, 1869. He was the son of John Henry and Mary Angela (Ostendorf) Heitkamp, country people, who spent their lives in Germany. Educated in a parochial school in his native