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O. T. G. Hoberecht, proprietor of the Star Roller Mills at California, Mo., was born in Moniteau County, November 21, 1864, his parents being Frank and Elizabeth (Schaffer) Hoberecht, natives, respectively, of Saxony, Germany, and Moniteau County, Mo. The father came to America, with his parents, when a boy, and located near Boonville, Cooper County, and was there reared to manhood on a farm, his occupation on the farm being a trapper. During the California gold excitement he and his two brothers, William and Theodore, went to that State, where they were engaged in mining for some time. After returning to Moniteau County, Mo., he built a grist-mill in 1862, about a mile and a half east of California, and also erected a pottery shop, which was the first and only establishment of the kind in Moniteau County. He and his brothers ran the mill, pottery shop, and a large farm at the same time, but some years after he sold out and removed to California, also removing his mill to his place, putting it on its present site. It is a large three-story frame building, and is well supplied with good machinery, the roller process being put in in 1885, and its capacity is 100 barrels per twenty-four hours. Mr. Hoberecht operated this mill and a large farm, with his son, Otto T. G., as assistant, until his death, which occurred February 28, 1887. He was intelligent, enterprising, and therefore successful, and had many warm friends. His widow is still residing in California. Nine of their ten children are living at this writing: Sophia, wife of Charles Kobrock, of Sedalia; Maggie; Emma, wife of Charles Trieber; Otto T. G., Bertha, Ida, Henry, Lesetta and Charles. Louisa is deceased. Otto T. G. Hoberecht, our subject, received a good education in his early days, and attended the Central Business College at Sedalia for two terms. He worked with his father in the mill until the latter’s death, then leased the mill, which he has since bought. He is a young man of push and enterprise, and is already classed among the prosperous business men of the town. He employs five men in his establishment, turns out as good flour as can be had anywhere, and besides supplying the home demand he ships to other points. He is engaged quite extensively in buying and selling grain, in partnership with L. M. Cordry, their office being at Syracuse, Mo., and is known as the Syracuse Exchange, and where they also do a large exchange business in exchanging flour and meal for wheat and corn.