The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . glazing, painting,and tinning. He emigrated to the United States,reaching St. Louis, Mo., at the age of eighteen he began work at the tinners bench, at $4 perweek, of wh
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . glazing, painting,and tinning. He emigrated to the United States,reaching St. Louis, Mo., at the age of eighteen he began work at the tinners bench, at $4 perweek, of which he saved $ .Joined by a brotherthe two worked for two years at the bench, and thenstarted business for themselves, which was a successfrom the beginning, the addition of two branchesbeing speedily called for. In 1862 they began thestamping of tinware; in 1866 their business was in-corporated under the name of St. Louis Stampingcompany, of which Mr. Niedringhaus is 1874 they entered upon the making of graniteironware. In 1881 they established extensive rolling mills, and in all their works they now employabout 1,200 people. He was elected as representative to the fifty-first U. S. congress as a republican,receiving 14,210 votes against 13,020 for all has made for himself in his congressional service,a good name, as a shrewd and practical legislator. 28 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. As a specimen of his congressional oratorjr we may-cite from a speech on The AVorlds Fair in 1892,in wliich he advocated the claims of his adopted cityto the distinction of havingthat exposition held with-in her limits, as follows: Now, to speak of Being a St. Louis-ian, whose characteristic,as everybody knows, ismodesty, to come here tosing our own praise is very-unnatural. (Laughter.) are the most hos-pitable people on the globe:and we will prove it to youin 1893 when you come tovisit the fair. St. Louispeople know how to holda fair; they know how
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