Steinacker, Charles

Submitted by Mike Miller

Charles Steinacker was born in New Orleans, February 22, 1845. He is the son of Frank Steinacker, who was born in Bavaria in 1810. Francis Steinacker was lieutenant in the Bavarian army and served as a patriotic soldier for several years. He emigrated to America in 1841 and landed in New York City, where he remained until 1843, when he came south, locating in New Orleans. Here he was married, in 1843, to Miss Roch, and they became the parents of two children--our subject, Charles Steinacker, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Frank Steinacker died in 1850. Charles Steinacker was reared in New Orleans, and received a good business and literary education. He then served an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, and subsequently entered tire employ of a large retail mercantile house in New Orleans, with whom he remained as salesman for eleven years. He came to Franklin in 1885, and accepted an engagement in one of the largest mercantile houses there. Desiring to enter business for himself, he opened a general mercantile house on his own account in 1889, where his efforts have been attended with the greatest success. He is now doing one of the most active and paying businesses in St. Mary parish. Mr. Steinacker is a natural salesman, and is in his element when handling goods and dealing with the public. He is a member of the Catholic church.

Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 381. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.