CARL HEGERT, miller, Amboy, eldest son of CARL HEGERT, was born in Germany, January 10, 1835. He immigrated to America in 1857, was forty-two days in passage from Hamburg to New York, and arrived at Amboy January 1, 1858. He reached this country poor, his only capital being the miller's trade, and some knowledge of the use of tools, aquired mainly from his father. He could not at first get employment at his trade, so he took the first job of carpentering he could find, and did not lay down his tools for a year and a half.

Then he was engaged at farming three years, and in the meantime, March 4, 1861, was married to Miss Hannah Grothe, daughter of John H. Grothe, of Ashton, who settled there from Pennsylvania in 1851.

As soon as Mr. Hegert had been able to earn money enough he sent for his brothers, Louis and Theodore; and after they had been in this country five years the three jointly sent funds to bring over the rest of the family -- the father, one brother, four sisters and their husbands. These are still living.

Mr. Hegert worked on the Dutcher mill while it was building, and afterward was employed as miller eight months. On June 17, 1862, he entered the employ of the Badger Brothers, as miller, at Binghampton, and continued with them until the second destruction of the mill by fire July 21, 1881.

He is a republican, an Odd-Fellow, and a workman, and both he and his wife belong to the Evangelical Luthern Church. They have six children: Harriet Jane, born June 22, 1863; Sarah Ann, February 4, 1865; Carl, February 28, 1867; Freddie, May 31, 1869, died February 10, 1870; Ida, September 4, 1871; Rudolph, January 15, 1874, and Willie, November 26, 1878."