Shoemaker. Born in Kirchheim, Kingdom of Wuerttemberg (now Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany), he was the youngest of 15 children born to Christian Jakob Heyer and his wife, Magdelena Frey. Gustav left Kirchheim at the age of 19 for the United States in 1866 and lived in Sheboygan, Wisconsin for a time working in the leather tanning industry. He married Louise Minnie Zieman on October 29, 1870, before he moved to the Village of Franklin, near Mission Haus Seminary (now Lakeland College) where he opened his own shoestore. The couple had two sons, Otto A and Gustav Adolph Jr, and six daughters, Emma L, Lydia L, Emilia and Ella. Most of the daughters married graduates of Mission Haus Seminary who became ministers in the German Reformed Church of America. One of the daughters, Emelia, married Reverend Friedrich Wilhelm Beisser.
Shoemaker. Born in Kirchheim, Kingdom of Wuerttemberg (now Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany), he was the youngest of 15 children born to Christian Jakob Heyer and his wife, Magdelena Frey. Gustav left Kirchheim at the age of 19 for the United States in 1866 and lived in Sheboygan, Wisconsin for a time working in the leather tanning industry. He married Louise Minnie Zieman on October 29, 1870, before he moved to the Village of Franklin, near Mission Haus Seminary (now Lakeland College) where he opened his own shoestore. The couple had two sons, Otto A and Gustav Adolph Jr, and six daughters, Emma L, Lydia L, Emilia and Ella. Most of the daughters married graduates of Mission Haus Seminary who became ministers in the German Reformed Church of America. One of the daughters, Emelia, married Reverend Friedrich Wilhelm Beisser.
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