Francis Joseph Wattron, born February 5, 1861, in Hermann, Missouri, was a small boy when the town’s alarm bells signaled an accident at Stone Hill Winery. His father, a vintner from France, had fallen into a vat of wine and drowned. Then his Swiss-born mother remarried and died in childbirth, leaving the boy orphaned.
His only relative in
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