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JUDGE AUGUST H. DICKHAUS
(Judge of the County Court and Farmer, Post-office, Dutzow).
A well known and prominent citizen of Warren county, Judge Dick- haus commands to more than an ordinary degree for a man in public life the confidence and esteem of men of both political parties, and, indeed, of all parties and of every class. He was reared in this county, and has therefore been known to its people from boyhood. Well known as he is, it is not too much to say that no man in the county stands with less reproach in public opinion ; in fact, more irreproach- able than he. His regular pursuit is farming, and by industry and the good judgment, which is one of the most marked characteristics he has, succeeded in placing himself in comfortable circumstances. He was born in St. Charles county, August 24, 1840, and in 1849 his parents removed to Warren county. His father, John H. Dickhaus, born in Oldenburg, Germany, June 22, 1795, was a gallant soldier in the German army during the Napoleonic wars, and was at the siege of Moscow and the battle of Waterloo. He was subsequently married in Germany to Miss Elizabeth Kopmann, and 1831 he immigrated to the United States with his family and located in Kentucky. Three years afterwards he came to St. Charles county, Mo., where he en- gaged in merchandising, and in 1849 he came to Warren county and settled on a farm. He was a shoemaker by trade, and followed that in connection with other pursuits for many years. He died here in 1874. Judge Dickhaus was reared on the farm in this county, and
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in 1866 was married to Miss Louisa Lange, a daughter of Fritz Lange, formerly of Germany. The Judge and Mrs. Dickhaus have been blessed with eight children, six of whom are living : Rose, Clemens, Louis, Olivia, Emma and Mathilde. The Judge, who had previously served as justice of the peace, was elected an associate judge of the county court in 1882, and is now serving in that capacity.
JOSEPH ECKELCAMP
(Dealer in General Merchandise, Contord Hill).
Among the old and reliable business men of this part of the county is the subject of the present sketch, Mr. Eckelcamp, who has been engaged in business at Concord Hill for the last thirty years. The little means on which he began business at Concord Hill he saved up from the returns or products of his own industry. Opening with a small stock of goods, at the very beginning he made it his motto, to which he permitted no exceptions, to deal fairly with every one, to give each of his customers the full worth of the money paid for what was bought, to sell honest goods, and to treat every one with respect and in an accommodating manner. The result was, and is, that his house soon became a popular place to trade for the community, and soon became thoroughly established in the confidence of the public. For years it has retained the character for fair dealing which it early acquired, and there are now a large part of Mr. Eckelcamp's customers who have been dealing with him for a generation. He carries a large stock of dry goods, boots and shoes, hats and caps, notions, furnish- ing goods, groceries, queen's-ware, etc., etc. Mr. Eckelcamp is from Germany to this country, born in 1830. His father, Henry Eckel- camp, was a farmer by occupation, and was accidently killed while Joseph, his son, the subject of this sketch, was still in infancy. He was at a house-raising in his neighborhood in Germany, and was struck by a falling log from the top of the wall, which resulted in his death a short time afterwards. Mr. Eckelcamp's mother, who was left a widow with several children by her husband's death, was a Miss Eliza- beth Schaupaut, before her marriage, and died in Germany in about 1842. Joseph Eckelcamp, being thus left an orphan while yet in boy- hood, had of course not the best opportunities to qualify himself for business life as he grew up, and the education he received he acquired largely by his own desire for knowledge and application to study. When about 13 years of age he came to America with an older brother and two sisters, who located in. St. Louis. There our subject grew up, and while yet a youth obtained a situation in a grocery store where he became a clerk, and continued clerking for some twelve years. In 1854 he came to Concord Hill, and has been here ever since engaged in business. The same year that he engaged in business at this place, Mr. Eckelcamp was married to Miss Elizabeth Nauber, a daughter of Bernard Nauber, formerly of Germany, and among the first settlers of Warren county. Mr. and Mrs. Eckelcamp have had three children, two of whom are living : Louis, who married Miss Lizzie Glosemeyer, and Mary, the wife of Henry Schaefer.
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DR. A. F. EIMBECK
(Post-office, Holstein) .
Dr. A. F. Eimbeck was born April 4th, 1842, as the fourth son in the city of Brunswick, Dukedom of Brunswick, Germany, where his father the late zoologist, A. F. E. Eimbeck held the office of Inspec- tor of the Ducal Museum. He emigrated to the United States located at St. Louis, kept a drugstore, was assistant resident physician of the St. Louis City Hospital, physician to the cholera wards at the city hospital in 1866, ward physician, served in the army of the United States and located in September, 1867, at Holstein, Warren county Mo., where he has established a lucrative practice, and is well liked not only as a physician but also as a citizen. He was elected coroner of Warren county for three terms, 1868, 1870 and 1880. In 1868 he married Miss Annette Tuliane Ruge, daughter of the late well known pioneer, Dr. C. Ruge, of Holstein, Mo., and in this wedlock were born two sons, Oscar, 1869, and Arthur, 1874. Besides other real es- tate the Doctor is the owner of a large farm about two miles east of New Haven, Mo., on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and on the Mis- souri river. Two older brothers of the Doctor, Fred and Charles, are living near New Haven, Eimbeck's landing, Mo., and are follow- ing farming, and one brother William, is an astronomer, a member of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, since 1870.
HERMAN FORTMANN
(Dealer in General Merchandise, Hopewell Academy).
Mr. Fortmann was reared to a mercantile life and has followed merchandising almost continuously, as clerk or proprietor, from youth. Thus learning the business thoroughly and being a man of sterling good sense, frugal, and a good manager, he has of course succeeded. He has one of the best general stores throughout his sec- tion of the county, his stock containing everything in the line of gen- eral. merchandise to be found in a first-class country store. He is a popular business man and draws custom from a large region of sur- rounding country, Mr. Fortmann, like a large percentage of the peo- ple of Warren county, is a German by nativity, born near Badbergen, Hanover, April 23, 1847. He received a common-school education in his native country and was eighteen years of age when he came to America in 1865, and his mother and sister came two years later, in 1867, for his father had died in 1850. The mother died in Warren county in 1873. On coming to this country they first stopped at Baltimore where Herman clerked in a store for a time. From there they came to St. Louis, where he also clerked and thence they came to Warren county. Subsequently he kept store at Wright City, and then removed his business to New Boston where he is now. In 1874 he was married to Miss Catherine Kerckhoff, a daughter of H. H. Kerckhoff, a substantial farmer of Warren county. Mr. and Mrs.
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Fortmann have four children : Emma, Henry, Herman and Lotta, Mr. F. has but one sister, Annie, now the wife of William Strasjecker, of St. Louis.
JOSEPH GLOSEMEYER
(Farmer, Post-office, Dutzow).
Mr. Glosemeyer, who owns a good farm in Franklin county, to which he will shortly remove, when his post-office will be Washington, is the son of Ernst and Mary Glosemeyer, who came from Germany in the spring of 1834 and settled in Warren county, where the father lived until his death. He was a farmer by occupation. Joseph Glosemeyer was born January 1, 1836. He was raised on the farm and on the 17th of November, 1863, he was married to Miss Caroline Krekel, the daughter of Francis and Helena Krekel, formerly of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Glosemeyer have had eight children, two of whom are deceased ; the others are: Frances, the wife of Ben. Hotmer ; Vincent, Mary, Frankie, Helena and Clary. The deceased are : Theodore and Johanna, who died at tender ages. Mr. Glose- meyer has a farm of 167 acres where he now resides, besides his place of 208 acres in Franklin county, Mo., to which they will shortly move. He is a man of thorough-going energy, and one of the sub- stantial and successful farmers of the community.
MARTIN HOBELMAN
(Dealer in Merchandise and Postmaster, Dutzow).
Mr. Hobelman came to Dutzow in 1881 and engaged in his present business, and the following year was appointed postmaster at this place, a position he still holds. He has a neat stock of goods in his line, and by dealing fairly with everybody and treating every one with proper respect and consideration he has succeeded in making himself one of the popular business men of this part of the county. He has built up a good trade, and his future in business seems altogether en- couraging. He was born near Wegenholdhause, in Prussia, October 17, 1848, and was the second of three children of David Hobelman and wife, nee Lizzie Stumphe, his father a cabinet-maker. The family came to America in 1852 and settled in Franklin county. Mr. Hobel- man's father died there in 1864, and young Martin was reared by his uncle Hellman, with whom he remained until 1877. He then engaged in merchandising on his own account in Franklin county, where he continued until his removal to Dutzow three years ago. January 11, 1881, Mr. Hobelman was married to Miss Mary E. Bernd, a daughter of Thomas and Lizzie Bernd, of Franklin county. Mr. and Mrs. H. have three children : Thomas, Anthony and Eliza. He and wife are members of the Catholic Church.
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FRANK ANTHONY KRACHT
(Principal of St. Ignatius' School, Concord Hill, Post-office, Holstein).
Mr. Kracht, a man of thorough and advanced collegiate education and an educator by profession ( having taken a regular course of train- ing for this pursuit, which he has followed continuously since quit- ing college), has had charge of his present school, which is under the patronage and control of the Catholic congregation of St. Ignatius' Church at Concord Hill, since the fall of 1881, and has given entire satisfaction in the management of the school, not only establishing himself thoroughly in the confidence and respect of his patrons and the public generally as a teacher, but winning at the same the high esteem of his pupils, both in his success in advancing them with pro- ficiency in their studies and for his kind and considerate, though firm treatment of them in the school room and as individuals. Like many of the better citizens of Warren county, he is a German by nativity and bringing up. He was born at Cobbenrode, Prussia, December 24, 1860, and is a son of Joseph Francis Kracht, mayor of Cobben- rode, a man of consideration and high standing, burgomaster, or mayor, of that place for 25 years. Young Kracht was given good advantages for an education. After completing a course in the pre- paratory schools, he matriculated at Schmallenberg College which he attended for three terms. He then entered normal college, of the Teachers' Seminary at Ruethen, where he took a complete course and graduated in the class of '79. After this Mr. Kracht engaged in teaching at Hulshotten, where he continued for a year, coming thence to America in 1880. Although he had studied the languages in his native country, he felt that he was not sufficiently conversant with English to teach in this country with success without further study. He, therefore, entered the St. Francis Teachers' Seminary at Mil- waukee, Wis., where he spent a year. Immediately after this he re- ceived a call to take charge of his present school, which he accepted ; and he has since been teaching at this place. Personally, the teacher is a young gentleman of pleasant bearing, cultured manners and ad- dress, and evidently a thorough scholar and of a high sense of honor. He is a member of the Catholic Church.
FREDERICK W. KRUETZMANN
(Clerk for F. A. Schaberg & Co., Marthasville).
Mr. K'.s parents, F. W. and Sophia Kruetzmann, came to America from der land von der Nibelungen Lied in 1843, and settled in Warren county where the father engaged in farming and where Frederick W. was reared. The father died when the son was quite young, and the latter was born February 2, 1844, and was reared by his step-father, E. H. Luhro. At the age of 21 young Kruetzmann went to Minne- sota, where he spent something over a year attending school, princi- pally. Afterwards he returned to Missouri and became a clerk for
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Gerhard Schaberg at Femme Osage, where he clerked for over four years. He then engaged in business on his own account in partner- ship with F. M. Griswold at that place, carrying on the business for about five years, when he began farming in this county. In 1880, Mr. Kruetzmann entered the store of F. A. Schoberg & Co., at Marthasville, as a clerk, in which position he has ever since been re- tained by the firm. He is a popular salesman and good business man, and has contributed not a little to building up the large trade which this house commands. January 3, 1872, Mr. Kruetzmann was married to Miss Elise Rowie, a daughter of Adolph and Harie Rowie, formerly of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. K. have two children : Elihu and Emil.
HERMAN D. KUNZE, JR.
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Hopewell).
It was away back in the early days of the country that Mr. Kunze's grandfather, Jonathan Kunze, came to Missouri with his family from Saxony, in the Fatherland, and settled in St. Charles county. Herman Kunze, Sr., the father of the subject of this sketch, was then a lad only four years of age, having been born in Saxony, May 19, 1834. He grew up on his father's farm in St. Charles county, and in 1853 was married to Miss Louise Rithorst. The following year they removed to Warren county, and" settled on the farm where she still resides, and where Herman. D. also makes his home. The father died here in 1873. Seven of the family of children. are living, namely : Louisa, Herman D., Mary, the wife of Louis Bolm ; Julius, Edwin, Albert and Robert. Herman. D. Kunze, the subject of this sketch, was born on the farm in Warren county, July 21, 1856, and was brought up to the occupation of farming, which he still follows. April 19, 1883, he was married to Miss Emma, a daughter of Ernest and Florintina Multhaupt, of this country, but formerly of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Kunze reside on the old family. homestead where he is engaged in farming. The place contains 336 acres of land and is well improved. Mr. K. also makes a business of raising stock, and deals to some extent in cattle, hogs, horses, mules, sheep, etc.
LOUIS LEHMBERG
(Dealer in General Merchandise, Holstein).
Mr. Lehmberg's father, Ernest Lehmberg, a native of Westphalia, Germany, was the first merchant of Holstein, establishing a store here in 1843, and he was the first postmaster at this place, continuing to serve for 25 years, from the time the office paid a salary of $1.50 up to when it amounted to a sum worth making a contest for. He also continued merchandising here until his old age, when he retired from business on a respectable competency. He was born in Germany, October 18, 1807, and was a son of Rudolph and Elizabeth Lehmberg, who both continued to reside in their native country until their deaths.
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March 3, 1837, Ernest Lehmberg was married in Germany to Miss Charlotta Tiamann, and the same year with his young wife he em- barked for America, coming directly to Warren county, where he bought a farm and still resides. His good wife died June 25, 1883. She was a life-long member of the Evangelical Church, and he has been a member for many years. He and 11 others founded the church at Holstein. Besides Louis there were five other children in the family, but only one other is now living. Louis Lehmberg, the subject of this sketch, was born in Warren county, November 24, 1842, and was reared on the farm and in the store. He also received a high school education, and in 1863 enlisted in the Union service under Gen. A. J. Smith, and was honorably promoted during his term for meritorious conduct as a soldier. He fought with great gallantry in the bloody battle of Spanish Fort. Returning home, in 1866, he opened a store at Holstein, and has been engaged in business at this place ever since, except for about six months that he was mail agent on the North Missouri Railway, between St. Louis and Kansas City. He carries a general stock of dry goods, groceries, queen's-ware, etc., etc. He has a good trade and is one of the popular merchants of Holstein.« In 1873 he was married to Miss Mary Muench, a daughter of Hon. Adolphus Muench, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Lehmberg have five children : Hugo, Eugene, Gustavus and Werner. Laura, the eldest, died at four years.
HENRY MASSMANN
(Farmer, Post-office, Holstein).
Mr. Massmann was born in the same county and the same township where he now resides, and these have been his home continuously from his birth. The date of his birth was the 14th of February, 1841. His parents were Martin Massmann and wife, Mary Massmann. The father was an energetic farmer and respected citizen of this county, and died here in 1849. The mother died at the age of 78, in 1880. Both were members of the Catholic Church. Henry was reared to a farm life. In 1862 he entered the militia and served with fidelity until the close of the war. A part of the time, however, he was at home, and his military duties did not then call him away. In 1864 he was mar- ried to Miss Louisa Leonmann, a daughter of Ernst Leonmann, a farmer of this county, but formerly of Germany. Mr. Massman had previously learned the carpenter's trade, and had worked at that con- siderably before his marriage. After his marriage he settled on a farm near Holstein, where he resided until the spring of 1884, when he came to his present place in Concord Hill. Here he is engaged in the boarding-house business, and also has a good saloon. Mr. and Mrs. M. have three children : Barnett, Casper and Vincent. They have lost three : Lewis, Alice and Francis. He and wife are members of the St. Ignatius Catholic Church.
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CHARLES H. MITTLER
( Hotel-keeper and Retail Dealer in Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Etc., Marthasville).
Mr. Mittler's parents were among the early settlers of Warren county, having come here early in the thirties, and they are still re- siding in the county, comfortably situated on their farm, where they have lived for nearly half a century. His father, John Mittler, is well known as one of the old and respected citizens of Charrette township. His mother's maiden name was Marie. They reared a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, the former of whom reside in this county, and the latter are married and residents of Franklin county. Charles H. Mittler was born on his father's farm in this county January 6, 1839, and was reared to farm work, attending the neighborhood schools as he grew up. June 1, 1866, he was married to Miss Margaretha Wahl, a daughter of Gerhard and Elizabeth Wahl, of this county, but formerly of Germany. Six children are the fruits of this union : John, George, Julius, Alviene, Ida and Arthur. After his marriage Mr. Mittler continued farming, to which he had been brought up and had previously followed until 1870, when he came to Marthasville and engaged in his present business. He keeps a good house, and in the liquor branch has an especially enviable reputation among the corps de salon for the ex- cellent brands of wines and liquors he carries in stock. He keeps a quiet, respectable and orderly house, one in which no minister of not less hypocrisy than honest religion need be ashamed to en- joy Paul's favorite beverage - a glass of pure wine. During the war Mr. Mittler served about a year in the Union army, in Co. F, Fifth Missouri cavalry, under Gen. Seigel. He was honorably discharged on account of physical disability.
HON. ADOLPH MUENCH
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, and Member of the Legislature, Post-office, Holstein).
As is well known to every one in the least acquainted with the people of Warren county and with its history, the Muench family is one of the old and prominent families of the county. Rev. Friedrich Muench, the father of Hon. Adolph Muench, the subject of this sketch, came to this county from Germany with his family as early as 1832. He was educated in Germany for the ministry in the Protest- ant Lutheran Church, and was duly ordained there, having taken a thorough course of preparatory training, both general and theologi- cal. He was married in Germany in 1826 to Miss Mariana Borberg, and was engaged in the ministry there until his emigration to the United States. He came directly to Warren county with his family where he made his permanent home. By reason of his high charac- ter, fine ability and superior culture, as well as his eloquence in the pulpit and his zeal in the cause of religion, he at once took the posi- tion in this county not only of one of its leading ministers of the
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Gospel, but of one of its most prominent, influential and highly re- spected citizens. He was the leader of the German element, especially of the country from the beginning. Rev. Mr. Muench was actively engaged in the ministry for some 15 years. He was also called to take an active part in public affairs and was elected to different posi- tions of trust and prominence. He represented this senatorial district in the State Senate with marked ability and with more than ordinary influence in that body. He also became a successful farmer of the county and comfortably situated in life. He died here in December, 1881, in the eighty-third year of his age. Rev. Mr. Muench did a great deal for Warren county, for he was one of its most active and public-spirited citizens. He was largely influential in bringing about the heavy German settlement made here, a class of citizens who have contributed much to make this county what it is. He was one of the first men in the State to encourage wine culture, about which he wrote a number of books ; he also wrote two books about the State of Mis- souri, which were spread all over Germany, calling or encouraging emigration to this State. He was for a number of years a member of the State Board of Emigration. He was a regular correspondent of a number of political and agricultural papers. There is actually no man in the three counties whose name is more known in the United States and Germany than that of Rev. Friedrich - Muench. Hon. Adolph Muench was the second in his father's family, and the oldest son of his father's children, and was born in Germany" on the 1st of November, 1828. He was, therefore, principally reared in Warren county. Mr. Muench received a good general education, mainly under instruction from his father. He became a farmer as he grew up, the occupation, indeed, to which he was reared and which he has ever since continued to follow. In 1853 he was mar- ried to Miss Christine Schaaf, formerly of Germany. She died in 1866 leaving him seven children, namely : Mary, the wife of Louis Lehmberg ; August, Theodore, Antonie, the wife of Casper Vogel- song ; Alfred, Henry and Edward. In 1867 Mr. Muench was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Folernius, a widow lady and a sister to Tom Fariss, cashier of the Warrenton Bank. There is one child by his present marriage, and Mrs. Muench has two children by her first husband. Mr. Muench, being a man of industry and energy and a good business manager, has been successful as a farmer, and is one of the substan- tial, as well as prominent and influential citizens of the county. For 12 years he held the office of justice of the peace, and for 18 the of- fice of notary public, and in 1868 and in 1882 he was elected to rep- resent Warren county in the State Legislature in which he served with credit alike to the county and to himself. Mr. Muench has a good farm of 240 acres which is well improved. He and wife are members of the Protestant Church, in which his father was for many years a minister.
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WILLIAM OBERHELLMANN AND HANN
AUGUST BRUEGGENJO-
(Of Oberhellmann and Brueggenjohann, Dealers in General Merchandise, Furniture and Farm Produce, Holstein).
The above named gentlemen constitute one of the leading mercantile and business firms of the southern part of Warren county, and carry an unusually large and well selected stock of goods in the line of general merchandise, and buy and ship quite extensively farm produce of all kinds raised throughout their part of the county. The business was established originally by Ruge Bros. in 1876. They sold out to Hackmann & Russe, who, in 1881, sold to H. Oberhellmann & Son. In the spring of 1.884 H. Oberhellmann, the father of William Ober- hellmann, sold his interest in the store to Mr. August Brueggenjohann, who is now an equal partner with Mr. William Oberhellmann in the firm. They carry a stock of about $7,000 and do an annual business of over $20,000. There is no more popular and successful firm in this part of the county than theirs. " Fair Dealing, Large Sales and Small Profits " is the motto or sinnspruch under which they suc- ceeded and hope to succeed.
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