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Anna, Joseph, John, Anton, Amelia and Rosie; one is deceased, Frankie. Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the Catholic Church.
H. L. STAUDINGER, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon, Marthasville).
Dr. Staudinger, a successful physician of the southern part of War- ren county and one of the highly respected and influential citizens of the vicinity of Marthasville, is a son of Louis Staudinger, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. He came to America with his fam- ily in 1857 and settled at Augusta, in St. Charles county, where he resided for a number of years. He is now living a retired life and is a resident of St. Louis. His wife who was a Miss Clementine Plitt before her marriage, and is a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, is also still living. Dr. Staudinger was born near Giessen, in Hesse-Darm- stadt, May 12, 1841, and was therefore 16 years of age when the family came to America. His youth in Germany had been spent exclu- sively ( from his 6th year) at school and he had succeeded in acquir- ing a good academic education in the German, English, French and Latin languages. In 1861, at the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in the Union service. He was in the army for about two years. Of three brothers who enlisted he was the only one to return, his brother, Julius, having been killed at the battle of Pea Ridge, and his other brother, William, having died in camp at Montgomery, Alabama. After his return from the army Dr. Staudinger entered a drug store in St. Louis as clerk, having previously studied natural philosophy in Ger- many. After clerking for a time in the drug business he began the study of medicine under Dr. J. A. Ruge, of Holstein, Warren county, and in due time he matriculated at the St. Louis Medical College where he took one term of lectures. Subsequently, he took a regular and thorough course of two terms at the Humboldt Medical College of St. Louis, from which he graduated in 1867. Dr. Staudinger then located at Marthasville where he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession ever since. He has built up a large prac- tice in this vicinity and has been very successful in his practice. In 1874, Dr. Staudinger was married to Miss Hilda Garling. Mrs. Staudinger is a daughter of Dr. C. L. Garling of St. Charles county and a grand-daughter of Paul Follenius, a well known and highly respected citizen of this county. She was also a grand-niece of Hon. Friedrich Muench, the noted minister and able writer of Warren county, well known as a prominent State Senator from this district. Doctor and Mrs. Staudinger have four children : Emma, Paul, Anna and Walda.
FRANK TRAU
(Dealer in Hardware and Tinner, Holstein).
Mr. Trau is a native of what is now a part of Germany, Alsace, but formerly a part of France ; and although a Frenchman, there- fore, by birth, on both sides of his parental family he is of German
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ancestry. Both of his parents, however, Francois and Marie ( Waltz ) Trau, were natives of Alsace. Frank Trau was born in Alsace December 13, 1847, and remained on his father's farm until he was 14 years of age when he became an apprentice to the tinner's trade, which he worked at until he was enlisted as a volunteer in a Vienna regiment of the Chasseurs Ditefrique and was on garrison duty at Oran, Algeria, in 1866. He did service in Africa until De- cember, 1870, when he returned to France and served under Gen. Bourlaky in the Franco-Prussian war. In 1872 he immigrated to the United States and worked at his trade in St. Louis for about seven years when he came to Warren county and worked in Marthasville for eighteen months. He then came to Holstein and engaged in business on his own account. He carries a good stock of hardware at this place amounting to about $1,500 and has an excellent trade. He also carries on a tin shop in connection with his hardware store. In 1876 Mr. Trau was married to Miss Katie Bruckner, a daughter of George Bruckner, of Wright City, but formerly of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Trau have three children, Francis, George and Eugenie.
JUDGE HIERONYMUS ULFFERS
(Farmer, Post-office, Marthasville).
Born in Varel, Germany, June 9, 1805, and an early settler in Warren county, having come to this country as far back as 1834, Judge Ulffers is one of the oldest residents of the county, both in age and continuous residence, and he is at the same time recognized as one of its best and most highly respected citizens. Farming has been his constant occupation, and he has resided on the same place near Marthasville for half a century. His life has been one of con- tinued industry, and he has ever been regarded as one of the most energetic and exemplary farmers of Charrette township. In late years he has retired from the harder duties of running his farm and has a comfortable home at which to spend, in comparative ease, the remaining years of his life. But he is still active and vigorous, and has not entirely given up all labor and responsibility in carrying on his farm. He has the promise still of years of usefulness and com- fort to his family and of valuable counsel and advice in the affairs of the community and among his neighbors. In 1866 Judge Ulffers was elected a member of the county court of Warren county, and he dis- charged the duties of that office and served, in all, for six years. Judge Ulffers was married to Miss Annie H. Engel, on the 15th of November, 1839. She was a daughter of Rev. Arnold E. Engel, a prominent minister in Germany. The Judge and wife have reared three children, John A., who is married and resides on the farm with his father; Elise Wilhelmina, wife of Laurenous Wilson, of Mont- gomery county, and Sophie A., still at home with her parents. Judge Ulffers was himself the youngest in a family of five children, he being the only son of Johann and Anna (Duthsmann ) Ulffers, of Varel, Germany, where both parents lived until their deaths. His father
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was a distiller and hotel keeper by occupation, and owned valuable property at Varel, including a fine distillery and a large hotel build- ing. The father died in 1843 and the mother in 1833.
JUDGE FREDERICK WEGENER, JR.
(Presiding Justice of the County Court and Farmer, Post-office, Holstein) .
Judge Wegener has been intimately identified with the political af- fairs of Warren county for many years, and has long been recognized as one of the leading and influential citizens of the county. A man of sterling character, marked intelligence and good business qualifica- tions, he has frequently been called to occupy positions of public trust in the civil affairs of the county. Like a very large percentage of the people of Warren county, he is of German nativity, born near Gohfeld Minden, in Prussia, January 6, 1828. His father, Frederick Wegener, is still living, now at the advanced age of 81, and is a re- tired farmer of Lafayette county, this State, having emigrated to this country in 1842. His family followed three years later, meeting the father in St. Louis, January 2, 1845. He lived for a number of years in Warren county and then removed to Lafayette. Judge Wegener's mother was a Miss Marie Viering before her marriage, who died in Germany before the family left their native country. Judge Wegener, the subject of this sketch, was reared near Gohfeld up to the age of 17, when he came to America and located in Warren county, where he has ever since resided. In 1852 he was married in this county to Miss Mary Timmerberg, a daughter of Job Timmerberg, formerly of Germany. Judge Wegener early engaged in farming in this county, and has ever since made that occupation his regular calling. He has a good farm in the vicinity of Holstein and is comfortably situated. During the war he was unequivocally on the side of the Union, and in 1862 enlisted in Co. F, Third Missouri cavalry, under Col. Smart, in which he served until the. close of the war. He was promoted to the rank of quartermaster-sergeant, in which he served throughout his term. After the war Judge Wegener resumed farming, and was appointed to the office of justice of the peace. From time to time afterwards he was re-elected to this office, and he continued to hold it most of the time up to his election to a seat on the county bench, in 1878. He is now presiding justice of the county court, having been elected to this position in 1882. He has made a most acceptable and efficient judge, and is warmly indorsed by the best citizens of the county in both parties. Judge Wegener and wife have been blessed with ten children, nine sons and a daughter, only four of whom are liv- ing : Mary, the wife of William Wetmeyer; Charles, Henry and August. He and wife are members of the Holstein Evangelical Church.
FRANK WYATT
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Marthasville).
The Wyatt family, originally from North Carolina, was one of the pioneer family of Clark county, Ky., and afterwards early settlers of
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St. Charles and Warren counties, Mo. Mr. Wyatt's father, Anthony Wyatt, was a native of Clark county, Ky., born in 1794, and a son of Frank Wyatt, Sr., an old Revolutionary soldier, and who came out to Missouri prospecting several times, about the beginning of the pres- ent century. He made each trip to this State on horseback, and en- tered numerous tracts of valuable land. Anthony Wyatt, his son, learned the carpenter's trade as he grew up, at which he worked in St. Charles and Warren counties for a number of years. He finally became a large farmer of Warren county, and one of its prominent citizens. He held different public offices, including that of sheriff and collector of the county. He died at his homestead in this county in 1871 at the age of 77, widely and profoundly mourned. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Smith, born in Kentucky in 1798, died in this county in 1881. Frank Wyatt, the subject of this sketch, was born in Warren county, Mo., September 17, 1819, and is now the only one of his parents' family of six children living, the others of whom died after they, themselves, became the heads of families. In 1849 Mr. Wyatt, the subject of this sketch, went to California, driving an ox-team to the far off land of gold. He was nearly six months on the way. He returned to Missouri, however, the following year, making the return trip by way of Panama and New Orleans. He re- sumed farming here, which he has ever since followed, and in 1854 he was married to Miss Eliza A., a daughter of Dr. John Jones, one of the leading physicians of Warren county and who was assassinated in 1842 in his own dooryard. Mr. Wyatt's first wife died in 1855, leaving him one child, Frankie, now the wife of Valentine Burgess. To his present wife, whose maiden name was Maria Fausdahl, a young lady of German nativity, he was married in 1863. They have had six children : James F., Henry S., John A. Charles A., who died a few months ago in his fifteenth year; Joshua and Thomas N. Mr. Wyatt has a fine farm of nearly 300 acres, and he is one of the suc- cessful, prominent farmers of Charrette township.
CHAPTER X.
HISTORY OF PINCKNEY AND BRIDGEPORT TOWNSHIPS.
Organization of Pinckney Township - Early Settlers -- Biographical -- Bridgeport Township -Physical Features - Boundary - Streams -- First Settlers -- Bio- graphical.
ORGANIZATION.
Pinckney township was created by order of the county court at its first session, held in 1833, following the organization of Warren county. At Pinckney Landing was established the first seat of justice for Montgomery county, where, in a log house built for the purpose, the public business was transacted from 1818 to 1824, at which time the county seat was removed to Lewiston. The site of old Pinckney has long since been washed into the Missouri river, and what remains of the former town is now called Kruegerville, the post-office of Pinck- ney being located on Smith creek, about four miles from the river. The bottom lands adjacent to old Pinckney are very rich and valua- ble, although sometimes subject to the disastrous effects of high water. There are no villages of consequence, although considerable trading is done at stores scattered through the township, notably at Pinckney post-office, and at Rekate's store on the Holstein road, about a half mile east of Smith creek.
EARLY SETTLERS.'
Among the early settlers of Pinckney township was William Clyce, a Virginian. One of his daughters married a Canadian, named Swazey, who opened the first store in Pinckney. Frederick Griswold, a brother of Harvey Griswold, of whom mention has already been made, came from the State of Connecticut, and was for years engaged in merchandising at Pinckney Landing. Nathaniel Hart, a grandson of John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, settled near Pinckney in 1820. Mr. Hart died in Boone county du- ring 1883, aged 87 years. John Tice, who was the first settler of Pinckney Bottom, located there in 1809. He was a brother of Prof. Tice, of St. Louis, somewhat famous as a weather prognosticator.
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BIOGRAPHICAL.
SOLOMON C. COOK, M. D.
(Physician and Surgeon, Kruegerville).
Dr. Cook is of English parentage, though he himself was born and reared in this county. The family came to America in about 1848, and resided for some six or eight years' in Pennsylvania. They then removed to Ohio and then, after a few years residence, to Iowa, where the father is a substantial farmer. Dr. Cook was the fourth in his parents' family of seven children, and was born in Ohio, May 23, 1854. He was given a good common school education as he grew up and finally became a school teacher himself. He taught school for about four years, most of the time in Kansas, only, however, as a means of prosecuting his medical studies, for he had already decided to devote himself to the profession of medicine He read medicine under Dr. D. C. Baldwin, of Cedarvale, Kan., and in 1878-79 took his first course of lectures, attending the American Medical College of St. Louis. He then began the practice of medicine in Ellsworth county, Kan., where he continued until 1881, when he removed to Wright City, in Warren county, Mo. Dr. Cook came to Kruegerville in the fall of 1882, and has ever since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession at this place, except while taking his second course of lectures during the term of 1883-84. He then attended the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons. August 18, 1880, Dr. Cook was married to Miss Lizzie Darnell, a daughter of Jesse and Susan Dar- nell, of Wentzville. The Doctor and Mrs. Cook have two children, Nadie and Jessie. Mrs. Cook is a member of the M. E. Church South. Dr. Cook has a good practice in the vicinity of Kruegerville, and is recognized in his profession as a physician of marked ability. He has been a close student of medical science ever since he decided to devote himself to the profession, and has, as would be expected, reached a degree of proficiency and success by no means common to physicians of his age and experience.
ROBERT E. DARNELL, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon, Kruegerville).
Dr. Darnell, after concluding a course at high school in St. Charles, first entered a drug store as a clerk, and while there read medicine under his brother, Dr. John C. Darnell ; he then, in 1879, matricu- lated at the American Medical College of St. Louis and took a regular course, graduating in 1882. Meanwhile, however, he had been en- gaged in the practice of medicine in Rice county, Kan., for a short time. After his graduation Dr. Darnell located at Loutre Island,
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where he practiced with success for about two years. In the fall of 1883 he removed, however, to Kruegerville, where he has ever since been actively engaged in the practice. Dr. Darnell is quite popular in this vicinity, both as a physician and neighbor, and has had grati- fying success in the practice here. In 1879 he was married to Miss Rebecca Gausley, a daughter of George and Martha ( Shelton) Gaus- ley, of Montgomery county, but formerly of Virginia. The Doctor and Mrs. Darnell have three children : Pearl S., Hallie D. and Robert E. Dr. Darnell is a native Missourian, born in Wentzville, St. Charles county, April 10, 1855. He was the fifth in the family of 10 children of Jesse and Susan T. Darnell, formerly of Virginia. His father was a merchant by occupation and died at Augusta, in St. Charles county, November 18, 1870. The mother is still living and is now a resident of Wentzville.
AUGUST H. C. JAEGER
(Postmaster and Dealer in General Merchandise, Kruegerville).
Mr. Jaeger engaged in his present business in the summer of 1883 and has met with substantial encouragement from the people of the community. He opened out a neat stock of general merchandise and has been rewarded with a fair trade. His business is steadily on the increase and he is gradually increasing his stock of goods to meet the demands of his custom. Like a large percentage of the people of Warren county, he is of German parentage ; his father and mother were, respectively, Christopher and Wilhelmina Jaeger, who settled in Warren county, from Germany, in about 1854. His father was an energetic and worthy member of the Evangelist Church; he died on his farm in this county early in the present year. The mother is still living, residing on the farm, and is now in her sixty-eighth year. Six of their family of children are living, ' three of whom are married -two daughters and a son. August was born in this county, January 16, 1861. He received a common- school education as he grew up, principally at Warrenton. His first regular employment was as a clerk in a store at Morrison, Gasconade county, where he remained about a year ; he then engaged in teaching school and taught school continuously for some three years. In April, 1883, he was married to Miss Christina, a daughter of Henry and Christina Busse, also formerly of Germany, but later of the vicinity of Chamois, Osage county. After his marriage Mr. Jaeger raised a crop the succeeding summer and then engaged in business at Krue- gerville. Mr. and Mrs. J. have one child, Laura.
BRIDGEPORT TOWNSHIP.
Bridgeport township possesses the rugged features so general throughout the county, and with the exception of a small strip of
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bottom land in the vicinity of Loutre slough, is hilly and heavily timbered.
BOUNDARY.
The township is bounded on the north by Montgomery county, on the east by Elkhorn and Pinckney townships, on the south by the Missouri river, and on the west by Montgomery county.
Bridgeport Landing, located at the mouth of Loutre slough, was at one time quite an important and well known place, though of recent years the town has lost prestige and now comprises but a few houses.
Bridgeport post-office is located on the farm of Joseph Haberthier, 15 miles from Warrenton, and about two miles from the Missouri river. There is no village there.
The principal streams are Massas and Bear creeks, both of which flow through the entire township, while Lost creek empties into the Missouri in the south-eastern corner of the town.
Loutre slough cuts off a portion of the township, known as Loutre Island, and this section possesses considerable historical interest as the vicinity where Capt. Callaway's rangers were ambushed during the Indian war, the particulars of which are given elsewhere in this work.
PIONEERS.
Among the pioneer residents of Bridgeport was Cornelius Howard, a Kentuckian, who settled in the county in 1816. He cleared a field, and raised two crops of corn, but now the field is covered with large oak trees and the Brush Creek Presbyterian Church stands about the center of it.
James Pitzer, the first surveyor of Warren county, settled east of the mouth of Loutre creek, and became one of the prominent men of the times. Irvin Pittman lived on Massas creek in the very early days, and William and Christopher Talbot came into the vicinity soon after the War of 1812. The Pittmans at one time owned the greater part of Loutre Island. Gen. Daniel Clark, father of the renowned Myr& Clark Gaines, the famous New Orleans litigant, came to the vicinity of Bridgeport Landing about 1821 and bought a large tract of land there.
Gen. Clark was a noted man in his day, and his distinguished daughter yet has interests in Warren county secured to her by reason of her indomitable pluck in contending for what rightfully belonged to her.
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BIOGRAPHICAL.
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JOSEPH HABERTHIER
(Farmer, Stock-raiser and Postmaster, Bridgeport).
Mr. Haberthier, though still rather a young man, has shown marked activity in the affairs of life, and with the energy and enterprise con- tinued which he has exhibited thus far, he can hardly fail of attaining to enviable prominence as a citizen and agriculturist. He was born in Richmond, Ind., February 6, 1854, and was brought to Warren county by his parents while he was yet in infancy, they having settled in this county soon after his birth. He was reared to the occupation of a farmer in this county, which his father followed, and he remained with his father on the old homestead until his marriage. On the 11th of October, 1881, he was married to Miss Emilie, a daughter of Ed- ward and Frederica Kiderlen, formerly of Germany. After his mar- riage Mr. Haberthier settled on the farm where he now resides. He owns a neat place here, and is making something of a business of handling stock. He is also breeding Norman horses, of which he has a fine representative, purchased at a cost of $300. In 1880 Mr. Haberthier was elected constable of Bridgeport township, the term ex- piring in 1882. He was appointed postmaster November 23, 1884, and he also still holds this office, keeping the office at his residence. Mr. and Mrs. Haberthier have one child, Beulah. He is a member of the Catholic Church, but his wife is a member of the Evangelical denomination. Mr. Haberthier is the oldest one living of the seven children of Elias and Katharine Haberthier, three others having passed .over the silent river, on whose opposite shore no echo is ever heard.
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F. X. LUPPOLD
(Manufacturer of and Dealer in Boots and Shoes, Post-office, Bud).
When 13 years of age Mr. Luppold became apprenticed to the shoe- maker's trade, which he learned and which has ever since been his regular occupation, united in late years with dealing in boots and shoes. Matthew Gerster, the master workman under whom he learned, he worked for continuously for 17 years, which fact speaks not a little for the honesty and fidelity of the employe, Mr. Luppold, no less than the fair dealing and kind treatment received from Mr. Gerster. In 1878 Mr. Luppold opened a shop of his own, and has since been working for himself. In a short time he opened a stock of boots and shoes at Bud, which he has increased from time to time as the steady increase of his custom would justify, until now he has a large stock and is doing an excellent trade. He also still carries on his shop in order to do custom work for many of his old patrons. Mr. Luppold is a native of Germany, born in Wurtemberg December 31,
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1848. He was the eldest of a family of four children of Robert and Margaret Luppold, and was reared in Wurtemberg. Up to the age of 13 his time was principally spent at school ; but he then began to learn the shoemaker's trade, at which he afterwards continued to work. Upon coming to America he subsequently located at Bud, his present place of residence.
WILLIAM LUPPOLD
(Merchant, Bud).
Mr. Luppold is a native of Warren county, born on Massas creek, April 23, 1859, and is a son of Matthais and Elizabeth (Held) Lup- pold, formerly of Germany. His father, a blacksmith by trade, came over in about 1854. In 1857 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Held, a daughter of John and Mary (Schwartzwelder) Held, from Wurtemburg, Germany. Two years afterwards he ( Matthais Luppold ) settled near Frank's Branch about one-quarter mile north of Kosse's store, where he was engaged in the blacksmith business until 1868, when he sold out and settled at Luppold's Landing, on the Missouri river, in Warren county, now known as. Bud. Here he subsequently engaged in merchandising, which he has since followed. William Luppold, the eldest of his father's family of children, was reared in Warren county and in youth learned the blacksmith's trade. Later along he became a clerk in his father's store and for several years past has been manager of the store. In 1880 he was appointed post- master at Bud, and is now discharging the duties of that office, be- sides attending to the business of the store. The store is well stocked with general merchandise, and has a large trade. Mr. Luppold is an energetic, enterprising business man, and is personally quite popular with all who know him. His father is one of the substantial citizens of this part of the county. Besides William, there are three others of the family of children living, namely: Emily, George and Her- man. Another, George, died in boyhood ; and three others died in infancy. The family are members of the Catholic Church.
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