Biographical Sketch of Frederick T. Beckmann, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Frederick T. Beckmann, one of the oldest citizens and merchants of
Franklin County, is the son of Frederick and Fredericka (Waldschmidt)
Beckmann, who were born, married and reared a family of eight children
in Hesse Cassel, Germany, where they passed their days.  The father 
was a Protestant preacher, and lived to be sixty-two years of age. The
mother died at the age of eighty-six.  Frederick T. was born in Hesse
Cassel in 1814, and received every advantage for an excellent educa-
tion.  After attending the public schools he graduated at the gymnas-
ium, and then entered the university at Marburg, where he took a 
course in law, but a change of purpose caused him to take a course in
theology, graduating in 1845.  He then entered upon his ministerial
duties, continuing at the same for about two and a half years.  In 
1850 he came to America, located in St. Louis, and after living there
a short time, moved to New Orleans, where he sold newspapers, books,
etc.  While there, and in 1852, he married Miss Charlotte B. Pfoten-
hauer, a highly educated Germany lady, born at Eisenach, Germany, in
the year 1819.  Having located in Ste. Genevieve he followed peddling
for some time, after which he purchased a small farm near Ste. Gene-
vieve, on which he lived for about five years.  After spending some 
time in Illinois, he came to Franklin County, opened a store, and has
continued merchandising ever since.  In 1885 he had the misfortune to
lose his wife, and is now spending his last days alone.  Mr. Beckmann 
was a Democrat in politics before the war, and since that event has 
been a Republican.  He is a member of the Evangelical Church, as was
also his wife.

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