Biographical Sketch of Charles F. Gallenkamp, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Charles F. Gallenkamp, a young attorney of Union, and prosecuting
attorney of Franklin County, Mo., was born in Washington, Franklin
Co., Mo., January 10, 1859, the son of William and Mary (Stumpe)
Gallenkamp.  The father was a native of Germany, and immigrated to
America about 1848, and located in St. Louis, Mo.  About 1849 he
removed to Washington, Franklin Co., Mo., where he engaged in mer-
chandising, and at one time had the largest establishment in the
city.  He died in 1864.  The mother was born in Germany in 1832,
and came to America when a child.  She is the daughter of William 
Stumpe, a farmer near Washington, and she is the sister of F. W. 
Stumpe, assistant cashier of the Bank of Washington.  Charles F.
was educated in the public schools of Washington, and latter he
attended the St. Louis High School.  He began reading law in the
fall of 1877, at Washington, in the office of Kiskaddon & Beyers-
dorf, and in the fall of 1879 entered the Louisville Law School,
entering the senior class, from which he graduated in the spring
of 1880.  Returning to Washington, he entered into a copartnership
with his preceptor, Mr. Kiskaddon, and practiced until his election 
to the office of prosecuting attorney, in the fall of 1884, being a
candidate of the Republican party.  Previous to this, in 1882, he
was nominated by the Republican convention as candidate for probate
judge.  On account of his age, being really ineligible, he declined,
but the nomination was forced upon him, and he very reluctently made
an unsuccessful race.  In 1886 he was re-elected prosecuting attorney
without opposition.  In the fall of 1885 he formed a copartnership
with George W. Wood, and together they are carrying on a large general
law and abstract business.  February 5, 1887, he married Miss Alice 
Ruge, a native of Warren County, Mo., born September 25, 1865, and the
daughter of William G. Ruge, and granddaughter of Dr. Charles Ruge,
deceased.

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