Biographical Sketch of Julius Hundhausen, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Julius Hundhausen, postmaster and merchant at Gray's Summit, was born
within two and one-half miles of where he now resides, July 10, 1858,
and is the fourth in the family of nine children of Robert and Clara
(Braches) Hundhausen, natives of Neukirchen, near Cologne, Germany,
the former of whom came to the United States when eighteen years old
and settled in Franklin County, Mo.; the latter came to this country 
when twelve years of age with her parents, John and Theresa Braches,
who settled in St. Louis, where for many years the father was a succ-
essful medical practitioner.  Robert Hundhausen, father of our sub-
ject, was a soldier in the Mexican War, and, during the late war, he
commanded the Fourth Missouri Volunteer Infantry.  He was a farmer
and miller, but after the war was principally engaged in merchandis-
ing until his death, in 1872, at the age of fifty years.  He was a 
son of John Frederick and Fredericke (Koester) Hundhausen, the former
of whom was a successful minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church,
who came to the United States with his four sons, Robert, Frederick,
Julius and Herman, and settled in Franklin County, Mo.  Julius Hund-
hausen was educated in the common schools of Franklin and Gasconade
Counties, Mo.  When he was young his parents moved to St. Louis, from
there to Hermann, Gasconade County, in 1861, and four years later 
settled in Gray's Summit.  After his father's death in 1872, he, with
his mother and family, moved to Hermann, Mo., returning to Gray's
Summit in 1878.  From 1876 to 1878 Mr. Hundhausen was engaged as a
clerk in the dry goods store of B. Nugent & Bro., of St. Louis.  In
politics he affiliates with the Democratic party; he is a member of
the Masonic and A. O. U. W. lodges, and was appointed postmaster of
Gray's Summit in September, 1885.


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