Biographical Sketch of Louis Muench, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Louis Muench, druggist of Washington, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany, in 1825.  He was educated in Germany, attending school until
sixteen years of age, when he began as an apprentice to learn pharmacy,
working as such for three and a half years, and graduating in Darm-
stadt.  He then began clerking and worked at various places in Germany.
In 1848, during the Revolution, he went to Lyons, France and after
clerking nine months returned to his native country, and in 1849 went
to Bremen, and in the fall of the same year immigrated to America, lo-
cating on a farm in Franklin County, Mo., nine miles southwest of
Washington.  At the end of four years he abandoned farming, and in 1853
sold out, came to Washington, and he and Dr. Baudissin established a 
drug store in 1854.  The Doctor died and Theodore H. Wilkins became a
partner and so continued until 1857, when both sold out and Mr. Muench
went to St. Louis and began clerking.  In the fall of 1859 he returned
to Washington and established a drug store of his own, and this he has
since continued.  In 1849 he married Miss Antonia Diesing, who was born
in Germany, and who bore him three children: Martha, wife of O. P.
Schmidt, attorney at Covington, Ky.; Otto, a doctor of medicine in
Washington, and Antonia.  Mr. Muench has been in business in Washington
for the past thirty-eight years, and is an excellent business man and a
good citizen.  He is a Republican in politics and a member of the
I. O. O. F.

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