Biographical Sketch of August H. Wehmueller, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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August H. Wehmueller, member of the firm of Degen, Breckenkamp & Co.,
proprietors of the Washington Saw, Planing and Grist Mills, lumber yard
and carpenters and builders of Washington, is a native of Westphalia,
Prussia, born in 1848, and the son of Christopher and Francisca (Noll-
kemper) Wehmueller, natives of Westphalia, Prussia, born in 1820 and
1816, respectively.  In 1853 they came to America and located in St.
Louis, where they remained one year, but the following year he moved to
Franklin County, Mo., and was foreman on a section on the Missouri Pac-
ific Railroad a number of years.  He died in 1876.  His wife is yet
living and by her marriage became the mother of two children: August H.
and Minnie, wife of Charles Neirdick, shoemaker, of St. Louis.  August
H. was only five years of age when his parents came to America, and he 
grew to manhood in Washington, Mo.  He then farmed for a while, was
also in the brickyard, and afterward learned the cooper's trade, at
which he worked for three years.  He worked one year on the railroad,
and at the age of twenty-one began learning the cabinet maker's trade 
of W. H. Otto, where he remained two years as an apprentice and after-
ward one year as a journeyman.  In 1872 he and Henry Stienhaus became 
partners in the furniture and undertaker's business, and this lasted
one year, when our subject sold his interest to Henry Langenberg, and
for the following two or three years worked at the carpenter's trade.
In 1881 he became a partner in the present business, and has since con-
tinued the same.  He is overseer of the planing mill department and 
lumber trade.  September, 1873 he married Miss Catherine Scheer, who
was born at Port Hudson, Franklin Co., Mo., in 1852 and to them were
born four children: Julius, Edward, August and Emily.  Politically, Mr.
Wehmueller is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Evangel-
ical Lutheran Church.

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