Biographical Sketch of Herman W. Kastor, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Herman W. Kastor, editor of the St. Joseph Volksblatt, daily and
weekly German newspaper, was born at Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany, on
October 26, 1838. He studied in college at Bamberg, and came to New
York in 1854. He was married May 6, 1860, to Miss Theresa Rudolph,
of Magdeburg, Prussia. They had nine children, of whom eight are
living. Mr. Kastor was in the Sixth Regiment, New York State Militia,
when President Lincoln called out the first 75,000 men, and was one of
them. He came to Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1862. He was Second Lieu-
tenant of the First Kansas State Militia, and was in active service at
Price's raid, etc. In 1864, he was in Kansas City, Missouri; in 1865,
at Wyandotte, Kansas, where he edited a weekly German paper called
"Die Fackel", and moved to Atchison, Kansas in 1867. He came to St.
Joseph, Missouri in 1868, as editor of the Volksblatt, and became in
the same year, one of the proprietors of that paper, in the firm of
C. Eichler & Co., and afterwards, when this firm was dissolved, in the
firm of H. Brunsing & Co. He has been editor and one of the propriet-
ors of the Volksblatt, with the exception of six months, in 1869, ever
since he came to St. Joseph, in 1868. His eight children are: Benjamin,
Louis, Amalia, Ernst, Fredrick, Richard, William and Gertrude.

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