Biographical Sketch of Charles Toelke, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Charles Toelke, son of Christopher and Fredericka (Reuter) Toelke, was
born May 8, 1828 near Lippe, Detmold, Prussia.  His parents were born,
reared and married in Prussia.  In 1848 they came to America and found
their way to Franklin County, Mo.  The father was a farmer, and here
they passed the remainder of their days, the father dying at the age of
sixty-four, and the mother at the age of sixty.  Both were Methodists
by faith, and he was a Republican in politics.  Charles was reared on 
the farm, and received his education in the common schools of Germany.
At the age of twenty, he, with his parents, came to America.  Having
worked by the month for about nine years, he invested his earnings in a
portion of the farm he now owns, which consists of 180 acres.  In 1857
he married Caroline Grotenson, and after her death he married Henrietta,
a sister of his former wife.  To this union six children were born,
only one now living, Edward C.  After her death, in 1866, he wedded
Charlotte Nuemann, who bore him four children, two now living: Ida K.
and Robert A.  All the family are Methodists in faith.  During the war
Mr. Toelke served in the enrolled militia.  He is a Republican in poli-
tics, but has never aspired to any official position, but has always
closely attended to his chosen vocation, farming, in which he has been
very successful.  He has been a resident of this county for a period of
forty years, and is accounted an honest, upright citizen.

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