Biographical Sketch of August Begemann, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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August Begemann, a leading merchant of Hermann, was born in Germany in
1838, and immigrated to America in 1852 with his parents, Henry and
Ernestine (Althoff) Begemann, who afterward resided in Warren County,
Mo., until their death.  August, after passing his youth like other
boys of the neighborhood, removed to Hermann in 1855, and began his
mercantile experience as clerk, which he continued for about ten years.
He soon became engaged in general merchandising on his own account, and
from that time to the present has conducted an establishment which has 
come to be one of the largest in Hermann.  In 1882 he was elected as a
Republican to the office of collector of Gasconade County, a position
the duties of which he acceptably discharged for four years.  In 1864
Mr. Begemann was united in marriage with Miss Flora Baer, who was born
in Hermann.  Three of the five children born to them are living.

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