Biographical Sketch of Frederick Beckmann, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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Frederick Beckmann (deceased), one of the early settlers of Gasconade
County, Mo., was born in Hanover, Germany, where he grew up as a tiller
of the soil.  On reaching manhood he married Fredericka Grese, also a
native of Hanover, Germany.  He owned and worked a farm until 1846, 
when he and wife and five children came to America, and settled in this
county, where two more children were born.  They spent the remainder of
their lives here, he dying at the age of sixty, and she at the age of
seventy-three.  Both were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The second child, Christian, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1833, and 
the greater part of his education was received in his native land. 
Having farmed on his father's place until twenty-four years of age, he
purchased his father's farm, and since then has increased it to 200
acres.  In 1858 he married Saloame Aberlen, a native of Baden, Germany.
She came here when six years old.  To their marriage were born ten 
children, six sons and four daughters.  All the family are members of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church.  Mr. Beckmann is a Republican in poli-
tics, and during the war served in the Home Guards.  As a farmer, he 
has been quite successful, and is a man well known and highly esteemed,
having been a resident of this county for forty-two years.

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