Biographical Sketch of William Beckmann, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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William Beckmann is a native of Prussia, Germany, born March 4, 1829.
His father, Henry Beckmann (deceased), was also born in Germany, and
immigrated with his family to the United States.  They located in St.
Louis, where the father died in 1851, of cholera.  The family then
moved to Warren County, Mo., in 1854.  The mother, whose maiden name
was Elizabeth Schmidt, was born in 1801, and died in 1856 in Montgom-
ery County, Mo.  In the spring of 1864 William came to Gasconade 
County and settled upon his present farm, which consists of 341 acres
and is engaged in farming and stock raising.  September, 1855, while
living in Warren County, he was united in marriage to Miss Frederica
Uthlantt, who bore him five children, only one now living; Frederick
W.  One son, Henry, died in his twenty-first year in 1876.  Mary and
Louis died in Warren County when young, and August died in Gasconade
County in 1867, when three years old.  Mrs. Beckmann died in the fall
of 1866, of cholera.  Frederick W. married Miss Caroline Biesemier,
daughter of Fritz Biesemier, a resident of Osage County, Mo.  Two
children were born to this marriage, who are named as follows: Dinah
and Minnie, aged, respectively, three and one year and six months old.
Frederick and family live with the subject of this sketch.  The latter
is no aspirant to official positions, never had but one law suit (and
gained that), and is a member of the Evangelical Church.

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