Biographical Sketch of Squire Christian Danuser, Gasconade County, MO

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

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Squire Christian Danuser.  Among the German settlers that came to Gas-
conade County at an early day may be mentioned Thomas and Barbara
(Bantly) Danuser.  The father was born in 1802, and the mother in 1805,
and both were natives of Switzerland.  They were married in 1825, and
the result of this union was the birth of ten children, two of whom 
died in the old country, and one on shipboard while crossing the ocean
to America in 1846.  They located on the place where Christian now re-
sides, the father having purchased the property of David McKinney, the
original settler.  Here they passed the remainder of their lives, the
father dying in 1871, and the mother ten years later.  Squire Christian
Danuser, the youngest of the five sons, was born in Switzerland in 1840
but received his education in Gasconade County, or what little he did
receive, not having attended more than twelve months altogether.  By 
observation and reading he has become one of the well informed and wide
awake men of the county, and is so considered.  October, 1861, he en-
listed in Company E, of the Fourth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, United
States army, and served eighteen months as teamster.  Since the war he
has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and has been quite success-
ful in this occupation.  In 1864 he married Miss V. Christina Botter-
mann, who was born in Gasconade County in 1846.  Nine children, four
sons and five daughters, were born to this union.  All are members of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church.  Squire Danuser has held the office of
justice of the peace for four years, is a Republican in politics, a
member of the G. A. R., and of the Agricultural Association, of which
he has been director.  He takes much interest in schools and in improv-
ing the public roads, and is an intelligent farmer, standing high in 
the estimation of those who know him.  He owns 160 acres of good land,
of which 100 acres are under cultivation, which he has made by his own
industry and good management.

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