Biographical Sketch of Julius Hundhausen, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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Julius Hundhausen, a vine grower of Hermann, was born near Cologne,
Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany, April 13, 1824, and is the son of
John Fred Hundhausen, now deceased, also a native of Prussia, Germany.
The father, with his four sons, Frederick, Robert, Julius and Hermann,
came to the United States in 1840, and settled on a farm in Franklin
County, Mo.  He had studied theology, was a graduate of the University
of Marburg, and had been an acting minister of the gospel since July
30, 1813, evidenced by his first commission granted by Napoleon Bona-
parte, still in possession of his son with other valuable relics.  He
afterward established the Lutheran Church at Hermann, Gasconade Co.,
Mo., where he preached for a number of years, and died January 28, 
1874.  His son, Julius, now the only survivor of the family, originally
emigrated in 1840, and stayed on the farm in Franklin County till the
fall of 1845, when he went to St. Louis, but returned to Franklin 
County again in the spring of 1846.  There he enlisted, together with
his brother, Robert, in the Mexican War, in Company E, First Missouri
Cavalry, commanded by Col. Doniphan, and participated in the battles of
Bracito and Sacramento, and the entire march of Doniphan's regiment
through Mexico down to the coast.  In the year 1848 he came to Hermann,
where he has since lived, and is now cultivating the vine and has about
four acres of vineyard.  During his residence in Hermann he held the
position of justice of the peace, presiding justice of the county court,
notary public, and was a memeber of the board of trustees of the town 
of Hermann, as well as the school board for a number of years.  In 1870
he was elected circuit clerk and recorder of deeds of Gasconade County,
which position he held for eight years.  He has studied law and was
admitted to the bar several years before the late war.  At the breaking
out of the Rebellion he commanded a battalion of Home Guards, afterward
was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Missouri Volunteer Inf-
antry, and served for about two years.  He was then deputy provost 
marshall till May, 1864, and superintended the draft in Osage and 
Maries Counties, Mo., after which he went with his brother, Robert, who
had received the appointment of paymaster of volunteers, to New Orleans
and served as his clerk to the close of the war.  October 22, 1872,
Miss Clara Holthaus, of Franklin County, became his wife, and to their
union were born seven children, five now living: Frederick A., Robert
J., Hermann H., Flora B. and Walter L.  He is a respected citizen, and
is well known throughout the county and State.

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