Biographical Sketch of William F. Leweke, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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William F. Leweke, a native of Lippe-Detmold, Germany, in 1838, and
when nine years of age came to this country, where he was reared, and
where he has followed the occupation of a farmer.  In 1859 he married
Miss Louise Meyer, who was born in Prussia, in 1838, and who came to
this country when a little girl.  Eleven children were the result of
this union, eight of whom are now living, three sons and five daugh-
ters.  Mr. Leweke is a Republican in politics, and he and wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He owns a fine farm of 320
acres, and for forty-one years has been a resident of this county. His
parents, Christopher and Louise (Redeker) Leweke, were residents of
the same place as himself, were there married and reared a family of 
four children.  In 1847 they came to America and located in this 
county.  Both were members of the Evangelical Church, and the father 
was a Republican in politics.  He was a stone mason by trade, and a
number of the houses still stand as monuments of his workmanship in
this county.  He died at the age of eighty-two, and the mother at the
age of eighty-four.

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