Biographical Sketch of S. W. Maushund, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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S. W. Maushund, general merchant at Hermann, was born near Cassal, 
Germany, February 10, 1836, and is the son of Conrad Maushund, of Ger-
man nativity.  The father immigrated to America some time after the
marriage of his second wife, Catherine Bishop, who now resides in Lex-
ington, Mo., under the name of Henry Hagen.  Conrad Maushund died in
July, 1849.  The subject of this sketch grew up in Hermann, supplement-
ing his primary education with a course in private schools at Hermann
and St. Louis.  In 1853 he carried on, for about six months, the cigar
business in that city, which he had learned partly at his old home and 
finished in St. Louis, but later discontinued it, and after a change 
of residence became engaged in steamboating, and then worked for two
years for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company with the civil eng-
ineers as rodman on the road; then he spent three years in the employ
of George C. Mueller, in clerking at Hermann, and resumed railroad 
work after a period passed in steamboating, learning to be a pilot on
the Upper Mississippi River, and from brakeman rose to the position of
yardmaster of the Missouri Pacific Railroad at St. Louis.  In April,
1860, Miss Maria C. Rasche, of Hermann, but originally from Philadel-
phia, Penn., became his wife.  In 1861 Mr. Maushund entered the Home
Guards and served three months.  He finally became engaged in the dry
goods business, in connection with the cigar trade, but after five
years closed out the dry goods interest and went to manufacturing 
cigars again, and in November, 1883, turned over the cigar business to
his sons.  Since then he has carried on general merchandising.  They 
have a family of seven daughters and three sons.

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