Biographical Sketch of August Riek, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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Judge August Riek, associate judge of Gasconade County, and farmer, of
Section 35, Roark Township, was born in Prussia, Germany, December 9,
1827, and is the son of Ernst Adolph Riek (deceased), a native of Sax-
ony, who immigrated with his family to the United States in 1842, 
settling in Hermann, and here died in 1861, at the age of eighty-eight
years.  In 1855, August, in partnership with his brother, Constance
Riek, now of Dallas, Tex., established the Music Hall in Hermann.
October 22, 1859, he married Anna Weher, daughter of Christian Weher
(deceased), and the result of this union was the birth of thirteen
children, twelve now living, viz.: Louise, Constance, Augusta, Huldah,
Ida, Lina, Otto, Oswald, Max, Anna, Adam and Lola.  Louise married 
Charles M. Linhart, of St. Louis, and has two children: August and
Anna.  Constance married Clara Heckmann, and is living in Dallas, Tex.
He has one child, Henry.  Judge Riek moved to his farm in 1867, and
was made United States general storekeeper and gauger of the First
District of Missouri, with his office at St. Louis, for eight years.
He was elected associate justice of this county in 1876, served two
years; was elected again in 1886, and still holds that position.  He
has also served on the English and German school boards several times.
He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for several years, and
of the I. O. O. F. for the past thirty-six years. 
 
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