Biographical Sketch of Andrew Rengeisen, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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Andrew Rengeisen, farmer, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1820, the 
son of Frederick and Catherine (Schmidt) Rengeisen.  The father was a
farmer and died in 1838, at the age of sixty-five.  Previous to his 
marriage to Miss Schmidt he had married a Miss Marks, who bore him 
five children.  Six children were born to the last union.  In 1848 the
mother and four children, including Andrew, came to the United States
and settled in Pennsylvania.  There they remained until 1866, when the
mother and the daughter came to Gasconade County, where the mother died
in 1869, and the daughter about 1883.  Two brothers live in Pennsyl-
vania, one a coal miner and the other a farmer.  Andrew Rengeisen mined
coal for several years in Pennsylvania, and then engaged in farming. He
was married in Bavaria in 1845 to Philipina Waggener, a native of Bav-
aria, who bore him ten children, nine now living: Michael, Frederick,
Louis, Andrew, Henry, Adam, George, William and Barney.  Since 1866 Mr.
Rengeisen has lived on his present farm of about 350 acres, three miles 
southeast of Bem, and is one of the influential and progressive farmers 
of the county.  He is an earnest worker for the cause of education, and
for the general upbuilding of the country.  Politically a Republican,
his first presidential vote was for Scott in 1852.  He is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church.
 
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