Biographical Sketch of William Toedtmann, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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Judge William Toedtmann, another successful farmer and stock raiser of
Richland Township, was born in Lippe-Detmold, Germany, in 1831, and is
the third of seven children born to Gottlieb and Mary (Siker) Toedt-
mann, who came to the United States about 1843, settling in Boulware
Township, where the father took up a claim on Gasconade River, but one
year later moved back in the valley, where he improved a good farm.  He
was a farmer and carpenter by occupation, and died in 1869, at the age
of sixty-eight.  The mother is still living on the old farm, and is 
about seventy-eight years old.  William attended school in his native
country until he came to the United States, when he attended the Eng-
lish schools for about four months.  He assisted in improving the farm
until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company C, Thirty-first Miss-
ouri Volunteer Infantry, served in Fifteenth Army Corps, operated in
Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and South
Carolina, was in fourteen engagements, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post,
through the Siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge,
Ringgold's Point, Resaca, and through the Georgia and Atlanta campaigns
without being wounded or captured.  He was mustered out of service at
Nashville, Tenn., about May, 1865.  He enlisted first as a private, but
was immediately made corporal, and afterward sergeant.  He then return-
ed home, purchased his present farm of 160 acres, situated fifteen 
miles west of Hermann, and in 1867 married Miss Katie, daughter of 
George Meyer, a native of Pennsylvania, but one of the first settlers
of Gasconade County, where Mrs. Toedtmann was born.  She died in 1868,
and in 1870 our subject took for his second wife Miss Louisa Meyer, a
native of Gasconade County, and the daughter of William Meyer.  Of the
nine children born to Judge Toedtmann and wife, only three are now 
living: Charlie, Lizzie and Hulda.  Judge Toedtmann is extensively en-
gaged in the breeding of short horn cattle and Berkshire and Suffolk
hogs.  The Judge is a prominent man in the county.  In 1878 he was
elected county judge for the Ninth District, re-elected in 1880, and
served four years with satisfaction.  He was formerly a member of the
school board, and is a public spirited man.  He was formerly a Republi-
can in his political views, and his first presidential vote was for 
J. C. Fremont, in 1856.  He is now a Democrat and a member of the Re-
formed Church.

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