Biographical Sketch of August Wacker, Gasconade County, Missouri

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

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August Wacker, farmer and stock raiser of Canaan Township, was born in
Prussia, in 1828, the eldest of four children born to Hermann and Wil-
helmina (Ramhorst) Wacker, who died in the old country.  The father was
a farmer, and was three years in the regular army; he was born in 1801,
and died in 1872.  The mother was born in 1799, and died about 1876.
August Wacker attended the common schools until fourteen years of age,
when he began working for farmers.  He came to the United States in 
1856, and was the only member of the family who left their native land.
He was married in 1857 to Charlotta Pauge, a native of Hanover, Germany
who, with another sister, came to Missouri to meet their elder sister.
Her parents died in Germany.  Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Wacker: Henry, William, Charlotta (Mrs. T. J. McMillan), Emma, August
and Anna.  Since his marriage Mr. Wacker has lived in Canaan Township,
and for about nineteen years on his present farm.  He is one of the 
most extensive land owners and stock raisers of Gasconade County.  He
has about 540 acres after giving his children about 500 acres.  He 
started with little or nothing, cleared about six acres upon which he
settled in a log cabin.  He now has one of the best farms in Gasconade
County.  During the war he was in Company H of the Third, or Col. Matt-
hews' regiment of the Missouri Militia.  He has taken a great deal of
pains in the education of his children, having them taught both the
German and English languages.  His daughter Charlotta is a teacher. Mr.
Wacker is a Republican in his political views, his first presidential
vote being for Lincoln.  He is a member of the Evangelical Church.

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