VOLKMANN BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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VOLKMANN, Otto
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 367
residence: Davis Twp

Otto Volkmann, manager and treasurer of the La Due Grain and Supply Company, La 
Due, Missouri, is a native son of Henry County, and was born on a farm in Clinton 
township, January 22, 1884. He is the son of C. H. and Catherine Volkmann, 
natives of Germany, who immigrated to America in 1862, first locating in 
Indiana. C. H. Volkmann later came to St. Louis and thence to Henry County in 
1875, where he purchased a tract of prairie land and improved it, residing on his 
farm until his death in November of 1906 at the age of seventy-six years. Mrs. 
Catherine Volkmann died in August of 1906 at the age of sixty-nine years. They 
were parents of eight children: Louis and William, living at Wallace, Idaho; Henry, 
Lincoln, Missouri; Otto, subject of this sketch; Mrs. Louise Beckmeyer, Fayette 
County, Missouri; Mrs. Emma Seifried, Clinton; Mrs. Mary Quest, deceased; and 
Bertha, living in Lafayette County. Otto Volkmann attended the Independence 
district school and resided on the home place of his parents until the farm was 
sold in 1906. He was then employed as a farm hand until 1910 at which time he 
began farming on his own account. He followed farming pursuits until February 
10, 1916, when he took charge of the La Due Grain and Supply Company as its 
manager and treasurer. Mr. Volkmann is a Democrat in politics and a member of 
the Lutheran Church. He is affiliated with the Travelers' Protective Association 
and the Modern Business Brotherhood of America; The La Due Grain and Supply 
Company, of which Mr. Volkmann is manager and treasurer, was organized in the 
spring of 1915 and is a co-operative concern, the stock of which is held by the 
farmers of the surrounding country tributary to La Due. The capital stock was 
$6,000 at the time of organization. The company erected all of the buildings, the 
elevator having a capacity of 12,000 bushels of grain. During 1917 there was 
handled by this elevator 24,000 bushels of corn, 30,300 bushels of oats and 
16,500 bushels of wheat. In addition to handling grain the concern retails seeds, 
flour, feeds, cement and building material, the volume of business transacted 
during 1917 exceeding $100,000. The officers of the company are as follow: 
President, Claud Cordry; secretary, Clyde A. Rice; treasurer and manager, Otto 
Volkmann. The directors are as follow: William Lobaugh, F. K. Miller, George 
Mayes, Frank White, M. A. Harrison, C. H. Hartsock, George N. Angle, John Layman, 
John Wolfert, J. W. Brown, C. A. Rice, Claud Cordry, C. C. Collins, T. D. Vansant and 
William Mida.

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