Hickory County, Missouri Biographies--Frederick Bandel

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 579, 580

Frederick Bandel was born in Prussia, Germany, March 21, 1824, being a son of Christian and Johanna (Summer)
Bandel, also natives of Germany.  The father died in Germany at the age of sixty-one years, and his widow and 
children afterward emigrated to America, reaching the United States in the spring of 1856.  They first located in 
Davis County, Iowa; then moved to Hickory County, Mo., where the mother died in 1876, aged eighty years.  
Both parents were members of the Lutheran Church, and he was in the war with napoleon Bonaparte, and was 
a participant in the battles of Leipsic, Waterloo, and others.  He was a tiller of the soil throughout life, and, like 
the majority of farmers, was honest, sober and industrious.  His union resulted in the birth of six sons and two 
daughters, the latter being residents of Prussia.  The second son, Godfried, came to the United States in 1852, 
and located in Burlington, Iowa, and about 1857 four more brothers came to the United States and located in 
Davis County, Iowa.  Frederick Bandel received his education in his native land, and, when a young man, learned 
the carpenter's trade, at which he worked until he came to the United States, when he turned his attention to 
farming, but was taken sick soon after his arrival, and the most of his capital was spent to pay his physician.  
After recovering, he began chopping and sawing wood, and, by perseverance and industry, has become the 
owner of a valuable farm of 310 acres in Hickory County, which is finely improved with good buildings, his barn 
being 56x60 feet, and furnished with all the latest improvements.  He gives considerable attention to the 
propagation of stock, and ranks among the successful citizens of the county.  When twenty-eight years of age
he was married to Emma Waggoner, who was born in Prussia in 1825, and died in Middletown, Iowa, soon after 
arriving from the old country.  Two children survive; Augusta and Frederick.  Another child, named Frank, nine 
months old, died the same day of its mother's death.  In 1859 Mr. Bandel wedded Louisa Brookmeyer, who was
born in 1834, also in Prussia.  Seven children are the result of this union: Charles J., Frederick William, Zennie, 
Lissie, Nancy, Pauline and Emma.  Mr. And Mrs. Bandel are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and he 
is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Agricultural Wheel.

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