Biographical Sketch of John Nenzel, Jefferson County, Missouri

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

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John Nenzel is a native of Saxony, Germany, born in 1835, and a farmer
of Rock Township, Jefferson Co., Mo.  His father, John Nenzel, came to
the United States about 1839, settled for some time in Maryland, but
went from there to Ohio and from there to Franklin County, Mo., where
the mother died about 1841.  Soon after this the family moved to St.
Louis, where they remained until about 1851, when they came to Jeffer-
son County, and settled on the approach of winter, in a cabin made of
brush, etc., on the farm now owned by John, which was then a dense 
wilderness.  Here the father died April 22, 1863.  He was a soldier in
the Mexican War, serving fourteen months, and the farm upon which our
subject now resides is the land he selected as his war claim.  He was
a sturdy, honest farmer.  The subject of this sketch was reared prin-
cipally in St. Louis County, where he was married, March 1, 1854, to
Miss Louisa Hoebel, a native of Germany, but who came with her mother
to Jefferson County a short time previous to her marriage.  Twelve 
children were born to this union, nine now living, one son and three
daughters residing in St. Louis.  Three sons and two daughters make
their home in Jefferson County.  Since his marriage Mr. Nenzel has
lived on the old home place which consists of 240 acres, three miles
northwest of Antonia, forty acres in Meramec Township and eighty acres 
in Rock Creek, all the result of hard labor.  August 14, 1861 he en-
listed in Company B, Fourth Missouri Cavalry, and for three years oper-
ated near the Missouri and Kansas line.  In 1861 he was made captive
at Harrisonville, but was immediately paroled and returned home.  He
was afterward in Company C, of the Enrolled Missouri Militia, in Col.
Rankin's regiment.  He is a Republican in politics, has always been an
industrious farmer, and is respected by all.

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