The German Immigration, Warren County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Paragraphs from this Chapter (that mention) Warren County:

In 1834 the Gissen Society arrived.  It was under charge of Hon.
Frederick Munch, who still resides in Warren County, and besides
being a man of great local influence, is a writer and author of
some renown.  He has been a member of the Legislature and State
Senate several times, and is everywhere recognized as a man of
ability and a profound thinker and philosopher.  He was born and
raised in the province of Upper Hesse, in Prussia, and educated
for the ministry.  He was pastor of a Protestant Liberal Church
in Germany thirteen years, and in 1834 he organized the Gissen
Society from among the members of his congregation, and came to
America.  In the Society were the following families:  Gotlieb
Beng, John Kessler, Jacob Jeude, Frederick Reck, Dr. Frederick
Kruge, Henry Becker, Charles Kesel, Jonathan Kunze, Mr. Guhlemann,
Frederick Feach, Andrew and Louis Klug, Pressner Goepel (whose son
Gelt afterward represented Franklin county in both Houses of the
Legislature), Frederick Bruche (whose son Henry represented Cape
Girardeau County in the Legislature), and Augustus Kroell, who was
pastor of a German Protestant Church in Cincinnati at the time of
his death.  The above families seettled in the eastern part of
Warren and Western portion of St. Charles Counties, where they 
and their descendants still reside.

Some time after the arrival of the Gissen Society, the following
families came:  Jacob and Frederick Ahmann, Charles Winkelmeir,
Frederick and Erasmus Hieronymus, Ulmfers and Frederick Blantink,
Erastus Grabbs (who became a merchant, postmaster, and Justice of
the Peace in Marthasville, Warren County), William Barez, (who was
a banker in Berlin and a very intelligent man), George Munch, Henry
and George Berg, Mr. Fuhr and his five sons, John Miller, Henry
Dickhouse, Harmon Lucas and his brother, Henry and Luke Hurmann,
Mr. Tuepperts, and Mr. Oberhellmann.

	

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