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Frederick Augustus Wengler

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Frederick Wengler, a substantial and useful citizen of St. Louis Co., wasborn September 25, 1821, in Prussia, near Verden, on the River Ruhr, atributary of the famous Rhine. His father, William Wengler, immigratedwith his family to America in 1834, first locating in St. Louis, Mo andafterward removing to Franklin Co., where he opened a farm near FiddleCreek, and where he died from cholera during the terrible epidemic of1849. He was a man of probity and industry, and he reared a family ofseven children, all of whom entered upon lives of usefulness. Frederick,the second of the children, was eleven years of age when his parents cameto America. His education was limited to such as he acquired in theprimary schools in his native land, supplemented with two months'instruction in a public school in this country. However, his nativeabilities and the enterprises in which he engaged, bringing him intoassociation with busy and capable men, afforded compensation for schooldeprivation and upon attaining manhood he was well equipped for theactive and useful duties in which he engaged from the beginning of hisbusy life. Until he was fourteen years of age he remained with hisparents, assisting as far as he was able in the labors of establishing ahome for the family, and being the second child, and one of but two ofthe children sufficiently old to work, his time was entirely taken upwith such efforts. In 1836, when he was fifteen years of age, he lefthome and entered the service of Judge Henry McCullough, at a point onHamilton Creek where is now the town of Glencoes, in St. Louis, County.Judge McCullough was the most wealthy and enterprising man in thesettlement, and the owner of a tannery, a shoe factory and a bark andgristmill. Young Wengler remained in the employ of Judge McCullough fortwo and one half years, and learned tannng and shoemaking. He thenlocated at Union, in Franklin County, and took employment as a journeymanshoemaker, but some months later he was seized with an attack of typhoidfever, from which he was disabled for six months. After his recovery, hereturned to his firend and former employer, Judge McCullough, to whom heengaged himself for a term of three years, for an annual wage of $200,with board and washing. It was during this time that he liad thefoundations of his fortune, through carefully husbanding the returns fromhis labors, and by judicious investments at opportune times. In thefirst year he entered a tract of 160 acres of land on Boone Creek, inFranklin County, the remainder of that beautiful valley being entered byJohn Pyatt, whose daughter, Agnes, he married shortly after completinghis engagement with Judge McCullough, September 1, 1842. He then locatednear the site of the present village of Allenton, in St. Louis County,where he proved title on a previous pre-emption on a 160-acre tract ofrich farming land, paying the government price of $1.25 per acre. Uponthis he built a house, and with a brother opened a tannery and shoeshop.He conducted this business until 1849, when the death of his father madeit necessary for him to give his attention to the care of the paternalestate, which included a hotel and other interests at Gray's Summit inFranklin County, and, renting his farm, he removed to the latter namedplace and conducted the hotel for three years. At the expiration of thatperiod he returned to Allenton, attracted by the activity incident to thebuilding of the Pacific Railroad. He there furnished and superintendedteams ofor grading work, at the same time managing his farm. During thesame period he bought a town lot in Pacific, upon which he built a store,which he sold a year later at a satisfactory advance. He also invested inproperty in Allenton, and upon one of his lots erected a building for ahome. Some time later he built an addition and engaged in a grocery, drygoods and clothing business. In 1857 he was appointed postmaster atAllenton, a position in which he was continued for the long period ofthirty-two years. Intensely patriotic, at the outbreak of the Civil War,he was one of those in whom General Frank P. Blair reposed implicitconfidence, and under the direction of that distinguished patriot andsoldier he applied himself energetically to the advancement of variousmeasures contributing materially to the support of the Union cause in hisneighborhood. Among these was the recruiting of a company of Home Guards,which was effected principally through the efforts of himself and RobertC. Allen, a younger man than himself, then in his employ, and when theorganization was completed, Mr. Allen was chosen as captain and Mr.Wengler as a lieutenant. This company was a part of a battalion commandedby Major William C. Inks, an uncle of Mr. Wengler, and performed usefulservice, protecting the persons and property of loyalists, in encouragingenlistments for the regular volunteer regiments, and in neutralizing theefforts of the secessionists, but its most important duty, with which itwas particularly charged, was in the protection of the railway bridges inthe neighborhood necessary for military use. After the expiration of thethree months' term of service for which their company was organized,Captain Allen and Lieutenant Wengler, with others, attached themselves tothe Fremont Guards, commanded by Major George King, with which theyserved until that body was mustered out of service at Jefferson Barrakcsafter General Fremont was superseded in the command of the WesternDepartment by General Hunter, Mr. Wengler then procured the appointmentof Captain Allen as United States mail agent on the Missouri PacificRailway. The latter named, however, soon re-entered the military service,and Mr. Wengler succeeded him in his mail position, in which he continuedto serve for about three years. In 1864 he resigned to give his attentionto his home concerns, managing his farm and superintending the operationof a stone quarry. In 1870, he was appointed by the County Court of St.Louis County to the position of superintendent of the county farm, thenlocated within the present city limits of St. Louis, and served in thatcapacity for a period of four years, and until he was retired as a resultof a change in the political complexion of the county court. During hisoccupancy of this important office his duties were arduous, but wereconstantly performed with punctilious regard to his keeping. Mr. Wenglerwas subsequently appointed superintendent of roads in St. Louis County,and in this position he performed efficient labor in the construction andmaintenance of the various important highways throughout the county,serving until the adoption of the Scheme and Charter, in 1876, when theoffice which he occupied was abrogated. On retiring form the roadsuperintendency, he turned again to his personal cocerns, including themanagement of his magnificent farm of 300 acres, and his mercantilebusiness at Allenton, which he yet continues to conduct in assocaitionwith his son, Robert E. Wengler, under the firm name of Wengler & Son. Inpolitics Mr. Wengler has been an earnest Republican from the founding ofthe party, and he has always taken active interest in maintaining itsprinciples, believing its supremacy to be indispensable to the stabilityand prosperity of the people in commercial as well as in governmentallines. In religion he was reared in the Lutheran faith. He is a member ofthe Masonic fraternity, having affiliated with Pacific Lodge, No. 15, in1858, and for fifteen years he has served as treasurer of that body. Healso holds membership with Koehler Post, Grand Army of the Republic, atMelrose, St. Louis County, Notwithstanding he has reached the advancedage of eighty years, he is in entire possession of his physical andmental faculties, and continues to give his personal attention to themanagement of his various interests, necessitating frequent visits to thecity of St. Louis and to other points in the vicinity. His wife, threeyears his junior, with whom he had lived for the unusual period offifty-nine years, died early in 1901. Of their marriage were bornthirteen children, of whom six are deceased. Those living are as follows;William C., a prominent businessman of Clayton, whose biography appearsin this work; Emily J., widow of Robert C. Allen, deceased, who was aprosperous farmer and a man of commanding influence, who served as acaptain in the Union Army during the Civil War, and afterward as judge ofthe St. Louis County Court, and as Representative in the Thirty-first andThirty-second General Assemblies of Missouri; Frederick A., of Clayton,who was formerly employed in the office of the county collector; CharlesO., for more than twenty years past a railway postal clerk in charge onthe Missouri Pacific Railway between St. Louis and Kansas City, and whotook the first fast mail out of St. Louis when that service wasestablished; Jacob H., a carpenter at Allenton; Mamie M., wife of AllenM. Browning, railway postal clerk on the St. Louis & San FranciscoRailway between St. Louis and Monett, and Robert E., a merchant and thepostmaster at Allenton, Missouri.


Agnes (Piatt)

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William Columbus Wengler

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William Columbus Wengler was born in Meramec Township, St. Louis Co.,Missouri, October 5, 1844, son of Frederick and Agnes (Pyatt) Wengler,Frederick Wengler, the father, who was a tanner and shoemaker by trade,located in Allenton, St. Louis County, in 1859. He engaged inmerchandising and still remains there. William Wengler, the grandfather,immigrated to the United States in 1835 and located on a farm on FiddleCreek, Franklin Co. , Missouri. Young Wengler acquired a good practicaleducation in the public schools of his native town, after which he workedfor his father as clerk in his store, and in 1869, became a partner underthe firm name of Wengler & Son. In 1875, he withdrew from the firm andwas appointed a clerk in the internal revenue office in St. Louis, andlater was a clerk in the assessor's office. From 1876 to 1880 he wasagent of the Missouri Pacific Railway at Allenton. In 1880 he becamedeputy sheriff under Robert Schnecko, and held that position two years.In January, 1883, he was appointed deputy county clerk for St. LouisCounty, and in 1886 was elected county clerk. At the expiration of histerm he was re-elected to a second term, holding the office eight years.In 1895 he was elected justice of the peace for Clayton and served twoyears. In the fall of 1896 he was elected treasurer of St. Louis County,and in 1898 was re-elected for a second term. Mr. Wengler has been anefficient public official and one universally popular with hisconstituents. He was a member of Company B of Ink's battalion of theUnited States Reserve Corps during the Civil War, and was assigned toduty with the troops charged with the duty of guarding the railroadbridges from Pacific Junction to St. Louis. He is a member of the KoehlerPost No.159, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and takes a greatinterest in Grand Army matters. In politics he is a Republican, andindependent in his religious belief. He is affiliated with the AncientOrder of United Workmen, Mount Olive Saengerbund, and Central TowshipFarmers' Club. He is also a director of the St. Louis County Bank andpresident of the Clayton school board. He was married to Miss Lizzie C.Lamphier, of St. Louis Co, October 25, 1869. They have had tenchildren---Allen F; Almira Agnes, wife of R. Lee Mudd; Catharine, EmmaAlice (deceased); william; Robert Thomas; Jacob Henry; Belle; Jessie; andCora Lee Wengler.

Source: Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri edited by Howard L.Conard, Vol. VI, 1901.

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Amelia Jane (Emily) Wengler

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Frederick Augustus Wengler

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Jacob Henry Wengler

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Charles Otto Wengler

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Mary Maria (Mamie) Wengler

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Robert Edward Wengler

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