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Augustus Kreisel is a native of Benton County, Mo., was born January 29, 1867, and is the son of Eugene J. and Anna C. (Freund) Kreisel, and grandson of Christopher Kreisel, a native of France, who settled in Benton County in 1838, and was among the earliest settlers of the county. Eugene J. Kreisel was also a native of France, and was but nine years of age when he came with his father to Missouri. He was reared in Benton County, and there married Miss Freund, who was of French and German parentage. He was a miller by trade, and built two mills in the county with the assistance of his father. This business he has followed nearly his whole life. He served a short time in the Home Guards during the late unpleasantness between the North and South, and was postmaster for a brief period at his mill. He died November 19, 1887. He was a member of the Masonic order. His wife survives him. In their family are five sons and one daughter, all grown, married and the heads of families with the exception of Augustus Kreisel, who is the youngest of the family. All are living in Benton County. Augustus Kreisel attained his growth in this county, and received a good education in the common schools of the community. He then began clerking at Sedalia, in 1885, with C. E. Ilgenfritz in the hardware business, and remained in that capacity for a year and a half when he returned home and took a winter term of school. The following summer was spent on a farm adjoining Cole Camp, and in the fall and winter he taught a short term of school held in the same house where was had his first school experience. When the session closed he resumed clerking, and entered the general merchandise store of L. Schroeder, at Cole Camp, in 1888, and there he has since remained. He is a wide-awake, thorough-going young man, and his prospects are bright. The family are members of the German Lutheran Church.