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August H. Wehmueller, member of the firm of Degen, Breckenkamp & Co., proprietors of the Washington Saw, Planing and Grist Mills, lumber yard and carpenters and builders of Washington, is a native of Westphalia, Prussia, born in 1848, and the son of Christopher and Francisca (Nollkemper) Wehmueller, natives of Westphalia, Prussia, born in 1820 and 1816, respectively. In 1853 they came to America and located in St. Louis, where they remained one year, but the following year he moved to Franklin County, Mo., and was foreman on a section on the Missouri Pacific Railroad a number of years. He died in 1876. His wife is yet living and by her marriage became the mother of two children: August H. and Minnie, wife of Charles Neirdick, shoemaker, of St. Louis. August H. was only five years of age when his parents came to America, and he grew to manhood in Washington, Mo. He then farmed for a while, was also in the brickyard, and afterward learned the cooper’s trade, at which he worked for three years. He worked one year on the railroad, and at the age of twenty-one began learning the cabinet-maker’s trade of W. H. Otto, where he remained two years as an apprentice and afterward one year as a journeyman. In 1872 he and Henry Stienhaus became partners in the furniture and undertaker’s business, and this lasted one year, when our subject sold his interest to Henry Langenberg, and for the following two or three years worked at the carpenter’s trade. In 1881 he became a partner in the present business, and has since continued the same. He is overseer of the planing mill department and lumber trade. September, 1873, he married Miss Catherine Scheer, who was born at Port Hudson, Franklin Co., Mo., in 1852, and to them were born four children: Julius, Edward, August and Emily. Politically, Mr. Wehmueller is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.