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August Steinhaus, cooper, of Washington, was born in Prussia in 1829, and is the youngest of three children born to William and Johannah Steinhaus. The father was a miller by trade. He was born in 1788 and died in 1840. The mother was born in 1800, and died in 1844. At the age of sixteen August commenced learning the cooper’s trade, and at the end of two and a half years began as a journeyman, and at the age of twenty entered the regular army, serving two years. In 1852 he immigrated to the New World, and settled in St. Louis. In 1853 he married Miss Hulda Kupper, a native of Prussia, born in 1835, and six children were the result of this union. They are named as follows: Laura, born in 1859,widow of Charles B. Sass; Charles, born in 1864, erecting telegraph poles on the Missouri Pacific Railroad; William, born in 1866, carpenter on the Missouri Pacific Railroad; August, born in 1868; Otto, born in 1871, and Rudolph, born in 1874. In 1861 Mr. Steinhaus enlisted in Company C, Third Regiment Missouri Infantry, and served three months and eleven days. While in St. Louis he was proprietor of a cooper shop for seven years, employing eight men, and during those years made 62,800 barrels. He came to Washington in 1864, and for nearly two years worked in the pottery. In 1866 he opened a cooper shop, and for the past twenty-one years has worked almost constantly at his trade, employing one man, and making in that time 54,000 barrels. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R.