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Andrew Rengeisen, farmer, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1820, the son of Frederick and Catherine (Schmidt) Rengeisen. The father was a farmer and died in 1838, at the age of sixty-five. Previous to his marriage to Miss Schmidt he had married a Miss Marks, who bore him five children. Six children were born to the last union. In 1848 the mother and four children, including Andrew, came to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania. There they remained until 1866, when the mother and the daughter came to Gasconade County, where the mother died in 1869, and the daughter about 1883. Two brothers live in Pennsylvania, one a coal miner and the other a farmer. Andrew Rengeisen mined coal for several years in Pennsylvania, and then engaged in farming. He was married in Bavaria in 1845 to Philipina Waggener, a native of Bavaria, who bore him ten children, nine now living: Michael, Frederick, Louis, Andrew, Henry, Adam, George, William and Barney. Since 1866 Mr. Rengeisen has lived on his present farm of about 350 acres, three miles southeast of Bern, and is one of the influential and progressive farmers of the county. He is an earnest worker for the cause of education, and for the general upbuilding of the country. Politically a Republican, his first presidential vote was for Scott in 1852. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.