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S. LANDAUER, wholesale dealer in liquors, was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria, April 24, 1836. His parents, Benedict and Hanna (Goodman) Landauer, were natives of the same state. During his youth our subject attended Bavarian schools. When thirteen years of age he went to Stutgardt and entered the Polytechnic school at that place, and continued there three years, graduating in the fall of 1853. After quitting college he engaged in merchandising four years; emigrated to America in 1857, sailing from Liverpool on the City of Baltimore, and after a voyage of eleven days arrived at New York July 1st. He then came immediately west to Cincinnati and there engaged until 1861, and then enlisted in Company C, Ninth Ohio German Turners Regiment, Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Rich Mountain, Phillips, Mills Spring, where Gen. Zollicoffer was killed, Chickamagua, Missionary Ridge, Perryville, Ky., Pittsburg Landing, and others of considerable consequence. In 1862 he was promoted to first sergeant, Company C; mustered out at Camp Dennison, Ohio. He then went to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and engaged in business about three years; then he went to Nashville, same state, and continued in same business until the fall of 1876 when he came to Joplin and established his present business. Mr. Landauer was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1865, to Miss Bertha, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Hill of that city. Mrs. L. was born in Cincinnati. From this union there are three children: Benedict, born Feb. 7, 1866, in Nashville; Dora, born July, 1869, also in Nashville; and Hannah, born in 1871 in same city. Mr. Landauer is a member of the city council, and has been for a considerable time a director of the Joplin Exposition Association. He has membership in the order Knights of Pythias and the Germania Society.