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FREDERICK WILLIAM HAGEMEYER, one of the enterprising young business men of Holden, is a manufacturer and repairer of musical instruments. He was born in Prussia, Germany, September 28, 1862, but since he was four years of age has made his home in America. He is a good Republican, and cast his first Presidential ballot for James G. Blaine.

Our subject’s father, Gotlieb Hagemeyer, and wife, Elizabeth, were natives of Germany, and their history is given at length in the sketch of our subject’s brother Charles, which precedes this. Young Frederick grew to manhood in St. Louis, where he attended the parochial schools until he was about fourteen years of age. He then clerked in a grocery, his father collecting his wages for three years. When he was nineteen Frederick came to Holden, and for a time clerked in a grocery. He had always been very desirous of becoming a mechanic, but was discouraged in this by his father. In spite of the opposition, the youth devoted what time he could to the business, and as he had a great love for music (often traveling for miles to hear a band when a boy), he at length combined these two branches of genius in his present vocation. While he was still a clerk he engaged in the construction of a pipe organ, which he finished in 1894, and placed in the Evangelical Church of Holden. It is estimated to be worth $2,500, and is certainly remarkable from the fact that Mr. Hagemeyer picked up the business by himself, and has invented new devices of his own. He is a natural electrician, and does all of his own silver electro-plating.

July 16, 1884, Mr. Hagemeyer married Anna Strubbe, of Holden, who was born in St. Louis. They have three children, all natives of this place, namely: Mabel, born July 14, 1885; Minnie, February 28, 1887; and Olinda, June 16, 1889. Mr. Hagemeyer is a member of the Odd Fellows’ society, and religiously is a member of the Evangelical Church, to which his wife also belongs.