Resources

The information included on this site has been researched and fact checked by our invaluable research intern, Lindsey Merritt. She used the following published accounts and expanded her research by accessing 19th century census data, historic real estate records and was also able to obtain oral histories from key figures in Hermann. If you see anything that is in error, please contact us.

We are grateful to Vicki Sheppard Chin, great-great-granddaughter of Charles and Josephine Husmann-Teubner, for allowing us to use the historic photos that you see on our site.

Source List:

• “Amalia P. Kielmann Manwaring.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57005973/amalia-p.-manwaring. 

• “An Era Ends: World War I.” Deutschheim State Historic Park.

• Angel, Traci. “Making It to the Middle.” Missouri Life Magazine, 7 June 2021, https://missourilife.com/making-it-to-the-middle/. 

• Bailey, Garrick Alan, and Francis La Flesche. Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected And Translated by Francis La Flesche. Edited by Garrick Alan Bailey. University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

• “Basement and Yard Water Problems.” Missouri Geological Survey, Rolla, MO, https://dnr.mo.gov/geology/wrc/waterproblems.htm. Accessed 4 August 2021. 

• Bender, Nancy. “Spring Houses, Important Buildings in the Past.” Mercersburg Historical Society, https://mercersburghistory.org/blog/34/. Accessed 6 July 2021. 

• Blackwell, Claire F. “Schützenfest & the Hermanner Sharpshooters: A Proud Tradition Continues.” Der Maibaum, Fall/Winter 2016.

• Boing, William C. “Productions of Agriculture in Roark Township in the County of Gasconade in the State of Missouri enumerated by me, on the Twentieth day of June 1860: Wm. C Boing, Ass’t Marshall: Post Office Hermann.” 20 June 1860.

• Browne, Cynthia Strawn. “National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Hermann Historic District (Boundary Increase I).” Missouri State Parks, https://mostateparks.com/sites/mostateparks/files/Hermann%20HD%20BI.pdf. Accessed 23 June 2021.

• Burnett, Robyn and Ken Luebbering. German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways. University of Missouri Press, 1996.

• “Charles C Manwaring.” Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99119456/charles-c-manwaring. 

• Denman, David. “Lot 38 E First Street.” Missouri Historic Architectural Inventory for Division of Parks and Historic Preservation Department of Natural Resources. 1 August 1985. 

• Denman, David. “Mercantile/Visitor Center.” Missouri Historic Architectural Inventory for Division of Parks and Historic Preservation Department of Natural Resources. 1 August 1985.

• Dierberg, James. “Re: Kallmeyer Farm history per Joy Kallmeyer.” Received by Eric Nichols, Merrill Mclaughlin, Susan Nichols, Lisa Merenda, and Mary Dierberg, 26 October 2019.

• “Differences in Historical Accounts.” The Final Days.

• “Dorothea Faulhaber Rasche.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129675048/dorothea-rasche. 

• “Dorothea Rasche Beckmann.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129687931/dorothea-beckmann. 

• “Family Group Report: Charles George Teubner Sr.” Gasconade County Historical Society. 5 March 2000.

• “Family Group Report: George Husmann.” Gasconade County Historical Society. 5 March 2000.

• Garr, Robin. “Oompah Time in Hermann, Mo.” The New York Times, 20 September 1989, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/20/travel/oompah-time-in-hermann-mo.html. 

• Gasconade County Circuit Court. “Deed to 65’ x 240’ tract of land off the northern edge of Teubner property, sold by George Husmann, guardian of Charles and Frederick Teubner, to the Pacific Railroad Company.” Gasconade County Historical Records, 10 March 1858 Book M, pp. 158.

• Gasconade County Notary. “Deed to 97.17 acres in the SW qr. south of the Missouri River, Sec. 30 T. 46 R. 4; 47.77 acres in the SE qr. of the SE qr. of Sec. 25 T. 46 R. 5; 40 acres in the NE qr. of the NE qr. of Sec. 36 T. 46 R.5; 30.2 acres in the NW qr. of the NW qr. of Sec. 31 T. 46 R. 4. From Charles Teubner, Frederick Teubner, and Elisabeth L. Teubner to Frederick Frank.” Gasconade County Historical Records, 28 November 1877, Book Z, pp. 401.

• Gasconade County Notary. “Deed to 97.17 acres in the SW qr. south of the Missouri River, Sec. 30 T. 46 R. 4; 47.77 acres in the SE qr. of the SE qr. of Sec. 25 T. 46 R. 5; 40 acres in the NE qr. of the NE qr. of Sec. 36 T. 46 R.5; 30.2 acres in the NW qr. of the NW qr. of Sec. 31 T. 46 R. 4. From Frederick Frank and Christina Frank to Julius W. Kallmeyer.” Gasconade County Historical Records, 14 October 1908, Book 35, pp. 448.

• Gerlach, Russel L. Settlement Patterns in Missouri: A Study of Population Origins, with a Wall Map. University of Missouri Press, 1986.

• “George J. Husmann.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56375652/george-j.-husmann. 

• “Gottlieb Rippstein.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129716869/gottlieb-rippstein. 

• Graff, Laura D., editor. “Hermann Cookbook: Fine Old Recipes.” 7th ed, Brush and Palette Club, 2018.

• Hamilton, John D. “Schützenfest in America: A German Folk Tradition Evolved in the New World.” Der Maibaum, Fall/Winter 2016.

• “Heinrich Rasche.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129672448/heinrich-rasche. 

• Hesse, Anna Kemper, Erin McCawley Renn, Adolf E. Schroeder, and Oliver Suchard. “The Vineyards.” Little Germany on the Missouri. University of Missouri, October 1998, pp. 89.

• “Historical Styles/Greek Revival 1825-1860.” Wentworth. https://www.wentworthstudio.com/historic-styles/greek-revival/. Accessed 12 July 2021.

• Husmann, George. The Cultivation of the Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines.” George E. Woodward, publisher, New York, 1866.

• “Ida Rasche Beckmann.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129684437/ida-beckmann. 

• “Julius W. Kallmeyer.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51900049/julius-w-kallmeyer. Accessed 10 August 2021.

• Kallmeyer, Joy. Personal interview. 3 August 2021.

• “Louise Caroline Kielmann Husmann.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56376616/louise-caroline-husmann. 

• Maloney, Ted. “‘Re-building’ the Rasche Farm in the 1800s.” Unpublished research. Accessed 21 June 2021.

• March, David D. “Charles D. Drake and the Constitutional Convention of 1865.” The Civil War in Missouri: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006. Ed. William E. Parrish. 

• Marshall, Howard Wight. “Meat Preservation on the Farm in Missouri’s ‘Little Dixie.’” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 92, no. 366, pp. 400-17, October–December 1979, https://www.jstor.org/stable/540509. 

• Maurath, John L. “Charles Campbell Manwaring.” Missouri Civil War Museum, Jefferson Barracks Historic Site, 2011.

• Meehan, Thomas, editor. The Gardeners’ Monthly and Horticulture Advertiser, vol. 1, Philadelphia, Brinkloe and Marot, 1868, https://books.google.com/books?id=-KQdAQAAIAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA22&dq=rasche+apple+hermann+mo&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q=rasche%20apple%20hermann%20mo&f=false. Accessed 23 June 2021. 

• Melsha, Donald L. A Walking Tour of the Early Homes and Businesses of Hermann, vol. 2, Day-Maker Communications, 2008. 

• Morse, L.D., editor. Missouri Department of Agriculture Reports, 1868, vol. 4, Jefferson City, Bellwood Kirby, 1869, https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16795coll17/id/23349/rec/1. Accessed 23 June 2021.

• Native Land. Native Land Digital, 2021, https://native-land.ca. Accessed 23 June 2021.

• Nichols, Susan. Personal interview. 16 June 2021.

• Noedel, Jeff. “A House Divided! Why was half of the ‘old post office’ torn down?” County News Live. 29 March 2013.

• “Osage Lands Acknowledgement.” Osage Culture. The Osage Nation, June 2019, https://www.osageculture.com/culture/historic-preservation-office/osage-lands-acknowledgement. Accessed 23 June 2021.

• Pinney, Thomas. “George Husmann: A Pure and Lofty Faith.” The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred Years. University of California Press, 2012. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.whitman.edu/stable/pdf/10.1525/j.ctt7zw1mv.8.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A52828ffa4241257e37f02a2cf6156cf1. 

• “Probate Court Docket: May Term.” The Advertiser-Courier, pp. 4, 5 May 1876, https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=2724883&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjk2MTU5MzYwLCJpYXQiOjE2MjQ5OTc2NTMsImV4cCI6MTYyNTA4NDA1M30.h0oc7Ar7lQ4jxVJibSqVTzyOqh-uVkfg2NKxKsWaknI. 

• “Prost!” DW, 13 September 2011, https://www.dw.com/en/prost/a-6617036. 

• “Prost! Why do Germans make eye contact when they clink glasses?” The Local, 24 April 2019, https://www.thelocal.de/20190424/why-do-germans-look-each-other-in-the-eye-when-they-clink-glasses/. 

• Renn, Erin. “Brick Treasures from the Past.” Preservation Issues, vol. 4, no. 5. Missouri Department of Natural Resources, September/October 1994.

• Renn, Erin McCawley. “German Kitchens in the Homeland and Missouri.” The Way Things Were: 19th Century Retrospectives. 

• Renn, Erin McCawley, Ph.D. “Nineteenth Century German Gardening Practices.” Deutschheim State Historic Site.

• Rigg, James H. Transcript of Journal of James H. Rigg, Danville, Missouri. November 25, 1877. Gasconade County Historical Society Archives and Records Center, 2010. https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/CivilWar/id/21851. 

• Secretary of State of the State of Missouri. “Deed to 40 acres in the NE qr. of the NE qr. of Sec. 32 T. 46 R.4, from the State of Missouri to George Husmann.” Gasconade County Historical Society Records, 16 August 1859, Book Q, pp. 392.

• Secretary of State of the State of Missouri. “Deed to 80 acres in the S half of the NE qr. of Sec. 32 T. 46 R.4, from the State of Missouri to George Husmann.” Gasconade County Historical Society Records, 16 August 1859, Book Q, pp. 393.

• Stevens, Linda Walker. “The Spirit of George Husmann.” What Wondrous Life: The World of George Husmann, 2nd edition, edited by Linda Walker Stevens. Hermann Deutschheim Verein, 2017.

• “Summer Kitchen.” Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 26 August 2015, http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/agriculture/field-guide/summer-kitchen.html. Accessed 28 June 2021.

• “Tillie C. Rathert Kallmeyer.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133579062/tillie-c.-kallmeyer. Accessed 10 August 2021. 

• Van Ravenswaay, Charles with an introduction by Adolf E. Schroeder. The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A survey of a Vanishing Culture. University of Missouri Press, 1977. 

• “Wilhelmina Rippstein.” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129716907/wilhelmina-rippstein. 

• Wolferman, Kristie C. The Osage in Missouri. University of Missouri, 1997.

• Wood, Danita Allen. “Missouri’s German Heritage.” Missouri Life Magazine, 8 October 2019, https://missourilife.com/missouris-german-heritage/.  

• “1860 United States Federal Census.” Year: 1860; Census Place: Roark, Gasconade, Missouri; Roll: M63_619; Page: 457; Image: 463; Family History Library Film: 803619. Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA, 2009.