My Genealogy Hound

Judge August Riek, associate judge of Gasconade County, and farmer, of Section 35, Roark Township, was born in Prussia, Germany, December 9, 1827, and is the son of Ernst Adolph Riek (deceased), a native of Saxony, who immigrated with his family to the United States in 1842, settling in Hermann, and here died in 1861, at the age of eighty-eight years. In 1855, August, in partnership with his brother, Constance Riek, now of Dallas, Tex., established the Music Hall in Hermann. October 22, 1859, he married Anna Weher, daughter of Christian Weher (deceased), and the result of this union was the birth of thirteen children, twelve now living, viz.: Louise, Constance, Augusta, Huldah, Ida, Lina, Otto, Oswald, Max, Anna, Adam and Lola. Louise married Charles M. Linhart, of St. Louis, and has two children: August and Anna. Constance married Clara Heckmann, and is living in Dallas, Tex. He has one child, Alexander. Augusta married Frederick W. Hueller, of Hermann, and has one child, Henry. Judge Riek moved to his farm in 1867, and was made United States general storekeeper and gauger of the First District of Missouri, with his office at St. Louis, for eight years. He was elected associate justice of this county in 1876, served two years; was elected again in 1886, and still holds that position. He has also served on the English and German school boards several times. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for several years, and of the I. O. O. F. for the past thirty-six years.