My Genealogy Hound

PETER PEHL, the proprietor of the Fulton Market Bar, is a man who is well known all over the state. He has been very successful in his business, and has accumulated a comfortable living in this line of trade. His birth occurred in Ems, province of Hesse-Nassau, July 27, 1855. His father, who was also a native of the same town, was a manufacturer of building materials and also erected factories. His entire life was passed in his native land.

The mother of our subject, who was formerly Kathrina Wagner, and also died in Germany, was the daughter of Philip Wagner. The latter, who was in Napoleon’s army, made the march to Russia with his soldiers and was wounded during his service. In civil life he was a fancy weaver by trade. In the parental family were ten children, four of whom are still living. Peter is the eldest and the only one in America; William is an officer in the German navy; and two sisters are living in the Fatherland.

Our subject’s boyhood years were passed in Ems, and he later spent some time in Stuttgart and Freiberg. For four years he was apprenticed to learn the hotel and restaurant business, and in 1874 came to America, leaving Hamburg on a vessel bound for New York. September 2 of that year he arrived at Sedalia. In 1879 he went to Parsons, Kan., and opened a place, but returned to this city in 1882 and opened the Faust Restaurant on Osage Street, taking Charles Kobrock into partnership. In 1889 Mr. Kobrock and our subject dissolved partnership, the latter establishing the business which he now carries on January 6, 1895. The Fulton Market Restaurant, Oyster-house and Bar occupies a building with a frontage of seventy feet on Second Street, near Ohio, and is a place which receives a liberal patronage.

July 1, 1894, Andrew Gardella took charge of the restaurant. He is very popular and quite well known all over the state, and the house in consequence does quite an extensive business. Our subject is also interested in Pehl & Riley’s Bar, on Ohio Street, between Third and Fourth, and also owns considerable valuable real estate. He owns seventy feet fronting on Second Street, occupied by three storerooms, about seventy feet on Osage Avenue, occupied by a livery, and a fine property on Wilkerson Street and Harrison Avenue.

In Sedalia, September 15, 1886, occurred the marriage of our subject and Miss Augusta Bartel, a native of Pomerania, Germany. Two children have come to bless their home, to whom have been given the names of Carl and Otto. Mr. Pehl is a charter member of the Liquor Dealers’ Benevolent Association, and is a member of the Supreme Council of the State Liquor Dealers’ Association, acting as delegate to their convention held in St. Louis in 1892. Politically he is a member of the Democratic party, in whose ranks he is an active worker. Socially he is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the D. O. H., in which he is past officer, and the Sons of Herman, in which he has also held office.