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Henry L. Mellies, who is another successful farmer of Brush Creek Township, was born in Gasconade County, Mo., in 1855 and is the eldest of a family of ten children born to Ernst and Wilhelmina (Aufderheid) Mellies, natives of Germany, but who came to the United States when young, and settled with their parents in Gasconade County, where they are now living. The father, Ernst Mellies, was born in Prussia, in 1831, and attended the common schools in Germany until fourteen years of age. In 1854, he married, and in 1857 settled near Woollam, where he has a good farm. He was in the Home Guards and Company F, of the Missouri Militia, during the war, and was sergeant most of the time. During Price’s raid he was captured and held a prisoner a short time. Soon after the war he took up the study of medicine, and has since had quite a successful practice, in connection with farming. Politically, he is a Republican, and a non-partisan in county affairs. His wife was born in Hanover, Germany, and came with her father, Fred Aufderheid, to Gasconade County. Henry L. Mellies received his education in the English and German languages. He remained on the farm until nineteen years of age, at which date he began clerking in a store at Woollam, and there remained two years. He then remained one year with Mr. Link, at Bern. In 1879 he married Miss Emma Brinkmann, a native of Third Creek Township, and the daughter of F. W. and Wilhelmina Brinkmann. The fruits of this union were three children: Amanda, Hannah and an infant. Mr. Mellies lived in Brush Creek Township one month, and then moved to Bern, on his farm of 325 acres. He is an industrious farmer, and takes a great interest in the improvement of his stock. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., also a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Republican in politics, voting for R. B. Hayes in 1876.