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S. W. Maushund, general merchant at Hermann, was born near Cassal, Germany, February 10, 1836, and is the son of Conrad Maushund, of German nativity. The father immigrated to America sometime after the marriage of his second wife, Catherine Bishop, who now resides at Lexington, Mo., under the name of Henry Hagen. Conrad Maushund died in July, 1849. The subject of this sketch grew up in Hermann, supplementing his primary education with a course in private schools at Hermann and St. Louis. In 1853 he carried on, for about six months, the cigar business in that city, which he had learned partly at his old home and finished in St. Louis, but later discontinued it, and after a change of residence became engaged in steam-boating, and then worked for two years for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company with the civil engineers as rodman on the road; then he spent three years in the employ of George C. Mueller, in clerking at Hermann, and resumed railroad work after a period passed in steam-boating, learning to be a pilot on the Upper Mississippi River, and from brakeman rose to the position of yardmaster of the Missouri Pacific Railroad at St. Louis. In April, 1860, Miss Maria C. Rasche, of Hermann, but originally from Philadelphia, Penn., became his wife. In 1861 Mr. Maushund entered the Home Guards and served three months. He finally became engaged in the dry goods business, in connection with the cigar trade, but after five years closed out the dry goods interest and went to manufacturing cigars again, and in November, 1883, turned over the cigar business to his sons. Since then he has carried on general merchandising. They have a family of seven daughters and three sons.