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Peter Radmacher is a native of the town of Westphalia, Osage County, Mo., and was born October 4, 1865. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Stagaman) Radmacher, natives of Prussia, Germany. John Radmacher was born March 4, 1836, and immigrated to Osage County, Mo., when about sixteen years of age, with his parents, who located on a farm near Westphalia about 1852. John Radmacher engaged in merchandising at Westphalia, at which town he was postmaster for about twenty-three years. In 1880 he was elected county judge of Osage County and served three consecutive terms of two years each, his death occurring about two months before the expiration of the last term; he was also appointed notary public in 1868, in which capacity he was acting at the time of his death, which occurred September 13, 1886. He was a man of great influence, an efficient officer and highly respected citizen. In 1854 he married Elizabeth Stagaman, who was born in 1838; their children living are Mary (now the wife of Henry Brune), Peter, Henry, Anna, Lizzie, John and Josephine. Those deceased were: William, the second oldest child, born October 24, 1859, died November 2, 1888; Anna, the oldest child, born January 15, 1858, died November 29, 1858, and Catharina, born March 1, 1874, died February 12, 1876. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Peter Radmacher, who was born in Prussia about 1806, and was one of the earliest settlers of Osage County, Mo. He died in 1866, and his wife Anna, who was born in Prussia in 1816, died in Osage County, Mo., May 2, 1888. Since his father’s death our subject has assumed charge of his store and is doing a successful business. He carries a stock of general merchandise and has a merchant tailoring department connected with the store, of which Henry Henke has charge. He is a rising and enterprising young man, and well deserves the respect of his friends and neighbors as well as patrons. The family are members of the Catholic Church.