Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Krekel, Arnold

KREKEL, Arnold, jurist, b. near Langenfeld, Prussia, in 1815; d. in Kansas City, Mo., 15 July, 1888. He removed to this country in 1832, was educated at St. Charles college, became a surveyor, and in 1844 was admitted to the bar of St. Charles county, Mo. He was county attorney for several years, established the St. Charles &ldquo;Democrat&rdquo; in 1850, was its editor for many years, and sat in the Missouri legislature in 1852. He served in the National army throughout the civil war as colonel of a regiment of Missouri volunteers, was president of the state constitutional convention in 1865, and in March of that year was appointed by President Lincoln U. S. district judge, which position he occupied at the time of his death.