Friedrich Münch

There he met the brothers Follen (August, Karl and Paul, who founded a democratic and republican student movement, soon to be outlawed.

Author Gottfried Duden, a German attorney, settled on the north side of the Missouri River along Lake Creek in 1824.

There he first published a glowing Bericht über eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerikas ("A Journey to the Western States of North America") in 1829.

Friedrich's brother Georg Muench moved from Lake Creek to Augusta, Missouri, where he purchased his Mount Pleasant farm.

He also wrote articles on winemaking, agriculture and emigration to Missouri for the United States and German press, under his pen name Far West.

One of his sons was among the first volunteers in the Civil War and died in the Battle of Wilson's Creek under the command of Franz Sigel, a former officer of the German 1848 revolution.