Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the Cascades. Vol. III. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p.580-581. DUDDENHAUSEN, AUGUST August Duddenhausen, German vice counsel at Port Townsend, was born at Wesel-on-the-Rhine in Germany. His father, William Duddenhausen, was an officer of the Prussian army and in later years became an internal revenue collector. He married Antoinette Brabänder and they became the parents of eight children, of whom August was the eldest. The father died in Germany in September, 1878, at the age of sixty-five years, while his wife passed away in 1886, at the age of seventy. Four of their sons came to America, three of the brothers following August. Of these Julius became a Catholic priest in Evansville, Indiana, and died in 1885. Carl also made his way to Evansville and became a prominent physician there. He was also professor in a medical college. At his death he left a widow and two children, all yet living in Evansville, and one of his sons, like the father, became a distinguished medical practicioner there -- Dr. William Duddenhausen. His brother, Carl Duddenhausen, is in the wholesale candy business. August Duddenhausen pursued his early education in the town of Recklinghausen in Westphalia and later in the gymnasium at Warrendorf, from which he was graduated in the fall of 1857. After leaving college he entered mercantiel lines with the house of Carl L. Seeliger at Wolfenbüttel and there became connected with wholesale commercial lines. In the latter part of April, 1862, he came to the new world after having previously served as a one year volunteer in the Prussian army. On reaching this country he entered the United States army, enlisting with the Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers under General August Willich, a former friend of his father's. Mr. Duddenhausen was honorably dischaged on account of physical disability in February, 1863, after the battle of Perryville. He was wounded in that engagement and taken prisoner there, but after three days he was paroled. He was also for a time a member of General Willich's staff. In May, 1863, he returned to his native country, where he spent four months in visiting friends and relatives, after which he again came to the new world and reentered the army, enlisting in the Seventeenth New York Zonaves, continuing with that command until May, 1865, or for twenty months' service. He also was with Sherman when he entered the city of Atlanta. He was intimately acquainted with General Sherman, for whom he had the highest admiration. At the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, he was wounded, causing the loss of his right leg. Following the close of the war Mr. Duddenhausen became a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, where he engaged in newspaper work on the Westliche Post. Subsequently he removed to Evansville, Indiana, where he occupied a clerical position in the office of the county auditor, making out tax rolls. In the fall of 1865 he became deputy county treasurer and he continued a resident of Indiana until the spring of 1867, when he removed to Cleveland, Ohio. There he again engaged in journalistic work in connection with the Wächter am Erie. After a year he received an appointment to a position in the treasury department at Washington, D.C. During his residence in Cleveland he taught Germany and history in the academy on University Heights. He served in the treasury department in Washington until July, 1879, and was there advanced from a humble position to one of responsibility. He resigned in July, 1879, having been appointed by the newly created railroad commission as assistant chief clerk, being the first incumbent in that position. The following year he was promoted to chief clerk and in November, 1880, he was appointed by President Hayes as register of the United States land office at Oxford, Idaho, in which position he continued for six years, serving for two years under the administration of President Cleveland. He also spent two years more as attorney in the same land office. In 1888 he came direct to Port Townsend, where he engaged in the real estate business through the succeeding twenty years, winning a good clientage in that connection. In the fall of 1896 he was elected city clerk, which position he filled for two and one-half terms, and he was also deputy county treasurer for two terms, from January 1, 1899, until January 1, 1903. For the past eight years he has occupied the position of German counsel at Port Townsend. On the 1st of November, 1880, in Washington, D.C., Mr. Dudenhausen was married to Miss Loretta House, a native of Virginia and a representative of an old family of that state. She died in Pasadena, California in May, 1916. In politics, Mr. Dudenhausen is a republican and for many years a very active worker in the ranks of the party. [next page missing from this edition]. Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen * * * * Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.