Julius F. Hutawa, ~1809–1872, and Edward L. Hutawa, ~1811–1847

Julius F. Hutawa was born in 1809 in Halberstadt, Prussia, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1832. He and his brother Edward established a well-known lithography and printing business in the 1830s that published many maps of St. Louis City and County.  You can see his 1850 “Plan of the City of St. Louis,” on our website.

Julius “specialized in making maps for western travelers and explorers.” He is credited with printing some of the very first maps of places west of the Mississippi. He never married and passed away on 1 October 1872. He is buried in the Hutawa family plot in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

Edward L. Hutawa was born in 1811 in Halberstadt.  He immigrated with his brother Julius in 1832. In 1838, he married Friederike Petrasch (1815–1879) in St. Louis. Edward was the deputy surveyor of the public lands of the states of Illinois and Missouri. He died in an accident in 1847 and was originally buried in the old Catholic cemetery near the cathedral downtown but was moved to the family plot in Bellefontaine Cemetery in 1858.

Edward and Friederike had the following children:

• • Anna Sophie,1839–1898, who married Rudoph Mackwitz on 2 May1859.
  • Roland, 1841–?
  • Bernardina Richarda Uliana “Dina,” 1846–1858
  • Cecile Gertrude, 1842–1912, who married Charles Ferdinand Mathey on 4 September 1865, in St. Louis.
  • Robert Martin, 1845–1901

(Sources for the above include the U.S. census, marriage licenses, death certificates, Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com, FamilySearch.org, and Find a Grave.)

Written by Jim Bellenger
April 2025

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