Draft:Roderick Rombauer

R. E. Rombauer, Roderick E. Rombauer and Roderick Emil Rombauer

Roderick Emile Rombauer (May 9, 1833-1924) lawyer and judge in St. Louis, Missouri.

He was born in Seleszto (Szeleste). He and three brothers fought in the Hungarian War of Independence. His father was a Slovak. (He was from a Hungarian family)

https://www.nytimes.com/1912/06/18/archives/wont-vote-for-roosevelt-hundreds-of-missourians-will-bolt-if-he-is.html

He delivered a poem at a ceremony on Memorial Day 1870.

He married a daughter of Gustavus Koerner and had six children.

Rombauer, Missouri is named for him.

Writings

 * A Model Charge to a Jury: Delivered Before the High Court of the Legion of Honor of St. Louis: In a Mock Trial for Breach of Promise of Marriage by Presiding Judge R.E. Rombauer in May 1888.
 * "About Taxation and Some Other Matters; Report of the Equal Taxation Committee of the St. Louis Single Tax League", co-author
 * "Ecce Heros" (1915)
 * The History of a Life (1903), a memoir