500 German settlers into Missouri. They soon realized that their plan for a separate federal state was untenable. They settled in the German populated Dutzow in Warren County, Missouri not far from the former farm of Gottfried Duden. Follenius died in Dutzow. His son Dr. William Follenius (1829–1902) married Emilie, a daughter of his friend, Friedrich Muench. His brother Karl had emigrated to the US already in 1824. References Paul Follen und Friedrich Münch: Aufforderung und Erklärung in Betreff einer Auswanderung im Großen aus Teutschland in die nordamerikanischen Freistaaten. Don Heinrich Tolzmann, ed., Missouri's German Heritage. Second Edition. Milford, Ohio: Little Miami Publishing Co., 2006. 1799 births 1844 deaths People from Giessen People from St. Charles County, Missouri People from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt 19th-century German lawyers University of Giessen alumni German emigrants to the United States People from Warren County, Missouri 19th-century American lawyers