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Edward C. Altemeier Mr.
Edward C. Altemeier was born in Mariposa Township. Jasper County, on March 21,
1881. He is the son of Adolph and
Wilhelmina (Klopping) Altemeier, the father born in the town of Horn, province
of Lippe, Germany, on December 24, 1837, and the mother was born in the town of
Detmold, province of Lippe, Germany. There
the father grew up and as a boy engaged in farm work.
In 1855 he came to Freeport, Illinois, where his brother Simon and sister
Louise had previously located, they having emigrated from Germany to New Jersey
in 1852, coming to Illinois the following year. Simon Altemeier is now living in
Mariposa Township, Jasper County, Iowa.
It was in 1857 that Adolph Altemeier, Sr., came to Newton, Iowa, and
there he worked for some time in a brickyard, then began renting land five miles
east of Newton. He then went to Spirit Lake, this state, and took up a claim in
that wild, unsettled country and at the Indian uprising he was compelled to give
up his land and return to Jasper County. In
1860 he bought forty acres in Malaka Township.
Selling this a few years later, he purchased one hundred and twenty acres
in Mariposa Township, this County, and here he prospered, adding to his farm
until he became the owner of five hundred acres of valuable land. He farmed on a
large scale and became one of the substantial and well-known men of this
community. He served his Township as trustee and assessor, also serving on the
Township board. He and his wife
were members of the German Evangelical Church. His death occurred on October 10,
1886, after a successful and well-spent life.
The mother of the subject of this sketch came to America when she was
nine years of age, in 1850, locating at Freeport, Illinois, where she spent four
or five years with neighbors who had settled there from her old locality in
Germany. Her parents died when she
was a small child. She came to Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, about 1856 and
worked in the home of Colonel Curzad for several years, then married Mr.
Altemeier. Since his death she has
lived principally in Newton. To
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Altemeier were born nine children, named as follows: Adolph
G., Jr.; Mary, deceased; Mrs. Lottie Rathelson, deceased; William J. is farming
in Mariposa Township; Mrs. Minnie Werman, Mrs. Anna Wiesman, Louis, Edward C„
of this review, and Fred. Edward
C. Altemeier spent his boyhood on the farm and assisted with the general work
there, attending the district schools between crop seasons. When he was
twenty-one years of age he began farming, renting land of his mother, the father
having previously died; when the subject was five years of age.
It was in 1906 that the subject began renting the farm of one hundred and
sixty acres where he now lives, this land having belonged to his mother. He has
met with success as a general farmer and stock raiser, paying special attention
to raising Hereford cattle. In 1910
he purchased one hundred and sixty acres just southeast of where he now lives.
Politically, he is a Democrat, but is not, as already intimated, a public man. On December 6, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Edward C. Altemeier and Sarah Davis Banghart, who was born in Mariposa Township, this County, December 27, 1883, and here she grew to womanhood and was educated. She is the daughter of Thomas Banghart, a highly respected citizen. Two children have been born to the subject and wife, Leroy Edward and Virgil. The Past and Present
of Jasper County, Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-in-Chief, 1912, B. F.
Bowden & Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. |
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