Last modified: July 2011
Created: December 2004

JOSEPH ACHTER
ID: 2-9
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BORN: July 9, 1877 in Marshfield, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. 1880 1900 1910 1920 1930 49
DIED: January 18, 1963 in Stearns County, Minnesota 49
BURIED: Glewood Lutheran Cemetery, Glenwood, MN O34
PARENTS: Anna M. Langer and George Achter 1880 1900 04
OCCUPATION: Farmer until about 1898 09 Heilmann Brewery 1898 - ? 09 Teamster in 1900 1900 Foreman in 1910 1910 Machinist in 1920 1920 09 Proprietor of a tire shop in 1930. 1930 09
MARRIAGE 1: Michaelena Kott (1881 MN-1958 MN) in about 1901 - divorced Buried in Seven Dolors Cemetery, Millerville, MN 1910 1920 1930 O34

CHILDREN
ID NAME BORN DIED SPOUSE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTES
2-9-1 Josephine ACHTER 1910 1920 08 Sep. 25, 1903 in ND 1910 1920 SSDI 08 Aug 21, 1988 Peoria, IL O28 SSDI 08 Mark Remley (Apr. 1894 IL-Nov. 16, 1972 OR) - divorced 08 09
2-9-2 Leo ACHTER 1910 1906 in MN 1910 March 22, 1911 Bismarck, ND 09 O28 - -
2-9-3 Marvin ACHTER 1910 1930 Apr. 25, 1909 in MN 1910 1930 Mar. 16, 1963 in MN Frances Welty 4 Living at home and working in a tire repair shop in 1930 1930
The 1920 census lists him as "Martha". 1920
2-9-4 Veronica Barbara ACHTER 1930 1920 O28 Mar. 9, 1914 in Glenwood, MN 1930 1920 O28 June 5, 1994 Peoria, IL O28 Herbert L. Dane (-Nov. 1957 PineCity, MN) on Sept. 23, 1938 in MN O28 2 O28 Nurse: Graduate of Eitel Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis, MN. O28
2-9-5 Stephen Bartholomew ACHTER 1920 1930 SSDI Dec. 26, 1915 in MN 1920 1930 49 O28 SSDI Nov. 20, 1999 Sun City West, Maricopa County, AZ 49 Margaret Pauline Turner 3+
2-9-6 Lucille Ione ACHTER 1920 1930 May 9, 1918 in Glenwood, MN 1920 1930 SSDI Aug. 25, 2003 in Newberg, Yamhill Co., OR SSDI Mark Remley (Apr. 21, 1894 IL-Nov. 16, 1972 OR) 09 O28 SSDI 4 09 Lived in Newberg, OR in 1994 O28

MARRIAGE 2: Mathilda Kirchoff Polzin (1891-1956 MN) on December 29, 1938 in Sissilan, Roberts Co, South Dakota, by a justice of the peace. Glewood Lutheran Cemetery, Glenwood, MN She was previously married to Edward Frederick Polzin about 1915; divorced Sep. 1933. O34

CHILDREN
ID NAME BORN DIED SPOUSE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTES
2-9-8 Donald ACHTER 08 47 Feb. 3, 1940 Pope Co., MN 08 47 Feb. 3, 1940 Pope Co., MN 08 49

RESIDENCES: Marshfield, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin 1877-before 1880 1880 1900 1910 1920 1930 49
Kansas 1880 1880
Wahpeton area, North Dakota 1882, 1884, 1903 09
Glenwood, Pope County, Minnesota 1906, 1909 09
Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota in 1910, 1911 1910 78 09
Glenwood, Pope County, Minnesota in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1930 1920 1930 09

NOTES: From Jack Achter in 2010 "He was born around Wahpeton, N.Dakota around 1880. He left the family farm when he was about 12 years old, this according to his own biography in the Pope Co. Historical Museum at Glenwood, Minn. He worked on farms around the Wahpeton area until he was around 21 years old. He was hired by the Heileman Brewery at Wahpeton. He then moved to Glenwood, Mn. and ran a saloon there, for the brewery for a few years. He then started his own tire shop. He also worked as a machinist for the Soo Line Railroad at the Glenwood rail yard. During that time, he was transferred to Bismarck, N.Dak. where he worked for about 5 years. A son was killed by a dray wagon, (age 6), during that time. Shortly after that, they moved back to Glenwood, Mn. He was also a carpenter, City Council man and the Fire Chief. As he described it, in those days, you would take any job to support your family. Joseph died in January of 1963, in Sauk Centre, Mn. Todd Co. Minnesota. He was about 86 years old. He resided in a rest home there for about 5 years."
From records Mark Remley married before 1918; his WWI draft registration lists him as married. But in 1920 the census shows him living with his parents and divorced. The 1930 Peoria, Illinois Census show him married to Josephine Achter. (Is this correct?) They divorced. He then married Lucille Achter, her youngest sister, and they moved to Oregon. 1920 1930 09 55

SOURCES: 1880 1880 Census Bassettville, Decatur County, Kansas (with his parents, age 3) local
1900 1900 Census Center, Richland County, North Dakota (with his parents) local
1905 1905 Census Glenwood, Minnesota local
1910 1910 Census Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota local
1920 1920 Census Minnesota local
1930 1930 Census Minnesota local
04 Foertsch-Achter-Seurer Family Chronicles by Dorothy Kaler, 1993
06 Linda Coe
09 Jack Achter
13 Kris J. Achter, 1998 (email)
20 Social Security Death Index
40 Wahpeton, Richland County, North Dakota Funeral Home Index
47 Minnesota Birth Records
49 Minnesota Death Records
55 WWWI Draft Registration Card of Mark Remley.
70 1934 Newspaper article in The Leader on the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Mary and John Achter (in 04)
78 1911, 03/23 Bismarck, ND Daily Tribune Newspaper article on the Death Of Leo Achter-age6
O28 1994 Obituary of Veronica Achter Dane (from Ancestry.com)