Yolo-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Altpeter, John Carl 1832 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

JOHN CARL ALTPETER

    Born near Saarbrucken, Prussia, March 2, 1832, John Carl Altpeter was a son
of Frank and Magdalene (Dinner) Altpeter. The parents both died in their native
land, the father when John Carl was eight years old. The youngest of the three
children of the family, he is the only survivor. He remained in Germany until he
was seventeen years old, educating himself in the public schools, then, in 1849,
came to the United States, making the voyage on board a sailing vessel which
landed at New York. Having too generously rendered financial assistance to
comrades on shipboard, he arrived in America penniless, but accidentally met a
cousin, who helped him to reach Rochester, N. Y. From there he went to Orleans
county, that state, and found work on a farm at $72 a year and his board, and at
the end of the year had $44.75 in cash. Continuing to work and save, his mother
soon joined him and eventually they bought twenty acres of land in Orleans
county, N. Y., and later more land until they owned a farm of eighty acres.

    December 20, 1860, in Monroe county, N. Y., Mr. Altpeter married Miss
Catherine Nessel, a native of Paterson, N. J. Her father, Peter Nessel, was born
in Alsace, France, became a leather-dresser and immigrated to New Jersey, where
he worked at his trade until he moved to Monroe county, N. Y., where he
continued in the same line of endeavor, established a leather store and acquired
a farm. He died in Rochester and his wife, Margaret (Koerner) Nessel, a native
of Bavaria, died in 1876, having borne him seven children, four of whom are
living and of whom Mrs. Altpeter was the eldest. After their marriage Mr. and
Mrs. Altpeter located on a farm in Monroe county, N. Y., which they operated ten
years. Then they removed to Mr. Altpeter's farm in Orleans county, where they
lived nine years.

    In 1882 Mr. Altpeter removed with his family to Berkeley, Cal., making his
home there about three years. In 1885 he moved to Woodland, Yolo county, where
he bought a six-acre ranch, on which he has since lived. For sixteen years he
rented twenty-five acres of vineyard land of Professor Loughridge, half a mile
east of town. In 1901 he bought a ten-acre vineyard four and one-half miles out
on Cache creek, and five years later sold it and invested in improved property
in Woodland. At this time he owns eight houses in the city, which he rents. Mr.
Altpeter's success is the well-deserved success of the salf-made man, made in
fair competition with the world and with a due regard for all the rights of
others. While prospering abundantly he has not forgotten the community at large
and has never failed to respond generously to any appeal for the good of his
fellow citizens.

    On the 20th of December, 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Altpeter celebrated their golden
wedding. They have had three sons, Louis, Charles and Edward. Louis is in
Seattle, Edward in San Francisco and Charles is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Altpeter
are communicants of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, and he has been a
member of its board of trustees ever since its organization. Politically he is a
Republican.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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