Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Wachter, Albert G. 1864 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The thrift, the frugality, the persistent industry of the German race tells

and leaves its impress wherever it is applied; and it matters not what the line

of life may be, or what occupation engages the subject, the qualities of success

are inherent in him, and he can bring them into service if he will.  Albert G.

Wachter, of Montrose county, this state, belongs to this race and in his career

has exhibited the characteristics of his people.  Although a native of New York,

born at Waterloo, Seneca county, in 1864, he is but one generation removed from

the fatherland and was trained in the school of stern discipline and attention

to duty which has raised the German nation to its present rank and consequence.

 His parents were Ernest W. and Julia A. (Alling) Wachter, the former a native

of Prussia and the latter of Cattaraugus county, New York.  The father was the

son of a prominent physician in his native land and was educated for the same

profession, being graduated from a medical college before leaving home.  In 1856

he came to the United States a young man and located at Elmira, New York, where

he practiced his profession for several years, then removed to Seneca county,

after living short times at different other places, and there died in 1886 at

the age of fifty-six.  During the last two years of the Civil war he was surgeon

of the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth New York Volunteers, and rendered services to

his companions in arms that were highly appreciated.  His wife was a daughter of

Samuel Alling, a well-to-do farmer of Cattaraugus county, New York, and is now

living at Stockton, California, aged seventy-seven years.  Albert is the fifth

of their seven children.  He was reared and educated in his native county, and

at the age of twenty began to make his own way in the world by clerking in a

grocery store at Waterloo, his home town.  After two years of this unpromising

employment he came to Colorado, and locating at Montrose, entered the employ of

Matthews, Reynolds & Goodwin, extensive orchard and fruit-growers.  He remained

with them five years, then set up in farming for himself, purchasing the place

he now owns and occupies on which he is actively engaged in a general farming

and stock industry, his principal crop, however, being hay.  In 1903 he was

appointed deputy water commissioner under W.O. Hershaw, of Olathe, a position

well suited to his capacity and his tastes, as he had given the subjects

involved in his official duties study and reflection, and is familiar with their

various phases of interest.  In 1888 he married Miss Lillie M. Kemp, a native of

Brighton, Canada, daughter of John Kemp, a prosperous farmer of that part of the

Dominion.  They have two children, E. Earl and Leo Pauline.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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