Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Ochsner, Albert 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

ALBERT OCHSNER, chief engineer of the Fred Sehring Brewing Company and agent 
for the Joliet Pure Ice Company, was born in Knonau, Bezirk, Affoltern, Canton 
Zurich, Switzerland, August 5, 1861, a son of Jacob and Elizabetha 
(Hauenstein) Ochsner. The family of which he is a member took part in the 
early Swiss wars and dates back to the nobility of that country. His father, a 
son of Jacob Ochsner, Sr., was born in Riiti, Canton Zurich, in 1829, and grew 
to manhood upon a farm. Throughout his active life he was engaged in the silk 
business, but is now living retired from the cares and anxieties of trade, 
upon a large estate in his native canton. His wife died when thirty-seven 
years of age, leaving two daughters and four sons, all of whom remain in 
Switzerland except Henry and Albert, both of Joliet.

In December, 1879, Albert Ochsner set sail from Havre for New York, and on 
reaching this country proceeded to St. Louis, where he arrived in January, 
1880. In that city he was employed in a cheese commission house. Later he was 
with a fire brick company at Cheltenham. Going to Chicago in 1882 he was 
employed as burner with the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company for two years. 
Accepting a position next with the Michael Brand Brewing Company he was first 
fireman, then assistant engineer and finally night engineer. Afterward he was 
assistant engineer for Bartholomew & Lights, then was foreman in the 
manufacture of ice machinery for James Salem, and while in that position put 
in ice plants at Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay and Oshkosh, Wis., and the Union 
stockyards at Chicago. Later he held a position as night engineer with a 
brewing company in Chicago.

Since 1891 Mr. Ochsner has been chief engineer for the Fred Sehring Brewing 
Company of Joliet. In this capacity he has proved himself equal to every 
responsibility and has won the confidence of the members of the company. He 
has aided in putting in improvements, including one Bates engine, by means of 
which the brewing capacity has been increased. A bottling department has also 
been established and an addition built. The combined plant now has six engines 
(with almost five hundred horse-power), two ice engines and fourteen pumps. In 
addition to his work as engineer he has built up a business in coal and wood, 
representing the Joliet Pure Ice Company. In 1898 he built Ochsner's hall, on 
the corner of Nicholson and Douglass streets, a building of three stories, 
40x65, with a private hall and club room. Fraternally he is connected with the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, the White Cross Fraternity and the Engineers' 
Association, and in politics is a Republican.  Through his efforts the Alpine 
Swiss Society was organized and he is now its president and leading member.

In Chicago Mr. Ochsner married Miss Emilie Jordan, who was born in that city. 
They became the parents of seven children, of whom the oldest daughter, Emma, 
when ten years of age, was accidentally killed by coming in contact with a guy 
wire from a live wire. The other children are, William, Albert, Clara, Lizzie, 
George and infant son.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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