Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Voltmer, August 1861 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

AUGUST VOLTMER.

    August Voltmer is a representative of that fine class of German-American
citizens who have been such an important factor in the development of the
material resources and in the social and intellectual life of Lake county. He is
himself still a young man in point of years and vigor, but for the past twenty
or more years has been making his influence felt for good and advancement in
this county, and is also prosperous to an unusual degree in his own affairs.

    He is a native of Will county, Illinois, where he was born October 28, 1861,
being the fifth in a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters,
born to Henry and Mary (Rabe) Voltmer. These children are all living, and there
are three others who are residents of Lake county, namely: Henry, Lizzie, and
Mary, who is the wife of William Neidert, a farmer of West Creek township. The
father of the family was born in Germany, in the province of Hanover, and he is
still living at the age of eighty years. He was a mechanic until he came to
America, and since then he has given his attention to farming. He emigrated to
this country when a young man, and from New York came to Will county, Illinois,
being a poor but honest and industrious man, and in the course of his active
career he accumulated one hundred and sixty acres in Will county, and also
purchased two hundred and eighty acres in West Creek township of this county,
where he still makes his home. He received his education in both the German and
English tongues. He is a Republican, and is a member of the Lutheran church, as
also was his good wife, who died about 1896.

    Mr. August Voltmer was reared and educated in Will county, Illinois, and by
early training is familiar with both the German and the English languages. He
was reared to farming life, and has given principal attention to stock-raising.
He has a number of pure-blooded Chester White swine, and his cattle are of
high-grade Durhams.

    He was married, May 2, 1897, to Miss Lena Balgemann, and of this union three
children have been born, Martha, Hilda and Lydia. Mrs. Voltmer was born in
Kankakee county, Illinois, and was reared in that state, her parents both being
alive and residents of the county of Kankakee.

    Mr. Voltmer and his brothers own two hundred and seventy-nine acres of good
land in West Creek township, and he is classed as a prosperous agriculturist and
a stable citizen of the county, being always interested in anything that will
advance the interests of Lake county. He is a Republican in politics, and cast
his first vote for James G. Blaine, since which time he has zealously upheld the
principles of his party. He and his wife are members of the German Lutheran
church in Kankakee county, Illinois, and contribute of their means to all
benevolences worthy of their consideration.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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