Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Albrecht, C. J. 1847 - 
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REV. C. J. ALBRECHT.

    The Rev. C. J. Albrecht, pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical German Lutheran
church at New Ulm, this county, is a native of Germany, having been born in the
kingdom of Wurtemberg in 1847, son of Henry and Christina (Schilling) Albrecht,
well-to-do viticulturists, whose lives were spent in their well-kept vineyard,
the former dying in 1892 and the latter in 1914. They were the parents of seven
children, five of whom are still living; and of these five, four are living in
Minnesota, as follow: Rev. Christian, a minister of the German Lutheran church
at Alcoma; Rev. C. J,, the subject of this biographical sketch; Rev. Gottlieb, a
minister of the same denomination at Emmett, and Mrs. Lena Luehl, of Ellington.

    C. J. Albrecht was educated to the ministry in his native land and was
ordained there. In 1872 he married Mary Fry, daughter of John Christian Fry, and
shortly afterward came to the United States. In November of that same year he
was installed as pastor of the German Lutheran church at Lewiston, in Winona
county, this state. After three months of service there he was called to take
charge of the church at Greenwood, in Hennepin county, and was pastor of that
church until 1882, in which year he accepted a call to the parish of St. Paul's
church at New Ulm where he ever since has been stationed and where he has done
an admirable work, the interests of the parish having been extended both in a
spiritual and a material way since he was installed as pastor. When the Rev. C.
J. Albrecht took change at St. Paul's the parish had a population of but
ninety-five families. At the time of the last official report it had a
population of more than three hundred and all its departments of labor in a
flourishing condition.

     To the Rev. C. J. and Mary (Fry) Albrecht ten children were born, five of
whom are still living, namely: Lydia, wife of the Rev. F. Kohler, now stationed
at Nicollet, in the neighboring county of Nicollet; Adelaide, at home; the Rev.
Emanuel Albrecht, who married Fredia Toppe and is now pastor of the English
Lutheran church at Fairfax, in the neighboring county of Renville; the Rev.
Gustave Albrecht, who married Martha Brown and is pastor of the English Lutheran
church at St. Peter, and Martha, who is at home. The mother of these children
died in 1897.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana



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