Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Von Eckstaedt, Albert Vitzthum 1845 - 
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  ALBERT VITZTHUM VON ECKSTAEDT. of Litchfield, was born m Prussia, Germany, in
1845, and is the son of Frederic and Louisa (Manns) von Eckstaedt. His father was a
captain in the army of Prussia, and served in the wars of Napoleon. Later in his
life he was the occupant of an important position in the custom house of that State,
and died in his native land in 1854. He was of the aristocratic class, as the “von”
before his name plainly shows.

  Albert, at the age of thirteen, was sent to the military school at Berlin, where
he remained some three years, and at the age of sixteen received a commission as
lieutenant in the Second Pomeranian Lancers, and served in the army for four years.
In 1865 he left the fatherland and came to America, where he traveled for a couple
of years, most of the time on the Pacific slope. In 1878 he came to Litchfield, and
for two years was in the employ of John Rodange, and at the expiration of that time
entered into partnership with the same gentleman in the saloon business. In 1882 the
subject of this memoir opened his present place of business on Sibley avenue.

   Albert V. von Eckstaedt has always taken great interest in military affairs,
especially in the militia, and was largely instrumental in the organization of
Company H, First Regiment M. N. G., of this place, and also helped organize the
bucket brigade of the fire department. He is a valued citizen and much respected
member of the community.

   Our subject was married November 11, 1881, to Miss Lizzie Mittwer, a native of
Prussia, Germany, and daughter of Martin and Busche (Radise) Mittwer. By this union
there have been born two children— Adelia and Theresa.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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