Thayer County NeArchives Biographies.....Albrecht, John H. 1861 - 
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John H. Albrecht

Born at Collinsville, Madison County, Illinois, on July 31, 1861, John H.
Albrecht is the son of Henry and Maria (Kluge) Albrecht. Henry Albrecht was born
February 6, 1830, in Saxony, Germany, and was a tailor by profession. Maria, his
wife, was born at Glaskow, Schlesien, Germany, August 17, 1838. Both of them
died at St. Paul, Illinois; Mr. Albrecht in March 1897, and his wife in April,
1905.

Coming to Nebraska in 1886, John H. Albrecht settled in the town of Friedensau
and started farming. On February 28, 1889, he married Emma Ulrike Liermann at
Friedensau. Mrs. Albrecht was born at Caledonia, Wisconsin, on June 11, 1869,
her parents coming to Nebraska in 1874 and enduring the hardships of the
pioneers of those days.

A resident of Nebraska for forty-five years, Mr. Albrecht has been active in
political and civic enterprises. A Democrat, he has been chairman of his
precinct, a member of the county central committee, and served as county
commissioner for one term. For ten years he was a member of the County Fair
Board. During the World War he was a solicitor for the Red Cross, and was active
in the Salvation Army and War Savings Stamp work.

Mr. Albrecht has been a member of the mission board of the Southern Nebraska
district of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, for ten years, was deacon and
treasurer of the Lutheran Trinity Congregation of Friedensau twenty years, and
is still affiliated with this church.

John H. Albrecht is a member of the Lutheran Laymens' League, the Lutheran
Educational Association, the Good Roads Committee, and the Nebraskana Society.
He has a family of eight children: Clara, born December 4, 1889, married to Paul
Thiemann; Emilie, born July 22, 1892, and married to H. C. Schardt; Josephine,
born May 27, 1894, and married to Julius Kraft; Emma, born March 10, 1896, and
married to Edward Schmidt; Erna, born April 30, 1899, and married to Walter
Schardt; Rosina, born July 23, 1901, and married to Fred Behle; Florence, born
April 14, 1906, and married to Walter Thieme; and Arthur, born November 26,
1908, who is farming the home place; John who was born August 18,1901 died on
May 16, 1902. Residence Deshler.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932


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