William H. Bachman Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 320-321

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WILLIAM H. BACHMAN, ex-soldier, and general farmer residing on the 
northeast quarter of section 26, in Pleasant. View township, is one of 
the substantial citizens of Beadle county. His father, Jacob Bachman, 
was twice married, and Elizabeth (Mason) Bachman, the mother of our 
subject, was the second wife. William H. is the eldest child of the 
second marriage and was born in New York January 22, 1839. At an early 
age he began the trade of a carpenter, and continued in this line until 
1861, when he entered the army. In 1867 he went to Ohio and there 
followed his trade. From 1874 to 1882 he worked on the railroad in 
Michigan and from there went to Dakota and filed a pre-emption claim on 
land in section 32, in Pleasant View township where he resided until 
1889, when he removed to his present location. He has a well improved 
farm, and annually crops from fifty to seventy-five acres, and keeps 
about ten cows for dairy purposes. Mr. Bachman was married in 1866 to 
Miss Mary A. Moxoll, who is a native of Welney, Cambridgeshire, 
England, and was born October 11, 1849. Her parents were Joel and Ann 
(Lacey) Moxon; the father died April 29, 1899, the mother resides in 
California. Mr. and Mrs. Bachman are the parents of nine children, 
seven daughters and two sons, who bear the following names: Carrie, now 
Mrs. C. B. Stitt, of Arlington, South Dakota; Elizabeth, now Mrs. L. G. 
Wilbur; Cora, now Mrs. O. Kellar, of Toledo, Ohio; Dora, now Mrs. F. 
Trenholm, of Henry, South Dakota; Bernice, now Mrs. Dave Miller, of 
Toledo, Ohio; Maude, now Mrs. J. Harris, of Arlington, South Dakota; 
Jennie, now Mrs. W. M. Wurfel, of South Dakota; George McC.; and Lewis 
C. The daughters, Dora and Cora, are twins. 

Mr. Bachman became a private soldier in Company C, Thirty-third New 
York Volunteer Infantry and was engaged in the following noted battles: 
Williamsburg and Fredericksburg and at Savage's Station, while in 
skirmish line was made a prisoner, and was consigned to Castle Thunder, 
where he remained twenty-nine days, until paroled, the' happy' event 
being brought about through the kindness of a prison guard, but some 
time passed before our subject was regularly exchanged. In the early 
part of 1864 his old regiment was reorganized and he hastened to re-
enlist with his old comrades, but the roster was full and he was 
transferred to Battery D, Third New York Light Artillery, as sergeant, 
and was engaged at New Burn, in North Carolina, and at Kingston. He is 
a member of the G. A. R., Kilpatrick Post, No. 4, of Huron. Although 
for many years our subject was a Democrat he is now a free-silver 
Republican, and supports high license and equal suffrage. He has served 
the township in various offices of trust, has always left a creditable 
record and enjoys the esteem of all.