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INDIANA GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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TIPTON COUNTY,
INDIANA
HISTORY &
GENEALOGY |
Source:
History of
Tipton County, Indiana
Her People, Industries and Institutions
by M. W. Pershing
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families
ILLUSTRATED
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
1914
BIOGRAPHIES
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WILLIAM H.
ACHENBACH. The history of the Hoosier state is
not an ancient one. It is the record of the steady
growth of a community planted in the wilderness in the last
century and reaching its magnitude of today without other
aids than those of continued industry. Each county has
its share in the story, and every county can lay claim to
some incident or transaction which goes to make up the
history of the commonwealth. After all, the history of
a state is but a record of the doings of its people, among
whom the pioneers and their sturdy descendants occupy places
of no secondary importance. The story of the plain,
common people who constitute the moral bone and sinew of the
state should ever attract the attention and prove of
interest to all true lovers of their kind. In the live
story of the subject of this sketch there are no striking
chapters or startling incidents, but it is merely the record
of a life true to its highest ideals and fraught with much
that should stimulate the youth just starting in the world
as an independent factor.
William H. Achenbach, the owner of one hundred
and twenty acres of good farming land in Cicero township,
Tipton county, Indiana, was born Nov. 17, 1850, in Hamilton
county, this state, near Arcadia, the son of Peter and
Matilda (Knapp) Achenbach. Peter came from
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Peter
and Elizabeth Achenbach, who were Germans.
Elizabeth Achenbach's family came to
Indiana about eighty years ago and located on wild land
where the Mount Pleasant church now stands. Peter,
the father of the subject of this sketch, attended the old
log schools and was a farmer. He had seven children:
Simon (deceased), William H., Daniel W., John M.,
Benjamin F., Mrs. Barbara Balser and James L.
William H. Achenbach went to the Kinderhook
school, the terms in that institution lasting but six weeks.
He afterward attended district school No. 16, where the
instructor was Doctor Newcomer, who is now
residing in the city of Tipton. The demands for labor
on his father's place however, soon called him from his
studies and he was occupied at the strenuous tasks of
clearing and improving the home place during all of his
boyhood and early youth. The meager schooling which
Mr. Achenbach secured in his boyhood days only
whetted his appetite for knowledge, and he has ever been a
close reader and observer of men and methods, his native
common sense and sound judgment guiding him into the
position he now occupies in the community as a well informed
and intelligent man. At the age of twenty-three years
the subject of this review started in his own account in
life, first renting land which he cultivated and later
buying a tract of forty acres. Wise management and a
thorough knowledge of the various branches of the noble art
of tilling the soil have been the main causes for the
present prosperity of Mr. Achenbach, his fine
farm of one hundred and twenty acres being rated as a model
in the community, its broad and fertile bosom bearing
bounteous crops and affording abundant pasturage for the
excellent life stock which the subject raises. His
buildings and other improvements are good and substantial
and the whole general appearance of the place reflects great
credit upon its owner.
Oct. 5, 1873, Mr. Achenbach was united in
matrimony to Amelia Kleyla, the daughter of Martin
and Barbara (Dexheymer) Kleyla. Mrs. Achenbach,
who was a member of the Christian church, died Sept. 4,
1907, and was interred at Tipton. She was the mother
of six children, as follows: Victoria married
O. E. Jackson; Ora married Nellie Hartley;
Walter married Winona Thompson and they
have three children, Edna, Gladys and Mary;
Frances married Orpha Hoover and they have
one child, Blanch; Ethel is the wife of Sylvester
Essick; Hallie R. married Jessie Hoover.
The subject is a faithful member of the Christian church,
while his political relations are with the Democratic party.
Source: History of Tipton County, Indiana by M. W.
Pershing - Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis,
Indiana - 1914 - Page 460 |
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