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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) AchenbachPeter 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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