E. M. REICHARDT

REICHARDT

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 19:20:40

E. M. REICHARDT, a prominent farmer residing on section 22, Nodaway township, was born at Altenberg, Saxony, February 4, 1852, the third of the four sons of Godfrey and Ida Wilhelmine (Kuenstler) Reichardt, natives also of Saxony. His father died January 2, 1877, in Saxony, and his mother is still living, aged sixty-nine years. From the age of fourteen to seventeen years he served as apprenticeship at the glazier's trade, and then emigrated to America, landing at New York, October 30, 1869. After spending six weeks visiting an aunt he came to Bureau county, Illinois, where he worked upon a farm and attended school, according to the season, for about four years, when, in 1880, he came to Adams county. For the first three years here he made his home with his brother, A. F. He then married and settled upon his present farm, which he had bought in 1875, and which is one of the best in the neighborhood. The house, 14 x 24, one and one-half stories high, is erected upon a beautiful site and surrounded with a fine lawn, ornamented with trees, etc., and a barn and out-buildings, etc., are well arranged and in good trim, all constituting good evidence of the thrift of the proprietor. On national questions Mr. Reichardt is a zealous Republican. In religion he was reared a Lutheran, and his wife a Methodist. Mr. Reichardt is a well informed citizen, and frank and cordial in his manner.

He was married November 29, 1883, in Jasper township, this county, to Miss Elizabeth Storch, a popular and successful teacher, born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Leonard and Mary (Krieger) Storch. By this marriage there are two sons, namely: Chester Otto, born July 29, 1886, and Albert Godfrey, February 22, 1890. One child died in infancy.