William A. Ortmeyer, 1890-1975

ORTMEYER, FREVE, EGE

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 3/5/2011 at 07:17:15

WILLIAM A. ORTMEYER in the community of Armstrong in Emmet County is spoken of as the most useful citizen because of the splendid work he has done as superintendent of schools there during the last ten years. Mr. Ortmeyer is a school man of wide and successful experience. He was born at Crown Point, Indiana, August 30, 1890, a son of Conrad and Charlotte (Frevert) Ortmeyer. His father was born in Germany and died in 1918 at Charles City, Iowa, and his mother was born in Indiana and died there in 1893. Mr. Ortmeyer was educated in rural schools, also attended a village school and in 1909 was graduated from the high school at Charles City. Following that came two years of study in the Charles City College and after one year at Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, Iowa, he was graduated with his Bachelor's degree in 1913. He has also taken four summer sessions of work in the University of Iowa.

Mr. Ortmeyer for one year was teacher of high school mathematics and athletic coach at Oskaloosa. He was one year superintendent as Parkersburg, and then gave up teaching to go to Montana, where he put in three years of business effort at Livingston, and later was for one year with the Hart-Parr Tractor Company at Charles City.

Mr. Ortmeyer in 1921 was made superintendent of schools at Armstrong, and the able work he has done has given him successive renewals of his contract from time to time. He is a member of the Iowa State Teachers Association, is a Royal Arch Mason, member of the Methodist Church, where he is on the official board, and a Republican in politics. Mr. Ortmeyer married, August 9, 1916, Miss Hazel Ege, who was born in Illinois. They have two children, Howard, born December 24, 1919, and Helen, born July 29, 1925.

Contributed by: Debbie Clough Gerischer, Iowa History Project. Source: Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931.

Interment in Armstrong Grove cemetery
 

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