- ALBERT H. STURM, senior member of the firm of Sturm Brothers Ice Compa ny of Seymour, Wisconsin, general farmer and stockraiser of Seymour townsh ip, and owner of some of the finest thoroughbred horses and cattle in t he State, was born on the old homestead farm in Seymour township, Outagam ie county, Wisconsin, a son of August and Bertha (Heiling) Sturm. August S turm was born January 22, 1844, in Pomerania, Germany, and was marri ed in 1864 to Bertha Heiling, who was born at the same place December 2 1, 1840. They came to the United States in 1868 to join Mr. Sturm's broth er William, and located in Door county, Wisconsin, on a tract of forty acr es of wild land- on which there had been erected a little log cabin. Th ey remained on this place until 1871, in which year they moved to Seymo ur township, Outagamie county, and located on the present farm of Albert B rugger on section 27, on which at that time there was but a small clearin g, a small frame house and a shaky log barn. After putting all of this la nd under cultivation, Mr. Sturm bought a forty-acre tract across the roa d, in section 28, which he also improved and three or four years later bou ght another piece of forty acres adjoining, which had ten acres cleare d. He then sold the forty acres in section 27 and purchased eighty acres a djoining his property on section 28, and he finally put the whole 160 acr es under cultivation, erected fine houses and barns and stocked it with th oroughbred cattle. Here he spent the remainder of his life, his death occu rring in 1905, when he was sixty-one years of age. Mr. Sturm was a Republi can in politics, and held every township office within the gift of the peo ple. He was a stanch member of the German Methodist Church. Mrs. Sturnm w as a daughter of Fred and Gusta (Krause) Heiling, the former of whom w as a wagonmaker in Germany, where his death occurred in 1878, when he w as sixty-one years of age, his widow surviving him until 1896 and being se venty-eight years of age at the time of her demise. They had seven childre n: Bertha, August, Charles, Julius, Fred, Ludwig and Hannah, but Bertha. w as the only one of the family to come to this country. Mr. and Mrs. Stu rm had the following children: Matilda, born February 12, 1869, married Ch arles Schauer, by whom she had one child, Arnold, and is now deceased; Aug ust, born August 20, 1880; Lizzie, born April 19, 1871, married Ed Fiedle r, by whom she had three children, Dewey, Edna and Lillia.n and is now dec eased; Emma, born June 1.0, 1873, married Fred Young of Cumberland, Wiscon sin; Albert H., born April 24, 1875, and Henry, born April 6, 1877. Albert H. Sturm was educated in the public schools of Seymour township, a nd at the early age of fourteen years started out to make his own way in t he world. He worked out until he had reached the age of twenty-one year s, when he returned home and purchased eighty acres of land from his fathe r, adjoining the old homestead, a.nd here he has made extensive improvemen ts to those made by his father, and in partnership with his brother Hen ry is now the owner of some of the finest teams in the county. They ma ke a specialty of raising fine cattle, hogs and sheep, but pay the most at tention to raising horses, and they have a team now which they have repeat edly refused as much as $1,600 for, a pair of draft. animals the equ al of which it would be hard to find in the State. In 1904, Mr. Sturm w as married to Pauline Eurlope, who was born in Germany, and was the adopt ed daughter of William Dammon, who located in Seymour township in 1867, a nd two children have been born to this union: Alta and Maynard.
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1875 - Abt 1922 (46 years)
Baptism
