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CARL T. ACHTERMANN

Prominent among the energetic, enterprising and successful business men of Rock Island is the subject of this sketch, who is now the proprietor of the C.O.D. steam laundry, located at No 1808 third avenue. He was born in Holle, Hildeseim, Germany, August 13 1854, and his parents, Anton and Sophia (Borgars) Achtermann, were natives of the same country, where they spent their entire lives, the father dying in 1873, at the age of seventy-three years, and the mother in 1868. In religous beliefs they were Luthreans. Their children were Christian; Mary, wife of Julius Gurlich, of St. Louis, Missouri; Amelia, wife of Carl Illis, of Hildeseim, Germany; Augusta, wife of William Brusse, of Germany; Carl T., of this sketch; and William, of Denver, Colorado. The grand parents of our sketch never left Germany, where the paternal grandfather followed the farming and reared his small family, and where the maternal grandfather engaged in the butcher business.

In the public schools in Germany, Carl T Ahtermann acquired his education, and at the age of fourteen commenced learning the dyer's trade, which he sucessfully followed both in Germany and after coming to America. It was in 1881 that he crossed the Atlantic and first located in St. Louis, where he spent three years. For over seven years he then made his home in Madison, Wisconsin, where he conducted a dying establishment, and was later in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, until coming to Rock Island in 1891. Here he purchased the C.O.D. steam laundry, which he has since carried on, employing quite a force of hands and turning out first class work.
On the 8th of September, 1886, Mr Achtermann was united in marriage to Miss Emma Jeska, and to them have been born three children-Robert, Norma, and Herman. His home as well as his place of business is on third avenue between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. His political support is given to the Democratic Party, in the success of which he takes a deep interest, while socially he is connected the Home Forum and the Modern Woodman of America. A man of keen perception, of great sagacity and of unbound enterprise, he has met with a well deserved success in his undertakings, and is today numbered among the leading and substantial business men of Rock Island.

The Biographical Record of Rock Island County Ill. 1897

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