Adolph Friedrick Horstmann

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Name Adolph Friedrick Horstmann
Born 1865-07-21 Davenport, Scott County, Iowa
Gender M
Died 1925-07-22 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Buried
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Father Claus Friedrich Wilhelm Horstmann b. (1839-08-23, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) d. (1909, Templeton, San Luis Obispo County, California)
Mother Amelia A. Petersen b. (1844-03-27, Meldorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) d. (1923-04-20)
Married 1864-10-13, Germany
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Family Hattie Sibert b. (1868-10-15, Plymouth, Richland/Huron Counties, Ohio) d. (1935-10-14)
Married 1887-09-08
Children 1 Erma Gertrude Horstmann b. (1893-07-19, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California)

Notes

Baptismal Certificate of Adolph Horstmann indicates his name as Frederick Heinrick Adolph.

A F HORSTMAN …one of the prominent business men of Templeton, is a stockholder and the cashier of the Templeton Bank, and a member of two general merchandise firms at Templeton and Paso Robles, namely, Quarnstrom & Co. and the Nelson Quarnstrom Company, both doing an extensive mercantile business. He is also interested in ranch property and horticulture.

Mr. Horstman is a native of Davenport, Iowa, born in July, 1865. His parents, William and Amelia Horstman, were both natives of Germany, and came to the United States in 1861, settling in Iowa on a farm. They were poor people and honest and industrious, and worked by the day and month. After a time they purchased eighty acres of land, which increased in acres and value, until in the course of years they had several thousand acres of valuable land. His father and family came to California in September, 17 1887, and is now retired from active business, and resides in a pleasant home in Templeton, where he expects to spend the evening of life, amusing himself in the cultivation of fruit and the ornamentation of his grounds.

Mr. Adolph F. Horstman, our subject, was educated at Vinton, Iowa, in the Tillford Academy. He engaged in the grain business, as bookkeeper for his father for four years. When he was nineteen years of age his father started him in the merchandise business, in Sutherland, O’Brien County, Iowa. He continued the business successfully until 1887, when he sold out and came to Templeton, where he established the bank, and engaged in banking business, to which he now gives his personal attention.

Mr. Horstman was married in 1887, to Miss Hatty Sibert, of Reinbeck, Iowa, daughter of Dr. J. G. Sibert, of that State. Mr. Horstman is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has taken an active part in politics, when he resided in Sutherland, Iowa, and was elected Recorder of that town by the Democratic party, of which he is a member.

A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California Mrs Yda Addis Storke, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1891: Page 264 Transcribed: December 30, 2005 by Martha A Crosley Graham