Biographical Sketches of Wilhelmshohe
JACOB ALBERS,
Postmaster, Justice of the Peace, and dealer in general merchandise settled
in Wilhelmshohe, October 9,1878, being sent out to Sherman County, to look
up a location for a large German colony, who were coming from Brooklyn,
N. Y. There are now seventy-five families comprising the colony who are
farmers in the above county, with good improvements. Mr. A. was born in
Hanover, Germany, June 5, 1842; first came to America in 1868; lived in
State of New York about ten years, engaged in grocery business. Married
in Brooklyn, in 1869, to Miss Betty Knoop, a native of Germany. Have three
children--Johanna, Jacob, Wilhelm. He was a member of the Hanoverian Army
three years; participated in the war of 1864.