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BIOGRAPHIES
(Source: History of Northwestern Ohio & Auglaize County
- by C. W. Williamson - Columbus, Ohio - Press of W. M. Linn &
Sons - 1905)
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ALBERT
VONDERBROCK, JR., the subject of this review, was born in
Holland, September 24th, 1816, and is the son of Albert
Vonderbrock, Sr., who resided near The Hague. Albert
Vonderbrock is the father of thirteen children, of whom five
are still living.
Following the example of many of his countrymen, Mr.
Vonderbrock came to the United States in 1850; landing at New
York, April 5th. The vessel on which the family embarked
encountered heavy storms in the voyage of twenty-four days.
After landing in New York the family journeyed by way of Albany,
Cleveland, and Sandusky to Minister, where they arrived August
28th, 1850.
The desolation that prevailed, and the hardships
experienced by the citizens of the townshp after the cholera
epidemic of 1849, were startling conditions that confronted the
new arrivals in the depleted village. Notwithstanding the
discouraging outlook, a lot was purchased on which a house was
soon erected. Labor was in demand, and the family soon found
employment Albert Vonderbrock, Jr., was endowed by nature
with strong bodily and marked characteristics that have made him
efficient in the mission he was born to fulfill. He is at
present one of the oldest, as well as one of the best known and
most highly respected citizens of the township.
Mr. Vonderbrock is a brickmason by trade and has
assisted in the erection of the principal residences and business
buildings of the village.
In 1843, he was united in marriage with Martha Von
Speenberg, who died in 1855, leaving to his care six children:
Catharine, Albert, Antone, Johanna, John and Mary.
In 1856, he was again married; this time to Miss
Elizabeth Williams. Of this marriage seven children were
born: Mary, Helen, Rosa, John, Theodore, Frank and
Elizabeth, of whom four are living.
Mr. Vonderbrock has been an exemplary member of
the Catholic Church for over eighty years, and has always taken a
lively interest in the welfare of the community in which he
resides, and has, at different times filled responsible offices in
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