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Below is a family biography included in the book,  Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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ALBERT AVERHOFF, one of the most substantial residents of Washington township, Franklin county, Nebr., was born in Germany in 1855, and came to America in 1869, and here, at the age of fourteen, began the battle of life without capital. His first stopping place in this country was at Clarence, Cedar county, Iowa, where he attended school for one year, and hired out as a farm hand until 1876, when he came to Nebraska and settled on section 18, township 1, range 13 west, in Franklin county, his present home. He now owns a half-section of excellent land, and bears the reputation of being one of the most reliable men and skillful farmers in the county.

In 1885 Mr. Averhoff married Miss Maggie Bauman, a native of Aurora, Ill., born in 1858, and a devoted Christian lady. One child, Alice, born December 29, 1889, has come to bless the union. The father of this lady is a native of Bavaria, Germany, and met and married Miss Maria Stack at Aurora, Ill., in 1856. Mrs. Maria Bauman, also a native of Germany, was born in Wurtemburg, but early came to America. She bore her husband eight children as follows — Maggie; George, an artist at Galesburg, Ill.; Lena, now Mrs. Santer, wife of an engineer at Galesburg; Clara, a senior at Galesburg high school; Henry, married, and a farmer at Rushville, Nebr; Freddie, still with his parents; Jessie, now Mrs. W. H. R. Lewis, and for a few terms a teacher in one of the district schools, her husband bemg a farmer; Rosa Helen, who died in infancy. Mr. Bauman is a carriage-maker by trade and was for a number of years in business at Clarence, Iowa. He is a christian man and was one of the main founders of the German Methodist Episcopal church at Aurora, Ill., erected in 1861.

Louis Averhoff, the father of our subject, was born in Germany in 1808, and is by occupation a stone-mason. In 1839 he married Mary Schusler, who was born in 1813. She is the mother of six children, who were named as follows — Henrietta, now Mrs. Ratvant; Henry, in Iowa; Minnie; William, in Franklin county, Nebr.; Augusta, the late Mrs. Ranking, and the subject of this sketch. Louis Averhoff is a good christian man, being a member of the Lutheran church.

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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in the book, Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company. 

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