Johann August Delzer
1824-1895
Born: Prussia, Germany
Died: Woodville, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
<p>Emma Delzer Hartman stated that her father, August Delzer, worked at the Railroad Station in Albany, New York, that he was a quiet man, very fond of reading and preferred staying at home with an interesting book to going places. Emma wrote that in her lifetime, her father was never very well and she often thought of him sitting under a large maple tree in the front yard reading, while her mother and the other children would go places. She stated that her father seemed to have a good education for his time of life. As most German youth's of his day, he learned a trade, it was coppersmith. She stated she well remembered a mug that he made in his appentice days, but he never followed his trade. From Abany, New York, the family moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin and later they moved to Forest Hunction. Aunt Emma said that two of the children died there before she was born. She said that her sister Mary (Guse) remembered the early hardships and that they had to clear a small area to put up a small log cabin, because the woods were so thick. She said her mother was very lonely there and she cried every time one of her pretty dresses wore out and said she would never again have another one. Emma said Mary told her about her brother William burning brush and crying and then telling his father that the smoke caused his eyes to be so red. Aunt Emma said they lived there a good many years before her time but remembered that they always had all they had all that they needed to eat and wear. She said that their orchard consisted of trees grown from apple seeds and plum pits they brought from Germany. Her father told of the transplanting and pruning he had to do to get them to bear good fruit.</p><p>Aunt Emma stated that her mother was fond of company and that hospitality was her greatest charm. She neveer read any of the books her father had. </p>