Biographical Sketch of Judge A. H. Bolte, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Judge A. H. Bolte, who is one of the prominent citizens of Union Town-
ship, and judge of the probate court of Franklin County, is a native 
of that county, born September 3, 1854, and is the son of William H.
and Charlotte Wilhelmina (Haase) Bolte.  The father was born in Berg-
hausen, Prussia, September 27, 1827, and is the son of Casper H. and
Anna Catharina Elizabeth (Doermann) Bolte, both natives of Prussia. He
was a farmer, and from 1862 until 1866 served as public administrator
of Franklin County.  The mother was born in Hanover, February 10, 1834
and is the daughter of Henry and Anna M. E. Haase, both natives of 
Hanover.  Both the parents of our subject are now living, and are mem-
bers of the old school Evangelical Lutheran Church.  The Judge grew to
manhood on the farm and early attended the common schools.  At the age
of fifteen he entered the private high school at St. Louis, where he
remained one year.  In September, 1871, he entered the Northwestern
University at Watertown, Wis., where he remained until June, 1873, 
when he then entered the law department of the State University of
Missouri, from which he graduated in March, 1875.  He then entered 
the law office of James Halligan, at Union and remained there until 
the death of that gentleman in 1879.  In November, 1880, he was 
elected as a Democrat to the office of probate judge of Franklin 
County, and re-elected in 1882, and again re-elected in 1886.  He was
united in marriage in 1882 to Miss Christina C. Arrand, a native of
St. Louis, Mo., born in 1854, and the daughter of C. Arrand.  To this
union several children have been born.  Mr. Bolte is a member of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church.

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