Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Dotterrer, Augustus W. December 28, 1867 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  AUGUSTUS W. DOTTERRER, of 170 North Hanover street, 
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was born in Pikeville, Berks 
county, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1867. He is the son of 
John and Esther (Weller) Dotterrer.

  John S. Dotterrer (father) was also born in Berks county 
December 7, 1822. After completing his education he taught 
school for some years, and afterward became a farmer in his 
native county where he died December 12, 1881. His wife 
survived him six months. She was born in Berks county, July 
29, 1828, and died July 28, 1882. They were both members of 
the German Reformed church. 

  They had nine children, four sons and five daughters, one 
deceased: Kate (deceased), November 9, 1892; Jacob, of 
Pikeville; John, of Hill Church; Daniel, of Hill Church; 
Sarah, wife of Irvin K. Buchert, of Gilbertsville; 
Elizabeth, wife of William Hilbert, of Pikeville; Hettie, 
wife of Daniel H. Peter, of Felton, Delaware; Amanda, wife 
of John L. Ritter, of Boyertown; Augustus W.

  Jacob Dotterrer (grandfather), the son of Daniel and 
Barbara Dotterrer, was born in Pennsylvania, April 4, 1794. 
He devoted his life to farming and died August 23, 1885. He 
was married to Sarah Sassaman, who was born December 21, 
1797 and died June 8, 1880. The Dotterrer family is of 
German descent. Jacob Weller (maternal grandfather), the son 
of Philip and Gertrude Weller, was born in Pennsylvania, 
April 28, 1798, and died May 8, 1872. He was married to 
Elizabeth Nest, who was born July 31, 1800, and died June 
14, 1881. The Weller family was of German descent.

  Mr. Augustus W. Dotterrer spent his boyhood days at home 
until after the death of his parents. He received his early 
education in the public schools, and afterward attended the 
Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He 
graduated from that institution in 1886, receiving a diploma 
which allowed him to teach in the public schools of the 
state of Pennsylvania without submitting to further 
examination. Before graduating he taught several years, and 
afterward taught four years. When not in school, he was 
working on the farm. 

  In the autumn of 1888 Mr. Dotterrer removed to Pottstown, 
and taught several years in the public schools of that 
borough. During his last year as a teacher, he was assistant 
in the Pottstown high school. For eight years he was 
book-keeper of the Buckwalter Stove Company, and is still 
connected with this company, being its secretary. The 
company's factory is at Royersford. 

  On April 21, 1892, Augustus W. Dotterrer married Miss 
Lizzie Y. Reigner, daughter of Peter and Mary (Yerger) 
Reigner. They have one daughter, Helen May, born June 14, 
1894, and one son, Paul Reigner, born February 14, 1904. Mr. 
and Mrs. Dotterrer are members of Trinity Reformed church, 
Pottstown, and he is secretary of the church consistory, and 
has been for many years. He also served as a deacon in said 
church for a number of years. He belongs to Stichter Lodge, 
No. 254, Free and Accepted Masons; and Pottstown Chapter, 
No. 271, Royal Arch Masons. Politically he is a Democrat.

  Mrs. Dotterrer's parents were born in Montgomery county, 
and her father was a farmer. They had three children, 
Wallace, Samuel and Mrs. Dotterrer. Mr. Reigner died in 
1904, aged seventy-seven years. Mrs. Reigner died in 1891, 
aged fifty-nine years.  She was a member of the Lutheran 
church, while he belonged to the Reformed church.

  Daniel Reigner, grandfather of Mrs. Dotterrer, was also 
born in Montgomery county, and was a farmer. He married 
Catharine Koch and they had four children. His father was 
Herman Reigner. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Dotterrer 
was Conrad Yerger, a native of Montgomery county. He was a 
shoemaker and a farmer, and lived to be more than eighty 
years of age. He married Elizabeth Brendlinger, and they had 
two children.

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