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HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY ILLINOIS - 1915

Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

Page 963

STRENTER, ALBERT FRANK, M.D. - The Cass County Medical Association numbers some of the most efficient physicians and surgeons among its members of any similar society in the state. One of them, who stands very high with his associates and in public esteem, is Dr. Albert Frank Strenter of Arenzville. He was born near Meredosia, Ill., in February, 1875, a son of Henry and Catherine (Rieman) Strenter, natives of Hanover, Germany, and of Meredosia, Ill. The father came to Morgan County, Ill., from Germany, in boyhood. He became an engineer of a gristmill, and so continued for a number of years. Subsequently he married the widow of John Rison, and they had two sons, Frank and John, both of Meredosia, Ill. Soon after his marriage, the father moved to a farm owned by his wife, and there she died. Later he married Catherine Rieman, and they had the following family: Minnie, who is Mrs. John Theovald, of Jacksonville, Ill.; Anna, Mrs. John Beauchamp, of Meredosia, Ill.; Emma, who is the widow of George Beauchamp, of Arenzville, Ill.; Edward, who is of Morgan County, Ill.; Albert Frank and William of Galveston, Tex. Mrs. Strenter died December 3, 1911. In 1897 Mr. Strenter retired, and moved to Jacksonville where he now lives.

Albert Frank Strenter was educated in the public and high schools and the Illinois College. Deciding upon entering the medical profession, he matriculated in the medical department of the Northwestern University, Chicago, and was graduated therefrom in the spring of 1906. In the meanwhile, however, the young man had had considerable business experience. He had spent his boyhood on his father's farm, and when eighteen years old bought a one-third interest in a sawmill, thresher and clover huller, in partnership with C. M. Skinner put in the first electric light plant. Six months thereafter, he took a trip of a year through some of the western states, and after returning to his father's farm, conducted that property of 320 acres for two years. It was then that he resumed his studies, attending the high school and Whipple Academy, before going to the Illinois College. After his graduation from medical college, he secured an appointment with the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at Lake City, Iowa. After a year he moved to Arenzville and in June, 1907, opened an office at Arenzville where he has developed one of the largest practices in this part of the state. Professionally he belongs to the Cass County Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

In July, 1906, Dr. Strenter married Ida M. James, born at Meredosia, Ill., a daughter of George and Melvina (McClaine) James, natives of Cass County who live at Meredosia. Mrs. Strenter is a member of the Methodist church. In politics Dr. Strenter is a Republican.


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