"History of Cottonwood and Watonwan Counties of Minnesota, 1916"



The subject of this sketch was born in Carson township, Cottonwood county, Minnesota, September 10, 1885, a son of Jacob and Justina (Loewen) Voth, natives of southern Russia.

The father and mother came to America about 1875 and located in Carson township, Cottonwood county, Minnesota. Here they continued to make their home on a farm of two hundred acres, engaged in general farming. Eight children have been born to them: Lena, D. J., Jacob, Justina, Henry, Isaac, Peter and Abraham. They are members of the Mennonite church; the father is independent in politics.

D. J. Voth was educated in the public schools of Carson township, and in the high school at Windom. Later he took a course in the Mankato Business College, where he acquired an education fitting him for the banking business, in which he afterwards engaged. In June, 1909, he took a position in the First State Bank, at Bingham Lake, as assistant cashier; in 1910 he was made cashier of this bank and has since continued in that position. On January 29, 1913, Mr. Voth was married to Anna Heibert, daughter of C. F. Heibert (Hiebert?), of Bingham Lake, Minnesota. To this union one child, Richard D., has been born.

Mr. Voth has a good knowledge of the banking business in all its details and commands the confindence of the patrons, and of the community in general, as a man of upright character and strict integrity. His is not only interested in the banking business but among the leading public spirited citizens of the community, ready to give aid and encouragement to every cause that tends to the promotion of the welfare and the prosperity of the town and county of which he is a citizen. He is not allied with any particular political party, reserving the right to give his support to the candidate whom he deems best qualified for the office to which he aspires, regardless of the party faith to which the candidate subscribes.