“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  Western 
Historical Company.   1879.


AUGUST J. F. VOIGT, Principal of School, Johnson’s Creek; born March 31, 1851, 
in Ostrau, Prussia; came to America with his parents in 1854, and located in Fort 
Atkinson, Wis.; in 1855, moved to Hebron,  Jefferson Co., Wis., and resided there 
until 1870, when he moved with his parents, on a farm, one and a-half miles north of 
Fort Atkinson, in the town of Jefferson.  In September, 1865, he lost his right arm 
which was caught in the gearing of a sugar-mill.  He attended the Northwestern 
University, at Watertown, during the year 1867-8; began teaching in the town of 
Hebron, in the autumn of 1868, teaching winters and attending the State Normal 
School, at Whitewater, the remainder of the school year, until the fall of 1871, when 
he was offered a position in the graded school, at Waterloo, Wis., where he remained 
until 1874, and then accepted a position in the Jefferson Liberal Institute, at 
Jefferson, Wis., remaining there one year, at the close of which the Institute ceased 
to exist.  In the autumn of 1877, he received a position of telegraph operator at 
Hilbert, on the Wisconsin Central R.R., which position he resigned in the spring of 
1878, and took charge of the school at that place.  In the fall of this year, he took 
charge of the public school at Johnson’s Creek, Wis., and has been re-engaged for 
the present year – 1879-80.  He was also a prominent candidate for County 
Superintendent of Schools before the Republican County Convention, in the fall of 
1879.  Is a member of Lodge No. 44, I.O.O.F.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)