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CHARLES ERNEST BACHMAN, residing on his valuable farm of sixty acres, which is situated in Jefferson Township, on the Jefferson Center and Great Belt road, about three miles from Saxonburg, was born March 5, 1867, in
Jefferson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. His parents were August and Mary (Smith) Bachman.
August Bacbman was born in Germany and was small when his parents, John George and Christina Bachman, brought him to America. They settled in Butler County and John George Bachman died in Jefferson Township in 1845. August Bachman did the greater part of the clearing
on the Bachman homestead, he married Mary Smith, who came also to America when young, and they had ten children, namely: Mary, Henry, George, William Charles, John, Emma, Louis, August and Joseph.
Charles E. Bachman has been a hardworking man all his life. In boyhood he had many duties to perform on the home farm and could only attend school during the winter time. When he grew older he went into the oil fields for a time and then, in partnership witli his brothers,
conducted a brick yard for about ten years. Since then he has given his whole attention to farming and stock raising, not making any specialty of the latter industry, but taking some pride in having good stock for his own use. He has never interested himself particularly
in politics but his record shows that he has always done his full duty to his township, as a good citizen.
Mr. Bachman was married April 28. 1898, to Miss Emma Montag, who is a daughter of Ernest H. and Mary (Renick) Montag, residents of Jefferson Township. They have a little family of five children, three of whom are bright students in school — Lydia, Clarence, Gertrude, Elma and
Elsie. Mr. and Mrs. Bachman are good, Christian people, devout members of the Lutheran Church.
Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 1141.
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