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Albert and Lucy Biever
Husband's Full Name: Albert N. Biever
Husband's Place of Birth: South of Manfred, Wells Co, ND
Husband's Father's Name: Mathew Biever
Husband's Mother's Name: Elizabeth Schneider
Husband's Siblings' Names: Joseph, Anna Jenny, Ella, Mathew, Frank, Josie Breyer
Wife's Full Name: Lucy A. Specht Biever
Wife's Place of Birth: Fram Township, Wells Co, ND
Wife's Father's Name: Joseph Specht
Wife's Mother's Name: Margaret Collins Specht
Wife's Siblings' Names: Mabel, Frank, Edward and Eleanor
Children's Names: Eileen, Leroy, Richard, Peggy, Dorothy
Albert Biever was born on his family’s farm south of Manfred. He grew up in the Manfred and Harvey vicinities all of his life, with the exception of time when he proved up his homestead in Montana and when in the service during World War I. He was mustered out of the service April 1, 1919.
He married Lucy Specht on October 18, 1921. They lived in Manfred a few years, and then they bought a farm a mile and a half-mile south of Manfred, originally homesteaded by William Goedecke in the 1890s. They lived on the farm until 1935 when they moved to Harvey.
Albert was a rural mail carrier, and carried mail out of Manfred and Harvey for 36 years. In 1981 Mrs. Biever still owned the Goedecke homestead. She passed away in 1990.