Bio of August A. ZECH (b.1868), Wright Co., MN
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905           HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

August A. Zech, educator and financier, superintendent of Wright 
county schools, and president of the German-American Bank, of Howard 
Lake, was born in Prussia, August 31, 1868, son of Frederick and Julia 
Zech, who brought him to section 31, Victor township, this county, in 
1879. He attended the district schools, and then the Howard Lake High 
school for three years. Then he taught country schools for five years. 
Subsequently he entered the St. Cloud State Normal school, graduating 
in 1894. Then for two years he taught in the grammar department of the 
Howard Lake High school, and in 1896 became principal of the Annandale 
High school, and served for four years. Since 1900 he has served in his 
present position in charge of the schools of the county, to which 
position he was recently re-elected. Aside from being president of 
the German-American Bank of Howard Lake, Mr. Zech has other financial 
interests in Wright and other counties. In 1902 he was married to Anna 
H. Klatt, also a teacher of six years' experience in Minnesota and Colorado.