Born August 29, 1832, at Dardesheim, Prussia, in the Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg. The family came to this country in 1841, landing at Baltimore, and coming by canal boat and rail over the B. & O. railway to Pittsburgh. Thence they came down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to Muscatine and arrived at Iowa City, October 14, 1843. They settled at once on the old Fuhrmeister homestead farm near Ely. Mr. Fuhrmeister made that neighborhood his home until he moved to Cedar Rapids in the spring of 1899. A. J. Fuhrmeister was for many years in business at Ely. He was trustee of Putnam Township and also secretary of the school board of Ely Independent district. He also was treasurer of the West Side Mutual Insurance company for eleven years and in November, 1891, was elected to represent this county in the Twenty-fourth General Assembly at Des Moines. He was married to in Miss Lucinda Stream, May 7, 1857. Mr. Fuhrmeister was one of the faithful and earnest members of the First Lutheran church of this city, and one of its elders.