Aschoff met and married Dorotea Gein in Rush County, Kansas, before moving to Oregon in 1878, where he settled in the Mount Tabor area and raised and sold vegetables around town.
Aschoff encountered his partner Dorotea Gein in Rush County, Kansas, before moving to Oregon in 1878, where he established a home in the Mount Tabor district and practiced horticulture by growing and selling vegetables nearby.