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Rudolph A. Schmitt, a prosperous and well-known farmer of Sun Prairie. Wis .. is a life-long resident of Dane county. having been born on the family homestead at East Bristol. June 26, 1849. His mother. Mary Schmitt, was born in Germany. February 19, 1823,
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and died at her home at Sheboygan, October 2, 1893, Rudolph Schmitt being her only child. The Schmitt family has been closely associated with the history of Dane county since an early date. Joseph Schmitt, the grandfather of our subject. was born in Ger- many, March 3, 1:89. Coming to this country in 1845 he settled in Bristol and took up seven hundred acres of government land. Part of this land was later sold, but the five hundred and twenty acres which were retained and cleared have become the family home- stead. He and his wife, Ava Schmitt, were members of the Catho- lic church and helped in the building of the first church of that denomination in the vicinity of their home. At one time the serv- ices of the church were carried on in their own house. They were blessed with three children, all of whom are dead. At one time Joseph Schmitt conducted a store at East Bristol. He died in 1882, his wife having passed away almost forty years before. Their son, father of the subject of this sketch, was a musician and played at the first dance given in Madison. Rudolph Schmitt was educated in the common schools and in the parochial schools. He also spent a short time in Milwaukee, completing his education there. As a farmer he has been very successful. He owns two hundred and seventy acres, which he has cleared and greatly improved and on which he raises his fancy stock, consisting mostly of short-horned cattle and Poland-China hogs. As a loyal member of the Demo- cratic party he has served as justice of the peace for several years He and his famliy are members of the Catholic church at East Bristol. He was married May 11, 1875, to Miss Madalena Schey, who was born in Dane county, June 15, 1852. Her parents were Jacob and Barbara (Weber) Schey, both being natives of Germany, her father having been born in 1823 and her mother in 1832. Her father came to Summit, Waukesha county, Wis., in 1846, and worked in that vicinity for seven years. He then married and came to Dane county, settling at York in 1853. He spent his last days at East Bristol where he died June 20, 1901. He had nine children, two daughters and three sons of whom live with the widow in the vicinity of East Bristol. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Schmitt, as follows: Eleanora, February 18, 18:6; Josephena, June 18, 1878 ; Thekla, June 3, 1881 : Annie, October 26. 1883; Frank (deceased). July 24, 1886; Hellena. March 12. 1888 : Henry, July 11, 1890; Oscar A., March 31, 1893; Rinald, Novem- ber 29. 1895. Eleanora is a resident of Chicago and Josephena of Milwaukee. The others reside at home. Mrs. Schmitt died July 17. 1903. 1
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Ernest Carl Schneider was proprietor of a barber-shop in Madi- son from 1865 to 1900, when he retired from active business and has since enjoyed his well-earned vacation in his pleasant home in Elm- side. He was born in Saxony, Germany, October 9, 1831, son of Gott- lieb and Mary (Schmidt) Schneider, natives of Germany, where they spent their entire lives. Mr. Schneider had one brother, Bruno, who also came to Madison and was killed at Beaver Dam in a railroad accident. Carl attended public school in Germany and learned the tailor's trade, at which he worked in Hartford, Conn., for five years after his arrival in the United States in 1853. He journeyed westward as far as Milwaukee in 1858, and after a few months in that vicinity came to Madison, where he was employed in a barber shop and learned that business. Not contented to remain in one place until he had seen more of the new country, he resided for short periods in Iowa, St. Louis, New Orleans and Vicksburg, where he was engaged in busi- ness at the outbreak of the Civil War. As his sympathies were with the Union cause, his neighbors invited him to leave for the north and he returned to Madison and opened a barber shop, which he man- aged successfully for thirty-five years. June 5, 1861, Mr. Schneider married Miss Mary Lies, born in Germany in 1839, daughter of Louis Lies, and five children blessed the marriage: Richard. (deceased); Ernest, who married Tillie Stang and resides in Madison; Amanda, Mrs. Peter Hanson of Madison; Antoinette, a teacher in Cross Plains, and Frederick, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Schneider purchased a home in the second ward during their early married life and some years later bought their present home in Elmside. They are members of the Lutheran church and Mr. Schneider belongs to the Turner society with which he has been affiliated since 1858. He is a Republi- can in political sympathy.
Justus Schneider, who is one of the substantial farmers of Spring- field township, was born at Baden, Germany, March 19, 1831. His parents were Jacob and Margaret (Hoeneig) Schneider, both natives of Germany, the former being born in 1800 and the latter in 1805. They came to America in the early fifties and on September 4. 1854. settled on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Springfield town- ship, Dane county, and there they lived the remainder of their lives. the father dying in 1857 and the mother in 1898. Eleven children born to these parents, of whom six are living. In politics Jacob Schnei- der was a Democrat, and he and family were members of the Lutheran church. Justus Schneider. who is the immediate subject of this sketch, 50-iii
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grew to manhood in his native land and was educated in the excellent schools there afforded. Migrating to America in 1852, on August 28 of that year, he located at Milwaukee, and securing employment on a railroad, worked at that occupation for about four months He then came to Dane county and worked sixteen months for Colonel Bebee; and then, in 1854, located on a farm in Springfield township with his parents, where he has resided ever since. He owns a fine farm of eighty-five acres, and has made a signal success as a general farmer and stock-raiser. While he takes a keen interest in public affairs, he does not profess allegiance to any political organization and he re- serves the right at all times to cast his ballot for the man or measure that meets his approbation. Notwithstanding his independent posi- tion, or perhaps in a measure by reason of it, he has been called to fill various local positions of trust, among which were supervisor for seventeen years, chairman of the town board, and, for fourteen years in succession, assessor of his township. In religious matters he and his family are members of the Lutheran church, and Mr. Schneider has been president of the committee on church affairs for twenty- seven years. Justus Schneider was married April 4, 1858, to Miss Catherine Elizabeth Krambs, who was born in Germany, June 24, 1837. She is a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Albright) Krambs, both of whom were born in Germany. They came to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1850, and made that city their permanent place of abode, the father still residing there, the mother having died there several years ago. To Justus Schneider and wife there have been born twelve children, whose names and other facts concerning them are as follows: Philip, born February 1, 1859, is a farmer of Eau Claire county, Wis .: John D., born August 21, 1860, died August 4, 1864; Elizabeth, born February 13, 1862, died in 1863; Margaret, born Feb- rary 3, 1864, is the wife of Henry Hambrecht of Madison township; Louis, born February 14, 1866, is at home; Elizabeth, born December 8, 1867, died in 1881 ; George was born October 30, 1869; Catherine, born June 22, 1872, is the wife of John Tiedeman of Middleton; Jacob, born February 26, 1874, is at home; Magdalene, born January 26, 1876, died in 1881 : Amelia, born May 23, 1878, is the wife of August Toepfer, a farmer of Madison township; and William, who was born December 4. 1881, is at home.
William Schoenburg, deceased, was one of the early settlers of Roxbury township, and during a residence there which extended to nearly the half century mark he steadily maintained the respect and esteem of all those who knew him. He was born in Germany,
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May 9, 1825, grew to manhood there and received his education in the excellent schools of that country .. In the early days of what became a long and agreeable partnership he and wife came to America, in 1853, and selected a location in Roxbury township. Dane county, the same being the farm which is now owned by the Schoenburg brothers. sons of the subject of this review. Mr. Schoenburg was a farmer 'by occupation, and upon his arrival in Dane county purchased eighty acres of the farm to which reference is made above, and industriously began the building of a home in what was then a comparatively new country. By that tireless industry and close application to business, combined with frugality, all of which qualities are prominent characteristics of the race to which he belonged. he prospered from the beginning and soon was able to add an additional sixty acres to his possessions. To this a subsequent addition was made, and at the time of his death Mr. Schoenburg was the owner of a well-improved farm of two hun- dred and twenty acres-the result of his own industry and the assistance of a devoted wife. In politics he maintained an unswerv- ing allegiance to the Democratic party, and his wife and he were active members of the Evangelical Lutheran church. Mr. Schoen- burg was married in May, 1851, the lady of his choice being Miss Wilhelmina Schiet, who was born in Germany. August 5, 1824, the daughter of Frederick and Christina Schiet, who were both natives of Germany, where they lived and died. Mr. and Mrs. Schoenburg were the parents of seven children, whose names follow: Gustave, Louisa, Lena, Edward, Bertha, Ida, and Fred. Ida, the youngest daughter, died December 2, 1900, and the others are highly respected citizens of the community in which they live. The mother died January 22, 1892. and the father passed away on June 1 of the same year. Schoenburg Brothers-Gustave, Edward, and Fred-are the owners of the old homestead, and have added to the domain one hundred acres more, so that it now aggregates three hundred and twenty acres of well-improved land, where they carry on the busi- ness of general farming. and in addition are largely interested in the breeding of live stock. They make a specialty of short-horned cattle and Poland-China hogs, and fine specimens of each can always be seen on their farm. Edward Schoenburg, one of the firm of Schoenburg Brothers, was married April 9. 1901. to Miss Lena Zimmerman, a native of Dane county and the daughter of Nicholas and Mollie (Schumann) Zimmerman, early settlers of Dane town- ship. where they still reside.
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Joseph C. Schubert, mayor of the city of Madison, was born in the city of which he is the official head, January 9, 1871. His par- ents are Joseph and Johanna ( Marquart) Schubert, natives of Ger- many, who now make their home at 403 North Brearly street. Joseph Schubert was originally a cabinet maker, but for thirty years was a prominent photographer. The son, Joseph C., is one of three children, and the only survivor. He received his education in the city schools of Madison and upon the completion of his school work entered his father's photograph gallery and learned the business. In September, 1892, he purchased the father's interest and has since been successfully conducting the business. The demand for his work has been such as to necessitate the opening of galleries in two of the villages of the county-Mazomanie and Cambridge-and the call is still increasing. In the spring of 1906 Mr. Schubert was elected mayor of Madison by a majority of 1.048, after a bitter campaign. For seven years previous he had served as alderman from the seventh ward of the city. He is a stanch Democrat. On January 9, 1896, he married Frances E., daughter of John A. and Octavia (McGinnis) Doyle. Mrs. Doyle d'ed in the fall of 1894; her husband is now a resident of Madison. To Mr. and Mrs. Schubert has been born one child, a son, Harold John.
E. J. B. Schubring, junior member of the firm of Jones & Schu- bring, attorneys, was born in Sauk county, Wis., November 17, 1878. His parents are Herman and Maria (Krueger) Schubring, natives of Germany. The father is a retired farmer and merchant who now makes Madison his home. He came to this country in 1860. Of the thirteen children in the family ten are still living. They are Louisa ; Herman, a foreman of the Milwaukee Bridge & Iron Company; Mary, Mrs. J. N. Chase, Rice Lake, Wis .; Christian P., a grocer of Madison : Matilda, Mrs. J. P. Breitenbach of Madison ; Josephine M .. Mrs. Franklin Dengel, of Madison ; Edward J. B., the subject of this sketch : August O., a clerk; Rosetta, at home; and Arthur O. em- ployed by the Northern Electrical Company. Two children, twins, died in infancy. Charles G. entered the regular army in the spring of 1898 for service in the Spanish-American War. His regiment was detailed to duty in the Philippines. After the expiration of his term of enlistment he traveled extensively throughout the East, for three years. On his return to Manilla the outbreaks of the Moros again called him into the service of his country; he remained in the army until his death on May 20, 1905. E. J. B. Schubring received his ed- ucation in the Sauk city high school. In the spring of 1895 lie rep- resented his school in an oratorical contest for the Sauk county high
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schools, at Baraboo, and captured first place and incidentally a gold medal. In the fall of 1897 he entered the University of Wisconsin. and in 1901 received the degree of B. L. from that institution. Two years later he was graduated from the college of law of the same in- stitution. Mr. Schubring received numerous honors in an oratorical way while in the university. He was closer for his side in the "Fresh- man Blowout" debate of his literary society, was closer on the "Semi- public" debate in the spring of 1899 and was the "Junior Ex" orator in the spring of 1900. He was one of the speakers at the commence- ment in 1901, and while in the law school was chosen a member of Wisconsin's team in the Wisconsin-Georgetown law schools debate. Wisconsin won by the unanimous decision of the judges, of whom Senator Daniels was one, and the Washington Post and Milwaukee Sentinel gave a large share of the credit for the victory to Mr. Schu- bring. Immediately after graduating he entered the law offices of Hon. Burr W. Jones of Madison, and on July 1. 1904, was made a partner in the firm. On June 16, 1904. he married Selma, daughter of August and Ida (Schlegelmilch) Langenhan. of Ableman, Wis. Mrs. Schubring is a member of the class of 1907 in the University of Wis- cons'n and in her junior year was elected a member of the honorary fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa. Both Mr. Schubring and his wife are members of the First Congregational church of Madison. Mr. Schubring is pres dent of the Christian Endeavor union of Madison, and was general chairman of the committee on arrangements for the state Christian Endeavor convention held in Madison; June 30 to July 5, 1906.
Herman C. Schulenburg, one of the leading young business men of Middleton, is a dealer in agricultural implements and also has a large general store. He was born at Middleton, in March, 1872, of German parents. William Schulenburg, his father. was a sheepherder in Germany, but becoming convinced that opportunities were more numerous in America, emigrated in 1865. Upon his arrival at Middle- ton soon after, he went to work on a farm, afterward rented one for two years, and by industry and frugality was able to save up $500 with which he began to farm for himself. At this time he married Sophia Prehn, also a native of Germany, and they lived for two years in Middleton. Their next home was the old Lampman farm at Cross Plains, which they purchased, cleared and improved in every way, adding fine new buildings. Mr. Schulenberg had his share of viscis- situdes that belong to pioneer life, including bad luck in stock raising and much sickness in the family, but he overcame all difficulties and is now the prosperous owner of a fine farm of three hundred and forty
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acres. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Schulenburg, of whom Herman C. is the oldest. He is engaged in the mercantile busi- ness; the second son, Louis, of Middleton, is a contracting mason; Jolın, the third son, is married and also lives in Middleton, and is a farmer by vocation; Lena, the second daughter, is married to Fred Tacham, a farmer, and representative of one of the pioneer families of Middleton; the rest of the children, Minnie, the oldest daughter, and the three youngest children, Henry, Rudolph and Annie, remain at home. They were educated in the Dane county schools. Herman C., left home at the age of twenty-one, and, like his father, sought his fortune farther west. In Day county, S. D., he worked out for a time, farming and in a store, but concluded to open a store in his native town, which he and his wife, nec Anna Schultz, have since made their home. Mrs. Schulenburg, who is the daughter of John and Eliza Schulz of Hanover, Germany, is, like her husband, a member of the German Lutheran church. They have one son, Harold, born April 12, 1903. Mr. Schulenburg is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a Democrat in politics and interested in all which concerns his native village, although he has never endeavored to ob- tain political preferment.
Bernard A. Schultz is the owner of a farm in the town of Wind- sor, which is his present home. His parents, Lewis William and Caroline (Schower) Schultz, were born, educated, and married in Stettin, Germany, and came to Wisconsin when their son Bernard was a baby. From 1863 to 1879 they lived in Columbus, Wis., after which they purchased a farm in Windsor where they lived ten years. In 1887 their present farm of two hundred and sixty acres in the township of Leeds, Columbia county, was purchased and has since been their home. Their son, Bernard A .. was born October 21. 1861, was educated in Columbus. Wis., and was employed for a short time in a bakery. He learned the carpenter's trade and worked out upon farms in the neighborhood until 1887, when he went to Minnesota and worked on a wheat ranch for several months. In Lac-qui-parle county, Minn., he obtained a claim of one hundred and sixty acres but returned to Dane county in the autumn of 1882 and worked at his trade. In 1885 he purchased the farm which is his present residence and upon which he has made many improvements and built new and modern buildings. Mr. Schultz also owns a property of one hundred and sixty acres in extent in Mower county, Minn. He is a Republican and has held the office of constable. For seven years he has been a director in
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the Bristol Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company. October 30. 1884, he married Miss Augusta Paulman, who was born in Germany in October, 1862, daughter of William and Henrietta (Hage) Paul- man, who came from Germany in 186? and lived in the town of Windsor. Mrs. Schultz's grandfather was a soldier in the army under Napoleon the First in the war with Russia. Of six brothers who went to Russia with the Emperor he was the only one to return. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz have been blessed with four chil- dren : Albert B., Alvina A., Edwin G .. and Louisa L.
Henry Schuster, deceased, of Middleton, was a retired farmer. of German stock. In 1848 he came to America with his parents. John and Maria (Hertwig) Schuster, from Bavaria, Palatine, Germany. John Schuster was a shoe-maker and worked at his trade in Roches- ter. N. Y .. before he came to Middleton .. At Middleton he purchased a farm which he worked as well as continuing to ply his trade. Mr. and Mrs. Schuster were affiliated with the German Lutheran church. Their family comprised three children, of whom one, Peter. is living, at Middleton. Henry Schuster was born in Bavaria, De- cember 1, 1831. His educational opportunities were few and he has made up for that lack by home study as far as possible. At the age of seventeen he left home and, having learned the shoe-maker's trade, worked at it in Milwaukee for seven years. Returning to Middleton he again became a farmer, which was his occupation for twenty-five years. In politics he was an Independent. He was town treasurer for two years and clerk of the high school board for twelve years, also secretary of the Middleton Fire and Lightning Insurance Company. July 4, 1864, he married Miss Ida Roehl, daughter of John and Mary Roehl of Pudlitz. Prussia, early settlers of Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Schuster have six children: Augusta. the oldest, is the wife of Charles Niebuhr of Madison; Arthur lives at Grand Island, Neb., where he carries on a general merchandise business; Laura married Charles Millbrook of Madison, who is employed by the C., M. & St. P. R. R .: Walter was a shoe-maker and died in 1896. E. E. Schuster is a dentist, practicing his profession in Milwaukee. His wife was, before her marriage, Miss Emma Schneider. Dr. Schuster is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. Henry Schuster, Jr., has been in the U. S. postal service since December, 1904, and was previously engaged in the dairy business at Middleton.
Peter Schuster, a well-known farmer of Middleton. came to Dane county with his parents in 1855. John B. Schuster, his father, was born in Morbach. Germany, and was a shoemaker by trade. He
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served six years in the German army as private in an infantry regi- ment. In June, 1826, he married Mary Ann Hertwig, who was born in Prussia in 1999. They brought their family to America in 1848. taking passage in a sailing vessel. the American Eagle. The voyage was very rough and the boat was forty-two days en route, landing at New York July 9. The family comprised four children, all of whom came west with their parents after seven years spent in New York state, where the older ones helped the father with his trade. John was the oldest, Peter, the second, then Henry and Karoline. May 19, 1855, was the date of their arrival in Middleton and at that time Peter was obliged to give up shoemaking on account of his health. Therefore a farm of eighty acres was pur- chased upon which Peter Schuster went to work and his parents lived with him during the remaining years of their lives. Peter Schuster was born at Morbach. Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 11, 1829. In July, 1851, he married Miss Barbara Hallauer, daughter of Nicholas Hallauer, a native of Switzerland. They have had eleven children. The eldest. Herman H., is a farmer of Dane county. Caroline is the wife of Henry Garth and resides in Madi- son. Wis. Mary M. remains at home and keeps house for her father. Amelia marired Thomas McConnell and has lived in Phoe- nix. Ariz., and Madison, Wis. Bertha is the wife of Senator Beach of Whitewater. Otto J. is a teacher, now located at Platteville. He holds a position in the normal school at Platteville and is a popular lecturer. R. Eugenia is the widow of H. J. Taylor, who died in New Zealand in 1902. Mrs. Taylor resides in Sioux City, Iowa. Louis J. is a merchant of Fort Worth. Tex. Ida E. mar- ried Dr. Ed. Austin and lives at Elkhorn, Wis. Elvin E. died in infancy. Clara was graduated from the University of Wisconsin with the class of 1889 and teaches in the German department of the Platteville normal school. Flora A., born in 1821, lived but one year. Mr. Schuster is a firm believer in higher education and has always endeavored to inculcate in his family a desire for college or university training and to gratify that desire so far as possible. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Always interested in public affairs and a supporter of the Republican party. he has never been an office-seeker, though made a member of the board of supervisors for three years.
Robert C. Schwaner, a general farmer and dairyman of Roxbury township, is one of the native sons of Dane county who reflects credit upon his birthplace and is highly esteemed by a large circle of ac- quaintances. He was born in Roxbury township, upon the farm
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where he now resides, April 30, 1856, and the blood of a purely Ger- man ancestry courses through his veins. He is the son of Carl and Armena (Earka) Schwaner, both natives of Germany, where the for- mer was born, November 12. 1825, and the latter on February 21, 1826. They were married in the Fatherland and migrated to America in 1852, locating during the same year at Watertown, in Jefferson county, Wisconsin. They remained at that place but one year, how- ever, and then, in 1853, came to Dane county and settled on the farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Roxbury township, which has been their home during all the intervening years, and where the aged father still resides with his son, the mother having passed away Feb- ruary 23, 1896. Carl Schwaner and wife were the parents of six chil- dren, four of whom are still living. Mr. Schwaner is a Republican in politics, and together with his wife a member of the Lutheran church, showing his interest in religious affairs by giving the ground on which stands the Lutheran church building, about one mile from his farm. During his active life, in addition to general farming, he made a specialty of raising horses, but that he did not neglect the ordinary duties of the agriculturist is evidenced by the many fine improvements upon his farm, all the product of his own toil and good management. Robert C. Schwaner was educated in the common schools of Roxbury township, and remained upon the old homestead as the assistant of his father until he reached the age of twenty-three years. Then he spent one year in the state of Illinois, after which he followed the ad- vice of Horace Greeley and went to Dakota. One year was spent by him in that territory, and he then went to Nebraska, where he re- mained five years and then tried his fortune in California for one year. Not finding things exactly to his liking in the Golden state he re- turned to Nebraska and claimed that state as his place of residence for nine years more. Farming had been his general occupation, es- pecially during the five years of his first sojourn in Nebraska, but after his return from California he became a salesman of windmills. In October, 1900. he returned to Dane county, where he purchased the old homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and conducts an up-to-date dairy, besides general farming. In politics he is a Re- publican, and with his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, their membership being in Nebraska. Mr. Schwaner was married on March 30, 1882. to Miss Henrietta Hannsa, a na- tive of Germany and daughter of Carl Hannsa, who immigrated to America with his family, about 1870, and located in Sauk county, Wis., where he died. Robert C. Schwaner and wife are the parents
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