FREDERICK THEODORE SCHROEDER

SCHROEDER

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 18:00:24

FREDERICK THEODORE SCHROEDER, an intelligent and enterprising farmer residing on section 27, Nodaway township, was born in Tangermünde, near Berlin, Prussia, in the province of Brandenburg, October 10, 1836, a son of I. F. C. Schroeder, who married Miss Zabel; both
parents were natives of that country. Young Schroeder completed his school course at the early age of twelve years, not usually finished until fourteen, then served his time as apprentice to the miller’s trade, when, at the age of twenty years, he was drafted in the Prussian army and served
seven years; two years after this period the Austro-Prussian war occurred and he was drafted again. He was First-class Sergeant, though acting most of the time as Lieutenant of the Fourth Battery of Imperial Guard Corps; also, on account of his having a good education and special aptness in mathematics, he was an instructor and teacher in the Brigadier school while in garrison. In 1870 he sailed from Hamburg to England, proceeded to Liverpool and catne across the Atlantic to New York, and on to La Salle county, Illinois, where he had a brother, F. H. Schroeder, a grain merchant, at Mendota. After operating in partnership with him a year he started out for himself, at Ohio, in Bureau county, Illinois; at the end of eighteen months he returned to Mendota and was again in partnership with his brother for six months; next he was in trade again two and a half years at Meriden on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, when his brother’s health failed and he returned again to Mendota and took charge of his business until 1875; and finally he came to Adams county and purchased his present homestead, comprising 160 acres of well-improved land, with the usual farm appurtenances in good order.

In Mendota, Illinois, in 1873, he married Miss Elizabeth Englehard, a native of Bureau county, Illinois, and a daughter of John Englehard, who was born in Germany. They have three children, Julia Anna, Laura Amanda and Frederick William Oscar.

Politically Mr. Schroeder is a Democrat, though in former years a Republican. In respect to religion he was reared a Lutheran, but he and his family attend the Presbyterian Church.