Henry J. Schroeder

SCHROEDER, NIEMANN, WEIR, WINKLEMAN, STADT

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/2/2002 at 17:02:29

Henry J. Schroeder

Henry J. Schroeder, who is engaged in farming and stock raising on Section 13, Windsor Township, was born September 24, 1840 in Mecklenberg, Germany, and is a son of John and Sophia (Neimann) Schroeder, both of whom were born in Mecklenberg about the year 1812. Their family numbered two sons and three daughters: Sophia, wife of John Weir, a resident farmer of Bethel Township; Mary, wife of John Winkleman, also of Bethel Township; John, who married Lena Quandt and resided in Windsor Township; Dora, who became the wife of John Weir and died in Illinois in 1855, after which her husband married her eldest sister; and Henry J. of this sketch.
The year 1856 witnessed the emigration of the Schroeder family to America, they locating in Cottage Hill, Du Page County, Illinois., where the father died a few months later on the 26th of September. The mother afterwards accompanied her son Henry to Iowa, where she spent her remaining days, dying in September 1882.

Our subject was a lad of sixteen years, when leaving the Fatherland, he crossed the broad Atlantic to America. For some years he resided in Du Page County, Illinois, where he grew to manhood and married Miss Frederica Stadt, the union being celebrated in December, 1865, at Babcock's Grove, now Lombard, Illinois. Mrs. Schroeder is the sixth child of Io and Fredericka Stadt --- there were three girls and the boys, five are living. The father is deceased, the mother lives with her daughter; they were natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder have three children: William Ernest, who was born in Du Page County, October 26, 1866; Minnie, who was born on the farm in this county, June 4, 1868, and died in July, 1876; and Emma S., who born June 1, 1870. The living children are unmarried and still reside under the parental roof.

Mr. Schroeder and his family are members of Zion's Congregation, German Lutheran Church and have many warm friends in the neighborhood where they reside and where they have made their home about twenty-three years. Mr. Schroeder is the owner of a farm of two hundred acres of land, having all the comforts and convienences which tend to make life pleasant in a rural home. His buildings are all that are necessary to a model farm of the 19th century and his surroundings indicate industry, thrift and economy. He is practically a self-made man, having by his own efforts aquired a competence which enables him to surround his family with everything that goes to make life worth living. In politics, his sentiments are Democratic but he is of that liberal type that believes a good Republican is better than a bad Democrat. Mr. Schroeder is a genial, whole-souled man who lives at peace with his neighbors and believes in enjoying life as it comes.

from "1891 Portrait and Biographical Album of Fayette County, Iowa", page 238

Note - have found surname Weir also spelled Wier and Weiher