Schultz, J. D.

SCHULTZ, SCHMALL

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/25/2006 at 13:07:27

SCHULTZ, J.D.

J. D. Schultz, a citizen of Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa, was born in the northern part of Holland, where he was reared on a small farm belonging to his father. Here he received such practical instruction in the art of gardening that he chose it as his life work, setting up for himself in that line when he reached the age of twenty-one years. When he reached the age of manhood he determined to carry out what had long been in his mind, and find a home for himself to the westward of the rolling deep, where young men of push and enterprise had a golden future before them, according to all the reports that had come to his boyhood home. Accordingly in 1872 he crossed the ocean and secured employment with the eminent financier, Rockefeller, where he remained long enough to secure substantial savings. With these in hand he came to the west and located himself. In 1883 he bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres for himself in Lyon County, and so improved it that it soon became known as one of the model farms of this part of the state. Some years later he sold out and removed to Rock Rapids.

Mr. Schultz was married in 1889 to Miss Mary Schmall, a native of Germany. Of the three children born to their union all have been swept away by that dread scourge, diphtheria. They belong to the German Lutheran Church and are highly regarded in the community for their kindly spirit, strict integrity and zealous interest in all that makes for the public good.

Source: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Lyon County, Iowa. Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach Sec’y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905

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