SCHULTHEIS, J. G. [1918]
SCHULTHIES, HADDER, MILLARD, HOLMES, VAN LEUVAN
Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 5/31/2010 at 22:25:16
J. G. Schultheis is a retired farmer living in Osage. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 29, 1838, and has therefore reached the age of seventy-nine years. He left his native country because he could not see why he should give six years of his life to the army. He made the voyage on the first steamer that sailed from Bremen. This was in 1854 and he did not return until 1875, when he visited for one season in his native land.
On the first voyage he landed in New York, where he remained for six months, working at the carpenter's trade, which he had learned ere he left Europe. He then removed westward to Dane county, Wisconsin, where he worked for his board while attending school for a season. He afterward began work as a farm hand at ten dollars per month and later entered the employ of the man who afterward became his father-in-law, working for him for five years. It was on the 24th of November, 1859, that he wedded Rebecca A. Hadder, a daughter of Albert G. and Henriette (Millard) Hadder, who were natives of Maryland and, on removing westward, settled in Wisconsin, where they remained until called to the home beyond. While working as a farm hand Mr. Schultheis saved enough money to enable him to purchase eighty acres of land, which he secured near Caledonia, in Houston county, Minnesota.
During the first winter he built a log house from timbers off of his own place and upon that farm he resided until 1869, when he sold the property and removed to Mitchell county, Iowa, investing in one hundred and sixty acres of land in Douglas township. Upon that place he made his home, and actively and successfully engaged in farming until 1891. He then purchased a tract of farm land east of the town of Osage and gave his attention to its further development and improvement for twelve years. On the expiration of that period, or in 1903, he removed to Osage, where he is still living. He has put aside business cares and is enjoying a well earned rest, which he has truly merited because of his former activity and honorable business methods. He is the oldest subscriber to the Osage News and is a great reader of magazines, keeping in touch with the affairs of the country and the general questions of the day.
To Mr. and Mrs. Schultheis have been born nine children: Albert G., who was born November 16, 1860, and is a resident of Grand Forks, North Dakota; J. N., whose birth occurred April 18, 1863, and who is proprietor of the first established garage in Riceville; Alice M., who was born March 25, 1865, and passed away July 30, 1890; Mary Albina, who was born May 22, 1867, and is the wife of William N. Van Leuvan, of Eugene, Oregon; Alida J., who was born July 15, 1869, and died at the age of eighteen months; Benjamin W., who was born October 24, 1871, and lives on a farm east of Osage; P. Matilda, who was born August 21, 1873, and gave her hand in marriage to J. W. Holmes, of Cedar Rapids; John C, whose birth occurred October 27, 1875, and who resides on a farm north of Brownville, in Mitchell county; and Jesse M., who was born October 13, 1877, and resides in Peru, South America.
Mr. Schultheis is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has served as a trustee for a number of years, while in all branches of the church work he is actively and helpfully interested. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and for ten years he filled the office of justice of the peace, in which position he rendered decisions that were strictly fair and impartial. He was a trustee of Osage township for a number of years and has always been interested in the public welfare, cooperating in many plans and measures for the general good. He has never had occasion to regret the fact that he left his native land and sought the opportunities offered in the new world, for here he has steadily advanced in a business way and is now in possession of a very substantial competence to supply him with the necessities and the comforts of life during the evening of his days.
[Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, Vol. II, 1918, page 222 & 225.]
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