Schlotfeldt, John

SCHLOTFELDT

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2007 at 23:16:07

John Schlotfeldt

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.145, Layton Twp.)
John Schlotfeldt, hardware merchant, Walnut, born in Clinton County, Iowa, March 6, 1860, son of Jacob C. and Catharine M. Schlotfeldt; he, a farmer, born in Germany October 9, 1829, and she, also born in Germany, October 9, 1829, had four children - Henry F., born January 21, 1866; Rudolph, born November 7, 1867; Louis, born March 7, 1868, and John. Subject attended a district school in Scott County, this State, for three winters, and this is all the education he ever received; commenced life by clerking in a dry goods store in Walnut; is a member of the Lutheran Church; a Republican and an Odd Fellow. Subject hired out to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company as a trackman, receiving for his labor $1 a day; out of this small amount he sent his brothers to school. In 1880, he hired as clerk with Green Bros., hardware merchants in Walnut, and, in 1882, he started a hardware store of his own in Walnut.