Schulz, John

SCHULZ

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2008 at 14:06:24

John Schulz

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.248, Valley Twp.)
John Schulz, farmer, P. O. Avoca, was born in Prussia in 1827. He was educated in his native country, and left there when twenty-six years of age, coming to this countryin 1853, and settling in Chicago, Ill., where he lived three years, employed as a musician. In 1856, he moved from Chicago to Davenport, Iowa, where he continued as a musician for almost twelve years. He next moved, in 1868, to Benton County, Iowa, where he in farming, then returned to Davenport for six months, thence to Omaha in 1871, where he resided four years, engaged as a musician. In 1875, Mr. Schulz came from Omaha to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, bought 160 acres of prairie, erected buildings, and now has his farm mostly under cultivation. In 1861, he joined a military band, thus serving his country until receiving an honorable discharge in 1862, on account of sickness. Mr. Schulz was married, in 1856, in Chicago to Miss Sophia Presler, daughter of John G. Presler, of Germany, for many years a solider in the German Army, going with Napoleon to Russia, and remaining with his army until Napoleon was banished. Mr. and Mrs. Schulz have four children - Lizzie, Emily, John and Caroline; the eldest is married. In politics, Mr. Schulz is a Republican.