Schurz, Nicholas (1840-1897)

SCHURZ

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/23/2009 at 13:45:24

Nicholas Schurz
1840 - 1897

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.56, Council Bluffs)
N. Schurz (Schurz & Strohbehn) grocers, Council Bluffs, was born in Prussia. He came to the United States in 1858. He served four years and three months in the civil war, part of the time in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, and the balance in the navy. He responded to Lincoln's first-call for three months' men. He came to Council Bluffs in 1868, and was employed by a wholesale queensware house, where he stayed for a year and a half, when he moved to Weeping Water, Cass Co., Neb. He engaged in the mercantile business, but was burned out in 1873, losing everything. He immediately returned to Council Bluffs, and the following spring went to Missouri Valley where, engaging in business, he regained all that he had previously lost. He returned to Council Bluffs in 1879. Schurz & Strohbehn have added a fine stock of cigars, and will hereafter do a wholesale business in that line. Our subject was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Eliza E. Lindt, sister of Mr. John Lindt, the well-known lawyer of Council Bluffs, They have two boys - Emil, aged fourteen, and Herman, aged twelve.