August and Henrietta Schultz Family
Photo of August Schultz Sr. family, circa 1900
Top Row, left to right: Minnie Martens, Herman Schultz, Carl Schultz (Roger’s grandfather),
Dr. Walter Schultz, Tillie Memitz Hargens, Otto Schultz, Adelhaid (Heidi) Wiegand
Sitting, left to right: August (Jimmy) Schultz Jr. (Pharmacist), Emma Rasch, Louis Schultz,
Henrietta Schultz (Fink, originally from Chicago), August Schultz Sr., Ernest Schultz,
Ida Ebert, Fred Schultz
he came to this country and made his home in Chicago until 1874. While in Chicago he
conducted a large furniture factory, but this was destroyed by the Chicago Fire of 1874.
However, nothing daunted August, and he rebuilt the factory, but a few years later it was
destroyed by fire again. He then came west and in 1874 arrived in Hanover Township, Iowa
were he took up farming, and where he made his home until 1906, when he moved to Schleswig,
Iowa to make his permanent home. He died January 9, 1922.
Mr. Schultz was one of the early pioneers of this country, having come here when it was
but a wilderness, and he witnessed its remarkable growth to a community of life, beauty
and prosperity. It was his ambition to always build up and never tear down, and to his
great forethought, energy and ability, can be laid the many big improvements that were
wrought under his guiding hand. August Schultz built the Saint Paul Lutheran Church in
Hanover Township in 1889.
He was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta (Hattie) Fink in Chicago in 1867. Hattie Fink
Schultz was born in Chicago, Illinois on the 26th of September, 1847. Her family owned a
candy and chocolate factory in Chicago. She died in Schleswig, Iowa on July 20, 1913 at
the age of 65 years.
August and Hattie Schultz were blessed with fourteen children:
Clara died in infancy
Emma (Schultz) Rasch 1869-1935
Ida (Schultz) Ebert 1870-1952
Herman Schultz 1872-1944
Otto Schultz 1874-1947
Fred Schultz 1875-1920
Dr. Walter Schultz 1877-1952,
Medical Doctor
Carl Schultz 1878-1962
Louie Schultz 1880-1947
Mathilda (Schultz) Nemitz, Hargens 1881-1923
August (Jimmy) Schultz, Jr. 1883-1930,
Pharmacist and drugstore owner in Schleswig
Adelhaid (Heidi) (Schultz) Wiegand 1885-1978
Minnie (Schultz) Martens 1886-1974
Ernest Schultz 1887-1968
1937 Reunion
In 1937 a reunion of the August Schultz Sr. family was held in Schleswig for all of the descendants of August and Hattie Schultz.
Of their 14 children, nine were still alive, ranging in age from 50 (Earnest) to 67 (Ida).
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