Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 986
JOHN G. SCHULMEISTER

For more than a score of years, John G. SCHULMEISTER has been a resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa. When a young man, he learned the cigarmaker's trade and followed this occupation in various places until he came to Missouri Valley in the spring of 1894, and continued the manufacture of cigars in this city until 1910. Since that year, he has been in partnership with C. R. Stout in the real estate business, and this firm has built up a large and flourishing business since that time.

John G. SCHULMEISTER, the son of George A. and Sophia (HORSEMAN) SCHULMEISTER, was born at Davenport, Iowa, May 15, 1862. His parents were both born in Germany, his father coming to this country in 1848, and his mother four years later. His father first located in St. Louis, Missouri, and after his marriage in 1852, moved to Davenport, where he lived until his death in 1904, at the age of sixty-eight. George A. SCHULMEISTER was a tailor by trade and built up a successful business in Davenport. His wife died in 1875. Six children were born to George A. SCHULMEISTER and wife, five of whom are living, Benjamin H., of Davenport, Iowa; Mrs. Elizabeth FISHER, of Boston, Massachusetts; Mrs. Katie RIECK, of Dubuque, Iowa; George A., of Davenport, and John G., of Missouri Valley.

John G. SCHULMEISTER was reared in the city of Davenport, Iowa, and received his education in the parochial schools of that city. Before reaching his majority, he began to learn the cigar-maker's trade and followed this business until 1910. He lived in Davenport until he was twenty years of age and then traveled over the country, following his trade as a cigarmaker, in various cities, for the next ten years. He located at Carroll, Iowa, in 1890, where he was engaged in the manufacture of cigars until 1894. In March, of that year, he started a cigar factory in Missouri Valley, and built up a large business which he disposed of in 1910. During the time he was in the cigar business, he invested his savings in land and thus became interested in real estate. In fact, his land holdings became so extensive that he finally retired from the cigar business and devoted all of his time and attention to the real estate business.

John G. SCHULMEISTER was married on October 28, 1892, at Farmington, Iowa, to Augusta SCHAFFER, a daughter of George SCHAFFER, and to this union three children have been born, Florence, Arthur and Gertrude. Mr. SCHULMEISTER and his family are loyal members of the Catholic church of Missouri Valley. He gives his hearty support to the Republican party, but has never been an aspirant for public office. Mr. SCHULMEISTER has a fine farm in Harrison county, and also owns property in the city where he has made his home for more than twenty years. He is a man of energy and ability and has that judgement and foresight which should characterize the successful real estate dealer. Honest in his methods and straightforward in all of his transactions, he has conducted his affairs in such a way as to merit the high esteem in which he is held throughout the city and county.

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