FRED C. SCHOMBERG.

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         Fred C. Schomberg, devoting his time and energies to general agricultural pursuits, is the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and eighty acres on sections 16 and 21, Columbus City township. His birth occurred in Louisa county, Iowa, on the 11th of December, 1878, his parents being Jacob and . . .

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. . . Catherine Schomberg, both of whom are natives of Germany. It was in the year 1850 that they crossed the Atlantic to the United States, locating in the county. At the present time, however, they are residents of Muscatine, Iowa. They reared a family of seven children, all of whom are yet living.

         Fred C. Schomberg enjoyed the advantages of a high-school education and was reared to manhood under the parental roof. On attaining his majority he rented the old homestead farm, devoting his attention to its operation for seven years. On the expiration of that period he purchased a tract of one hundred and eighty acres on sections 16 and 21, Columbus City township, and has since been busily engaged in its further cultivation and improvement. In connection with the tilling of the soil he makes a specialty of raising and feeding stock and has gained a place among the substantial and representative agriculturists of the community.

In December, 1905, Mr. Schomberg was united in marriage to Miss May Chown, a native of Louisa county and a daughter of George and Mary Chown, who were born in Virginia and Iowa respectively. They are still residents of this county and are mentioned at greater length on another page of this work. Mrs. Schomberg, who is a graduate of the high school at Columbus Junction, taught school for several years prior to her marriage. She is now the mother of three children: Florence L., Alice L. and Catherine L.

         Mr. Schomberg is a democrat in politics and is now serving as a school director, the cause of education having ever found in him a stanch friend. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America at Columbus Junction, while both he and his wife are devoted and consistent members of the Reformed church. They have always remained residents of this county and the circle of their friends is almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintances.