HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, VOL. II, 1918, page 320

ALVIN SCHULTZ, who is manager of the Farmers Incorporated Elevator Company of Grafton, was born in Union township, Worth county, on the 4th of' November, 1885, a son of John C. and Marie (Lutz) Schultz. The father is a native of Hamburg, Germany, John C. while the mother's birth occurred in Berlin.

Schultz left his native land when a young man and crossed the Atlantic to the new world, taking, up his abode at Carpenter, Mitchell county, Iowa. Soon afterward he secured farm work and was thus employed for some time or until he had saved from his earnings A sufficient sum to enable him to purchase land. He then invested in eighty acres in Union township and still resides upon that farm, which he is yet successfully cultivating and improving, having transformed it into one of the valuable farm properties of the district. It was in Mitchell county that he wedded Marie Lutz, whose father was a mason and also a landowner of Mitchell county.

The youthful days of Alvin Schultz were passed upon the old homestead farm in Union township, where he pursued his education by attending the district schools of the neighborhood, therein mastering the branches of learning which commonly constituted the curriculum of the rural schools, In the summer months he worked in the fields and after his textbooks were put aside he was employed as a farm hand in the neighborhood for a number of years. But he was anxious to engage in business on his own account and ultimately rented land, which he continued to cultivate for four years. He then removed to Chicago, where he continued for a short time, and in July, 1913, he took his present position as manager of the Farmers Incorporated Elevator Company of Grafton. He has since served in this capacity, covering a period of five years, and has done excellent work in managing the interests of the company. He is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the grain trade as represented in this section of the state and has made the Farmers Incorporated Elevator Company of Grafton a paying proposition. He is well known, having many friends in the community, and his personal worth as well as his business enterprise is recognized by all with whom he has come in contact.

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Transcribed by Gordon Felland - July 15, 2005