The business enterprise and ability of H. H. Schulte readily places him in he front rank among the foremost citizens of Worth county. He is actively identified with farming on section 26, Danville township, and he is equally well known in banking circles. What he undertakes he accomplishes. His plans are founded upon common sense and notably keen sagacity and are executed with marked promptness and efficiency, producing results which are of benefit to the community at large as well as a source of profit to himself.
He was born in Clayton county, Iowa, November 19, 1863, and is a son of John Henry and Justina (Otting) Schulte. The father came to the United States in 1844, when a little lad of but seven summers, in company with his parents, who after remaining for a brief period in Cincinnati, Ohio, covering the fall and winter, continued their journey westward to Iowa and took tip their abode in Clayton county. The mother's parents did not come to America until nine years later and they also located for a time in Cincinnati, Ohio, where they remained for a number of years and then removed westward to Clayton county, Iowa.
John H. Schulte was for many years a well known and representative farmer of Clayton county, Iowa, where he passed away. His widow is still living and resides with a daughter on the old homestead in Clayton county.
H. H. Schulte was reared at home and acquired a common school education. He was the eldest of five sons and on reaching his twentieth year he went to work at the carpenter's trade, which claimed his attention for about five years. The work, however, was not to his liking and after his marriage, which was celebrated February 28, 1889, he removed to Worth county and took up his abode in Danville township, where he now resides.
The previous year he had purchased eighty acres of land, which he at once began to cultivate and improve, and to his farm he has added from time to time as his financial resources have increased until he is now the owner of three hundred and sixty acres of the most valuable farm land in Worth county. His work has been carefully prosecuted and his fields brought under a high state of cultivation, so that he annually gathers abundant harvests. He studies the nature of the soil, practices the rotation of crops and in fact uses all modern scientific methods to facilitate his work and promote desirable results. He has also been a member of the Farmers' Cooperative Creamery Company of Manly for twenty years and he was one of the organizers of the Farmers bank of Manly, of which he has been the president for the past seven years.
As previously stated, Mr. Schulte was married February 28, 1889, the lady of his choice being Miss Margaret Bierbaum, of Clayton county, Iowa, and to them have been born four children: Gertrude, the wife of Frank Works, living in Hector, Minnesota; Louise, the wife of Harold McKercher, of Lincoln township, Worth county, and Oscar and Frederick, both at home.
In his political views Mr. Schulte maintains an independent course. He has been called to several local offices, serving as a member of the township board of trustees for several years, while at the present writing he is acting as its president. He is also township secretary of the school board. He and his wife are members of the German Evangelical church and are much interested in its work and in those activities which tend to advance moral progress in the community.
From: HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1918,
Volume II, page 449:Transcribed by Gordon Felland, July 2003