Henry Schumacher, a native of Germany, came to the United States in 1853, settled at New Ulm in Brown County, Minnesota, married Caroline there, and farmed until he moved his family to a homestead and tree claim in Alba township, Jackson County. Two of his sons' sketches date that move to 1872, while a third says 1870, and they give Caroline's maiden name as Haner and as Hohena. Their eldest son, Theodore E. Schumacher, born in Brown County in 1861, opened a meat market at Heron Lake in 1887 and married Mary C. King in 1889. William, born in 1869, bought a farm in West Heron Lake township in 1892, and Edward, born on the Alba township farm in 1880, came back from a South Dakota homestead to farm his father's 320 acres near Okabena. By 1910 Henry and Caroline had retired to Heron Lake. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Jackson County history.
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Pioneer farmers, Alba township
Meat market proprietor, Heron Lake
THEODORE E. SCHUMACHER (1872) has been engaged in the meat market business in Heron I..iike for the past twenty-two years He is a native of Brown county, Minnesota, and was born Xovember 30, ISlil. His father, Henry Schumacher, who now resides at Heron Lake and is 77 years of age, is a pioneer of Minnesota. He was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1853. He lived one year south of Chicago and then located in Xew Ulmy jjinnesota. There he was married and engaged in farming until 1872. That year lie moved to.Jackson county, took a homestead and tree claim in Alba township, and resided on the farm until 190.5, when he moved to Heron I-,ake. Caroline (Haner) Schumacher, our subject's mother, is also a native of Germany. She is now seventy-three years old.
Theodore is the eldest of a family of seven children. He accompanied his parents to Jackson county in.June, 1872, and resided on the Alba township farm until the fall of 1887. He then moved to Heron Lake and opened a meat market, building his present place of business, and has ever since conducted the shop. In 1906 he admitted Chris Johnson as a partner in the business. Mr. Schumacher is a member of the Methodist church and of the Woodmen. Royal Neighbors, Knights of Pythias and Modern Brotherhood lodges.
Mr. Schumacher was married in.Jackson county Xovember 3. 1889, to Mary C. King, a native of LeSueur county, Minnesota. Her father, William King, was an early Minnesota pioneer who died when Mrs. Schumacher was six months old. Her mother, Catherine (Chatterden) King, now lives in Jackson county. To Jlr. and Mrs. Schumacher have been horn six children: Gertrude. Leon, George, Gretchen, Xed and Paul.
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Farmer, West Heron Lake township
WILLIAM SCHUMACHER (1872), of West Heron Lake township, is a native Minnesotan and he has resided in Jackson county since lie was two years old, moving at that age with his parents from Brown county, where he was born December 9, 1869. His parents are Henry and Caroline Schumacher, natives of Germany. The former came to the United States in 1853 and the next year took up his residence in Xew Ulra, Minnesota. There he was married and engaged in farming until 1872. That year he moved to Jackson county, took a homestead and tree claim in Alba township, and resided on the farm until 1905, when he moved to Heron Lake village. There he and his wife now reside. They are 77 and 73 years of age, respectively, and are the parents of seven children.
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Farmer, Alba township
EDWARD SCHUMACHER (18801 is an Alba township farmer and conducts his father's place, the south half of section 12, a short distance west of Okabena. He is a native of the county, living been born on the farm he now conducts April 26, 1880,
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Edward Sohumaoher grew to manhood on his fathers farm in Alba, attending the district school and working on the farm. In the spring of 1905 he took a homestead in Lyman county,.South Dakota, and the next year moved onto his land. After a residence there of over a year he proved up on the claim and then returned to Jackson county. He has since been engaged in farming his father's farm of.320 acres.
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