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Born 1840
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
WILLIAM M. F. SCHROEDER (1886) owns and farms two hundred acres on section 27, Petersburg township, which has been his home for the last twenty-three years.
Mr. Schroeder is a native of Mccklenberg, Germany, where he was born March 16, 1840, and where he lived until he was twenty-four years of age. He landed in New York on the twelfth day of January, 1864, to seek a home in the new world. During the first five years of his residence in America he worked at farm work in Illinois. He married in 1869 and then took up his residence near the town of Niles Center, Cook county, only eight miles from the city of Chicago, and there he engaged in farming until his arrival to Jackson county. During the great Chicago fire of 1871 Mr. Schroeder assisted in removing the homeless from the stricken city, and remembers vividly the tragedies of that great calamity.
On the twenty-fourth day of March, 1886, Mr. Schroeder arrived in Jackson county and located upon the farm where he has ever since resided. His initiation to the county was not of the most pleasant nature. During his first
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Heron Lake BuBineeB Man. jj News year's residence here he was caught in a tornado, was carried a short distance by the powerful wind, and received several very bad flesh wounds on the limbs and chest, from the effects of which he suffers to this day.
In addition to his farming interests Mr. Schroeder owns stock in the Petersburg Creamery company. He served as treasurer of Petersburg township ten years and has held other offices of trust. He is a member of the German Lutheran church.
Mr. Schroeder was married in November, 1869, to Mary Man, who died a little over a year later. His second marriage occurred in April, 1872, when he wedded Mary Kopa. The latter died in July, 1880. His present wife was Maria Meyer. Mr. Schroeder is the father of the following named children: Lena, born September 12, 1870; Mary, Sophia, Annie, William, born December 5, 1881; Charlie, bom July 14, 1883; Emma, born July 18, 1885, died March 7, 1890; Henry, born September 25,
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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