My Genealogy Hound

HENRY SCHULZE. Examples of unremitting zeal, strict integrity and financial success may be met with in every agricultural district in our country. Especially is this the case in Randolph County, where the farmers are almost invariably well-to-do, intelligent and enterprising. As a representative of this class we mention the name of Mr. Schulze, the owner and occupant of a farm located on section 2, township 7, range 6. He is engaged in general farming, and is especially successful in stock-raising.

A native of Germany, our subject, who was the son of Charles and Dorothea (Welge) Schulze, was born November 17, 1838. His father came to America with his family in the year 1849, and having heard such glowing accounts of the Prairie State, made his way directly to Randolph County, where he became a farmer. While residing in Germany, however, he worked at his trade of a shoe maker, but followed that occupation only a few years after coming to the New World. His death occurred in 1879, while his good wife preceded him to the better land by many years.

Henry Schulze was a lad of eleven years when he crossed the Atlantic, and while residing in his native land attended school. After locating in this county, and desiring to become thoroughly conversant with the English language, young Schulze attended school, and later went to Chester, where he learned the trade of a shoemaker. Not liking that occupation, however, he returned to the farm and has ever since given his attention to agricultural pursuits, and now has one of the finest estates in southern Illinois. He has been successful as a farmer, and his understanding of agriculture in its various departments is broad and deep.

In 1861, Mr. Schulze and Miss Caroline Opperman were united in marriage. The lady was born in Germany, and by her union with our subject she became the mother of six children, only two of whom, Mena and Sophia, are living. The elder daughter is the wife of Fritz Dreggemuller, and makes her home in Kansas, while Sophia resides with her father on the home farm. Mrs. Caroline Schulze departed this life in the year 1871, and two years later our subject was married to Miss Mary Brammer. Their union was blessed by the birth of a daughter, Mary. Mrs. Mary Schulze died in 1876, and the following year Miss Louisa Hornbustle, of St. Louis, became the wife of our subject. To them has been born a son, William.

Our subject is a stanch Democrat in politics, and in religious matters he and his wife are devoted members of the Lutheran Church. In this community where he has so long made his home he is both widely and favorably known, and in the history of his adopted county he well deserves representation.