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JOHN SCHULTZ is a resident of Easton, where he has been engaged in business for many years, and where is favorably known in commercial circles. For over ten years he has carried on a stove trade in connection with a tin-shop, and at times has given employment to as many as four men. In 1889 he was elected to the important position of Coroner of Northampton County, and so faithfully did he perform his duties that in 1892 he was re-elected to fill the place. He has always been much interested in the success of the Democratic party, and uses his ballot in favor of its candidates. From time to time his fellow-citizens have called upon him to fill minor offices in local affairs and he has always given entire satisfaction to all concerned.

Henry Schultz, our subject’s father, was born and reared to manhood in Germany. In 1847, when a young man of twenty-four years, he crossed the Atlantic, making the voyage on the same vessel which carried Miss Sophia Caston, the lady who afterward became his wife. He located in Philadelphia, where he remained for about a year, and then removed to Easton, which has since been his place of abode. In his native land he learned the blacksmith’s trade, but after coming to the United States became a machinist and engineer. While operating an engine in Palmer Township, he met with a very serious accident, resulting in the loss of a limb. As he was thus, to a certain extent, incapacitated for arduous work, he devoted his attention to the grocery business, and for twenty years carried on a store on the corner of Seventh and Northampton Streets. This is the identical location of our subject’s present business, and thus altogether the father and son have been at this stand for over thirty years. Henry Schultz closed out his business affairs in 1883 and retired to enjoy a well earned rest. His wife departed this life in 1886, aged sixty-four years. She was the mother of six children, five daughters and a son, whose names are as follows: Mary, Mrs. Anna Hearbolt, Mis. Amanda Echert, Mrs. Emma Barr, John and Mrs. Lizzie Donegan. In politics the father is affiliated with the Democratic party, and socially is connected with Fatherland Lodge No. 111, I. O. O. F. In the congregation of the Zion Lutheran Church he has for years been considered one of the active workers and leading members.

John Schultz was born January 11, 1858, in Palmer Township, Northampton County, near Easton. He was given good public-school advantages in his boyhood and was a student in Professor Trach’s Academy of this city. When fifteen years of age he left school to begin an apprenticeship at the tinsmith’s trade. For three years he worked for Meeker & Capp, and after his term had expired remained with his former employers four years. Subsequently he worked as a journeyman in New York City for about one year, at the end of which time he returned to Easton and launched into business for himself on the site of his father’s grocery. In 1883 he added to his tin smith’s trade a large and well selected stock of stoves, and has been very successful in the management of his business interests.

Mr. Schultz belongs to several fraternities, among these being Lenni and Lenape Council No. 187, Sr. O. U. A. M.; Black Knight Lodge No. 109, K. of M.; and Amana Lodge No. 77, K. of P. Like his father, he is a member of Zion’s Lutheran Church and is interested in its various departments of work.

April 7, 1881, Mr. Schultz married Miss Susan, daughter of Robert Henry, a resident of Weissport, Carbon County, this state. Two children have blessed the union of our subject and wife, their names being as follows: Florence May and Henry C.