Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

ROBERT SCHMOLDT, proprietor of saw-mill and lumber dealer, 
Beardstown; was born in the village of Ritsch, Hanover, 
Germany, Aug. 2, 1830, the eighth son of a family of 
fourteen children, born to Hermann and Margaret (Eilmann) 
Schmoldt. His father was a large land-owner and farmer in 
Hanover. Mr. Schmoldt received a fair education, and 
assisted in the farm work, his father being in feeble 
health. At nineteen years of age he shipped at Hamburg, 
Germany, as a seaman, and sailed for two years between 
Europe and America, making several trips. In 1852, he was 
married by the American Consul, at Hamburg, to Johanna 
Blohm, a native of Hanover, and came to the United States 
and located in New York. He sailed on a coast schooner 
during the summer, and afterward worked in a sugar 
refinery. In July, 1853, he came to Beardstown, where he 
worked at various employments for one or two years, then 
bought eighty acres of wild land in Monroe Precinct, this 
county, which he farmed for seven years, with good success, 
and in 1860 paid a three months' visit, with his family, to 
his native land. From 1863 to 1869, he engaged in 
merchandising in Beardstown; then sold out his store and 
engaged in the milling business, buying his present saw-
mill on Muscooten Bay, of W. Weaver, and has since run the 
mill, buying his logs, which are rafted down the river. The 
mill cuts, on an average, four thousand feet daily, and 
gives employment to seven men. He established lumber yards 
on Third street, in 1881. He still owns considerable land 
in this county. He has five sons living.

Schmoldt Eilmann Blohm 
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