Kansas History and Heritage Project-Wyandotte County Biographies

Wyandotte County Biographies
"Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas--Historical and Biographical"
Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, 1890


Christian Schoeller, Jr., wholesale and retail butcher and retail dealer in country produce, owes his nativity to Kansas City, Mo., where his birth occurred, January 4, 1863. He is the son of Christian and Anna (Windisch) Schoeller, Sr., natives of Germany. The father came to the United States in 1856, and to Kansas City, Mo., in 1858, when single, and was married to Anna Windisch August 27, 1859. They lived, up to 1889, in Kansas City, Mo., since which time their home has been in Rosedale, Kas., with our subject. The senior Schoeller is a butcher by trade, and a member of the German Druids Lodge, and G. A. R., Sheild's Post No. 15. In politics he is a Republican. During the late war he served in the Union army, enlisting, June 28, 1861, in the Thirteenth Regiment Missouri Cavalry, and was mustered out, as corporal, February 2, 1862. He re-enlisted in the Seventy-seventh Regiment Missouri Militia, as second lieutenant of Company B, and served until the end of the war, in 1865. Christian Schoeller, Jr., received his education in Kansas City, Mo., there learning the butcher's business, and came to Rosedale July 28, 1886. He was engaged in running a wholesale wagon, in Kansas City, Mo., and doing his butchering in Rosedale, Kas., where be lived, and in March, 1888, he also engaged in the retail meat and vegetable market business. By his energy aud ability he has established a permanent trade, and has the patronage of the best people, handling nothing but superior articles. On July 28, 1886, he was married to Miss Alvena Boersch, daughter of Edwin and Maria Boersch. Miss Boersch was born August 28, 1860, in Davenport, Iowa, and came to Kansas City, Mo., in 1882, and was there married. They have since been living in Rosedale, Kas., where to them were born two children: Laura and Bertha. Laura was born July 16, 1887, and Bertha March 7, 1889. Mr. Schoeller is a member of the A. O. U. W., and secretary of Rosedale Protective Association. He is also treasurer of the German Benevolent Lodge of Rosedale and Argentine. In politics he is a Democrat. He was elected a councilman last election, and fills that position creditably. He is one of the town's most enterprising and substantial citizens. He has two fine properties in town, and has made it all by his own industry, in the last four years.


Richard H. Scott is a dealer in general merchandise in Wyandotte County, Kas., but was born in Windom County, Vt., April 20, 1845, the eldest of a family of four children born to the union of Harris Scott and Julia M. Cushman, who were also born in that State. The father was at first engaged in general trading, but gave particular attention to trading in horses, mules cattle and hogs. In 1854 Reports reached him of the rapidly growing West, and so fired his imagination that he determined to seek his fortune there, and for some time he resided on a farm in Cook County, Ill., near the present city of Chicago. He was not permitted to enjoy his new home long, and one year after leaving Vermont, he died of consumption, leaving, besides his widow, four small children to mourn their loss. His widow survived him until 1861, when she, too, passed from life, and was laid to rest by the side of her husband. Richard H. Scott was ambitious, even in his earliest youth, to become a well-educated man, and to this end he applied himself diligently to his studies while in school, and was one of a class of thirteen that graduated from the first Cook County Normal Institute, it being held in Blue Island. After leaving this institution he entered the service of his brother, Lyman E., who was engaged in the mercantile business in Waldron, Mo., and after remaining with him two years he began learning telegraphy, and after becoming familiar with this calling he was given charge of the office at Waldron, a position he retained and successfully filled for eight years. He removed to Kansas City, in 1881, but not liking that place, he removed to Wyandotte County, Kas., and settled in what is now known as Old Maywood, where he remained, his attention being given to the general mercantile business, until the Kansas City, Missouri & North-Western Railroad was completed, and the town of Piper organized, when he moved his store and residence thither, and here has since made his home. He is doing an excellent business, and is handling a line of general merchandise valued at 11,500, and his residence is one of the handsomest in the place. In 1881, he was appointed postmaster of Maywood, which office he filled until Cleveland's administration, when he resigned, but in 1888 he was again appointed to the position, and is now discharging his duties to the satisfaction of all concerned. September 3, 1860, he married Miss Sarah R., a native of Missouri, and a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Tomm) Compston. She was born August 12, 1854, and during the trying times of their early settlement in this State, she proved a loving wife, and a true helpmate. To them a family of four children was born: William H. (born July 27, 1872), Wilson A. (born October 21, 1875), Estella M. (born in 1879), and Chester A. (born in March, 1881). Mr. Scott has been a life long Republican, and has held a number of local offices such as township treasurer, clerk, etc. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and himself and wife belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. During the war he was a member of the Union army, and served in the commissary department, enlisting at Chicago, being sworn in at St. Louis. He joined his regiment at Devall's Bluff, Ark., and while on duty at that place had the misfortune to lose his right eye.


John Schuetz, farmer and fruit grower, Turner, Kas. Mr. Schuetz was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, on October 17, 1834, and is the son of John Garhardt Schuetz, a native of Germany. The father was reared to manhood in his native country, and there learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, which he followed in Virginia after coming to this country. He was married in the Old Dominion, and left his wife with her relatives while he went to Ohio, settling in Wyandot County. There his wife joined him, and they entered a good farm, and there reared their family. The father received his final summons in that county. John Schuetz was reared in Wyandot County, remaining there until 1861, and then removed to Putnam County, Ohio, where he remained two years. Later he returned to his native county, but only remained a short time, when he moved to Mary ville. Mo., where he tarried eighteen months. From there he moved to Wyandotte County, Kas., in 1870, and here purchased 100 acres of timber. which he has since improved with an elegant house, barn, good orchards, etc. He is turning his attention to fruit-growing, and has a tine prospect before him. Mr. Shuetz's marriage was consummated on October 16, 1859, with Miss Catherine Wildemood, a native of Seneca County, Ohio, born on November 20, 1839, and the daughter of John and Littie (Gilbert) Wildemood, natives of Germany and Maryland, respectively. To Mr. and Mrs. Schuetz were born five children, four now living. Mr. Schuetz is a Democrat in politics, and has held different local positions of trust. He is a member of Veridus Lodge No. 247, I. O. O. F., and a man universally respected. His son, William has a steam-thresher, which he has worked for several years.


Joseph M. Schuetz is a well-known farmer and small-fruit-grower of Wyandotte County, Kas., and has been a resident of this section since 1868, being the owner of seventy-seven and one-half acres of fine land, cultivating it as follows: Five to ten acres of potatoes, two acres in blackberries, two in raspberries and two in strawberries, 150 apple, 100 cherry, 900 peach and fifty plum trees. He has devoted his time and attention to this business, and his place indicates to a noticeable extent what years of industry, good management and superior knowledge, will do toward accumulating a competency. He is progressive in his views, and has met with substantial success, which all concede is well merited. He was born in the State of Ohio November 17, 1846, was reared there, and in 1868 came to Wyandotte County, Kas., which place has since been his home. He was married February 4, 1868, his wife, Anna, being the daughter of Gottleib Everhart. She was also born in Ohio, January 31, 1861, and of three children born to them, two are now living: Milton Elroy, and Eva M. May died in early childhood. Mr. Schuetz has always supported the men and measures of the Democrat party, and socially is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, holding the position of treasurer of his lodge. Although his early educational opportunities were somewhat limited he has become a well-informed man by contact with the world, and by reading the current items of the day, and is one of the public-spirited citizens of this section of the country.





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