"Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren counties, New Jersey"
Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1898
___________________________________________________________________________________
HON. IRWIN W. SCHULTZ, ex-mayor of
Phillipsburg, Warren County, occupies an
enviable position in the regard of his fellow-citizens, and is justly esteemed one of our best
and most representative men. With the exception of the railroad corporations here, there are
few enterprises of any magnitude or general usefulness to this community with which he is not
now or has been connected. No one could be
more patriotic or more thoroughly in sympathy
with every movement calculated to benefit the
people of his own neighborhood than he is and
has been in the past. In fact the mere enumeration of the various concerns which have received
his material aid and influential support would exceed the limits of this article, and therefore only
a few will be mentioned.
I. W. Schultz was born in Phillipsburg, December 6, 1855. Having completed his public
school education he graduated from Lafayette
College, Easton, Pa., at the close of a classical
course in 1879. He next took up the study of
law with William M. Davis, of Phillipsburg, and
was admitted to the bar as an attorney in November, 18S1, and as counsellor in 1885. Immediately opening an office, he embarked in the practice of his chosen profession, and from the first
his success was assured, for his abilities were
well recognized by a large circle of acquaintances
while he was a mere youth. In 1883 he was
elected city auditor and served one year. In
1884 he was elected mayor of Phillipsburg and
served one year, then refused re-election.
From the time that the large and prosperous
industry of the Phillipsburg silk mills was organized he was interested in the two plants and was
president of the Phillipsburg Silk Mill Company
for two years, which gives employment to a large
number of persons. In 18S9 he was appointed
law or resident judge of the court of common
pleas of Warren County and continued in that
responsible position until 1892, when he resigned
in order to attend to the administration of an estate. In September, 1896, he and W. C. Pilgrim,
under the firm name of Schultz & Pilgrim,
bought the Warren Democrat and in the following December began issuing the Warren Daily
News- Democrat. Our subject takes an active
part in the management of this journal, which is
one of the best papers of the kind published in
this part of the state of New Jersey.
Among the fraternities Mr. Schultz stands deservedly high. He belongs to Delaware Lodge
No. 52, F. & A. M.; Montana Lodge No. 2, K.
of P., and was district deputy of the same; is an
Odd Fellow and is identified with the Patriotic
Order Sons of America. June 3, 1886, Mr.
Schultz married Jessie B., daughter of Dr. Samuel Glenn, of Washington, N. J.
The parents of Mr. Schultz are Alexander and
Selinda (Smith) Schultz, who were married in
June, 1854. The father was born in Prussia,
Germany, April 8, 1S2S, and came to America in
1853. He resided in New York City until the
year 1864, when he removed to Phillipsburg.
In politics he is independent, and for three
years he was a member of the city council.
Religiously he is a Lutheran. His wife was a
daughter of Michael Smith, and some of her ancestors were patriots of the wars of the Revolution and 1812. Five children were born to Alexander Schultz and wife, but only two are living: I. W. and Louis G., the latter a lawyer at
Fort Worth, Tex.
(c) 2000-2013 American History and Genealogy Project
|
