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From Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 597-598
CHARLES P. SCHNEIDER is one of the honored veterans of the Civil war and one of the highly esteemed citizens of Lancaster township, Grant county. He was born May 25, 1843, near Sinsinawa Mound, Grant county, a son of Frederick and Mary (FAGER) SCHNEIDER.
Frederick SCHNEIDER, his father, emigrated from Germany with his family in 1839. In the Fatherland he was a comb maker, but after coming to this country he was employed in lead mining, and later followed the life of a farmer. His home was near Hurricane, Grant county, where he died in 1899, after reaching the age of eighty-five years, having buried his wife many years before. Of his thirteen children, nine - five sons and four daughters - are yet living: Charles P., Lewis, Joseph, Mary (Mrs. HOFFMAN), Frederick, Samuel, Louisa, Emma (Mrs. SCHAUB), and Carrie (Mrs. POLLOCK).
Charles P. SCHNEIDER, together with a younger brother, Lewis, enlisted in Company K, 47th Wis. V.I. and served with that organization, with marked gallantry, until the regiment was mustered out, at the close of the conflict. At the outset he was chosen corporal, and was later made color-bearer, and as such bore the regiment's standard safely and triumphantly home at the end of the war. He keeps his memory of these stirring experiences green, and at the same time perpetuates old comradeship by membership in Tom Cox Post, No. 132, G.A.R., of Lancaster. Mr. SCHENEIDER's health was badly shattered through exposure and privation while in the service, and it is unlikely that he will ever regain his former strength and vitality.
On March 24, 1874, our subject married Mary Magdalena SCHNEIDER, who was born at Platteville, Grant county. The issue of the marriage has been ten children, three sons and seven daughters, namely: Lydia A., Minnie M., William C., Elsie E., Martha M., Lillian H., Estelle H., Alberta J., Edgar P. and Edgar H.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck