Johann Lorenz (John) Schulz, 1833–1907
Johann Lorenz Schulz, son of Johann Philipp Schulz and Anna Margaretha Goller, was born on 2 April 1833 in Neuhaus in Bavaria. Although he was born in his mother’s village, the family lived in nearby Issigau. He was nine years old when his mother died in December 1842. Two years later, his father remarried. Johann Lorenz trained as a carpet weaver, but industrialization was increasing and pay declining, so it is likely economic reasons led Johann Lorenz and his brother Johann Nicholas to emigrate in 1853. Johann Lorenz and Johann Nicholas Schulz departed Bremen on the SS Emma and arrived in Baltimore on 22 October 1853. In the United States, Johann Lorenz chose to be called John, but Johann Nicholas remained Nicholas, following the German custom of using the second name. John and Nicholas worked one year in Baltimore as carpet weavers for wages of three dollars per month. Then, learning that wages in St. Louis were seven dollars per month, they moved. On 13 July 1856 at St. Paul’s Evangelical Church on Giles and Potomac Streets in St. Louis City, Johann Lorenz Schulz married Maria Jahn, daughter of Franz Jahn and Anna Jllichmann, In 1857, John lived on the west side of Menard between Geyer and Emmet and Nicholas on the west side of Rosatti between Soulard and Lafayette. John was a weaver, Nicholas a laborer. In March 1857, John’s father-in-law, Franz Jahn, purchased property on Mattis Creek on the north side of Kennerly Road in Sappington. Franz sold this land to John in 1860 and John paid off the mortgage in 1864. This was the location of the Schulz family farm. Now it is Schulz Road. The farm was valued at $1000 in 1860 and $3400 in 1870. On 1 March 1869, John also purchased some of his brother-in-law’s land nearby in the Meramec River bottom. Other important information about John Schulz:
John Schulz died on 4 February 1907 at his home in Sappington at age seventy-three with burial in the family plot at St. Lucas Cemetery. In his estate, probated beginning 13 February 1907, he bequeathed $100 to each of his twelve children. By 1909, son William owned the farm along Mattis Creek at Kennerly Road and son Frank owned the farm in the Meramec River bottom. Written by Carol Whitton © 2017 St. Louis Genealogical Society
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Schulz family farm in Sappington Photo in the collection of Carol Whitton Used with permission John L. Schulz Photo in the collection of Carol Whitton Used with permission |
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