Schulze, Martin August

1832 - 1926  (93 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 21 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Schulze, Martin August
  Born	19 Aug 1832	Gross, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	21 Jul 1846
  Biography	1911
  History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0735
  MARTIN AUGUST SCHULZE, one of the old and honored residents of Greenville township, Outagamie county, now living retired after many years spent in agricultural pursuits, was born August 19, 1832, in the Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, and is a son of Daniel and Louisa (Beernd) Schulze, natives of the same country, where Daniel Schulze was born December 25, 1805, and his wife January 1, 1808. In 1839, Mrs Schulze died in Germany, leaving five children: Ann; Charles, of Appleton; Martin August; Fredrick and Wilhelmine. Mr. Schulze was married again in Milwaukee in 1848, his second wife being a widow, Mrs. Henrietta Schmidt. In 1846 the family came to the United States, locating at once in Milwaukee, from whence, in 1853, they made their way to Outagamie county, settling in native woods in a rude, log cabin in Section 3, Greenville township. At this time Appleton was a little village, and between the towns of Greenville and Appleton there were but three houses His first few months in the new section were spent in clearing, that he might get started, and the remainder of his life was spent on this farm, he becoming a prosperous and well-known agriculturist and the owner of 460 acres of good farming land. He died in the faith of the Lutheran Church in 1879, and his interment took place in the Greenville cemetery. In politics he was a Democrat, but never wanted an office, owing to his inability to speak the English language. By his second wife Mr. Schulze had four children: August, of Ellington; Daniel, a farmer of Greenville township; Robert William and Frank, all engaged in farming. Martin August Schulze attended school at Tainzel, Prussia, and after three and one-half months of journey landed in Milwaukee in 1846 and went to work as a clerk in a Milwaukee hat and cap store. Later he went to work for another establishment for two years, then went to St. Louis, and later to Texas, where he was swindled out of his money. He really wanted to go to New Orleans only. While in New Orleans he concluded to go to Cuba, and accordingly joined a company organized to assist Lopez in the struggle against Spain. News came before their departure that fifty Americans had been massacred by the Spaniards, which so incensed the company that it destroyed a Spanish printing office, the Jenny Lind saloon, Fernandez tobacco house and the Spanish market. Fearing arrest and detention Mr. Schulze hastened his departure from that locality, discarded his uniform and took a boat, going to Memphis and later to Evansville, Indiana, and from there to Chicago, from whence he walked to Milwaukee. In the spring of the following year he came to Greenville township with his father and worked for him and others at farming during the summers and in the pineries of this state in the winters, but eventually bought the farm on which he now lives from the Government. He still later purchased the forty acres adjoining, and now has eighty-seven and three-quarters acres in his property, having given his son a tract of twenty acres for a building place. Mr. Schulze is now living retired, his youngest son attending to the farm. On July 21, 1859, Mr. Schulze was married to Paulina Steinke, born in Prussia, April 19, 1840, daughter of Francis Christian and Hannah Beate (Menge) Steinke, the former born in West Prussia in 1804, and the latter in Prussia March 21,1804. The family came to the United States in 1855, Mr. Steinke being by trade a blacksmith, an occupation which he followed near Maysville, Dodge county, where he died at the age of fifty-six years. His widow continued to reside there for some time, and then came to Outagamie county, and spent some years with Mr. Schulze, but later went to live with another son-in-law, August Frederick, in Appleton, where her death occurred in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Schulze have had six children, as follows: Emma Louisa, born February 12, 1862, wife of Herman Daw, of Portland, Oregon; William Martin, born August 8, 1863, residing on an adjoining farm in Ellington township; Clara Augusta, born July 20, 1866, wife of Charles Masche, residing two miles south of Hortonville; Edward Paul, born July 28, 1868, agent and operator for the Northwestern Railroad, at Michigamie, Michigan; Albert Franklin, born October 12, 1874, who is operating the old homestead; and Julia Paulina, born December 14, 1880, the wife of Henry Riesenweber, a farmer of Ellington township. Mr. Schulze is a Democrat in politics, and has served his township as road supervisor and clerk of the school board.
  	Schulze, Martin August Biography from History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; 1911.
  Died	25 Jan 1926	Greenville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I200912	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2015

  
  

  Father	Schulze, Daniel,   b. 25 Dec 1805, Brandenburg, Pruessen, Prussia, Germany ,   d. 16 Oct 1876  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Beernd, Louisa,   b. 13 May 1816,   d. Abt 1839, , , , Germany  (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F68869	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Steinke, Paulina,   b. 19 Apr 1844, Freiderichburg, Germany ,   d. 6 Dec 1931, Greenville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Married	21 Jul 1859
  Children	+ 1. Schulze, William M.,   b. 8 Aug 1863,   d. 9 Aug 1940, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 77 years) + 2. Schulze, Clara,   b. 20 Jul 1866,   d. 10 Aug 1924  (Age 58 years)   3. Schulze, Julia P.,   b. 14 Dec 1880, Greenville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 12 Feb 1945  (Age 64 years)
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2015
  Family ID	F68868	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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