My Genealogy Hound

JOHN R. SCHROADER was born in this county, July 29, 1853. His father, Obadiah A. Schroader, was born near Bowling Green, this State, January 22, 1829, a son of John G. and Spicey (Amos) Schroader. John G. was a native of Maryland, a farmer by occupation, and came to Kentucky when a boy. O. A. Schroader was reared on a farm, and only permitted to attend school during the worst winter weather. At eighteen years of age he began farming for himself, and at twenty began learning the blacksmith trade; in 1849 he came to Murray and opened a shop, and after extended his work to the manufacture of wagons, in which he has continued to the present time, now having a well-established reputation and trade in that line, and employing a number of hands. In a financial way he has been very successful, having a farm of 300 acres, aside from his business interest, which is the result of his personal industry and good management. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and takes an interest in the temperance cause. His wife was a Miss Susan C. Poole, a native of Murray, Ky.; she is a member in good standing of the Methodist Church. They have been blessed with eleven children, five of whom survive. Their son, subject of this sketch, was given a good literary education, and in 1874 began the study of law, and was admitted to practice a year later. He is at present county examiner, a position he has filled since 1875. In the temperance cause he is devoting his voice and influence for its success.