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HENRY SCHAUB. For many years, or since boyhood, our subject has given the occupation of farming his principal time and attention, and that a life-time spent in pursuing one calling will result in substantial success especially it energy and perseverance are applied, is particularly true in his case. Like many other of the representative citizens of the county, Mr. Schaub is a native of Germany, his birth having occurred there on the 18th of February, 1823. His parents, Andrew and Julia Schaub, were also born in Germany, the father having been a soldier in the regular army prior to his marriage. He followed the occupation of farming and also gave some attention to the mining of lead. He died in 1833, and his wife in 1837.

There were five children in the parental family, all of whom are now residents of Germany with the exception of Henry Schaub, who remained in his native land until attaining his twentieth year. Up to that time he had heard much of the inducements offered to young men in America, and, this country becoming the Mecca of his ambition, hither he repaired as soon as circumstances permitted. He first secured employment in the coal and iron mines of Clarion County, Pa., but at the end of two years went from there to Galena, Ill., where he worked several mines on his own responsibility, but made little or no money until the last half of the fourth year, when he was very successful. He then decided to give up that business, and from there he came to St. Joseph, Mich., the two subsequent years being spent in a sawmill. This business he also gave up, and soon after rented a farm in Royalton Township, making sufficient money to enable him five years later to purchase the farm where he now lives. This tract of land consists of forty acres and is located six and a half miles south of St. Joseph and, when this was cleared of incumbrances he bought thirty-eight acres one mile west of where he is now residing.

During the long term of years that Mr. Schaub has resided in Berrien County, the people have had every opportunity to judge of his character, and no whisper has ever been breathed against his fair name. As we know, he started out with limited means in a strange country, and what he has accumulated is the result of great industry and perseverance. He says that he could never have accumulated so much in any other country, and that the United States is the country for a struggling young man to amount to something in.

Mr. Schaub was married in Galena, Ill., about 1858, to Miss Elizabeth Scheurer, who was born in Germany and is now enjoying a serene old age. To them a family of nine children was born, but only seven are living: William; Fred; Mary, wife of Charles Padgie; Louisa, Mrs. John Bucher; Julia, wife of William Arnt; John and Henry. Mr. Schaub has resided on the farm on which he is now living since 1862, and for a number of years after locating on this land he toiled early and late to clear it of timber, paying for it by cutting cord-wood on the land and selling it. He is a believer in the church of which his parents were members, the Evangelical Church. He is a policy-holder in the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company of Berrien County and is a man of much public spirit, always ready to assist in any movement tending to benefit the section in which he resides. He thoroughly understands the details of his calling, is a man of strong character, sound judgment, and has always set an example of honor and industry that all will do well to emulate.