Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Schoenleber, F S 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

F. S. Schoenleber, M. S. A., D. 0., D. V. S.

One of the most efficient and capable representatives of his profession is Dr. 
Schoenleber, who is now engaged in practice in Morris. He was born in Allen 
township, LaSalle county, Illinois, August 6, 1862, and is a son of Jacob and 
Louisa (Saemisch) Schoenleber. His parents were natives of Germany, but were 
married in Livingston county, Illinois, and located in Allen township, where 
the father became a prosperous farmer. He died at the age of seventy-one 
years, in 1896, but his widow still survives and is now living in Ransom, 
Illinois. They became the parents of six children who grew to years of 
maturity: Lewis K., Julia, Mary A., Francis S., John J. and Emma L. The 
youngest son is now deceased.

The Doctor was reared on his father’s farm, and in the public schools acquired 
his preliminary education, which was supplemented by study in the Morris 
Normal. He afterward engaged in teaching for two years in Nettle Creek 
township, Grundy county. He then entered the Iowa State Agricultural College, 
at Ames, where he was graduated in 1885. He also took a post-graduate degree 
in the same institution in 1887; and his ability and standing are indicated by 
the fact that in 1885 he was appointed by the board of trustees to the 
position of farm foreman. He had previously won high rank as an educator, 
having been principal of the Ransom schools in 1884-85, while at the time of 
his graduation in the agricultural college he was holding the position of 
professor of German avid natural science in the Norton Normal and Scientific 
Academy at Wilton Junction, Iowa.  Three months after his graduation he 
resigned that position in order to accept the one proffered him by his alma 
mater. In 1888 he became associate editor of the Orange Judd Partner, one of 
the leading agricultural journals of the country, published in Chicago,—which 
journal was founded by Orange Judd, also the founder of the American 
Agriculturist. Dr. Schoenleber continued his connection with that paper until 
1890, and during the winter of 1889-90 he took a course in the Chicago 
Veterinary College, in which he was graduated. In the spring of 1890 the 
Doctor came to Morris, where he has practiced veterinary surgery; but during a 
portion of the years 1890-91 he was in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1896 he was 
appointed to the chair of anatomy and histology in McKillip’s Veterinary 
College, of Chicago, which position he now holds, and in that institution he 
has also been dean since 1897. For the past two years he has been assistant 
state veterinarian, and his marked ability has gained him a rank second to 
none in the circles of the profession.  In the winter of 1898-99, in order to 
gain a still greater knowledge of the science of medicine, he pursued the 
sophomore course in Bennett Medical College, of Chicago.

In 1891 Dr. Schoenleber formed a partnership with C. R. Savage and opened a 
livery stable in Morris. The following year he purchased his partner’s 
interest and has since conducted the business alone. In 1895 he erected a new 
stable and built an addition to it in 1899, and now has a fine large barn. In 
1898 he leased this to John Ray. In August, 1899, he was offered the position 
of dean of the veterinary school of the National Medical University, at 
Chicago. Resigning his position at the McKillip College, he took up the work 
of organizing the above school, at the same time taking his junior year in the 
medical school of the university, with the course in osteopathy, thus 
investigating the different systems of medicine,—allopathic, homeopathic, 
eclectic and osteopathic. He is also registered in Illinois as an osteopath.

In 1892 the Doctor married Lillian M. Miller, a daughter of T. W. and Abbie 
Miller, of Grundy county. He is quite active in social circles, being a 
Knights Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of the Globe, the Knights of 
Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his professional career 
he has achieved most gratifying success, steadily working his way upward until 
he ranks among the foremost representatives of the profession of veterinary 
surgery. In manner he is pleasant and genial and his many excellent qualities 
have endeared him to a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

Additional Comments:
Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p556-558


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