HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                          89

tian work until disabled by affliction. When her husband entered the
active ministry as an itinerant, in 1860, she willingly and cheerfully ac-
cepted the sacrifices, labors and anxieties of an itinerant minister’s life,
sharing with him the defeats and victories of the glorious warfare which.
with her, ended in triumph over death and in a victor’s crown.
    The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are: Addie G., who was born
in 1875 and died in 1882: Frederick R., born February 10, 1887, cashier
of the office of the 0. S. L. Railroad Company, and is a resident of
Elgin, Oregon; Bertha Lucile, born November 7, 1879, married Jesse A.
Miller, and died in February, 1906; and Stanley H., born in September,
1886, is in the government reclamation service at Natchez, Washington.
    Mr. Kennedy has been more or less associated with farmers’ insti-
tutes and has served as president of the Clay County Farmers’ Institute
for four years. He is an active worker for the Republican party, and
is a member of Governor Mount Post, G. A. R., of Center Point, of which
he was one of the organizers, and has served in all of its offices, and since
1906 has held the office of patriotic lecturer. He is also a member of
the Uniformed Rank of Knights of Pythias, and is a Mason of high
standing, affiliating with the Scottish Rite, of Indianapolis, the Knights
Templar of Brazil, and the blue lodge, No. at Center Point, Indiana.
He is also an earnest and efficient member of the United Brethren
church, active in the work of Christianity. He has served as either a
teacher or as superintendent of the Sunday-school during the past forty
years, and was president of the Clay County Association for four years.
Mr. Kennedy has in his possession one of the old parchment deeds,
executed August 1, 1839, under the hand and seal of President Martin
Van Buren.

    FRED SCHULTZ.—FOr many years Fred Schultz was numbered among
the prosperous and progressive agriculturists of Cass township, but now,
in partnership with William W. Huber, whose sketch appears elsewhere in
this work, he is successfully engaged in the milling business at Poland.
A son of William Schultz, he was born September 19, 1862, in Owen
county, Indiana, where he received a practical common school education.
    A native of Germany, William Schultz emigrated to the United States
in 1829, being then about eleven years old, his birth having occurred in
1818. He subsequently located in Owen county, Indiana, where he entered
a tract of wild land and from which he improved a good homestead.
Industrious and thrifty, he became very successful as a farmer, and was
an extensive landholder, owning land in both Owen and Clay counties.
He died on his home farm in Owen county in 1901 at a venerable age.
He was twice married. He married first a Miss Kattman, of German
descent, and of their union three daughters and two sons were born, Fred,
the subject of this brief sketch, being the youngest child. By his second
marriage he had five children also, three sons and two daughters.
    Becoming well drilled in agriculture when Young, Fred Schultz re-
mained at home until twenty-three years old, when he moved to Cass
township and rented his father’s farm, of which he had charge for a
number of years, in his operations being exceedingly prosperous. In 1901
Mr. Schultz bought an interest in the mill of Mr. Huher at Poland and
has since been associated with him in business, being part proprietor of
one of the leading industries of the place. This millsite is one of the oldest
in this section of Clay county, and is liberally patronized, its customers
coining here from many miles around.