Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Schaaf, F. Richard (Jr.) 1866 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

F. RICHARD SCHAAF, JR.

    F. Richard Schaaf, Jr., is filling the position of bookkeeper with the
Standard Oil Company and is an expert accountant. He also owns valuable real
estate in Robertsdale, and is a director of the First National Bank of Whiting.
While his life history is characterized by no exciting incidents, it,
nevertheless, proves the value of activity, energy and reliability in the
affairs of life and shows that the young man may occupy positions of great trust
and responsibility.

    Mr. Schaaf was born on the 15th of April, 1878, in Hamburg, Germany. His
father, F. Richard Schaaf, Sr., was a native of Saxony, Germany, was reared and
married there. Miss Catherine Schlueter becoming his wife. Her birth occurred
near Hamburg. In the year 1880 they left the fatherland and with their family
sailed for the new world, taking up their abode in Chicago. Mr. Schaaf, Sr., is
a blacksmith by trade, but in Chicago engaged in the hotel business. In 1890 he
removed to Whiting, where he also established a hotel, which he conducted for
about five years. On the expiration of that period he went to Robertsdale, a
suburb of Hammond, Indiana, where he engaged in the grocery business and also
became a real estate and insurance agent. Both he and his wife are still living
in North Hammond and are well known there. They are the parents of seven
children and with one exception all are yet living.

    F. Richard Schaaf, Jr., is the eldest child and was only about two years of
age when brought to the United States. His education was acquired in the public
schools of Chicago and in Bryant & Stratton's Business College of that city. In
1898 he became an employe of the Western Newspaper Syndicate of Chicago,
continuing in that service for about seven months, when he was offered the
position as bookkeeper by the Standard Oil Company at Whiting. His efficiency
won him promotion to the position of head bookkeeper of the paraffin department
six months after he had become an employe of the corporation. He is likewise a
director of the First National Bank at Whiting and he owns a large amount of
real estate in Robertsdale, having made judicious investments in property, from
which he has already realized good returns.

    Mr. Schaaf is well known in political circles in northwestern Indiana, and
when he was but twenty-one years of age he was elected a delegate to the
Republican state convention held at Indianapolis in 1900. He was also elected a
member of the county central committee and made vice chairman of the city
central committee of Hammond, Indiana. In the spring of 1904 he was nominated
for trustee of North township. He is also president of the Robertsdale fire
department, having filled this position for six years.

    On the 12th of June, 1901, Mr. Schaaf was united in marriage to Miss Mary A.
Roberts, a daughter of Mrs. Agnes Roberts of Robertsdale, and they are well
known in Lake county, where they have many friends. Fraternally Mr. Schaaf is
connected with the Masons, belonging to Whiting Lodge No. 613, F. & A. M., of
which he is now treasurer. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
He is a man of considerable influence, aiding in molding public thought, action
and opinion. The interests which have made claim upon his time and attention
have been such as tend to the betterment of the conditions of mankind and for
the stimulus of material progress or the improvement of the city.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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