Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Schultz, Christian S. 1842 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

CHRISTIAN S. SCHULTZ

THE life story of Christian S. Schultz, of "Upland Farm," six miles north of
Pawnee Rock, stamps, him as more enterprising and skilfull than the average
immigrant from Poland, West Russia, who came with him in 1875, and settled the
Menonite colony one mile east of Dundee. He was born on March 11, 1842, on a
farm in Russia-Poland, attended school for about one month and at the age of
fifteen left his home for South Russia. He worked for two years on a farm to
accumulate enough to clothe himself for the next three years, and then
apprenticed himself to a manufacturer and learned to be a blacksmith and
wheelwright. This took three years and he worked for his board; but in 1862 he
began drawing pay, and this was increased from time to time during the next
twelve years with the factory, until he became one of their very best workmen
and the best paid. During ithis time he built a carriage for the flirm which
took first prize in competition with the builders of other nations at the Worlds
Fair held in St Petersburg in 1871.

[photo] Farm Home of Christian S. Schultz

In 1874 he came to America and worked for one year in a wagon factory in
Latonia, Ohio, and in 1875 came to Barton County with neighbors from the section
of his birth place and became a member of the settlement near Dundee. At that
date he was thirty-three years of age and by strict economy had saved from his
earnings about $3,000, and with this he bought a quarter section for the use of
the colony; built the best house in the settlement, and assisted others less
fortunate to make their start in this new world. When this, colony disbanded he
purchased the hundred and sixty acres called "Upland Farm," and this he has
improved with a large two story frame, with nine large rooms, a large barn and
other outbuildings, and it is one of the best stocked and best cultivated tracts
of the neighborhood. He also owns another quarter in Pawnee Rock township; a
quarter in Liberty township and another near Greensburg, Kansas, a total of six
hundred and forty acres.

   One year after his arrival in this country Christian S. Schultz and Miss Lena
Rudiger, of Russia-Poland, were married in Barton County, Kansas, and to them
fourteen children were born, twelve of whom survive. They are: Samuel, C., Henry
and Abram Schultz and Mrs. Lizzie Dirks, all of Pawnee Rock township; Mrs. Eva
Base and Mary RIchert, near Greensburg; Mrs. Minnie Boese, Dundee; Mrs. Susan
Smith, Pawnee County; Miss Tena Schultz, a nurse in a hospital at Newton, and
Peter, Lena and Martha Schultz, who reside at home.

  Mrs. Lena Rudiger Schultz died on March 29, 1904, and lies buried in the
Dundee cemetery, mourned by her husband and children and a large circle of
neighbors and friends by whom she was loved and respected after many years of
association in this new land.



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