Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Schell, John 1857 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN SCHELL. Our subject combines the art of teaching with agricultural work. He
is the owner of a good farm comprising eighty-five acres on sections 25 and 36,
Arcadia Township, Lapeer County. He was born in County Middlesex, Canada, May
30, 1857, and is a son of Alexander and Catherine (De Groat) Schell. The father
was a native of Michigan, having been born in Kalamazoo County, in 1821. When
about twenty-two years of age he moved to Canada and settled in Middlesex
County, making that his home for about twenty years. He was a carpenter and
joiner by trade.

  Our subject's father returned to Michigan and settled in Dryden Township, when
his son John was about a year and a half old. He remained there a short time and
then went to Goodland Township and located on an unimproved farm. He enlisted in
the War of the Rebellion in January, 1863, joining Company B, Twenty-second
Michigan Infantry. He died in the Nashville Hospital in the fall of 1863, from
an illness previously contracted, and is interred in that Southern city.

  Our subject's mother was a daughter of Peter De Groat, a native of Canada. Her
paternal grand-sire came from France. Mrs. Schell still survives and is at the
present time sixty-four years of age. She was married to our subject's father
forty-five years ago. Being the eldest son of the family our subject was obliged
to assume charge of his father's affairs at his decease. He attended the
district schools until he obtained a teacher's certificate at the age of
twenty-two years. Since then he has taught for ten years and has been very
successful. He is a constant attendant at the summer Normal and keeps abreast of
the times.

  John Schell was married July 3, 1889, to Miss Annette Utley, a daughter of
Timothy Utley, a farmer of prominence in this vicinity. Mrs. Schell was born in
Dryden Township. She is the mother of one child, a daughter, to whom has been
given the name of Mina and who was born March 29, 1891. Mr. Schell is a member
of the Knights of the Maccabees. Politically he is a Democrat and as a mark of
the trust reposed in him by his party, he has been elected to fill various
township offices. He is now Township Treasurer and for eight years was School
Inspector. He was also Drainage Commissioner and has held a township office ever
since casting his first vote. Besides having the active management of his farm,
his work as a teacher and his local political interest, Mr. Schell has been a
successful canvasser and has sold fruit trees in this vicinity. His paternal
grandsire, Henry Schell, was a soldier in the War of 1812, being only sixteen
years of age when he enlisted. He was wounded and discharged on account of
disability. The family is of Holland-Dutch ancestry. He of whom we write stands
high in the good graces of all who know him and is one of the leading young men
of the township.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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