Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Schrader, H. F. 1860 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

H. F. SCHRADER.

    H. F. Schrader, superintendent of the Union hospital at New Ulm, this
county, and one of the best-known and most progressive citizens of that city, is
a native of Germany, but has been a resident of this section of Minnesota since
the year 1868, he having come to America in that year with his parents, Henry
and Dorothy Schrader, who located on a farm near the village of Lafayette, in
the neighboring county of Nicollet, where they established their home and became
substantial and influential members of that community.

    Henry Schrader was a wagon maker in his native land. Upon coining to
Minnesota in 1868 he homesteaded eighty acres of land in the neighborhood of
Lafayette, Nicollet county, and had just enough money left to buy a yoke of
oxen. Thus equipped he entered upon the task of clearing his homestead tract and
bringing the same under cultivation. He and his wife were energetic and
industrious and their children were helpful and it was not long before
prosperity began to smile upon their efforts. Mr. Schrader added to his land
holdings as he prospered and at the time of his retirement from the farm in 1893
was the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres. Following his
retirement he made his home in New Ulm where he died in 1899. His widow is still
living in that city. They were the parents of seven children, of whom five are
still living, two of these, William and the subject of this sketch, being
residents of New Ulm.

     H. F. Schrader was born on July 9, 1860, and was thus eight years old when
his parents came to Minnesota. He received his education in the schools of
Lafayette and remained on the home place until he had attained his majority,
after which he rented a farm and began operations on his own account. When his
father died in 1899 he bought the interests of the other heirs in the home farm
and there extended his agricultural operations and engaged largely in stock
raising, becoming quite successful on his well-managed place of three hundred
and ninety acres, being regarded as one of the most substantial farmers of that
part of the county. He also took an earnest interest in civic and educational
affairs and for years was clerk of his home school district. In 1908 Mr.
Schrader retired from the active labors of the farm and he and his family moved
to New Ulm, where they now reside. Mr. Schrader was one of the most active
promoters of the beneficent movement which led to the erection of the fine new
Union hospital at New Ulm and is one of the directors of the same. In February,
1915, he was elected superintendent of the hospital and has since then been
serving in that capacity, rendering a valuable service to the community in that
connection.

     In 1884 H. F. Schrader was united in marriage to Emma B. Getch, daughter of
August Getch and wife, and they have two adopted daughters, Bessie and Miriam.
Mr. and Mrs. Schrader are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at New Ulm,
Mr. Schrader being secretary of the board of trustees of that church, a position
he has held ever since he moved to the city. For fourteen years previously he
had been secretary of the Sunday school of the Methodist church at Lafayette and
has always taken a warm interest in church work; in all he has been secretary of
Sunday schools in the Methodist Episcopal church for twenty-three years. He is a
Republican and gives a good citizen's attention to local politics, but has never
been included in the office-seeking class. He was secretary and manager of the
Lafayette and Bernadotte Creamery Company for four years, from 1899 to 1902,
inclusive.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana



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