Bio of SCHROEDER, Arthur J. (b.1889), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 413-414
ARTHUR J. SCHROEDER
Arthur J. Schroeder, secretary and treasurer of the North East Feed Mill
Company, is a native of Minneapolis, born on the 20th of July, 1889. His father,
John A. Schroeder, was born in Germany and came to the United States at the age
of sixteen years, about 1880. He located in Minneapolis and engaged in the
cooperage business for three years. At the termination of that time he became
interested in the firm of Riedel & Schroeder Feed Mill, and in 1894 the
enterprise was incorporated as the North East Feed Mill Company, of which he
became secretary and treasurer, which positions he acceptably filled until his
death in 1915. Mrs. Schroeder was born in New Ulm, Minnesota, and is now
fifty-four years of age. Her mother is also living. To the union of Mr. and Mrs.
Schroeder five sons and five daughters were born, Arthur J. being the eldest.
The public schools of Minneapolis afforded Arthur J. Schroeder his early
education and subsequently he enrolled in St. John's University, where he was a
student one year, and later he attended the De La Salle Institute. After putting
his textbooks aside he Engaged in railroad work as telegraph operator on the
Northern Pacific line. He was with that road three years and then became
associated with the Union Pacific and the
Kansas City Southern, and subsequently was in the employ of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for some time. In 1913 Mr. Schroeder became associated with
the North East Feed Mill and on the 1st of June, 1915, shortly after the death
of his father, he was made secretary and treasurer of the company. His brother,
Joseph F., is vice president and another brother, John S. is superintendent. The
concern handles grain and grinds grain for feed, and enjoys an extensive and
ever-increasing patronage. There is no phase of the business with which Mr.
Schroeder is not thoroughly familiar and he is most satisfactorily discharging
the many duties devolving upon him.
Mr. Schroeder is a veteran of the World war, having enlisted in the Six Hundred
and Fourth Engineering Corps, on the 1st of October, 1917, and being attached to
the Fifth Army Corps. He was stationed in Minneapolis for two months, was then
sent to Washington, D. C., for one month, was at Glenn Burnie Camp, Baltimore,
Maryland, for two months, and in August, 1918, sailed overseas, where he saw
active service in the Meuse-Argonne sector, and received his honorable discharge
from Camp Grant, on the 1st of July, 1919.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Schroeder has followed an independent course in
politics, giving his support to the man he thinks best fitted for the office
without regard to party principles. Fraternally he is identified with the
Knights of Columbus, and he is a consistent communicant of the Catholic church.