Bio of Joseph C. SCHIERTS (b.1876), Wabasha Co., MN

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History of Wabasha County, Minnesota, 1920

Joseph C. Schierts, a leading citizen of Kellogg, where he is carrying 
on a profitable furniture business, was born in Glasgow Township, Wabasha 
County, Minn., June 7, 1876, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Rohler) 
Schierts.  The father, who was born in Austria, came to the United States 
in 1854 with his parents, who first settled in Wisconsin, but in the 
following year he came to Wabash County, Minnesota, and engaged in 
farming in Glasgow Township, continuing in that occupation untio 1900, 
when he retired and took up his residence in Wabasha, whre he is now 
living.  His wife was born in Germany.  Joseph C. Schierts in his boyhood 
attended district school in Glasgow Township, and was employed on his 
parents' farm until 1900, then farmed two years for himself, then clerked 
one year for M. A. Odink, then one year for George Dickman at Plainview.  
In 1904 he came to Kellogg and engaged in the lumber business as manager 
of the Wabasha (now Bottsford) Lumber Co.  He was also engaged in the 
sawmill business with Jake Howe for eight years, and followed threshing 
for 13 years.  In 1913 he started his present furniture store in Kellogg, 
and in the seven years that have since elapsed has built up an excellent 
trade and established a reputation as a progressive and square dealing 
business man.  He is also a stockholder in, and a director of, the State 
Bank of Kellogg, and a stockholder in the John costello Co. (mercantile), 
of which he was treasurer until April, 1920, when the business was sold 
to the Kellogg Co-operative Store Company.  For a considerable period a 
part of his time has been devoted to the public service.  For many years 
he was assessor of Glasgow Township, and for several years clerk of
Greenfield Township.  Elected treasurer of the village of Kellogg in 1913, 
he has since continued to hold that office, having been re-elected every 
two years; and for six years he was clerk of Consolidated School District
No. 31.  He is a member of St. Agnes Catholic church of Kellogg, of which 
he was secretary several years, and belongs also to St. Joseph's Society,
the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters.  He owns the 
farm of his parents, on which he was born, and which has remained in the 
family since they settled on it, having been only twice transferred.  Mr. 
Schierts was married October 11, 1904, to Sarah M. (Calvin) Odell, widow 
of Bert Odell, of Kellogg, and daughter of George and Frances (Canfield) 
Calvin, her father being a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of 
Pennsylvania.  The latter was one of the early school teachers in Wabasha 
County, and was one of the ten children of John and Margaret (Greer) 
Calvin (sic), natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent, who settled in 
1855 at what is now called Canfield Springs, in cook's Valley, Wabasha 
County, Minn.  After the death of her first husband, George Calvin, she 
married, in 1876, Martin H. Tobias, of Kellogg, Wabasha County.  Mrs. 
Sarah M. Calvin Odell, by her first husband, Mr. Odell, had two daughter, 
Vera M. and Bessie, the latter being now the wife of Matthew Arens.  
Vera M., a graduate of the Minnesota State Normal School, was a school 
teacher for four years, after which she entered the office of her step-
father, Joseph C. Schierts, where she is now employed.
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