Bio of Schilling, Peter (b.1843) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Schilling, Peter, Watopa, farmer, is a native ofGermany, Ballendorf,
Prussia, being the place, and November 11, 1843, the time, of his birth.
His early life was that of a German farmer's son, and he left school at
the age of twelve. When seventeen years old he set out alone for America,
and was two months between Antwerp and New York on the sailing vessel
Elizabeth Hamilton. The first winter was spent on a stock farm near
Buffalo, and next spring went to Sauk county, Wisconsin, engaging in farm
labor. In 1866 he came to Minnesota, and during the following winter
purchased one-fourth of section 30, where his home has been ever since. He
now owns one-half of the section, and the same spirit of enterprise that
prompted him to set out for a strange continent in youth still actuates
him. He has cleared one hundred and eighty acres of his land of its
natural growth of grubs, and is engaged in grain raising. He has been four
times elected town supervisor, serving as chairman in 1882-3. His
political affiliations are with the democratic party, and all the members
of the family are included in the Highland Catholic church. In 1867 he
married Elizabeth Howe, a sister of George Howe, whose parentage and
nativity are elsewhere given in this work. Their children are christened
in order of birth, as follows: Mary, John, Margaret, Peter, Anthony, Jacob
and Matthias.