Bio of Schwirtz, John Wabasha Co., MN
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Schwirtz, John, hardware, general merchandise, and farming tools and
machinery. This business is located on north side Main street, midway
between Pembroke and Alleghaney streets, and occupies two storerooms,
fronting fifty feet on Main street and extending one hundred feet toward
the river in the rear. The hardware house and farming tools and machinery
was established in 1875, and the general merchandise was added two years
later, when Mr. Schwirtz married Mrs. John Duke, and the general
merchandising establishment she had been successfully conducting since her
first husband's death was consolidated with the hardware business. The
stock as thus consolidated is a very complete one in all its departments.
The general merchandise department is still presided over by Mrs.
Schwirtz, who gives her special attention to all the details of the
business with which she is so perfectly familiar, having been actively
interested in its management for over twenty years. The business gives
employment to a force of six persons, and trade is about the same as last
year. Mr. Schwirtz is a native of Luxembourg, Europe. Came to America in
1855, and for the past twenty-six years has been a resident of this
county, spending the first ten years of his life in Wabasha, on his farm
in Glasgow township. The rest of the time he has been a resident of the
city. Mr. Schwirtz has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was
wedded in 1858, died in 1876, leaving six children: Emma, born October 27,
1858; George, born December 10, 1860; Lizzie, born October 4, `862;
Olillia, born August 29, 1864; John, born October 26, 1866; Anna, born
December 13, 1865. April 10, 1877, Mr. Schwirtz married Eliza, widow of
John Duke, for many years in business in this city, who died here in 1876.
War of Rebellion (Civil War)