Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Judge Frederick SCHNELLE

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889; 
Published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 838, 839

Judge Frederick Schnelle, associate judge of Dade County Court from the 
Western District, was elected in November, 1888.  He is a successful 
farmer and stock-raiser of Grant Township, and was born in Prussia in 
1836.  His parents, Henry and Mary (Linback) Schnelle, were natives of 
Prussia, the father born in 1808, and the mother in about 1811.  They 
were married in their native country, and in 1852 came to the United 
States, settling in New York, and there remained until 1854, when they 
moved to Mason County Ill.  Here the mother died in 1855.  Mr. Schnelle 
afterward married Mrs. Henrietta Linback, sister to his first wife.  She
died in 1882, and two years later Mr. Schnelle came, with his son, 
Frederick Schnelle, to Dade County, where he died July 3, 1887.  He was 
a farmer by occupation.  He served three years in the Prussian army.  
His father, Carl Schnelle, spent all his life in Prussia, and was a 
well-to-do farmer.  Judge Frederick Schnelle was the second of three 
sons and five daughters, two sons and one daughter now living.  He 
attended the common schools in his native country until fourteen years
of age, after which he came, with his parents, to the United States, 
and attended school for two months in New York, obtaining a fair knowledge
of the English language.  He went with his parents to Illinois, and in 
1861 was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Behrens, a native of Prussia,
where her parents died with she was quite young.  She came to the United 
States with friends in 1859.  By her marriage to Mr. Schnelle she became
the mother of twelve children, five sons and five daughters now living, 
all of whom were educated in the English and German languages.  Judge 
Schnelle resided in Mason County, Ill., until 1884, when he came to Dade 
County, Mo., and has since lived on his present farm, which consists of 
296 acres, situated six miles southwest of Lockwood, all the result of 
his own hard labor.  He is engaged in farming and stock-raising, his 
stock being short-horned cattle and Poland China hogs.  For seven years
he was township collector of Mason County, Ill.  He is a stanch Democrat,
and, although Dade County is largely republican, he was elected to the 
judgeship by a majority of fifty-one votes.  No further test is necessary
as a proof of his popularity and ability, he being the only Democrat 
elected to a county office in Dade County.  He cast his first presidential
vote for Stephen A. Douglas, in 1860.  He and family belong to the Lutheran
Church, and he is one of the leading citizens of the county.

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