Sullivan-Schuylkill-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....SCHAAD, John 1834 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
       JOHN SCHAAD, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Mildred,
  Pennsylvania, was for many years actively identified with the business interests
  of Sullivan county, but is now living retired. As a young man of twenty-four
  years he came to America, and with no capital started out in a strange land to
  overcome the difficulties and obstacles in the path to prosperity. His youthful
  dreams have been realized, and in their happy fulfillment he sees the fitting
  reward of his earnest toil.
  
      Mr. Schaad was born in Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland, March 11, 1834, and
  received a good education in his native country. About 1858 he came to America
  and located in New Jersey. He manifested his loyalty to his adopted country by
  enlisting at Philadelphia, in 1862, in Company I, Sixty-eighth Pennsylvania
  Volunteer Infantry, and served for one year, being discharged on account of
  disability. He then settled in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, where he worked
  for a short time in the mines and then engaged in the meat business. Selling out
  his interests there in 1865, he came to Sullivan county and embarked in the
  saloon business at Dushore, but a year later removed to a farm in Colley
  township, which he operated for one year. He then purchased a farm in Bradford
  county, and in connection with its cultivation engaged in the meat business for
  two years, selling out at the end of that time. He next conducted a meat market
  in Bernice until 1880, when he erected Schaad's hotel at Mildred and carried it
  on until 1893, selling it that year to his son, John C. Near his hotel property
  he built a large distillery, which he successfully operated until August 23,
  1898, when he sold all his business interests to his sons, John C., William J.
  and Frank F., and with his wife sailed for Switzerland, where he passed some
  time amid the scenes of his childhood, and returned in the fall. The vessel in
  which he returned encountered twelve days of heavy storm, the same that wrecked
  the steamship Portland and so many other vessels, but his vessel came through in
  safety.
  
      Mr. Schaad was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Mosier, a daughter of
  Christian Mosier, of Colley township, Sullivan county and to them have been born
  seven children: John C.; William J.; Katherine, deceased; Henry J., a brakeman
  on the Lehigh Valley Railroad; Frank F.; George P., who is in the employ of
  Scouten, Lee & Company at Parsons, Pennsylvania; and Anna L.
  
      John C. Schaad, the eldest son, was born in Colley township, March 15, 1867,
  was educated in the public schools of the county, and at the age of twenty-one
  years entered the mines at Bernice, where he was employed for six months. He
  then secured a position in Philadelphia with N. G. Taylor & Company, plumbers,
  for whom he worked for two years. Returning home, he bought his father's hotel
  and has since successfully conducted that well-known hostelry. It is one of the
  largest in the county and enjoys an excellent patronage. As previously stated,
  he and his brothers, William J. and Frank F., purchased the Schaad distillery in
  August, 1898, and they also bought equal interests in the hotel property. Each
  year the distillery places on the market three hundred barrels of the famous
  "Straight Rye Schaad Whisky," and it has proved quite profitable.
  
      On the 11th of February, 1892, John C. Schaad was united in marriage with
  Miss Henrietta, daughter of D. G. Goodin, of Cherry township, and they now have
  three children: Grace L., born September 16, 1893; Joseph G., born October 13,
  1894; and Joshua G., born May 21, 1898. The parents are members of the Lutheran
  church, while socially Mr. Schaad is identified with Bernice Lodge, No. 962, I.
  O. O. F., and politically supports the Republican party. He is an enterprising,
  wide-wake business man, and has already met with excellent success in his
  undertakings.
  
      William J. Schaad was born in Sullivan county, October 29, 1869, attended
  its public schools, and on attaining his majority entered the employ of Scouten,
  Lee & Company, of Wilkesbarre, where he worked his way upward to the position of
  manager. He, too, is an ardent Republican in politics, and is a member of the
  Patriotic Order Sons of America and the Sons of Veterans. He wedded a Miss
  Mosier, by whom he had two children, Cassie and George; but she is now deceased.
  
       Frank F. Schaad, born at Bernice, May 27, 1873, also pursued his studies in
  the public schools, and on reaching manhood went to Parsons, Pennsylvania, where
  he too, was in the employ of Scouten, Lee & Company for one year. Returning home
  he worked in the hotel, and is now successfully engaged in business with his
  brothers as a member of the firm of Schaad Brothers. In his political
  affiliations he is a Democrat.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
          Extracted from: 
            
          History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
          by Thomas J. Ingham
            
          Compendium of Biography
            
          The Lewis Publishing Company
          Chicago: 1899
    
    
  
  
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