Frank Schaub Biography

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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 446-447

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FRANK SCHAUB, the mayor of De Smet, Kingsbury county, South Dakota, is 
a leading merchant of that city and is one of the most prominent 
citizens.  He deals in trunks, harness, and leather goods of all 
descriptions.  Mr. Schaub was born in Baden, Germany, December 8, 1855.  
His parents, Frank X. and Helena Schaub, were both natives of Germany, 
where they were born in 1821.  They came to the United States in 1868, 
and settled in Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where both resided until 
the time of their deaths.  There were five children in the family: 
Robert, Andreas, Lambert, Helena and Frank, the subject of this sketch.  
Frank received a good education in his native country, where he 
attended the common and graded schools for six years.  He came with his 
parents to America, and for the next four years studied in the public 
schools of Blue Earth county, completing his education with a course in 
St. Mary's school, at Mankato, conducted by the Sisters of Charity.  At 
the age of sixteen he began to learn harnessmaking in the shop of Henry 
Guth, at Mankato, Minnesota, and, being a bright and apt pupil, soon 
acquired the trade.  In 1875 he went to Faribault, in the same state, 
where he worked for a short time at his craft.  The same year he 
arrived in St. Clair, Minnesota, and opened up a shop for himself. 
There he remained in business until 1878, when he went to Sherburn, 
Minnesota.  At that point he started up again, and for four years 
conducted a very successful harness shop, but in 1882, believing that 
more opportunities lay in the way of those who went toward the Dakotas, 
he sold out and came to De Smet.  He began his present business in a 
very small way, and its growth in the past few years has certainly been 
a most gratifying one.  In fact it is already considered one of the 
leading industries of the city and Mr. Schaub has left no uncertain 
impression in regard to his ability as a business man.  In 1896 Mr. 
Schaub, in order to better fit himself for the handling of the large 
and intricate system of accounts necessary with his expanding trade, 
began a course of private instructions, by correspondence, in the 
Bryant & Stratton Business college, of Buffalo, New York. He purposes 
finishing this course during the winter of '97-98.  Mr. Schaub is 
independent politically, and was elected a councilman of DeSmet in 
1890.  In 1896 he became mayor of the city of DeSmet, which office he 
holds at present.  He has made a faithful municipal chief, and his 
administration has been so far a very popular one.  Mr. Schaub is a 
member of the I. O.O. F., and several other clubs and societies of 
DeSmet.

Mr. Schaub married Miss Josephine Perault at St. Clair, Minnesota, 
November 30, 1875.  Mrs. Schaub was born at Hastings, Minnesota, on the 
14th of April, 1859, and is a daughter of Peter and Mary (Landraush) 
Perault.  Mr. and Mrs. Schaub are the parents of seven children, Pearl, 
Arthur, deceased, Middy, Joseph, deceased, Lula, Frankie and Carleton.