Louis E. Schulze Biography

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LOUIS E. SCHULZE is one of the commissioners of Hamlin county, and 
among the foremost of its successful and progressive agriculturists. 
Mr. Schulze,who resides on section 5, Castlewood township, was born 
November 19, 1864, in Dodge county, Wisconsin, and is a son of 
Frederick and Gusta Schulze, both natives of Germany.  His father was 
born January 24, 1833, and was a farmer by occupation. He came to this 
country in the fall of 1843 and spent the following winter in 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, removing from that place in the spring of 1844 to 
Dodge county, in the same state, where he was married to Miss Gusta 
Dorenfeld, who was born May 3, 1836, and came to this country upon the 
same vessel that brought her husband. Mr. Schulze died on the 22d of 
May, 1897, and Mrs. Schulze followed her husband April 13, 1898. There 
were eleven children in the family, seven sons and four daughters.  Our 
subject, who was the fourth in point of birth, spent the earlier years 
of his life in his native county, and in March, 1883,went to South 
Dakota, and for two years lived with his brother, Fred, who owned a 
farm in Hamlin county. When twenty-one years old he bought a quarter 
section of section 5, Castlewood township, from his father, who had 
purchased it some years before.  The latter also purchased, in 1879, 
the southeast quarter of section 31, Sheridan township, Codington 
county, South Dakota, which is now owned by our subject's brother, 
Fred.  Mr. Louis Schulze has been adding to his possessions steadily 
year by year, and to-day has one of the largest and finest farms in 
Hamlin county, comprising eight hundred and fifty-three acres, most of 
which is under cultivation.  The place is finely improved, with a 
handsome dwelling house, good barns, outbuildings, granaries, etc., 
with the latest machinery and appliances, and, in fact, everything 
necessary to the equipment of the strictly modern farm. Mr. Schulze is 
yet a young man, and, considering his years, his success has been truly 
remarkable, though it merely exemplifies the well-known fact that 
ability, industry and energy will win, regardless of years or 
circumstances.  In politics our subject is a Populist, though he was in 
former years a Republican.  He has always been prominent in local 
public affairs, and is at present a member of the Hamlin county board 
of commissioners.  He is a member of the A. O. U. W and the Lutheran 
church.

On the 25th of January, 1894, Mr. Schulze was united in marriage to 
Miss. Ida M. Schultz, at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.  Mrs. Schulze was born 
September 4, 1870, near Harrison, Dodge county, Wisconsin, and is a 
daughter of William and Minnie Schultz, both natives of Germany, where 
they still reside.  Mr. and Mrs. Schulze are the parents of one child, 
Lulu.