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From History of North Washington, published 1903, now in public domain. 
Submitted by Candy L. Grubb March 5, 1997. Both above notices must remain 
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HENRY SCHULENBURG

	Henry Schulenburg, who is interested in farming and stock-breeding, 
and resides nine miles west of Newport, Stevens county, is a native of 
Germany. He was born in Hanover, June 3, 1840, the son of Henry and Mary 
Schulenburg, who lived and died in Hanover. The parents of our subject were 
connected with quite wealthy people in Germany, and the paternal grandfather 
was a distinguished and wealthy resident of England. Our subject had three 
brothers  and one sister, Johan, Mary, William and George.
	In Hanover our subject received an excellent church schooling, and 
at the age of nineteen years he began learning the trade of a stone mason, 
which occupation he followed with the exception of the time passed in the 
army, which was seven years and eight months. In 1863 he entered service in 
the German-Den-mark war, in  1866 he was in the Prussian-Hanover war, in 
1870-1 in the Franco-German war, and in 1876 came to the United States. He 
located in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, remained two years, going thence to 
Wonewoc, same state, for three years, and then to St. Paul, Minnesota, where 
he remained eleven years. In 1889 he came to Spokane county, Washington, and 
two years subsequently to Stevens county, locating on the farm where he now 
lives. At that period the country was a wilderness. Mr. Schulenburg could 
stand in his doorway and see droves of deer, and in one band he counted 
twenty-five. His location was in the vicinity of an old beaver dam, and the 
animals were so numerous that the ditches he dug would be filled up each 
night, flooding his land. Our subject now has one hundred acres under 
cultivation, devoted mainly to tame hay, of which he raises excellent crops. 
The property is fenced, and he has a good dwelling house and substantial 
barn, twenty-four by one hundred with a capacity of one hundred and five 
tons of hay. He raises stock, and has a water supply amply sufficient to 
irrigate his entire place within ten minutes. Mr. Schulenburg  was married 
in 1865, to Dora Buhr, the daughter of Henry and Dora Buhr, natives of 
Germany. She was born in Ellensdorf, Hanover, Germany, and the marriage 
ceremony was performed in Epstof, Hanover. They have four children: Dora; 
Emma, wife of George Ward, in Stevens county; William, a member of the 
Spokane Fire Department; and Clara, wife of George Lenney, of California. 
Mr. and Mrs. Schulenburg are members of the Lutheran church. Politically he 
is a Republican.