- EDWARD SCHIELDT, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Lima Center; born
near Colberg, Prusia, in 1836;
- came to America in 1858, locating at Milwaukee; settled on
the farm he now owns of 100 acres in 1859. He enlisted in the
13th W.V.I. in 1861; went with his regiment into Kansas, and
was discharged at Lawrence on account of disability in 1863.
Returning to Milwaukee, he married Augustine SCHWARTZ in 1865;
they have four sons - Frank, Lewis, John and Albert. He is a
Republican, and his family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church at Whitewater. He took his farm in the wild state and
has made it valuable.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 794.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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