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In 1848 Henry Schroeder (J. H. Schroeder) arrived and built a frame house on Lot 1. He came to Cincinnati as a boy of fourteen with his brother Herman from Pulls near Osnabruck, Germany. Henry must have been a very lively lad as a youth, since he can still show remarkable signs of that sort now yet, in spite of his 85 years. (He lived to be almost 100 years old. Dorthey Schweman editor.) He traveled around a good bit before he settled down as quietly as his nature would permit at Enochsburg. He went west as far as Jefferson City, Missouri, which was a far greater undertaking in 1845 than a trip to California in 1907. During these years of traveling around he acquired some knowledge of general store keeping, and was therefore probably a dangerous rival to old Pap Kinker. As to both, gift of speech and business experience, Pap would certainly have to step lively if he wished to keep ahead of "Schroeder Henich. " (Schroeder1 s Henry.) His parents lived at Oldenburg since about 1840 on the bluff above the "flour mill" overlooking Oldenburg from the west. His two sisters, Mrs. Huser and Mrs. Kreke either lived or planned to live in Enochsburg, so Henry decided to settle there too. After some years he built a stone store and dwelling on Lot 2. The frame house on Lot 1 he later sold and it passed through several hands, The stone store he sold in the late 1850’s to his brother Ferdinand, who in turn sold it to Hy Boeggeman. When Henry Schroeder sold the store he bought his brother Herman's farm along Salt Creek. About his success as storekeeper I know but little, but his farm was and is now the best conducted farm on Salt Creek.- Later owned by his son-in-law Henry Thie, then by Trenkamp. - (D.S.) In 1875 he bought back his former stone store property from Hy Boeggeman, and again kept store till 1883 when he sold out to Pohl-man, a shoemaker, who turned it into a shoe store till 1903. During Henry Schroeder's last eight years of store business his farm was operated by his children under his supervision. "De Schroeder's Henich, is'n Klauken Kopp. " Meaning, that Schroeder's Henry has a real smart head on his shoulders. This was the ver-dict of most of the older people, and they came to him for legal advice and •writing wills and the like. He was also "Notary Public, " or as they often said in those days, "Squire. " He was already Township Trustee in 1852 and after that for many more terms at different times. He was township trustee in 1866 when trouble occurred between Father Oosterling and Teacher Kraemer. Schroeder was always a number one Catholic. Already for years, and even now at 85 years of age, he walks to Holy Mass every morning from his farm on Salt Creek. No wonder then that his wrath with Teacher Kraemer was unbounded. Kraemer's slanders had once removed a priest from Millhousen in the 1850’s and Schroeder saw him now working the same game here. He chased Kraemer out of the school and locked it up until he arranged matters with the County Superintendent. A few days later Bernard Krekeler was put in charge of the school. Schroeder still flushed with anger forty years later, in 1905, when he told me these facts in only about a dozen words. He had only words of excuse for Father Oosterling, but an old observer of character could see that the impudence of the priest came in for a good share of his indignation. When the burgers believed themselves entitled to a post office "Schroeder" was the one to look after that. So, also when near the end of the Civil War (1864) money was to be made up to avoid a draft of soldiers in the township, he was the one to manage that affair. In fact, it seems he was just doing one thing or another all the time. No doubt more than one old burger wondered how anyone "De ins so vele poete kleist, " (with his fingers in so many pies) managed his own business as successfully as he did. From notes of Father Thie written around 1907 and published in book Enochsburg and St John's Church 1976 References
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