Husband of Kathrine (Gross) Schleier
Father-Michael Schleier
Mother-Catherine Koll
MATTHEW SCHLEIER –In Matthew Schleier of Union township we have a fine type of progressive farmer and a leading citizen of his community. He is a native-born American citizen whose parents came from the Fatherland and are of high German extraction. Evidence of the high esteem in which Mr. Schleier is held is shown by the fact that for fourteen years past he has served the people of his township well and faithfully as assessor, an often times difficult local office to fill and one which requires a great amount of good common sense and diplomacy.
Mr. Schleier is tilling two hundred acres of excellent land and is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section eight, of which he became the owner solely through his own efforts. He has a fine, modern home erected in 1912 at a cost of two thousand dollars; a large barn thirty-two by fifty-four feet, by twenty-two feet in dimension, which he built in 1912 at a cost of one thousand one hundred dollars and which is painted a deep red. His residence is painted a handsome slate color, trimmed in white, and presents an attractive appearance, viewed from the highway. On the farm is a new corn crib thirty-two by thirty-two feet square and having a capacity of over two thousand, five hundred bushels of grain. The place has a new hog house twenty by thirty-two feet, and a granary, which is twenty by twenty-four feet in dimensions and it has a capacity of one thousand, two hundred bushels of grain. A power wind-mill furnishes the force which pumps water through a system of piping, and supplies the residence and the farm buildings. The water for this purpose is obtained from two fine wells. A fine driveway leads from the high-road to the residence and is kept in good condition.
The proprietor of this farm carries on general farming and raises live stock for the market. The farm produces from eighty to one hundred hogs annually and from thirty to forty head of cattle. The crops sown and cared for on the farm last year were eighty acres in corn, forty acres of oats, fifteen acres in wheat, and twenty acres of barley. A large grove of maples has grown up near the residence and provides a fine shade and windbreak. Mr. Schleier has over an acre of orchard trees and small fruits.
Matt Schleier was born December 31, 1864, in Wisconsin and is the son of Michael Schleier, a native of Prussia, born in 1828 and who died at Earling in Shelby county in 1911. His mother was Catherine Koll, who was born in Germany in 1840. In 1851, Michael came to America as a poor boy and settled in Wisconsin where he prospered through diligence and wise economy, and there married. His farm was located in Grant county, Wisconsin. Schleier, Sr., and his family came to Shelby county, Iowa, October 15, 1883, and located in the Catholic settlement of Westphalia. He resided for six years on a farm in this township, and then removed to Earling, where his widow still resides. Michael Schleier was the father of the following children: Mrs. Barbara Kirschbaum of Greeley township; Anna Abts, residing in Randolph, Cedar county, Iowa; Matthew; John, a resident of Winneshiek county, Iowa; Christ, a citizen of Earling; Rev. Fr. Herman, a priest of Leeds church, Sioux City, Iowa; Henry, a prosperous druggist of Earling; Mrs. May Kohnen of Randolph, Cedar county, Nebraska; and Dr. Frank Schleier, a practicing physician located in Omaha, Nebraska.
It is with Matt Schleier that this chronicle treats. He was born and reared on a farm in Grant county, Wisconsin, and was nineteen years of age when the family migrated to the cheaper and better lands of Shelby county, Iowa, to become a component part of the great Catholic settlement there. He received his education in the district schools and began farming for himself at the age of twenty-five years. He married when twenty-seven years old and in 1891 made his first investment in farm lands, buying eighty acres of land in Union township at a cost of twenty dollars an acre. It is a remarkable fact that he had saved up the full amount of capital for complete payment for this tract and it was a proud and happy day for the young couple when they were able to call this first "eighty" their very own. In the year 1905 he added another eighty at a cost of sixty-five dollars an acre. This land is now worth one hundred and fifty dollars an acre and is well improved.
Mr. Schleier was married on June 7, 1900, to Catharina Gross of Westphalia, who was born in Shelby county in the year 1873, the daughter of Adam and Johanna Gross, pioneer settlers of Westphalia township. To this union have been born the following children: Johanna, at home with her parents; Mrs. Anna Lehan, residing on a farm in Union township across the roadway from the home of her parents; Michael, Frank and Matilda.
Mr. Schleier and his family are all steadfast members of the Defiance Catholic church. Politically, he has always been aligned with the Democratic party and has a firm and abiding belief in the principles of his party. He is a stanch supporter of the great President and leader of his party, Woodrow Wilson. For the past fourteen years he has filled the position of township assessor of Union township and it can be said with truth that no man stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens than Matt Schleier. He is ever ready to assist in promoting any enterprise which has for its purpose the accomplishment of the greatest good to the greatest number.
Source: 1915 Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa
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Father-Michael Schleier
Mother-Catherine Koll
MATTHEW SCHLEIER –In Matthew Schleier of Union township we have a fine type of progressive farmer and a leading citizen of his community. He is a native-born American citizen whose parents came from the Fatherland and are of high German extraction. Evidence of the high esteem in which Mr. Schleier is held is shown by the fact that for fourteen years past he has served the people of his township well and faithfully as assessor, an often times difficult local office to fill and one which requires a great amount of good common sense and diplomacy.
Mr. Schleier is tilling two hundred acres of excellent land and is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section eight, of which he became the owner solely through his own efforts. He has a fine, modern home erected in 1912 at a cost of two thousand dollars; a large barn thirty-two by fifty-four feet, by twenty-two feet in dimension, which he built in 1912 at a cost of one thousand one hundred dollars and which is painted a deep red. His residence is painted a handsome slate color, trimmed in white, and presents an attractive appearance, viewed from the highway. On the farm is a new corn crib thirty-two by thirty-two feet square and having a capacity of over two thousand, five hundred bushels of grain. The place has a new hog house twenty by thirty-two feet, and a granary, which is twenty by twenty-four feet in dimensions and it has a capacity of one thousand, two hundred bushels of grain. A power wind-mill furnishes the force which pumps water through a system of piping, and supplies the residence and the farm buildings. The water for this purpose is obtained from two fine wells. A fine driveway leads from the high-road to the residence and is kept in good condition.
The proprietor of this farm carries on general farming and raises live stock for the market. The farm produces from eighty to one hundred hogs annually and from thirty to forty head of cattle. The crops sown and cared for on the farm last year were eighty acres in corn, forty acres of oats, fifteen acres in wheat, and twenty acres of barley. A large grove of maples has grown up near the residence and provides a fine shade and windbreak. Mr. Schleier has over an acre of orchard trees and small fruits.
Matt Schleier was born December 31, 1864, in Wisconsin and is the son of Michael Schleier, a native of Prussia, born in 1828 and who died at Earling in Shelby county in 1911. His mother was Catherine Koll, who was born in Germany in 1840. In 1851, Michael came to America as a poor boy and settled in Wisconsin where he prospered through diligence and wise economy, and there married. His farm was located in Grant county, Wisconsin. Schleier, Sr., and his family came to Shelby county, Iowa, October 15, 1883, and located in the Catholic settlement of Westphalia. He resided for six years on a farm in this township, and then removed to Earling, where his widow still resides. Michael Schleier was the father of the following children: Mrs. Barbara Kirschbaum of Greeley township; Anna Abts, residing in Randolph, Cedar county, Iowa; Matthew; John, a resident of Winneshiek county, Iowa; Christ, a citizen of Earling; Rev. Fr. Herman, a priest of Leeds church, Sioux City, Iowa; Henry, a prosperous druggist of Earling; Mrs. May Kohnen of Randolph, Cedar county, Nebraska; and Dr. Frank Schleier, a practicing physician located in Omaha, Nebraska.
It is with Matt Schleier that this chronicle treats. He was born and reared on a farm in Grant county, Wisconsin, and was nineteen years of age when the family migrated to the cheaper and better lands of Shelby county, Iowa, to become a component part of the great Catholic settlement there. He received his education in the district schools and began farming for himself at the age of twenty-five years. He married when twenty-seven years old and in 1891 made his first investment in farm lands, buying eighty acres of land in Union township at a cost of twenty dollars an acre. It is a remarkable fact that he had saved up the full amount of capital for complete payment for this tract and it was a proud and happy day for the young couple when they were able to call this first "eighty" their very own. In the year 1905 he added another eighty at a cost of sixty-five dollars an acre. This land is now worth one hundred and fifty dollars an acre and is well improved.
Mr. Schleier was married on June 7, 1900, to Catharina Gross of Westphalia, who was born in Shelby county in the year 1873, the daughter of Adam and Johanna Gross, pioneer settlers of Westphalia township. To this union have been born the following children: Johanna, at home with her parents; Mrs. Anna Lehan, residing on a farm in Union township across the roadway from the home of her parents; Michael, Frank and Matilda.
Mr. Schleier and his family are all steadfast members of the Defiance Catholic church. Politically, he has always been aligned with the Democratic party and has a firm and abiding belief in the principles of his party. He is a stanch supporter of the great President and leader of his party, Woodrow Wilson. For the past fourteen years he has filled the position of township assessor of Union township and it can be said with truth that no man stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens than Matt Schleier. He is ever ready to assist in promoting any enterprise which has for its purpose the accomplishment of the greatest good to the greatest number.
Source: 1915 Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa
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Husband of Kathrine (Gross) Schleier
Father-Michael Schleier
Mother-Catherine Koll
MATTHEW SCHLEIER –In Matthew Schleier of Union township we have a fine type of progressive farmer and a leading citizen of his community. He is a native-born American citizen whose parents came from the Fatherland and are of high German extraction. Evidence of the high esteem in which Mr. Schleier is held is shown by the fact that for fourteen years past he has served the people of his township well and faithfully as assessor, an often times difficult local office to fill and one which requires a great amount of good common sense and diplomacy.
Mr. Schleier is tilling two hundred acres of excellent land and is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section eight, of which he became the owner solely through his own efforts. He has a fine, modern home erected in 1912 at a cost of two thousand dollars; a large barn thirty-two by fifty-four feet, by twenty-two feet in dimension, which he built in 1912 at a cost of one thousand one hundred dollars and which is painted a deep red. His residence is painted a handsome slate color, trimmed in white, and presents an attractive appearance, viewed from the highway. On the farm is a new corn crib thirty-two by thirty-two feet square and having a capacity of over two thousand, five hundred bushels of grain. The place has a new hog house twenty by thirty-two feet, and a granary, which is twenty by twenty-four feet in dimensions and it has a capacity of one thousand, two hundred bushels of grain. A power wind-mill furnishes the force which pumps water through a system of piping, and supplies the residence and the farm buildings. The water for this purpose is obtained from two fine wells. A fine driveway leads from the high-road to the residence and is kept in good condition.
The proprietor of this farm carries on general farming and raises live stock for the market. The farm produces from eighty to one hundred hogs annually and from thirty to forty head of cattle. The crops sown and cared for on the farm last year were eighty acres in corn, forty acres of oats, fifteen acres in wheat, and twenty acres of barley. A large grove of maples has grown up near the residence and provides a fine shade and windbreak. Mr. Schleier has over an acre of orchard trees and small fruits.
Matt Schleier was born December 31, 1864, in Wisconsin and is the son of Michael Schleier, a native of Prussia, born in 1828 and who died at Earling in Shelby county in 1911. His mother was Catherine Koll, who was born in Germany in 1840. In 1851, Michael came to America as a poor boy and settled in Wisconsin where he prospered through diligence and wise economy, and there married. His farm was located in Grant county, Wisconsin. Schleier, Sr., and his family came to Shelby county, Iowa, October 15, 1883, and located in the Catholic settlement of Westphalia. He resided for six years on a farm in this township, and then removed to Earling, where his widow still resides. Michael Schleier was the father of the following children: Mrs. Barbara Kirschbaum of Greeley township; Anna Abts, residing in Randolph, Cedar county, Iowa; Matthew; John, a resident of Winneshiek county, Iowa; Christ, a citizen of Earling; Rev. Fr. Herman, a priest of Leeds church, Sioux City, Iowa; Henry, a prosperous druggist of Earling; Mrs. May Kohnen of Randolph, Cedar county, Nebraska; and Dr. Frank Schleier, a practicing physician located in Omaha, Nebraska.
It is with Matt Schleier that this chronicle treats. He was born and reared on a farm in Grant county, Wisconsin, and was nineteen years of age when the family migrated to the cheaper and better lands of Shelby county, Iowa, to become a component part of the great Catholic settlement there. He received his education in the district schools and began farming for himself at the age of twenty-five years. He married when twenty-seven years old and in 1891 made his first investment in farm lands, buying eighty acres of land in Union township at a cost of twenty dollars an acre. It is a remarkable fact that he had saved up the full amount of capital for complete payment for this tract and it was a proud and happy day for the young couple when they were able to call this first "eighty" their very own. In the year 1905 he added another eighty at a cost of sixty-five dollars an acre. This land is now worth one hundred and fifty dollars an acre and is well improved.
Mr. Schleier was married on June 7, 1900, to Catharina Gross of Westphalia, who was born in Shelby county in the year 1873, the daughter of Adam and Johanna Gross, pioneer settlers of Westphalia township. To this union have been born the following children: Johanna, at home with her parents; Mrs. Anna Lehan, residing on a farm in Union township across the roadway from the home of her parents; Michael, Frank and Matilda.
Mr. Schleier and his family are all steadfast members of the Defiance Catholic church. Politically, he has always been aligned with the Democratic party and has a firm and abiding belief in the principles of his party. He is a stanch supporter of the great President and leader of his party, Woodrow Wilson. For the past fourteen years he has filled the position of township assessor of Union township and it can be said with truth that no man stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens than Matt Schleier. He is ever ready to assist in promoting any enterprise which has for its purpose the accomplishment of the greatest good to the greatest number.
Source: 1915 Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa
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Father-Michael Schleier
Mother-Catherine Koll
MATTHEW SCHLEIER –In Matthew Schleier of Union township we have a fine type of progressive farmer and a leading citizen of his community. He is a native-born American citizen whose parents came from the Fatherland and are of high German extraction. Evidence of the high esteem in which Mr. Schleier is held is shown by the fact that for fourteen years past he has served the people of his township well and faithfully as assessor, an often times difficult local office to fill and one which requires a great amount of good common sense and diplomacy.
Mr. Schleier is tilling two hundred acres of excellent land and is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section eight, of which he became the owner solely through his own efforts. He has a fine, modern home erected in 1912 at a cost of two thousand dollars; a large barn thirty-two by fifty-four feet, by twenty-two feet in dimension, which he built in 1912 at a cost of one thousand one hundred dollars and which is painted a deep red. His residence is painted a handsome slate color, trimmed in white, and presents an attractive appearance, viewed from the highway. On the farm is a new corn crib thirty-two by thirty-two feet square and having a capacity of over two thousand, five hundred bushels of grain. The place has a new hog house twenty by thirty-two feet, and a granary, which is twenty by twenty-four feet in dimensions and it has a capacity of one thousand, two hundred bushels of grain. A power wind-mill furnishes the force which pumps water through a system of piping, and supplies the residence and the farm buildings. The water for this purpose is obtained from two fine wells. A fine driveway leads from the high-road to the residence and is kept in good condition.
The proprietor of this farm carries on general farming and raises live stock for the market. The farm produces from eighty to one hundred hogs annually and from thirty to forty head of cattle. The crops sown and cared for on the farm last year were eighty acres in corn, forty acres of oats, fifteen acres in wheat, and twenty acres of barley. A large grove of maples has grown up near the residence and provides a fine shade and windbreak. Mr. Schleier has over an acre of orchard trees and small fruits.
Matt Schleier was born December 31, 1864, in Wisconsin and is the son of Michael Schleier, a native of Prussia, born in 1828 and who died at Earling in Shelby county in 1911. His mother was Catherine Koll, who was born in Germany in 1840. In 1851, Michael came to America as a poor boy and settled in Wisconsin where he prospered through diligence and wise economy, and there married. His farm was located in Grant county, Wisconsin. Schleier, Sr., and his family came to Shelby county, Iowa, October 15, 1883, and located in the Catholic settlement of Westphalia. He resided for six years on a farm in this township, and then removed to Earling, where his widow still resides. Michael Schleier was the father of the following children: Mrs. Barbara Kirschbaum of Greeley township; Anna Abts, residing in Randolph, Cedar county, Iowa; Matthew; John, a resident of Winneshiek county, Iowa; Christ, a citizen of Earling; Rev. Fr. Herman, a priest of Leeds church, Sioux City, Iowa; Henry, a prosperous druggist of Earling; Mrs. May Kohnen of Randolph, Cedar county, Nebraska; and Dr. Frank Schleier, a practicing physician located in Omaha, Nebraska.
It is with Matt Schleier that this chronicle treats. He was born and reared on a farm in Grant county, Wisconsin, and was nineteen years of age when the family migrated to the cheaper and better lands of Shelby county, Iowa, to become a component part of the great Catholic settlement there. He received his education in the district schools and began farming for himself at the age of twenty-five years. He married when twenty-seven years old and in 1891 made his first investment in farm lands, buying eighty acres of land in Union township at a cost of twenty dollars an acre. It is a remarkable fact that he had saved up the full amount of capital for complete payment for this tract and it was a proud and happy day for the young couple when they were able to call this first "eighty" their very own. In the year 1905 he added another eighty at a cost of sixty-five dollars an acre. This land is now worth one hundred and fifty dollars an acre and is well improved.
Mr. Schleier was married on June 7, 1900, to Catharina Gross of Westphalia, who was born in Shelby county in the year 1873, the daughter of Adam and Johanna Gross, pioneer settlers of Westphalia township. To this union have been born the following children: Johanna, at home with her parents; Mrs. Anna Lehan, residing on a farm in Union township across the roadway from the home of her parents; Michael, Frank and Matilda.
Mr. Schleier and his family are all steadfast members of the Defiance Catholic church. Politically, he has always been aligned with the Democratic party and has a firm and abiding belief in the principles of his party. He is a stanch supporter of the great President and leader of his party, Woodrow Wilson. For the past fourteen years he has filled the position of township assessor of Union township and it can be said with truth that no man stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens than Matt Schleier. He is ever ready to assist in promoting any enterprise which has for its purpose the accomplishment of the greatest good to the greatest number.
Source: 1915 Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa
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