From William Henry Perrin's The History of Cass County:
Robert Schmoldt, proprietor of sawmill and lumber dealer, Beardstown; was born in the village of Ritsch, Hanover, Germany, Aug. 2, 1830, the eighth son of a family of fourteen children, born to Hermann and Margaret (Eilmann) Schmoldt. His father was a large land-owner and farmer in Hanover. Mr. Schmoldt received a fair education, and assisted in the farm work, his father being in feeble health. At nineteen years of age he shipped at Hamburg, Germany, as a seaman, and sailed for two years between Europe and America, making several trips. In 1852, he was married by the American Consul, at Hamburg, to Johanna Blohm, a native of Hanover, and came to the United States and located in New York. He sailed on a coast schooner during the summer, and afterward worked in a sugar refinery. In July 1853, he came to Beardstown, where he worked at various employments for one or two years, then bought eighty acres of wild land in Monroe Precinct, this county, which he farmed for seven years, with good success, and in 1860 paid a three months' visit, with his family, to his native land. From 1863 to 1869, he engaged in merchandising in Beardstown; then sold out his store and engaged in the milling business, buying his present saw-mill on Muscooten Bay, of W. Weaver, and has since run the mill, buying his logs, which are rafted down the river. The mill cuts, on an average, four thousand feet daily, and gives employment to seven men. He established lumber yards on Third street, in 1881. He still owns considerable land in this county. He has five sons living.
From the Morning Enterprise newspaper, November 18, 1913, Beardstown, Illinois: Masons Conduct Funeral. The funeral of the late Robert W. Schmoldt was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, Third and Lafayette streets. The services both at the house and at the cemetery were in charge of the Masonic lodge, of which order the deceased was the oldest member in Cass county, his membership extending over a period of fifty years. The body was laid to rest in the City cemetery.
Robert Schmoldt, proprietor of sawmill and lumber dealer, Beardstown; was born in the village of Ritsch, Hanover, Germany, Aug. 2, 1830, the eighth son of a family of fourteen children, born to Hermann and Margaret (Eilmann) Schmoldt. His father was a large land-owner and farmer in Hanover. Mr. Schmoldt received a fair education, and assisted in the farm work, his father being in feeble health. At nineteen years of age he shipped at Hamburg, Germany, as a seaman, and sailed for two years between Europe and America, making several trips. In 1852, he was married by the American Consul, at Hamburg, to Johanna Blohm, a native of Hanover, and came to the United States and located in New York. He sailed on a coast schooner during the summer, and afterward worked in a sugar refinery. In July 1853, he came to Beardstown, where he worked at various employments for one or two years, then bought eighty acres of wild land in Monroe Precinct, this county, which he farmed for seven years, with good success, and in 1860 paid a three months' visit, with his family, to his native land. From 1863 to 1869, he engaged in merchandising in Beardstown; then sold out his store and engaged in the milling business, buying his present saw-mill on Muscooten Bay, of W. Weaver, and has since run the mill, buying his logs, which are rafted down the river. The mill cuts, on an average, four thousand feet daily, and gives employment to seven men. He established lumber yards on Third street, in 1881. He still owns considerable land in this county. He has five sons living.
From the Morning Enterprise newspaper, November 18, 1913, Beardstown, Illinois: Masons Conduct Funeral. The funeral of the late Robert W. Schmoldt was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, Third and Lafayette streets. The services both at the house and at the cemetery were in charge of the Masonic lodge, of which order the deceased was the oldest member in Cass county, his membership extending over a period of fifty years. The body was laid to rest in the City cemetery.
From William Henry Perrin's The History of Cass County:
Robert Schmoldt, proprietor of sawmill and lumber dealer, Beardstown; was born in the village of Ritsch, Hanover, Germany, Aug. 2, 1830, the eighth son of a family of fourteen children, born to Hermann and Margaret (Eilmann) Schmoldt. His father was a large land-owner and farmer in Hanover. Mr. Schmoldt received a fair education, and assisted in the farm work, his father being in feeble health. At nineteen years of age he shipped at Hamburg, Germany, as a seaman, and sailed for two years between Europe and America, making several trips. In 1852, he was married by the American Consul, at Hamburg, to Johanna Blohm, a native of Hanover, and came to the United States and located in New York. He sailed on a coast schooner during the summer, and afterward worked in a sugar refinery. In July 1853, he came to Beardstown, where he worked at various employments for one or two years, then bought eighty acres of wild land in Monroe Precinct, this county, which he farmed for seven years, with good success, and in 1860 paid a three months' visit, with his family, to his native land. From 1863 to 1869, he engaged in merchandising in Beardstown; then sold out his store and engaged in the milling business, buying his present saw-mill on Muscooten Bay, of W. Weaver, and has since run the mill, buying his logs, which are rafted down the river. The mill cuts, on an average, four thousand feet daily, and gives employment to seven men. He established lumber yards on Third street, in 1881. He still owns considerable land in this county. He has five sons living.
From the Morning Enterprise newspaper, November 18, 1913, Beardstown, Illinois: Masons Conduct Funeral. The funeral of the late Robert W. Schmoldt was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, Third and Lafayette streets. The services both at the house and at the cemetery were in charge of the Masonic lodge, of which order the deceased was the oldest member in Cass county, his membership extending over a period of fifty years. The body was laid to rest in the City cemetery.
Robert Schmoldt, proprietor of sawmill and lumber dealer, Beardstown; was born in the village of Ritsch, Hanover, Germany, Aug. 2, 1830, the eighth son of a family of fourteen children, born to Hermann and Margaret (Eilmann) Schmoldt. His father was a large land-owner and farmer in Hanover. Mr. Schmoldt received a fair education, and assisted in the farm work, his father being in feeble health. At nineteen years of age he shipped at Hamburg, Germany, as a seaman, and sailed for two years between Europe and America, making several trips. In 1852, he was married by the American Consul, at Hamburg, to Johanna Blohm, a native of Hanover, and came to the United States and located in New York. He sailed on a coast schooner during the summer, and afterward worked in a sugar refinery. In July 1853, he came to Beardstown, where he worked at various employments for one or two years, then bought eighty acres of wild land in Monroe Precinct, this county, which he farmed for seven years, with good success, and in 1860 paid a three months' visit, with his family, to his native land. From 1863 to 1869, he engaged in merchandising in Beardstown; then sold out his store and engaged in the milling business, buying his present saw-mill on Muscooten Bay, of W. Weaver, and has since run the mill, buying his logs, which are rafted down the river. The mill cuts, on an average, four thousand feet daily, and gives employment to seven men. He established lumber yards on Third street, in 1881. He still owns considerable land in this county. He has five sons living.
From the Morning Enterprise newspaper, November 18, 1913, Beardstown, Illinois: Masons Conduct Funeral. The funeral of the late Robert W. Schmoldt was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, Third and Lafayette streets. The services both at the house and at the cemetery were in charge of the Masonic lodge, of which order the deceased was the oldest member in Cass county, his membership extending over a period of fifty years. The body was laid to rest in the City cemetery.
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