The book by J. Thomas Scharf, "History of Western Maryland," published in 1882 tells of Adam Shultz: "About 1836 Adam Shultz removed from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, to Grantsville with a large family of children. He embarked in the tanning business, or rather he continued it during the remainder of his life. At one time during the flush of the old National Road, he wwas engaged in the hotel business. Mr. Shultz, in the latter part of his life was not engaged actively in business but his sound advice and strong common sense were constantly infused into it. He died in 1864 at the age of seventy five. A beautiful and costly monument marks his resting place in the cemetery. He was a father, by two marriages, of eighteen children - ten sons and eight daughters. Out of this large family but one, the wife of John Rayer, remains in the vicinity." "The name of Shultz once so general and respectable in this region does not exist in the county. The aged widow is still living with her surviving children at or near St. Louis. Percy, one of the sons, was elected sherrif of Allegany County, Maryland, in 1853 but died of the cholera in St. Louis some ten years ago." "Chauncey Forward (named after a distinguished Pennsylvania lawyer) has been living in St. Louis for about twenty years and is now and has been for years one of the foremost men of the city." "John A. J. Shultz, a younger brother, sent to St. Louis in 1864 and is now largely interested in and is running the Pittsburg Tannery, which is the largest establishment of the kind west of the Mississippi. He is a practical tanner and has lately obtained a patent for making belting leather by a hitherto unknown process by which he says he can make the strongest and most durable belting leather in the world." "Norman Brown, a grandson of Mr. Shultz and son of the late George Brown, left Grantsville just after the war a poor tanner boy without a dollar. Today he is one of the first business me of St. Louis and the hide and leather trade with a business of over half a million a year in his five extensive houses." :::::::: Adam is a son of Jacob Shultz, possibly one of as many as eight or nine children, and some records indicate the seventh or eighth of these children. It is believed he was born in Somerset County, Pa. moving around between Pa. and Md. and finally settling in Grantsville, Allegany County, Md. around 1836. Shortly after Adam died in 1864, Nancy moved to Shipman, Macoupin County, Il. to be with the rest of her family.