THE SCHUELER FAMILY

Mr. & Mrs. August Schueler

Golden Wedding Anniversary, 1942

In 1880, August Schueler, at the age of nine, moved from Lomira to Abbotsford, and built the home which is now occupied by Skogmos. They also had the land next to the armory where his father had his shop as shoemaker.

Mr. Schueler was married in 1892 to August Greske, who was a seamstress in the tailor shop in Colby. Her father was a well known carpenter around the surrounding towns.

Mr. and Mrs. August Schueler bought the farm from Joseph Leichtnam, which was a grant of land under the "Homestead Act" given out by President Chester A. Arthur in 1883. The only buildings on the place were an old log barn and an old log house with a great deal of timber and a little clearing. Mr. and Mrs. Schueler worked the farm with both methods of the pioneer days--cutting the grass with a scythe and the grain with a cradle--to the present day improvements. Mr. Schueler died in 1956 and Mrs. Scheuler in 1959. They had three children: Elfrieda Schueler, Elsa Gosse, Minna Schueler.

(Abbotsford Centennial Booklet, "100 Years"; 1973, pg. 51) 

 

 


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