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THOMAS SCHWARTZ. Among the older residents of Sauk County
few are better known or more highly respected than Thomas Schwartz,
who located on the farm he.yet owns in Troy Township forty-seven
years ago. People have come and gone in that time and farms have
changed ownership time and time again, but the Schwartz family is a
steady, solid one, not given to wandering or to frequent change of. habi-
tation, and the idea of ever permitting the old homestead to pass out of
the name could not be entertained for a moment. Although Mr. Schwartz
has retired from its active management he is well satisfied, as he has
capable and industrious sons to carry on all the farm industries that he
managed so long by himself.
Thomas Schwartz was born in Germany, in 1838. He was married
there in 1867, in 1874 came with his family to the United States, and
in 1877 settled in Troy Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin. Farming
was the business he understood, and as he secured one tract of land
after the other he cleared, developed and improved them until he
owned 240 acres of some of the finest land in the county.
Mr. Schwartz has been twice married, first in Germany, to Theresa
Fogel, who became the mother of eight children, as follows: Michael;
Margaret, who is Mrs. Geot. Lagerman and lives in Milwaukee; Thomas,
who lives with his family in Iowa County; Henry, who lives with his fam-
ily at Redfield, South Dakota; Mary, who is the wife of John Kramer and
lives at Plain,X Wisconsin; Katherine, who is the wife of Frank Lager-
man and lives in Milwaukee; Joseph, who lives on the homestead; and
Albert, who lives with his family in Spring Green, Wisconsin. After
the death of his first wife Mr. Schwartz was married to Margaret Mick,
and to them the following children were born: Eva, who is the wife
of Leo Lins, of Sauk County; and Bert, Herman, Agnes, Gertrude,
Clement, Alvin and Grace, all of whom live at home. All the children
but two were born and attended school in Troy Township.
Mr. Schwartz continued to operate his farm until 1912, having made
all the substantial improvements here. - He then moved to a comfortable
residence at Spring Green and his two sons, Michael and Joseph, under
the name of Schwartz Brothers, conduct the farm industries, which are
extensive, including general crop raising, stockraising and dairying,
and for fourteen years they have also made a business of raising ginseng
and golden seal, medicinal roots, the former being largely shipped to
China, where it is an ingredient of many medical preparations, and
the latter being marketed at home. This business has assumed large
proportions and its development is creditable to the enterprise of the
Schwartz Brothers.
In politics 1\Mr. Schwartz has always been a democrat. Formerly
he was a stockholder in the Hickory Hill Cheese Company, but sold to
his sonls, who are present stockholders in a. packing company at Madi-
son. With the rest of the family Mr. Schwartz belongs to the Roman
Catholic, Church and is a parishioner at Spring Green.
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1839 - 1927 (87 years)