Joseph SCHMID Sr. and Elizabeth SCHWEICKERT

 SURNAMES of Descendants:   Schmid, Leuthard, Vos, Voss, Schmieg, Schmidt, Leuthardt, Fuchs,  Amberg, Ritter, Rudisill, Grossman, Mader, Fairbairn, Geyen, Kelly,  Leizinger, Logelin, Dale, Ridgway, Schech, Schumen, Helsper, Ebnet,  Meyer, Gruidl, Krekelberg, Ehrlichmann, Ross, Randall, Welle, Brouns,  Pischke, and many more

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Joseph  is the brother of Maria and Benedikt Schmid, our immigrants from  Württemberg, Germany.  We also read about life in this period, in  Joseph's brother Benedict's 1857 Diary and his Civil War Diary.  [see  the diaries at links below, resources on google drive.]

A Biography of Joseph Schmid

Source:  ILLUSTRATED ALBUM OF BIOGRAPHY of Pope and Stevens Counties, Minnesota

Published in 1885, Chicago. Alden, Ogle & Comapny

JOSEPH SCHMID, an energetic and thrilty

agriculturist of the town of Baker, residinson

section -t, is a native of AVittenberff,

Saxony, Germany, born ]\[arcli 17, 1830, and

is the son of Thomas and ilary (ilaier)

Schmid. His parents were born and reared

ill that part of the fatherland, and there

made theii' home.

When Joseph was but six years of age

he lost his father, and sometime thereafter

his mother married Ignatz Moenhan. At

the age of fourteen he commenced life herding

cattle, and followed that line of life for

two years. Feeling the want of a trade, he

then learned that of stone nuison, but in

181S he started for the United States.

Crossing the ocean, he landed in New York,

and for between three and four years thereafter

was employed in a fire-brick manufactory

in Clinton county. New York. From

there he went to New Orleans, Louisiana,

and engaged in steamboat work on Ihe river

until 1855, when he came to Minnesota, and

located at Lake Minnetonka, Hennepin

county, where he preempted lOo acres of

land. He followed farming there until May,

IStU, when he entered Company Ci, Second

Minnesota Infantry, and was with Sherman

in his matchless " march to the sea." At

the close of hostilities he was discharged,

and returned to his home, and remained

there until 1877, when he came to Stevens county, and took up a homestead of 160

acres, where he now lives. He has 120

acres under cultivation, has a large, comfortable

farm house, a neat frame barn, and

other well-built out buikhnirs.

Mr. Schmid was married, May 21, 1856,

at Minnetonka, to Miss Elizabeth Schweikert,

a native of Germany, and a daughter of

Thomas and Maria (Eit) Schweikert. By

this union tiiey have had a family of seven

children, of whom the following is the record—

Elizabeth, who was born April 18,

1857, now the wife of John Leuthart, of Baker

township; Joseph, born May 18, 1859, who

married ]\riss Anna Po}ipler, living in Hennepin

county; Maria, born January 2, 1S61,

and cUed March 16, 1888; Thomas, born

April 15, 1862 ; Lena, born April 27, 1864,

now Mrs. Keinhard Yos, living in Stearns

county, Minnesota; Frank, born July 27,

1866; and Henry, whose birth took place

December 26, 1868.

The subject of this sketch is a democrat in

his politics, and has held the offices of town

supervisor, assessor, clerk of school board,

and is the present chairman of the town

board. He is a Catholic in his religion, and

a zealous Christian gentleman. He still

owns 130 acres of a farm in Heiine|)in

county, and has been highlv successful in

life.

TIMELINE - Joseph SCHMID & Elisabeth SCHWEICKERT

1848   Joseph sailed from Le Havre. June 19 arr. New York via, we believe, The  Tarquin, per a ship record Joseph Schmidt, age 18.  Not 100% confirmed

1848-1850?  (Per 1888 Bio) Worked in brick factory in Clinton County, New York (or possibly PA)

1850?  Possibly: Lived in boarding house in St Louis while was a laborer on steamships on the Mississippi – NOT CONFIRMED

1853  Arrived St Victoria Parish, Carver County per St Victoria Parish

1856  His brother Benedikt acquires 156.5 Acres, Minnetrista Township, Hennepin Co.  (we have this Clain document)

1856  Joseph marries Elizabeth SCHWEIKERT, and builds a wooden cabin on his farm. 

1857  Birth of first child, Elizabeth SCHMID 1857-1931

1859 Birth of Joseph Schmid, Jr. 1859-1947

1859   Benedict pays off the land.  We have doc.  At some point they trade  lands. Joseph stays on this land. Benedict farmsteads on Lake  Minnewashta a few miles away

1861 Birth of Maria Schmid 1861-1888

1862 Birth of Thomas Marvin Schmid1862-1933

1864 Birth of Magdalena 'Lena' Schmid 1864-1941

1864-1865 Joseph & Benedict enlist in the Army. Civil War, Company G, Second Minnesota Infantry

 See Benedict’s Diary – a MUST READ!

1966 Birth of Frank Schmid 1866-1946

1868 Birth of Henry Joseph Schmid 1868-1951

1876  Joseph Sr,  son Joseph Jr,  Benidikt, wtih help from family and neighbors, build their Fieldstone Farmhouse to replae the original small log cabin.

1880 CENSUS – CAN’T FIND this census

1882 Joe Sr, Elisabeth, Thomas, Frank,  & Henry move to Baker Township, Stevens County

1882-1890 - MUST READ:  Daily Diaries of neighbor Ezra Fitch Pabody, age 17-22 when he wrote the diaries.  Neighbor of the Joseph Schmids.   He refered to them as "Smith".   Many mentiones of Joe and Anna SCHMID, and some of Schmid Sr and Elizabeth.

1885 Census places Joseph, Elisabeth, Thomas, Frank, and Henry in Baker Township

1895 Census shows Joseph & Elisabeth living in Hennepin Co with their son Joseph Jr

1900  March, Elisabeth dies in Stevens Co. while visiting her children. She  is buried in St Victoria Catholic Cemetery, Carver County 

1900  Joseph lives in Zumbra Heights area, Hennepin County

1900 CENSUS – CAN’T FIND this census

1900 Joseph marries Walburga Mathis Becker in November 1900 – per marriage record

19x?  He and Walburga part ways (as we’ve learned in pension disputes between Walburga and Pension office)

1920  Summer per Obit, Joseph moves to Stearns Co to live w daughter and son.   dau Magdalena Vos.  Frank SCHMID or Henry SCHMID? We think likely  Henry SCHMID.

192?  Moves to St. Joseph’s Old Folks Home in east St Cloud, Township of Haven, Sherburne Co.

1923 Joseph dies in old folks home in St Cloud. His body is transported back to Carver Co, for burial at St Victoria Cemetery.

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