WI BIO - Dodge Co - SCHANTZ, Adam

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 612

Adam SCHANTZ, farmer, Section 24 [Oak Grove Township, Dodge County, 
Wisconsin], P. O. Juneau [Oak Grove Township], was born 09 October 1819 in 
[Bavaria] Germany, son of Joseph SCHANTZ. The family came to the United 
States in fall of 1828; engaged in farming in Oneida County, New York, and 
then in Oswego County [New York], and in 1846 came to Washington County, 
[Territory of] Wisconsin, and settled on eighty acres. The father, Joseph 
SCHANTZ, died in April 1873, at the age of seventy-nine years.

Adam SCHANTZ went into mercantile business in Addison, Washington County 
[Wisconsin] in 1857, carried it on successfully until 1871, came to Oak Grove 
[Oak Grove Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin] 15 March 1878, and now has a 
fine residence and farm of 125 acres. [At the Milwaukee Land Office on 01 
September 1848, patentees Livius BROWN and Adam SCHANTZ purchased 80 acres on 
Section 29 of Town 11 North, Range 18 East, which would be Addison Township, 
Washington County, adjacent to Dodge County. Wisconsin became a State 29 May 
1848.]

On 02 January 1848 he [Adam SCHANTZ] married [Miss?] Catharine SCHWARTZ, a 
native of Bavaria, as was Mr. SCHANTZ. They [Adam and Catharine SCHANTZ] 
have had four children: (1) Charles, born 10 October 1848, who married 
[Miss?] Margaret LONG; (2) Joseph, born 25 May 1850, who married [Miss?] 
Josephine ESSER, and lives in Horicon [Hubbard Township (and slightly over 
the township border into Oak Grove), Dodge County, Wisconsin]; (3) 
Josephine, born 05 October 1852, who married John HEDER, and lives on the 
farm [Oak Grove Township]; and (4) Catherine, born 03 February 1858, who 
died 07 February 1860.

In 1846 Mr. [Adam] SCHANTZ was elected Justice of the Peace of Hartford, 
Washington County, Wisconsin, and was elected Register of Deeds of Washington 
County in 1852. In 1853 he was elected a member of the Legislature, and 
again elected to the Legislature in 1863. He was elected to the Senate in 
1867, 1869, and 1872, and is now [text published 1880] Chairman of Town Board 
of Oak Grove. He has evidently been an honest representative of his 
constituency.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly