Carey, Charles Henry.  "History of Oregon." Vol. 3. Chicago-Portland: Pioneer
Historical Pub. Co., 1922.  p. 153
 
EDWARD SCHULMERICH

     Fleeing the  further rigors of a military dynasty, having served his time
in the German army, Conrad Schulmerich and his wife Margaret landed in America
in 1850 and sought the Pacific coast in 1856.  There in Eldorado county,
California, in 1863, a son, Edward, was born to them.  After nineteen years of
gold mining in that state Conrad Schulmerich moved his family to Oregon and took
up farming on three hundred and twenty acres of land in Washington county.
     Edward Schulmerich received a limited education in the country schools and
studied by himself at night after the farm chores were done.  Until he was
twenty-one years of age he worked with his father on the home farm, leaving
finally to take a position with the Oregon Transfer Company in Portland.  Twice
he retuned to the farm, remaining the second time until the death of his father
in 1900, when he became associated with his brothers in the management of
the three farms left them by their father.  In 1906 Mr. Schulmerich organized
the Hillsboro Commercial Bank and became its vice-president.  In 1909 he was
elected president and still presides over that thriving institution.  Extending
his enterprise he secured in 1916 the majority of the stock of the Hillsboro
Mercantile Company which he managed until 1920 when he disposed of his interests
and retired from the mercantile business.  He became associated with the
Lumberman's National Bank of Portland in 1908 and when that establishment was
absorbed by the United States National Bank he retained his interests in the
transfer.  In 1911 he built the handsome two-story brick block on the corner of
Second and Main streets occupied by the Hillsboro Commercial Bank and by various
professional offices.  Agriculture has continued to remain one of his avocations
and he hold interests with his brothers in farms in Lane and Douglas counties.
The land in the latter section, devoted to the raising of thoroughbred Hereford
cattle, embraces some two thousand acres.
     Mr. Schulmerich was married in 1889 to Alice Bailey, daughter of Calvin
Bailey.  Mrs. Schulmerich died in 1901, leaving three children:  Bruce, who is
in business in California; Roy, a lumberman at Cochran; and Melvin, a student at
Columbia University.  Mr. Schulmerich's present wife was Miss Ellen Gillenwater
of Virginia, the daughter of S. H. Gillenwater.  There are no children of this
marriage.
     Mr. Schulmerich is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias who has the distinction
of being made master within eighteen months after his initiation.
     No man has done more to build up the state of Oregon, and none deserves
more praise as a citizen and a financier than Edward Schulmerich.
 
 
 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2006 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.